Orialco

When the Godbomb rocked Orialco, the nation discovered a fortune resting beneath its land. Small crevices opened up allthroughout Orialco, and it was soon found that the country had been sitting on the largest deposit of jollazón that all of Ealdremen had ever seen. Though initially seen as a stroke of good luck in apocalyptic times, as now the jollazón could be used to supply heat in a world with destroyed electrical and gas lines, the jollazón soon changed the face of Orialco irrevocably. Drug traders sought to control the flow of jollazón and marketed it as not a way to have temporary heat, but temporary relief from the dreary world of the post-apocalypse, as jollazón could be smoked as a euphoric drug. Soon, large swaths of people became addicted to jollazón, and the government struggled to keep its hold over the supply of the mineral until it was usurped entirely by puppets of drug cartels.
Today, Orialco is peaceful and has bustling tourism, though beneath the surface, the drug cartels still vie for power over the greatest sources of jollazón in the country. Tourists are regularly lured into becoming hooked on jollazón, further fueling the endless cycle of drug warfare that has dominated the nation since 4100. Though the warfare is now done with negotiations, contracts, and threats rather than bloody violence and mass murder, the "disappearances" of people who become too problematic for the true rulers of Orialco give the seemingly-idyllic country an undercurrent of danger.
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