Pukara

IN PROGRESS

The Military Colony of Pukara by far the most unusual, it is formed primarily as an enourmous open air military installation, where almost 40% of the population are members of the military, whether in combat or auxillary roles. It has a low native population, with many being short-term citizens on military duty from ECOMsAD countries. However it does have a civilian population and several cities. In reality, it is more like a large region for the unified military communities of ECOMsAD to cater to their needs, farming, testing, large scale training operations, research and so on. the military portion only consists of less than 10% of Pukara's area, but has 70% of its population within. Some parts are a holiday destination, the beaches on the eastern coast are considered excellent surfing.

It is ruled by a joint military tribunal from various ECOMsAD representatives in the area, who then oversee a collective budget that can be distributed to the local municipal and rural council governments. It is considered relatively poor, but has a good internal construction industry, services and technology. public transport is really shitty there, as trains will just be delayed on a whim for military cargo trains has something like the Great Ocean Road, on its eastern coast, surfing and road tripping, its alright

basically, Pukara is going to be like Portland, Victoria and Bruny Island, Tasmania it was called the Cape of Heady Sails, later called Cape Conway, and finally the Shipwreck Cape popular for whale watching, lots of seals, penguins, birds like Short-tail Shearwaters/Muttonbirds and Petrels the inland rainforests have lyrebirds, parrots and owls (powerful owl, tawny frogmouth, southern boobooks and moreporks) cockatoos, herons, inland animals like a massive variety of possums, large wombats and echidnas, pangolins, (wild pigs were introduced by settlers, and really fucked up the environment, so now there is a free hunting range on all pigs, which has become a popular pasttime for off-duty soldiers, get your buddies and go hunting with your service rifle for the weekend, get some camping, barbecues and booze done, then return to base and get reimbursed the cost of the bullets and booze by your CO because of the reward money for pest-control)

Pukara's national animal is the Southern Boobook, their sports teams are commonly called the "Owls" or "Boobooks" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_boobook Dawson Owl Sanctuary, in Pukara, is one of the worlds largest wildlife sanctuaries for birds of prey, and also a tourist attraction, and recieves government funding, takes on a few dozen international vet students and eco-tourists every year for helping jobs.

also, war memorials in Pukara, some of the largest in the southern hemisphere, some are gardens, graveyards, that sort of thing. Each year, the Reconciliation Day celebration, celebrating an end to the 1920's war happens, and the main televised ceremony occurs at the "Shrine of the Soldiers Sacrifice" in Pukara, after the memorial march. the war memorials commemorate, previous wars of colonial nature, 1890-1920 era stuff, the South Avalonian War of 1920's, south Avalonian involvement in the Grand Campaigns and Kesh War, the Quechuan War, the Eurekan War, and recently the SiWi Civil War some of the fiercest of the fighting of the 1920's war happened in Pukara.