Supplicium Island
Supplicium Island is the southernmost and most remote land mass associated with Illuminatia. The small remote island is located in the Periterranean Sea some distance from Illuminatia's southwestern coast. It's remarkable this place was ever discovered. It remains Illuminatia's best kept secret.
Supplicium Island is home to Illuminatia's only penal colony. The entire island is under control of the Bureau of Punishment and Castigation for the purpose of housing persons who have been assessed the punishments of permanent seizure of the person or corporal destruction—which, for practical purposes, both essentially involve the same ultimate outcome for the person in question.
The island is populated exclusively by subjects of the BPC. No conventional Illuminatian citizens live on Supplicium Island. Nobody in Illuminatia, aside from those who live on the island and specific people involved in the operation of the BPC, is aware of the existence of the island.
Supplicium Island remained unpopulated for much of early Illuminatian history. The island avoided becoming home to Lucidus survivor landings or subsequent settlement by Illuminatian expedition forces. As a result, Supplicium Island was the absolute last land mass discovered in Illuminatia. The island's existence remained unknown to Illuminatian settlers for tens of AU after humans first populated Illuminatia.
After the island was discovered, it was established that the island's hopelessly remote location and warm climate would make it the perfect place for the BPC to cast away those persons judged to be worthy of the government's most acute punishments in retaliation for the most severe illicit, illegal, or otherwise criminal activities.
How to earn residence at Supplicium Island
Persons to whom the Bureau of Punishment and Castigation assesses the permanent seizure of the person are transported to Supplicium Island, where they are allowed to live out the rest of their natural lives with freedom of movement and action so long as they remain on the island and do not communicate with the outside world. Persons gaining residence on Supplicium Island in this way are kept from acquiring information relating to the location of the island.
Those who the BPC condemn to the government's most severe sentence—corporal destruction—first endure a public corporal destruction ceremony, during which the public observes the destruction of the condemned person. The ceremony is usually carried out by administering a drug of a variety that renders the subject unconscious. All parties involved—including the condemned, the observers, and the administrators of the punishment—understand the drug will result in the condemned person ceasing to exist in the Illuminatian realm.
After losing consciousness, the subject condemned to the corporal destruction ceremony is secretly transported to Supplicium Island, where they awake after several circadian units of deep sleep. The punished subject receives no briefing or information regarding their location and is not informed of the true nature of the punishment that was carried out upon them. The person does, however, receive support that allows them to establish a sustainable existence on the island. Generally, residents who arrive on the island in this way acquire a new identity, although the establishment of an identity on the island is purely the choice of the condemned person.
Persons assessed the punishment of corporal destruction are also allowed to live out the remainder of their natural lives with freedom of movement and action so long as they do not attempt to leave the island or communicate with the outside world.
All residents of Supplicium Island are permanent residents. Residents are not allowed to interact with or communicate with the outside world in any way and are never provided with means for doing so. Personal and direct communications from outside the island are also not allowed, however residents are allowed means to receive mass communication from the mainland, such as wireless sets for receipt of broadcasts that originate locally on the island but relay network programming from the continent, and newspaper subscriptions for publications with national reach, such as the Adamopolis Times. No items may be transported to the island for residents' personal use or consumption and no items leave the island. A pseudo economy exists on the island for residents to barter and trade the value of their labor and possessions amongst each other.