The Land of Dread is one of the countries of planet Nakti. Located in the far north-eastern region of the planet, it is a desolate, scarcely populated, inhospitable place. It's not a country in an organized, political sense, more a loose collection of city-states, its borders only loosely guarded (if at all). The borders weren't so much decided by military action as by where "a sensible person would start walking backwards" (Traveling records IV, M'rafiq Asalani). Most inhabitants trek around as nomads, as cities are far and few inbetween.