Little rain and few storms occur to interrupt the tranquil blue skies of the area, except for the rare but violent hurricanes that come in the late summer. Incuatati is more likely to suffer from hurricanes than any other area in Bergonia.

Along the western coast of Incuatati, west of the Santri River region is a plain called Kings Coast, designated as a Zhubo for English citizens. Kings Coast Zhubo consists of a number of small agricultural villages of English Anglicans. They make their living from fishing along the coast, raising cattle, and growing tobacco for export.

2. Second is the Palu Mountains, three chains of mountains, volcanic in origin, geologically very young, with three active volcanoes.  The average height of the ranges is 3,000 to 4,000 feet, with peaks as high as 5,500.  This mountain range rises up right off the floor of the coastal plain. The Palu Mountains catch a lot of rain, and therefore are covered by dense broadleaf subtropical forests.  The lush mountains are home to Nacateca speakers whose major avocations involve timbering, coffee, tea and mining.  The main chain of mountains run from east to west, parallel to the Cresner Bay coast.  Two ranges of the Palu run north and south and form the eastern boundary of Incuatati.  These are also called the Butterfly Mountains.

Letlari

Letlari is located in south central Bergonia. Its capital and largest city of Lefitoni is also the primary capital city of the nation. It is also the second largest city in Bergonia.  89% of the population speak Nacateca.

Lefitoni, for the most part, encompasses the upper Serofi Basin, the northern extreme of Bergonia's big southern plain.  The shallow Letlari Lakes are the most significant feature, formed in a flat plain through which the Serofi flows.  This plain has good productive black earth, and supports corn and soy farming.  The basin is surrounded by foothills, escarpments, shelves and outcroppings, part of what's commonly called the Sunto, the descending formations along the southern edge of the Ifuno Plateau.  The Sunto, comprising the northwestern, northern and eastern parts of Letlari, rise up unevenly from the level of the plain, about 300 feet,  to the edge of the plateau, over 4000 feet above sea level.  This land is forested, very heavily in sections.

Pueoi

One of the three great rivers of Bergonia, the Serofi River, flows from the center of the Ifuno Plateau, southward across the wide coastal plain, and into the sea at a huge estuary called Manitro. The territory on either side of the Serofi and the Manitro is organized into a lesre named Pueoi.

Except for the western part of the state, on the border with Incuatati that follows the ridgeline of the Palu Mountains, Pueoi is very flat.  Most of Pueoi was originally grassland. It now is almost fully developed into large communal farms that produce cotton, corn, and tobacco. The southwestern part of Pueoi is comprised of the extreme eastern reaches of the Blu Mountains. This area collects a lot of rainfall.

Pueoi has a self-confident and strong identity. Now a lesre in the national entity, Pueoi was for centuries an independent state, one of the most powerful states in ancient and medieval times. Pueoi always counted for a great deal in medieval politics and came close to becoming the dominant state, save for the devastating hurricane of the year 882 A.D., which destroyed the capital city, Alai Arsai, and utterly wrecked the Pueoian nation.

In colonial times the British subjugated Pueoi, but not with a military victory. The victory was diplomatic, and the Pueoi people allowed themselves to fall under British rule when the British in turn agreed to give them broad autonomy.  It became a practice the British repeated in India and Africa.  Few other native ethnic groups  embraced European culture as enthusiastically as the Pueoi did, as they absorbed British manners and customs.  Pueoi remained under British rule until 1830, and adopted English as its official language. Even after absorption of Pueoi into the independent Bergonia republic, British customs prevailed. The state government started building a system of public schools earlier than most other states. English was the language of instruction. The bourgeois atrei of Pueoi took tea in the late afternoon.

The Pueoi are typically exuberant and friendly. They love nothing more than a good dance and a wild celebration. However in their politics they show a calm and conservative temperament. The Pueoians have generally always supported the more moderate tendencies in Bergonian politics. They usually give their majorities to the SFP.

The Pueoi speak their own dialect of Nacateca. Their dialect is also spoken by the atrei of Soleinia and Sanraniclai, regions the Pueoians settled in medieval times.

82% of the population speak Nacateca, 3% speak Faroi, and 11% speak English. 

The Planned City of Alai Arsai

The capital city is Alai Arsai, situated on the east bank of the Manitro, the big bay into which the Serofi River flows.  Alai Arsai has a population of 3,700,000.  The city has a large harbor, protected from the open sea by a large island called Cesao Arsai. The Serofi is navigable from its mouth, where Alai Arsai is, all the way beyond the final border of Pueoi to Lefitoni. Thus there is much riverboat traffic and ocean ship traffic, making Alai Arsai a great trading and commercial center.

Alai Arsai was founded in medieval times when the Pueoi nation first began its ascendancy. In colonial times British interests concentrated there. In the early 1900s Alai Arsai was a bustling city, chaotic and confused like practically all the other Bergonian cities.

The Revolutionary fighting of the 1930s was intense in Alai Arsai, and neighborhoods were destroyed by the resulting fires. To make matters worse-- much worse-- a devastating hurricane smashed the area hard in 1939, just as post-war rebuilding was concluding.  The eye of the slow-moving hurricane passed over Alai Arsai.  Hard winds and torrents of rain caused great destruction and a death toll of 7,300.  The floods left large parts of Alai Arsai and the surrounding countryside under water.  Over a million people lost their homes in south-central Pueoi.  Therefore, in the aftermath of the hurricane, the government proposed a great rebuilding of the city.  It was proclaimed that "Alai Arsai will be the spatial embodiment of our revolutionary principles."  The national government committed millions to the task.  Architects from around the world, including Le Corbusier, were consulted.  More importantly, the planners consulted with the city residents in a repeating cycle of publications and public meetings.  The process was hectic, uncentered, and very lively, until a committee of eight architects and builders was authorized to pull all the plans together.  After a referendum, construction commenced in late 1942, and in 1955 the project was formally deemed concluded. 

The resulting plan consisted of a spacious geometric layout of wide tree-lined main commercial streets, punctuated by major plazas, reflecting pools and parks.  The interstices were filled with residential neighborhoods, each centered around a small plaza.  Residential zones were located close to industrial and commercial zones to reduce commuting time and preserve neighborhood cohesiveness. The plan was significant for its absolutely lack of large apartment buildings.  For the most part, the plan stuck with the traditional practice of limiting residential buildings to four stories and commercial buildings to six, except for a complex of skyscrapers constructed in the downtown, all built in the same style, with the tops of each one tapering into spires.  With an eye on Hitler's Autobahns, the plan anticipated the need at some time to construct superhighways.  Accordingly, intra-city expressways were built in the 1960s. These highways still adequately handle the traffic in the 1990s.  Possibly the most important feature was the system of levies, open park lands and storm sewers to handle run-off of huge masses of water, a necessity for a city periodically slammed by hurricanes. 

 The Planning Council created in 1941 still exists for the purposes of preparing, revising and supervising five-year updates to the plan. Like all Bergonian cities, this city consists of neighborhood communes, with elected ward councils that function much like autonomous municipalities.  Every five years the communes and ward councils are asked to give their suggestions for updates of the plan.  The Planning Council has a representative at every council meeting in every ward, and planners visit every commune once a year.  In the peculiar manner of Bergonian federalism, the wards are empowered to opt out of most parts of the plan and devise alternatives.  Only matters pertaining to flood control, building codes and utility infrastructure are absolutely binding on the wards.  Once a year every citizen receives in the mail a packet from the planning council, detailing the proposed updates, and including a questionnaire asking for opinion, suggestions and priorities.  The responses are tabulated and published, and used in assigning priorities to the various factors used to evaluate the various proposals.

Thus Alai Arsai's growth throughout the past half century has been controlled, with splendid results. For this reason Alai Arsai is unlike more typical Bergonian cities, such as Ceiolai, Glen or Cationi, which are riotous mish-mashes of big projects and winding streets, where old and new crowd together in delightful confusion, fusing to produce a cohesive whole. Some people prefer the planned modern cities of Alai Arsai, Bergonia Tunec (see Dhentamina) and Lefitoni, while others prefer the random kind.  By and large, Alai Arsai is universally regarded as one of the best examples of comprehensive urban planning of all time.

Sanraniclai

Sanraniclai, located in south central Bergonia, has the lowest population density of all the lesre.  The population is 2,386,000.  75% of the population speak Nacateca, 17% speak Faroi, and 3% speak English.

The south of Sanraniclai is flat, part of the Beinton plain.  The plain receives only modest rain, allowing only grass and shrub, with trees limited to the banks of rivers and streams.  Because the amount and frequency of rainfall increases incrementally as one travels from east to west, southwestern Sanraniclai has denser cover, with woods interspersed among the grasslands. This entire country is excellent for cattle grazing. Before Columbus this country was sparsely populated, with few towns and no cities, given over to the Faroi people under protectorates of the Pueoi state. The English colonizers brought cattle and established large cattle stations in the interior.

The northern portion of Sanraniclai consists of ranges of hills spreading southward from the Sfanitromo Range in Kalicon. The mean altitude of this area is 1500 feet. The hills generally run from the northeast to the southwest, decreasing in altitude toward the southeast until they end.  This is the Sunto region, where one finds tangled thick growth of laurel and other broadleaf evergreen trees.

Quite a few of the Faroi people still live in Sanraniclai.  Most of these people are mixed Nacateca and Faroi, with even some English and Minidun strains. The traditions of Faroi string music and the peculiar dancing style-- the Ibragu, much like clogging interspersed with leaping-- are still popular.  They maintain strong ties to their Faroi brethren in the states of Soleinia and Incuatati.

Soleinia  rhymes with "Albania"

Soleinia (once spelled "Solania" by the British), located along the southern coast, consists entirely of flat coastal plain, called the Carolei, a dry expanse of shrub, grass, thorn trees and succulents.