#funger lore

I’m aware that this is a fruitless and tedious quest but fuck you I’m a baller? Anyway, I’ve made a lot of assumptions here in this little draft version, like drawing the Bremen Emire and Eastern union to be roughly equivalent to 1945 German and Soviet territory, and kind of conservatively sizing Edo as just Japan and Korea, and other notable guesswork like:

“Vinland” probably isn’t ALL of the america’s, I wager that central and South America remain uncorrupted for two very simple reasons:

Tomato’s and Tobacco, while the tobacco description directly mentions Vinland, the tomato one doesn’t which I find more interesting because tomato’s originate from South America, which implies the region they come from ISNT part of Vinland despite these both being American crops, Tobacco originates farther north towards Mexico, so I’d surmise that the corruption of Vinland tampers off the farther south you go, making Mexico kinda iffy (hence tobacco being rare still) but central and South America safe enough that tomato’s are unremarkable

Another big assumption I made was that of the location of Charmagne-Lombard, which by the name I decided is probably some kind of union of France and Italy, which I decided because, while not a real word in my research, charmagne does sound etymologically French, and I figured Italy because Lombard actually is a real word, the Lombards being a name for an ancient Germanic people who concurred the Italian peninsula and some parts of Central Europe, the very edge of this territory being south France which contributed to my decision that the country is likely a version of both italy and France, given in the first game it was just “Lombardia” which, to me implies there was at some point a peaceful merger, like the also hyphenated Austria-Hungary

Course I could be wrong, Charmagne-Lombard could be JUST Italy or, alternatively, Italy and some of its other neighbors, or it could be not Italy at all, we don’t know enough for me to say

Another funger country that we know surprisingly little of is the Vatican, which I’ve drawn our hwre as being all of Spain- because well… there’s no way it’s as small as the real life Vatican, in the funger universe we know it operates like any other nation, which requires a lot more space, especially considering it’s potential economy, futhermore, with the amount of times the Vatican is mentioned you’d think if there WERE a Spain equivalent country that it too would come up, but it never does, case closed

As for Voroniya I kinda gave up there and went with whqt the wiki guessed it was, which is Ukraine, which seems about right? I’ll do more research when my head is clearer, I need to make lunch but I’m putting that off at the moment

Last but not least…. The eastern sanctuaries is a doozy, it’s clearly some version of the Middle East but is always spoken of like it’s a general place? So I have two theories:

Theory A: the eastern sanctuaries IS a collection of separate countries but is talked about as a whole because theres some kind of alliance that’s caused them to act as a political whole (either due to western colonialism from Rondon or due to the Bremen being a unifying threat)

Theory B: the eastern sanctuaries is a single kingdom with multiple sub-nations in it, like our real life UK, perhaps unified by the overarching culture of the yellow mages and the general effect that Nas’hrah had on the region with his conquests