The surest sign you’re in another country, or in another future, is the names given to administrative territories.
Prefectures in Japan. Cantons in Switzerland. Oblasts in Russia.
Sultanates, suzerainties, satrapies, qarks.
These categories hint at possibilities. Districts are orderly, counties are pastoral, in an exarchate anything might happen.
Here in…
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