*Looks around for the new MiniImNat, doesn't see him yet, so shrugs and breaks out the
APPROVED stamp to make it formal*
The House system is an attempt to make the government system somewhat less based on land. If a group of citizens is large/active enough, they can become a House (either Major or Minor, depending on how large/active), with accompanying Landsraad voting rights for their Head of House. Not all citizens automatically have a county under their rule, but those counties under the rule of a member of a House are considered to be the territories of that House. Each House also gets a "free" core county to serve as their capital; for House Mortis, that's Modan-Lach. Hence the musing about claiming a county besides M-L; if you had, Mortis would have gotten an extra county.
Still, core counties need some development too...
