Bedia

Rulership
Bedia has been at war with Myzoraxia for as long as they've both existed. Bedia is ruled by a lich older than any can remember. Its name is Alhazred but it's enemies know it as the either The Plague Lord or The Host of the Dead. Its subjects refer to it as either The Provider or The Afterlife.

Founding Premise
Bedia was created with the understanding that any and all deaths within its borders would be used to create a labour foce for the citizens. Each corpse is brought to the closest morgue so that it may be processed. The corpses have a glyph of animation inscribed either on their flesh or on their bones, whatever is most convenient, and are wrapped like mummies to make sure that they do not disturb the citizenry. Each variation of the glyph corresponds to a different work force such as farming, transportation, construction, and resource exploitation to name a few. Each work force is delegated and controlled by necromancers chosen by Alhazred.

Bedia is unique in that the citizens don't do any physical labour that they don't want to. The undead created by Alhazred provide for the citizens so they don't need to worry about farming or building infrastructure. Unfortunately this makes it difficult for Bedia to form trade routes with other countries as they see the country as being ruled by a monster and the country mainly makes things that it's citizens need instead of what can be traded.

Bedia's intellectual development has gone far beyond what any other country has been able to achieve. As the citizen's have no need to worry about food or work, they can pursue anything they'd like to during their life. Those interested in pushing the limits of any study find themselves coming to Bedia as they don't need to worry about materials, they need only propose the idea to Alhazred.