Dalasin is mostly a single continent, Pangæa-style, plus many islands and some inland seas.
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It is 2.5× smaller than Earth in radius/equator, 6.25× smaller in area (because surface = 4πr²)
* Earth’s surface = 510 million km²
* Earth’s equator: 40,000
* Dalasin equator: 16,000
* Dalasin surface area: 81.6 million km²
If about 31% is land (like Earth), that’s approx 25 million km². That’s a comparable size to Africa (30 million km²). The big continent is about 2400-3200km across.
Are there islands far away from the supercontinent? I can’t see any in the atlases in the college library. When boats or planes go and explore certain regions, they vanish mysteriously. Surely there is no land on the other side of the world, only ocean? That’s what all our maps say.
The population of Dalasin is probably around 0.9 to 2.3 billion but who’s counting
Fancy coasts, savage interior
As deep as deep inland goes, you’re in the Stone Age with dinosaur-tribes. It’s the fantasy from the films One Million Years B.C. (1966), Prehistoric Women (1967), When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970), and Creatures the World Forgot (1971)
A little bit further coastwards you’ll find Conan-The-Barbarian levels of technology… a little outside that it’s Classical Antiquity technology…. a little outside that it’s mediæval technology, etc. As a rough rule: near the centre of the continent means primitive, near the coast means developed. Many cultures and ethnic groups here, often not knowing of the existence of the others.
The interior is hard to traverse: there are no good roads. Some Lost Kingdoms are isolated by jagged mountains, some by swamps, some by forests as thick as a blackberry bush.
It’s a geography conducive to fragmentation. Various bandits and monsters make these impassable zones even more forbidding.
The mediæval-tier regions are split into hundreds of city-states and petty kingdoms. Many of them, but not all, have a particular theme. One small state is cow-themed, one playing-card-themed –
Here are some pictures from the Honeybee Kingdom. Thery’re not sexy pictures; Dalasin is not all sex all the time sure sometimes all ya want is a cup of tea am I right –
And the Ladybird Kingdom –
These mediæval (better described as fairytale) petty kingdoms are constantly involved in rivalrous and amourous and frantic intrigue and conspiracies against each other. Maybe you’ll think you can quietly pass through town, but you find yourself drawn into the Queen’s plot against her political rivals.
Further towards the coast, before we reach the coastal civilisation’s border, there’s a level of technology similar to the steampunk/Victorian era –
The majority of the population lives in the coastal civilisation. It is as sophisticated and technologically advanced as Tokyo. Actually a little more so. You can summon a robotaxi with your phone and have food delivered by robots. This is where most of the action takes place, my goodness what were you even doing in those strange wild places? You must have some stories to tell!