Regional Divides

Moravska is one state and three societies. The coast, the interior, and the Marches share a flag and little else.

The three societies [edit]

The last row is the state's own number. It is the only number that shows a difference.

What each side says [edit]

The two sayings are old and both are unfair. Both are used in 1976.

The coast view [edit]

A coast person holds 4 ideas about the interior.

1. The interior is slow, because the land is slow.
2. The interior is rich in food and poor in cash.
3. The interior sends its young and keeps its old.
4. The interior does not understand the sea and therefore does not understand the state.

The coast is wrong on the third point. The interior sends its young and the young do not return.

The interior view [edit]

An interior person holds 4 ideas about the coast.

1. The coast is loud and rootless.
2. The coast has money because the state puts the plant there.
3. The coast marries badly and lets a man live in the woman's house.
4. The coast forgets the village in one generation.

The interior is right on the second point. The state built the plants on the coast.

The plan bias [edit]

The plan favours the coast for a simple reason. A port is cheaper than a road.

A farm gets 8 percent of the investment and holds 43 percent of the people. The gap is the main political fact of the interior.

The Marches [edit]

The Marches have 3 problems at once.

1. The border. The line cuts farms, wells, and families. See The Kray.
2. The language. A Turkish-speaking child learns Moravskan at school and loses the first year.
3. The work. Sheep and tobacco pay less than copper and cable.

The state calls the Marches "a region of special care". The state builds one road in 10 years.

Movement of people [edit]

About 9,000 people move from the interior to the coast each year. About 1,200 return.

The movement has 3 results.

1. A coast block fills with village families.
2. A village loses its young and keeps its school with 11 pupils.
3. A coast worker hears a village accent in the stairwell and calls it "the new sound".

The canal town [edit]

Tri Limana is the sharpest case. The state built a chemical plant in 1962 and a town around it.

The plant pays well. The lagoon is dead. A fisherman became a plant worker in one generation and lost the sea.

The town has the highest wage in the interior and the worst air. See Natural Resources.

Where the divide is soft [edit]

Three things cross the divide without trouble.

• The army. A conscript from the Marches and a conscript from Zaligrad share a tent.
• The football team. A plant team takes a good player from any region.
• The funeral. A death brings the whole line to one table.

The party use the divide [edit]

The party uses the divide in 2 ways.

1. It puts a coast man in a ministry and an interior man in the farm office.
2. It blames a shortage on "the old habits of the village".

The party does not solve the divide. The party needs both sides.

Other notes [edit]

• Geography
• Generational Tension
• Political System