Zigala

Zigala (: Tân Lập), officially the Great Zigalese Realm (Zigalese: Đại Tân Nhân Đế Quốc), is a   located in Capricornia, occupying a long, narrow part of land in between the Akura Mountains to the west and the Laharqan Ocean to the east. It is bordered almost exclusively by Hyperaustrea to the north and west, with whom the Zigalese share a complex history. The Huangkown Metropolis Zone is Zigala's largest urban settlement and main commercial center, although the much older Imperial city of Taitan still remains the political, legislative as well as cultural capital. Other important cities include Vinfu, M'gar, and Tchouchu.

Although Native Hyperaustreans have inhabited modern-day Zigala since Antiquity, Zigalese civilization did not develop beyond feudal patchworks and tribal chiefdoms, the latter especially common in the parts covered by the inhospitable Serotian Rainforest, until the 17th century, when Murogish warbands of the Eshkaal Raja conquered northwestern Capricornia. Unlike the rest of the Phutruang Empire, who were allowed to retain their power structures for the most part under Ashwaareshi rule, the holdings of the Zigalese petty kings and chiefs were directly subsumed into the eastern Raj as autonomous military commandments. It was from to this period of direct Murogish rule as well the paternalistic tendencies of the Eshkaal Raja that modern Zigalese cultural practices, beliefs and societal principles are descended, and how the culture came to be viewed by both the Zigalese and other Capricornians as entirely separate from the Hyperaustrean one. In fact, the newfound differences between the two later became a driving force in the political separation of the Murogish-Zigalese sultans from the other Hyperaustrean princely kingdoms.