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Capital: Station
Exports: Coinage, grain, land steamers, land steamer technicians, copper

Mostly comprised of expansive grassy plains and gentle rolling hills, the scenery of Cardean has been the subject painters and poets since before time can remember. Staunchly neutral, the government of Cardean refuses to participate in world politics; for better or for worse. This militant neutrality, along with a highly specialized minting Foundry, is why Cardean is trusted with the manufacture and delivery of currencies around the continent. They charge a small fee for this service, which is enough to finance the small nations many large public works projects; from improving the capitals infrastructure, laying new roads to small farming villages, and building a large and robust national transit system. This wealth is also the key to its highly progressive social programs; grants for art, research, and exploration have made Cardean a focal point of intellectual life in Alaraes.

Outside of the two major population centers, Station and Folly, the nation is mostly lush farmland. Travelers can expect to find miles and miles of state owned farmland, tilled by government employed workers.

• Cardean maintains a small but highly trained military to defend its land steamers and neutrality.
• A special one of a kind heavily armored land steamer called Star Platinum is used to transport newly minted currency.
• All land steamers are serviced in the capital, and so all roads eventually lead to Cardean.
• Station and Folly are actually built on top of the ruins of the same pre-collapse megacity
• Cardean is presided over Czar Alexander de Braun, a well-loved ruler and excellent diplomat.

Laid back, intellectual, easy going.

Station is both the capital of Cardean and the central land steamer hub. It is here where all land steamers are repaired and built.

The main access to the undercity. Originally a resting and resupply depot for adventurers who spent the majority of their time investigating undercity, it eventually grew into Cardeans’ only other major city next to Station.

A maze of ancient half-destroyed buildings filled lost tech, riches, and monsters.

• It has recently been discovered that the Foundry that presses all the coinage has in fact been non-functional for centuries, and that Star Platinum itself is in actuality where currency is minted.
• Czar Alexander de Braun is putting together a expedition into Undercity amid rumors that a cache of Foundry recipes has been discovered.