The Republic of Hell's Landing
A City-State republic sitting on the green edge of a snow coated peninsular in the Free Fjords founded by run away slaves that has grown to become the major Naval power in the south sea.
Structure
The Republic of Hell's Landing is a parliamentary democracy using split into ministers voted on by the city populace divided into a multiparty system. Each district of the city also has a Borough leader to help deal with fire, emergency response, ect. Bigger matters are handled by the Parliament where foreign relations is handled by the chief minister, who is voted for in the parliament. Checking the fervor of the many parties of parliament is the Elders Council, a council of the original families who founded the city and act as a judiciary for higher crimes and suits against the state. However many decisions are determined by what's called the Peoples Vote. A public plebiscite and public forum that determines many of the cities needs and even decisions such as confirming war, though notably this generally only applies to people within the city. Colonist from the city can vote in them, but must send a letter ahead of time specifying who is representing their vote or appear in person.
Culture
The Culture of the Republic is that of great political involvement and a clash of collectivist patriotism and individualist expression. Here the arts are wild and arguments in coffee shops are common place. People debate and lead protests daily and unions can be found from the rich to the factor working class. The cold of their world leads to hardy living but bathing culture is pretty wide as many hotsprings are widely common. The city state is dense populated but physically small so running into your representative is not uncommon.
Public Agenda
Currently the government is run by a power sharing agreement between the Militant Anti-slavery Liberation Party, the Tiefling separatist Restoration Party, and the more moderate pro-democracy, pro-peace Republican Party, as such the current government holds a pretty hostile stance towards most enemy and even unaligned nations. Despite that they remain at a tense stalemate over any future militant actions. The current Chief Minister is Branwen Myrddin the head of the Liberation Party.
Assets
Worlds largest Silver, Rich Timber, Thermal vents and important sea lane site.
History
Hells Landing was not the first of its type. Many run away slaves formed their own communities throughout the world, though few lasted in the frigid south pole, the run away slaves turned pirate who found themselves crashed on the landing had no idea how lucky they were. The geothermic properties allowed for farming largely poor in the region, and as their fishing village grew one Taylor Gedwyn, a scion of the Gedwyns one of the ten original Lander Families, found the Lander Mines. Soon the Hells Landing became a traders secret oddity, a town that bought often forty times the value of what they sold, where all were welcome under the protection of the multicolored lighthouse, and where slave ships were not safe around the waters. It proved a perfect spot on the route to the Sea kingdoms, and over the next two hundred years it steadily grew, becoming famed as a silver port and a legend among slaves seeking freedom.
However most did not note the rogue state, even as years past and ships from the Landing arrived in as many places as came. It was a a doomed settlement not worthy of being noted, even as their navy quietly acted as pirates raiding ships and coastal plantations and acting as key parts of the run away slave underground. Their power grew and their rivals did not prepare for it, and the public culture began to shift from a need to build and hide and take in, to a need for action. A powder keg grew as the Liberation Party did and the city became cramped. Slavery had to be ended with force nothing else was acceptable.
Raids grew, interdictions grew, orc mercenaries were hired to assault coasts, and while the violence was still being considered a rural issue, the Tiefling War started, though the article goes into more detail and the success was more questionable. Yet the world became aware that this rogue state was the naval power house of the region to be noticed and feared wherever despots lived.
Territories
The Republic of Hells Landing primarly exists as the City of Hell's Landing and several villages and islands in the south Seas as well as some secret outposts in the Desolation.
Military
The Republic of Hells Landing has a profession armed forces called the Lighthouse Militia which handle city security. The bulk of the Hell's Landing forces come in the form of the Admiralty of Hell's Landing or the AHL, a massive Naval force of both Air and Sea ships capable of defeating any threat on sea. The Republic also forms private and public armies in times of crisis, as any citizen may be drafted into a militia.
Technological Level
The Steam age has taken full extent in Hells Landing, where small states and large populations forced industrialization with the silver propelling their success. Steam ships sit in their harbor and airships dot the sky.
Religion
Foreign Relations
The Republic of Hells landing holds only two deeply positive relationships, one with the native Free Fjord Orc Tribes whom they share their growing wealth and benefits of industry, and trade. They also keep cooprative relations with the anti slavery Edren Empire since the rise of Emperor Lysandra the Fourth
They are major Navy Rivals with the The Republic of Dobruja and publicly scorn the slave states of Aragon, Undland , and Leon.
Agriculture & Industry
Despite the glacier temperatures and permafrost soil common in the area, the city and nearby fields are rich with thermal vents and gysers that not only pump hot water through the very stones of the city, but heat and provide rich soil to the earth providing limited, but very rich farmland around the city. South of the City is also the famed Landers Silver Mine out of Mount Valkur, the mine is considered impossibly rich in silver and mostly constructed and abandoned Duergar hold. This mine to this day provides the vast majority of the hemispheres silver and the Lander Miners Union remains massively powerful in the state.
Within the city many factors stuff themselves into the lower levels of the vertical city, providing a rich production of manufactured goods given raw materials from the north. Particularly machinery and ships are produced in record number helping diversify a dangerously silver dependent economy.
The forests around Hell's Landing also provide rich timber, though most of that is bought from the Free Fjord Orcs as it is cheaper than cutting it themselves.
Trade & Transport
The location of the Republic and its relations with the Free Fjords give it a unique monopoly on one leg of the great leg of the Edren Sea. As the Winds require movement of ships returning to the sea kingdoms to cut through the desolation or the private rich Free Fjords, the Republics wide reaching steam navy and special relationship with said pirates means those baring the marks of the republic may sale free, however to gain such access comes at a cost paying what amounts to legal bribes to the admiralty.
Education
Every child is educated to at least the age of fifteen, and many take apprenticeships and seek education in small academies. The most popular higher education facilities are the Hell's Landing Arcane Institute, run by the Admiralty, researches topics of magic to serve the state and remains the only major institution where conjuration and necromancy is taught in mass and is second only to the Arcanium in magical engineering. Next is the College of Glamour, formed by bards seeking a restored college as the old one in Lakolis was shut down nearly 800 years prior for its delving into the fey-wild, it provides the advanced education to the cities brightest and wealthiest.
Infrastructure
Must of the infrastructure of Hells Landing is slapped together steel and ironwork, steam piping and hot water run to and through every building, streets here are narrow, too narrow for couches though some public transit exists in the form of gondolas and canal boats. A series of rail runs from the dock to the Landers mine as well as the silver processing plant. And though the streets inside the city are cobbled most roads to the outter villages are non-existant or dirt. Sea traffic is king in the city and the docks are incredibly advanced the entire thing defended by curtain walls, iron chains and a massive light house and watch tower.
Founding Date
787
Type
Geopolitical, Republic
Capital
Alternative Names
Hell's Landing, The Freehold, Red Republic
Predecessor Organization
Demonym
Landers
Leader
Head of Government
Government System
Democracy, Parliamentary
Power Structure
Thalassocracy
Economic System
Mixed economy
Currency
Silver Sliver - copper 1
silver coin - silver 10
Electrum coin - electrum 100
Silver stick - golds 1000
electrum stick - platinum 10000
silver coin - silver 10
Electrum coin - electrum 100
Silver stick - golds 1000
electrum stick - platinum 10000
Major Exports
Hells Landing leading export is and may always be silver until the mine finally is cleared. It provides much of the capital to trade in the raw goods that helps finance the production of leading exports, machinery, tools, ships, and industrial goods.
Major Imports
Hell's Landing Imports fast amount of raw materials like iron and salt peter to produce its manufactured goods. It also must import lots of grains other goods to feed its massive population.
Legislative Body
Parliament, People's Congress
Judicial Body
Elder's Council
Subsidiary Organizations
Controlled Territories
Neighboring Nations
Related Ethnicities
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