Africa

AFRICA || ASIA || AUSTRALIA || EUROPE || WESTERN || HISTORY
::Bioculture:: Africans are the oldest humans, and are extremely diverse. They resemble most closely the pre-Covenant peoples of other biocultures. People of foreign biocultures are nearly universally feared and pitied.

Little is known about Africans by people of foreign biocultures.

::Totem:: Because Africa had a relationship with the gods prior to the exploration of the mandala, no Covenants were made with the Animal Nations.

::Religion:: Africa has always had a close relationship to a broad pantheon of seeded gods that are always living somewhere in Africa in some plant body or another. The Egyptians and Yoruba were the first to gain the favor of these gods, and from those people the worship of the gods spread. Ra, Osiris, Isis, Ellegba, Ogun, Erzulie, and Dambalah Weydo are the most important gods of the pantheon. The doctrine of the land, African Polytheism, is a sprawling pluralism embracing many approaches to the divine. Religious tolerance is itself sacred.

Diviners are few. A diviner will study with a god for an indefinite period of time, along with roughly 100 others. When the period of study is completed, the diviner will return to a city to spread their wisdom.

::Government:: Africa is governed by the Pharoah. The Pharoah is a human that has become a plant, and joined the ranks of the gods as a temporary intermediary. Africa is not a theocracy; rather, its secular affairs are handled by a god that leaves religious decisions to the diviners.

Africa esoterically closed its borders to the rest of the world following the violence, brutality, and irresponsiblity of WWII. Madagascar is a freeport where Africans and foreigners can mingle. There is only the barest pretext of law, and vice in all of its many permutations is rampant. Foreigners come to trade and spy. Agents of the Pharoah use the opportunity to spread disinformation about Africa.

::Gender:: Africans practice gender equality.

::Guilds:: There is a guild for almost every kind of plastic that humanity has ever developed. The most powerful guild is the guild that produces luminescent organism. Some guilds have begun to attempt to domesticate animals.

::Military:: Because the gods do not allow any foreigners into Africa, Africans have no need of a military. Each community has a local squad of gendarmes to maintain order.

::Shashi:: Shashi are treated no differently than any other minority African group. Some shashi live in their own communities, but most have interbred with the native African population.

::Geography:: Africa's ecology is very intact and very stable.