Fifty miles south of Kansas City lies a rural community whose history makes it different than any other in the United States. The residents of this small Missouri hamlet were once ruled by a king. The Kingdom of Amarugia: The True Story of Missouri's Country Kings , tells the strange story of a monarchy beginning with the early white settlers of western Missouri in the mid-1800s. The book chronicles the origin of the kingdom, the lineage of the kings, and what life may have been like for its subjects during its existence into the early 1900s. This is the unbelievable true story of backwoods neighbors and how they managed the trials and tribulations of building a functioning society on the western frontier.