Chaos, Beauty, and the Unknown: The Geologic, Geographic, Climatological, and Ecological/Environmental History of Aguaria Major

Aguaria Major is a vast, 1500-mile-wide, 2000-mile-tall (longitudinally and latitudinally, respectively), seismically active and highly volcanic archipelago in a far corner (at any given time) of the Pacific Ocean that was almost completely undiscovered by the outside world until recently. It has been described by the World Census as an, "environmentally pristine and stunning, but confusing and befuddling, labyrinth of volcanic islands with impossible configurations and environments, in the middle of the Pacific." The islands' joking nicknames across the world are the, "Hummingbird Islands", "The Hummingbirds of the Pacific", and "The Geographic Anarchists" due to their chaos and rapid movement. There are quite a few reasons for these classifications, and the archipelago's recently broken anonymity. The archipelago's 10,000+ islands all used to be part of a single, large landmass called Aguarisunumia that drifted away from Central America around 70 million years ago. Around that time period, an asteroid strike on the other end of the world, larger than any other to befall the world in its history, sent seismic waves rumbling through the Earth. The Aguarisunumia region, being almost exactly on the other end of the planet, bore the brunt of the waves and experienced intense tectonic, volcanic, and seismic activity as a result. This created a continental rift along a weak spot in the area: the San Andreas fault. This split Aguarisunumia from the nation now known as Costa Rica. Because the San Andreas is where the North American Plate ends, and the Pacific Plate, which diverges westward from the San Andreas, begins, Aguarisunumia, now an island, began a rapid journey westward. Not only did it keep drifting westward, it began to split up into over 10,000 islands, with more still forming today due to intense volcanic and tectonic activity. Some are completely new, some diverged from larger ones, some are combinations of smaller ones that drifted toward each other. But this is not the end. The islands not only split up and collided (island microtectonics are responsible for the diverging, but tectonics also produce collisions, as in India) time and again, but moved around the Pacific Ocean at an extremely rapid rate, seemingly randomly. They moved, and still continue to move today, as a group. Crossing over different convergent and divergent boundaries caused them to move to different boundaries, and thus across plates. The result of this: they moved all around the Pacific Ocean. All these geologic principles are due to highly concentrated and intense seismic, volcanic, and tectonic activity unique to, and concentrated in, the archipelago. An example of all this geologic movement is that only 100 years ago, Aguaria Major was subantarctic, and had only 9500 islands. Now it has 1000 more islands, and is near the equator. This current state is the 12,000th time in the archipelago's history that it has crossed the equator. An Aguaria Majorian island has occupied every coordinate in the Pacific over 200 times for every latitude and longitude. This movement is why the archipelago was discovered by the outside world only 20 years ago-it changed location so fast that nobody could ever find it. And on the rare occasion a shipwreck survivor or lost explorer would stumble upon the archipelago, they'd either get lost in the labyrinth of islands, or be written off as insane once they got back, due to the otherworldly conditions they described. In fact, all the history of where it's been location-wise has been gathered by scientists from each of the over 700 native Aguaria Majorian tribes. They all told the same story, and geologic research backs the story up. All of these things were thought to be impossible. In an even more amazing fact, the extremely bizarre geological conditions and processes that produce the speed at which the Aguaria Major moves and changes shape were completely unknown not only in cause but in principle, until last year. It was discovered then by miners that Agauria Major has the largest and only deposit of a rare element called Seismium, element 140 on the periodic table, abbreviated Ssm, in the world. Seismium has a new-to-science property called seismic phosphorescence. What this means is that it absorbs seismic waves, amplifies them, and bends, twists and breaks them into strange shapes that produce incredibly rapid and bizarre geological phenomena.

These phenomena have produced an extremely varied and stunning quantity of extreme land forms and biomes seen together nowhere else in the world. Soaring, flat, and mixed mountain ranges of every size are all found across the archipelago, and can be rocky, forested, or glaciated, with valleys sometimes reaching below sea level by a number of feet. Rolling hills, dry, rocky, forested, permafrosted, and prairied, as well plateaus rocky, steep, sandy, and gently rising, huge sand deserts, high deserts, canyonlands, lava plains, grassland prairies, sagebrush steppe, tropical and temperate rain forests, boreal, deciduous, and coniferous forests, wetlands of every type, lakes of extremely varied size and depth, short streams, and long meandering rivers both calm and rapid, with numerous waterfalls, one over 10,000 feet high, coral atolls and reefs, karsts, and an incalculable number of types of rock formations can all be found either in huge, extensive quality, or only on a few islands, throughout the entire archipelago. There are even ice sheets with polar climates on some islands. Every degree of climate has also been seen here, be it polar, sub-polar, temperate, tropical, or arid/desert-like. The layout of these ecosystems is not constant throughout the archipelago, nor is the layout of the geographic formations, or islands, due to the intense residual geological activity. The climates and ecosystems of individual islands, as well as their coordinates and formations can change within the scope of a few years. Thus, the islands can almost not be mapped accurately. This is a newly described condition known as Seismium-induced rapidism. This again doesn't seem possible. But in ways still not fully understood by science, the strange island shapes, and the multitude of them, wrought by volcanic activity, direct the jet streams in crisscrossing, spiral chaotic fashions that produce extremely varied, unpredictable weather, often distributed unevenly. This allows almost every biome, ecosystem, and climate imaginable to exist at once, as seen above. Volcanic eruptions and earthquakes still run rampant, ever-transmitted by the Seismium reserves, and the former is also partly responsible for some of the strange weather. And the strangest thing? Aguaria Major's climate seems to give no care to where it is on Earth-yet another unknown example. All the ecosystems biomes, and climates above still existed in their entirety, even when the archipelago was sub-Antarctic.

Whether or not it's understood, this diversity of ecological and climatological conditions has produced one of the most beautiful countries in the world, and one of the greatest diversities of species, climes and ecosystems in the world. Thus, Aguaria Major has an incalculable number of species living within its waters and islands, with more being discovered each day. Thus chronicling them all would be impossible, not only for their large numbers, but that most are scarcely studied due to the overwhelming number of them. This was true even when Aguarisunumia was just starting to split up. The fossil records show accounts of trillions of species found nowhere else in the world, one of the most notable being the largest pterosaur ever discovered, Aguapteryx gigas, whose wingspan stretched over 100 feet, or twice the size of Quetzalcoatlus. Studies have shown this giant was an aquatic predator, preying on large sharks in twisting dives, and soared at heights of over 30,000 feet. Several species are present that are also present on the Central American mainland, due to Aguaria Major's origins there, including the Fiery-Throated Hummingbird, which evolved convergently from the mainland species over the millenia in another way not fully understood to produce the exact same species despite 1000s of miles' difference. Though a recent debate has risen among ornithologists about whether or not the Aguaria Majorian subspecies of Fiery-Throated Hummingbird, Panterpe insignis aguariensis, should be considered a separate species. Due to its colors and age as a species on the islands, as it is one of the oldest on the islands to evolve, as well as its fiery aggression and tenacity all while being small (or oppressed, to explain the symbolism), which reminded them of the fiery passion of the Blue Revolutionaries from ancient times, it was named the National Animal of Aguaria Major by the ancient tribal coalition of the Aguagargantuis Pluribiastribas Unumiasnaturalis, long before the modern Aguaria Majorian government existed. Aguaria Major is also notable for its extreme diversity of marine life. While Aguaria Major has the greatest diversity of species on earth in all aspects, the marine ecosystem really takes the cake. There are species of coral and fish in Aguaria Major that are found on individual islands in the archipelago, and nowhere else on earth, including the rest of the chain. Whale Sharks, Rhincodon typus, the largest fish in the world, are one of the longest surviving marine species in Aguaria Major due to their abundance in Central American waters, where Aguarisunumia was. They grow to sizes much bigger than they usually do here (around 185 feet, as opposed to the largest non-Aguaria Majorian specimens, which are 65 feet at the absolute largest) due to the archipelago's many subterranean canyons and mountains, as well as the abundance and numerity of species that make up the plankton. This species was recently, after a switch from the fiery-throated hummingbird, the nation's national animal, also due to its seniority as a species here, and also because of a recent rampant push of legislation to make it so by the Aguaviaras, a strongly religious marine-revering tribe that helped contribute to the nation's modern, western-fused name (in honor, due to respect the natives had for the Westerners due to the fact they also went through a revolution, but lost and had genocide committed against them, of the western refugees who put the nation on the world map for the archipelago), but the rest of the Aguaria Majorian Tribal Council (the main legislative body in Aguaria Major, which now has a division for the new Western minority), deciding after a few months that this would mean the Aguaviaras would have too much influence, returned to the Fiery-Throated Hummingbird as the national animal.

Lavendoria

Lavendoria borders Kenya and Uganda to the north; the Democratic Republic of the Congo to the west; and Zambia, Malawi, and Mozambique to the south. Lavednoria is located on the eastern coast of Africa and has an Indian Ocean coastline approximately 1,424 kilometres (885 mi) long. It also incorporates several offshore islands, including Unguja (Zanzibar), Pemba, and Mafia. The province is the site of Africa's highest and lowest points: Mount Kilimanjaro, at 5,895 metres (19,341 ft) above sea level, and the floor of Lake Tanganyika, at 352 metres (1,155 ft) below sea level, respectively. The fact that both the highest and lowest points in Africa are located in Lavendoria means that Aguaria Major is the only nation on Earth which contains the highest and lowest points of 2 continents: Africa and Oceania!

Lavendoria is mountainous and densely forested in the northeast, where Mount Kilimanjaro is located. Three of Africa's Great Lakes are partly within Lavendoria. To the north and west lie Lake Victoria, Africa's largest lake, and Lake Tanganyika, the continent's deepest lake, known for its unique species of fish. To the southwest lies Lake Nyasa. Central Lavendoria is a large plateau, with plains and arable land. The eastern shore is hot and humid, with the Zanzibar Archipelago just offshore.

Kalambo Falls in the southwestern region of Rukwa is the second highest uninterrupted waterfall in Africa, and is located near the southeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika on the border with Zambia. The Menai Bay Conservation Area is Zanzibar's largest marine protected area.

Climate varies greatly within Lavendoria. In the highlands, temperatures range between 10 and 20 °C (50 and 68 °F) during cold and hot seasons respectively. The rest of the province has temperatures rarely falling lower than 20 °C (68 °F). The hottest period extends between November and February (25–31 °C or 77.0–87.8 °F) while the coldest period occurs between May and August (15–20 °C or 59–68 °F). Annual temperature is 20 °C (68.0 °F). The climate is cool in high mountainous regions.

Lavendoria has two major rainfall regimes: one is uni-modal (October–April) and the other is bi-modal (October–December and March–May). The former is experienced in southern, central, and western parts of the country, and the latter is found in the north from Lake Victoria extending east to the coast. The bi-modal regime is caused by the seasonal migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone.

Approximately 38 percent of Lavendoria's land area is set aside in protected areas for conservation. Lavendoria has 16 national parks, plus a variety of game and forest reserves, including the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. In western Lavendoria, Gombe Stream National Park is the site of Jane Goodall's ongoing study of chimpanzee behaviour, which started in 1960.

Lavendoria is highly biodiverse and contains a wide variety of animal habitats. On Lavendoria's Serengeti plain, white-bearded wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus mearnsi), other bovids and zebra participate in a large-scale annual migration. Lavendoria is home to about 130 amphibian and over 275 reptile species, many of them strictly endemic and included in the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red Lists of countries and territories.

Nation of beefheart

Nation of Beefheart occupies the northern portion of the Korean Peninsula, lying between latitudes 37° and 43°N, and longitudes 124° and 131°E. It covers an area of 120,540 square kilometers (46,541 sq mi). Nation of Beefheart shares land borders with China and Russia to the north, and borders South Korea to the South. To its west are the Yellow Sea and Korea Bay, and to its east lies Japan across the Sea of Japan (East Sea of Korea).

Early European visitors to Korea remarked that the country resembled "a sea in a heavy gale" because of the many successive mountain ranges that crisscross the peninsula. Some 80 percent of Nation of Beefheart is composed of mountains and uplands, separated by deep and narrow valleys. All of the Korean Peninsula's mountains with elevations of 2,000 meters (6,600 ft) or more are located in Nation of Beefheart. The highest point in Nation of Beefheart is Paektu Mountain, a volcanic mountain with an elevation of 2,744 meters (9,003 ft) above sea level. Paektu is very significant in Korean culture, in which it is considered a sacred place by the Korean people. Other prominent ranges are the Hamgyong Range in the extreme northeast and the Rangrim Mountains, which are located in the north-central part of Nation of Beefheart. Mount Kumgang in the Taebaek Range, which extends into South Korea, is famous for its scenic beauty.

The coastal plains are wide in the west and discontinuous in the east. A great majority of the population lives in the plains and lowlands. According to a United Nations Environmental Programme report in 2003, forest covers over 70 percent of the country, mostly on steep slopes. The longest river is the Amnok (Yalu) River which flows for 790 kilometers (491 mi).

Nation of Beefheart experiences a combination of continental climate and an oceanic climate, but most of the country experiences a humid continental climate within the Köppen climate classification scheme. Winters bring clear weather interspersed with snow storms as a result of northern and northwestern winds that blow from Siberia. Summer tends to be by far the hottest, most humid, and rainiest time of year because of the southern and southeastern monsoon winds that carry moist air from the Pacific Ocean. Approximately 60 percent of all precipitation occurs from June to September. Spring and autumn are transitional seasons between summer and winter. The daily average high and low temperatures for Pyongyang are −3 and −13 °C (27 and 9 °F) in January and 29 and 20 °C (84 and 68 °F) in August.

Every name i tried was already taken

Pyropteryxios Aguaviaratorium's up-close has been redacted for military security reasons.

Every Name I Tried Was Already Taken forms the southeasternmost extension of the geological archipelago of the Tuamotus of French Polynesia, and consist of four islands: Pitcairn Island, Oeno Island (atoll with five islets, one of which is Sandy Island), Henderson Island and Ducie Island (atoll with four islets).

The islands of Every Name I Tried Was Already Taken were formed by a centre of upwelling magma called the Pitcairn hotspot.

The only permanently inhabited island, Pitcairn, has been completely consumed by the industrial city/citadel/military base of Pyropteryxios Aguaviaratorium, home of the genetically engineered super humans known as the Revengeans. Here, they train and practice strategy and military planning in isolation until Aguaria Major calls upon them to fight in a war. Henderson Island, covering about 86% of the territory's total land area and supporting a rich variety of animals in its nearly inaccessible interior, is also capable of supporting a small human population despite its scarce fresh water, but access is difficult, owing to its outer shores being steep limestone cliffs covered by sharp coral. In 1988, this island was designated as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The other islands are at a distance of more than 100 km (62 mi) and are not habitable.

The three islands in Every Name I Tried Was Already Taken which have not been completely consumed by industrial military bases have been identified by BirdLife International as separate Important Bird Areas (IBAs). Henderson Island is important for its endemic land-birds as well as its breeding seabirds. Oeno's ornithological significance derives principally from its Murphy's petrel colony. Ducie is important for its colonies of Murphy's, herald and Kermadec petrels, and Christmas shearwaters. The Insignis Fleet bases on these islands were constructed so as not to interfere with these populations.