About this demo

Tribal Nation 2 does not exist

There is no such Nation. There is no Dry Fork, no North Bench, no Alkali Draw and no Sand Bench. The seven businesses are invented, the contracts are invented, the jobs are invented, and the money is invented.

The name is deliberately one that no Nation could have. That is a safeguard, not a shortage of imagination: it means this site cannot be mistaken for a real Tribe's website even by someone who arrives on a single page with the banner scrolled past.

Nobody here is real

Every council member, director, manager and staff member named on this site is invented. The surnames were chosen to be ordinary and non-distinctive so that they point at no real officeholder anywhere in Indian Country. On our first demo an early draft used a documented Lakota family name belonging to real people, and it was replaced. We check for that now.

There are no photographs of people on this site and no generated faces. Council members carry designed initial marks instead. A fictional Nation will not be represented by a real person's face, and we will not manufacture faces to fill the gap.

Every telephone number is in the 555-01xx range formally reserved for fiction. Every email address uses the reserved .invalid domain. Nothing on this site can reach anyone.

The photographs are not this Nation's land

All three photographs are public domain works of the United States Bureau of Land Management, colour graded to this site's palette. They show anonymous high desert on federal public land.

They were chosen under a rule we hold to strictly: a fictional Nation must never be dressed in a real Nation's country. On our first demo that ruled out Badlands National Park, whose South Unit lies inside the Pine Ridge Reservation. In the Southwest the risk is far higher, because nearly every recognizable formation belongs to a living Nation.

So the standard here was tighter. No recognizable silhouette, and no land unit whose name carries a Nation's name. That second rule cost us the best images we found: a set of sage steppe photographs from Arapaho National Wildlife Refuge, which is federal land in Colorado and not Arapaho Tribal land, but which would have put a real Nation's name in the credits for invented scenery. Sources, licences and the full list of what was rejected are recorded at /media/CREDITS.md.

There is no Indigenous language on this site, on purpose

The site is built with a place for the Nation's own language in the masthead, in the greeting on the home page, and above every major heading, set at the same size and weight as the English so it would read as an equal line rather than as decoration. Every one of those places is empty.

We do not invent Indigenous words and we do not run English through a translator. A language belongs to its speakers, and a demo is exactly the wrong place to put words nobody said. What a studio can honestly do is build the space properly and leave it for the Nation to fill. The fields are in the editor, ready.

What this demonstrates

This is the second of two demos, and the two are meant to be looked at together. The first is a services-led site for an unnamed Nation on the northern plains: warm, editorial, serif. This one is an enterprise-led site for a named Nation in high desert country: cool, typographic, no serif anywhere, and no cards.

Two demos that look nothing alike is the argument. A studio that shows one site is showing you its template. A studio that shows two genuinely different sites is showing you that your Nation gets designed for.

Everything on this site is editable by a staff member at /admin without touching code: the notice at the top of the homepage, every contract, every job, every figure. It is a static site, which means it is fast on a one bar connection, and it depends on nothing that Wiyaka Studios controls.

Who built it

Wiyaka Studios builds websites for Tribal Nations. The client owns everything: the code, the domain, the content, and the login. We do not hold sites hostage.