Atlantika

Atlantika was the eastern subcontinent of Maruka. It was located between the Mississippi Sea and the Great Eastern Sea which bordered it on the West and East. To the north of the subcontinent was Canuda, and to the west across the Chikago Straits was Pacifika. Atlantika was the smallest subcontinent of the fractured Marukan landmass.

Geography
Atlantika was the most temperate of the subcontinents of Maruka, and was covered in large deciduous forests. Its western coast was largely indented and fractured, with its many islands forming the tops of now submerged hills. Its Eastern coast was much straighter, but still indented by occasional cliffs and rocky shores.

The central region of the landmass was dominated by the high hills of the Apalachian mountains, which were sparely populated and very rugged. The hilly coastlands of the Mississippi sea were very rocky and were the site of many hundreds of small islands and islets. The East consisted of a very narrow coastal plain, which overlooked the flooded ancient cities which were once the core of the long gone United States. The central western protion of the subcontinent was known as the lower Midlands, and were the flattest and most fertile areas of the landmass, home to the Chikago Empires heartlands. The northeastern portion of the Subcontinent was made up of the large islands of Catskill and N'Angland, which were rugged rainy lands that formed the northeastern extremity of the Chikago Empire.

Culture
Atlantika was home to a wide range of different cultures and peoples. The most prominent groups are the Yankee people of the north, the Dixie people of the south, and the Cajun people living along the islands and harbors of the landmasses western coast.

For much of its history Atlantika was a mostly uncivilized land, populated by the Dixie and Yankee tribes, whom the peoples such as the Chikagoans and Texans viewed as uncivilized. However some of the Penzlivannian Yankees and Lowland Dixie peoples developed organized chiefdoms based around large hillforts. The Cajun people were a sophisticated culture living on the western fringes of the subcontinent, where they built many of their famous stilt cities.

Later on, Atlantika was entirely conquered and incorporated into the Chikagoan Empire, which established many colonies of Midlanders in the region. Eventually the Dixie and Yankee tribes adopted the civilized ways which were forced upon them by their Chikagoan conquerors, and formed unique Chi-Dixie and Chi-Yankee cultures under imperial rule.