Qung
Qung
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| A drawing of the Prince's Palaces by an unknown 16th century traveler A drawing of the Prince's Palaces by an unknown 16th century traveler | |
| Etymology: Qung serving as the character for harmonious or hall | |
| Nickname(s): "The Ashfell city" "The Floating Palaces" | |
| Commandery | Nuaiassrü Tügkon (literally, directly administered by scribe of the interior) |
| Founded by | Tsian Shia Tiatu (the First Thearch) |
| Government | |
| • Type | Theocratic Absolute monarchy |
| • Thearch | Liannu |
| Population (2016) | |
| • Total | 500,000 |
| (is an estimate as no official data exists) | |
| Demonym | Qungese |
Qung ((Phadongmen: 廱, Semrökvom ꡖꡦꡟꡃ , Classical Acanic: Qung , Vernacular Acanic: Ÿung ), also romanized as Kung, Kyung or K'ung, is one of the 600 commanderies of Akai and has been the capital since its foundation in 1923. Access to the city is extremely limited, it itself being based on an island of the same name. It is the seat of the Thearch of Akai the Akai government. Qung in an inland lake, situated within a sunken caldera of a semi-dormant supervolcano on an island 7 kilometres south of the Kangsra region on the south side of the continent. Qung has been continuously inhabited by some kind of royal or clerical court since the foundation of the Lengzun Thearchy in the 2nd millennium BC. After reunification, to help reassert the classical theocratic nature of the Akai government, instead of Gunlang, the capital became Qung once more as Thearch Lunkian moved his seat from Lazinato became the capital after Thearch Lunkian moved his seat to the city from Kungtiang in 1923.