Meihmar

Meihmar, popularly known as the City of Salt, is a influential Hamnai-speaking city state on the Haman peninsula. The city sits on the mouth of the river Ihe and controls a huge reserve of salt mines in the nearby mountains. Due to this advantage, Meihmar has historically bloomed, as it was able to provide salt much cheaper than any of its competitors. The city's architecture is the most ornate and expensive of the Pohmyran Bay with towering copper-covered statues all over the city docks and the palace.

Recently, however, several of the most important salt mines have basically been emptied, and as the whole industry of the city was based upon salt mining, the city is suffering a severe crisis with high unemployment rate and its mining class poorer and more restless than ever. Coinciding with the Death Waters plague and its effects on the ruling dynasty, Meihmar's future is up in the air. The City of Salt is still unquestionably the polity with the largest salt reserves, and with the transnational salt crisis, the demand for salt has never been higher.

Meihmar has traditionally been ruled as a simple kingdom, but with an influential court of salt moguls and plutocrats. With the recent plague, all of the royal family but the king has been wiped out, and the king is expected to reform the government or appoint someone in the court as his heir.

The working class of Meihmar sustains itself either through salt mining or through simple farming or fishing. Practically the whole nation adheres to the pihm cult of Ihmai but the merchant class and the salt traders usually support minor pihm gods.