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Sinkhara Azarkhate

 * Government: Azarkhate (quasi-theocratic absolute monarchy)
 * Azarkh: Rahman Yazir al-Rasheed al-Sinkhara (b.1049, r.1076-)
 * Dynasty: Sinkhara
 * Capital: Arzhamabad
 * Economy: The Sinkhara economy revolves around agriculture, mining in the north, small amounts of logging, pilgrimages to Kandahar from other parts of the Arzhamite world, and land and sea trade between the Middle East, East Africa (via the Somalistan Charter) and India.
 * Demographics:
 * Population: ~9,300,000
 * Arzhamabad: 45,000
 * Kandahar: 80,000
 * Taxila: 75,000
 * Patalena: 70,000
 * Sagala: 25,000
 * Tajbakhsh: 20,000
 * Barigaza: 50,000
 * Rural areas/other cities: ~8,900,000
 * Hawiyabad: ~200-300
 * Religion: 18% Arzham, 69% Hinduism, 7% Buddhism, 4% Jainism, 2% other
 * Ethnicities: 22% Punjabi, 18% Sindhi, 13% Rajput, 12% Pashtun, 11% Gujarati, 10% Rajasthani, 7% Balochi, 3% Persian, 4% other
 * Military:
 * Army: 
 * Swordsmen: 26,000
 * Archers: 12,000
 * Tribute Soldiers: 1,000
 * Other Infantry: 32,000
 * Cavalry: 15,000
 * Navy: 
 * Light Ships: 12
 * Heavy Ships: 3
 * Transports: 16
 * Non-military merchant ships: ~50
 * Wars and Conflicts:
 * Thanesar War: With Mathura captured, the army mostly focuses on removing the remnant government in the east.
 * Events:
 * Somalistan Charter: The trading post at Hawiyabad is expanded, with the permanent population now around 250. We focus on trade with the native peoples of the region, and offer some of their representatives residence in Hawiyabad. Several Arzhist imams, accopmanying the traders, also begin wandering throughout the deserts and savannahs of the general vicinity, converting anyone who will listen to their preaching. (Mods: Do I convert any of the tribes?) We also send envoys to the coastal East African states via Hawiyabad, asking for a trade agreement.
 * Even More Missionary Work: Arzhist missionaries, many funded by the government, continue to proselytize, both to the infidels within our borders, and to the people beyond. Many imams and other Arzhist religious leaders are now working abroad, either in other Indian states, in the mountains to the north, and even beyond, to the wandering nomads of the deserts and steppes even further to the north (i.e the Uyghur and Kimek Khaganates). (Mods: Do I convert any nations or any significant populations?) Although some conservative circles protest against it, the Quran is increasingly being translated from the original Dari Persian into the common vernacular of the peoples of India, and beyond.
 * Beginnings of the Tribute Soldiers: Starting in 1085, a law is passed, requiring all villages and towns of majority non-Arzhist religion to provide the army with 5 of their strongest children every 10 years. These "tributes", as they were known, would be educated and trained to become elite soldiers, good Arzhists, and unwaveringly loyal to their Azarkh, their country, and their new religion. Although these tributes were essentially slaves (as in they weren't paid a salary), they were provided with many of the same benefits Sinkhara nobility and even royalty enjoyed, and many even rose into positions of prominent power over the territories they had conquered.