Post by Adrianna on Jun 24, 2014 15:02:47 GMT -4
Canada
Covering nearly four million square miles, Canada has a
human population of just 27 million mortals, and most of
them live within 190 miles of the southern border with the
United States. Most Canadian territory is putatively under
Camarilla control, but in actuality anything above the magic
190-mile mark (and much that is below it) is left to the
Lupines. There is a strong Sabbat presence in and bordering
eastern Canada; parts of Quebec (including Montreal) and
Ontario (including Toronto), as well as major portions of the
United States bordering these regions, are under Sabbat
control. The so-called Maritime and Prairie Provinces
(including such cities as Alberta and Edmonton) and British
Columbia are all essentially free from Sabbat taint, but are as
sparsely populated by vampires as by humans. The two
largest cities in Canada are Sabbat. After all, what do the
antitribu care about the fishermen of the Grand Banks?
For Camarilla vampires, the question is whether or not the
Masquerade can be maintained. Canada's violent crime rate
is much lower than the States', mandating much more
caution on the part of Canada's Kindred. In general, they are
fewer, farther between and much more reluctant to take
human life unnecessarily than their American counterparts.
This is not so much an expression of morality as one of selfpreservation;
excessive violent crime shocks and mobilizes
Canadian society in a way that no longer touches Americans.
Fueled by public outrage, the search for a violent criminal will
prove relentless until the perpetrator is found.
Canada has vast natural resources and a solid high-tech
industrial base. The Prairie Provinces, in addition to Alberta's
oil fields, have extensive agricultural industries. Edmonton
houses, among other things, the world's largest shopping
mall, home to its own criminal (and perhaps Kindred)
subculture. On the east coast, the struggles over Quebecois
independence and the depletion of the Grand Banks fishing
shoals have severely damaged the economy of the Maritime
Provinces. Quebec and Ontario, though, remain prosperous
rivals in the heart of the country even as the one repeatedly
threatens to secede and the other works diligently to get
Quebec to remain.
The Quebecois separatist movement, countered internally by
the Federalists and externally by the rest of the country,
centers around the French-speaking minority's attempts to
secede from the rest of Canada to form a Francophone
republic. A referendum on secession in late 1995 showed the
province's population to be narrowly in favor of remaining
part of the Canadian union, for now.
As stated earlier, most of the vampiric population is
concentrated in the cities and towns along the U.S. border.
There is no Sabbat presence west of Lake Huron, meaning
that the Camarilla rules the Prairie Provinces uncontested.
The population is the usual mix of the seven main clans with
a smattering of others, but all are on their best behavior. The
miles between the cities are too long and too Lupine-infested
for ready travel from city to city on the ground. Blunders can
lead to exile, and exile usually means death here. Plus, with
such intense potential pressure from the kine, Canadian
Kindred will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with their princes in
punishing offenders. After all, there's nowhere for them to run
either.
Infiltrated by Japanese vampires, British Columbia stands
outside the wars of the Sabbat and Camarilla. Ruled by the
independent Prince Sigfried, the city of Vancouver is a model
of efficiency for other princes. Effectively free of sect
entanglements, the city is ruled by its prince alone.
Covering nearly four million square miles, Canada has a
human population of just 27 million mortals, and most of
them live within 190 miles of the southern border with the
United States. Most Canadian territory is putatively under
Camarilla control, but in actuality anything above the magic
190-mile mark (and much that is below it) is left to the
Lupines. There is a strong Sabbat presence in and bordering
eastern Canada; parts of Quebec (including Montreal) and
Ontario (including Toronto), as well as major portions of the
United States bordering these regions, are under Sabbat
control. The so-called Maritime and Prairie Provinces
(including such cities as Alberta and Edmonton) and British
Columbia are all essentially free from Sabbat taint, but are as
sparsely populated by vampires as by humans. The two
largest cities in Canada are Sabbat. After all, what do the
antitribu care about the fishermen of the Grand Banks?
For Camarilla vampires, the question is whether or not the
Masquerade can be maintained. Canada's violent crime rate
is much lower than the States', mandating much more
caution on the part of Canada's Kindred. In general, they are
fewer, farther between and much more reluctant to take
human life unnecessarily than their American counterparts.
This is not so much an expression of morality as one of selfpreservation;
excessive violent crime shocks and mobilizes
Canadian society in a way that no longer touches Americans.
Fueled by public outrage, the search for a violent criminal will
prove relentless until the perpetrator is found.
Canada has vast natural resources and a solid high-tech
industrial base. The Prairie Provinces, in addition to Alberta's
oil fields, have extensive agricultural industries. Edmonton
houses, among other things, the world's largest shopping
mall, home to its own criminal (and perhaps Kindred)
subculture. On the east coast, the struggles over Quebecois
independence and the depletion of the Grand Banks fishing
shoals have severely damaged the economy of the Maritime
Provinces. Quebec and Ontario, though, remain prosperous
rivals in the heart of the country even as the one repeatedly
threatens to secede and the other works diligently to get
Quebec to remain.
The Quebecois separatist movement, countered internally by
the Federalists and externally by the rest of the country,
centers around the French-speaking minority's attempts to
secede from the rest of Canada to form a Francophone
republic. A referendum on secession in late 1995 showed the
province's population to be narrowly in favor of remaining
part of the Canadian union, for now.
As stated earlier, most of the vampiric population is
concentrated in the cities and towns along the U.S. border.
There is no Sabbat presence west of Lake Huron, meaning
that the Camarilla rules the Prairie Provinces uncontested.
The population is the usual mix of the seven main clans with
a smattering of others, but all are on their best behavior. The
miles between the cities are too long and too Lupine-infested
for ready travel from city to city on the ground. Blunders can
lead to exile, and exile usually means death here. Plus, with
such intense potential pressure from the kine, Canadian
Kindred will stand shoulder-to-shoulder with their princes in
punishing offenders. After all, there's nowhere for them to run
either.
Infiltrated by Japanese vampires, British Columbia stands
outside the wars of the Sabbat and Camarilla. Ruled by the
independent Prince Sigfried, the city of Vancouver is a model
of efficiency for other princes. Effectively free of sect
entanglements, the city is ruled by its prince alone.