Yes, but it's not like you can just "take off" 1% of another person, and he'll go on normally.

I sure as shit wouldn't live in a "Ghoul Nation". So the Ghouls have to get their meat from neighbouring nations. So they either
a) make capture raids, which would lead to war, which the ghouls cant win cause I don't think their condition makes them very apt at using tanks and modern weaponry (claws and blindness and all) or
b) bribe neighbouring governements to sell some citizens, but the ghouls don't have a whole lof of money since they live in the poorest continent in the world. Hmm, unless there are diamond mines, or other such ressources. I think there was orichalchum there for a while. But that would just lead to neighbours invading so they can have said ressources, which now that I think about it is exactly what the Elves did.

So Ghoul nation : have to import ALL their food needs + no modern weapons = no more nation.

Edit: You know what, replace "Ghoul Nation" by "Vampire Nation" and it's actually more feasible.

The short version is that Asamando is sitting on massive fuck off amounts of diamonds that they sell off and trade to other people for different things, some of them being people/foodstuffs.

A recent milk run pulled by the group I GM for involved the theft of medical waste. One of the runners remarked that he suspected they were being "caterers."

The word 'tamanous' comes precisely from tribal cultures in the area spreading roughly from Tir Tairngire to Tsimshian. Actually, the word is common to several languages and always designate a spirit, but the nature of the spirit called by this name differs from one tribe to another. For the Klamath, Tamanous is one single major spirit who created Crater Lake (yeah, that Crater Lake). Around the Columbia River, can't remember the tribes name, Tamanous are personal guardian spirits. And it's specifically among the Clallam tribe that the Black Tamanous was the central figure of a secret cannibal society.

What's funny is that according to a blurb in Man & Machine, the origins of the organization known as Tamanous are a mystery. There wouldn't be a lot of room for doubt if Tamanous name was thought to be traditional in any way, and a quite small population to investigate (note that the Salish-shidhe Council counts a really big number of biotechonology and medical companies). Oh, somebody for pretty muc anywhere else in North america could have picked this name and think it was a great one for the organization he was creating.

On the other hand, nobody said that's a name the organization chose. Much like everybody, media first, call "Al-Qaeda" what its own founders are calling the "International Front Against Zionists and Crusaders". In my game setting, Tamanous was dubbed "the Tamanous gang" by the media after several corpses missing organs were found on the hitchhicking trail #27 in the Salish-Shidhe Council, also called Tamanous Trail IRL, in an affair who uncovered for the first time the organleggers' organization. So, they just got caught for the first time in North America, it wouldn't mean they started there.

You forgot:

c) They could be breeding livestock.

You mean besides crack?

I could see them letting the Mercs have the privilege of performing that task. I'm sure they'd have more than enough takers.

There is no doubt that the nation uses Mercs...probably in large numbers.

Why do synthetic when it would be so easy to use the real thing. Set up in some of the more Third World countries and clean up. I could even see it being an efficient way to dispose of deceased SINless in more developed countries. In the eyes of the government it would beat having to pay for disposal.

Er… we can try, but I'm not sure we have that kind of time on our hands

~J

Yeah, like a whole nation full of targets for my Infected-hunting character

Rhetorical point: if you've seen the movie, despite what Chuck Heston says at the very end, Solyent Green is not people, although it does open the same arguement.

Why not? Delicious and nutritious.

Well, actually not that tasty, from what I hear, but so it goes.

I'm probably going to get lynched for this, but I actually want very little info on Madagascar. A few teasers, yes, but for the most part I want it left the mystery it is.

~J

They can't? Why do you say that?

I presume Backgammon is thinking most weapons manufactured by humans might not work so well in the hands of blind people with claws instead of fingers and freakishly long limbs in the case of the native African ghoul variant. Naturally, astral perception negates most of the penalty for blindness in this case.