Checia

Checia, on paper, an Oligarchy, in practice, an Anarchy. Origionally a monarchy headed by the tyranical Dwarven king Giddog Strain, the king was overthrown by a band of adventurers looking to improve the lives of the common folk in Checia. The heros were labled as the new rulers and for a short while, the nation prospered. However as the more mortal fellows of the band of adventurers succumbed to the clutches of time, so did the nation. The more further towns and villages fell into disrepair and eventually ruin as the ones closer to the capital slowly merged with eachother and the capital to form the twisting, mazelike slum of a city known a Gallows. The remaining rulers are never seen outside of the issolated "rich" discrict, causing the surrounding slums to become a breeding ground for crime. The city is notorious inhabitants from petty criminals to profesional assassins. Gallows is the city you lay low in after a job gone south "Once you enter Gallows, you have slipped the hangman's noose"

The "city" mostly keeps to itself, leaving a vast amount of unused land. As Checia does not seem to enforce its outlying territory, the borderlands of Checia have become a constant warzone. Nobility stage skirmishes between their personal armies to settle petty grudges and magical experiments deemed to risky or immoral are conducted. The land as a resulted is extremely haphazard. The esscense of other planes leaks through, the ground, mostly ashen from constant warfare looks almost like a pitch black desert and the ruins of peoples former lives in ages gone past remain as testiment to this dying land.