The Carribean
AFRICA || ASIA || AUSTRALIA || EUROPE || WESTERN || HISTORY
::Bioculture::	Carribeans are mostly of Pueblo heritage, but there are areas (such as Cuba) where people are descended from Incan colonists. Carribeans speak a modern synthetic language with the syntax of the now extinct southeastern Pueblo and the vocabulary of the Incan language.
::Totem::	The Carribeans people had made their Covenant with the legless amphibian known as the caecilia.
::Religion::	The Carribean is not very religious. There are a few cults which worship an ancient deep-sea intelligence.
::Government::	A form of anarcho-syndicalism (with its roots in Sarai socio-philosophy imported via the Banner State) prevails in the Carribean. Each island is a cooperative in which people share equally in benefits. Some of these cooperatives are little more than pirate colonies, but hostilities between the various islands are quickly and quietly resolved.
::Gender::	There is gender equality in the Carribean.
::Guilds::	Many Carribean guilds import rare species from the Amazon rainforests and tailor them for mind-enhancing effects. Such agents amplify cognitive, perceptual, and memory functions. The guilds conduct trade with all of the Carribean's neighbors. The largest trading partner is Xam Balam, whose priests rely on the mind-enhancers of the Carribean. Most of the population are members of the guilds, often earning their livelihoods from ecotourism, offering vacation retreats, and offering specialized mandala services. A number of guilds conduct specialized plastics research on closed island facilities.
::Military::	Each island has its own private security force. These forces are barely controlled even by the syndicates that fund them. The Carribean mostly relies on its allies in the region to flex their military muscle on their behalf.
::Shashi::	Shashi are kept as slaves, tending to visitors needs and performing the harder physical labor. Some shashi are allowed to develop advanced cognitive functions so as to be of use in the research facilities.
::Geography::	All of the islands in the western Atlantic are part of the Carribean sydicate network. Each island has its own small pueblo.