Strake

Regional capital.
(Capital of the Divided Kingdom???)
Make it sound ominous a bit like Washington in the handmaids tale
I dunno about 200 miles west through multiple Zones
There are giants in Strake now, you know? Tame ones
have to go by car or train as planes don't like zone lines
made of Glasgow, Newcastle and Manchester
From Chapter 5
‘You know what they are calling Strake now, Thomas?’ asked Sinclair as he puffed away.
‘I’ve no idea, Your Grace,’ replied Thorman.
‘Riverseafingal,’ snorted the archbishop, ‘Do ye get it? No? From that kids show. A made-up city. It was filmed in North Berwick, Glasgow, Edinburgh. What else? Aye, Newcastle, Manchester, anyway, all the bits that Strake is made of.’
‘Oh yes,’ said Thorman with a slightly forced laugh. ‘I see.’
Chapter 7:
The train rumbled on, and lunch was served. Thorman took a cup of tea and a plate of biscuits. As the sun set over the Steppe, they transition into the final biome – the Strake Zone. Thorman at first felt like he had returned to Evermarch, the landscape was so familiar, but after a while, in the dying light, his eyes picked out small differences. This was border country, parts of the Scottish Southern Uplands mingled with the Pennines and bits of Yorkshire. Strake itself was made up of parts of Glasgow, Newcastle and Manchester. There had been fighting in and around Stake the year before. There were burnt out houses, the skeletal remains of trees, craters and the rusting instruments of war still in evidence here and there. The railway line entered the heart of the city on a large steel bridge. The carriage wheels clicked and clacked as they rolled slowly into the station.
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Strake was larger than Evermarch, but not as busy. Not only the war, but the pogroms had been worse in Strake and the violence had raged for months. It had taken a lot of bloodshed for Sinclair to finally dealt with all the heretics and the city’s population were still cautious about leaving their homes.
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