I hate Politics

This is a short politic-based story I thought would be interesting when I started, but near the end I found that it was annoying and confusing if one could not picture the map I already had in my head, and I didn’t have a good story planned anyway, so I scrapped it. I’d planned to end it by having Draiga declare it’s allegiance to the dominion and turn to wipe out the texas confederacy, but like I said, it seemed dull to me.

Critique is always appreciated.

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The country of Draiga was an extremely peculiar one, but also a well-defended one. The entire country lied at the southern end of the continent, beginning at the Hightop Mountain range. The mountains formed a natural barrier that kept most of the nation safe from the outside world. Foreigners were allowed into the three border cities of Spacewatch, Sansoc and Coastwatcher, but going past that point would result in death if one ever tried to return. The reason this simple restriction worked so well was in part because the mountains were well-patrolled and no airship could fly past, but also because those three cities also lied in the three passable regions of the mountain.

The Texan confederacy had spread it’s influence far and wide after the events of the Great Schism, and in fact Draiga was the only country left which opposed it’s rule as far as they knew. Their alliance had spread almost entirely across the continent, almost fourty states, from east sea to west sea, and from north sea to the hightop mountains.

Draigans claimed, however, that their own empire stretched from the hightop mountains at their north border to what they called the Blackmask Mountains to the south. According to them, beyond the Blackmask mountains was a second great country, known as the Dominion of Humanity. They too stretched from sea to sea, and were trying to push further into the Draigan country. The mountains on the south side of the country had no opening, and so the Dominion had researched naval and aeronautic technologies. However, trying to navigate the sea was suicide, as storms ravaged all the seas almost constantly since the great Schism. And going by air was similarly doomed, as the airforce Draiga had spent centuries perfecting patrolled the mountains constantly.

We Texan offered to go past them and through the mountains, but the Draigan government flatly refused. Their distrust of foreigners was so high that eventually even the three cities we were allowed inside began to militarize.