Gonarundu

Gonarundu is one of the old nations in the world of Arlec, holding history all the way back to the Second Era, many of the survivors banded together to make it again for safety. Though, it has kept its unluckiness, while previously it shared a border with Courler, now it has been stuck between many wars, struggling to keep what it has.

## Leadership

The leadership of Gonarundu is classed as a Monarchy, but is currently run by a council of elites and nobles in order to keep the peace. The crown and whomever holds it acts more as a public piece while the council holds the real power.

Known to the other nations leadership and most of the citizens, the council is ran by nobles, the army commander and a high mage, the current crown is also on the council but their vote has no extra weight.

## Military

The Kingdom of Gonarundu has a large defensive military, equipped with good equipment to ensure that the nation never loses its border. The nation very rarely interfenes in any other conflict unless to protect their own borders, trying to hold peaceful relationships with everyone else.

Once standing much bigger, the Gonarunduns have slowly built a series of walls to protect themselves from any invasion, and help from the raiding tribes that sometimes find their way to their lands.

## Society

The society of the Kingdom of Gonarundu is very similar to the previous one, holding nobles in high regard and seeing everyone else as the common folk. With the high amount of heat, many visitors can confuse the Gonarunduns of being a nation of Lazers, but it is only during the hotter months does this comparison occur.

### Nobility

There is a very distinct line between the classes in Gonarundu, between the nobles and the commonfolk. The only way of entering the nobility is either marrying or finding a lineage in your family leading back to the creation of Gonarundu. Though having a noble family only allows them to own property within the noble districts and access noble events, it is up to them to gain the wealth to get there.

Another way to access nobility is wealth, having enough money to bribe their way into the noble district and stay there slowly makes the other families agree with them.

Some of the noble families include:

* Bacque
* Carreiro
* Cuevas

* Fidalgo
* Malillos
* Rodriguez
* Torres
* Valle
* Velazquez

## Geography

### Climate

The climate in Gonarundu is very hot, having some barren lands and deserts within their border, they have adapted to the very high temperatures. Their hottest period occurs in July and Augona, reaching an average of 34 degrees, and a highest average of 38. Their colder periods occur in Deamber and Janu, with a lowest average of 20 degrees and an average of 23. Most of their rainfall occurs during the cooler periods and ends in Caesan.

### Cities

The Kingdom of Gonarundu only has 3 cities from their founding, all named after the previous kingdoms in the second era. They are:

* Ralom (Capital)
* Deyver
* Taeyungo

## Commerce

The Kingdom of Gonarundu has an interesting amount of resources in their land, normally where they would be struggling they have managed to export out and get what they require in imports. Being so early in the world, they have a rich network of trade routes and it was their traders that designed them in history.

### Exports

Dyes, Glass, Gold, Lumber, Medicine, Rice and Stone

## Culture

### Clothing

A lot of the clothing in Gonarundu is loose fitting, in order to survive the heats they often go through. Though another aspect of their clothing, which makes it more interesting, is their cleanliness. Gonarunduns are very frantic about the cleanliness of their clothes, often reserving the whites and more lighter colours for the nobility who can actually keep them clean. While the general folk often have lighter clothes (due to the heat) but different shades, never white.

#### Formal

For formal occassions, Gonarunduns wear long, knee-length dresses with various colours, though only white for the high nobility. This is different to their normal clothing which is very single coloured now changing to an assortment. Very popular in formal wear is the style of hats a person wears.

### Food

Gonarundu has a lot of unique foods to their culture that they eat on the regular. Including a lot of rices, and a food called a Gonarundun Pyramid. The Gonarundun Pyramid is often eaten for Lunch and Dinner, served cold for lunch and hot for dinner. It is a series of vegetables stacked in a pyramid, surrounded in rice (when eaten for Dinner) and various meats, often it is served with bread.

For dessert, they have a form of ice-cream with lots of fruits, focussing more on the colourful fruits rather than the ice-cream itself. Vendors on the street sell these in their own bowls, adding a different topping to be unique to that vendor.

### Education

Education is important in Gonarundu, but for the common folk it is only taught weekly on a Saturday. For nobles, there are multiple high-ranking schools both within cities or outside cities that they can send their children. Scholarships are also offered for the common if their family has done a great service to the crown (or council). The current Monarch also gives out 5 scholarships every year for the common folk to enter the schools of their choice.

### Arts

#### Literature

While Gonarunduns have a low literacy rate, they still have a lot of authors and writings. Different from their second-era counterpart, they have ensured that their history is written one way or another. While most of their other literature is all to do with medical writings. Standing ahead as the medical experts, many doctors or practitioners from around the world use Gonarundun books for their knowledge.

#### Visual Art

Gonarundun visual art is unique to them. With the large amount of sands and dyes they have and produce, sand art has become quite popular. Using special frames in order to keep the sand the way it is, many artists make entire battles out of the sand. Others can make more mosaic pieces, used for interpretation.

Another piece of visual art they make is with rice. Similar to the sand art, they dye and change the colour of certain rices in order to make art out of it. With such an abundance of the three, they have also made special frames in order to keep their art the way it is.

When not making paintings out of sand or food, Gonarunduns love flags. Flags being used to represent a family house, even if they are simply common, or used to act a certain way or celebrate a certain festival.

#### Music

Gonarunduns don't often rely on instruments for their music, simply using it as background as their strong voices are what make it. Not fond on singing with words, the noises with their mouths are what fill the air. It is believed to be inspired off of a war-cry their early tribes did in the Third Era, now birthing life to the very singing they do.

### Sports

Sports are not as popular in Gonarundu, with the heat the way it is, many of them use swimming as a way to get their exercise in. Thus swimming sports, or anything in a pool, is what they enjoy most. Gone are the ways of the horse from their second-era counterpart, now adding water volleyball, polo and long-distance swimming events.

Large swimming pools are included in cities, often indoors to keep it cool and clean, in order to allow for major competitive spectator events.

### Entertainment

Outside of sports entertainment, Gonarunduns often go and see musical theatre and plays for their entertainment. One of the reasons are because of the cool air on the inside. Outside of these theatres and plays, chess is a very popular game, along with anything that doesn't require too much because of the heat.