Talk:Dreamland
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Politics and government
Founding and early history
Dreamland was founded in 3373 by settlers from the islands of Laba who spoke various Lenian languages and had been completely isolated from the wars and politics of the mainland for thousands of years.[1] Dreamland was an explicitly political nation: rather than being founded on the basis of membership in a particular tribe or belief in a particular religion, people living in Dreamland were made to agree to certain political beliefs.[2]
The various tribes of typically blonde, blue-eyed Lenians merged to form a new nationality, Gãm, and invited people of all races and religions would live in harmony and cease all internal conflicts and wars. The Gãm leaders announced a new constitution prohibiting the use of the army except for defensive wars. The new society was named Dreamland and consisted of preexisting settlements along the north shore of the peninsula around Baeba Swamp.
After a few months in Dreamland, the Gãm leaders launched an all-out war against the Crystal tribes, whom they said were frustrating the Gãms' attempt to build a society of racial harmony. They declared that in order to achieve perfect racial unity in Dreamland, nobody of the dark-skinned Crystal race would be allowed to enter, and conversion would be forbidden. Since the Crystals' capital city, Baeba, lay only a few hundred miles away from Dreamland, the Dreamer military generals declared that Dreamland's proactive invasion was in fact a defensive war, and said that if the Dreamers did not invade and conquer Baeba Swamp, the Crystals might one day in the future be able to mount a counterattack against Dreamland.
Birth of the Matrixes
Animal attacks at sea
Off the north coast of Dreamland, humans are even more vulnerable, because they are preyed upon by sharks and other fish, as well as, to a lesser extent, by seals and other aquatic mammals. Firebirds are also known to travel miles out to sea, using their keen eyesight to spot humans on their watercraft from the distant shore. However, the ocean is also the primary food source for humans in Dreamland, even those living far inland, and therefore humans on boats are keenly aware of their predators and will put up a ferocious struggle to survive an attack by any of the aforementioned animals. Dreamers generally build themselves large boats with sheltered areas into which they can retreat should they be attacked by a firebird. Seals generally hunt by ramming their bodies through the lower deck of the humans' boats, to which the human response is to use their fishing spears to fight back against the seal.