References to Earth in the design of Ilethes

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.

Geography

• The shifting course of the Or river in Erdia, the homeland of the Areth, is parallel to the shifting course of the 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 Singapore Strait.

• 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 Chinese in their culture, social structure, their developmental timeframe and their simultaneous predilection for commerce and esteem of scholarship.
  • Arithia is parallel to 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, writing system)

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