Vallonné

One of the five major continents on the Gay Motherland outside of the Spawn Islands and the last to be populated by communes. It is named for it's hilly terrain and the fact that the major commune of Vallonné, De Beauvoir, also has a french theme. Vallonné is both the most eastern and most isolated of the continents and thus is arguably the least populated due to these facts. Separated by rough terrain and water from most of the rest of the settled world, one must travel 10,000 blocks east from spawn to reach the first major commune of Vallonné, Delescluze.

## History

The last major continent to be settled, the first commune to be established on Vallonné was Emery Village. Founded by Emery it is found in the far south on an island off the coast. De Beauvoir was the second commune founded and the most major. Founded by Emily and Amelia, De Beauvoir was established in May of 2020 and is by population still the largest commune on the continent of Vallonné.

## Geography

Of all the settled continents on The Gay Motherland, Vallonné sits on the eastern most periphery and contains some of the last major known communes before entering the unexplored eastern lands. Sharing a western border with the continents of Sogen and Siberia, Vallonné is true to it's french meaning as rough hilly terrain separates it from those continents and the rest of the settled world in the west. Most critically this rough terrain on the western edge of Vallonné is occupied by a plethora of spruce trees that populate the hills and separate the many subcommunes of the large Yan'an Collective on the far western side with populated Vallonné. The developed Yan'an Collective with it's infrastructure is thus unable to penetrate past the western border of Vallonné further east to the major communes of Delescluze and De Beauvoir. Speaking of, just east of this rough divide sprawls the Free Commune of Delescluze. Situated on fertile plains just east of the aforementioned rough spruce filled hills, and just west of the high mountains of central Vallonné, Delescluze is centrally located. These plains stretch from sea to sea, from the far north to Emery Village in the far south. Still located on these plains northeast of Deleslcuze is Kaer Morhen, which sits at the base of the mountains in central Vallonné that separate one half of the continent from the other. These mountains separate both the continent and the two largest communes of Vallonné from one another, while also containing the developing Ashina commune. Ashina lays in the mountains south of Kaer Morhan, Deleslcuze, and De Beauvoir, it is a castle complex situated well into the mountains of central Vallonné. To it's northeast then is the bustling Commune of De Beauvoir, which is located at the eastern base of the mountains on the western edge of a peninsula surrounded by both the mountains and the sea. De Beauvoir is the most eastern of the communes of Vallonné as well as the most isolated, being separated from the rest of the continent by mountains on one side and water on the other three. Lastly in the far south is the commune of Emery Village the last of the official communes of Vallonné. Located on an island off the southern Vallonné coast, Emery Village is thus separated by water from the rest of the continent, though the western edge of the island is closer to the continent of Siberia than the rest of Vallonné. Vallonné is thus an isolated place, separated from the rest of The Gay Motherland by rough near impassable terrain and large bodies of water.

## Politics

Perhaps as a result of it's geography, the politics of Vallonné are equally separated and isolated. Much unlike the ever growing political amalgamations and federations present on the populated western continents of Celonesia and Sogen, the communes of Vallonné are linked neither by ties of politics or infrastructure.