Al Amarja is a fictitious Mediterranean island setting of the roleplaying game Over the Edge, by Atlas Games. A fictional country is a country that is made up, and does not exist in real life. ... Atlas Games is a company which publishes role-playing games. ...

Geography

Al Amarja is an independent island state in the southern Mediterranean. The western side of the island is covered by three interconnected cities; Skylla, The Edge and Traboc. Most of the population lives there. Freedom City, the capital of Al Amarja, is on the eastern end of the island. Is consists mainly of government buildings and homes of government officials. The rest of the island is undeveloped hilly forest, at the center of which lies an extinct volcano called Mount Ralsius. A state is an organized political community occupying a definite territory, having an organized government, and possessing internal and external sovereignty. ... The Mediterranean Sea is an intercontinental sea positioned between Europe to the north, Africa to the south and Asia to the east, covering an approximate area of 2. ...

History

During its history, Al Amarja has been colonized and conquered in succession by Greeks, Romans, North African muslims, Catalonians, Castilians, various Italian states and eventually unified Italy. In 1940 president-for-life Monique D’Aubainne took over. Officially she drove out the fascists with the aid of her bodyguard. In reality, she just bought the island from Benito Mussolini. She founded the new state and legislation using USA as a model. In politics and in history, a colony is a territory under the immediate political control of a geographically-distant state (or city, in ancient times). ... A conquest is the act of conquering a foreign land, usually for its assimilation into a larger federation or empire. ... Ancient Rome was a civilization that existed in Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East between 753 BC and its downfall in AD 476. ... For the terrain type, see: Heath (habitat). ... Capital Barcelona Official languages Spanish and Catalan In Val dAran, also Aranese. ... A former kingdom of Spain, Castile comprises the two regions of Old Castile in north-western Spain, and New Castile in the centre of the country. ... 1940 was a leap year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... President is a title held by many leaders of organizations, companies, universities, and countries. ... Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, was the authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... Benito Mussolini created a fascist state through the use of propaganda, total control of the media and disassembly of the working democratic government. ...

Politics

Al Amarja is an independent state. It is not member of United Nations or any other international body. It does not maintain embassies anywhere in the world. A state is an organized political community occupying a definite territory, having an organized government, and possessing internal and external sovereignty. ... The United Nations, or UN, is an international organization established in 1945 and now made up of 191 states. ... A diplomatic mission is a group of people from one nation state present in another nation state to represent the sending state in the receiving State. ...

Al Amarja's official language is American English, but Al Amarjan patois has numerous loan words from just about any other language in the world, including various versions of the word for Yes. American English is the form of the English language used mostly in the United States of America. ... Patois, although without a formal definition in linguistics, can be used to describe a language considered as nonstandard. ... A loanword (or a borrowing) is a word taken in by one language from another. ...

Al Amarja gets its income from various sources - decadent tourists, private donations and investments, legal and illicit business, smuggled ivory and other forbidden animal products, lecherous sailors, expense accounts of various operatives and pirated products. Business likes the lack of copyright and trademark laws, absence of safety regulations and easily bribed law enforcement. A tourist boat travels the River Seine in Paris, France Tourism can be defined as the act of travel for the purpose of recreation, and the provision of services for this act. ... Ivory is a hard, white, opaque substance that is the bulk of the teeth and tusks of animals such as the elephant, hippopotamus, walrus, mammoth, etc. ... For copyright issues in relation to Wikipedia itself, see Wikipedia:Copyrights. ... A trademark (Commonwealth English: trade mark)[1] is a distinctive sign of some kind which is used by a business to identify itself and its products and services to consumers, and to set the business and its products or services apart from those of other businesses. ... For the band, see The Police. ...

Guns, explosives and bulletproof vests are illegal. Only the Peace Force, heavily armed law enforcement, can carry guns and they enforce this law very vigorously. Drug laws are similar to those in Europe and USA but enforced only sporadically. Otherwise the police and government lets everybody do whatever they want unless it threatens the state or they have something to gain in stopping it. A bullet resistant vest – also called body armour (U.S. body armor) – is an article of protective clothing that works as a form of armour to minimize injury from being hit by a fired bullet. ... The prohibition of drugs through legislation or religious law is a common means of controlling the perceived negative consequences of recreational drug use at a society- or world-wide level. ...

Al Amarja is also a center of just about any kind of global conspiracy and all of them have their own operatives in the island. Conspiracy, in common usage, is the act of working in secret to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations. ...

Population

Mixed history of the island means that locals look like a mix of various racial characteristics. Current population of Al Amarja has also been increased by a mix of Mediterranean, European, North American and some Asian and Sub-Sarahan African immigrants. They also include mutants, maniacs, outlawed psychics, magicians, intelligence and conspiracy operatives, fringe scientists, unscrupulous businessmen, rich patrons and anything else. There is no accurate census numbers. World map showing location of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... World map showing location of North America A satellite composite image of North America North America is a continent in the northern hemisphere, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean, on the east by the North Atlantic Ocean, on the south by the Caribbean Sea, and on the west... World map showing location of Asia Asia is the central and eastern part of the continent of Eurasia, defined by subtracting the European peninsula from Eurasia. ... Africa is the worlds second-largest continent and 3rd most populous. ...

Al Amarjans – also known as ‘Martians – are rough people. Self-expression is common to the point of self-indulgence. Instead of neckties, they may carry a noose around their neck. Knives and steel-reinforced boots are universal accessory. Street and bar brawls are common entertainment. Because of the common mutual hostility and suspicion, it is a custom to serve beverages and snacks in their original containers.

Al Amarjans practice just about any religion from Christian Science to human sacrifice. They include Satanists and Sommerites, religiously oriented fans of rock star Karla Sommers. There is only one official but multireligious temple in Al Amarja. The Church of Christ, Scientist, often known as The Christian Science Church, is a nontrinitarian Protestant Christian denomination, founded by Mary Baker Eddy in 1879. ... Human sacrifice was practiced in many ancient cultures. ... Satanism is a religious, semi-religious and/or philosophical movement whose adherents recognize Satan, either as an archetype, literal being, pre-cosmic force, or anything in between. ...