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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 3879789" data-attributes="member: 22779">Actually, you could make a pretty decent argument for any pre-Edo era Japan, IMO.But, yeah, PoL abounds within the real world.  That's been the problem with most published settings before - they're modeled on Renaissance or later Europe politically - large, mostly stable nation states.  You didn't see that until the 15th or 16th centuries really.Think before the Renaissance, where, as was mentioned, a kingdom was pretty much any stretch of land you could ride a horse across in a day.  Beyond that kingdom, there wasn't too much until you hit the next kingdom.  The Greyhawk/Forgotten Realms systems of highly centralized governments with well defined borders is really very anachronistic.</blockquote>