# Life in the Remnants: A Field Survey of Post-Corponation Communities *Dr. Fatima Osei-Mensah, Vellichor Institute Depar…

# Oral History Collection: Voices from the Remnants — Arrivals in the GLMZ *The following testimonies were collected between 2218 and 2221 by the Vell…

…ble than the risks of the unknown. These people became the Remnants — or rather, they remained in places that, as the corponation era progressed and claimed the econom…

# The Remnants: Corponation Sovereignty and the World Outside the Network ## The Vocabulary The world outside th…

Denver, Colorado — a fortified mountain city that leveraged its altitude and water access to survive the collapse as a major trade hub.

The Free Peoples Republic, a breakaway territory spanning the former states of Idaho and Montana, governed by a loose confederation of survivalist communities.

The Huntsville area of former Alabama, now at the edge of the Biomass zone where engineered vegetation has consumed most human infrastructure.

The Indiana Dead Zone, a vast depopulated region between the Great Lakes city-states and the southern territories, rendered uninhabitable by industrial conta…

The region formerly known as Kentucky, a buffer zone between the Biomass frontier and the Ohio Corridor.

Nevada, a largely depopulated wasteland with a few fortified settlements clustered around remaining water sources.

New Mexico, a sparsely populated desert territory with scattered research installations and abandoned military infrastructure.

New Orleans, a partially submerged city that refused to die, now operating as a major port and cultural center despite perpetual flooding.

…necting the Great Lakes city-states to the eastern seaboard remnants.

Ridgepost, a settlement consumed by the Biomass advance, now referenced only in historical records and cautionary tales about the vegetation front's relentle…

The Biomass, a massive zone of engineered vegetation that has consumed most of the former southeastern United States, advancing northward and consuming human…

The Missouri Wetlands — what remains of the state of Missouri after ecological collapse transformed its river basins into permanent marshland.

Thunder Bay, a remote northern settlement on Lake Superior's western shore, known for its isolation and the independent character of its inhabitants.

Underground Phoenix — the subterranean city built beneath the ruins of Phoenix, Arizona, after surface temperatures made above-ground habitation lethal.

Utah, a theocratic enclave that maintained unusual social cohesion through the collapse, now one of the more stable outside territories.