It's on the east coast of a continent, bordering on jungle on the west, and something-or-other up north. Nahin is interested in expanding, but the inhabitants of these regions object, and there is no hot war going on at the moment.
For a long time it dd not have contact with Yrn, Konda? etc., though that started to slowly change a few decades ago. I shall be trying to make the East-Asian inspiration not too obvious.
Sylvie's father is a Nahin noble.