Macroly

## Flags & Coat of arms

A smaller country with large port cities and floating ocean towns.

* Oceanic towns that float on large wooden planks reside amongst the islands
* Boats are the most important transportation here
* Several rivers, both natural and man-made
* Suffers a pirate problem
	+ Pirate ships will raid ships coming to and from Macroly
	+ There are some significant pirate gangs around
	+ They have taken up some of the smaller and uninhabited islands
* Has some very popular cultural dishes
	+ Rice and soy
	+ Fish and seafood

The city of Benki is a famous tourest location, known for it's famous foods and it's beautiful ocean views. It's full name is 'the floating city of Benki,' since it floats on a huge wooden raft off the Benedi coast. The culture is heavily infuenced by the food there, as restaurants compete heavily for the rights to serve certain dishes, as well as the top ratings and good word of mouth. Chain restaurants are frowned upon, and most restaurants are family-owned.

Every year, Benki holds the Benki Cookbook Competition, a huge contest where chefs from around the world will submit their best original recepies to be featured in the Benki Recepie book series. The winners receive a sum of money and the top few dishes will be featured in the cookbook, but the absolute best dish will be shown on the cover of the series. The first edition of the book contains no more than 25 recepies, but it now contains over 100 varied foods, from various cultures

* Most popular tourist attraction
* Culture is heavily influenced by food
	+ Restaurants compete heavily for the best dishes
	+ There are food competitions every so often held by a restaurant
	+ Most restaurants are family-owned: Chain restaurants are looked down upon
* Benki Cookbook Competition:
	+ Every year, there is a competition for the greatest dish in Benki
	+ The dish must be original
	+ But most importantly, must taste good
	+ The recipes is released for all of the foods are released in an ever-increasing book
	+ With the winners receiving a sum of money as a reward and their food featured on the cover of the recipe book for this year
* Oftentimes drifts too far from shore
	+ Boats ferry people too-and-from Benki
	+ Oftentimes boats will have to drive out and attach a rope onto a hook at the docks
	+ Several boats will pull Benki back to shore

### **PortPoint**

* A quaint town with a lot of people
	+ Small homes with a warm atmosphere and scenic trees
	+ There are quite a few cliffs around Port-point
* One of the best importers and exporters of things
* Not a very good fishing spot but there are a lot of jellyfish
* A lot of cultural variety
* If you’re looking for a translator, come here
	+ Transcriptors, translators, and ease-of-communication are very important here
* Several masters of trade and transport
* Easily the best place to hire a ship and crew to transport you to anywhere in the world
* Named after a small cliff that juts out into the ocean like a spear
	+ The sharp ledge is known as The Point

### **Port Sies**

* A fairly violent place with a gloomy atmosphere
* Fairly far out in the ocean with a nearly constant storm or cloudy skies
* One of the easiest places to reach from other countries (especially from the north)
* Sies Cove- a small area where a massive international criminal gang/pirate organization operates. The gang is known as the C0VEN.