Langkha

Pela Huban
Capital	None
Ruler	Many
Government	Autocracies (cities); democracies (migrant communities)
Demonym	Langkhan
Adjective	Lankhan
Languages	Various; Sangiran and Common especially
Religions	Weaver of Eighty Thousand Threads; other post-Suzerain deities and faiths

Langkha (pronounced LAHNG-khah), once the breadbasket of the Sangiran Empire, continues to feed Kea Racha and lands even farther afield. The vast and incredibly productive Gardens of the Suzerain continue to be worked by large migrant communities who regularly travel the nation even after the Eternal Suzerain's last death in Y9606^*.

Geography, flora, and fauna

Encompassing almost the entirety of northern Kea Racha, Langkha is a large and diverse land. Tropical forests and grasslands cover much of the landscape. Aside from the foothills of the Suzerain's Scales in the south and the Kaaniral Hills in the west, Langkha is remarkably flat, with broad floodplains that surround its many rivers. These ideal conditions led the Sangiran Empire to transform Langkha, physically and culturally, to best serve imperial interests. The lands around each major river have been converted into seemingly endless fields, with complicated systems of irrigation, levees, dikes, dams, running for miles throughout. These Gardens of the Suzerain are integral to life in Langkha, for people as well as for animals.

Despite the extensive modification of the landscape, much wildlife, mundane and magical alike, still thrives in Langkha. The forests and hills remain broadly without settlements, at least in the modern day, and are therefore refuges for all creatures seeking to find a home away from the Gardens.

Located just south of the equator, Langkha is hot year-round. There is very little seasonal variation in temperature, though the rains of the summer monsoon season often bring with them cooler winds.

Culture

Economy

Langkha is economically almost totally centered around the Gardens of the Suzerain and the agricultural surplus they produce. This vast amount of food is preserved and sold across Kea Racha and even farther afield, including to Vothan and other nations around the Gulf of Timakal as well as to various cities in the Kilche Sea. In the days of the Sangiran Empire imperial administrators handled the transportation of these goods, and the compensation given to those that grew them, but in the modern day various merchants and middlemen have stepped into this role instead, buying as much as their ships or caravans can carry in Langkha's ports then carrying it far and wide.