D20x5 Keen Kingdoms

Requested by friend of the blog Max in the comments of D20x5 Peculiar Peasants. Some of these may not in the most technical & Merriam-Webster sense of the term be kingdoms. Click the button below to generate a kingdom of your very own:

Special thanks to Spwack for the generator generator here: http://meanderingbanter.blogspot.com/2018/10/automatic-list-to-html-translator-v2.html

D20	This kingdom is
1	mostly swamp, with any solid ground painstakingly dammed out of the muck.
2	nestled among mountains, sustained by tariffs and the output of extensive terraces.
3	within a jungle that's been transformed into a garden over many generations, the land enriched with terra preta and reshaped to reduce nutrient leaching.
4	rocky and lushly forested, full of big lakes.
5	mostly desolate taiga and tundra, the population clinging to its warmer coast.
6	built upon an archipelago that formed around a volcanic arc.
7	rolling steppe, taken from the nomads who once called it home with massive engineering projects - great walls and aqueducts.
8	lying in the shadows of cyclopean ruins it could never hope to replicate.
9	a vast prairie, built up with mounds and firebreaks both ancient and modern.
10	laid along a prodigious river in the middle of a desert waste.
11	planted on the boughs and tremendous polypores of gigantic, dying mangroves, rooted in the silt of a routed sea.
12	as much below the earth as above it, qanats and catacombs and alcazars carved throughout its soft stone.
13	salt flats in the shadow of mountains, a briny delta washing over the encrusted land.
14	an island-nation, near-paradisical except for the constant and torrential rain.
15	enclosed by mountains and rivers, a natural fortress.
16	chapparal hills and groves.
17	in an arid basin, quenched by a labour-intensive canal network.
18	on a peninsula all but severed from the mainland by a catastrophe in olden days.
19	beset by excessive and unpredictable seasons.
20	a craggy and pitted coast.

D20	This kingdom is ruled
1	by an obese gourmand who cultivates myconid servants in the damp of their many fat rolls.
2	by the kind-hearted yet tragically-inbred scion of an ancient dynasty.
3	by a renowned warrior rendered prematurely decrepit by a web of old wounds and scars.
4	by a literal lapdog, per the appointment of its mad former king.
5	by a council of squabbling regents - its heir was cursed with eternal youth as an infant.
6	by an authoritarian reformer loved by the common people and hated by the nobility.
7	by a bon vivant who's kicked off an age of aestheticism and decadence in the kingdom.
8	by a masked schemer who sold their soul to a demon to take and hold the throne.
9	by a trio of minor gods, incarnate and conjoined in the same mortal body.
10	by the lord-abbot of a sealed monastery dedicated to divining the will of the stars.
11	by a senate composed entirely of veterans who've been maimed in defense of it.
12	by a preternaturally lucky drunkard who accidentally stumbles onto the right solutions to the kingdom's problems.
13	by twin monarchs, one mute yet mighty, the other frail and erudite.
14	by a seemingly-bottomless hole in the earth. It gives sage commands when fed living things.
15	by a paranoid master of spies and poisons who had all their many siblings killed.
16	by the harem of the king, who hold him hostage in their fortified seraglio.
17	by a fanatical convert to a strange foreign cult who's attempting to force its teachings on the kingdom.
18	by a life-size puppet. No one who's ever tried following the strings to its puppeteer has ever returned.
19	by a sapient perfume distilled by a secretive guild - those intoxicated by the perfume's scent become possessed by it.
20	by an immortal queen who is able to give birth to herself - surpassingly wise, yet far removed from the concerns of the finite.

D20	This kingdom is renowned
1	for its grand monuments.
2	for the skill of its physicians.
3	for the loveliness of its music.
4	for the works of its philosophers.
5	for its fabulous wealth.
6	for the industriousness of its peasantry.
7	for the learning of its scholars.
8	for the bravery of its warriors.
9	for the pedigree of its horses.
10	for the savour of its wine.
11	for its public works & services.
12	for its vivid dyes and fine textiles.
13	for the intrepidity of its explorers.
14	for the hilarity of its theatre.
15	for the quality of its arms and armour.
16	for its awestriking vistas.
17	for the flavour of its spices.
18	for the beauty of its people.
19	for the marvels of its mages.
20	for the craft of its potters.

D20	This kingdom is reviled
1	for blaspheming against the heavens.
2	for the coarseness of its poetry.
3	for the licentiousness of its lotharios.
4	for its walking and haunting dead.
5	for its abominable mutants.
6	for practicing human sacrifice.
7	for its ease at taking offense and the disproportionality of its vengeance.
8	for flaunting the customs of hospitality.
9	for its slaving expeditions.
10	for the unfairness of its merchants.
11	for making league with fell creatures.
12	as a den of lepers.
13	for its war-mongering.
14	for its rank banditry.
15	for its two-tongued diplomacy.
16	for its debased currency.
17	for its backwards laws.
18	for its unsanitary practices.
19	for the greed of its creditors.
20	for the brutishness of its soldiers on campaign.

D20	This kingdom's capital
1	is far older than the kingdom itself, running deeper than anyone living in it cares to know.
2	is overrun with petty, penniless, honour-starved nobility.
3	is under quarantine due to plague, and a cutthroat black market has scabbed up around it to get goods in and people out.
4	is a bristling kludge of forts, towers, and walls, district-fiefs left over from an old and settled intra-municipal war.
5	was recently moved for politico-theological reasons, though the former capital remains the kingdom's economic center.
6	is maze-like, requiring local knowledge or understanding its system of road-god idols (which grow larger the closer one gets to the central palace) to navigate.
7	holds hostage the children of outer nobility, and increasingly, powerful non-nobles.
8	is awash with monkeys, who steal food & hats (they have a great fondness for hats (and for biting the noses of snoring sleepers)).
9	prohibits bearing weapons within, on pain of death. Schools of martial arts have developed within which teach how to kill with everyday items like brooms or combs.
10	was built on unstable foundations - it is sinking, and being built up upon itself in an attempt to outrace the decline.
11	is warren'd under with the smuggling-tunnels of black lotus petal dealers.
12	bears the unfortunate iconography of a previous regime - defaced and stucco'd over, yet peeking back through by erosion and graffiti.
13	is in thrall to the fuel-monopoly of its chicken gong guild.
14	is criss-crossed with elevated aqueduct-canals which its elites reserve for their transit.
15	was cursed to drift away into the sky, and although it has broken apart into floating chunks its doom has been delayed under the weight of leaden chains.
16	swoops into the bowl of a crater, rope-slung gondolas carrying people and cargo from its rim into its dip and back again.
17	was built according to principles of sacred geometry, and was recently disrupted by an earthquake - now waves of disorder and mutation emanate from damaged quarters.
18	was once split by a waterway - now drained - apartments and markets built into its dried and grassy bed.
19	is unconquered, its defenses legendary.
20	was burned a half-generation back, and conspiracy theories abound as to the cause.