{"id":599,"date":"2023-05-14T15:33:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T23:33:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/?p=599"},"modified":"2023-05-15T05:54:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-15T13:54:46","slug":"irhoborin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/2023\/05\/14\/irhoborin\/","title":{"rendered":"Irhoborin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My low-effort bragpost for this week was created around 6 years ago. It is a bit more dystopian than usual. For the most part, my geofictions are neither dystopian nor utopian &#8211; rather, they just represent an alternate reality which is much like our own, full of both good and bad. This was an effort to create something a bit darker. It&#8217;s a refugee camp, in a poorly-defined (quite incomplete) war-torn country with serious social problems and poverty and a negligent government. Perhaps somewhat inspired by Somalia or 1970&#8217;s southeast Asia.<\/p>\n<p>The Irhoborin refugee camp is vast: it has a population of tens of thousands, all in these tents in grids with additional tens of thousands in improvised shacks between and among and surrounding the gridded tent areas. I actually wrote up a fairly detailed &#8220;lore&#8221; for this place, at one time, and have an archived copy of it <a href=\"https:\/\/geofictician.net\/wiki\/index.php\/Irhoborin_Refugee_Settlement\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">here<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a screenshot of the location.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/generalsemiotics.net\/img\/2023\/202305\/Luciano_Screenshot_Irhoborin_20230514.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 10px 5px 5px;\" title=\"A screenshot of \" src=\"https:\/\/generalsemiotics.net\/img\/2023\/202305\/Luciano_Screenshot_Irhoborin_20230514.png\" alt=\"Screenshot of the map window on the OpenGeofiction website, showing the patchworked grids of the Irhoborin refugee camp and some surrounding, chaotically-laid-out communities\" width=\"1000\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The link to the slippy map is here: <a href=\"https:\/\/opengeofiction.net\/#map=15\/-15.1153\/146.7819&amp;layers=B\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">https:\/\/opengeofiction.net\/#map=15\/-15.1153\/146.7819&amp;layers=B<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My low-effort bragpost for this week was created around 6 years ago. It is a bit more dystopian than usual. For the most part, my geofictions are neither dystopian nor utopian &#8211; rather, they just represent an alternate reality which is much like our own, full of both good and bad. This was an effort &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/2023\/05\/14\/irhoborin\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Irhoborin<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-low-effort-post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.geofictician.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}