The Khanatta



is a country of Jaldapor. Presently the only large human dominated empire, the inheritor and successor to the old Padishah Empire. (Having conquered the remains of the old Padishah during it's decline.)

Geography
The Khanate is broken into five Durgas based on radius from the still sea.

History and politics
Founded in migration from north east. Not much of a sea going empire. Colours are red and black. The Khanate's sacred animal is the tiger. The First Khan, Turani Vendhyak, ruled for 21 years before his death. His sucessors founded the Vendhyak dynasty.

Population and culture
The Khanate is dominated by humans of Khazan ancestry, with Dyzhanish humanity a large minority throughout the Khanate. Owing to their origins in a rather different climate, turbans (for men) and headwraps (for women) are common (and in some places, appearing in public bare headed is somewhat rude).

Slavery is very common in the Khanate. Some of the largest slave markets in the western world exist here. Slaves in the Khanate are generally marked (tattooed) on the back of the right (the 'trading' hand) hand.

Spiritually, the Khanate is dominated by the state religion (the Commune of Codification), a state church honoring six gods of stability long known to the Khazanish citizens.

Aside from the state religion, there is the dim memory of the pre-Khanate practices of the once nomadic Khazan people. Dedicated to the preservation of those old folk ways is the Kozai family, descended from a group of Khazani witches. The Kozai family has been intermarried with the Rahziladh dynasty for at least five generations.

Government
The Khanatta is known for it's idiosyncratic bureaucracy. Among the more unusual government agencies are -
 * The Ministry for Pre-incorporation: Oddly named, it plans for the expansion of the nation's borders, by hook or by crook.
 * The Registry of Distinguished Women: A group that maintains a list of, and keeps tabs on the activities of, women both within and without the khanate's borders, that have in some manner made notice of themselves in political, magical, or other noteworthy arenas of activity.

Characters from the Khanate
Bhaskara Kaur