Category:Earthly Comparison
From Scandia
While Scandia has many cultures and peoples unique to it, we have found it useful for Scandia to have a number of parallels with Earth which players can draw upon to explain certain things. For example, in the universe that Scandia sits in, the planet Earth does not exist. Yet, the nations of Scandia have their websites in English, and communicate with each other in English. How can this be if England does not exist in Scandia's universe?
Scandia, like several other ImagiNations worlds, solves this problem by creating its own versions of important Earth cultures and languages, so similar to the Earth equivalent that it may be used as such—earthly comparisons. For example, many Scandian centuries ago, traders known as the Ingallish, from the land of Christiana, spread their language throughout the world. While Ingallish is spoken in only a few countries, it has become the language of diplomacy throughout Scandia. So, when Scandian nations talk to each other, they are not speaking the Earth language English—they are instead speaking a Scandian language, Ingallish, which just happens to be extremely similar to English. There are a number of such parallels which may be drawn on—mottos may be in Valanian, rather than Latin, and the Isanians, not the Egyptians, built pyramids—and so forth.
