Auroran Union

The Auroran Union is a sovereign state covering the majority of the Western territory of the continent of Aurora, as well as many islands within the Auroran Sea and the Thaumantic Ocean.

## States, Territories, and Administrative Regions

**Aodhspoint-** The Northern Most Continental State of the Auroran Union, this state is among the first settled in the region, and has a climate which is much more warm and temperate than its fellow states. Both the most populated state in the Union and one of the primary breadbaskets of the nation, as well as the location of its largest and most modern city, CarrickAodh.

**Gateway Islands-** The actual oldest settlements in the Auroran Union,the Gateway Islands initially were host to trading ships from Azania to the western continents, and for whaling ships throughout. While initially founded and settled by an Orthodox Christian Community from Qedar, it slowly grew with colonists from as far afield as Montedoro, Josepania, and Engellex joining the settlements on the islands to partake in the water's rich fisheries and whaling. Aside from being the place where the majority of the citrus grown in the region, it's claim to fame is being the place with the longest actual summer, and being one of the first two member-states of the Auroran Union.

**Northwall-** An Engellexic backed settlement which was initially founded by the 'Engellexic-Auroran Whaling Consortium', it's much more habitable climate and fertile land slowly brought in families to stay full time, and trade – even more than that, the 'North Wall', a masoned wall which covered the entirety of it's southern border, slowly brought in would-be archaeologists and explorers hoping to find what civilization built such a straight, tall wall across a land which was so much a frontier.

**Warre-** Warre, or as it is formally called, the High Kingdom of Warre, is the single most powerful state within the nation within logical constrains, being in a far more habitable zone than the rest of the nation and being apart of the Hestian continent – Warre is the source of many of the settlers and colonists which make up Aurora itself, and Warre only recently fulfilled the tasks necessary to become a state of the region which passed by a 70% vote for yes. Warre itself was a downward trending Empire, with only its territory in Yonggu Hangu, when the Great War occurred and partisans aligned with [Nation] killed the ruling royal family. Royalists backing the government in-exile launched from Aurora, and Aurora's High King, the third cousin of the Warreic High King, was named High King of Warre and Jarl of Far Rock. Since then, efforts have been made to unify the nations, but not every thing is cozy of copacetic, especially when the majority of Warreics believe Aurorans to be a bunch of bearded lumber jacks and whalers.

**Firesea State-** Named for the region's occasionally active volcanoes and lava flows, as well as it's abundant hot springs and warm rivers, this region was initially described both by native tribes to settlers and by explorers themselves as 'a land awash with heat, a sea of fire'. It's native name is 'Ahisjó', 'Ah-hiss-jyo', but the settlers in the region default to calling it 'The Firesea State', or it's native name on alternation.

**New Antioch-** A settlement founded by orthodox settlers from Josepania, Qader, Ha'il, and Adrar, as well as later settlers from Trans-Kazanska New Antioch is the the home of its own orthodox patriarch, and claims to be the seat of the patriarch of old Antioch. The people are an ecclectic group, with their own style of building greatly influenced by both the Azanian and Kazanskan styles of architecture, as well as local building ingredients and modern technologies. Don't scoff, you've never lived until you've had a New Antioch style coffee. Be ready for it's bite though, they cut it with vodka and milk.

**Namneutang-** Or as it is called in it's native Hangul, Nambuneugdaettang, is a territory which was founded by [Korean] ethnic settlers initially under the employ of the CarrickAodh Colonial Company to help build a rail way system throughout the Firesea region and CarrickAodh Colonial Company's other territories. While they were not initially paid for in land, [reasons] made many decide to stay in the region and purchase land plots in major groups until there was a state within the fledgling union which looked as if it had been plucked from northern [Korea] itself.

**New South Xinhai-** Like it's neighbor and cousin in Namneutang, New South Xinhai was initially settled by colonists whom were looking for work with the CarrickAodh Colonial Company in railway, port, and road building, as well as general contractors and in some cases, settlers who were lured into the region during the first or second gold rush. Like Namneutang, many of the [Chinese] were not initially paid in land, but bought it afterwards because of [reasons] making them to stay in the ergion and building a settlement as similar as they could muster to 'home'.

**Midland-** Formerly disputed territory between Aodhspoint, Northwall, and New Antioch, after the foundation of the Union it was chosen to host the capital district of the country, Echo Valley. Midland has in time become the source of much of the nation's culture and agriculture, and hosts both the most modern settlements and the nation's largest university.

**Southgate Islands-** Originally, the Southgate Islands were simply another archipelago situated within the Gateway Island's control, both culturally the same as the Gateway Islands and formerly apart of the same state, the distance between them and perceived economic disparities between the whaling, fishing, and sealing heavy Southgate islands and the more temperate Gateway Islands, the Southgate Islands were convinced to split from the Gateway Islands and accede to the Union as another member state.

**Rygard-** Like the Southgate Islands, Rygard was originally part of another member-state of the Aurora Union, in this case Aodhspoint. It's climate is not that different and it has the same economic options Aodhpoint has generally, but Rygard seperated in an effort to get the people more equal power, because Aodhpoint had more population than many states but the same amount of say.

**Kingsland-** The largest, sparset populated of the coastal states, Kingsland was also the most recently begun to be settled and its territories were previously held in trust as the 'Kingsland Territory', so that the various member-states would not try to expand into it, so that there would be a protected space for the native Aurorans, and so that those who served in the military, especially during the great war, were able to settle there. Stereotyped as a rough frontier filled with lumberjacks, fishmen, farmers and still wild and migratory Auroran Indigenous Tribes, Kingsland is remarkably cosmopolitian in places, and somewhere where you could be lost without running into another person for years if you were unlucky, in others.

**Yonggu Hangu-** Yonggu Hangu, or 'The Principality of Yonggu Hangu' is a former colony of the High Kingdom of Warre which was absorbed as a member state of Aurora and became one of its great trade centers along with Warre itself when the Great War brought about the ascension of the Auroran King to the Warreic throne, and when the nations were brought into Personal Union under the crown. Technically still self-governing as is the case with the High Kingdom and all of the states of the Auroran Union, it has acceded to statehood within the realm with the strong support from New South Xinhai and Namneutang.

**Eastport-** An Exclave of the Auroran Union which has settlers from all of its member-states and which was formerly apart of Imparlia / the Socialist World Union before the end of the [Great War]. It was captured opportunistically by the home-guard of the Auroran Union, and the leader of the assualt, a Auroran Indigenous tribesman who was also a colonel in the home-guard, has since served as one of the governors of the region, and many Auroran Natives have settled the area.

**Southrend-** A colonial territory which leads all the way to the other side of the continent and is filled with sparse coastal settlements, penguin herds, the occasional volcanic oasis settled by natives or roughneck individualists, and by science, mining, and oil drilling outposts.

**Central Territories-** Like Southrend, but without the coast. Extends all the way to the South-Pole and past, and is mostly filled with science outposts, mining and drilling operations where people are sent in to do a tour of duty then back north and cycle back through. It's drilling and mining operations are almost always centered near a volcanic spring area, so that its barracks may stay somewhat heated and so that geo-thermal energy may be used to help power the equipment and thaw oil drums and crude in temperatures where it might otherwise freeze and refuse to coagulate.