====== Garaeth ======
(Closest equivalent: Medieval France)

  * **Geography:** 289k sq.mi.  Temperate climate with some of the most fertile soil in the world.
  * **Government:** Feudal system with a very powerful king and central bureaucracy.
  * **Population and Races:** Human-centric society.  Nominally tolerant of other races, but a heavy underlying current of prejudice.
  * **Culture:** Famed for their arts, sophistication, exquisite foods and wines, and the very flower of the Chivalric ideal.  They’re also happy to remind you of these things.
  * **Economy and Trading:** Export arts, foods and beverages.  Import iron from Dal-Tahir, seafood from Anivere, lumber from the Middle Kingdoms, and manufactured goods.
  * **Military:** A small professional army supplemented through feudal obligations when needed.  Have some of the best knights in the known world.  Decent soldiers but tend to emphasize individual, rather than group, glory.
  * **Allies and Rivals:** Get along better with the Syvenian Confederacy than any of the other human-centric nations (although they have had some run-ins in the past).  Perpetual rival in Anivere, although they have allied against goblinoid incursions or other emergencies.  Tend to annoy Dal-Tahir with their arrogance (reminds them too much of the elves).