This is a map of the Middle Sea Kingdoms circa 600 A.E. (After Empire , i.e. the Ikvari Empire) Distances have not been established but you can equate it roughly to the Mediterranean Sea.

Nation Name: Create a name for your Nation
Ruler Name: Create a name for your Ruler.
The Statistics Box: (These stats are an overall measure of your nations strengths/weakness. They are not contrived from any sources but represent a general idea of what your country is capable of accomplishing) On a scale of 1-5 rate the following:
INFLUENCE: Your nations influence in exerting its will. If it gets low enough your Ruler could be removed from power and your Nation thrown into chaos.(Don't worry, if you are truly attached to your country you can always write up a new ruler or group of rulers to fill the power void!)
WEALTH: Your nations material and economic power. Measures how likely another nation or private interest will go into business with you, loan money etc.
POWER: A general measurement of offensive strength.

NATION CHARACTERS: Any characters that are affiliated with your nation. You will RP through these characters.
NATION RACES: Describe any races that live in your country.

Other things to include might be a description of the terrain, features of the main cities, a ruler biography, a list of things your country is known for (art? music? food? military prowess? etc.) Other great characters that come from your country (famous actors or poets, gladiators or notorious pirates and thieves etc.)

Ring of the Seahorse
This Gold and Larimar ring has interwoven seahorses etched into the band. When the bearer nears water the seahorses begin to move around the ring, joining and unjoining tails.

Stylus of the Emperor
This ostrich feather quill pen is wrapped in gold fabric and has a nib of platinum. Any correspondence written with this pen will receive an automatic favorable disposition. (any requests are more likely to be granted etc.)

Nation Name:Ikvar
Ruler Name: Tarsus Ivalian,
Races: Human, Gnome, Dwarf, Elves,Half-Elves,Minotaur, Orc/Goblin (slaves)

History:The name Ikvar harkens back to an older era, an Empire that once ruled all of the Middle Sea Kingdoms. After the decline of the Empire, a few warlords joined under a single ruler of house Ivalian. 600 years later an Ivalian still rules the maritime nation of Ikvar.

INFLUENCE:3 The name Ikvar carries with it a certain prestige, as it is known across the whole of the Middle Sea. A certain prejudice is carried with it as well-the centuries after the fall of the Empire were especially harsh. Tarsus Ivalian has worked tirelessly to reestablish the name of his forebears carrying culture and technology to distant ports-more often than not, an Ikvarian fleet on the horizon is a good sign.
WEALTH:2 Rebuilding a country is expensive. A huge fleet requires upkeep. The royal coffers are nearly empty, but trade is rebounding after the dark era following the fall and ensuing wars. Ikvari ambassadors work tirelessly to establish good trade practice with nearly every nation of the Middle Sea. Expenses are rising but the economy is on the upswing.
POWER:4 Being a (almost!) island nation, Ikvar's navy is nothing short of miraculous. The backbone of the navy is the Royal-Red-Stripes,(RRR) 243 ships protect the trade routes and mainland Ikvar. Nearly 1000 privateers could be called upon to protect the country should need arise (although the cost would surely break Ikvars economy)

Nation Name: Drëkav
Ruler Name: (Figurehead) Michen Drest
The Statistics Box: (Since you didn’t give a specific system, I’m going on a 20 point system (Twenty points total spread out on all the major attributes I could think of.))
Research and Development: 3
Army: 4
Economy: 1
Industry: 2
Crops: 2
Population: 2
City Development: 1
Culture/Religion: 0
Law Enforcement: 3
Political Freedoms: 0
Civil Rights: 3
Exports/Imports: 0

INFLUENCE: Leader isn’t very popular, but the large military (Ten years of required service) and trained secret police keep people too afraid to try and fight back
WEALTH: The economy is fairly poor, due to the high taxes and strict regulations on everything save home life. Homeless rates would be high if homeless people weren’t killed.
POWER: Powerful Military for a nation of its size, and it’s constantly trying to improve upon technology, often giving them the upper-hand militarily, along with numbers.

Terrain: For the most part a northern country, most of it is not arable, the southernmost reaches are where all the farms in the entire country reside, and they barely support the population. The country is also mostly surrounded in mountains, which keep it isolated and well defended from attack, which is why they’ve never been successfully invaded since the nation was formed.

Exports and Imports: None. Drëkav controls mines of Copper, Iron, and salt. As well as stone quarries. And so has no need to trade.

Civil Rights: Peoples of all genders, nationalities, races, or whatever else, are treated by their income and their ‘use’.

Cities: Cities are centered around a massive bell tower. Around the tower is a large semi-circular courtyard, which doubles as a crude sun dial, as the tower’s shadow is cast into the courtyard. Planned Cities are also built for maximum protection of the central tower, and the governmental center located behind it. The City Garrison is typically near the ‘main’ entrance to the city, one side of which is either part of a wall surrounding the city or is planned to be.

There are currently three cities: Krëp, Doun, and Dainl. Krëp is the capital city, and houses one fourth of the entire population of the moderately-small nation.

Government: The Government and how it works is largely unknown, and the common people simply refer to it as ‘The Hierarchy’. Nobility knows what the government is, and how it operates. Michen Drest serves as the figurehead of the government and would be mistaken as the ‘leader’ by the common peoples.

Military Service: Military ultimately focused around Honor and Duty. People who desert, or fail to complete their ten years required active duty (Outside of uncontrollable medical conditions, EG: Being paralyzed) in most communities will get you shunned. Ranking is not determined by merit or intelligence, but on skill in battle, up to a point. There is a certain point where “Deremas” (Name subject to change, I don’t have the phonetic translation sheet nearby) the government’s special agents and personal body guards, hand pick promotions. It is every soldier’s goal to reach these hand-picked ranks, for reasons listed before.

(Not sure on a good title here.): Locally, nobles run the show, with their massive wealths and large castles. They often run their provinces feudally, but a few nobles are nicer, allowing people to actually own their houses and simply pay a small tax per working person living there to the noble, who then in turn pays money to the government. However, the people still ultimately end up with very little money, since the Government spends its money controlling every aspect of the country, which requires a massive amount of funding. This is highly detrimental, since only nobles then have the money to afford businesses that can hire more than one or two assistants. This leads to people serving in the army for longer than ten years often, as they are payed a very minimal untaxed salary and don’t have to pay taxes for a home, as they move with the army. Ultimately, the average citizen earns barely enough to feed themselves and maybe one child.

Celebrations and Events: Any outdoor events must first receive approval by the mayor of the town, or, should it incompass multiple towns or a large well-known town, the approval of the local Noble must be obtained. Cities must receive approval from the Hierarchy themselves, which is done through the local noble. The only nation-wide offical event is ‘Year break’ which lasts an entire month.

’Year Break’: In order to keep the population from starving, a Census is taken in the middle year, where newborn children and pregnancies are counted, as well as the number of individuals who are too old to serve in the military or work in the mines. On the last month of the year, the number of expected children by ‘Year Break’ is decided, half that number of older people are selected (To account for likely deaths of babies, and executions are also included in this number), and hunted down and killed throughout the month. Single parents, former high-ranking military veterans, and Nobles are excluded from this list. Homeless and people with Debilitating diseases are automatically selected first. On the first day of the month, all the new laws made that year are announced at a required-attendance ceremony in every town and city (Multiple times in the cities, but only the first is required.). The law announcements are made so no person can say ‘They didn’t know’.

Labor: Prisoners and extremely poor families that can’t afford to go back into the military work the farms or the mines, depending on physical ability, former rank, and location. They’re paid in not needing to pay taxes and food, instead of money. People who work in these sad places can never afford any kind of frivolities, and live sad miserable barely-existences.

Why do people follow?: A combination of fear and respect for the government prevents revolts. People fear the military, the secret police, and the Deremas provoke pure fear if one is thinking of committing of even pickpocketing. As, most of the time, the penalty for crime is death, and one less name that needs to be drawn. An uprising would simply be suicide, as there’s barely enough food to go around, and raiding farms does a good deal more damage than most people are willing to cause. Any organized rebellion would end in a week or less from lack of food, and no one knows where the people in charge of making laws is actually located.

Deremas: The government’s agents, both secret and not, effectively. Young children that show some unique physical or supernatural ability are drafted into training until they are twenty-five. The training process is unknown, but even the most compassionate little children come out cold blooded killers that could kill their own mother without batting an eye. They are typically armed with a crossbow, a medium-length narrow sword meant for speed, a number of knives, lock picks, and powerful martial art skills. They serve as envoys, assassins, bodyguards, diplomats, you name any official government position that is of power or external affairs, they serve it. However, there are typically only about fifty at time.

Foreign Policy: Isolationistic. If the government of Drëkav can avoid any kind of foreign reliance or situation, they will. They choose to do their best to support themselves by themselves. Their army is kept mostly as a deterrent to bothering them. But should someone threaten them, they will not hesitate on a full-out invasion of the offending nation

The Bell Towers: The bell towers serve partly as watch towers, the start and end to the work day, a crude clock, and multiple other practical uses for a large tower. In emergencies, the tower serves as a haven for the first groups of people there. The towers are typically square, fifty feet by fifty feet, and around a hundred fifty feet tall. Typically split into five floors, the top two are restricted from the general public if they somehow find times in their lives to visit it.

Population: Population is highly mixed, numerous human and B-human races inhabit the area. Cross breeding isn’t uncommon, and it’s become uncertain which was the first race there as well. The Census reports typically estimate around three million expected individuals at the end of ‘Year Break’.