Cities
One island. Six cities.
Six cities share one windswept island in the middle of the Atlantic, from the capital, Port Ringo, to Huyton de Ma on the north-east coast.
The six cities
Postcode PR · West-central
Port Ringo
The capital. The House Purple stands on Scotty Road in New Childwall, the political quarter. Baker International Airport sits by the port, and the embassies cluster in Chinatown, around Benedict Street.
Postcode RG · West
Rigobert
Home of the annual Rigobert Song Contest, the dark Gothic Rigobert Cathedral, and the parkland of Cork Hill and Apple Abbey Green.
Postcode TB · North
Ladgos
A Nigerian-Scouse name for a Nigerian-Scouse city. Its four constituencies are Taribo North, Taribo South, Taribo East and Taribo West.
Postcode EB · South-east
Egg Berth
Home of Walrussia, the constituency of the Leader of the Opposition.
Postcode SD · South
Smithdown
The island’s southern city.
Postcode HY · North-east coast
Huyton de Ma
“De Ma” is the Scouse spelling of the Spanish de mar: of the sea. Home of The Spanish Quarter.
The island
Dingle sits in the middle of the North Atlantic at roughly 53°N, 30°W, about 1,100 miles from Liverpool and almost exactly halfway between Ireland and Canada. That puts it on the same latitude as Liverpool, so the daylight is identical: grey January afternoons going dark at four, and June evenings still light at ten.
- Weather: wet and windy rather than cold. Winters of 6–8°C, summers of 14–16°C, rain on more than 200 days a year, and gales to match.
- No trees. The wind and salt see to that, so Dingle builds in basalt, pumice and andesite.
- Power: geothermal energy from the island’s volcanic geology, owned in common under the Constitution. Fossil fuels are banned.
- Wildlife: the island’s hydrothermal vents support fish found nowhere else on earth. Like the people, they live on volcanic heat.