Lumot

Lumot is a constitutional monarchy in the Southern Reaches. It was founded in A.Y. 3380 after the dissolution of the Layloma Empire. Lumot is part of the Alliance.

History

The Layloma Empire had been in a state of civil war for 10 years before a peackeeping force led by the Gudersnipe Foundation but also including soldies from the Alliance entered the territory. Lumot was one of three independent nations established that year, along with Kiatra and Senega. Much of Lumot's remaining material wealth at the time and most of its land was owned by the powerful Trurro Family, the Patriarch of whom quickly declared his daughter a princess. Yuls Trurro, who had been an important minister in the Layloma Empire, had maintained a great deal of wealth and power and still held clear title to his lands when the hostilities were forcibly brought to an end. While the population did not like the thought of letting a part of the old guard be involved in the creation of the new government, there was little the Alliance could do. Yuls was a business man and a landowner, and under Alliance law could not be stripped of his property. While he most definitely funded various warlords during the preceding conflict, he could not himself by accused of any war crimes, and indeed within his stronghold was well-respected.

Perhaps because of public misgivings, Yuls did not himself become a direct part of the new government. While he certainly had the power to name himself whatever he pleased, he saw the desire for democratic rule and felt it was the correct course of action. Instead of bestowing any formal title on himself, he crowned his seven year old daughter princess, and thus began a new dynasty. Lumot differs from other monarchies in that it has no king or queen, only princes and princesses. The crown as passed from eldest child to eldest child, or to another suitable heir.

War of Aggression

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Postwar Period

The massive environmental damages caused by the schism were massively disruptive to Lumot's economy. While the cereal crop was maintained, the cotton and flax crops for the season crashed. The watershed had been radically altered, and most of Lumot's irrigation canals were left high and dry, having been engineered to divert water from a region that was now uphill. At the risk of the complete destruction of the economy, Lumot was forced to seek the aid of the only organization that could engineer landworks on such a massive scale: the much disliked Gudersnipe Foundation.

The Lumot River, which flowed down from the Southwide Mountains out of the Southwide Steppe(a remote autonomous region of Lumot) had previously provided most of their water needs. However, it also flowed into Kiatra, and now flowed directly into the ocean through one of the new rifts protecting the country. The Foundation constructed a five hundred mile canal to divert the waters into another river system, which could then be used to feed the old canal network. The canals were also modernized, as it was discovered the thousands of miles of waterways were mostly unlined and leaking water badly. In the space of some twenty years, Lumot's long-standing drought problems were completely solved. Lumot was also permanently indebted to the Foundation, the cost of paying off the mega-project was expected to take some two hundred years, a price the Foundation was willing to wave in exchange for land grants to build airfields and bases in the region. Neighboring Senega did not fare much better.