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“ East, is Munchkinland, where we are now. Farmland, the bread basket of Oz, except in the mountainous south - these strokes, in the district of Wend Hardings are the hills you're climbing. ”
— Frexspar The Godly's description of Munchkinland to Turtle Heart[src]

Munchkinland is the eastern quadrant of Oz, and home to the Munchkinlanders; Lower classes are pejoratively referred to as “Munchkins”, who are generally shorter than average height due to the more powerful families having "married into some height along the way.”

The province is also the native home of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, and her younger sister Nessarose, and although they both grew up in Quadling Country, Nessarose eventually comes to power in Munchkinland, but her corrupt rule earns her loathing and the name, "Wicked Witch of the East".

Overview[]

Munchkinland is the corn belt of Oz, geographically a vast province filled with huge farmlands, known as the "Corn Basket" and small towns and villages scattered all around, the famous Yellow Brick Road runs all over the region from the provincial capital of Center Munch to the southern gate of the Emerald City, known as the Munchkin Mousehole, just outside a forested area known as the Pine Barrens; there are also some lakes, such as Mossmere, Illswater and Restwater, the biggest lake of the nation and the birthplace of the Munchkin River that runs along the road and between the corn fields, the Madeleines (home of Muhlama H'aekeem and the Ghullim) at the west make the natural border with Gillikin and the mountainous hills within the Quadling Kells are the borders of the southern Quadling Country, The mines of The Glikkus are located directly north.

Munchkinland is made up of regions spread out around the province, these include Nest Hardings, Wend Hardings, Nest Fallows, and Wend Fallows.

History[]

The Eminent Thropp of Munchkinland (The Free State of Munchkinland)

The Eminent Thropp of Munchkinland (The Free State of Munchkinland)

Munchkinland is the birthplace of Elphaba and Nessarose, the Wicked Witches of the West and East respectively. Elphaba had the birthright of being the Eminent Thropp, but after Elphaba flees from the public, her father names Nessarose the successor. Later, on account of her harsh theological measures and for the use of sorcery to control her subjects, Nessarose would become the sole leader of Munchkinland, the Eminence of Munckinland.

The burning of a grange where opposition meetings were taking place, a reported rape of a couple of Munchkinlanders maidens, a massacre at Far Applerue, and the heavy taxation on farm crops by the Emerald City had been “the last straw” as far as Nessarose was concerned. At Colwen Grounds, she communicated her revolutionary outrage through a letter directly towards the Wizard and addressed the senior men among the farming communities, leaving an unanimous approval for secession. Declaring Munchkinland‘s independence, Nessarose would have the province secede from Loyal Oz, establishing the unrecognized breakaway Free State of Munchkinland.

However, Nessarose began instating new laws to prohibit Animals and informed her people to destroy the yellow brick road and other passages into Munchkinland. She soon became known by her subjects as a tyrant, the totalitarian “Wicked Witch of the East”. During her reign in Munchkinland, despite her religious Unionist convictions, Nessarose allows certain ancient practices to take place – including ritualistic sacrifices, rumored to even include those of animals and humans. In addition, despite originally having been opposed to magic on religious grounds, her reign as Eminence finds her practicing sorcery (though she still claims to be a devout Unionist, referring to her spells as "miracles in the honor of the Unnamed God"). Her justification for performing such cruel actions is that she is so "righteous" as to do whatever she deems fit.

The Munchkinlanders rejoiced after Nessarose's death, caused by Dorothy's house crushing her, but they soon moved on to attack the troops of the Emerald City and Loyal Oz, igniting a civil war for their Munchkinland independence

Government[]

Historically, the entire province was controlled by about a dozen established family eminences (Thropp, Pastor, Beckenham, etc), though the Thropp Family is by far the most prominent; the Eminent Thropp is superior in station to all the Munchkinlander gentry, so much they claim the legitimacy of rule over all of Munchkinland. And though the city of Center Munch is the historic provincial capital, the most senior of the Eminences, the Eminent Thropp, lived at Colwen Grounds, a remote estate in the Nest Hardings region (the isolation of the privileged).

His Eminence Peerless Thropp was Eminent Thropp for many years, surviving both his children and grandchildren, until his great-granddaughter Nessarose succeeded him as Eminent Thropp. Nessarose would later use her position to consolidate her power over all Munchkinland, becoming the sole "Eminence of Munchkinland". After her death, many of her ministers, particularly Nipp, the Prime Minister and temporary interim leader, claimed the title of Eminent Thropp and therefore, the title of Eminence of Munchkinland, to be extinct, though their right to do this is dubious.

In Out of Oz, the latest Eminence of Munchkinland was a witch called La Mombey, who originally held the title of Eminent Pastor of the hamlet of Old Pastoria, one of the dozen family eminences. She moved the capital from Center Munch to Bright Lettins, but while still using Colwen Grounds as her main base of operations.

It is unknown if the seat of government moves back to Center Munch after Mombey's defeat and Munchkinland's reentry back into Loyal Oz.

Known Munchkinlanders[]

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