Kingdom of Sind

The nation of Sind is situated to the south west of Glantri, and west of Darokin and the Atruaghin Plateau. East of Sind lies the Great Waste and the Black Mountains and eventually Hule. Much of the land is desert; the bulk of the population settling around the Asanda River.
The capital of Sind is Sayr Ulan, though most foreigners are found in the coastal towns of Sambay in Jalawar and Jahore in Putnabad.

The region now known as Sind has been occupied for millennia. The original human inhabitants are thought to descend from the reddish skinned Atruaghin, mixed with the paler skinned nomadic Urduks.

The nation itself is made up of several states (in effect, petty kingdoms), called Mumlykets, including Sindrastan, Baratkand, Kadesh, Nagpuri, Shajarkand, Azadgal, West Jhengal, Jalawar, and Putnabad.

The population speaks Sindhi. Nobles and important officials also speak the Darokinian form of Thyatian. In Jalawar some Minrothad Thyatian is spoken.

Sind is a Feudal monarchy, with the individual mumlykets ruled by rajahs under the rajadhiraja. The rajadhiraja himself is the supreme judge and leader of Sind’s armed forces.He is advised by the mantri parishad,a council of eleven statesmen. The actual day to day running of the government is in the hands of a very efficient bureaucracy.

Although members of the higher castes can live in great luxury, Sind is not a wealthy country. The lot of the lower castes is made worse in some mumlykets, where the rulers insist they produce goods for export, rather than foodstuffs for themselves.
Sind’s few exports tend to be agricultural, such as silk, cotton, rice and tea. Salt is also exported; extracted from the Nemkin Ylaka.

The Rajadhiraja mints only two coins, the Guru (a 1" diameter disc of platinum with a semiprecious rose quartz set in its centre, worth 25 gp) and the Rupee (again a 1" diameter platinum disc, but with no crystal, worth 5 gp). Individual Maharajahs and some of the Rishiya orders also mint coins, including the Bhani (a gold coin worth 1 gp), the Khundar (a silver coin worth 1 sp) and the Piaster (a copper coin worth 1 cp). All these coins are in common usage across Sind, many other form of currency exist, including the Aydha, a glazed ceramic bead worth half a copper piece, and the Anna, a large silver coin equivalent to 5 sp.

The Sindhis honour many Immortals, though they give them names unfamiliar to people from the Known World. Some eastern scholars claim that many of the Sindhi Immortals don’t exist at all, being merely names of local ancestors or heroes that over time people have prayed to.