Genida (officially Genidawochu Sewochi or "United People of the Pools") is a lizardfolk state north of the Magnapuri Empire. Many believe that Magnapur was formerly a Genida city, either abandoned and settled by the high elves or conquered. Much Genidan land has been lost to the Empire over the years and the realm has gone highly isolationist to attempt to stave off its decline.
The state of Genida selects its rulers on a supposedly meritocratic basis. The Church of the Hand in the Water (Bewisitiji) sets a series of strenuous trials for young lizardfolk and those who perform best in the eyes of the Church are given roles in government, up to and including the dictator for life or "il-soq" in Genidan culture. Though the trials are outwardly meritocratic, the results often seem to strangely align with the Hand in the Water's preferred candidate, making the state more of a theocracy than anything else.
The government of Genida rules from Mewe Genida ("Sacred Pool") from which the first lizardfolk were supposed to have been brought into the world. The various Pools of Genida are where the citizens go to lay eggs, of which those most worthy are selected to hatch. Raising of the young is left to the Memerīya (Guides), and very few lizardfolk know their biological parents. With the wars with Magnapur, the priesthood has implemented somewhat of a eugenics program to breed the toughest and strongest fighters, known as the Crocodilids, to fight the Elfborn. As a side effect this intensive breeding has produced the Chameleons, a group of magical blanks who are treated as failures and second class citizens in Genida.
Gor-il-soq was the only Genidan ruler to attempt offensives on Magnapur, mainly to liberate lizardfolk slaves. In the process he also liberated a number of Elfborn, of which a small but sustainable population still survive in Mewe Genida.
A civil war broke out in 1124 YM, causing it to be divided into Genida M'irabi and Geneda M'isiraki.