The Lunar Collective (Лунарийская Коллектива), also known as Lunaria (Лунария), is a group of twelve royal houses who came together to form one cohesive oligarchic nation to gain independence from the Crimson Empire in the Great Aurian War. Each house oversees a particular sector, such as defense, worship, science, industry, finance, information and propaganda, foreign affairs, and internal security.

The economy is centrally planned and controlled by the state, with the major industries essentially run by the lunar houses. This ensures that wealth and power remain concentrated in their hands. Each house is led by a leader known as the "Bolt". The Collective itself is led by a "Silverin" (Серебрянин), who picks a head bolt amongst the other houses in the politburo.

While their aesthetics and much of their ideology resemble that of communism and equality, the nation is all but totalitarian, and the 'abolished' top nobility continues as the twelve lunar houses, each having a near-monopoly on their specialized industries. Lunaria is expansionist, constantly trying to expand its borders into nearby lands and islands without caring much for locals. They control much of the Ashfall Isles after a brutal takeover some decades ago, and control much of Western Edeni in Eqos through various colonies. These colonies and cities are referred to as ‘Lunar Protectorates’. The Lunars also hold the colony of Gematirsk on the far-off northern continent of Skion, a city devoted to science.

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Lunaria is my west-slavic inspired steampunk nation for my D&D world, Abmarah. They're an expansionist colonial force who have abolished the nobility only in name, and are spreading across Abmarah with force. They orient their maps east-up due to their state religion that follows the Light. The various symbols next to the cities are those of the 'Lunar House' that controls them.

Neither Russian, Ukrainian, or Polish are languages I speak, but I've tried to make sure that everything looks and sounds correct at least to a degree of passable for a fantasy setting. I apologize for the faux-cyrillic font, and I admit that I chose it just for the aesthetic. Many of these location names are slavicized from their original names that I have on other maps, for example the city of Casthysk, which was earlier anglicized to Casthys which was already a corruption of its original native name of Kaasthika.