The Tory map of the UK consists of civilisation in London and the Home Counties, surrounded by fox hunting territory as far as Liverpool, where the country becomes "Terra Barbaria" and those dreadful unclean folk.
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'