Post by El Borak on Feb 27, 2022 17:37:18 GMT -5
Gummint: Kingdom
Mythos: Chingsungese*
ΚΕΦΑΛΗΞΘ: Su Seh Ming Wang
CAPITAL: Kun-ming (Pop.: 90k)
Other Cities (and pop.):
Ch'eng-tu: 50k
Ch'ung-ch'ing: 65k
Li-chiang: 70k
Meng-hua: 45k
Ta-li: 60k
T'eng-yueh<>: 80k
Tung: 45k
Tung-ch'uan: 35k
Yun<>-nan: 125k
Loc.: Azir <Asia>
Language: Chinese dialect <Mandarin? Cantonese?>
Pop.: 8,000,000
Flag/Emblem:
Flag: Black dragon-tiger
rampant on a golden field.
Coinage: Ch'in Standard.
Companions: Queen, nobs, officials, clerics, guvners, chiefs, etc.
Friends: Assam, Siam, Sung.
Foes: Annam, Burma, Ch'in, Tongking.
Open Warfare/Skirmishing: Fighting with Annam/Tongking on border. Burmese rumoured to be readying to attack at this opportunity.
Intrigues: Pro-Ch'in faction seeking full alliance to jointly TAKE
intervening territory between Nanchao && that realm from Sung--
this cause is aided by Sung-Tongking ties. Many, many other intrigues
and plots.
Artifacts/Relics: Nanchao has managed to acquire the famed
Wand ov Seven Treasures, which, w/ Eight Diagrams of Chung K'uei<>
&& the Phoenix<Phung Hoang> Steed, comprise the major items they possess.
Alignment: Chaotic Evil <anti-paladins>
Thumbnail Sketches: The territory of the state of Nanchao is approx.
275K or more sq. mi.. In the W it is a mountainous
country, giving way to hills && a vast tableland of red but very
fertile soil eastwards. Its neighbors are Annam && Siam to the S,
Burma && Tibet to the W, Ch'in to the N, && Sung &&
Tongking to the E && SE.
There are vast tracts of wilderness in the mountainous regions of
Nanchao, && all manner of game roams therein. In the northern
portions there are tigers, bears, yaks, && suchlike. In the central
region is found the rare giant panda which inhabits the vast bamboo
forests there. Southwards the fauna is very similar to that of Burma,
Siam, and Annam. The flora is varied && abundant, but in the forests
&& jungles can be found rare medicinal plants && herbs. Although
there are many cities, towns, temples, && scenic places in the
country, none are so remarkable as to be worth detailed commentary,
save to state that the beauty of the mountains and waters have been
the subject of many paintings.
There is no real race of Nanchaoese. In the wilder regions dwell
various tribes of Yellow/White && Yellow/Brown racial mixture, the
latter predominating. Such people make up about 25% of the
total population. In the border between the highlands and the flat,
these folk are somewhat intermingled with the Chinsungese population
which occupies the plateau region, so as to comprise a mixed
breed which equals 10% of Nanchao's total. The balance
of population (65%) is typical Chinsungese stock.
Because of their position between the Hindic, Tibetan, Northern,
and Southern Chingsungese, the temper of the people of this state
differs from others of the Chinsungese. They are less formal, less
bound by rigid custom && tradition, more warlike in some senses.
The state is one of monarchical sort more closely following the
Burmese model than the Sung, for example. Families replace castes,
however, && thus an aristocracy of hereditary sort exists.
Slavery is acceptable in this lad, but there is no active trade as
such, && enslavement is rare. The vast majority of the people are of
peasant class, either laborers && agriculturalists or tribal hunters
&& the like. Warriors are regarded as the middle class, && the
wealthier landowners, traders, merchants, etc., likewise fall into this
group, as do minor officials, chiefs of the tribal sort, && so forth. The
aristocratic class is comprised of the heads of major families,
officials, important priests, great chiefs, nobles, and the like.
The Sze'ch'uen region is most renowned for its particular form
of Chinsungese cuisine, with Yun-nan<> following on its heels in vying
for top honors.
Crops include tea, mulberry (for silk), wheat, rice, barley, oats,
potatoes, beans, tobacco, hemp, sugar cane, vegetables, oranges,
&& other sorts of fruit. Livestock is comprised mostly of yaks, sheep,
goats and ponies (in the mountains of the north) && buffaloes, swine,
sheep, && poultry in the remainder of Nanchao. Forest products are
plentiful, && in addition to timber && wood, include vegetable wax
varnish, herbs, && medicines && drugs.
Mining brings in large yields of copper && tin, lesser quantities of
iron, lead, coal, salt, zinc, petroleum, silver, && gold. Stones of gem
quality from this land include rubies, sapphires, hyacinths, && jacinths
in small quantity but high quality, as well as much jade of
jadite && nephrite variety, && a limited quanity of rock crystal.
* There is Tibetan influence in pantheon.
