Batu

The Batu Khaganate is a nation located on the southern regions of Eldham. The nation is mainly composed of the Batu people, who found their origins within the snowy tundra and mountains located within the country. The country's culture is heavily family oriented, and as such the most basic political subunit is that of the Mirza, families and extended families that encompass the entirety of Batu society. Governmental functions in the country are managed by the Khural, a senate composed of the heads of the Mirzas, also known as Khans, and of representatives for the people of each Mirza, known as the Darga.

Pre-History
The lands that today form the tundra of the Batu have been inhabited since time immemorial, however it is not until approximately 3,000 years ago that the ancestors of the peoples that would eventually come to be known as the Batu migrated to the region from an unknown location. When these early settlers came upon the land, they found a snowy, yet easily livable landscape, filled with forests and different native edible plants adapted to the local climate.

Early Batu society was composed of mostly nomadic hunter-gatherers, however even from these early days there is evidence of familial connections becoming important parts of the society of these early settlers, with the different tribal settlements being composed primarily by the chief's direct and extended family, and some scholars believe that it is from these tribal families that our modern concept of a Mirza has been derived.

Eventually, a majority of the nomadic tribes would come to settle down, forming small, permanent communities, which would slowly merge with neighboring communities as populations intermingled and families grew, leading to a merging of the many families that once dominated the Batu tribal settlements, forming the earliest recognizable form of the institutions that we now know as Mirzas.

Throughout their history, these Mirzas would rise and fall in prominence, the names of many are today forgotten, yet we see what they have begotten; many of the major Mirzas and families of today are directly descended from these ancient Mirzas, sometimes as splinter groups and sometimes as direct descendants. One thing is always consistent in early Batu society, however, and that is conflict between the Mirzas.

The Khural
The principal body of the government of the Khaganate is the Khural, the senate. The Khural is composed of the heads of the separate Mirzas, known as the Khans, as well as of representatives given to the Mirzas to account for population differences, known as Dargas. The executive of the government is also the head of the Khural, known as the Khagan. The Khagan is elected from among the Khans, and by the Khans.