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In the design of the fictional planet [[Ilethes]], many '''references to Earth''', its physical characteristics and human landscape have been made, a list of which is provided below. The list is relevant as the planet is intended to be a critique of the human situation.

==Geography==

*The shifting course of the '''[[Or river]]''' in [[Erdia]], the homeland of the [[Areth]], is parallel to the shifting course of the [[Wikipedia:Yellow River|Yellow River]], the homeland of the Chinese.

*The width of the '''[[Issol A'i]]''', a heavily used strait vital to trade, linking the ports and industrial centres of south [[Marcasia]] and [[Arophania]], is 16km, equal to that of the [[Wikipedia:Singapore Strait|Singapore Strait]].
**The importance of the strait is parallel to the [[Wikipedia:Panama Canal|Panama Canal]], namely drastically reducing travel time between economic centres.

*The shape of '''[[Istheusia]]''', the origin of humans on Ilethes, is derived from that of Africa, as is the existence there of a large desert preventing north-south contact.

==Anthropography==

*The '''[[Areth]]''' are parallel to the [[Wikipedia:Han Chinese|Chinese]] in their culture, social structure, their developmental timeframe and their simultaneous predilection for commerce and esteem of scholarship.
**'''[[Arithia]]''' is parallel to [[Wikipedia:China|China]] in the sequence of its political structure (i.e. cities to empire to feudal kingdoms to unified republic) and the nature of its influence abroad (mainly through vassals and tributaries rooted in trade; currency, system of measurement, [[Lazeic alphabet|writing system]])

*The '''[[Tannaean language]]''' is a [[Wikipedia:Finnish language|Finnicised]] version of [[Wikipedia:Chinese language|Chinese]].

*The '''[[Karyāba]]''' are parallel to the [[Wikipedia:Arabs|Arabs]] in their culture and language, as well as their architecture.

==History==

*The '''[[1935 Zesou Crisis]]''' is inspired by the 1935 Italian invasion of Abyssinia, and the 1956 [[Wikipedia:Suez Crisis|Suez Crisis]] (from the latter of which the crisis derives its name).

*The '''[[Cordial Alliance]]''' is a play on the pre-WW1 [[Wikipedia:Entente Cordiale|Entente Cordial]] that eventually became the Triple Entente.

*The '''[[Pisex Alliance]]''' created by the [[Pisex Treaty]] is a whimsical play on the name of the Polish capital, where the [[Wikipedia:Warsaw Pact|1949 defensive alliance]] was formed between the USSR and its satellites.

==People==

==Trivia & Miscellany==

*'''Pänno Street''', where author [[Otäära Kotoka]] was murdered in front of a patisserie, is named for the Italian word for bread (''pano'').

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