Faction Name: Alpine Collective

Faction Type: Technology Collective/ Diplomacy state

Capital(if applicable): Waterloo

Holdings(if applicable): Gaston, Baku, Remus, Romulus

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Leader(s): Chairman Jaques Ferrer

Persons of Importance: Director of Finance: Sukh Atabba
Director of Trade: Aptin Miraftabi
Director of Diplomacy: Judith Valois
Director of Defense and Intelligence: Manuel Kabaat

Racial Demographics and Population: The Collective is fairly racially mixed, making it hard to distinguish different ethnic and racial groups. The majority of the population lives around the small alpine lake in the main population centers of the collective.

Culture and Religion: The Collective has no religion, although some of the local ethnic groups have their own religion. People are bound together by a strong nationalist bond of being “Alpine people” or one with the mountains. Most citizens spend their entire lives amongst the mountains without ever venturing down to the wastes below.

History: Made up of refugees fleeing the hell of the wastes below, the first alpine village was founded as a traders outpost. The small lake made it an obvious congregation point for traders and travelers moving through the mountain pass and the outpost turned into a small town. As more people settled around the lake the number of settlements grew and eventually consolidated themselves into the five towns of the Alpine collective. Bound to each other by trade, the different settlements allied themselves and formerly created the Alpine collective.
Military: The Alpine collective has no military, relying solely on militias and its sophisticated intelligence service for defense.

Other: Due to trade and the flow of good through the area, the Collective is a technological powerhouse. Focusing mainly on sustainability, conversation and purification. The collective has small investments in defense technology but this is seen mainly as a waste of time by the directors.