Mostly fishermen living along the coast, with a few farmers in the more fertile northwestern area. Relatively isolated from their southern fellow-countrymen, they are mostly bilingual, speaking a pidgin Korbeth/Meroned dialect as frequently as Meroned. Although they themselves have little to trade with the Korbeth, since both peoples are largely fishermen, there are many merchants who purchase grain from the south and trade it to the Korbeth in return for fine wares such as jewelry and textiles. Towns such as Kolus act as conduits between southerners and the people of Korba.
The northerners have a reputation for being distrustful of outsiders and a little strange. This is in part fueled by their lack of enthusiasm for political goings-on, their dislike of their government (many of their rulers are southern emigrants who buy in to the system), their typical lack of education, and their preference for a language effectively incomprehensible to the rest of the Meron.
The North is the smallest area of the country; it consists of only two provinces - North and Pinar. It's also the least populous, since the land is less fertile and the people have a reputation as being "strange", despite the fact that culturally most of the people in Pinar Province are culturally indistinguishable from midlanders.
MAIN EXPORT: Fish (to the south)
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