Community

A community is an inhabited settlement or several settlements together in close proximity to each other in Folkvangr Mandate that can be regarded as a distinct group of houses, buildings and inhabitants. It is often isolated from other communities by outback and open space. Community populations range from several dozens to thousands of people. The largest community is Babel, with 60,000 inhabitants. There are several communities with less than 50 inhabitants in the Northern Rifts.

Communities are documented in the Register of Communities. This enables the government of Folkvangr Mandate, the Folkvangr Council, to aid communities in the best way possible. Communities almost always have access to some sort of airfield, an open space where an airborn vehicle (AV) can land. They also unanimously have access to a clean water source and a communication beacon. Most have a power grid.

Communities are usually governed by a community council. They are often almost completely self-reliant, producing their own food and utilities. A majority of communities have some sort of spiritual, ideological, religious, social or cultural identity. Some communities require that inhabitants comply with this set lifestyle. Other communities are "open communities", meaning that everybody is welcome to live there, regardless of lifestyle or ideological, religious and spiritual viewpoint. Some communities are very communal in nature, meaning property and work effort is (partly) shared by its inhabitants. Others are more individualistic. ("communes" versus "indie communities").

Most communities have a couple of hundred inhabitants and are isolated from other communities by at least several dozens of kilometres in many cases.

Many communities consist of multiple settlements in very close proximity to each other, with one distinct main settlement acting as the community seat. Other communities consist of a single settlement, often surrounded by several farmsteads and tiny hamlets of three or four houses. Settlements that are not the community seat simultaneously are referred to as secondary settlements.