Monkaushka Research Paper

This new American State will be called Monkaushka derived from the Native American term: trembling earth or earthquake. The people that live in this state are incredibly friendly people who have a tendency to be outspoken with their beliefs and warm in their hearts. They are homely folk who tend not to leave their close knit areas for too long. There is an folk tale that crawls around the towns that no one has ever left this state; only those who weren’t born here can come and go. You would think that is ridiculous, but the landscape that this state resides on is unlike any other state and can verify the legend for many people. It has many mountains with steep slopes and snow covered tops. They obstruct most of the rising sun and setting sun

If there are any relatively flat areas of land they would be used for herding animals or for very small settlements. There aren’t any roads because there are too many hazards of landslides and the ground is too jagged and bumpy to smooth out it numerous places. It has constant plate movement as it is on a plate boundary of so the mountains and hills are constantly changing and experiencing landslides, making life for those who live there extremely difficult. Travel is almost impossible for long distances because there aren’t any roads so horse carriages and horseback riding are popular ways to travel to nearby towns, although it takes many days to reach these settlements and towns as they are very far and few between. Since it is a very mountainous terrain and filled with hard rock and steep slopes it is the perfect place for mining coal. Mining is Monkaushka’s biggest form of income as it creates such a great natural resource. They also mine diamonds, but these minerals are rare and those who find them are required to transport them straight to the capitol building. Although

The mountain they chose to put the capitol in is one of the most stable slopes they have in their midst, even though it still moves and causes small amounts of damage here and there. They chose to put it here because they wished to preserve their state capitol building for as long as possible. The building has a very small town that is lower down the slope from where it is placed. This town in called Moise, from the Native American word for crawling mountain. The town houses the officials that work within the building and those who wish to live in a more stable environment. It is closer to the edge of the territory so state officials can leave fairly easily through a narrow passageway or those officials who wish to take the journey into the terrain could easily visit the capitol. When you look at the building it is hard to differentiate from the mountain side from building, but if you look hard enough, you can see enormous diamond doors sparkling from the reflection of the sunlight on the snow covered mountain tops. When you enter that door there isn’t much to see, and the rooms that are carved into the mountain side, which appear very plain, are not decorated with anything but the preexisting jaggedness of the rocks. There are four rooms in the building; the Governor’s office, the unicameral