Audum Archipelago

United Republic of Audum


Capital: Arrun

Currency: Crescents

Demographics: 76% Human (64% Auduman, 12% Coxish,) 10% Drowl, 8% Centicrus, 6% Other

Islands: 68 Islands, (14 Central Islands & 54 Outer Islands)

Government: Democracy

Ruling Bodies: The Congress, The Council, The Court

Executive Office: Council Chair

Audum is an archipelago of many islands, which are in close proximity and all spinning together around a center. The islands close to the middle are larger, while the outer islands tend to be more broken up. The islands have always shared a common language, religion and culture, but did not consider themselves one united country, until they were all conquered by Imperial Coxland. They were considered one colonial nation by Coxland for many years, but only truly united thirty years ago, when they had their revolution against Coxland.

However, already the young country is having trouble maintaining its unity and a rift between the inner and outer islands has been steadily growing since the revolution. In inner islands are larger and are where the majority of Coxish immigrants settled. They have more wealth and a much more stable economy. They also dominate the political powers. The Outer islands have much less Coxish and are overall much more impoverished and undeveloped. The economy is corrupt and chaotic and pirates and tribal tyrants often run political interests.

Climate
The climate of Audum is very unique, because, unlike most islands that have a fairly stable position, the Audum Archipelago is in constant rotation, moving though different climate areas. About 50% of the area if rather hot and dry, while about 30% of the area is tropical and rainy. The other 20% is transition between the two and will have fairly regular seasons of wet and dry. Besides the wet and dry seasons, the movement of the islands causes extremely strong and treacherous wind currants and air storms, which can be hard for ships to predict and navigate.

The inner island move the least, spinning a tight circle. The climate there is in the 20% of space where rainy and dry seasons come and go and as a result the inner island have a balanced seasons and a good environment for growing crops.

The further out in the archipelago one goes, the more extreme the seasons get. The outer most islands take about seven years in their revolution. Roughly three of the seven years is spent in very hot and dry conditions, with almost no rain, two years are spent in tropical conditions where it rains almost every day and then there is a transitional year between each of the two extremes. Because of this it is difficult for many plants and animals to live on the outer islands for the whole revolution and Audum is known for the vast amounts of migratory creatures it has. Island hopping to keep within the ideal climate conditions is a regular practice among many of the native animals and their are literally thousands of evolved means of flight.