Cassirer

Cassirer is fairly urbanized. People generally live either in big cities or in small farming towns, there isn't too many medium sized cities/towns, just different "townships" that surround the bigger cities. The countrysides are very beautiful and heavily forested, although deforestation and mild pollution is starting to become a bit of a problem. They are a parliamentary democracy with an elected chancellor and a parliament. The old nobility is still around, as well as the monarchy, but the monarch is a figurehead, and the nobility are just pretty much there to have lots of money and pay a lot of taxes and hire a lot of people, to keep the economy running.

Called the nation of renaissance.

Thales
The capital city is Thales, and it was designed to be the "perfect city". It has really nice urban planning, and has a series of venn diagram like circles that have the different townships of the city in it, with the main seat of the government in the center of the venn diagram. There is a lot of emphasis on higher education and learning, and there is many prestigious universities. They have open forums and salons all over the city, some of them just general debate areas, and some of them more specific things, like magical theory or Andremian religion, which is why it's called the City of Philosophy.

It sits on two mountains, with a valley down the middle, the Suti valley, which has the Suti River running through it, and has all of the markets. The Shadow Market is on an island a couple miles downstream from the docks.

The Southern mountain is called Mount Ruitsa, and the northern is Mount Elsben

Culture/Religion
They have a lot of different religions and cultures, and there's a lot of amalgation of them. The most common religion is Andrem, and there are many different branches of it that are religious syncretism with another small religion. The biggest ethnic group are the Theldri, who are roughly 46% of the population, and lived in the river delta forests and plains many years before Cassirer was formed. The Theldri are more spread out than many of the other ethnic groups, with a significant portion in the cities, but also a lot living in the smaller towns as farmers. They are slightly over-represented in the parliament. The Li Clara are a fairly small portion of the population, maybe 6%, and live primarily in the cities.