San Lucro is a tiny hollowed caribbean island of volcanic origin, making it a caldera like a sink surrounded by steep cliffs that rise up from the floor of the depression. This sink is most of the time filled with water, forming a lagoon (slightly sulfuric) but also sometimes drained and sun-dried, allowing temporary settlements, celebrations, mournings, and football games. The lagoon itself is called “Ephemere” by the autochtonous people.
On the other side of the crests, called “The Huguenote,” lie small, beautiful beaches and creeks, which emerge only marginally in times of hurricanes, waterpouts and rogue and tidal waves. For all these reasons, a large part of the houses are made of wood and are immersed in water. Those shanties and bungalows are called Transformers because they must quickly be dismantled and reassembled into basic rudimentary catamarans, trimarans and other trawlers. They hold loch-tech vertical gardening for vines and creepers like beans, peas, and cucumbers. Occasionally, a few meagre fish get lost in the carelessly submerged nets.
San Lucro is not recognized by the international community, nor is it represented at the UN, as it is not a sovereign state. Some argue that San Lucro, because of its frequent flooding, does not have a defined territory and therefore cannot be designated as a state by the Montevideo Convention. Others argue that it is not even a country nor a nation because its territory is unclear and changing, and it has no true common culture, language, history, and identity shared by its group of people. But most do not even know or acknowledge the existence of San Lucro.
When the island is emerged enough and for a long enough timeframe, agglomerations and neighbourhoods are being created. And if some people often try to sneak in the wrong floor of the social elevator, most know their place and assemble two distinct locations : La Palafite (Saint Andromeda of the Stilt Houses in english, Santa Andromeda de las Palafitas in spanish) outside the caldera and La Marmite (Saint Pandora of the Steaming Pot in english, Santa Pandora de la Marmita in spanish) behind the natural walls of The Huguenote.