pelos_minor

====== In­de­pen­dent Re­pub­lic of Pe­los ====== aka Pe­los Mi­nor

===== His­to­ry =====

===== The Land ===== ==== Cli­mate & Ter­rain ==== Mediter­ranean cli­mate. Pe­los con­sists of one large is­land, sev­er­al small­er ones, and count­less tiny ones. The large is­land, Pel­la, has much arable land and has been ex­ten­siv­ly ir­ra­gat­ed and de­vel­ope­d. The oth­er is­lands are a bit more rugged but grapes and fruit or­chards grow well there.

==== Flo­ra & Fau­na ==== The seas around Pe­los are abun­dant with life. The is­lands them­selves have few wild an­i­mals at least the pop­u­lat­ed ones. Goat and oth­er small herba­vor herd­ing is com­mon through­out.

Farm­land, light forest, scrub­land dom­i­nate.

===== The Peo­ple ===== ==== Pop­u­la­tion ==== About a 500,000 peo­ple proud­ly call the re­pub­lic home. It is most­ly Pelosian and Gnomish. Many Ka’im live in the colonies none are cit­i­zens so they aren’t con­sid­ered.

==== Cul­ture ====

==== Re­li­gion ==== see mythol­o­gy

===== The Gov­ern­ment ===== The seal of the Re­pub­lic of Pe­ols is an ea­gle grasp­ing a de­feat­ed drag­on in its talons

Part of the rea­son for the civ­il war was the slow and in­ept way in which tra­di­tion­al Pelosian sen­a­to­ri­al gov­ern­men­tal sys­tem dealt with #Kjore threat.

In rep­sonse the House sys­tem came in­to be­ing. In­stead of all cit­i­zens vot­ing on is­sues in na­tion­al re­ferre­dums each “fam­i­ly” se­lects one rep­re­sen­ta­tive that will move to the cap­i­tal and vote di­rect­ly. Fam­i­lies de­ter­mine how and when to se­lect Rep­re­sen­ta­tives. Al­though, bar­ring a crim­i­nal act no Rep­re­sen­ta­tive may be re­placed un­til they have served at least 3 years.

Soon the num­ber of fam­i­lies el­i­gi­ble to send a mem­ber to the House grew to such an ex­tent that gov­er­nance be­gan to re­sem­ble the slow and pon­der­ous sen­a­to­ri­al sys­tem it was meant to im­prove up­on. A re­form was im­pli­ment­ed lim­it­ing the to­tal num­ber of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives to 243. In­stead of ev­ery fam­i­ly se­lect­ing a mem­ber the coun­try has been di­vid­ed in­to 243 re­gions each con­tain­ing a roug­ly equal amount of the to­tal pop­u­la­tion.

==== Law & Or­der ====

==== Trade & Com­merse ==== 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 === from least to most obol­s, drach­mas, tal­ents

==== Mil­i­tary ==== The Re­pub­lic takes the Kjore much more se­ri­ous­ly than Pe­los Ma­jor does. Con­se­quent­ly they spend much more time and mon­ey on mil­i­tary mat­ter­s.

Pe­los Mi­nor has less of a Navy than the em­pire de­spite be­ing en­tire­ly an is­land na­tion. The re­publics mil­i­tary and es­p­cial­ly its mili­tia are more ca­pa­ble than their north­ern coun­ter­part­s.

see mil­i­tary