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Located south of the [[Nocthian Caldera]] and north of [[Gap-tooth Bay]], Byssia is a fertile land split into two main areas--the [[Byssian Lowlands]], farmed heavily by the night's children, and the [[Byssian Highlands]], where the [[puun ihmisia]] hold sway. A godless land, Byssia is home to the most powerful druids and elementalists, as well as the worshipers of [[Nocthis]]. They've started to expand through the [[Tunnel of the Ancestors]] into the Caldera, the original home of the night's children.

==Government==
* Multiple layers of elected judges; legislative power is minimal (except at local level).
* Heavily village-based.
* Villages select a judge, groups of village judges select (by region) a couple of senior judges. Senior judges select the High Judge.
* High Judge, along with Prime Mysteriarch of [[Nocthis]], a druidic representative, and a representative of the [[Home of the Elements]] preside over the nation.
* Large changes in policy get referred to general referendum.

==Peoples==
* Night's children humans (35%)
* Night's children half-elves (30%)
* puun ihmisia (30%)
* others (goblins in the east, refugee humans in the west) (5%)

==Religion==
* Plurality of night's children are devotees of the [[Church of Night Reborn]].
* Remainder worship the [[Honored Ancestors]] and revere the [[kami]].
* puun ihmisia and refugees revere the kami.
* very very few worshipers of the [[Congregation]]

==Culture==
* community-focused & democratic (at the local level)
* strong resistance to imposition of authority
* distrust of non-druidic divine magic. Elemental focus.
* disdain for gods and god-worshipers.
* in touch with the land
* very little metal use.
* heavily maritime on [[Gap-tooth Bay]].

==Capital==
See [[Byss]].

==Economy==
;Exports: Spices, dyes, cotton, rice. Fish. [[Ironwood]] products.
;Imports: metal, silk, non-fish meat.

==International relationships==
* Considered backward and stuck in the mud by [[Wyrmhold]]. They've had conflicts over the [[Nocthian Caldera]] in the past.
* Considered a back-water by most other nations.
* [[Holy Kaelthian Republic]] uses them as a propaganda point about "godless heathens" being cursed to poverty.

==Leadership==
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