[Location] Stratah

Geography

A large island that floats over the planet surface at an elevation of about 9,000 ft and orbits at a temperate latitude; the majority of its path is over ocean or feywilds.  

There is one main settlement on the rear-facing side of the island in the form of a large city that shares its name with the island.  The rest of the upwards-facing real estate is mainly devoted to agriculture, but there is a good chunk of preservation for the unique native life.  The novelty of the island's floating attracts tourism & is a good source of income to the nation.

Politics

The city was founded by worshippers of Nix and the still-young Coven of Laharr, and their virtues of love and knowledge sharing are at the root of most of their culture & political maneuvering.  The city was originally ruled by a monarch with an array of advisors, including Nix herself, but has now switched over to a democratic system.

The  difficulty of getting to the island en mass, and the fact it prefers to stay neutral in respect to other nations, have kept them out of most wars, and battles have never been staged on the island.  They often send aid in response to foreign crises & disaster, tho.  

Culture

Someone from Stratah is Stratan.  Their language is [tba].  A pious nation who worships the living god Nix and it shows heavily in the architecture & such the closer you get to the city center where her main temple & residence is.  They're an extremely social people; most spaces are public and even private residences are more like small communities than anything resembling a nuclear family(someone living completely alone is practically unheard of).  Child-rearing is a communal responsibility.  Arranged marriages are common(they expand the social web of everyone and prevent any one community from isolating itself too much from the whole, theoretically).  Polyamorous extra-marital arrangements are also fairly common.

People expect and are expected to depend on each other & encouraged to be kind and loving above all else, and they tend to be very welcoming of strangers.  Demons mingle freely among the population, so long as they don't make any big enough waves for Nix to notice and banish them from her territory.

The arts are popular; there's lots of displays of visual & performance art around, they make a lot of entertainment that's enjoyed all over the place.  Very little of their architecture is purely functional; even if it's built that way someone will eventually come along and use it as a canvas for paint or engraving.

The side of town that houses the University and CoL's base of operations is less overtly Nixite and more of a cultural mix due to students coming from all over the world(and they're more there for an education than a cultural experience so they tend to not travel far).  Demons tend to be less welcome on this side of town, or just prefer to stay away from people who know how to capture and harvest them to fuel whatever magical invention they're working on.

Agriculturally, they raise mainly poultry, but some larger livestock has been imported.  Farming is [tba]  Most menial/particularly laborious work is automated with the use of magical constructs(either synthesized 'creatures' or simpler 'machines').

In other countries they tend to have a reputation for being magical, weirdo demon worshipers whose friendliness is a cover for their desire to convert you to their cult.  But it's also a center of arts and has somewhat of a 'hollywood' niche.

Magic

It was founded with magic, hosts the world's oldest and greatest magical education center, and is in general considered to be the most flagrantly-magical human place in the world.  There's runing etched in every street and building and with most of their technology being magic-based, the average person picks up a small arsenal of spells just to get through daily life (using lights, heating water, activating rune arrays, minor enchantment maintenance, etc).

There is a solid fae population on the undeveloped parts of the island but none of them seem to be sapient(just weird wildlife).

Wildlife

Unicorns: Deer-like fae with long tails and manes.  Extremely psychic & sensitive to emotion.  React violently to aggressive intent in anything in their territory, but pretty friendly otherwise.  They either hate you or want to chill with you there is no inbetween.

Trivia

• legend says Nix raised the island from the ocean herself and keeps it in the sky
• aesthetically a mix of christian & indian influences, with a bit of generic fantasy sprinkled in
• those travelling between the island and the mainland below must take preventative measures against altitude sickness.  This is mainly done by using/wearing enchanted items to minimize it.
• those who have lived on the island for many generations have adapted to life at high altitude without the assistance of enchantment, tho