Pebble Landing

The first settlement on the Freethinker Mainland, located on the Eastern shore. Named after a distinctive natural harbour, the town today is the administrative seat of the Magellan County and one of the few places in Mainland where commercial farming is actually possible on a profitable scale.

Basic Stats:

Founded: 1656

Population: 2,500,000 (2003)

Elevation: 20 ft

Location: Magellan County, Eastern Coast.

Economy

Being a large coastal harbour, Overseas Shipping and Handling, and Ship Maintenance forms the basis of the local economy. Commercial Fishing and Farming are also large money spinners in the area, although the formerly large seams of coal in the region are now just about exhausted through intensive mining. There are some confirmed moderate copper and uranium seams nearby but these have remained undeveloped, and the city is instead looking to attract businesses of a cleaner and more modern nature. Tourism is also on the rise after an extensive effort to restore the surviving Seventeenth century buildings that were part of the original colony that first settled on the Mainland.