Phonozia Kingdom

Created hundreds of years ago, the Phonozia Kingdom spans most of the known world. Under there rule the realm has known only peace from military actions. The secret to the kingdoms success has always boiled down to one thing, compromise. The Monarch holds almost no power and acts only as a mediator between the barons. Though the same family has ruled for the last few hundred years there are seen as very specialised workers more than anything else. Times in the kingdom are no more dire than they ever have been, but that by no means they’re stable. In the bickering between the barons it is often the people who suffer, trade embargos and short selling of goods can destroy villages just as easily as swords and fire. Barons often rise and fall in power based hundreds of different factors, popular support, financial issues, misplaying the political landscape, etc. If a Baron manages to maintain his power into old age he elects his successor, it is common for a new Baron to be elected on his merits rather than directly by his lineage, but it is rare that someone as lowly as a farmer would be elevated so high.

Because of the monarch preventing any military conflict no baron maintains a standing army, and while there are guards and the like in any town, their job is much more to keep the peace than drive away threats, because of this there exists the Adventures guild