Plotadonia
14-12-2007, 11:34
The Travel Times
Plotadonia - An inner contradiction
Nestled in a rugged strip of land by the Ocean with Mountains towering over it to the West, the beautiful moslem nation of Plotadonia is a industrializing modern state, with an ancient focus on the family and society diametrically against a newer focus on corporate success.
Plotadonia has often been described as a gigantic contradiction. It's women are competitive and ambitious in the workplace, but subservient in the family home, dress in fancy business atire at work, but are covered over head to toe at all other times. It's men are proud, educated, pioneering, but often hostile towards Un-Plotadonian ideas, though they embrace foreign customs, like exotic teas, dances, foreign languages, and music. It's government is alarmingly pro-business, yet remains very much tied to it's Islamic character. The capitol Kyera prides itself on it's many vibrant flower gardens that form a peaceful interlude in a maze of modern towers, but the natural countryside near it is devastated with industrial pollution, and as most Kyerans live in tall apartment blocks, they have little opportunity to keep a garden themselves.
All along the coast and up what remains of the river valleys are vast strips of rainforest being torn down to make way for development, and Plotadonias growing system of freeways, tunnelways, and railways are opening up new corners for development at every turn. The Mount Kandiss Freeway, one of the most beautiful and rugged mountainside roads in the world, was once devoid of developmen, but it's twisty turvy cliffside length now has offramps leading to ski resorts, mining towns, and near Kyera, housing developments for the incredibly wealthy, who like building Mansions on the gorgeous tropical mountainsides. The banks of the Lavdav river, near the Southern border, is considered both one of the most ecologically significant and threatened habitats in the world, playing host to the Plotadonian tiger, the Unvk elk, the Winged Libnezacon, and an unusual specimen known as the coppertoothed tailrat, a small carnivorous rodent that feeds on larger prey by coming out in hordes of hundreds against them and tearing them apart alive. Just North of the Lavdav is a much deeper river called the Likav, which is navigated by ships and plays host to another one of Plotadonias metropoli, the rapidly growing industrial city of Uvbar, the center of Plotadonias automotive industry.
Recent economic action against Vampyrum, a former major trading partner, has complicated the picture for business in Plotadonia. It has, on one hand, destroyed a lot of investment and trade opportunities, but it has also brought much of the manufacturing that was once carried out abroad back to Plotadonia. The result is an uneasy destabilization shifting Plotadonia towards a more production-heavy base. Overall, however, this was not a profitable deal for Plotadonia, as can be seen in the Kevis-Li.
The valley of the Kevis-Li to the Norhteast of Kyera is the breadbasket of Plotadonia, and the example of one of the last economically traditional holdouts in a fast growing country. It's export figures have declined and modernizing equipment lowered the demand for crops, causing people to leave in masses, but come to one of the old traditional farming villages, and you will see the older more rural side of Plotadonia's character that they are reacting so violently in favor of. The center of the town is a mosque, the gathering place and place of worship, and if you come on Friday nights, everyones in bed.
They work hard, from sunrise to sundown, and girls remain attached to a male, either father or husband, all their life, while men stick close to traditional rules and obligations. Some parts of this tradition still remain: woman remain very much attached to their men, and do much to communicate this, even as they go about their work and excel at providing for their families, while men continue to persue ettiquette as part of their education, and the traditional large family remains -it is still considered a virtue for a man to have several wives and many children- but stresses are growing, certain aspects of the tradition have dropped yet pressures are straining further, and it is a wonder how long any part of this older order can remain against the conditions of an urban life and the opportunities of Industrial society.
Structural Note: If anyone else would like to post a travel guide to their country with meaningful descriptions of geography, politics, economics, and demographics, feel free to do so.
Plotadonia - An inner contradiction
Nestled in a rugged strip of land by the Ocean with Mountains towering over it to the West, the beautiful moslem nation of Plotadonia is a industrializing modern state, with an ancient focus on the family and society diametrically against a newer focus on corporate success.
Plotadonia has often been described as a gigantic contradiction. It's women are competitive and ambitious in the workplace, but subservient in the family home, dress in fancy business atire at work, but are covered over head to toe at all other times. It's men are proud, educated, pioneering, but often hostile towards Un-Plotadonian ideas, though they embrace foreign customs, like exotic teas, dances, foreign languages, and music. It's government is alarmingly pro-business, yet remains very much tied to it's Islamic character. The capitol Kyera prides itself on it's many vibrant flower gardens that form a peaceful interlude in a maze of modern towers, but the natural countryside near it is devastated with industrial pollution, and as most Kyerans live in tall apartment blocks, they have little opportunity to keep a garden themselves.
All along the coast and up what remains of the river valleys are vast strips of rainforest being torn down to make way for development, and Plotadonias growing system of freeways, tunnelways, and railways are opening up new corners for development at every turn. The Mount Kandiss Freeway, one of the most beautiful and rugged mountainside roads in the world, was once devoid of developmen, but it's twisty turvy cliffside length now has offramps leading to ski resorts, mining towns, and near Kyera, housing developments for the incredibly wealthy, who like building Mansions on the gorgeous tropical mountainsides. The banks of the Lavdav river, near the Southern border, is considered both one of the most ecologically significant and threatened habitats in the world, playing host to the Plotadonian tiger, the Unvk elk, the Winged Libnezacon, and an unusual specimen known as the coppertoothed tailrat, a small carnivorous rodent that feeds on larger prey by coming out in hordes of hundreds against them and tearing them apart alive. Just North of the Lavdav is a much deeper river called the Likav, which is navigated by ships and plays host to another one of Plotadonias metropoli, the rapidly growing industrial city of Uvbar, the center of Plotadonias automotive industry.
Recent economic action against Vampyrum, a former major trading partner, has complicated the picture for business in Plotadonia. It has, on one hand, destroyed a lot of investment and trade opportunities, but it has also brought much of the manufacturing that was once carried out abroad back to Plotadonia. The result is an uneasy destabilization shifting Plotadonia towards a more production-heavy base. Overall, however, this was not a profitable deal for Plotadonia, as can be seen in the Kevis-Li.
The valley of the Kevis-Li to the Norhteast of Kyera is the breadbasket of Plotadonia, and the example of one of the last economically traditional holdouts in a fast growing country. It's export figures have declined and modernizing equipment lowered the demand for crops, causing people to leave in masses, but come to one of the old traditional farming villages, and you will see the older more rural side of Plotadonia's character that they are reacting so violently in favor of. The center of the town is a mosque, the gathering place and place of worship, and if you come on Friday nights, everyones in bed.
They work hard, from sunrise to sundown, and girls remain attached to a male, either father or husband, all their life, while men stick close to traditional rules and obligations. Some parts of this tradition still remain: woman remain very much attached to their men, and do much to communicate this, even as they go about their work and excel at providing for their families, while men continue to persue ettiquette as part of their education, and the traditional large family remains -it is still considered a virtue for a man to have several wives and many children- but stresses are growing, certain aspects of the tradition have dropped yet pressures are straining further, and it is a wonder how long any part of this older order can remain against the conditions of an urban life and the opportunities of Industrial society.
Structural Note: If anyone else would like to post a travel guide to their country with meaningful descriptions of geography, politics, economics, and demographics, feel free to do so.