Geopolitics

Paizo tends to treat countries as basically doing their own thing; there are few geopolitical implications to regime change in one country, and none of the network of power-balancing alliances that were frequently a thing in Earth history. Borders are also less dynamic than in Earth history.

We think that a world were geopolitics works more like how real countries do, with changes to one country having ripple effects on the web of connections and geopolitical equilibrium, leads to a more interesting world to think about and write about.