Iteru

Iteru, a "hydraulic state" in north-western Eura, situated on the river Nouradin along a stretch of territory that comprised portions of the former Babkhan Emirates of Alkhiva and Baatharz and the Ashktenaztism overseas territory of Mahoz HaSephardim.

Government

Kenbet

In accordance with ancient tradition, the Throne calls together the chosen in the Kenbet to advise the Throne on matters of state and government. Membership is extended to the Tjaty, Imir Per Wer, the sepat governors, and all irypat and hatya in good standing.

The Imir Per Wer acts as head of the Kenbet and maintains order and decorum. The Kenbet organizes itself in any manner it so wishes. All decisions by the Kenbet are sent to the Palace for the consent or rejection of the Pharaoh. If the Pharaoh consents the decision carries the force of law after being proclaimed.

By ancient tradition no act of the Kenbet may address the Pharaoh's household or Their absolute authority.

In practice the Kenbet served as a consultative assembly allowing for a measure of popular participation in Iteran government.

Regional Government

Upper Iteru is divided into four sepats (Akhmim, Damietta, Iwenu, and Merimda) while the entirety of Lower Iteru is ruled directly by the Tjaty from Men-Nefer. To each of the territorial sepats a governor (heri-tep a'a) is directly appointed by Pharaoh. The rural portions of each sepat and Lower Iteru are subdivided into various markaz or self-governing collectives of villages under the authority of elected headmen. These markaz are controlled by the governors through a system of hydraulic rationing, whereby the flow of fresh uncontaminated water is determined by the cooperation and productivity of the villages, whose surpluses in crops, manpower, and revenue, are creamed off by the tiers of Iteran local and central government. Non-cooperative or rebellious villages may find themselves placed under a water embargo, leaving them deprived of potable waters - the surface waters of Iteru, like much of inland Eura still being tainted with radioactive fallout from the Babkhan Holocaust of the previous century.

Military

Organisation

• Royal Iteran Chariotry
  • Royal Corps of Scribes
  • Royal Infantry Corps
  • Royal Artillery Corps
  • Royal Air Defense Corps
  • Royal Chariotry Corps
  • Royal Corps of Engineers
  • Royal Signalist Corps
  • Royal Logistics Corps
    • Railway and Shipping Section
• Royal Iteran Navy
  • Pharaoh's Great Arsenal
  • Heavy Division
  • Light Division
    • Sap-Meh (Northern Shield)
    • Sapi-Res (Southern Shield)
  • Temple Bureau of the Navy
• Royal Iteran Air Fleet
  • Air Operations Bureau
    • Akhmim Air Corps
    • Damietta Air Corps
    • Iwenu Air Corps
    • Men-Nefer Air Corps
    • Merimda Air Corps
  • Temple Bureau of the Air Fleet
• Royal Iteran Gendarmerie
  • Operations Bureau
    • Corps of the Medjay
      • Main Headquarters
      • Special Operations Command
      • Training Institute
      • Akhmim Garrison
      • Damietta Garrison
      • Iwenu Garrison
      • Men-Nefer Garrison
      • Merimda Garrison
  • Temple Bureau of the Gendarmerie
• Royal Iteran Coast Guard
  • Operations Bureau
    • Maritime Enforcement Unit
    • Fisheries Protection Squadron
    • In-shore Patrol Regiment
    • Shipping Artillery Regiment
    • Coastal Observation Regiment
  • Temple Bureau of the Coast Guard

Establishment

Royal Iteran Air Fleet

Aircraft	Airframes	Squadrons	Personnel
HAL HF-24 Marut	215	13	1,560
Helwan HA-300	301	18	2,160
HA-200 Al-Qahirah	81	5	600
Su-25KM	52	3	360
Avro Shackleton MR.Mk.2	10	1	120
Avro Shackleton AEW.2	9	1	120
PZL M28 Skytruck	64	4	480
Bf 108 Taifun Trainer	128	8	960
SA 342 Gazelle	65	4	480
Mil Mi-8	109	6	720
Total	1,034	63	7,560

Uniforms

The standard uniform issued to personnel of the Royal Iteran Chariotry was the jibbah, a padded garment made of tough, plain white cotton with patches of alternate colours (denoting regiment, service corps, seniority, etc) sewn on top, with split skirts for riding, and a helmet with a mail aventail. The jibbahs of officers were typically of superior quality and patterning, with senior officers seen to be wearing coats of many colours (frequently to the delight of Raspurid snipers). An officer's padded jibbah was a piece of high quality quilted armour evolving from the padded jackets of heavy cavalrymen in the service of the Emirates of Alkhiva and Baatharz, whose continual private warfare enlivened the Babkhan political scene in ages past. The multiple layering of wadded textiles produced a resilient defence against slashes and thrusts from edged weapons whilst the silk tunic worn underneath the jibbah would serve to contain the penetration of the sorts of arrowheads favoured by inland primitives and the railway archers fielded by the Bassaird Empire - making it considerably easier and safer to remove an embedded arrowhead without causing further catastrophic injuries. The fabric coats and neck defences could also be reinforced with elements of metal armour, in the form of mail shirts and neck guards, and plate helmets. Horses, on the occasions when taken into battle, could also be protected with padded body armours on occasion, supplemented with barding made from metal plates. With the return of high velocity weapons to the battlefields of northern Eura, metal armour is retreated back into obsolescence with the more prudent regiments seeking ways to incorporate disks of ceramic armour into the weave of their padded jibbahs.