The United Kingdoms of Dragra

History
When the chaos came the Dwarven political society collapsed in it totality. Many ran to their human allies for protection, but some did not, some sound solace in a prophet, the Brahan Seer who preached a holy journey to a new world. They joined the desperate human lords in heading to Ternum and displayed their greatness as their dwarven fighters overwhelmed the Elves in the Cuillin mountains. In this mountain the Brahan Seer laid out their way of life, a highly stratified class based system. People were born into their class and could not leave it. There was three classes; the Cean (Noble) class, the Crid (Priestly) class, the Elan (Artisan) class, the Lamh (Warrior) class, the Oba (Working) class and the Classless. Each class had a role and a level in society (as displayed previously in descending order). This system remained as such in their kingdom of Gra for many years. The system seemed to make sense to the Dwarves, it was why they remained united while humans became divided between a thousand petty kings. This thought came to an end with the battle of Kint, where the CAM managed to route, kill and generally humiliate the Dwarven warriors and nobles. This led to a level of disillusion with the system as lower class Dwarves began to question the need to the class system, instead wanting to form a new kingdom, where they would not be bound by class. This led to the great schism and the splitting of Gra into Dragra and Gradle. The civil war was long and bloody with the EC supporting Gradle and the CAM supporting Dragra. The superior arms of the CAM backed Dragra eventually won out and united the kingdoms into the United Kingdom of Dragra (now UKD).

Government
The government operates on a constitutional monarchy with a two house legislature (like the UK Parliament) where the King functions as the executive with powers to enact the legislation of the parliament.

The central government tends to devolve only to local municipalities though there are still the two informal boundaries of the former kingdoms. within these areas you will find a difference between Dragra, which uses cities to determine the boundaries whereas Gradle uses ancient Dwarven temple boundaries.

Map
Cities by number:

1: Dragra

2: Balmara

3: Ridrag

4: Anadrag

Factions
At the time of the game there are two major parties, they dominate the government and have many supporting factions who directly and indirectly support them in their bid for control.

The Slieg Ur Party are a party based on the liberal principles which brought about the constitution of the UKD. It seeks to limit the power of the state and to implement policies which maximise the freedom of the Dwarves and ending the caste system which has (in their view) oppressed and held back their people for so long.

The other major party is the Sean Ra arty. They primarily consist of the pro caste dwarves who lost the civil war. They rally behind the king, wanting to increase his power and letting him govern more efficiently, believing the state is the most effective way of helping the Dwarves.