Nama

Nama is the name of a state in the Poswob Empire (Pusapom). It is different from the other states because Nama is a very old state consisting of an alliance of absolute monarchies that were historically independent nations, but agreed to join the empire as just a single state in return for military protection. The central Blop government largely leaves Nama to itself and doesn't even collect taxes from the common people (though they do take taxes from the kings). In some ways Nama is thousands of years behind the rest of the empire and the people who live there blame the kings for keeping them locked in the past. Nevertheless, the quality of life is better than many other areas, and few Namans are interested in immigrating elsewhere.

Nama (green) admist surrounding states.

Nama is sometimes considered the Poswob homeland even though it contains neither their origin nor their capital. It merely is the area that has the least cultural influence from outside, and therefore best preserves the original culture of the Poswobs. It is also the only state in Pupompom (where Pupompom is defined as "the north") that has coastline on the tropical Raba Ocean. (the rest of the Raba ocean is considered "the south").

Nama's capital is Pworše; not a true capital in the sense of administering the territory it's in, however. It is merely the most convenient stopover for people traveling between Nama and Blop since it is the northernmost settlement in Nama.

Nama is over 95% Poswob, but these Poswobs are mostly Poswobs due to cultural assimilation, rather than immigration. Thus they have distinct racial types, more different from each other than even many recent immigrants into Pusapom are from the Poswobs. Nearly every racial type is represented, from dark-skinned aboriginals along the south coast to dark-skinned immigrantsfrom other countries, to Paba-type people in the northeast and Khulls-type people in the mountainous west. The two dark skinned races are more different from each other than the eastern one

Borders

Nama's northern border does not generally end at a natural boundary such as a river. This is unusual for Pusapom. Instead it ends on flat land with the mountains about 50 miles away. This formed as the limit of settlement of people who oriignally lived in the mountains.

Climate

Nama has a variety of climates. It is the most climatically diverse state, per unit area, in the Empire. However, this is mainly just because it has the highest mountains, so temperatures can range from subpolar to tropical in a shorter distance than anywhere else. Even so , the climate northj of the mountains is very different from the climate to the south. Northern Nama (which is where ther capital is, and is the part that borders the rest of the Empire) is like Nebraska or eastern Wyoming, though it does not have Nebraska's leeside low phenomenon, because the mtn range is primarily east-west. Thus storms cant appear "out of nowhere" the way they do in the Great Plains. Even so, the ocean is not all that far away, so the precipitation is moderate and peaks during winter. On the other hand, because the mtn range is east-west, cold waves can't just skip over Nama the way they skip over the area imeddsiately east of the Rocky Mtns. (e.g. Cheyenne WY is warmer than Des Moines e3ven though its 6000ft up, and "should" be about the same temp as Fairbanks Alaska.) Thus northern Nama is temperate despite being at about 30N.

The south coastr is about 150 miles long. Though its inhabitants consider it to be tropical, and tropical plants such acoconuts fgrow there, it is the coldst "tropical" coastline in the woirld because it is the futherst north. However, pine apples will not grow here; they myst be imp[otted from nearby lands that do not have freak cold spells in winter.

Cities

Cities

City	elev	Lon	Lat	H	L	H	L	Comments
Pubiapep	84	36	28	63	51	80	67	gmneerally warmer than that during winter ... the avg is due to cold spells
Pworše	4391	38	32	39	23	83	55	wet due to upslope snow, but not leeside low