Cape Verde
Cape Verde is a town on the Terra Aurora map, located on the archipelago and island country of the same name in the real world. It is run by veteran player GymSock17. Its location far off the African coast leaves the town fairly isolated, but it a popular stop amongst travelers who are crossing the Atlantic in the area as the town's borders can provide protection in an otherwise largely unclaimed area.
Origins
Looking for somewhere to found a town, GymSock17 purchased Premium and joined the Terra Aurora map opening day on the 1st of May 2022. After waiting for hours and repeated map crashes, Gym was able to get on and walked through Mongolia and into the Gobi Desert, when he received an invite to Germany by his long-time friend from the real world, YellowVictini. Yellow wanted Gym to stay in Germany with him and start a town together in East Prussia, but Gym was tired of the peasants and detritus that infected Europe on Terra Nova and expected it wouldn't take long for the same thing to happen again on the new map, so he sailed out from the Baltic Sea, through the Straits of Denmark, North Sea, and the English Channel into the Pacific. From there, he sailed to the Canary Islands, intending to start a town on Grand Canary. However, it was getting late, and Gym had to log off for the day to go to work. When he came back the next day, some fool had already placed a claim on the island (this fool would later lose it for not logging back in on time like an idiot). Gym decided that even the Canary Islands were too big of a target and too massive to claim for his own, and decided to sail south, to the southernmost archipelago of Macronesia, the Cape Verde Islands.
After arriving and setting up a hidden base camp, Gym got off once again for the day. The next morning, Gym got on and finally scrapped together enough gold and founded his town, which he named simply Cape Verde. Immediately, Gym got to work on building infrastructure and expanding the town's claims to the rest of the island of Santiago, the largest island in the archipelago.
Economy
The primary economic activity on Cape Verde is farming, fishing and tourism.
Farming
Fishing
Being surrounded by ocean, fishing naturally became a cornerstone of the Cape Verdian economy.