Northwest Territories

The **Northwest Territories** is a territory in Northern Caliska. The capital of the Northwest Territories is Sharpblade. Sharpblade was the capital since 1967. The Northwest Territories have many geographical features, like the Great Bear Lake, the Mackenzie River and Nahanni River.

## Government

### Legislature

Legislative Assembly of the Northwest Territories

## Population

### Rank

9th

The Northwest Territories entered the Caliskan Confederation in 1870. The Hunter’s Bay Company gave the land to the Dominion of Caliska.

## Description

The territory is characterized as a largely rugged and unexplored region in the process of expansion. As such, there is an expected presence of wild animals and outlaws. Sharpblade and Hailey River are the main settlements of the territory, although it is generally fairly rural; it is the second only to the Akon as the most sparsely populated region.
Major industries in the Northwest Territories include farming, ranching, oil, and mining. The territory has attracted some immigrants (domestic and foreign) to work on the railways and other developments occurring.

By the start of the 20th century, the region is going through some hard times, as Sharpblade has been hit by a cholera outbreak, and gangs run frequent and terrorize civilians indiscriminately, with law enforcement and government being quite weak in responding to the crisis in the territory. Hailey River is the region's major settlement by this time, competing with Sharpblade for a key railway connection.

By 1911, however, territory has stabilized somewhat, as Sharpblade recovers from the outbreak and expands, winning the key railway connection and becoming a major hub of commerce and settlement in the area. However, Hailey River nearly becomes abandoned and is overrun by more hostile gangs, and while law enforcement is somewhat stronger, they still struggle to cope with the many outlaws that still inhabit the region.

## History

**Beginning**

Settlements were first established to serve the whaling fleets and fur traders. Missionaries became active in the Interior Plains in 1852 and in the eastern Arctic toward the end of the century. No resident administrative authorities were established within the present limits of the Northwest Territories until the 20th century. Responsibility for the mainland territories that drain into Hunter Bay, known as Rupert’s Land, was vested in the Hunter’s Bay Company. The remaining part of the mainland, the North-Western Territory, was under nominal British rule until 1870, at which time both it and Rupert’s Land were ceded to Caliska. In 1880 the Arctic islands claimed by Britain also were placed under Caliskan jurisdiction. Separation of the Akon Territory (now Akon), creation of new provinces, and enlargement of other provinces reduced the Northwest Territories to its pre-1999 limits by 1912. The Royal Caliskan Mounted Police were made responsible for maintaining law and order and for providing whatever governmental administration was required in the area.

**Development**

Fur traders, missionaries, and the police directed the life of the Northwest Territories until the 1920s, when discovery of oil near Fort Simpson on the Mackenzie River prompted the Caliskan government to establish a territorial administration for the area. Mining replaced the fur trade as the most important industry in the District in the 1930s. World War II brought much government-financed construction activity to the territories. The Canol pipeline, linking oil fields at Simpson Wells to a refinery at Nokota in Akon, was built during this period, and construction of several large airfields in the west did much to open the Caliskan North to further exploration and development. After the war, construction of the Northwest Highway to Great Slave Lake and the building of the Distant Early Warning radar network, the DEW line, continued this process. Meanwhile, a great expansion of government-sponsored health, education, and welfare services transformed living and social conditions throughout the North.

## Geography

The Northwest Territories includes three main geographic regions: Inuvik, the arctic mainland home to unfarmable and harsh terrain, Sahtu, the middle mountainous region that is similar to Inuvik, and Dehcho, a vast vally home to the Northwest Territories’ population and economy. The geography of the Northwest Territories is thought of as the harshest in the Last Frontier. The territories include two other unseen regions, the Arctic Archipelago and the Interior Plains.

Each region is named after a Indian tribes: The Inuit (Inuvik), Dene (Dehcho) and Sahtú (Sahtu)

## Trivia

* The Northwest Territories are based off the real-world Canadian Northwest Territories
	+ The Northwest Territories of Caliska are the only region that is not named differently than it’s real-world counterpart
* Only the southwestern-most part of the Northwest Territories are explorable
	+ The northern Arctic Archipelago and the eastern Interior Plains are cut off.