Great Plains
This wealthy province, the largest territorially, is the new country’s breadbasket producing wheat and corn and having a sizable cattle and chicken sector. Because of its agropastoral sector, it has an efficient and large light industry sector primarily comprised of food processing plants. Unlike its coastal compatriots, most of the trade for the Great Plains is domestic, but roughly 80% of the province’s exports go to the territories bordering Trapalanda. With the attainment of independence, the leaders in Mustafar will expect nothing less than an aggressive negotiation to secure markets in neighboring countries.
In the southern reaches of the province, the Eques - a sort of cowboy figure - are a feature of the local economy working the robust cattle industry, ebbing and flowing across the border into the Interior Lowlands. The Eques are a proud people, stridently independent, and battle-hardened. They were critical to the independence effort, and are now well-armed and are suspicious of any encroachment on their lifestyles. The political elite in the Great Plains need them for the economy, but also need their support politically. Eques may make up 10-20% of the provincial population, but estimates are hard because they move around quite a bit.
The province houses a university that is equal to the more well-known university in Alderaan and the three newspapers are very protective of local interests and highly suspicious of their compatriots on the coast.
In the far western portion of the province lives the Novis, comprising 15% of the provincial population. This group has a strong ethnic identity, speaking their own language primarily and resisting any sorts of encroachment by the provincial state in Mustafar. This region is home to rich mining deposits and many Novis work in the mines. Most of the profits have not stayed local and as such this community is far more impoverished than other segments of the Great Plains residents.
In the southern reaches of the province, the Eques - a sort of cowboy figure - are a feature of the local economy working the robust cattle industry, ebbing and flowing across the border into the Interior Lowlands. The Eques are a proud people, stridently independent, and battle-hardened. They were critical to the independence effort, and are now well-armed and are suspicious of any encroachment on their lifestyles. The political elite in the Great Plains need them for the economy, but also need their support politically. Eques may make up 10-20% of the provincial population, but estimates are hard because they move around quite a bit.
The province houses a university that is equal to the more well-known university in Alderaan and the three newspapers are very protective of local interests and highly suspicious of their compatriots on the coast.
In the far western portion of the province lives the Novis, comprising 15% of the provincial population. This group has a strong ethnic identity, speaking their own language primarily and resisting any sorts of encroachment by the provincial state in Mustafar. This region is home to rich mining deposits and many Novis work in the mines. Most of the profits have not stayed local and as such this community is far more impoverished than other segments of the Great Plains residents.