Chances in the Caribbean

The world is being hard and cold, but there's a New World for those daring to leave everything behind and try to find their luck! There, courageous sailors found a big archipelago of various islands, from tiny to huge! Despite all hardships, they built the first settlements on the biggest island, which became the big cities. Then villages popped up, farmers followed, the archipelago began to thrive. The first pirates followed, making bases on tiny forgotten islands, founding a pirate city too!

I got the general idea while watching some movies about a certain pirate captain and his adventures