Betslat

The people of Betslat have long adapted to the swamplands and jungles that comprise their nation. Rather than try to fight against nature, which they view as a losing endeavor, they instead built their cities upon the lakes. Boats, rafts, and floating cities are the mainstays of Betslatian civilization with the occasional building or small village on the shores of the lake. Some people born in Betslat will never set foot on solid ground even once in their entire lives. Because travel between lakes is so difficult, Betslatian people mostly identify by their lake of origin more than they do with their nation, and they do not regularly travel by ground to other countries. Planes and spaceships that intend to dock in Betslat must be able to make a landing in narrow stretches of lakes that are not dominated by civilization; as such, foreigners are a rarity in Betslat, as is leaving the country at all.
Though rare, there are groups of people who have taken to the swampy wilds of Betslat. They do not build cities or large towns; the eternally rainy nature of Betslat's locale means that the ground would erode beneath their feet before they finished building even a single house. Instead, they are always on the move, and they commonly use magic to provide themselves temporary shelter. The people of Betslat's lakes tend to view the dwellers of the swamps with suspicion and ridicule, if not outright hostility for possible criminal ties exiling them from an insular lake community. Betslatian communities tend to have strict population control laws to prevent overpopulation, and for similar reasons, those who commit horrible crimes may find themselves quickly thrown overboard and told to swim to shore and never return, or drown with the weight of their crimes.
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