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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Desdichado" data-source="post: 1850170" data-attributes="member: 2205">I actually have in the past (and probably will again because I enjoy it) constructed reasonably complicated paleo-ethno-linguistic studies of my settings.  To simplify somewhat, I'd start with major ethnographic groups (equivalent to "Caucasian" or "South Seas Islander"), put them in a location, and then charted their spread through time.  As they interact with other groups, they create new ethno-linguistic entities, split into different groups, etc.Then once I've got a map that sorta charts ethnic, cultural and linguistic groups, I overlay a political map on top of that.  They don't necessarily coincide, just as we don't in the real world.  I like to have groups that are kinda the equivalents of the Basques or the Kurds; they don't have their own nation, but they do have a common ethno-linguistic heritage, and their politics is driven by desires for separatism mated with two or more political units whos borders overlap theirs, etc.It's a little more complex, but I greatly prefer the results as opposed to "country X has culture/ethnography/linguistics x, and country Y has culture/ethnography/linguistics y, etc."</blockquote>