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Department of Calamity and Catastrophe

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Office of Natural Disasters

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Office of Anthropogenic Hazards

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Office of Climate Information

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Office of Disaster Tourism

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Office of Disaster Prevention

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Rhythm

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River Timothy

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Falseman Compote

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Primary settlement cities

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Tertiary settlement cities

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Secondary settlement cities

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Human migration in Illuminatia

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'''Migration''' of members of the human population in Illuminatia is a natural and feely-occurring phenomenon that is gracefully managed without active governmental, systemic, or cultural inhibitions, although [[Population regulation in Illuminatia|population management]] needs commonly benefit from the highly-effective use of fully-voluntary incentive-based public policy methods for managing and encouraging certain patterns of migration in efforts to promote the greater public interest and ensure adequate resource distribution. The practice of seasonal migration and part-time residency is enjoyed by a sizeable minority of Illuminatians and is practical for many thanks to generally supportive economic conditions.

Migration of residents to and from cities to other cities and between regions is wholly welcomed and accepted as a part of the conventional human freedom of mobility, both on the individual level as well as migration as considered through trends on the macro scale. Cultural systems in Illuminatia discourage the formation of exclusive in-groups and other social behaviors that might ostracize those who might otherwise be considered to be outsiders to a given region. [[Language in Illuminatia|Linguistic]] boundaries exist in Illuminatia due to the adoption of any one of four [[Protolucidian languages]] as a home language by a strong minority of the population, however due to the universal usage of [[Glossa Communi]] as a public language, differences in language are not a source of division or access restriction for migrants.

Migration between parts of Illuminatia is in no way limited or checked by [[Government of Illuminatia|government]] regulations or limits. There are no borders or partitioning of [[Nationalism in Illuminatia|nations]] on the [[Neonisi]] planet, and so any concerns similar to those upon which those in power fixated during Earth's [[archaeomodern historical era]] in regards to immigration across arbitrarily-drawn borders are moot in Illuminatia. While culturally-identified regions and administrative subdivisions exist in Illuminatia, these lines do not suggest or impart any semblance of a hard or soft border between parts of the continent which are otherwise all united under one civilization democratically administered at the top level by one unified government.

Despite the Illuminatian civilization's aversion to limiting freedom of movement, government agencies such as the [[Office of Demography]] (OOD) maintain an interest in documenting changes in population numbers and densities purely for descriptive and informational purposes, and offices within the [[Bureau of Reproduction and Copulation]] (BRC) as well as other departments make use of incentives to encourage and discourage migration patterns. These incentives merely provide useful information to potential migrants so that they may make decisions with fully-informed consent as they balance their concerns for societal needs with any personal motivations. This incentivization has proven successful at encouraging population patterns in-line with [[Lucidus mission guidelines for terrestrial habitation and development|guidelines]] from the [[Lucidus mission]] intended to provide for the highest probability of the success of human civilization upon the Neonisi planet. These guidelines, which remain codified into regulation, ensure the equitable distribution of economic power and other resources among a changing and rapidly growing Illuminatian population.

Migration patterns orchestrated by the government have been responsible for sustainable growth of the human population in Illuminatia. These patterns encouraged raw growth during Illuminatia's early history and transitioned to logical distribution of the population to newly-settled lands later. For instance, early in Illuminatia's [[Settlement of Illuminatia|settlement]] history, raw population growth was a necessity as a mechanism to secure the establishment of the Illuminatian branch of humanity. As [[secondary settlement cities]] were established, there arose a need to encourage populations of certain demographics of working-age individuals and their families to populate these cities and this was accomplished through incentives. Later in settlement history, the population of [[tertiary settlement cities]] was accomplished through similar methods, targeting individuals based upon vocation as well as [[Education in Illuminatia|educational]] specifications. Population migration goals have also strongly considered the familial and relational background of individuals in respect to [[Multiverse|multiversal duplication]] heritage aspects in order to maintain diversity and redundancy in the human gene pool.

While Illuminatians maintain levels of regional social identity based on city of residence, ancestral origin upon one of the three ships of the Lucidus mission, and dominant foreparental multiversal duplication origin, these factors of social cohesion in no way prevent the welcoming of migrants from other geographical regions or from other ancestral backgrounds. In fact, these identity constructs and social paradigms allow for a cultural texture that encourages a sense of place and shared humanity among newcomers and natives alike. Regional social identity has proven effective as a contextual cultural nucleus that nonetheless discourages “othering” of those who might be considered outsiders.
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Illuminatia

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First Multiversal Duplication

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Second Multiversal Duplication

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Third Multiversal Duplication

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Natural disasters in Illuminatia

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Natural disasters in Illuminatia

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'''Natural disasters''' are uncommon but possible in Illuminatian as a result of the native climatic conditions of [[Neonisi]]. Natural disaster incidents occasionally result in reparable property loss, temporary destruction of infrastructure, or momentary inconvenience and disruption to commercial and recreational activities, but very rarely result in casualties in the form of personal injury or termination of human life.

Residents of Illuminatia accept a reasonable occurrence of natural disasters, but respond to these incidents by making systemic changes to human settlement conditions and infrastructural support mechanisms as these mishaps and misfortunes risk exceeding an unacceptable thresholds for severity of impact or frequency of incidence. As a result of [[Lucidus mission guidelines for terrestrial habitation and development|guidelines]] for human habitation upon Neonisi which strongly forbade intentional development of human infrastructure and habitation in disaster-prone regions, human settlement in Illuminatia strongly avoids development in areas in which residential, commercial, or infrastructural development is subject to the effects of natural disasters, which is very much contrary to common historical urban planning development procedures on Earth which often encouraged development that was subject to unsustainable and unmanageable natural risks. As such, impacts to human-developed settlement and infrastructure by way of problematic natural occurrences in Illuminatia are exceedingly uncommon.

While the mechanisms of the [[Lucidus mission]] automatically selected the Neonisi planet for human habitation based in part on its merits of possessing a climate highly compatible with human habitation, it would have been excessively improbable for the mission to have found a planet exhibiting all desirable qualities for supporting a new human civilization separate from Earth without balancing those attributes with the always-present dynamic climatic conditions that would invariably result in some occurrence of energetic and forceful weather events within the parts of the atmosphere occupied by human life. Additionally, almost any habitable planet would be subject to tectonic forces and other dynamics of the natural environment that might result in surface conditions of a potentially changing nature, and so a certain acceptance of some level of risk was deemed acceptable and necessary.

The uncommon albeit present threat of natural disasters discovered upon settlement of Illuminatia was a primary motivation for establishing the [[Department of Calamity and Catastrophe]] (DCC) upon the original organization of the Illuminatian [[Government of Illuminatia|government]]. The [[Office of Natural Disasters]] (OND) within the DCC is the primary governmental agency responsible for planning and preparations for, predictions of, and response to and recovery from naturally-occurring destructive and misfortunate events. The OND provides resources to communities affected by destructive and disruptive acts of nature as part of the government’s general acceptance of responsibility for ensuring civilization-wide compatibility between humans and their interstellar home.

Commercially-available insurance provides very affordable coverage for acts of nature, as a result of the population’s generally low exposure to the risk. This makes mechanisms to mitigate personal risk highly accessible for residents. Additionally, the DCC guarantees recompense for those who are negatively impacted by a naturally-occurring event so long as they maintain appropriate protections against known hazards.

[[Broadcasting in Illuminatia|Broadcast]] outlets managed by the [[Office of Climate Information]] (OCI) within the [[Department of Climate and Meteorology]] (DCM) are responsible for some functions of natural disaster readiness and prevention through dissemination of warning alerts to the general public. The OCI has deployed a continent-wide network of [[Wireless broadcasting in Illuminatia|wireless]] transmitters capable of reaching nearly the entire Illuminatian population to supply forecasting and alerting. The OCI also maintains a similarly-omnipresent [[Telekinephotocasting in Illuminatia|telekinephotocast]] network capable of providing advanced visual communication for forecasting, alerting, and other weather and climate information.

Similar to Earth, Illuminatia’s coastal regions are home to a significant density of human habitation. However unlike historical Earthly civilization, Illuminatia’s coastal regions are not subject to an existential threat related to sea level change, as Neonisi is not undergoing any dramatic climate change hazard capable of causing changes to sea level. Additionally, coastal cities and settlements located along rivers and other bodies of water are intentionally built with significant infrastructure and construction at some elevation above the water level to prevent any transient water level events from impacting human habitation. Some interior regions of Illuminatia are prone to dramatic and dynamic atmospheric pressure changes, isolated and concentrated cyclonic strong winds, forceful precipitation, electrostatic storms, and other occasional violent weather conditions, however conditions leading to these types of storm events are predictable and trackable once they form and broadcast media are heavily utilized to alert the general public in these regions to take shelter an prepare protections for property and infrastructure. Some of Illuminatia’s colder regions are subject to intense frozen precipitation, however infrastructure can be constructed in such a way as to withstand potential issues that collection of frozen precipitation might cause. Seismic events have been documented and construction practice take into account the potential for sudden and dramatic movements of the planet surface.
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-The '''Illuminatia Department of Calamity and Catastrophe (DCC)''' is an agency of the [[Government of Illuminatia|Illuminatian government]] tasked with coordinating public response to major [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster disasters] and significant incidents of extensive or widespread misfortune. The DCC also manages resources developed to prevent and recover from assorted natural and man-made debacles affecting the general public.
+The '''Illuminatia Department of Calamity and Catastrophe (DCC)''' is an agency of the [[Government of Illuminatia|Illuminatian government]] tasked with coordinating public response to major [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disaster disasters] and significant incidents of extensive or widespread misfortune. The DCC also manages resources developed to prevent and recover from assorted [[Natural disasters in Illuminatia|natural]] and man-made debacles affecting the general public.
 The DCC lends funding and oversight to entities that provide communication in the event of a calamity or catastrophe, including certain wireless broadcasters. The DCC also works with the [[Department of Climate and Meteorology]] (DCM) to research naturally-generated catastrophic events and develop improved forewarning for weather-related threats to human health and civil order.

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-The '''Illuminatia Office of Natural Disasters (OND)''' is a [[Government of Illuminatia|government]] office operating within the Illuminatia [[Department of Calamity and Catastrophe]] (DCC). The OND oversees disaster management efforts related to calamities and other extensive incidents of misfortune that are generated through naturally-occurring means. This differentiates the OND from the [[Office of Anthropogenic Hazards]] (OAH), which oversees cataclysms that are human-generated.
+The '''Illuminatia Office of Natural Disasters (OND)''' is a [[Government of Illuminatia|government]] office operating within the Illuminatia [[Department of Calamity and Catastrophe]] (DCC). The OND oversees disaster management efforts related to calamities and other extensive incidents of misfortune that are generated through [[Natural disasters in Illuminatia|naturally-occurring]] means. This differentiates the OND from the [[Office of Anthropogenic Hazards]] (OAH), which oversees cataclysms that are human-generated.
 The Office of Natural Disasters is commonly involved in the administration of response to and recovery from incidents such as floods, earthquakes, landslides, sinkholes, and hazardous meteorological events such as cyclonic storms, wind storms, and tornadoes.

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 The OAH is commonly involved in the administration of response to and recovery from disasters such as fires, explosions, chemical and nuclear releases, collapses of buildings and other infrastructure, motor vehicle and train collisions, airplane and spaceship crashes, recalls of faulty consumer products, epidemics and pandemics, food poisoning outbreaks, riots, and widespread public panics.
-The OAH is complemented by the [[Office of Natural Disasters]] (OND), a companion agency that oversees response to catastrophes that are not caused by humans.
+The OAH is complemented by the [[Office of Natural Disasters]] (OND), a companion agency that oversees response to catastrophes that are [[Natural disasters in Illuminatia|not caused by humans]].
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 The OCI employs meteorologists, climatologists, and hydrologists specially trained in the arts of public communication, journalism, and visual design. The office employs all modern [[Mass media of Illuminatia|mass communication]] mediums—including [[Newspaper publishing in Illuminatia|newspaper]] articles, wireless [[Broadcasting in Illuminatia|broadcasting]], and telekinephotography—to provide convenient, accurate weather information to the people of Illuminatia.
-The Office of Climate Information is also responsible for supplying specialized climate and weather information to the various government entities and commercial interests that hold particular interest in utilizing climatic data and forecasting. OCI climate information in government, for instance, is used by the [[Department of Calamity and Catastrophe|DCC's]] [[Office of Disaster Prevention]] (ODP) so that it can help the public be better-prepared for future natural disasters and other cataclysmic incidents. Commercial interests pay a user fee to support the OCI's operations in exchange for information that might be of use to maritime and aeronautical navigation, public transit, consumer demand forecasting, and other commercially proprietary purposes.
+The Office of Climate Information is also responsible for supplying specialized climate and weather information to the various government entities and commercial interests that hold particular interest in utilizing climatic data and forecasting. OCI climate information in government, for instance, is used by the [[Department of Calamity and Catastrophe|DCC's]] [[Office of Disaster Prevention]] (ODP) so that it can help the public be better-prepared for future [[Natural disasters in Illuminatia|natural disasters]] and other cataclysmic incidents. Commercial interests pay a user fee to support the OCI's operations in exchange for information that might be of use to maritime and aeronautical navigation, public transit, consumer demand forecasting, and other commercially proprietary purposes.
 The OCI manages the Meteorological Data Distribution Service (MDDS), which is the OCI's broadcast network that broadly disseminates meteorological observation and forecasting information directly to the general public, similar to a government-run "weather channel." The OCI ambitiously intends to eventually make such a network accessible to 100% of the Illuminatian population.
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-The '''Illuminatia Office of Disaster Tourism (ODT)''' is a [[Government of Illuminatia|government]] office operating within the Illuminatia [[Department of Calamity and Catastrophe]] (DCC). The ODT manages operational, safety, and permissions aspects related to tourism, sightseeing, and exploration in the vicinity of areas experiencing or recovering from natural and human-originated disasters of various sorts.
+The '''Illuminatia Office of Disaster Tourism (ODT)''' is a [[Government of Illuminatia|government]] office operating within the Illuminatia [[Department of Calamity and Catastrophe]] (DCC). The ODT manages operational, safety, and permissions aspects related to tourism, sightseeing, and exploration in the vicinity of areas experiencing or recovering from [[Natural disasters in Illuminatia|natural]] and human-originated disasters of various sorts.
 Early in the history of the Department of Calamity and Catastrophe, government officials realized that even the best efforts to exclude the sightseeing public from disaster scenes were never entirely successful and that failing to account for the natural human impulse to encounter the danger and wonder of disastrous scenarios could become harmful to public health and safety. The DCC determined the most effective strategy to counteract the potential hazards of ad hoc disaster tourism would be to allow for it under controlled conditions. As a result, the DCC established the Office of Disaster Tourism.

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 Efforts the ODP is known to support include education relating to first aid and emergency medical response, inspection and compliance concerning construction engineering standards, enforcement of fire prevention and conflagration risk reduction regulations, development of criteria for safety and security relating to chemicals and nuclear materials, implementation of sanitation standards, assistance in vaccination and immunization efforts, operation of catastrophe and calamity simulation drills, and general instructional mass communication through various print and non-print media outlets.
-The Office of Disaster Prevention works with the DCC's [[Office of Natural Disasters]] (OND) and [[Office of Anthropogenic Hazards]] (OAH) to determine which foreseeable natural and unnatural disasters deserve the greatest preparational efforts. The ODP specifically interfaces with the [[Department of Climate and Meteorology]] (DCM) to research naturally-generated catastrophic events and develop improved forewarning for climatologically-related threats to human health and civil order.
+The Office of Disaster Prevention works with the DCC's [[Office of Natural Disasters]] (OND) and [[Office of Anthropogenic Hazards]] (OAH) to determine which foreseeable [[Natural disasters in Illuminatia|natural]] and unnatural disasters deserve the greatest preparational efforts. The ODP specifically interfaces with the [[Department of Climate and Meteorology]] (DCM) to research naturally-generated catastrophic events and develop improved forewarning for climatologically-related threats to human health and civil order.
 The ODP has been known to encourage the production and consumption of literature and various forms of theatre falling within the [[preapocalyptic fiction]] genre because of an understanding that general public discourse surrounding this genre of writing tends to augment levels of preparedness for disasters as well as encourage activities that might precipitously prevent calamities of apocalyptic proportions. Sometimes providing modest monetary contributions to encourage the preapocalyptic fiction genre of literature and theatre, the ODP seeks to improve readiness in the event of a disaster or cataclysmic event and to inspire deliberation that might prevent such events from occurring in the first place. The DCC does so with a favoritism toward preapocalyptic literature because the genre has the potential to reach these goals in the tasteful and non-alarming fashion.
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 A [[Primary settlement cities|primary settlement city]], the Rhythm metropolitan region in recent years has effectively merged into adjacent metropolitan Rhapsody, which is much larger. The two cities maintain separate trade and media markets for technical purposes, although functionally, there is plenty of overlap.
-Rhythm is the financial and information hub of Illuminatia's west coast, specializing in related industries to the extent that the city attracts a steady workforce migration from Rhapsody. The most influential banks, money management, and financial services firms of the west coast are based here, including the region's largest bank, the [[Rhythm Currencyhouse]].
+Rhythm is the financial and information hub of Illuminatia's west coast, specializing in related industries to the extent that the city attracts a steady workforce [[Human migration in Illuminatia|migration]] from Rhapsody. The most influential banks, money management, and financial services firms of the west coast are based here, including the region's largest bank, the [[Rhythm Currencyhouse]].
 Rhythm is served by one [[Non-profit newspapers|non-profit]] newspaper, the [[Rhythm Affiliated]]. The dominant institution of higher education here is the [[University of Trivial Knowledge]]. Regional linguistic policing organization [[Take For Granite, Inc]] is also based in Rhythm.

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 The '''River Timothy''' is a moderately-sized river in southwestern Illuminatia. The River Timothy flows generally southwestward, with its source in the southwestern foothills of the [[Chromatic Range]] and a terminus into the [[Periterranean Sea]] along the eastern outskirts of the greater [[Clapton]] metropolitan region.
-The shores of the River Timothy is moderately populated, with its most significant population center being the city of [[Velvet Underground]]. The river also flows past the city of Femme Fatale before reaching the eastern extremities of the Clapton metropolitan region. The River Timothy represents the most significant historical migration route in southwestern Illuminatia, serving as an artery for populations of settlers who moved from Clapton to Velvet Underground to cause the latter interior [[Secondary settlement cities|secondary settlement city]] to become a more significant population and economic center than the [[Primary settlement cities|primary settlement city]] of Clapton during an era in which populations favored the newer interior city because of its perceived ecological and climatic safety, in contrast to the coastal environs of Clapton at the inward bounds of a shallow bay.
+The shores of the River Timothy is moderately populated, with its most significant population center being the city of [[Velvet Underground]]. The river also flows past the city of Femme Fatale before reaching the eastern extremities of the Clapton metropolitan region. The River Timothy represents the most significant historical [[Human migration in Illuminatia|migration]] route in southwestern Illuminatia, serving as an artery for populations of settlers who moved from Clapton to Velvet Underground to cause the latter interior [[Secondary settlement cities|secondary settlement city]] to become a more significant population and economic center than the [[Primary settlement cities|primary settlement city]] of Clapton during an era in which populations favored the newer interior city because of its perceived ecological and climatic safety, in contrast to the coastal environs of Clapton at the inward bounds of a shallow bay.
 The River Timothy is named in honor of honor of a [[Amalgamated historical figures in Illuminatia|historical figure]] known as a lead navigator for the [[Lucidus mission]].
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 '''Falseman Compote''' is an Illuminatian author of written literature of the quasi-non-fiction genre. Compote's works have been adapted into stageplays, motion pictures, and [[Telekinephotocasting in Illuminatia|telekinephotocast]] dramas, among other mediums, making Compote among the most quoted authors in Illuminatian literature history.
-Compote was born in the western city of [[Gershwin]] but relocated to pursue the majority of their literary career on the other side of the continent in the city of [[Shostakovich]]. Compote, in a memoir, wrote that they moved from the west coast to the east coast to effect a change of scenery and culture, a type of emigration which is common among notable professionals. Compote's move from an interior city of the [[West Coast Megalopolitan Complex]] to a moderately smaller interior city that, like Gershwin, is also a [[Secondary settlement cities|secondary settlement city]], but in the [[Brookeview Ludwig Megalopolitan Complex]] parallels the type of migration that happens among geographically mobile people in Illuminatia who seek out a place to live that is similar in scale but smaller in size and slightly less developed as a way to better-establish oneself in a location in which they feel there is a greater need.
+Compote was born in the western city of [[Gershwin]] but relocated to pursue the majority of their literary career on the other side of the continent in the city of [[Shostakovich]]. Compote, in a memoir, wrote that they moved from the west coast to the east coast to effect a change of scenery and culture, a type of [[Human migration in Illuminatia|migration]] which is common among notable professionals. Compote's move from an interior city of the [[West Coast Megalopolitan Complex]] to a moderately smaller interior city that, like Gershwin, is also a [[Secondary settlement cities|secondary settlement city]], but in the [[Brookeview Ludwig Megalopolitan Complex]] parallels the type of migration that happens among geographically mobile people in Illuminatia who seek out a place to live that is similar in scale but smaller in size and slightly less developed as a way to better-establish oneself in a location in which they feel there is a greater need.
 Compote has been noted for their adeptly inaccurate accounts of real-life events. Compote exercises an ability to begin with non-fiction and bend the events and fabricate an entire scaffolding of details in a way that invents a quasi-non-fiction genre of storytelling that was, before Compote's time, not much imagined as a legitimate form of storytelling in a society that values clear lines between fact and fiction. The writing of Compote was a primary impetus for the creation of the [[Plausible Reality Rating]] (PRR). Compote literature generally scores very low on the PRR—lower than bona fide fiction—due to the easy confusion with actual facts encountered with Compote's works.

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 Primary settlement cities are almost exclusively clustered along coasts in regions where the Lucidus ships directed their [[Lucidus termination event|evacuation modules]] to land. However, a small number of original settlements survive in outlying land-locked locations where some Lucidus modules made [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parachute parachute]-assisted landings on dry land in the middle of the continent.
-By contrast, [[secondary settlement cities]] are cities that were subsequently settled by voyagers drawn from a population base originating from a primary settlement city. Secondary settlement cities tend to be located in the interior of the continent away from the coasts. And [[tertiary settlement cities]] are cities that were settled significantly later with a population that was generally born after Illuminatia's original settlement efforts and recruited largely from secondary settlement cities.
+By contrast, [[secondary settlement cities]] are cities that were subsequently settled by voyagers drawn from a population base originating from a primary settlement city. Secondary settlement cities tend to be located in the interior of the continent away from the coasts. And [[tertiary settlement cities]] are cities that were settled significantly later with a population that was generally born after Illuminatia's original settlement efforts and recruited largely from secondary settlement cities. Both secondary and tertiary settlement cities are the product of internal [[Human migration in Illuminatia|migration]] patterns.
 There are three very broadly-defined regions of primary settlement cities that ascended each from three discreet [[Multiverse|multiversal instances]] of Lucidus survivors—the [[Randall Bay]] coastal region, the southern and western region, and the eastern and northern region.
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 == Randall Bay coastal region ==
 [[File:Randall_Bay_Megalopolitan_Complex.png|225px|thumb|left|Location of the Randall Bay Megalopolitan Complex in Illuminatia]]
-The highly metropolitan Randall Bay coastal region which now forms the [[Randall Bay Megalopolitan Complex]] consists of what was by far the most compact region of Lucidus landings. This group of settlers is often referred to as the first multiversal duplication. The multiversal instance of settlers who landed here experienced [[The Anomaly|an evacuation]] from the Lucidus spacecraft that directed their modules to all land in a relatively compact area. This resulted in landings nearby to other landings, facilitating an easier and more rapid discovery of fellow Lucidus survivors.
+The highly metropolitan Randall Bay coastal region which now forms the [[Randall Bay Megalopolitan Complex]] consists of what was by far the most compact region of Lucidus landings. This group of settlers is often referred to as the [[First Multiversal Duplication]]. The multiversal instance of settlers who landed here experienced [[The Anomaly|an evacuation]] from the Lucidus spacecraft that directed their modules to all land in a relatively compact area. This resulted in landings nearby to other landings, facilitating an easier and more rapid discovery of fellow Lucidus survivors.
 Additionally, the settlers here also experienced the advantage of being the nearest to a second multiversal instance of survivors—those of the eastern and northern region who landed in [[Brookeview Bay]] just north of here. This led to an early discovery of other multiversal Lucidus survivors and a quicker establishment of knowledge regarding the multiversal nature of the anomaly and likelihood of other multiversal survivors on the Illuminatian continent. This discovery and collaboration resulted in more rapid industrial and scientific development, expedited exploration, and swifter development.
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 == Southern and western region ==
 [[File:West_Coast_Megalopolitan_Complex.png|225px|thumb|right|Location of the West Coast Megalopolitan Complex in Illuminatia]]
-This region of settlers, referred to as the second multiversal duplication, represents the most widely dispersed region of Lucidus survivors from a single [[Multiverse|multiversal instance]] of the three ships. Major population clusters growing from these settlements are spread along the full length of Illuminatia's western, southwestern, and southern coasts entirely to the west of the [[Transilluminatian Range]]. These settlements include those resulting in modern-day population centers such as the [[West Coast Megalopolitan Complex]], anchored by the central-western city of [[Rhapsody]]; the [[Southwestern Megalopolitan Complex]] and cities lining [[Philharmonic Bay]], anchored by the city of [[Requiem]]; and the [[South Coast Megalopolitan Complex]], anchored by the city of [[Symphony]]. This region did not widely experience the swift contact with other multiversal Lucidus survivors and was slower to make contact with all of the camps associated with landed evacuation modules, leading to slower scientific and social development.
+This region of settlers, referred to as the [[Second Multiversal Duplication]], represents the most widely dispersed region of Lucidus survivors from a single [[Multiverse|multiversal instance]] of the three ships. Major population clusters growing from these settlements are spread along the full length of Illuminatia's western, southwestern, and southern coasts entirely to the west of the [[Transilluminatian Range]]. These settlements include those resulting in modern-day population centers such as the [[West Coast Megalopolitan Complex]], anchored by the central-western city of [[Rhapsody]]; the [[Southwestern Megalopolitan Complex]] and cities lining [[Philharmonic Bay]], anchored by the city of [[Requiem]]; and the [[South Coast Megalopolitan Complex]], anchored by the city of [[Symphony]]. This region did not widely experience the swift contact with other multiversal Lucidus survivors and was slower to make contact with all of the camps associated with landed evacuation modules, leading to slower scientific and social development.
 == Eastern and northern region ==
 [[File: Brookeview_Ludwig_Megalopolitan_Complex.png|225px|thumb|left|Location of the Brookeview Ludwig Megalopolitan Complex in Illuminatia]]
-The eastern and northern region, populated by the third multiversal duplication, was also somewhat widely scattered and additionally, to an extent, isolated from itself. This resulted in settlements of survivors, particularly in the far-northern area lining the [[Anglo-Hungarian Bay]], experiencing delayed contact with settlements in the eastern region in places such as the [[Brookeview Ludwig Megalopolitan Complex]]. The Brookeview Bay survivors made early multiversal contact with the settlements now forming the [[Randall Bay Megalopolitan Complex]].
+The eastern and northern region, populated by the [[Third Multiversal Duplication]], was also somewhat widely scattered and additionally, to an extent, isolated from itself. This resulted in settlements of survivors, particularly in the far-northern area lining the [[Anglo-Hungarian Bay]], experiencing delayed contact with settlements in the eastern region in places such as the [[Brookeview Ludwig Megalopolitan Complex]]. The Brookeview Bay survivors made early multiversal contact with the settlements now forming the [[Randall Bay Megalopolitan Complex]].
 The settlements arising from the modules of two of the three Lucidus ships, landing in [[Brookeview Bay]] region, made quicker contact with each other as well as with the [[Randall Bay]] coastal region and therefore experienced more of the benefits of this contact, such as the sharing of resources and more rapid development technologically.

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 '''Tertiary settlement cities''' in Illuminatia refer to cities that were not established by Illuminatia's first generation of settlers.
-While [[primary settlement cities]] were established by the original [[Lucidus mission|Lucidus]] survivors at the site of their original landing on Illuminatia's surface; and while [[secondary settlement cities]] were established by explorers originating from these primary settlement cities… tertiary settlement cities were established significantly later than secondary settlement cities and were founded by people who came of age after the continent's original [[Settlement of Illuminatia|settlement efforts]]. People who settled tertiary settlement cities were generally born on Illuminatia rather than aboard the Lucidus ships and most of them were born in secondary settlement cities.
+While [[primary settlement cities]] were established by the original [[Lucidus mission|Lucidus]] survivors at the site of their original landing on Illuminatia's surface—and while [[secondary settlement cities]] were established by explorers originating from these primary settlement cities—tertiary settlement cities were established significantly later than secondary settlement cities and were founded by people who came of age after the continent's original [[Settlement of Illuminatia|settlement efforts]]. People who settled tertiary settlement cities were generally born on the [[Neonisi]] planet rather than aboard the Lucidus ships and most of them were born in secondary settlement cities.
-The populations that seeded these tertiary settlement cities were also generally recruited from existing secondary settlement cities. In some cases, Illuminatian authorities desired to level-off the population from a primary settlement city, so residents of those cities were persuaded to help establish these new tertiary cities.
+The populations that seeded these tertiary settlement cities were also generally recruited as [[Human migration in Illuminatia|migration]] patterns directed population to these cities from existing secondary settlement cities. In some cases, Illuminatian authorities desired to level-off the population from a primary settlement city, so residents of those cities were persuaded to help establish these new tertiary cities.
 Tertiary settlement cities tend to be much smaller in population than primary and secondary settlement cities. Tertiary cities range from suburban cities surrounding a major city to rural towns isolated from Illuminatia's [[Conurbations of Illuminatia|megalopolitan complexes]].

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 '''Secondary settlement cities''' in Illuminatia refer to cities that were not settled at the location of [[Lucidus mission|Lucidus]] landings but instead were consequently established and settled by voyagers who embarked from those original settlements.
-While [[primary settlement cities]] are clustered principally along the continent's coasts, secondary settlement cities tend to be located in the interior of the continent, oftentimes along rivers that connect to primary settlement cities. Voyagers from the landing-site settlements that became Illuminatia's primary settlement cities, beginning shortly after the [[Lucidus termination event|Lucidus landings]], journeyed inland and established outposts that would eventually grow into secondary settlement cities. Secondary settlement cities tend to be located within an identifiable vicinity of the primary settlement cities from which their founders originated.
+While [[primary settlement cities]] are clustered principally along the continent's coasts, secondary settlement cities tend to be located in the interior of the continent, oftentimes along rivers that connect to primary settlement cities. Voyagers from the landing-site settlements that became Illuminatia's primary settlement cities, beginning shortly after the [[Lucidus termination event|Lucidus landings]], journeyed inland and established outposts that would eventually grow into secondary settlement cities as [[Human migration in Illuminatia|migration]] patterns directed population to these cities from primary settlement cities. Secondary settlement cities tend to be located within an identifiable vicinity of the primary settlement cities from which their founders originated.
 Many secondary settlement cities were originally settled as outposts and grew from this, while other secondary settlement cities were purposely planned as a place for an excess population from another city to settle and seed a new development. Secondary settlement cities are newer than primary settlement cities and are, on average, smaller. Most secondary settlement cities also enjoy better [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urban_planning civic planning] than some hastily-established primary settlement cities. The population of a secondary settlement city will tend to be fairly unified in having an ancestry largely derived from a specific [[Multiverse|multiversal duplication]] and from a specific Lucidus ship.

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-'''Natural disasters''' are uncommon but possible in Illuminatian as a result of the native climatic conditions of [[Neonisi]]. Natural disaster incidents occasionally result in reparable property loss, temporary destruction of infrastructure, or momentary inconvenience and disruption to commercial and recreational activities, but very rarely result in casualties in the form of personal injury or termination of human life.
+'''Natural disasters''' are uncommon but possible in Illuminatia as a result of the native climatic conditions of [[Neonisi]]. Natural disaster incidents occasionally result in reparable property loss, temporary destruction of infrastructure, or momentary inconvenience and disruption to commercial and recreational activities, but very rarely result in casualties in the form of personal injury or termination of human life.
-Residents of Illuminatia accept a reasonable occurrence of natural disasters, but respond to these incidents by making systemic changes to human settlement conditions and infrastructural support mechanisms as these mishaps and misfortunes risk exceeding an unacceptable thresholds for severity of impact or frequency of incidence. As a result of [[Lucidus mission guidelines for terrestrial habitation and development|guidelines]] for human habitation upon Neonisi which strongly forbade intentional development of human infrastructure and habitation in disaster-prone regions, human settlement in Illuminatia strongly avoids development in areas in which residential, commercial, or infrastructural development is subject to the effects of natural disasters, which is very much contrary to common historical urban planning development procedures on Earth which often encouraged development that was subject to unsustainable and unmanageable natural risks. As such, impacts to human-developed settlement and infrastructure by way of problematic natural occurrences in Illuminatia are exceedingly uncommon.
+Residents of Illuminatia accept a reasonable occurrence of natural disasters, but respond to these incidents by making systemic changes to human settlement conditions and infrastructural support mechanisms to mitigate natural disasters as these mishaps and misfortunes risk exceeding an unacceptable thresholds for severity of impact or frequency of incidence. Thanks to [[Lucidus mission guidelines for terrestrial habitation and development|guidelines]] for human habitation upon Neonisi which strongly forbade intentional development of human infrastructure and habitation within disaster-prone surroundings, human settlement in Illuminatia fervently avoids development in areas in which residential, commercial, or infrastructural development or human life are subject to the effects of natural disasters; this is very much contrary to common [[Archaeomodern historical era|historical]] urban planning development procedures on Earth which often encouraged development that was subject to unsustainable and unmanageable natural risks. As such, impacts to human-developed settlement and infrastructure by way of problematic natural occurrences in Illuminatia are exceedingly uncommon.
-While the mechanisms of the [[Lucidus mission]] automatically selected the Neonisi planet for human habitation based in part on its merits of possessing a climate highly compatible with human habitation, it would have been excessively improbable for the mission to have found a planet exhibiting all desirable qualities for supporting a new human civilization separate from Earth without balancing those attributes with the always-present dynamic climatic conditions that would invariably result in some occurrence of energetic and forceful weather events within the parts of the atmosphere occupied by human life. Additionally, almost any habitable planet would be subject to tectonic forces and other dynamics of the natural environment that might result in surface conditions of a potentially changing nature, and so a certain acceptance of some level of risk was deemed acceptable and necessary.
+While the mechanisms of the [[Lucidus mission]] automatically selected the Neonisi planet for human habitation based in part on its merits of possessing a climate highly compatible with human habitation, it would have been excessively improbable for the mission to have found a planet exhibiting all desirable qualities for supporting a new human civilization separate from Earth without balancing those attributes with the always-present dynamic climatic conditions that would invariably result in some occurrence of energetic and forceful weather events within the parts of the atmosphere occupied by human life. Additionally, almost any habitable planet would be subject to [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tectonics tectonic] forces and other dynamics of the natural environment that might result in surface conditions of a potentially changing nature, and so a certain acceptance of some level of risk was deemed acceptable and necessary.
 The uncommon albeit present threat of natural disasters discovered upon settlement of Illuminatia was a primary motivation for establishing the [[Department of Calamity and Catastrophe]] (DCC) upon the original organization of the Illuminatian [[Government of Illuminatia|government]]. The [[Office of Natural Disasters]] (OND) within the DCC is the primary governmental agency responsible for planning and preparations for, predictions of, and response to and recovery from naturally-occurring destructive and misfortunate events. The OND provides resources to communities affected by destructive and disruptive acts of nature as part of the government’s general acceptance of responsibility for ensuring civilization-wide compatibility between humans and their interstellar home.