Community:An In Depth Discussion and Dissection Regarding The Founding of Communities in The Post-War World, The Implication of Their Creations, and What it Means to You. By Professors Black Devil and Rubbinmahbelly.

This essay will serve as a place for Professors Black Devil and Rubbinmahbelly to discuss the creations of many of the towns and cities which dot the post-war united states. From Junktown, to The Republic of Dave, the history of these communities is fascinating.

Tragically in many cases townsfolk are too busy surviving to worry about the history of their town. Due to this, many times the exact circumstances of a towns founding is unclear, but we will do what we can to piece together what we have learned in our studies.

=Capital Wasteland= The region of Maryland, Virginia, and Pennsylvania surrounding the city of Washington, D.C., known as the Capital Wasteland, is home to a number of diverse communities. Surprisingly, many of the major settlements within the Capital Wasteland are relatively new, only forming in the last several generations.

Andale
The small town of Andale started out as a pre-war neighborhood with four families in the state of Virginia. These families survived in personal bomb shelters until they ran out of food, at which point they resorted to cannibalism to survive. Since then the town has remained insular, staying a "small town and proud." This I learned as one of the town patriarchs, one Jack Smith, was attempting to "have me for dinner". I should have been wary of his vague wording at the time, but live and learn. Thankfully I managed to escape my predicament by utilizing an escape method I learned reading old Silver Shroud comic books. Who knew dislocating one's own thumbs could be so useful. But back to the point, since the town was founded an indeterminate amount of time before the war, and there is an unbroken chain of residents from before the war to modern day (2277), it is likely to be the oldest still inhabited settlement in the Capital Wasteland.

Republic of Dave
The Republic of Dave, previously known as the Nation of Tom, previously known as the New Republic of Stevie-Ray, previously known as Billsylvania, previously known as the Republic of Stevie-Ray, previously known as the Kingdom of Larry, is a small settlement located in the northern Capital Wasteland near the Maryland/Pennsylvania border. If one ever finds themselves in the neighborhood, take the museum tour. The lovely young resident who runs the museum explained to me in detail much of the history of the nation, and the rest I pieced together from documents in nearby government buildings. It originated in the years before the Great War as a compound created by American citizens who felt the government had become corrupt, and that they would need to work together to take back the country for the people. The compound that would one day go on to become the Republic of Dave is but one several remote locations created by this antigovernmental movement. As it was founded shortly before the bombs fell, it is a pre-war settlement, but it is unlikely to be older than the established town of Andale. There is similarities between the pre-war anti government movement that gave rise to the Republic, and the Free States of nearby Appalachia, with both being anti-government organizations who established off the grid strongholds in remote regions of the American east coast, but any connection between the two groups, if one exists at all, is unknown.

Little Lamplight
This strange cave town of children is one of the more