Vahay Union

The Union of Free Cities of the Vahay Sea (Vahay: Athan Ornaī Brachiai lei Ardas Vachāios; Ghur: Yathan yar Bharad Ghazul yar Vakhayordo), also simply known as the Vahay Union is a loose confederation of twenty one city-states in in southeastern Meridion. It was founded in the sixth century B.W. as a union of large port cities sharing a common ethnicity and language: the Vahay. The Vahay people claim their descent from the Ancient Sahi people who inhabited the area around the Gulf of Tranquillity around 2000 B.W. The Vahay tribe (originally known as the Va'ahi) settled in the coast of what would become the Vahay Sea around around 1000 B.W., but a strong, unified Vahay state wouldn't exist until 195 A.W. when the Vahay Republic was founded.

The Vahay Union is a confederative directorial oligarchy, ruled by the Sea Lords, the leaders of each of the twenty-one city states that compose the Union. Although in theory all of the Sea Lords have the same level of authority in the Union's government, the Prince of Allabor, the Union's political capital city, is generally considered the "main" Sea Lord.

All of the Union's city states are ports of considerable importance in the international market: Nominor, the Union's economic capital is the busiest port of the world, position it has debated over the years with the Pashene port city of Enadurr. The country thrives economically thanks to its low taxes on trade and its strong fishing industry.

Etymology
The word Vahay is of Ulid origin, coming from the Sarih Va'ahi, which means "Place of the Isles" (from the Proto-Saridic *bąhhāw ląhhīń). In modern Vahay, the word is rendered as Vachai.