Nemetsky is the capital of Nemetskaya Oblast, but where most Oblasts have cities such as Novgorod or Moscow or even Kiev the Great as capitals, Nemetsky is little more than a village attached to a monastery, the Monastery of the speechless, which gives Nemetsky its name.

Nemetskaya Oblast is the backwater's backwater.  Although Baba Yaga lives in the forest not far away and the mountain Frontier is to the east, apart from that, all that matters is the river that flows all the way to the Black Sea and the stream which flows to the White Sea.