Evacuees in the European Federation
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Evacuees in the European Federation are people who have left or been evacuated from lost regions of the European Federation and its territories into held territory. Organised evacuations began with the northern Adriatic coast after the fall of Venice in 2023, and from 2025 moved much of the population of southern Poland, the east of Czechoslovakia and Austria westward. Evacuees are registered by the municipality in which they settle, which gives them a ration entitlement, housing and schooling. As of 2028 the largest numbers are registered in Amsterdam (about 380,000), Munich (210,000), Brussels (160,000), Frankfurt (140,000) and Lyon (90,000).
History
The first organised evacuations in Europe followed the fall of Venice in 2023, when the coastal and lagoon towns of the northern Adriatic were cleared. Their population moved by rail across the Alps to Munich and through the Fréjus tunnel to Lyon.
From 2025 the infestation advanced into eastern and central Europe. Evacuations from southern Poland and the east of Czechoslovakia ran westward through Prague and Kraków, and from Austria to Munich. Many people left ahead of the official evacuations, by car and by train, and registered on arrival. In 2027 the Federation's forces withdrew from the Kraków front, and the remaining population of Kraków was evacuated by rail. Since 2026 residents of Prague have also been leaving for the west.
Evacuees also arrived from the Federation's territories in North America, most of them in Amsterdam, and from outside the Federation on the Trans-Siberian Railway.
Evacuation
Evacuations are ordered by the Federation's civil-protection authorities, and since 2027 by the joint H&A-EF command. Most evacuees travel by rail, on trains run by H&A Logistics, with luggage limited to what each person can carry. Livestock is left behind, and pets are examined on arrival.
Reception
Evacuees pass through reception centres at the main railway stations of the receiving cities. Each person is registered, and anyone who is wounded or unwell is examined for active COTH before release. Carriage of the agent, which is near-universal, is not tested for.
Registration is run in each city by a municipal office for evacuee affairs. It gives the evacuee a ration entitlement, a housing allocation and school places for children, and records the constituency of origin, in which they continue to vote in elections to the European Parliament. Evacuees who do not register receive no entitlement (see Rationing in the European Federation).
Housing
Evacuees have been housed mainly in converted office buildings, which stood partly empty after 2023, in exhibition halls such as those of the Frankfurt fairground, and in temporary housing on the edges of the receiving cities. In 2028 about a quarter of registered evacuees in held territory live in temporary housing. Schools in districts with many evacuees teach in two shifts a day.