Location: North America, Midwest/West area...say, southern Montana, much of Wisconsin and Indiana, a bit of Kentucky, most of Missouri, little bits of Oklahoma, Colorado, and Wyoming, most of South Dakota, as well as all of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, and Illinois.
Organization: The highest echelons are composed of feudal dragon nobles, with the duchies divided up roughly along old state borders and counties getting about five or six old counties apiece. Barons are chosen from loyal citizens of any race (mostly humans) in that area, and get a bit under an old county each, divided up by populations more than natural features or old borders. Mayors are elected, as are town and barony councils and a parliament which mainly take care of fairly minor issues. The head of this is, of course, the Elder Wyrm himself.
Population: 83% human, 14% dragon, 2% half-dragon, 1% otherHumans: About three million essentially normal humans live in the Golden Realm.
Dragons: Nearly all gold dragons live in The Golden Realm, hence its name. They form
12% of the Realm's dragon population. Many silvers also live here, and form about
13% of the draconic population. Other metallic dragons form
33%, chromatic dragons about
6%, Western
9%, Eastern
16%,
4% African and
8% New World dragons. The total dragons number about half a million.
Half-Dragon: Some metallic or other dragons, notably Eastern ones, possess the capacity to transform into human form. With the amount of human/dragon relations encouraged by the Realm's metallic elite, relations of the carnal variety were inevitable. Some of these resulted in half-dragons. These individuals, numbering about 70,000, typically resemble humans with many draconic traits; the lucky ones (~60%) count among these sufficient shapeshifting ability to maintain a human facade. Very few are fertile, but those that do typically find loves among the human nobility, introducing dragon genes to their lines or sterilizing them.
Other: A fair number of ampitheres, not true dragons but just drakes--relatives thereof--reside in the Golden Realm. Also present are wyverns and some other, rarer drakes.
Resources: The natural resources of the American Mid/West; Good morale; Good relations with other nations; Extreme age and wisdom
Almost uniquely among the nations, The Golden Realm cares about how the humans fare, and puts them on the same level as dragons! Also unusually, drakes are allowed full citizenship. The Elder Wyrm theoretically has full power over the Realm, but mostly uses this to keep his dukes under control and lets the Parliament do much of the legislative work. He vetoes enough of their laws to look in control, but when it's not important the Elder Wyrm keeps the dragons out of human affairs.