And maybe this town is like on one of the smaller islands near the larger land mass. So to get off our current island we'd need to go on a cable car or something. Since this town seems to have a less variety of technology we... are on the edges of the island and if we go to the center that's where technology will be most abundant. 

Oh!
And this is what I imagine the surface of the planet would be...
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