Adinerra

Economy and Politics
The Gateway to the Empires, Adinerra has often been a neutral point for Kessan and the Empire of Khoria to trade, and with the formation of Sladora, it counts three large nations as it’s customers. This land is all about trade and diplomacy through coin, while using the joint barriers of mountains and river as a buffer to more hostile intentions of the Empires.

Culture
Adinerra likes to mimic Kessan, as they admire them for their luxuries, and agree with their belief in “might makes right”. However, to Adinerians, might is the might of the coin, not the might of magic or the sword. As such, they are a Plutocracy.

Government
The country is run by a sort of merchant’s guild, in that all merchants must register to vote or otherwise hold power in the system, and then are distributed votes by the size of their business (number of employees). This is thought to be that the business then represents it’s employees’ interests.

After some conflict with businesses abusing this power, unions were allowed to form where a large enough group of people could demand to be recognised like a “business” without being a business. Membership in a union does not reduce the power of a business, as you still count as their “employee”, as such, most citizens are counted twice in the political game - once for their employer, and once for the union they choose to join.

This should have balanced out power in the city - especially as part of the treaty between the unions and the businesses is that an employee cannot be penalized for joining a union, but the union memberships aren’t mandatory, and not all employees join them. On top of that, they are disjointed, and do not always have the same priorities or goals. While this may be somewhat true for the businesses, the businesses are focused in that they all want profits, and therefore are more united. As such, the businesses still hold more power, reluctantly relinquishing just enough to assure the populace.

Position Towards Sladora
Due to the Plutocracy and influence from Kessan, Adinerra is pro-slavery. However, in order to drum up more business from Sladora, it has enacted a law that citizens of Sladora - including former Kessan slaves - are freemen, and will not be turned back over to Kessan. They believe that trade with Sladora is more lucrative than the Kessan bounty for former slaves. However, if a Sladoran citizen falls prey to debts or other such crimes, and would become a slave due to it, the owner of the debt or victim of the crime is free to sell his slave back to Kessan for the bounty.

The Arathon Alliance
Adinerra joined the Alliance as a power move to gain more leverage when trading, especially as it bordered both of the Empires on the continent.