Raspur Khanate

Khānāt-e Raspur
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Motto: Blood Calls Out for Blood
Anthem: Behold, the New Dawn Rises!
Location of Raspur
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Capital	Raspur
Largest city	Raspur
Official language(s)	Babkhi (official) Khalypsine and Vey Greek most commonly spoken
Official religion(s)
Demonym	Euran
- Adjective	Eurans
Government	Restricted franchise elective monarchy
- Khan	Tahmaseb II Osman
- Grand Vizier	Mir-Hossein Khan
- Legislature	Durbar
Establishment	07 June 2016
Area	N/A
Population	TBC
Currency	Dinar
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National animal	Mardyakhor
National food	Long Pork
National drink	N/A
National tree	N/A
Abbreviation	RUR

The Khanate of Raspur is a wiki-based simulated state set on the continent of Eura in the wake of the destruction of the Kingdom of Babkha. It considers itself to be a successor to the cultural identity (theme) of Babkha and also the short-lived Theocracy of Khalypsil, but in neither case to the polities themselves.

Government and politics

Foreign relations

As an unrecognised state, the Raspur Khanate has no formal relations with foreign powers, and indeed in its values and conduct is considered to be actively antagonistic towards the wider international community.

Economy

Exploiting the chaos that enveloped central Eura in the wake of the Euran War the clans and families of the Raspur Khanate moved to aggressively seize control of the network of caravans that crisscrossed the harsh desert and steppe like conditions of the continental interior carrying valuable and rare cargo and goods between the scattered and sparsely populated settlements that clustered around the ruined cities and those oases where safe drinking water could be found.

The single largest economic actor in the Raspuri economy is the House of Osman GmbH, a limited liability company whose members are protected against being held for the company's debts on account of their familial relationship with the ruling family. The controlling member of the company is Isabella Osmania, a Sxiro-Natopian dual-national and widower of the former head of the Shirerithian branch of the House of Osman.

Opium

In 1651 AN (August 2017), 53% of the non-pharmaceutical-grade opiates on the unregulated Euran markets originated in Raspuri territory. This amounted to an export value of about 1.5 billion Shirerithian Erb, with a quarter being earned by opium farmers and the rest going to Raspuri officials, brigands, paramilitaries, and drug traffickers. The trade was severely impacted by the outbreak of Alexandrian Flu in Luthoria which depopulated that province. Along with many communities of the Euran interior, the Raspuri were obliged to quarantine themselves for 40 days as a precaution against infection, causing a shortage and then a glut of supply as smuggling routes were re-orientated towards the lawless Constancian colony of Nivardom.

The main growing areas are under the protection of semi-autonomous clans in the south-eastern districts of Raspur, where long neglected irrigation networks had been brought back into working order by Sarhang Naik, the guardian of a functioning borehole and pumping station that has tapped into the Zjandarian sandstone aquifer system, which contains an estimated 150,000 km3 of groundwater.

The smuggling routes to Alexandrian Luthoria were formerly controlled by the Durrani brothers, Yaser and Rostam. However with the outbreak of the Alexandrian Flu on the Euran continent, the brothers, along with their families and dependants were put to death by the Khanate's security forces and their bodies incinerated to break the potential chain of infection.

The trade now falls under the control of the Darzi Clan who have obtained formal recognition as caravan guardians, escorting the convoys of illicit cargo overland from Raspur to Nivardom.

The harvesting of opium poppies and their subsequent processing is labour intensive and relies on both child and slave labour harvest in order to these flowers in the Khanate's farming fields