The Oasis-City Of Golain

## Demographics

Population: 100,000

* Humans- <1% - Pop.<1,000

* Elves- 10% - Pop. 10,000
* Dwarfs- 23% - Pop. 23,000
* Pech- 8% - Pop. 8,000
* Goblin- 5% - Pop. 5,000
* Orc- 5% - Pop. 5,000
* Saurian- 15% Pop. 15,000
* Ogre-<1% - Pop. <1,000
* Giant- <1% - Pop. <1,000
* Rootwalker- <1% - Pop. Close to none
* Unborn- <1% - Pop. Close to none

## History

**The City of Golain** is located deep with in the heart of The Najirian Desert. Built long ago around The Ever Flowing Oasis by the Najin People under the Leadership of their Autocratic ruler and speaker for the Emrald Queen, Sin'Saladin. of The Dragon Golain, a Mighty Blue Dragon, by those indebted to Golain who ruled those who lived under him as an aloof, self-interested, benevolent tyrant. Towards the end of The Age of Dragons, as it became apparent that the dragons were struggling to maintain power over the encroaching vermin that were known as Mankind. Golain left the town flying north, towards The Dragonspire, never to return again. The people were forced to organize themselves and build a new government, those who were closest to their Dragonlord tried seizing his horde for themselves and formed a transitional government that was plagued by hateful greed, political back stabbing, and an expropriation of the dragons horde to private individuals. When The Union Republic was forming the political upper class was unable to prevent the matter from being brought to a vote and ratified by the populace, making it the only order The Provisional Government ever agreed too.

## Modern Day

Today The City of Golain is in economic collapse. The vast reserves of gold and jewels the city once knew has been washed away, much of the wealth has been concentrated in the hands of a few people or expropriated to outside investors from The Free Trade Cities like, Center City, Vara, or Markantos or even as far as The Drakovian Empire. because most of the wealth in the city's economy has left the area, **The City of Golain** depends on travelers and traders to come bring food and goods to exchange for the only viable export they have available, fresh water from The Ever-Flowing Oasis located inside the city walls. it is available for all citizens to take what they need and the authorities dispense it to traders in exchange for their goods. The Central Council of Golane is comprised of 5 Chancellors who vote in order of least senior to most senior on the counsel. These five Chancellors ( 3 dwarves, and 2 elves) over see the affairs of the city and are recalled by a vote of decent put forth by a majority of those citizens assembled.

## Locations

### Ever-Flowing Oasis of Golain

* The Oasis at Golain is one of 3 Everflowing Oasis's in the Najirian desert, it is under the tight protection of The Union Republican Government. The Oasis is the only substantial resource in the immediate area and is visited by thousands of people daily. Is located In the center of the city with the Counsel Building located in a Draconian Building build into a sand bar in the center on The Oasis.

### Counsel Building

* The Central Council of Golain meets in the rebuild ruins of The Dragon Golain's Dragonspire. After the provisional government was voted out of power the union republic helped to tear down the monument to Dragonian dominion over the mortal races and the scraps were reused to build a new building for the counsel to work out of, it is a large space with offices for each of the council members to work out of, a center chamber for proceedings and meeting to take place in view of the public eye. All Proceedings are open to citizens of The Union Republic, Public Votes can only be attended by Citizens of the City of Golain, and The Council reserves the right to refuse access to any council session to non-citizens of the city if a state of emergency is called.

### The Boardwalk Marketplace

* The market place in The City of Golain quite literally revolves around the oasis. The large boardwalk style market place goes in a full circle around the oasis, trade is based on exchange, money is not used explicitly but you can offer just about anything for anything else if the person is willing, the most value able resource in town in water as the towns people are allowed to get a daily allotment every day depending on their family size while traders are only allowed to trade for it either at a steep exchange rate at the goods and services exchange on the back side of the market place or on the open Boardwalk for significantly smaller quantities at a time. Union Republic Certified Traders are given better rates of exchange while those from the free cities and especially the Drakovian empire experience the steepest exchange rates. It is not uncommon for traders from the far east to amass a large quantity of goods along their journey east only to be forced to pay out a majority of their goods and services for just for water from this isolated desert community if they want enough to continue their journey west.

### Neighborhoods of Golain

* The Vast Majority of The Golain People live in poverty a squalor, their housing is provided, but because of the lack of reliable resources in this desert town they must ration almost everything that comes through town and find creative ways to fix old or broken buildings and structures creating a multi colored patchwork expressing the citizen tenacity for survival in the harsh desert. The people live in neighborhood communities which individually work to preserve their part of town, but these small town councils often squabble over supply's and resources for their citizens. There are four total neighborhoods each taking up a quadrant of the outer ring of the City of Golain.

### Guard Stations of The City of Golain

* The Guard Stations Of Golain are located at strategic points around the city in between neighborhoods to help cover as much space as possible, The Station at the front gate is the Main Guard Station and is the largest of all of them, it is over seen by neighborhood leads voted on by each unit in town.

### The Najirian Desert

* The Sandy Rolling Dunes of the Desert surrounding Golain is named for The Najin People, a cultural subset of The Saurian people native to this area. It is a large desert made up of mountainous sandy dunes and rocky canyons their are 3 ever flowing oasis's in the area but they are separated by huge swaths of massive softly packed dune that crumble under your feet as you walk down their backs providing no rest from up the exhaustively steep inclines that must be traversed in the blistering heat of the desert sun to cross the area.