Folk Nation

By 2097, the Folk Nation has evolved far beyond its gangland origins, transforming into a mobile cultural syndicate — part resistance movement, part trade coalition, part spiritual revival. Born from the ashes of the old Chicago underworld, the Folk Nation carried its street roots into the wastelands after the Collapse, where survival demanded unity, adaptability, and purpose. What began as neighborhood protection turned into an ideology — heritage as resistance, mobility as freedom.

Unlike the Snake Nation’s decentralized free-market philosophy, the Folk Nation has a more structured hierarchy, built around “Crews” and “Houses” — mobile clans that travel together in massive convoys of converted city buses, hover haulers, and armored trucks painted in black and gold. At the top sits the Council of Kings and Queens, a rotating body of elders, fixers, and cultural leaders who maintain the Folk Code — an unspoken set of laws blending honor, faith, and the street discipline of their Chicago ancestors.

Their presence stretches across the Midwest and Deep South, where they control trade routes, music networks, and black-market supply lines connecting nomad families to urban sprawls like Night City, Dallas, and New Atlanta. The Folk Nation’s caravans bring more than goods — they bring culture. Their convoys double as traveling festivals, pulsing with old-school hip-hop, gospel blues, chrome fashion, and augmented art installations that keep their history alive in a world trying to erase it.

But under that rhythm lies power. The Folk are known for their mastery of cybernetically enhanced muscle and bioengineered narcotics, often supplied through shadow partnerships with @Nexus Pharma. They maintain a tense alliance with the Snake Nation, trading protection and information for access to the Snake’s smuggling corridors. Yet deep down, the Folk don’t trust the Snakes’ anarchic ways — they see themselves not as outlaws, but as a people reborn, carrying their community through a world that forgot what unity means.

@The Aldecaldos respect the Folk for their discipline; the NUSA government fears them for their organization. Corporate intelligence files describe them as a “cultural militia with spiritual undertones” — and that’s not far off.

When the Folk Nation rolls through a city, it’s a sight to behold — chrome engines humming gospel chords, banners of the old world waving against the night, and every face lit by the glow of survival and pride.

They are not just nomads.
They are a moving kingdom, carrying the soul of the streets into the stars.