Khoraja

• Population: 400,000
• Capital: Khoraja
• Ruler: Queen-regent Yasmela (King Khossus)
• Major cities: Meshken, Khanyria
• Resources: Cattle, steel, grain
• Imports: An important crossroad of the east-west caravan routes; silk, spices, exotic animals, exotic weapons  
• Historical Equivalent: Khazars ? 
• Religion: Shemitish pantheon (Ishtar)

A small but important kingdom lying southeast of Koth; named after its walled capital city. The southern border of Khoraja is the steep Kothian Escarpment.  This is an area along the southern border of Koth, where its hills "fall away sheerly" in the east, making a bizarre, virtually unbroken, mile high sheer rock wall at the edge of the Eastern Desert, which runs for a thousand miles. Its origin is unknown and its presence inexplicable. A rain forest thrives in the escarpment's shadows, grown out of humid air pockets created by storms breaking against the forbidding wall. Beyond the rain forest lies the Eastern Desert.

The Kothian Escarpment is pierced only by the Shamla Pass, part of the main caravan route from the Hyborian kingdoms into the East and South.  Heavily-travelled, lined at this point with vendors and merchants, it is ancestrally protected by the Zaheemi clan.  Other, secret routes through the Kothian Escarpment are however rumuored to exist.

Khoraja was once part of Shem. Kothic adventurers took over the strategic area, making it one of several small, independent nations lying along the eastern Kothian frontier.