The Walking Dead: World Beyond – Do they know it’s Christmas at CRM?

Does The Walking Dead: World Beyond CRM colony know it’s Christmas?

Thanks to The Walking Dead: World Beyond, the newest spinoff in the TWD Universe, fans now know a lot more about the mysterious helicopter people known as CRM – the Civic Republic Military. With over 200,000 people living in their sphere of influence, they have a thriving community that’s bigger than many US cities. Does that mean they’re celebrating holiday traditions, too?

In the world of The Walking Dead, celebrating holidays isn’t easy for a number of reasons. Celebrating anything in the face of a battle for survival is difficult enough, as is not having calendars or days of the week anymore.

We’ve seen the Campus Colony celebrate the anniversary of the community’s founding while Ezekiel and Carol tried to host a fair to encourage interaction between the communities. (Both ended tragically…) In Fear the Walking Dead, Rabbi Jacob Kessner kept the flame burning for Ner Tamid, and its symbolism was incredibly powerful to a group of people who had been without traditions for so long.

World Beyond introduces the first look at what life is like in a fully formed community under the CRM, and if life is as advanced as Lieutenant Colonel Elizabeth Kublek hints, then perhaps they have room for holiday celebrations.

The notion of celebrating holidays in CRM isn’t as outlandish as it first seems. Their whole purpose is to help civilization survive, and maintaining traditions like holiday celebrations is a huge part of that. Since they seem to have a pretty firm grasp on maintaining the status quo of what came before the fall of civilization, it’s reasonable to surmise that the residents of the Civic Republic have a calendar, which means birthdays, holidays, seasons and commemorations.

As we learn more about this mysterious community and its powerhouse military, it will be interesting to see how they handle things like holiday traditions.

Do you think the Civic Republic celebrates the holidays? What traditions do you think carried over from the times before the apocalypse? Let us know in the comments!