Mostly.
In this world, there are spots where magic reigns and technology doesn’t always work the same way that it does in the rest of the world.
One of these spots is an area known as Central America and Columbia in our world, but is known as the Kingdom of Darienata in this world. A generation ago, there were several competing kingdoms in the area, but these have all been United under the rule of Pedro VII, who is doing a magnificent job of maintaining the neutrality of Darienata among this world’s technology based superpowers. Since the Panama Canal was never built in this world, that job is easier than one might think
However: this story isn’t about King Pedro, but his eighteen year old daughter Maria.
By all accounts, Princess Maria is the most beautiful woman ever born in the Kingdom. And she is reasonably easy to get along with, as long as you acknowledge her authority.
Maria is the titular head of the Royal Ministry of Agriculture. However, she leaves the decisions to the bureaucrats who run the Ministry, as long as they tell her what they’re doing and recognize her authority to veto any decision she wants to.
Princess Maria’s world is running just the way she wants it. The only fly in her ointment is a fifty foot tall giant named Phensta.
