In between Wone and Huxia runs the Downgrade River. Two differing nations, complete with multiple species in each, fill up a part of that river valley. The Franks and the Zona. Of course there is a Dome Gnome colony of installations here as well.
The Frank are a collection of Nimbs, Grabbers, and Imbys, along with others, are held together by a common currency and similar variations of the language Dooj. The locales of Nuk (pronounced "nook"), Tarfumes, Manna-Lock, and the Franki Box region are their major population centers. While they have ethanol powered vehicles and solar and wind powered electricity (who'd burn fuel to run lights and fans when it literally comes out of the sky?), agriculture and animal husbandry are their things.
The Zona are commonly believed to be aliens from another planet. For the most part that is not true, even the species new to this world have been here long enough to be not alien to its environments. They speak a language called Zeff and are very intolerant of dialects or slang of that means of communication. One can call their area pretty well defiled and exploited. Nood Nell, or the Non-Existent Mountain, was created by 40 miles of strip mining and creating entire underground cities called Ka-Niff (Really Deep Hole). The massive Lake Iftna, meaning No Good Water, is replenished by fountains used as sump pumps of Ka-Niff.
The Dome Gnomes run The Tubes industrial complexes. They trade the Zona for raw materials and trade out produced machines to the Franks trying to kept conflicts between the two from bothering the free flow of trade they want for the whole world.
