Starterville

Overview
Starterville is a settlement in the Manitoba wasteland, built out of the ruins of Flin Flon, Manitoba. It is the location of the western branch of the Old World Republic and the starting point for the player character, hence the name. Aside from the Old World Republic members living in the safehouse at the edge of town, Starterville is inhabited by a tribe of owlmen who are very hostile to the humans of Starterville. Points of interest in Starterville include the safehouse, the town hall, the spire (the building in which the player awakens), the church, the Moonshiners', the Flinstones and Flinstones Major cave systems, and the hospital.

History
Prior to the Fantasizing, Flin Flon was a small mining town on the border of Manitoba and Saskatchewan. The town was founded in 1927 and, by the 1990s, its population had reached roughly 200 inhabitants, most of which were killed in the 1994 Fantasizing. Some years after the foundation of the Old World Republic at Landfall, Alaska, a number of saints including Sparrow St. Falco and Roth St. Angelo set out to establish a presence deeper into the mainland, accompanied by a number of converts, hunters, and settlers. In November of 2003, they would settle in a ghost town in northern Michigan which would eventually become Salvation Waters.

After the foundation of Salvation Waters, the Old World Republic began to trade with the nearby Canadian tribes and settlements, and eventually began sending caravans to Toronto, where they were able to strike up a religious presence. Shortly after establishing a new chapter in Toronto, they were contacted by an ambassador from the American Preservation Military who had come to convince them to cease relations with the Canadians in exchange for protection and supplies provided by the APM. The Old World Republic happily obliged, immediately ending all trade with the Canadians and dissolving their Toronto chapter.

It was under the watch of the APM that Salvation Waters and the Old World Republic flourished. Its population jumped upwards, garnering scores of converts each month. It became clear that Salvation Waters was too small to provide housing for the entirety of the Old World Republic, and so a number of settling expeditions were sent out into both America and Canada. Sparrow St. Falco saw the expeditions as an opportunity to study the effects of the Fantasizing in further reaches of the world, and took a small expedition up northwest. In May of 2004, they reached Flin Flon and began construction of the safehouse. In August of 2009, the Drifter awakened in the second floor of a ruined chapel on the edge of town.