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Stine Village, Michigan

Stine Village is a town founded for the free life and expression of monsters. It is the most populous community of monsters within the United States of America, located in the state of Michigan. It is one of many communities presided over by the North American Monster-Human Alliance across the United States and Canada, while not being federally recognized, these communities are often left to govern themselves so long as they don’t attempt to have their laws extend beyond town limits. All such communities are recognized by monster communities worldwide. The town had a population of 1,568 at the 2020 census, officially constituting it as a town despite the community’s name.

Stine Village is most widely known for Stine University, a historically monster-accepting college that accepts both humans and monsters. Monsters may attend under and major, but admitted humans are limited to the “M.A.D” program (Monsters, Aliens and Divergent creatures Science and Studies, also known as “M.A.D. Science and Studies”) which contains STEM majors that center around the study and appreciation of monsters and monster society.

Stine Village has a community model that largely represents closed communities, though it allows easy assimilation after a simple vetting process and allows limited visitation from outsiders, including college tours for Stine University. Stine Village has often been criticized for certain policies related to its status as a closed community, including a strict anti-technology policy. Newcomers and visitors to Stine Village are stripped of any technology that can access the worldwide computer network upon arrival. After two years of residency within the community, members gain access to the North American Monster-Human Alliance’s extranet.¹

History

Stine Village was founded in April 1912 by Ryland Stine, a Jewish immigrant who fled to the United States and married a vampiress. Stine had a favorable view of monsters and intended for the Village to be a sanctuary for them. Stine Village was originally incorporated under the name Freedom Towne, but was renamed after Stine’s death by his widow to honor him and be more true to the smaller population it had at that time.

Stine University was founded thirteen years after the creation of the town, and was originally intended to be the institution the founding couple’s children would attend².

Each of Stine’s descendants has been elected mayor at least once, with the exception of his daughter. His wife has held the position most often due to her longevity, having won mayoral elections in four different decades.

Stine began accepting human students during the Civil Rights Movement, after Michigan school systems became desegregated. The initial plan was to allow the acceptance of Black students only, in keeping with historical precedent connecting monster communities with Black communities. However, the school opted to admit any human students of any race following a protest, in which activists argued that the nature of the school and intended desegregation served to dehumanize Black students rather than uplift them.

All communities headed by the North American Monster-Human Alliance recognize interspecies marriages between humans and monsters who pass the retroactively named Harkness test. The language in these provisions left no exceptions based on race or gender, leading to a large queer and multiracial population within these communities. In 2015, the law was amended to allow marriages of more than two individuals if there is a prenuptial agreement written before all participants enter the marriage. These marriages are not currently recognised outside of similar communities.

Technology Use Within Community

For more information, see Criticism of technology.

Ryland Stine’s daughter, Erica Affabee, left Stine Village to study philosophy at the University of Frankfurt Institute for Social Research in the early 1970s. She returned home with a radical anti-technology worldview, which she immediately attempted to implement in her hometown. She was met with instant resistance from her brother, Jovial Stine, who was the mayor of the town, as well as the majority of Stine Village’s population. However, certain anti-technology sentiments passed over to the following generation and were exacerbated by the mainstream adoption of internet usage.

In 2003, residents unanimously voted on a bill to outlaw any use of mobile devices within the town, due to fear that the invention of camera phones would lead to tourists coming to the town and exposing the monsters who live there. “If someone takes a Polaroid, we can just rip that up. But a digital image? Who knows what humans could do to us with those…”³ An amendment for the bill was passed in 2010, formally outlawing all devices capable of connecting to the internet after years of them being heavily frowned upon and banned in certain private buildings.

In 2012, Stine University opened its first writing lab for undergraduates following the connection of the town to the North American Monster-Human Alliance’s extranet in 2009. This writing lab, and all other undergraduate labs, exclusively feature typewriters available for use by any student. This was done in conjunction with a new rule being passed that no one within the town was permitted access to the extranet until spending at least two years as a resident after the expulsion of a student who had posted videos of different monster students on the video-sharing site YouTube.⁴

Identity Documents

Communities under the North American Monster-Human Alliance are widely criticized by non-residents for refusing to accept ID cards issued by the U.S. and other federal bodies in most instances. Stine requires all residents to acquire an ID specific to these communities for all purposes; the only exception in Stine Village is a Michigan state driver’s license, which is required to drive within town limits. Monster Identification Cards (“MIDs”) display far less information than standard identification cards issued within the United States, despite that information being collected during the application process. MIDs are known for lacking gender markers and for displaying non-legal names.

Critics claim that the lack of legally verifiable information on MIDs could lead to identity fraud and make it harder for law enforcement to effectively hunt down criminals. The town’s refusal to make its crime statistics public is seen as evidence of this, though anecdotal evidence suggests otherwise. Fundamentally, the concept of a federally recognized ID system is considered Orwellian² to Stine Village residents and is vehemently opposed by the population.

Local Organizations

Stine Writers’ Guild

The Stine Writers’ Guild (SWG) was founded in March 1975, intended to sound very official and “grown up” despite originally serving as a children’s club. It was originally made up of the children of the local paper’s journalists, and would hold meetings in the basement of the local newsroom. The original members of the SWG grew up within the organization and retained membership into adulthood. Most members attended Stine University, leading to the SWG being recognized as an official college organization.

Currently, the SWG limits membership to students at Stine University, faculty members, and select alumni.

Stine Writing Organization

The Stine Writing Organization (SWO) was founded to counter the elevation of the Stine Writers’ Guild into a college organization. Consequently, membership is available to all children within the town as well as any interested adult for a small fee. The SWO is officially sponsored by a local magazine.

Baseball

The Hobgoblins was founded in July 1995 as an independent amateur baseball team to expand Stine University’s list of physical activity programs. Originally, members of the team only played against each other for recreation purposes. Now, the team plays ranked games against other monster-accepting towns once every year. Membership was only open to students of the University. In the present day, membership is open to all Stine residents. It is directly affiliated with the Lil’ Monsters Lil’ League, with members often volunteering to coach the younger team.

Other Organizations

Birdwatchers Anonymous
Chess Royale
Deep Sea Appreciation Club
Lil’ Monsters Lil’ League
Phantom Support
Trees Are Friends, Not Fuel
Vampire’s Blood Drive

References

Beauchamp, Zackie. My Time at Stine.
Stine, Jovial. Jovial Stine: A Memoir.
Stine Times. “Amy on The Hazards of Our Times”, archived.
Freakshow. “Haven’t You Humans Ever Heard Of Respecting My Goddamn Privacy?”, archived.

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