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======The County of Urnst======

  * Her Noble Brilliance, the Countess Bellisca of Urnst
  * Capital City: Radigast City (population 39,1000)
  * Population: 200,000
  * Demi-humans: Halflings (3000), others few
  * Humanoids: Few
  * Resources: foodstuffs, cloth, gold
The County of Urnst is populated by a mixture of peoples, most being of Oerid stock, but hostile to the Aerdy, unwilling to serve a Nyrondal monarch.  The Palatine Duke of Urnst long encouraged separatists in the county above, and eventually the King of Nyrond was forced to agree to a separation of this state from the kingdom.  The lands to the great bend of the Artonsamy, south to the Franz, to the shores of the Nyr Dyv is ruled by the house of Gellor, whose current representative is Countess Bellisca.  The county is allied to and under the the protection of the Duchy of Urnst, but its ruler is by no means subservient to the duke (who his seeking to marry his eldest son to the Countess and thus permanently uniting the lands into one realm).  The county maintains a small but efficient squadron of warships on the Nyr Dyv.  An army of some 2000 horse and foot garrisons the key strongholds, and noble levies can raise 10 times that number of troops in a week or so."  Gygax, 1983