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| - Land of Honey; home of tranquility, where leisure and days where the sun shines bright and the villages reside in peace. With mountains abounding, transportation is taken through a majority of passes and rivers that outline the basins below. The people with in live largely solitary lives, with large central towns in which to congregate, trade, and for livelyhood. Prospering off of the honey they help cultivate, in which earned them their name. Localized areas are used for harvesting bee-hives and using the exotic ichor as a form of revenue, selling it off as a luxury to neighboring and distant Lands. Consisting of several small villages, iconically named after certain trees: Kashiwaga, Kaede, etc. The reason for this being the country's past worship of nature spirits. These location names allow it to be easily registed by those traversing the areas, as well, the tree that the native villages are named after usually sport such around the area. Ruled by a council of lesser known politicans, harmony was key and trade was the central point of the nation. However, as distant affairs in the Land of Water closed in on their territory, the tension tightening... the villages gathered once more to the alters of the nature spirits, praying for protection and outside forces. While the Land of Honey rushed to their 'gods', outside forces closed in, under the banner of a manevolent tyrant. Armed to the teeth, the military banner that shaded the Shinobi and Swordsmen that invaded were more then a match for those within that dare ward them off from their destination. The immediate villages were quickly sacked, forcing all inhabitants further inward into the mountains, and to their capital of Mount Shima. While many died, any that did not engage against the invasion were spared per order of the Demon of the Hidden Mist. While they were spared, the armies of Kiri ensured death for any more resistance. Directly speaking with the Lord of the Land of Honey, deeming him liable for the weakness that the nation was currently in. As quickly as they had came in, others would easily do the same. A treaty was to be forced, with Kirigakure taking total control of the nation, to which the Daimyo strongly resisted. The death of the Daimyo quickly quelled any further sign of revolt... the throne was taken by General Ayako, now Daimyo and Feudal Lord in control of the Honey Land. In her stead, the nation has undergone militarization and modernization. A deep atheistic state formed under her command, shutting down any and all spirit worship that the Land used to follow. Tearing down alters and turning the temples into locale brothels, inns, and taverns for Ayako's secret police and enforcers. Coinciding with this, Ayako as Daimyo erected a gigantic wall around the northern border, expanding it over the years down the entirety of the Land of Honey. Requiring that any who sought entrance into it's territory go through military customs. As Amegakure had modernized it's vast cities, so too did Ayako take example. Using metals funneled through the Land of Water to begin construction on Waterworks, Railways, and upgrading the defenses of the larger villages. While modernization has yet to reach the outer towns and smaller urban hovels, it is becoming a noteable feature. Mount Shima, the capital is the most visual example of this evolution. Transforming the Mountain through tram systems, steam power, hydrolics, and electrical powering. The entire Mount has become a bustling hive of activity in due part to this, in which the locales are glad to see commerce flowing as naturally more smoothly then before. Natives of the Land of Honey are given freedom to what they do with in the realm, so long as they coincide with the laws set-up by their Lady Ayako. As the majority feel hatred and shame for the degeneration of their society; more and more each day are flocking to the opportunities that Ayako is giving them. More trade has given all classes increased profit, increased job rate, and taxes are growing lower as a result of Ayako's feudalism. With so many opportunities being given thanks in part to their Lord, the younger generations have aspired to their Lord Ayako. While the temples have fallen, new ones on a mental scale are forming in the minds of the youth with in the Land of Honey; calling out to the Demon of the Hidden Mist. Training them with programs, meant to both arm and ensure they begin to believe in the same ideal that their Daimyo follows: "Strong live, and the weak die". While this thins the herds out, allowing only select locals into the ranks of Ayako's military; it also ensures that the few left behind are not strong enough to revolt, if given the chance. In a dismal state of reconstruction; the Land of Honey is beginning to cry out... forming it's own strength. So that it may stand as a shining beacon, warding off any offensives to Kirigakure, and one day being capable of becoming it's own Hidden Village. landscape_by_grosnez-d49zlcs.jpg|Rural Areas landscape sakura1.jpg|Small Towns landscape sakura5.jpg|Architecture-type waterworks_by_novum1-d5ds7xm.jpg|"Twin Gates" - Border-wall, sign of modernization and isolation landscape sakura7.jpg|Capital Entrance: "Mount Shima"
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