The empire of nightlia

Due to the Nightlian empire being so vast the nation works from a top down approaching. With every county having a lord who is part of the imperial council Witch is lead by the empress.   The Imperial Council also known own as the midnight council vote and make decisions for the empire with the empress working as its hewd but not ruleing with absolute authority. As all decisions must be approved by a majority of the council and her.    Each region is lead by a Nobel lord who will hold a position on the council. Under them will he lesser Lords and nobels who control small sections of the region or its general running such as treserurs, priests and genrals. The council also has these roles as elected positions outside of the council as its to much power for one lord to be a high Nobel and control an important job in the kingdom such as high priest or consort.

Nightalia is a large empire witch encompasses many many different cultures due to it control wide varied territory’s across the continent. This makes much of the empire especially its cities massive melting pots of culture with most citizens being inclusive leading to the empires culture being this amalgamation of many different cultures combined art, food traditions, story’s and many more . However the empire dose have a distinct personality the whole nation falls into . Due to the empire being the pattern state of the goddess of night, the people stay up late and wake up late as such much of the architecture and culture is based around this fact . With the people basing the lives around the fact they stay up much of the night and sleep in the Morning. This has lead to a very distinct night life where many cities are deserted in the early mourning but spring to life during the night .    This melting pot land scape has also helped the technological and cultural land scape with helpful pieces if many Culters and races being integrated and weaved into the nations culture. However this has lead to a less distinct national identity.

The empire being such a vast land has many resources at its disposal . Specifically they have lots of fertile  land they use for a massive agricultural industry with their biggest export being food products . Such as grain, vegetables, wood, beef and muted as well as their derivatives such as wine , beers and leather. 
Unfortunately they lack many metal rich areas or much woodland meaning much of its imported . This has also lead to them building many of the buildings or of grey brick made from their mineral rich clay found all over the empire. They also have a massive population due to there very good food yields meaning they have a very potent work force and a wide range of people they can levy for war.

As a brief overview of the nations history starts with its founding. The kingdom of nightlia was not truly realised until around the 165 of the 1st era. However it capital and other important cities located in what is considered the heart of nightlia are much older some of witch predating the Enligtent era. White Pillar wile not the first fouded it was the most important settlement in the nations founding as its rapid expansion and subject of both monsters and bandits lead to other local setlments to flock to them for protection and when they didn't whitepillars military power soon sore too it.    The nation was not founded till its 3rd ruler. Who under the proclamation of the goddes of night combine the local settlements under here name and banner founding the kingdom. After this there combined resources aloud for rapid expansion. Towards the end of the 1st era they well trained standing army helped takoa defeat the great hord and as such they like takoa was rewarded with much land. This great boon of land gave way to a new era of the empire in a time period known as the Rising moon era.    I'm the rissing moon era the kingdom expanded its borders set up infestructers and created strong binds with fellow kingdoms with the exception of the newly dubed empire of takoa who they had frequent order disputes with. This came to a boiling point during the kingdoms dark age. This occurred when its population collapsed due to a great famine. And grew far worse when Takoa declared war over territory. A battle nightlia lost.    During the mid to late years of the 2nd era nigtlia had a grand spree of fantastic rulers known as the 3 aces. The Queen  of growth, the king  of reformation and the queen of reconquest. These 3 rulers revitalised the kingdom and tool it to a not only stable by thriving state. With the last of the 3 reclaiming the kingdoms lost land with intern with an incompetent emperor lead to the collapse of takoa due to civil war. This collapse and subsequent power spike of nigtlia lead to its assertion to empire status.    After there assertion to the status of empire they had many small and a few bigs wars and battle against Takoa who wished to reclaim and land and Abueran who had desirable mineral rich land. However recently in terms of the empress history they finally made a tresty with takoa to stop the fruitless wars. This came after the empires chief warrior and General manged to win a two front war and push Takoa all the way back to the border causing much death for no reward. As such the two kingdoms finally agreed to stop the blood shed.

The empire controls its ancestral homeland of Nightlia but also much more land concurred in wars throughout the first and second era including land from the Old great Hord , the takoa Shogunate as well as the tsardum of Aberuan.

The empirical military is a powerful force being made up of 4 main sections . The Imperial Guard who defend the cities and county’s of the empire . The imperial army a mostly conscripted army with professional divisions . The army is rarely used outside of war due to the Imperial guard or adventures dealing with most common disturbances. The Midnight blads are the elite soldiers and knights of the empire acting as special operations and leaders during combat.

The empire follow the church of the 12 divines. However they also have a patron god in Noxia who dose reserves  more specific and dedicated worship and holds a special place in the nations culture and ideology . This dates back to the nations founding with the tales of its founding being responsible for the bias in worship.

The empires main sector's are agricultural and general factory production . This is due to to the vast fertile lands and high working population.

The empires main export is food trading plenty of food with its neighbours being the back bone of its entire economy.