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== New Canaan ==
Dominated by fundamentalist religious nuts of US origin, and theoretically an extra planetary territory of the US. Govt Type 13, Law level 8, except for guns, TL 8, but with plenty of higher tech imports. Everyone is required to be armed and all males required to put time into the national guard. Plenty of small farming communities defecting to the Neulanders as they like the libertarianism and lack of interference. Government heavily influenced by the corporation running the only viable industry, dredging biological gunge off the sea floor and turning it into oil. Exports are petrochemicals, a little bit of farm produce and missionaries. Claims to be a representative democracy, but since only accredited pastors of the First Church of Jesus Christ, Astronaut, may stand for office and only church members may vote they are fooling no one, especially not the Federal government back on Earth who are refusing them any hint at statehood until they sort themselves out a more reasonable constitution.

The citizens are mostly upright, sober, hard working, judgemental and mind bogglingly hidebound and dull. They have a small domed town, New Canaan itself, surrounded by small domed suburbs and a large hinterland of small villages where the colonists attempt to farm. There is also a larger, more bustling town called Reagansburg, run by the Epsilon Oil Company.

The citizens of the town of New Canaan are the dullest nosebleeds possible, weighed down with innumerable rules and ordinances inspired by their fundamentalist pastors. They are regularly rocked by scandal when it is revealed that a leading citizen ignores the rules in private and they loudly proclaim themselves 'individualists'. Reagansburg is a bit more liberal. New Canaanites are theoretically banned from visiting Neuland, the kind of freethinking, free loving, druggy, commie paradise their pastors regard as a fair simulation of Hell, but Reagansburgers, including the small detachment of US Colonial Marines based there, frequently take a little trip down the coast to let loose after months afloat digging gunge off the sea floor.

The farmers are a stroppy lot, frequently at odds with the townies over taxes and the like, and are often attracted to joining the Neulanders, admiring their libertarianism, if not their liberalism. New Canaanite officials have been shot at, and settlements have switched allegiance frequently.

The outlands are also dotted with Neulander squats, in fact as far as New Canaan is concerned most of Neuland is one big squat. They claimed the whole unfrozen territory on the northern continent not actually built on by the Neulanders when they arrived, an ordinance they had no way of enforcing and which the Neulanders regarded as so much bullshit anyway. A whole bunch set up a fort-cum-mining camp a hundred kilometers from New Canaan's dome just to prove the point, though the ore veins were poor and they moved out again a few years later. The site is now the grandly named Fort Genesis, the base of the New Canaan National Guard and bible school, and the Neulanders have, for a laugh, tried to use US law to have the lot evicted as squatters themselves.

The New Canaanites have also tried to impose a protestant whites only immigration law, also with no great success. Shiploads of American Poles and Hispanics keep turning up anyway, discover they aren't welcome, declare themselves Neuland citizens and set up settlements illegally. Gangs of radical New Canaanites regularly try and evict them, resulting in some nasty firefights. The Espilonian Situationist and Solidarity Association, a gang of hackers from Neuland, regularly run the militia ragged by hacking into their geosat system and feeding false data and fake communications, kidnap them and leave them roaming the wastes out of their minds on synthetic peyote wearing pope outfits.

New Canaan's basic TL is 8, though weaponry is often of a TL 10 standard, ironically often bought from suppliers in Neuland. They stay clear of the computer enhanced stuff, Neuland hackers build backdoors into the software and the bloody things go off randomly or just plain pack up whenever they are facing Neuland bandits or their friends in a firefight. Law level is 7, 9 within New Canaan itself, though the only restrictions on personal firearms is that you MUST have one and alcohol, tea, coffee and anything else that might lighten the Bible-black mood are banned.

=== Characters ===
New Canaan citizens have -1 Education and +1 Endurance, and all get Gun Combat 0 as part of their basic education. Their second skill is Survival 0 or Trade (Farmer) 0, and Social Science (Theology) 0 is a further option. New Canaanites get +1 Social Standing per level of Theology known, though this is really only applicable on their own territory. They cannot join the Navy and the only kind of Scholar they have is Physician.

They start with a light autopistol or shotgun, a copy of the Bible and  a filter/oxygen mask good for four hours outdoor use on Epsilon.