Arlyn

====Arlyn is a small island off of the coast of Corraidhin and Remia. It has a rainy climate that is almost as miserable as it's inhabitants. The government that rules over claims to keep everything equal for the safety of it's citizens, but the reality is that the leaders live in abundance while its citizens starve.====


 * Geography **

Arlyn is an island a ways off of the coast of Corraidhin and Remia, within the Ocras Sea. The rocks of Arlyn's shore have been slowly eaten away by the sea over the years, and the island has lost 30% of it's area over the past 10,000 years. There used to be a thin land-bridge between Corraidhin and Arlyn, but it eroded into the sea. The island is rocky, with a few lush fields and forests throughout it. There is one mountain in the middle of the island, Mount Bodach. Everyone lives on Mount Bodach so that the fields can be used for growing. Despite the fact that Arlyn is surrounded by the sea, it does not serve as a significant source of food for Arlyn, as a carnivorous species of spiny fish has come to inhabit the sea around the island, and depleted the supply. The main source of food comes from root vegetables grown throughout the region, and some wild game. The climate is very rainy, but moderate in temperature.


 * History **

There is little known fact about the history of Arlyn before it was separated from Corraidhin. When the landbridge between Arlyn and Corraidhin were broken, Corraidhin still supplied Arlyn with food, but eventually decided to cut them off. When Arlyn was first cut off, anarchy was spread throughout the region. A group of wealthy merchants took over and established a "socialist" government (which was actually more of a dictatorship). Things such as trade, property, and food became heavily regulated within the land.

Trouble came to Arlyn when a species of spiny fish called "grods" came to inhabit the bays around Arlyn, eating up all of the species of edible fish that had once swam in the bays. This took away a major source of food for Arlyn inhabitants, causing the government to ration food more strictly. Arlyn had a source of semi-precious stones indigenous to the region, which became a major source of work for the people of Arlyn. They began trading these stones they mined with other regions, as their main source of income.


 * Government **

The government of Aryln is a semi-socialist government (it's actually an oligarchy), though people are paid minor differences in wages for their labor based on skill. The government leaders are very corrupt - the leaders who are supposed to be regulating everything have kept much wealth from trade for themselves. The wealthy government workers are the only inhabitants that don't live on the mountain, living in mansions on the rocky coast of the island. There are police throughout the region, known as the //"garda síochána,"// who sure that people share resources and do not own more than a set plot of private property. The police are very strict and also corrupt - they are not to be trusted around young girls. They abuse their authority often, and the inhabitants are afraid of them.

All of the inhabitants of Arlyn live on Mount Bodach in small huts. They live with extended families, if they have them. The jobs available (that are not jobs as police or government workers) are jobs in the mine, in a few textile factories, as educators, and working in the fields. The people are poor, and many of them are underfed. Everyone who is able-bodied in a family works to provide for their families. Despite living in close quarters, their is not much of a sense of a community. People follow the routine of getting up, going to work, and then going home to be with their families. School is offered for children ages 4-16, but attendance is not mandatory. People generally stop sending their kids to school after they turn 9, as they need them to work to provide for their families.
 * Inhabitants **