This may be the next Patreon RPG world. It has potential.
Hectatia
Think of it as the… well, it’s not the anti-America. Hectatia has more open foulness than America — it takes a unique combination of ignorance and awareness to be able to laugh at that statement, by the way — but the land is hardly an uninterrupted bleak wasteland of dead things and jagged skies. Hectatia is more of a reflection of America, or an occult counterpart that has steadily drawn closer in appearance to our land via some obscure application of the laws of contagion and similarity. There are many correspondences between America and Hectatia; and it seems that every day a new connection between the two lands forms. With every new form, it becomes easier for people to travel from one land to the other.
The few aware of the situation — on either side of it — do not consider this to be entirely good news.
The inhabitants of Hectatia are human, or mostly human, or at least are descended from humans (except for the ones who were made by humans); they speak comprehensible versions of English and Spanish, and use clothes and equipment that closely resemble contemporary America’s. They have a representative government, federalism, a written constitution, political parties, and the concept of universal rights. Hectatians live in cities and farms, towns and suburbs; they listen to music and watch television. Truthfully, ninety percent of the time their country is just like the United States, if you squint.
It’s that last ten percent, though.
Idolatrous bloodthirsty gods? Arcane science that offends the very soul to gaze upon? Disco? Truly there is no end to their depravity.
Is Disck is your standard for the soundtrack of he’ll, past you never have to listen to EDM.
It’s disco made by people with no musical talent for those with no auditory palette.
*If Disco
I’m seriously wondering about those boundaries. At a glance, they’re defined by rivers, even in places where that doesn’t make much obvious economic or logistical sense.
So, running water and vampires?
Now, now. “Vampires” is a term that has loaded connotations and an unfortunate history of being used as a pejorative. No modern Sanguary-Hectatian would even think of casually snacking on a fellow-citizen. But, yes, the presence of running water was a careful consideration when creating state borders. It made it much easier to establish the necessary civic wards.
SNACKING ON A CITIZEN.
So Hectatia has little to no illegal immigrant problems. I like it already.