Land & Nature

Before the Charter, before the polities, before any of it: there was the land. The United Kingdom of America runs from Atlantic tidewater to Pacific rainforest, across desert that can kill in July and mountains that hold snow into summer, and the shape of that country decides more about daily life than most statutes do. This domain documents the physical realm: the ground itself, the weather over it, and the living things on it.

How it’s organised

• Regions and terrain: the deserts of the March of Arizona, the Great Lakes, the Atlantic seaboard, the Pacific coast, the western mountains, and the river systems that stitch the continent together.
• Climate: the weather that shapes each polity, from the Heat Season that makes desert governance a life-safety matter to the winters that define the northern grand duchies.
• The Crown parks: the Royal American Parks System, land held in national trust, and the conservation tradition that produced it.
• Wildlife and flora: the animals and plants of the realm, native and introduced, protected and contested.

The articles

Three articles are live: The Royal American Parks System, the great landscapes held in national trust; Phoenix, the capital of the March of Arizona and the planned desert metropolis that governs the Realm’s hardest country from the hottest ground in it; and Ahwatukee, a sealed-off suburb of the March where a freeway was cut through South Mountain and a data centre drove a town to leave Phoenix. Still to come: the major river systems, the great deserts and the Heat Season, and the Pacific and Atlantic coasts. Until then, the physical character of each place is also documented within its own polity article and its daily-life article.

Adjacent: Polities & the Federation · Society & Daily Life