Alvarado is Dead. The 10 Year long Dictatorship of the Republics of California is over and a new Republic arises in this northern splinter, stuck in the midst of a world ever-hostile with aggressive Natives and Americans to its west, domineering Colonial influences to its north, Spanish and Mexican irredentists to its South, and its own internal inadequacies.
In the Golden Cub, players take control of the Political Elite of a Independent Atla-California and attempt to achieve political power and guide the young Callifornian Republic through the tumultuous political scene of mid-18th century North America.
