Northern Free Cities (Tall Kingdom)

The Northern Free Cities (Nördliche Freie Städte), better known in Pem by as the "Tall Kingdom", also known as the "Hanseatic League" is a confederation of allied City-States in the Hanseatic region. Its major settlements are located on the Hanseatic Landbridge, with auxiliary settlements in the surrounding regions. It is bordered to the south-west by the Commonwealth of Pem and Archpolonia, but has no other international borders. The confederation is bordered to the east by the Eastern Sea and to the west by the Northern Sea. It is bordered by Wilds to the north. Several cities in the Hanseatic League, such as Wasmeinau and Amstrad, are also members of the Northern Alliance of States.
The confederation was formed following the end of Pemblish occupation in 295BGE, under the leadership of the Great Houses. It comprises most of the territories of the former Great Kingdom and bares many territorial and legal similarities to the Emergent Era Hansea Staatenbund confederation.
The confederation's territories have many shared customs and traditions, and have been heavily influenced by the aristocratic Great Houses for many centuries. Due to the unwritten nature of its creation, being founded and operated based on 'gentlemen's agreements' between the various Houses, merchants and the governments of the Free Cities themselves, the League is prone to infighting and political intrigue. This is often exacerbated by major conflicts of interest, with the property of major landowners often overlapping the new post-monarchy boundaries, and the Great Houses often coordinating with each other to suppress the supposed 'freedoms' of the Free Cities.
== Constituent City-States ==
=== Wasmeinau-ist-Deinau ===
Located in Washmein kanton
Main Article: Wasmeinau-ist-Deinau
==== Der Frei und Hanseatic Stadt von Amstrad ====
Located in Zitrus kanton
Main Article: Amstrad
=== Malergrundisch ===
Located in Drachen kanton
Main Article: Malergrundisch
=== Transmark ===
== Name ==
A Pemblish colloquial term from when the region was still a kingdom. The name is in reference to how the cities on the Hanseatic Landbridge line up on a map, visually appearing as vertically "tall" to cartographic observers. By extension, it is also in reference to the long and comparatively narrow geography of the traversable landbridge. 
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