Land of Fire

Pre-War
The Land of Fire is one of the five great nations within the world of shinobi, the other four being the Lands of Water, Earth, Lightning, and Wind. Geographically, it is located between the Land of Wind and Land of Water, south of the Land of Lightning, and east of the Land of Earth. In other words, it is the center of the shinobi world. It's government leader is a figurehead known as the Fire Daimiyo, and he is the one who governs and leads the land's many villages as a whole.

Within its borders sits the largest shinobi village, Konohagakure, though the land itself is not the physically largest one out of the five. The Leaf Village has been involved in wars with other villages and entities many times over the years, but during the years when humanity worked together and combined their efforts to face the Gezo threat, it was Konohagakure that acted as the base of operations. There is another famous structure that can be found within the Land of Fire known as the Fire Temple. The Fire Temple is known throughout the shinobi world for educating and training individuals in the use of Light, a power typically restricted to homo sariens who chose to become priests. However, there are cases where shinobi are able to obtain something known as the Gift, which allows them to access Light, albeit in a more limited form than priests can.

Several other, smaller villages, such as Shinkogakure, have begun to appear more recently in the Land of Fire, acting more as villages that inhabit civilians and use a small militia to defend themselves.

Post-War
Despite appearing as one of, if not the strongest territory, the Land of Fire actually suffered greatly from the war against the Gezo threat many years ago. While Konohagakure and Shinkogakure served as the main base of operations for the Allied Shinobi Forces of the five great nations, it also received the full force of Gezo's relentless assaults against the humans. Because of this, the Leaf Village was eventually destroyed and erased from the map, and the rest of the Land of Fire was left in tatters. Many of the smaller villages like Shinkogakure were abandoned by its inhabitants, fleeing to the other four nations for safety from the Gezo.

Shinobi that survived the destruction of the Leaf also fled to other lands, with most traveling to Sunagakure and Kirigakure. Some of the Land of Fire's smaller settlements have remained abandoned or repurposed by different factions, namely a group of radicals known as the Fanged, and by the specialized military unit of Dawn Academy, the Dawn Brigade.