Orostan wrote:Plzen wrote:I voted short time skip.
Well, my original idea for Clara and the Commonwealth was a clash between industrial ideals and an early agrarian society. People of the Neolithic re-interpreting Clara’s idea of progress to suit their Neolithic outlook and the incompatibilities that causes. Clara trying to slowly drag the Commonwealth into a modern parliamentary democracy, having to fight the very nature of the society she leads every painful stop of the way as the country violently lurches this way and that as many nascent democracies did and even in the 21st Century still do.
I didn’t really expect foreign intervention; Viktor’s Imperium is forcing me to spend far more of my IC posts on military development, technological advancement, and territorial expansion than I ever really intended to.
That's an interesting political conflict. Is capitalism fully established in the Commonwealth, or are you lingering around slave society?
iirc theyre more of a communal set up, as I don't think Scandinavia had been penetrated by Neolithic groups by 3000 BCE (well, Neolithic groups that brought agriculture). So the Commonwealth is probably a glorified network of horticultural villages by now (then again, I don't think a single Author state except one in Mesopotamia is more than that anyway, it's only been a generation, max )
So overall a similar-ish situation to California, but, probably less people but more "international" (whatever that means in this age) trade (and more warfare lol)
Orostan wrote:aaaaaaay
Currently I've been using modern geography. The Yellow River is crazy and moved every few hundred years until relatively recently so I've set aside my idea of trying to play in actual geography for the time period. It's great to see at least someone trying to play with the ancient geography.
lol well I understand not everyone is as enthralled in the history of the place they landed in as I am haha, there's a good reason I go for California in these RPs, the more I research the more convinced I am it's, frankly kinda perfect for the premise. That said, Egypt was also a close one, because if American crops are playing agriculture on easy mode, then Nile silt is playing with cheat codes enabled