pelos_major

====== The Great Em­pire of Pe­los ====== aka Pe­los Ma­jor

===== His­to­ry ===== Per­haps the great­est em­pire the known world has ev­er seen.

===== The Land ===== ==== Cli­mate & Ter­rain ==== South­ern re­gions are med­er­ta­iain like, get­ting rapid­ly cool­er as one heads north. Rain is ad­e­quit cer­tain­ly one of the wet­ter places in the know world.

The land ranges from flat supreme­ly arable land, rolling hill­s, light forest­s, rugged moun­tain ranges with alpine mead­ows and conifer cov­ered low­er el­e­va­tion­s. There are many is­lands in the south and east.

==== Flo­ra & Fau­na ==== Much of Pe­los has been in­hab­it­ed and the plants and an­i­mals do­mes­ti­cat­ed. There are cer­tain­ly wild lands left but you have to head to the fron­tier prov­inces to find it.

Mon­sters at least the kinds that are ob­vi­ous are rare. There are sup­posid­ly still drag­ons in the far northen moun­tain­s. The ones that learned its un­wise to en­ter lands with a sur­plus of ac­com­plished wiz­ard­s.

===== The Peo­ple ===== ==== Pop­u­la­tion ==== With its mag­ic and so­phis­ti­cat­ed agri­cul­ture pe­los sup­ports are large dense pop­u­la­tion. A two and half mil­lion peo­ples live a peace­full shel­tered life. Most­ly Pelosian and gnomish.

==== Cul­ture ==== see cul­ture

==== Re­li­gion ==== see mythol­o­gy

===== The Gov­ern­ment ===== Ruled by the Sen­ate con­sist­ing of 27 mem­bers se­lect­ed via na­tion­al ref­er­en­dum. Sen­a­tors stay in of­fice un­til they re­tire or. rarely, are ref­er­en­dumed out. The Sen­ate is the care­tak­er of the cit­i­zen­s’ de­sires and tends to the day to day needs of Pe­los. Ma­jor and not so ma­jor is­sues are re­solved via na­tion­al re­ferre­dums in which all cit­i­zens vote. There is a process for cit­i­zens to call for a ref­fer­en­dum to over­turn Sen­ate rul­ings or de­cide an is­sue they are ig­nor­ing.

Cit­i­zen­ship is on­ly grant­ed to those who have served in the mil­i­tary. Al­though the mil­i­tary ser­vice of a rich, in­flu­en­tial Pelosian is far dif­fer­ent than that of a com­mon­er. Cit­i­zen­ship is non-­trans­fer­able and non-in­her­i­ta­ble. It may not be re­voked.

Pe­los is di­vid­ed in­to prov­inces. Home prov­inces are the old­est and most de­vel­ope­d. Next are the bor­der prov­inces. Which are still more civ­i­lized than most places in the known world. The fron­tier are furthor out most­ly in the wild­land­s, far north, or dis­tant shores. Some are fai­ly es­tab­lished such as those on the west­ern edge of the Wild­land­s. Oth­ers may be colonies a mere 50 years old.

In ad­di­tion to that there are foriegn prov­inces. Which are re­al­ly oth­er na­tions that Pe­los have sub­ja­gat­ed and fold­ed in­to it’s em­pire.

==== Law & Or­der ==== Pe­los Ma­jor is an ad­vanced and so­phis­ti­cat­ed so­ci­ety. In the home ter­i­to­ries there are no mon­ster­s. Ban­dit­ry and the like are very rare. There is crime to be sure but it is not bru­tal and lurk­ing around ev­ery bend in the road. The av­er­age per­son right­ly be­lieves the rule of law will be en­forced.

==== Trade & Com­merse ==== Pe­los to a fair­ly large de­gree de­pends on its colonies for re­sources. One rea­son it has been in de­cline since Kjore de­stroyred many of them.

Pe­los has ex­ten­sive ir­ri­gat­ed and oth­er­wised im­proved their lands for farm­ing. They pro­duce a large sur­plus of grain and oth­er food­stuff­s. Which the ex­port to colonies and oth­er na­tion­s.

Trade is a large fac­tor esp with Fist and Sunesh. Pelosians de­sire the ex­ot­ic lux­u­ries they have and have food and prod­uct­s(­most­ly ar­cane) they wan­t.

Slave own­er­ship is fair­ly wide­spread. But it is not very brutish. Slaves have rights and there are many laws pro­tect­ing them. They are of­ten freed in old age. It is more like hav­ing serfs or work­ers that can’t quit and you pay with food, shel­ter, pro­tec­tion in­stead of mon­ey.

=== Coinage === The stan­dard gold coin is the Pelosian Ea­gle. There’s a com­plex sys­tem of thirds and base three which I’m in­clined to ig­nore for ease of play.

==== Mil­i­tary ==== see mil­i­tary