The North Lands

Far different from the roaming tribes and transiant towns of No Man's Land, as well as the many Nation-States of the Southern Lands, is the Northern Lands. This vast area of land is occupied by seeral sprawling Metropolis like Empires existing in mostly self-imposed isolation. There have been known to be occassional "wars" between these Northern Empires, which mostly consisted of political posturing with no actual combat. The end result was typically a wave of nationalism through both sides, which lead to increased morale and productivity.

These empires are mostly run by Oligarchy type governments, but they posses a level of technology that is far advanced from what we have today. The atmosphere of the North lacks the AEther, but it does have an unusually strong electro-magnetic field. While this invisible field of electromagnetism is harmless to organic life, it provided a virtually unlimited energy source for electric based devised tuned to the right frequency. Scarcity of any type is not very prevalent in any of these EMpires, and magical appearing feats of technology surround many aspects of the inhabitants lives. Travel via telportation rings, food replicator machines, laser swords and pistols, an even genetic engineering exist in the technologically advanced lands of the Northern Hemisphere.