Wind Country

*A land that suffered through it's entire lifespan. A land deprived of water and a land trying to drain life. A land that became a dead landscape after man's folly.*

## Geography

Roughly 80% of the Wind Country is covered in a vastly growing desert. Nestled between a series of mountains forming it's borders, the lack of rain caused the once fertile lands to be encased in desert, mainly from it's northeastern border with the small nation of Rain Country. Two major rivers run through the desert landscape, bringing with it a fertile flood plains, green and lush with vegetation. It is along these rivers that civilization would thrive.

## Government Structure

The government structure of the Wind Country existed prior to the Double Impact Event, prior to the Great Wind Exodus. The government structure were lead by a mercantile empire of 3 extremely wealthy families known as the Gold Kings. This Plutocracy strived through gathering wealth by any means possible and all laws were created for the sake of building personal wealth -- even at the detriment of the citizens within the Wind Country. The Gold Kings fell when they were overthrown by the First Kazekage turning the country into a budding empire.

After the fall of Sungakure, the government structure had dispersed and all that remains is anarchy.

## Landmarks

 **Rongoku** | Thriving off of the junk left behind from the destruction of Sunagakure and the abandoned towns throughout the Wind Country. Using the junk they discovered, they created a town based around salvaging. Men and women wear similar attire, clothing scraped together from whatever was salvaged. While these people may appear menacing, they are quite skittish and generally run and hide from outsiders. These people are also equipped to enter the Glass Desert without any lasting harm.

## History

### Pre-Shinobi History

Several thousand years ago, cave paintings told that the desert within Wind Country was once a green and lush forest with sprawling grasslands. Rivers were plenty and the country was filled with hundreds of lakes with swamps bordering the River Country. The people, before the advent of ninjutsu, were hunter-gatherers for a time until they discovered agriculture. They began to domesticate sheep, goats, and cattle. They farmed the land and this land was seen as paradise. The people of the Wind Country were accepting of newcomers and gave them a place to live and taught them of where to hunt. Several tribes from other countries would come to find a place for themselves.

Violence, thievery, and greed started to grip some of the newer tribes -- wanting more land to farm and more land to graze, they took on violence. Killing entire tribes to take over their land and livestock. These violent groups broke into three smaller groups and the leader of these groups would then become known as 'The Gold Kings'. Satisfied with this arrangement, each of the three Gold Kings took a portion of the country and 'owned' that portion of the country. They build vast empires of cattle and began to overgraze the land and used the wood of the trees to make lavish buildings. Their greed caused the green and lush lands slowly decay to the desert it is now.

After many squabbles, they decided on creating a capital city where the three territories intersected. This capital city would be within a massive and ancient meteor crater. This would be where the modern-day Sunagakure would once stand. As each Gold King would die, others within their line would replace them; taking over their wealth and power. There would always be 3 Gold Kings in history at any time. As the country's flora began to die off and the desert spread, the desire for more resources would strike the Gold Kings. It was now that the concept of currency was created. Originally a gold coin with 3 faces imprinted upon it called the Gold King Coin. This was used as the only currency in the land until the currency was changed into Ryo.