SETTING UP THE ISLAND
The island is located in the South China sea, east of Vietnam and north of Brunei. Locate Spratly Island on a suitable map; South Spratly Island is somewhere south of it!)

You can have your players construct the island, or you may want to design the island beforehand (to save time, for example).

The island map needs to show: 1) the locations and names of the villages, with a space to display village populations of humans and animals; 2) the location and name of the Hotel, with a space to display the clans working at the Hotel; 3) two hunting areas: a jungly area where wild boar live, and a marshy area where wild ducks thrive; 4) the travel paths among villages, hunting areas and the Hotel (the paths may be via river or seagoing canoe). It is nice, but not essential, to show the island's other features, such as rivers, streams, mountains, swamps, coral reefs, sand dunes, and so on.

Here's what our map looked like.

BACKGROUND OF THE ISLAND AND ITS PEOPLE
You may want to have your students investigate this. It's fascinating. The islands in this area of the South China Sea are claimed by many countries - Vietnam, China, Malaysia and Brunei among them - and some of them are garrisoned in order to support these claims.

For the purposes of this game, you may assume that South Spratly Island has got an indigenous population, a mix of Vietnamese, Chinese, Indonesian, Malay and European peoples, and it also has a hotel, a grand old hotel built by the British around a hundred years ago. It closed in 1939, but it's now been restored and is reopening.