Board Thread:Watercooler 2.0/@comment-6198648-20130228045108/@comment-6191693-20130308210247

When in doubt, rip off real life. By that, I mean go to Wikipedia and look up a nation who has a wiki (history, culture, etc) that's vaguely similar to yours, then edit the details to match. That's what I did for Gaia Atlia -- I just copied all of earth's information from the first few paragraphs, then changed all the details to suit. I even got to keep some of the original links, when they were relevant.