Daawinaki

Daawinaki (abbrevation: DW) is the easternmost and most populous province of the Orbin Federation. Its capital city is Good Port, which is also home of the See of Good Port It is also the province in which Wacovia, a principal setting of As The Orb Turns. Poncet, Orb's capital city, is also located in Daawinaki.

History
The modern-day province of Daawinaki is the product of a union between two previous nations called Wessex, which occupied the southern two-thirds of the future province, Daawinaki, which occupied the northern third.

Wessex was settled sometime in the 1780s or 1790s; Daawinaki was probably settled about the same time.

In the 1860s, Daawinaki and Little Current went to war, and captured Heywood Island and the city of New Bristol from the country. This territorial arrangement would maintain until the Unification in the early 20th century.

During the Unification, when the two nations united into the modern province, Premier George Templin promised that since Daawinaki would lose New Bristol (that city would go to Lakemark) and the capital would be moved to Good Port, the whole province would bear the name Daawinaki.

A dirty old merchant port called Georgetown west of Good Port would ultimately be chosen to be renamed Poncet and be almost totally rebuilt as the Orbin capital.

In the decades following the Unification, Daawinaki would, like the rest of the country, experience an economic boom, and many small farming villages would become industrial factory towns. However, by the early 1980s, many of these would be abandoned.

Culture
Daawinakians, like others from the eastern half of Manitoulin, are a fairly urbanized people. They usually live in cities, towns, or suburban locales. The largest cities of the province are White Wolf, Wikwemikong, Good Port, and Poncet.

Smaller towns, such as Wacovia, Westminster, and Prince-of-Wales, were industrial towns (and in the last example, an active port) in their heydays.

Daawinakians have a close relationship with Lakemarkers, and there is a lot of back-and-forth travel and exchange between the two provinces.

Daawinakians, like Lakemarkers and Gomezians, are generally more socially and politically liberal than people in the western provinces.