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Madagascar
A very large island off the coast of Africa. Its OTL history is quite interesting, being populated by Malays who came all the way across the Indian Ocean rather than Africans. It was united and modernised by Moric Benovsky, a Slovak Pole Czech Hungarian [ CITATION NEEDED ] and later became a French colony.
Though no AH.commers thus far come from there, it has entered forum lore as the last place on Earth safe from a virus pandemic, a legend originating from a popular Flash game in which you play as the virus and Madagascar is usually the most difficult place to infect. Thus in times of virus scares, everyone announces they're decamping to the island.
Madagascar is furthermore known in the context of alternate history as a norious pirate hideout (see Pirate Madagascar), as well as a location for one location of the many, many Alternate Israels. In Lands of Red and Gold it is the first place that Aururian diseases spread to the Old World, possibly as an ironic reference to the forum gag about it being immune to pandemics.