The world came together to recognize a subculture living in the shadows across the globe. With an uninhabitable island off the southern coast of New Zealand selected, NATO unanimously agreed to welcome the new vampire nation. No detail was left unattended. From conservation efforts to clearly defined borders, nothing was left to chance. Or so the world blindly believed. Secrets within the infrastructure were happening right under their noses. No one dared investigate. Who would claim jurisdiction over a country of vampires and stick around to enforce the laws? That was the reason that the vampires were brought into the spotlight in the first place. To end vampire human conflicts and myths.
Our world leaders decided the light would be the Antipode Island off the coast of New Zealand. Antipode. The very definition means a people who live diametrically opposite to inhabitants of the known world. How appropriate for these reprobates. Far enough away to minimize human-vampire interaction, and deemed uninhabitable to human beings. A perfect solution to end intermingling. Surrounded by subantarctic waters with windy harsh bitter cold, the island was only a sanctuary for various albatross, fur seals, and penguins. Granite terrain with very few flora, except megaherbs growing on the island, made sustainable living impossible.
