Setting Blurb Map: Viceroyalty of Eurmerica
CorpEmp Macrocommunities:
Anglia et Cambria - Contains England, Wales, and the "Reconstructed Strathclyde" region of southern Scotland.
Arkassouri - A small Macrocommunity made up of Arkansas and. Missouri.
Benelux - A united Belgium, Netherlands, and Luxembourg. Less weed under Imperial rule.
Calizona - California (sans it largest three cities but most consider that an improvement), Arizona (with bits of New Mexico).
Cascadia - British Columbia, Idaho, Oregon, Washington. Once an anti-Imperial stronghold, now used to house veterans.
Deseret - Utah, with bits of its neighbors.
Dixica - Deep South and bits of Georgia, the Texans and Virginians cemented their alliance by conquering this area.
Eurmerican Arctic - Alaska, Yukon, NW Territory, Nunavut, and Greenland make up the homeland for the Eskaleut speaking peoples.
Gaelia - Ireland, Isle of Mann, Scotland (minus Strathclyde).
Germania - Germany, Austria, German Switzerland, Liechtenstein (plus bits of Poland and Czechia).
Grand State of Virginia - A reunited Virginia, Delaware, Maryland, and the Carolinas. Virginia was the first Warlord-era state to ally with Texas.
Greater Quebec - Quebec, bits of Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador.
Ibero-Atlantic Islands - Azores, Canary Islands, Madeira.
Laurentia - The Rust Belt plus New Jersey.
New England - New England, the Maritime provinces, and eastern New York state. Another anti-Imperial bastion turned into veteran colonia.
Scandinavia - Denmark, Norway and Sweden (minus territory given to Eurasia's FennoSapmi).
Texan Tribal Federation - Texas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico. The homeland of CorpEmp's Rotthey dynasty.
The Plains - The American Midwestern states, and Canada's prairie provinces.
The West Latins - France, Italy, Portugal, and Spain. The Nouvelle Droite movement sought to reestablish the Roman Empire following WWIII. They managed to take the western half by the creation of CorpEmp.
Transappalachia - Kentucky and Tennessee. A Virginian vassal.
Non-Imperial Polities:
The Cordons Sanitaire - Berlin, Bremen, Chicago, London, Los Angeles, Toronto, and San Diego. These metropolitan areas were walled off and then used as "dumping grounds" for anyone that didn't want to be a part of CorpEmp. Rival political factions fight for control over each Cordon, but CorpEmp never allows them to have enough control to become a threat.
Green Consensus - Long Island. Eco-Socialists managed to takeover this Cordon Sanitaire during the War of 2100.
United Markets - Nevada, Seattle, and Vancouver. The Vegas casinos bribed the Texans to not invade their state, and MicroBucks were allowed to govern their own Cordon after Portland was given the Carthage treatment.
World Congress of Freedom - Iceland, San Francisco, Svalbard. These Cordons managed to get their shit together and wage war against CorpEmp in 2100 and force the CorpEmp into recognizing their legitimacy.
Macrocommunities with high Reserve presence - The Plains, Laurentia, Deseret.
Macrocommunitites with high Common Prosperity Coalition activity - Laurentia, Calizona, Anglia et Cambria, Benelux, West Latins.
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The Summer Camps Surrounding Apex
The history of white settlers' explorations of the environs surrounding what would become Apex is a history of whites poking their noses into places where the local Native Americans knew better than to be.
Head southwest on the current Apex City coastline that encompasses "Bitter" Bierce Bay, and you'll find yourself in the Whispering Woods, which lead out to Apex Point at the southwesternmost tip.
Apex Point is itself notable as the site for the second historic lighthouse serving Apex.
Monolith Island, which sits in the middle of Bierce Bay, became the site of the Monolith Island Light in 1855, followed by Fort Maximilian M. Maximus in 1861, before the Civil War military outpost was converted into the Fort Triple-Max maximum security prison in 1946.
Meanwhile, Apex Point became the site of the Lensman Lighthouse in 1875, which itself has hosted Apex's first radio station, KAPX 750 AM, since 1930.
Dr. Albert Atlas Fell, of the Quatermass University of Abstract and Applied Sciences in Apex City, broadcasts from the lighthouse radio station on weekends, logging meteorological conditions, issuing advisories to the ships at sea, and playing peaceful, contemplative music.
The Whispering Woods constitute a microclimate, closer to the cool, rainy Pacific Northwest than to the hot, arid standards of the rest of Calizona.
Within their depths lies a seemingly idyllic body of water comparable to Oregon's Crater Lake in its natural beauty, but closer in its origins to Arizona's Meteor Crater, since it was formed by a meteorite impact rather than a volcanic eruption.
The peoples of the Apex Pueblo warned whites against settling in Whispering Woods or around what would become known as Lake Kinkade, after Nathaniel "Natty" Kinkade discovered the latter in 1851.
But as was so often the case, the whites shrugged off what they saw as primitive superstitions, even as continued protests from local Native Americans, contrary to their typical calls, have kept either Whispering Woods or Lake Kinkade from being declared public landmarks.
Natty Kinkade was the first to observe that the densely forest-lined seclusion of deep, clear blue waters appeared to be "painted with light," which made it an appealingly photogenic site for a succession of summer camps.
Camp Placid Waters for Clean Living opened on the banks of Lake Kinkade in 1927, and has gained notoriety in the decades since as "Camp Deadpool," due to recurrences of reported and rumored harvests of young campers and camp counselors by mask-wearing mass-murderers.
Camp Smiling Coyote for Sacred Clowns was founded in 1954, by retired Marine Corps Cpl. Samuel Charles Smiling Coyote, who originally hailed from the Apex Pueblo, so one might wonder why he didn't know better than to venture out to Lake Kinkade, if they didn't know him.
In the service, not only did he claim that his first and middle initials of S.C. stood for "Sam Clemens," as he insisted was befitting his storytelling talent, but he also served as a "Code Talker" during World War II.
Since ignorant white folks insisted on sending their innocent kids into the cursed, merciless wilderness, the man who'd developed a damnable compulsion to stand up for the weak against the strong decided he'd create a haven for scrappy underdogs and socially awkward misfits.
Of course, nothing good can be done for the disadvantaged, especially if it's being done by a historically oppressed minority, without inspiring a backlash from the privileged class, which is what inspired the creation of Camp Atlas-Seaboard for Competition and Survival in 1958.
Which is how Lake Kinkade wound up with a summer camp plagued by serial killings, a camp providing shelter and encouragement for weirdos and outcasts, and one pandering to pampered rich brats, even before the area gained a haunted hotel in 1968.
The Bean-Shìdh family imported what was originally their ancestral keep of Samhain's Hearth Inn and Tavern from Callander, Scotland (also the birthplace of Angus Odysseus Battle-Craft), rebuilding it on the rocky shores of Apex Point, near the Lensman Lighthouse.
As ill-advised as Charlie Smiling Coyote considered other white folks' settlements in the area to be, he recognized that the mother-daughter duo of Bonnie and Bridey Bean-Shìdh brought their own unique spiritual energy to the place, even if they themselves didn't fully realize it right away.
Over on the other end of the outskirts of Apex City and Coral Shores, the Scar Range Desert that had become the site for a succession of obscure military installations would ultimately find itself a hotbed for countercultural activity.
Well northeast of Coral Shores, former Sixties flower child Dulcimer Discordia "Cordy" Condor started the temporary autonomous zone of Solstice City in 1986, to host what would become the annual Flaming Paintbrush Midsummer Free-for-All.
Perhaps the festival's most notable feature is the "Infernal Titan," a gigantic wooden effigy that's set ablaze during the culminating ceremonies of the summer's revelry, communal camp-out and exchanges of experimental artistry in the Scar Range Desert.
Ironically, while this occasion threatens to compromise the operational security of Dr. Bianca Yong and her Agents of ABOVE in their repurposed military base, Cordy Condor stages Flaming Paintbrush, at least in part, to provide cover for the clandestine activities of her older brother.
When Air Force Capt. Mandolin Corelli Condor was flying combat missions in Vietnam, his kid sister Cordy was protesting the war, but her peace activism was always intended to protect her big brother, who was practically a surrogate father to her, due to their generational dividing line.
Not long after he started piloting the Skyshark experimental attack helicopter in 1984, the elder Condor finally reached out to contact his estranged sister, who was only too happy to see him again, and after some thought, she figured out her own way to run interference for the Skyshark.
The chaotically organized seasonal congregation in the desert obscures many traces of the Skyshark's concealment in the area, however irritated a Vietnam veteran like Condor might be to indirectly rely upon his sister's hippie freak friends to continue his covert missions in America.
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