Australia

Basic Information

Australia is both a country and Earth's smallest continent. It is located in the southern hemisphere between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. Cynics suggest that it is a good example of a Death World on a smaller scale, being known for its terrible weather, hostile terrain and dangerous wildlife. Also an originator of the prison colony trope.

Towns and Cities

• Adelaide
• Brisbane
• Canberra
• Darwin
• Hobart
• Melbourne
• Perth
• Sydney

Other Locations

• Uluru - better known as Ayer's Rock until very recently.
• Ngaut Ngaut
• Ku-ring-gai Chase National Park

Mythology and Folklore

• Bunyip
• In the Cthulhu Mythos Australia has some of the most accessible ruins from the Yithian and Flying Polyp civilisations.

See Also

• News: Australia hit hard by mining slump
• Event/News: Dinosaur Stolen From Museum
• Event/News: Dust Storm Chokes Sydney
• Event/News: Grounded coal carrier in danger of breaking apart
• News: Mammoth backyard spider devours bird
• News: 'Stoned wallabies make crop circles'

Sources

Bibliography

1. Badass of the Week - Australia

2. Fairfield Project entry

3. Role-Playing In The Land Of Oz by Adam Reeve on Critical Miss

4. Wikipedia entry

Game and Story Use

• Its remote location makes Australia a popular setting for post-apocalyptic settings - the theory is that it is isolated enough from the rest of the world that the global plague or whatever the trigger for the apocalypse was doesn't reach its shores in time.
• Conversely, in some settings only Australia is affected - as a way of showing that the event might have easily destroyed humanity, if the isolation of Australia hadn't prevented it.
• Many people consider Australia hostile enough without an apocalypse - the place has more venomous, poisonous and generally disagreeable creatures per square inch than anywhere else on Earth and the weather tends to swing from one extreme to another, with very little moderation.
  • And the terrifying thing is that quite a bit of the worst of the wildlife was driven into extinction by early humans. What they have now is the more tolerable end of it… (okay, that goes for most of the planet, but given what the Aussies still have is so egregious…).