User:Tales of the children of a 1000 hills/Life in the Waraabin empire

At the request and influence of Kanil Nebhani, the slaver's cities of the waraabin coast created a unified empire governed by a set of laws, practices and a thriving trade.

TECHNOLOGY USED IN WARAABIN

- Water from the Iriiza sea, the lakes and rivers, is used to irrigate the farms and grazing lands of the cows and camels on the outskirts of the city, keeping them green and bountiful.

- Each building has a sewage system that links up with all the city’s in an underground passageway, the tunnel stretches far away f​​​from the city and the fishing sites, to dump the sewage in hundreds of large holes dug deep in the ground in the desert.

LAW MAINTENANCE AND PUNISHMENTS

- The empire’s high council commands the army on different tasks regarding upholding law and order throughout the empire.

- Crimes are punished either by paying fines or becoming a slave of the empire temporarily or permanently.


 * Slavery in Waraabin plays an important role in society and the economy. Besides manual labour, slaves perform many domestic services, highly skilled jobs and professions. Accountants and physicians were often slaves. Slaves of any sort of skill are assigned to it while unskilled slaves, work on farms in mines and at mills. Their living conditions are brutal and their lives short.
 * Slaves are considered property under Waraabinlaw . Unlike Waraabin citizens, they can be subjected to corporal punishment, torture and summary executions
 * Most slaves come from captives during wars, a fewer amount become slaves as punishment for a crime committed.

SOCIAL LIFE

- Every girl and boy who is a citizen of the empire, when not helping at home helping their parents, is attending learning halls where they are taught different aspects and skills of the empire.

- Marriages are arranged by mothers and fathers name their children.

TRADE 

The market is near the shores of the Iriiza sea, food, beasts, fish, iron, cloth, weapons, wine, all sorts of things are lined up by merchants, one always finds what he seeks in there, if one has enough silver, and enough time.

ENTERTAINMENT IN THE CITY?

Beer halls host the city’s crowds at night, dancing and drinking until midnight. Arenas are training grounds for warriors, a boy becomes a man in the aren'''a. '''The sea is vast and blue. Fishing boats stretch over the horizon, the city dwellers love soaking in the hot summer sun as the seas roars nearby.

ARCHITECTURE IN THE CITY

There are two main entrances to the city and out of it, the main entrance is used by, traders and peasants from neighboring towns. The second to the city’s farms and grazing lands of the cattle.

The houses of the city are all built in a circular form, the city itself is shaped like the symbol of the god Aajok, so all the buildings follow the same pattern, every new generation increasing the land it occupies. The Warrabin dome, is the highest building, the seat of the council and the elders, a huge circular hall, adorned with walls towering over the city, its roof is the blue sky above. All disputes are brought there to be tried, meetings of the city’s leaders, important city-wide ceremonies occur in the Dome. DRESSING IN THE EMPIRE?

As it is a combination of different cultures and communities with different styles of wearing, one will find most people wearing turbans to protect themselves from the hot sun and the dust. ​​

LEADERSHIP STRUCTURE OF THE EMPIRE

- The high council made up of 5 individuals, who are elected every 10 years by the assembly.

- The assembly: made up of adults above 40: handles day to day operations of the empire, and implement the decisions made by the high council.

STATUS OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS

POPULATION?
 * The empire acquires most of its gold from trading with the neighboring Usangina Kingdom. They have an non-aggression pact.

Accommodates a million people from across the empire