Puchnya

The peninsula of Puchnya, or Puknya, was one of the first acquisitions of the fledgling Empire, and where the budding imperials invented their outer-provincial system. Before the invasion, Puknya consisted of three kingdoms of the lowland Karkovoi, or Nizky Karkovoi. The Empire caught the squabbling kings off-guard, and subdued the entire province, putting their rebellious and belligerent monarchs to the sword before installing their own provincial Gouvernour. This system- of an appointed official leading the province, rather than a king or duke- has continued to this day, as the Empire is well-aware of the dissent within the region. And yet, two major rebellions and nearly a hundred years has a way of quashing anger, as the people still to a simmer, and begin to accept their overlords, and even to be prideful of their contributions to their new state. A decade ago, the first ever Karkovoi gouvernour was appointed; though this brought much ire from the high nobles in Alvyrnia. Let them sit on their thrones in their decadent villas- running a country is best not left to someone whose only qualification is blood.