Meq'Jaz Kingdom

The Great & Enlighten Kingdom of Meq'Jaz, or simply Meq'Jaz Kingdom, is one of the two nations on the foggy moon, Ahklys. It is also a member of the Organa Confederacy.

History
After the Earth was reaching its doom, forty-two fleets were constructed to escape and make way towards Alpha Centauri. Unlike all the other fleets, the Armstrong Flotilla had special pods with stasis fluid that allows them to trasnmute humanity into new species. Each of the ships had their own kinds of modifications done. But unfortunately, a strange wormhole appeared while en route into a different galaxy. A galaxy that seem more like an unstable storm of all sorts of things such as nebulae, The Shroud, strange substances, stellar storms and more. The whole flotilla ended-up in a solar system in this galaxy that has a large, red gas giant with five habitable moons. Everyone woke-up on-board the Virat, that has the Burmoks; the Kalam, that has Lunurians; and the Shivaji, that has Requatans. Everyone was confused and disoriented from the long journey and unexpected detour. Before anyone can do anything, an asteroid storm hit the flotillas that forced many to land on the moons while others were destroyed.

Virta, Kalam and Shivaji landed, or rather crashed, in a cluster of mountains high above the fog. Much of their ships were wrecked with some scattered in the forests below, but they were lucky to be alive with only seven out of thousands have died on impact. Yet settling on this moon was very difficult. In order to maintain their needs, they had to stay up in the mountains in order to maintain solar energy, creatures below are very venemous or highly carnivorous, and very difficult to build with most of their stuff destroyed. This also included their database network that maintained the knowledge they kept after departing Earth. The first 98 years were frought with hardship,but had help from one woman who made all the difference. The woman's name was Shaamema Dalavi. She helped many and guided all through faith and determination while gathering what little remnant of technology that had survived. On 99 AF as she turned 29, she became a queen and founded the Meq'Jaz Kingdom with Meq'Jaz meaning "unity & freedom". Anyone that oppose or commits criminal acts are to be sent down to the fog and to be seen as barbarians.

Things were working well for many years. That was until 114 AF, when members of the Juzulos Federation arrived. As their custom, they see the new races as inferior and barbarians rather than seeing them as long lost brothers and sisters. And so, a lot of major distrust between the Kingdom and Federation was created and won't have anything to do with one another. Both sides thrive yet also kept eyes on each other to ensure that no side is gonna declare war.

On 215 AF, both sides managed to get satellites up in the air and receive messages from the other moons. The Meq'Jaz Kingdom and the Juzulos Federation became part of the Confederacy in 235 AF. Even though they are working together with other nations, they still don't trust each other.

Culture
The Meq'Jaz Kingdom is a constitutional monarchy with the king or queen sharing power with the Loyal Council. Even though it is a constitutional nation, there is a class system for each of the mountains. The nobles, the rich and the powerful live in the highest points of the mountain settlements yet the relatives of loyalty live on floating platforms above the clouds alongside the clergy. The lowest of the social class live in the fog and forced to live and use whatever materials they can get their hands on in the wilderness. There are four kinds of middle classed in the Kingdom's society. From the top are the servants of the higher classes alongside scientists and high ranking employees of various companies. The next level is the military forces that protect the cities as well as headout to find new places to settle. The many types of laborers are below the military and are comprised of farmers, crafters, smiths, lumberjacks, miners and many more. The last level are known as, "The Slumers". Dissidants that rarely work or lost everything through debts or other means that are close to being forced out into the fog. Conditions are poor with barely anything decent yet home to criminals and scum.

Much of the Meq'Jaz Kingdom is largely Indo-Islamic with many works of Hindu and Islamic architecture ranging to Gupta, Dravidian, Vesara, Jain, Classical Ottoman, Rajput, Maratha, Dzong and, of course, Indo-Islamic. Despite the new class system and being new species, they continue with many of their practices that were done on Earth. Yet it is more difficult with the mountain cities being completely crowded and have more laws about keeping things clean than Singapore with fines that cost an arm and a leg. In other words, they don't want to do any form of pollution like they did back on Earth and actually keeping things tidy compared to the cities of India were.

Economy
The main currency of Meq'Jaz Kingdom is Shuckla.

The majority of the nation's wealth comes from mining and the raw materials excavated deep in the mountains. They developed unique mining equipment that prevents any rumblings or disturbances to the cities as they extend them. With them, the Organa Confederacy can mine deep in planets without disturbing the colony or trigger any sort of eruption or earthquake at a fault. Yet they are also known for their creat works in jewelry. They are masters of taking strange gemstones and turn them into fine works of art. However, they also find the hardest gems and turn them into mining equipment, factory tools, ship building tools, etc.