Dark Continent

Also known as NAME, the Dark Continent is as the name suggests, a continent in the Dark ages, culturally and technologically.

This is actually by design, as an unknown organisation engineered the whole thing. Several generations ago, a large group of dissidents were transported here as an experimental form of imprisonment and rehabilitation. They were not given any access to modern technology, and to ensure they could not access it, suppression sattelites that orbit over the area quell any modern or dangerous ideas, as well as desire to escape. As a result, the inhabitants live a simple medieval lifestyle, and technology stagnated around that era.

It is unknown whether this was intended to be an ongoing endeavor or if it was to be for a limited time, but the organisation that ran the Dark cont