Lypelpyp
Lypelpyp (meaning scorpion) is the most westernmost major city in the Poswob Empire (Pusapom). It was founded in a gap of settlement between thew two major aboriginal mega-nations, thus no aboriginal poipulation. It is sdimilar to the movie COngo in that it is a valley with mtns aon all sides, in which lives moneys because the humans never got to that rea. At first the monkeys were dangerous, eating humans etcm but they were subdued quickly and the new settlers of Lupelpyp forgot about the incident and soon became the least paranoid people of all, ahving no wapons and being friendly with the nations on all sides when they discoeveredf the. This led to bhem being bicitimized a lot, butr even so they had so much terrirotury thayt they grey paster than aklk oithers and mvbecame the major source of people to the rrest of the pIppla empoire.
Geography and climate
Tjhe modern climate is dry, simuilar to highland locations in California & Nevada even though it is a lowland settlemenbt. Avg temp is 39F in wint, 80F in summer, about the same as Roswell NM. It is not as dry as Roswell NM howeverm becayse evebn though it is in a velley & has mtns on all sides it is in the path of the jet stream which brings storms during winter. Not as much during summer, but there is water neabyt due to the mtns around them. THus Lypelyp hads plenty opf water. They have no agfriculart,e like no toher people as have agriculture, but they get their food from the forstts even so ... both animal and vbegetable.
The climate in Lypelpyp during its most important years was similar to the modern climate, but far more extreme. Temperatures averaged 5F in winter and 98F in summer. There were only two seasons, meaning that a hot spell of >100F days that had lasted a month could be suddenly replaced by a blustery blizzard.
Lypelpyp was historically a gap in between the two major aboriginal macro-tribes, the Repilians in the north and east, and the Sukuna/Tempy in the south and west. Geogrtaphically, it is similar to Death Valley, but colder. Mountains surround it on all sides but even though Lypelpyp is a desert, water flows down from the mountains and there is a lake in the center of the valley. An island within the lake is the ceremonial capital of Lypelpyp, but most people actually live on the northern shore because the sunlight is strongest there.
Lypelpyp is located in the Poswob state of Kava, which was named after the nation of Kava in Nama. However, since that other Kava still exists, and is now part of the same Poswob Empire (though not an independent nation any longer), Lypelpyp's Kava can also call itself Kavi ("from Kava") or Šuranom Kavi ("Šurnum's from-Kava").
History
Lypelpyp was settled by a separate branch of Pabaps, not the same as the "Thunder" people who settled most of the rest of Pupompom. Thus, unlike most of the Thunderers, they still considered themselves to be ethnically Pabap. Also, they had all converted to the Sonsoma religion, which was inherited from the Andanese subtribe of Pabaps, meaning that Yiibam held no influence over them until being reintroduced from the east.
Lypelpyp was the home of the most powerful Base of STW.
Culture
Lypelpyp's people today consider themselves Poswobs and speak only Poswa. Historically, though, they were a separate migration of Pabap people that had little contact with the much larger eastern migration that became the Poswobs. Their religion was Sompfyma (their name for Sàŋhʷṁi), which was not the same as the original religion of the Pabaps (Yiibam or Lelpam), but rather the religion of the Andanese that Pabaps adopted after they mostly left Yiibam. Thus, the Lypels in some ways continued the Andanese culture after the Andanese themselves had been violently obliterated.
For a long time, Lypelpyp retained the original Pabap trait of having men taller than women (as was the case for most people worldwide), but eventually, they began to absorb "Feminist" genes by genetic drift from other Poswobs. They still have not completely switched over, however; some families do still have tall men. They are more likely than other Poswobs to worship male gods; their state has an alternate name of Šuranom Kavi, after the god Šuran. Despite being the most politically pacifistic people in a very pacifistic empire, this is mostly for their own protection, and Lypels in general are actually more heavily armed than most Poswobs.
Despite being one of the northernmost Poswob cities, Lypelpyp gets hot summers, and the people of Lypelpyp are nudists during the summer. This they share with the aboriginal Tempy people to their south, whom they met about 3000 years ago when a Tempy army greeted a troop of Lypel explorers by chasing them up the road and then massacring them. They had assumed they had caught a tribe of their traditional blood enemy, the Repilians, in a surprisingly weak spot. Since the Poswobs have essentially absorbed all of the Repilian tribes now, the Tempys again consider Lypels to be Repilians, and although they are far less violent nowadays they still consider them to be enemies. Nevertheless, Tempy people are an important part of Lypelpyp's economy because they have almost all of the hot tropical lowlands where pineapples grow.
Economy
Lypelpyp is actuallyt very poor, hacving no economic activity other than just surviving. They do not generally import or export anything. However, they are a major stopover for trade passing *through* their area, as it turns out that their hidden valley is actually a very convenient place to build a road, and the people of Lypelpyp itself built a road into Baeba Swamp a few hundred years ago. Even so, most of the things that Baeba produces (tropical fruits, palm oil, etc) can also be found in southern Pusapom and so their trade is mostly with areas that are simply closer to Baeba than to the rest of Pusapom.
