Orsarian Empire

The Orasrian Empire is an ancient empire named for it's home nation of Orasarus, a nation of great wealth and lavish lifestyles, but remained good-natured and benevolent even when it meant sacrificing the nation's strength for its people to not suffer, a weakness that was exploited many times over.

History
The Orsarians were excellent diplomats and formed their empire in peace time of the 4th age (?), forming alliances and finding mutually beneficial ways to create pacts and treaties and trades in exchange fro absorption into the Empire, many other nations were weakened from war and atrocity, and found the Orsarians capable leaders. In it's peak, the empire was considered to cover over 1/3rd of the known civilized world at the time.

War tore the Orsarian Empire to pieces, but Orsarus remained standing through war, though not unscathed. Orsarians were always well-financed and well-known for being stubborn. Their army was superbly trained and very capable, even small units of Orsarian troops could fend off a small army in the right conditions, trained to utilized the chokepoints and the secret passages in Orsarian cities. The Capital Il Dereaux, never once fell to an enemy, though many tried and many breached the walls, they only found a nest of angry hornets - the city itself seemed to strike at them with traps and well-designed defense points.

Though intelligently prepared for combat, their standing army was few in number, peace time weakened their preparation and they lacked the numbers to ever fully mount any assaults, only defensive measures. They ceded almost every piece of Orsarian territory at one point in history or another.

Culture
Orsarian Culter was that of luxury, and decadence. Parties were extravagant and frequent, entertainment was extravagant, and intellectual games and political rivalries were a favorite pastime of the people. Orsarians loved free markets and trade, and not just of goods - information, wealth, positions, services. Everything of value could be traded or bought, Orsarians consider their debts very serious and it is unthinkable to renege on an established accord. Above all, Orsarians were taught that kindness and compassion were the most virtuous of traits, and though not everyone had these traits, to show one's discompassion was a social faux pas that could ruin a noble house quickly.

The empire was well-funded, Orasarus was lousy with gold mines, and they were able to trade their resources for anything they wanted from as far away as they could imagine. The working class in Orsarus did not always enjoy the rich lifestyle of the noble-born upper class, but the upper class were never cruel. Even the hardest laborers were paid fair wages and well-looked after in times of distress and need.