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'''Quartering Blocks''' (''Sitnaram'') - Settlements built in the 1930s-50s AD to house the military evacuees - Federalist soldiers and other servicemen who had retreated from the Mainland - along with their families. Intended as a temporary measure, the quartering blocks were hastily constructed according to prefabricated military housing models, and scattered across Æonara<ref>A smaller number of quartering blocks can also be found in [[Atrassica]] and in Sarolasta's [[Leviti|Leviti State]].</ref> wherever land was readily available. However, as the Sunderance wore on, they solidified into permanent settlements and developed local cultures distinct from their surrounding areas, and most are now multigenerational. Quartering blocks are no longer necessarily located near centres of employment, and many residents, particularly older persons, survive off of military pensions and other government benefits. Most residents have been granted intergenerational tenure in their homes, many of which are overcrowded, but most housing units remain owned by the government, which in subsequent decades up to the present day has used vacant units to quarter disabled veterans and the dependents of military casualties as some of the original residents have become upwardly mobile and moved out. | '''Quartering Blocks''' (''Sitnaram'') - Settlements built in the 1930s-50s AD to house the military evacuees - Federalist soldiers and other servicemen who had retreated from the Mainland - along with their families. Intended as a temporary measure, the quartering blocks were hastily constructed according to prefabricated military housing models, and scattered across Æonara<ref>A smaller number of quartering blocks can also be found in [[Atrassica]] and in Sarolasta's [[Leviti|Leviti State]].</ref> wherever land was readily available. However, as the Sunderance wore on, they solidified into permanent settlements and developed local cultures distinct from their surrounding areas, and most are now multigenerational. Quartering blocks are no longer necessarily located near centres of employment, and many residents, particularly older persons, survive off of military pensions and other government benefits. Most residents have been granted intergenerational tenure in their homes, many of which are overcrowded, but most housing units remain owned by the government, which in subsequent decades up to the present day has used vacant units to quarter disabled veterans and the dependents of military casualties as some of the original residents have become upwardly mobile and moved out. | ||
'''Ranch Tracts''' - Suburban tracts of {{wp|Ranch-style house|ranch houses}} laid out with [[Urcean]] [[The Valley (Urcea)|Valley-grade]] density. They are laid out in square or rectangular grids and built mostly on drained swampland in the coastal plains of Central Æonara and East Æonara. During the 1970s AD, the ranch tracts surrounding [[Sirana]] were home to the {{wp|Essex man|Mondego man}}, and remain associated with the more prosperous stratum of the working classes and the lower-middle class, although the median income in these areas declined during the 1980s and 1990s as more affluent residents variously returned to the Mainland or moved to air conditioner colonies. | |||
===Religion=== | ===Religion=== | ||