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I think this was enumerated completely somewhere, but just for my own sake:

(This is a little 1:1 linear for my tastes, but I'll polish and revise later one day maybe. . . )

Odessa -> Basically Tudor England (although hotter in climate)

Flannary -> France post-Charlemagne

Fresia -> Holy Roman Empire

Celstia -> Highlands Scotland and Edinburgh at roughly the same time period as the Tudor equivalent

Alexia -> Italian/Greek of vaguely the Medici strong-polity weak-nation area, but without the local importance to trade (at least, not anymore, since it's largely a puppet state of Odessa at this point)

Hakan -> Switzerlandish kinda? I think this was mentioned somewhere, but can't find it on the wiki

New Hakan -> Like Israel, only less "Jingoistic Nationalism creating the state of the chosen people" and more "Welcome, diaspora peoples, into your new home among us!". That seems to be the Dwarven point of view, although I can't find any references to Fresia's take on things. Alexandria's hold across the Mainland stage would mean that the mandate as a bit more weight than the Christian analog

Petara -> The usual Turkey/Persia mashup from around when Constantinople was a pretty nice place by comparison to the rest of the world

Sidhe-Praxen -> Elves--ultra-isolationist and essentially a non-entity except through Petara's trade monopoly. Take pre-Perry Japan and replace the Imperialist bent with an anarcho-democratic commune sort of thing (because Elves always have some anarcho-democratic commune sort of thing going on)

Gildenhome -> Dwarves--mildly isolationist, but with a big presence in the Alexandrian fold that keeps them internationally relevant, and a big merchant/trading thing going on. Kind of like the Germany of today, a strong financial base and export-driven economy driving paternalistic nationalism with international participation with unity of purpose, in contrast to Fresia's relative chaos (and liberty)

Ulan -> Steppes barbarians of vaguely Mongolian/Cossack bent

Halflings -> Romani, more-or-less

The Bandit Kingdom -> Any of a number of failed states throughout history

Temporal Authority -> The Vatican

Po -> Basically China, but only important to the Silverwalkers in any case

(From an email with Daniel: "Po and San are various flavors of fake China (there's a lot of China to go around), Zha is fake Tibet, and Lang is fake SE Asia. I want very bad for there to be a fake India, but I don't think I could do it justice.")

Utrell -> ???

I think that covers the main Almanack regions, and all of the regions that are in play right now, but I might be missing some. -Slitherrr (talk)