Created for Carolyn Li-Madeo, and her husband Brian Martin on the Occasion of their Union.
by J. T. Minor
v.0.1
© 2018
The city of Illa~Lali~Barios is a metropolis of roughly 5 million people, and serves as an economic and cultural, but not political, capital for its region of the world. History in this world goes back about 4000 years, with cultural memory and physical presence stretching almost 10,000 years before the current era. Relatively ethnically and culturally homogenous, the region has a climate somewhat similar to Central America. The contemporary state of technical development is similar to 1960s United Sates. A second wave of industrialization is in full swing, and most of the culture is in a "high modernist" period, including new abstractions in art and literature partly driven by techinal innovation. Automobiles have been around for about 50 years, and roads and highways have fully replaced clay brick and dirt paths.
However, there are no personal computers, and a form of scroll-based typewriters and linotype like presses are the current mode of written word production. These print technologies are also relatively new, and most information is still in older, block printing and manuscript forms. There is relatively little mass media outside radio, which has in the last decades come to dominate the mass culture and political discourse. The current political and economic situation is stable, and has been so for several generations. The city's position at the mouth of the river GEORTJVEROTNVBEPWOVN on Lake Denwar has long made it an important trading point and crossroads. Its role as a central gathering point for several nearby regions, with varying subcutlures and geographies, have long made the city an important hub for information and cultural transmission. As the modern era accellerates the city's role as a repostity of knowledge and its unique network of Scroll Banks have made it even more wealthy and powerful, attracting new people and further accelerating its transiton into a multi-cultural metropolis at the lead of the world's knowledge economy.
Calendar keeping
More calendar keeping, gynecology, night plants/animals
Astronomy, astrology, some mythology and history
History, encyclopedias
Local history, local zoology and ecology, medicine, local religion
Agriculture and planting tables, records of a fraternal order of land owners
Almanacs (public as apposed to the brotherhood which was members only)
clothes patterns, state religion (especially female stuff)
other fabric arts (tapestry, needlepoint, knit, etc), dyes, social history
seeds and geologic samples
Local records
Practical arts, fine arts and art history, mining and mineralogy
medicine, shamanism, psychology, philosophy, politics
poetry and epics
mom stuff, baby stuff
engineering, transit, civic planning
atlases, sailing, naval charts, meteorology, hydrology
national history, military technology, military history and strategy
flute music
other music
math, science, engineering, architecture, manufacturing
Some stuff about scroll format, standardization, developtment and materials
Scroll banks history/anthropology (basically they are library+museum+social club+temple+university+bank)