What have you learnt after reading the AN’s factbooks? III

[The Caleshan Valkyrie]

Huh... it occurs that they make no use of vehicles at all. I cannot recall if this was an issue that everybody was dealing with per the source game, but I'd think they'd want to make a tank or two...

Too many moving parts?

[Banqubya]

Huh... it occurs that they make no use of vehicles at all. I cannot recall if this was an issue that everybody was dealing with per the source game, but I'd think they'd want to make a tank or two...

Too many moving parts?

Is a , confederacy of tribes that until recently has isolated itself from the world. (And they drive on no side of the road since they don't have cars.)

[The Caleshan Valkyrie]

Huh... it occurs that they make no use of vehicles at all. I cannot recall if this was an issue that everybody was dealing with per the source game, but I'd think they'd want to make a tank or two...

Too many moving parts?

Is a , confederacy of tribes that until recently has isolated itself from the world. (And they drive on no side of the road since they don't have cars.)

Incorrect. The Caleshan have cars, but they're bigger than main battle tanks, so what's the point of a road?

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[Frisia Magna]

Despite being a clearly Latin state with Portuguese and Spanish origins -and little to no English influence- they were at least at some point under control of the United States. I am not entirely sure where they are located now though so I don't know how much I should suspend my disbelief.

[Waisnor]

Frisian Parliament is bicameral and consist of People's Council and House of Lords. Council is elected every 4 years using proportional representation.

[Sherechia]

They have some low level censorship, mainly showing gore and horror stuff past 10PM, if the violent scenes arn't that important, this can be avoided by cutting out that part of the movie.

This does mean that most Sherechian shows will be pushed past 10PM because our TV is uncivilized.

[Estado Americano de Espana]

So, the Sherechian language has an interesting way of writing, with up to 28 letters in the entire language, and that's not even counting the Sherechian writing script, the Kantan script, also (probably) mistakenly (referred to by foreigners?) as 'Sherechian Hangul'. Most of its syllables range from simple 1-letter syllables to 3-letter syllables, and Sherechian draws some influence from the East Asian languages, though as stated somewhere, it's very incomprehensible with only physical similarity, but even then, that's stretching it. The numbers are also their own can of worms, with the numbers still drawing marginal influence from either Korean or Japanese.

[Waisnor]

In your world Germany retained their post-WWI borders, Romania united with Moldova, Mexico took over Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras and Chile took over Patagonia.

[Foehn Paramilitary Regions]

Estado Americano de España:

So, the Sherechian language has an interesting way of writing, with up to 28 letters in the entire language, and that's not even counting the Sherechian writing script, the Kantan script, also (probably) mistakenly (referred to by foreigners?) as 'Sherechian Hangul'. Most of its syllables range from simple 1-letter syllables to 3-letter syllables, and Sherechian draws some influence from the East Asian languages, though as stated somewhere, it's very incomprehensible with only physical similarity, but even then, that's stretching it. The numbers are also their own can of worms, with the numbers still drawing marginal influence from either Korean or Japanese.

So... let me get this right.

In the Spanish-American War, after the collapse of both the Asia-Pacific Front and the Caribbean, America would, rather than sign the peace treaty, launch an invasion of Spain in an enraged frenzy that came about as a result of not being able to do anything about the latter's violation of the Monroe Doctrine for so long, entering via the town of Muros, and lengthening the war for quite a bit of time, due to the perceived necessity of completely subjugating the deteriorating Spanish state under the yoke of the US, which they would finally do in the year 1900, leading to the incorporation of Spain as a full-on state.

This would actually result in the United States being involved hands-on during the First World War from its start, which was mostly caused by a combined Franco-German-Austro-Hungarian disdain towards America having interfered in most colonial disputes ever since the end of the Desastre del 98 (the Spanish name for the Hispano-American War). This would, nevertheless, mean that Spain would be one of the main battlegrounds of the entire war, especially, the battle of Catalonia, where a combined Marine-Army force managed to overextend a French batallion's supply lines so much, to the point where they might as well have been fighting civilians all along.

In other words, I learnt how my homeland got completely fucked up by a frenzied America. 'ery noice.

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Waisnor:
Oh look, they're a democratic republic in the middle of a region that isn't traditionally democratic at all! I'm sure that's not gonna cause long-lasting ideological tensions that might be a major factor in their politics to this day...

[The Vault 87 Super Mutants]

While their leader professes to be apolitical, in practice she has been noticeably influenced towards Maoist ideas, owing to her time spent studying in China.

[The Realm of Hyrule]

So, I feel as if this part of The Vault 87 Super Mutants' factbook(s) stuck out to me the most...

To begin with, a little canonical lesson (Which is off the top of my head, so forgive me if it's a little wrong)
There are three distinct groups of Super Mutant in the American wastelands, and one is mostly just as intelligent, if not moreso than the Human, I believe they are called the first generation... They come from a more stable experimentation of FEV that originated in Mariposa Military Base in the West Coast, and this is why one not see many, if at all of these first generations in the East...

The second and third generations come from the East Coast, notably the second from the Vault buried in a cave now inhabited by a civilisation of children, 87. (Now that it is mentioned, I actually believe that the second is a more broad term. Second gens are common on the West Coast, less so than on the East, but still present, often called 'Dum-dums'.) The third comes from FEV experiments carried out by the Commonwealth Institute of Technology, or as it was known post-war, just the Institute... Less refined than the first generation of super mutants due to less successful testing and samples, on average the second and third gens are naturally plenty more brutish and mentally deficient than their first cousins...

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Now that's over with, The Vault 87 Super Mutants mentioned in multiple factors that the second and third gens lack of intelligence can be circumnavigated somewhat. If one takes scientists, great thinkers and other very intelligent humans and dips them in their vats, they may come out a little less intelligent when they turn to Super Mutant, yet would still be plenty more intelligent than their brothers.
AN goes on to discuss how these 'eggheads' would go on to help perfect the vats of FEV in Vault 87, at least to some extent, which would make future generations of gen 2 mutants perhaps less deficient, and closer to the generation 1 mutants of the west coast.
I find this very interesting indeed...

[Yuandongde]

I have learned that Hyrule uses a form of commodity currency based off gems called rupees that are mined in its second largest province of Eldin. The value and rarity of rupees are connected to their colour.

[Perikuresu]

Zheng He must have some great skills to convince an isolationist emperor of an isolationist empire to invest in the colonisation of the Americas

[Sherechia]

So they have a prefecture called Tới Biển which is full of people from Indochina. This prefecture also resembles Indochina in a lot of ways like many remnants of war and lush jungles.

Did Perikuresu receive a spike in immigration when the Khmer Rouge and subsequent Vietnamese invasion/liberation of Cambodia happened?

[Banqubya]

Despite being a clearly Latin state with Portuguese and Spanish origins -and little to no English influence- they were at least at some point under control of the United States. I am not entirely sure where they are located now though so I don't know how much I should suspend my disbelief.

Just a quick explanation for that, Banqubya was under US control because if the Spanish American war, and the US obtained it as a result of that. However Banqubya maintained high automony although not enough to be considered independent. Hence the lack of English influence. Also Banqubya is located in the middle of the gulf of Mexico, not to far away from Cuba

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[The Realm of Hyrule]

Alright, for Sherechia in this instance, picking a completely random dispatch for this thread I had stumbled into:

This one:

And so, I will comment some things I have learnt about Sherechian physical, political and human geography here:

So, what I find fascinating about what I learnt here is that, whilst this factbook presents Sherechia as a diverse landscape indeed, it still does not fail to stick to a general theme, that being: Cold, High, somewhat empty, and without much vegetation in the overall landscape. From the almost empty province of Khaldo, where if you got lost in this desolate land you'd either encounter the Sherechian armed forces in practice, an animal that would probably attempt to gourge you, or a band of friendly nomads who will sometimes be kind enough to attempt to return you from where you had been lost.
To Aruday, the big bustling metropolis where an airport is placed smack bang in the middle of it all.

(On a side note, with that fact and also the general unorthodox and downright insane drivers across, but especially in the Capital, Sherechia must wear the crown of the most automobile accidents, from plane to bus to car in it's entire world)

And the large minority of Buddhists within Namkado creating a culture quite different from many an other place within the country, and everything in between...
What I'm saying is, it sounds like it'd be fun to go on trip through to see everything in Sherechia, if you want to risk the danger of the roads and drivers, that is!

[Pan-Asiatic States]

Hyrule is a dictatorial dystopia where the monarch believes they have some sort of "triforce of power" and everyone just believes her. Her delusions go so far as to believe that there are several deities that control her realm.

This is particularly troubling because there is no separation of powers. Nor widely-established provincial government, or so I think there aren't any. They have a so-called "laissez faire approach" to ruling which is just slang for "fuck you I can't be bothered to rule".

I imagine the realm is just like constant chaos with peasants literally slaughtering each other over bread and then the princess convicts the wrong person but it's okay because the deities told her to do so. And no-one can question her because she apparently has godlike powers, or at least claims to have them.

Also apparently she apparently capitulated to the King of Twilight. Literally everything about this society is fucked I find it hard to believe only when this arbitrary surrender was proclaimed was when the peasants finally said "yea fuck it we done". And even then there was no cataclysmic revolution that led to Zelda getting guillotined. Disappointing.

TLDR: Please send Zelda to a mental hospital and use the so-called "fellowship-based society" to develop Hyrulean communism.

[Azur Deutschland]

I have learned that the Pan-Asiatic States is a one party state led by the Asian Communist Party. The capital, Neo-Manila, is located in the Tagalog Soviet Socialist Republic. Citizens are also basically forced to become essentially lobotomized identityless cogs in the party's machine.

[Sanhana]

they are a nation with a vast history, strong culture and has many things they do similarly to real Germany, but also some different things.

[Holy Federation of Stars]

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While most "rebuilt" cities tend to take on a more modern structure (I.E Warsaw, Hiroshima, etc), the city of Berlin takes a more anachronistic Gothic style, as if Azur Deutschland went back in time culturally but forward in time technologically. Quite the interesting interpretation, tbh. It could be some kind of desire to revisit the past, which I find does align with the ideals of Azur Deutschland - although I feel like the architecture shown in the image is way too ... Western (Anglo-Frankish) if that makes any sense.

my bad g

AN: Whereas they claim that their nation, or at least the "poorer" southern bits, are similar in development to Western Europe or North America, they also state that corruption is moderately prevalent throughout the country - especially in the cities. Presuming they mean political corruption, and presuming "moderate" is relative to the world, this would mean they have a score of roughly between 50-60 on the Corruption Perceptions Index (which is still better than most countries), which would make it worse than most Western European countries + Anglosphere (not including South Africa), but would still make it the second least corrupt country in all of Africa - behind only Botswana.

[Frisia Magna]

Unlike most FT-esque worlds where every planet humans populate looks vaguely continental (but really mostly looking like either Western Europe or the American East Coast in terms of geography), the Holy Federation's eight planets are geographically diverse. With that in mind, "Continental Worlds" hold a majority among their planets as other than Earth (which is a continental world) a second planet, Snaiog, is also classified as such.

[Sherechia]

So there are people from the Crossoveria in Frisia Magna, or known as anthros, people-animal hybrids, in reality they did not come from Crossoveria but instead are probably the result of questionable experiments to make better soldiers.

When it comes to demographics they can be described as the typical advanced European nation, low birth rates but high life expectancy, while their birth rate is higher than other European countries its still very low in the sense that its not enough to replace the population. The country is very homogenous though 1 million of its inhabitants are anthros in some way.

Also like dutch people they are really tall.

[Frisia Magna]

So there are people from the Crossoveria in Frisia Magna, or known as anthros, people-animal hybrids, in reality they did not come from Crossoveria but instead are probably the result of questionable experiments to make better soldiers.

When it comes to demographics they can be described as the typical advanced European nation, low birth rates but high life expectancy, while their birth rate is higher than other European countries its still very low in the sense that its not enough to replace the population. The country is very homogenous though 1 million of its inhabitants are anthros in some way.

Also like dutch people they are really tall.

(I'm not entirely sure if I want to keep the anthros tbh.) /skip

[Isles of Eamhna]

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Similarly to in Emnian culture, in Sherechia hereditary surnames/family names are exceedingly rare. Most Sherechians have only 1-3 given names, and mononymous individuals are very common (15% only have one given name and no other names). Many Sherechian names are furthermore unisex, although it is more common for a particular given name to be associated with a particular gender.

[Libertas in Lumine Christi]

They are a Celtic nation that is a self-governing dependent of the United Kingdom with a history dating back at least 7,000 years, with new archaeological discoveries potentially dating back 10,000 years. The official languages are English, and Emnian, which is apparently descended from Phoenician.