Orania

It’s very strange. And a bit North Korean.

Orania is a small town in South Africa's Northern Cape Province. This town is either a white supremacist wet dream or a place to preserve Afrikaner culture. By design it is populated with white Afrikaners. Communities with almost all white people exist are very common and not inherently evil; however most of these communities were not intentionally designed like that.

History
Orania was originally founded in 1963 by the Department of Water Affairs as a worker community to help build irrigation canals for the nearby Vanderkloof Dam. Coloured workers who built the canals lived in a separate area called Grootgewaagd. Once this dam was completed, the town fell into disrepair and the department abandoned Orania in 1989, though a large number of coloured residents continued to live in Grootgewaagd.

The current form of Orania was established in 1990 when Carel Boshoff, a Afrikaner nationalist and son-in-law of former prime minister and Apartheid architect Hendrik Verwoerd, purchased the town from the Department of Water Affairs. Some 500 coloured people still lived in Grootgewaagd at the time of the purchase and they were all evicted in early 1991, in one of the last large scale forced removals of Apartheid. The first Afrikaner residents moved in soon after, and the town council was established in 1992.

Politics
Orania is run by Transitional Representative Council; though technically it is in the Thembelihle Municipality. It is not subjected to the laws of the Thembelihle Municipality due to it being privately owned land. However, it is not immune to all laws as they are not recognized as a sovereign nation by anybody. The main political and financial influence comes the Vluytjeskraal Share Block Company which owns the land (Corpocracy i.e government ran by a business).

The community is mostly reliant on outside sources for basic necessities like food, water, and power, but has become increasingly self-reliant in recent years by producing these necessities within its community, though the town still largely relies on South Africa when it comes to societal needs like policing and hospitalization. The community has zero financial backing outside of it and has created their own currency called the Ora.

Orania is modeled after socially conservative viewpoints. Some of the community's attitudes include unmarried couples not being able to live with each other, same-sex relationships being frowned upon, and one having to get permission from the town council to bring visitors to their home.

In 2020, the town of Orania fell on hard times. The townspeople were not allowed to participate in national polls on whether or not Orania would be allowed to exist as it is, because many residents would agree to changing the town from whites only to integration. African National Congress member Deshi Ngxanga filed a long shot application to join Orania in an effort to bring integration to the area. The status of the application is currently unknown.

With the disease COVID-19 affecting nearly every nation on Earth, Orania has managed to remain free of viral outbreaks. It is not expected that Orania will be completely free from COVID. They have set up their own hygiene guidelines which have been an effective tool at keeping the virus out. Viruses don't care about human drawn borders and always find a way to cause infections.