Raiders Republic

The raiders republic is a collection of 9 islands, each controlled by a duke. As such, there are 9 competing duchies, constantly vying for supremacy in education, raiding, culture and economics. However, since the sea elves emerged from the ocean at the beginning of the current age, there has largely been peace between the duchies preferring to concentrate on raiding the outside world.
The dukes of the raiders republic meet under the sea in the underwater city of ship wreck cove, where all the high arts, education and politics occur. Preventing none Sea Elves from taking part in high society. Each year the sea elves meet at a Witan in ship wreck cove and decide where to send the fleet to raid.
Following a millennium of capturing slaves the sea elves are now vastly out numbered by slaves, the free spawn of slaves and the Amourisi.
Population stats.
Total Population - 4,450,000
Sea Elves - 800,000
Elves other - 750,000
Amourisi - 1,400,000
Human - 600,000
Dwarf - 300,000
Fairies - 400,000
Other Elfoid 1,200,000

Due to their exceptionally long lives, the sea elves have become masters of knowledge particularly elvish medicine, the dark arts and engineering. The sea elf university in ship wreck cove is the mist elite university in the raiders republic, however the 9 duchies compete for educational prestige, and are often more liberal in their recruitment policy.

Being great ship builders the economy of the raiders republic is naturally more based on trading and raiding, bringing great wealth and knowledge in towards the raiders republic, which the elves tend to spend liberally on great works of art, food and buildings. The local economy is driven by slaves, particularly the agricultural slave labour of the Amourisi, with the dwarfs taking up a particularly productive banking sector.

Outside of raiding, the main function of the witan is to govern ship wreck cover as a committee, while all over functions are decided by the dukes as the absolute power on their islands. However, being immortal there is little instability as great dukes tend to last a long time and poor ones are often murdered.