Italy

Italy is a land in southern Europe, which is beset on three side by water, and on the other, nortern side, by the Alps. There are also two great islands in Italy: Sardinia to the east, and Sicily to the south. The headtown of the land is Rome.

About 58,000,000 folk live in Italy, and most speak the Italian tongue, which is a daughter of Latin.

The land is cleft into 20 shires, of which five can make their own laws. All but one of the shires is further cleft in ridings, which a further cleft into thorpes, towns and boroughs.