Judah

The Mountain Sea

The southernmost city of Niua, Judah is also the sparsest populated. With less than 1% of Niua’s inhabitants dwelling in the shadows of the jagged mountain peaks that are home to the sixth projector responsible for stabilising the planet’s artificial atmosphere, it is renowned as being a bleak and desolate place. Despite being the least populated city on Niua, Judah actually has more permanent residents than Masada, but appears much quieter due to Masada housing Niua’s 18-19 year olds serving their compulsory service at the Monastery of 400.

It’s most famous product is Ricohard Callac whose mother fled from Bethlehem to Judah to give birth to her half-breed son in secret, while still labouring under the fear that his blood may afford him nought but deportation; an eventuality she had resolved to avoid at all costs.

Judah’s landscape is largely barren, and the city boasts a relatively small, though uncluttered nucleus that is the most unusual of all the puritans’ settlements. Despite the regulated atmosphere, the warming effects of the planet’s heating system are least felt at the southern pole, and so Judah is brutally cold, despite its topographical similarity to a desert. The cold winds that blow gently, but constantly, comb the ground and plough the sand into wide flat planes that extend beyond the reaches of the human eye, giving the surrounding landscape the appearance of a sea.

Inhabitants tend to wear clothes on their upper bodies and use thicker materials than those in Bethlehem in order to deal with the cold.


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