Our Setting - Fangleland on the Planet Zorbit

Thank you for all your setting ideas. I have merged as many as I could, to create Fangleland. Below are some notes and a map. What do you think?

It’s the distant future. Fangleland is a small country on the Planet Zorbit, a chunk of Portugal that got booted into outer space in 2013 after a careless space giant tried to play golf with the Earth, and chipped Europe. It’s a tiny planet on the edge of space. It is so small that aliens often fly straight past it and only spot it if they actually get into the ‘orbit of Zorbit’.

Everybody speaks English in Fangleland because many centuries ago, a British tourist appointed himself king and passed a law banning Portuguese. Although it’s the future, people’s lives are very similar to our lives, because Zorbit is too small for the people to have developed future technologies. Lumipoo momps, however, have evolved into vicious beasts and Fangleland is overrun with them.

Fangleland is composed of two landmasses, Spookyknoll Island and Yazoble Island. It has a third island, Glacier Island, which is a giant iceberg.

The climate on Planet Zorbit is dramatic, reaching from the chilly Rocky Mountains in the north, down to the raging Volcano Yazoble in the south (which contains bubbling, purple lumipoo poo, instead of magma.)

Bongdon

Most Fanglish people (20,000) live in the capital city of Bongdon, which is divided into two halves, separated by Shoogle Lagoon. The lagoon is home to many lumipoo momps, including the General Gibbers. The treacherous River Shoogle connects the Mompy Swamp to Shoogle Lagoon and is the momps’ main highway. Bongdon has sky scrapers with heads that talk to the clouds sitting in the sky. Turbo the Toddler lives in North Bongdon. It’s also the home of the science lab the first tubster of terror is created.

Yazoble Island

There are only 1000 inhabitants on Yazoble Island. Some live in wigwams in Yazwam. Others live in Tippy Toppy Town, where all the house are upside down. This is because the people believe that upside down houses will float on lava, like boats, if Volcano Yazoble erupts. They may or may not be wrong.

Glacier Island

A tribe of 57 people live on Glacier Island in igloos. There is also a frozen fortress, where the glacier tribe defend against lumipoo momps.

Whiff Towers

Whiff Towers is an abandoned and run down castle. At least, everyone thinks it’s abandoned.

To get there you have to find your way through a dark forest, where it always rains. The forest comes to an end, and suddenly you find yourself in the Mompy Swamp. The swamp is full of quick mud and deadly lumipoo momps.

Two talking gate posts at the castle entrance get to decide whether or not you can enter. If they welcome you, a drawbridge across the swamp slowly lowers with a clanking chain.

Whiffleton on Swamp

Whiffleton can be found to the west of Bongdon. It’s a small, wooden village on the edge of Mompy Swamp. It’s where Simon Sandymop lives. Local children like to play football in Quackers Park, an area of natural beauty characterised by fields of ruby-centred flowers with sparkly white petals. It is where Simon first meets Tigotha. Tigotha lives in a cave on the west coast of Spookyknoll Island.

The Condiment District

On the south of Spookyknoll Island, are a series of lakes containing sauces, such as ketchup, mustard and BBQ sauce. The locals go there to refill their bottles. Many locals make a day of it, walking along the coastal path and then back to Bongdon Beach for a barbecue.

Zebra roam wild in the condiment district, which is why you usually see zebra with mustard on their hooves.