Earth Body Anadia is a barren wasteland, a twisted collection of badlands and dry washes, except at its poles. There the land flattens out into rolling , fertile hills dotted with trees and pastoral fields. Anadia is dominated at both poles by halflings. Those of the north pole are organized into a humanlike nation, with an emperor, various subject kings, princes, and local lords. Non-halflings are kept on special reservations and in patrolled sections of the cities for their own protection- everyone knows that simple hu mans on their own would be easy prey for industrious halflings. The halfling civilization at the south pole is more chaotic , with no local power structure and a tendency to recognize everyone from outside its home city, halfling or no, as a target. The wastes that make up the bulk of the planet are inhabited by monstrous creatures-including a large percentage of umber hulks. These are the result of attempts by the neogi to set up a "slaving colony " preying on the halflings . The umber hulks are free but communal, and bands tend to raid outlying farms in the polar reaches