Day 206: In the Land of Nog

Some background on the land of Nog, first introduced in Day 130: Three Monsters.

Nog is quite different from any human town you are familiar with.  The makeup of the streets, the types of stores and restaurants there, and even the architecture are all different from a human's house.  In Nog, there are some houses that are constructed underground, kind of like an ant colony.  The living room and kitchen would be near the earth's surface behind the trap door, and the lower levels would have the bedrooms.  Poorer families live in duplex homes, ones that are literally built on top of each other.  The monsters improved the humans' apartment complex by building foundations strong enough to support entire houses on top of each other.  Only the rich can live in normal grand houses.  Nogians enjoy painting their buildings bright colors that match their fur, such as lemon yellow or turquoise.  A few brave souls like polka dots, but those are normally seen as the oddballs in the neighborhood.

Since Nog is such a small city, relatively speaking, for such a high monster population, the Nogians built spiral freeways that layer over each other in order to reduce traffic.  Some desperate roads even lead through buildings.  In Nog, the little monsters are required to attend two types of schools for a few hours at each every day, minus the weekends and brief vacations every other month.  The first school is for general knowledge in history, Magog (the monsters' official universal language), math, and science.  The second prepares young Nogians for adulthood through teaching them about career preferences, Nogian civics and government, and the dangers of the human world.  It goes without saying that monsters eat a different diet from humans, and restaurants cater to that, along with embracing take-out.