SUGAR DESERT, grand zone II,

is the second biggest zone of the PARK, and as the name suggests, most of it is desert. The barren land has little or no water and plants, and words and images are equally scarce. There are bans on books and electronic devices as well as restrictions on speech and imagery of any kind, which are getting stricter the farther one ventures from the borders and into the central mountain range. They become absolute in the area of the great crater, all rules being enforced with determination by an order of ascetic women called the Hostesses.

Concrete structure in the Sugar Crest. There is quite a number of small monuments distributed over this central mountain range, some of them hard to find. They all date back to the early days of the zone and Batbara's initial involvement with words and letters. Though most are made from stone, bricks, or concrete, there are examples where metal and wood was used. In other cases bare rock, earth and dust was the only working material. 

The Desert Queen stands in the center of a crater called Groom Lake. The crater, or basin, was created by the impact of a large meteorite that hit the ground millions of years ago. Water, which had once filled the crater, has long since evaporeted, leaving behind an enourmos salt pan.

The seventeen Double Suites can be reached by two spiral staircases with openings into the lower White Suites only. Internally, a set of of open stairways connects the two levels of each suite. Since large parts of the desert were disconnected from the electricity grid, there is only an old-fashioned pulley to drag food and other goods up the tower.

For easier access a concrete plattform was built around this Desert Eye opening into an enormus underground cavity which was ground into the rock by the spiraling motion of the Giant Slug.

After decades of continuous work on the monumets, Batbara suddenly abandoned the project, leaving projects like this one in a state of incompleatness.