Canterbury
Canterbury is the theater and movie capital of the Arctic. The city’s entire economy is based upon entertainment and the tourism that accompanies it. The city boasts a veritable who’s who of Northern celebrities. Every major UMF video and trideo corporation is based in Canterbury and all Norlight and Western ones have major offices there. A few of the major Southern networks even have branch offices in the city.
The city of Canterbury is a manicured grid of entertainment studios, glamorous residences and expensive tourist traps. Six different theme parks can be found in Canterbury. The two most popular are EarthLand and AquaWorld. EarthLand is a huge museum chronicling the entire history of Earth. A special ride accompanies each major time period. Crowd pleasers include the virtual reality ride in the Creation of the Earth area and the sled rides across the glaciers in the Ice Age area.
AquaWorld is a more serious affair which acts both as a tourist attraction and a zoological preserve. Numerous forms of Earth and Terranovan aquatic species are kept in the dozens of artificial lakes that make up AquaWorld. The park houses the only whales on Terra Nova. About a dozen whales of various species are kept in the largest of AquaWorld’s lakes. These whales rarely reproduce and are usually created using advanced recombinant DNA techniques. These majestic sea mammals mystify the people of the dry planet to the point that, for many Terranovans, a trip to see the whales of Canterbury is a quasi-religious pilgrimage. Whale song recorded in the main lake is considered soothing for the nerves and is popular as background music across Terra Nova. It can often be heard in waiting rooms and elevators.