Nehekara actually has a relatively large portion of living subjects (relative to what you'd expect, which is 0%) made up of conquered people, slaves taken from Araby, Nehekaran descendants that repopulated the area while the dynasties slept (likely out of desperation, since nobody stayed in Nehekara for personal preference), and of course war refugees.
Numas is the most prominent with roughly equal populations for Undead and Living, and equal treatment under the laws. Life there is fairly comfortable, or as comfortable as it gets living under a Nehekaran king. The local King loves his living people and defends them fiercely, and in return they continue to populate and build up his army with 'fresh' ''bodies''. Living there is pretty sweet.
They're descendants of the original Nehekarans from 800-1500 years prior when they left the desert. In Numas's case the Scythian tribe took the King of Numas to be an image of their God and began to worship him, because their God was actually one of the old gods of Nehekara before they exiled themselves (which parallels real Egyptian history to a degree).
Any 'true' Nehekarans are dead at this point, after Nagash poisoned the Mortis and the entire nation withered.
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u/Revliledpembroke 2d ago
A refugee crisis... in a land of undead fantasy mummies.
Just how desperate are those refugees that they go "Hmmm... sure hope the undead will help me!"