Shangri-La

About
Shangri-La is an independent nation founded in the Kinani Desert, located in the very center of The Continent. It is north of Zeth, south of Helman, east of Pencilcow and west to Leazas. Not only it connects with every major human country, but it also does not delimit with the Monster Realm thanks to the Crystal Forest.

Desert Guides commerce with the other countries by offering several goods and resources unique to the desert, and with the small size of the country, the economy is rich and solid.

The Kinani Desert is huge, dry and one of hottest areas in the world. Even worse, there's incredibly intense sand-storms that makes it impossible for any outsiders to delve too much into it. Shangri-La is hidden deep within the desert and can only be found by casting secret enchantments that reveal passageways through the sand. Only its inhabitants know this enchantments obviously, and divulge them is severely punished. Due to its strategic advantage, many nations have tried to conquer it in the past but have failed due to the impossibility of going through the desert. They have a small army but it's mostly composed of Desert Guides commanding tamed Desert Worms. They are decently strong but not particularly powerful.

Living Conditions
Shangri-La looks like an utopia at first sight. Unlike the rest of the desert, the city is fresh and comfortable. It's plagued with lots of exotics delicacies and, due to its geographical location, no outsider will ever bother you. It's safe from Monsters and from armies of other human nations. The secret of Shangri-La and why it was able to establish a country in this dreadful desert goes to hundreds of years ago, when the first King of Shangri-La captured the Holy Gal Monster, Housesnurse of the Earth. He trapped her in a secret dungeon and forced her to follow his commands and her power's the one responsible for the sandstorms and the secret passageways that are summoned by secret enchantments. To this day, she remains hidden and trapped in an underground dungeon below tha Royal Palace of Shangri-La.

Aside from the Desert Guides, who are in charge of commercing with other nations, and the King Descoco, there are no males in Shangri-La and it's only composed by beautiful women. They serve and work for the king passionally and take care of all the affairs of the country, also following his every order. They are incredibly submissive and self-less, living only to serve their master. It turns out that none of these beautiful females are human, but dolls given life and souls with magic. All the women from the country were either exiled or killed when the Luce Descoco took power with the help of a magical being called Aladdin, who's the one responsible of the living dolls that serve Descoco.

Trivia

 * In Kichikuou Rance, the player will still enter in the Creator Phase even if Shangri-La is independant, making it the only territory that does not have to be conquered.
 * Shangri-La is the only country that hasn't appeared officially in the current timeline, but was confirmed to exist just the same.