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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 8122195" data-attributes="member: 6801060">Outside the Sword Coast and the Dalelands/Moonsea, and inhospitable areas like deserts, tundra, jungles, and steppes that wouldn't be able to support large, long-term stable nations in any medieval-technology level world (like our own during that period), the entire continent of Faerun (and, moreover, the rest of the world beyond) is basically filled with nations. Every bit of it, with boundaries bumping right up against each other, with border conflicts and all. The whole reason for the original post is to showcase those nations beyond the Sword Coast - the somewhat unfortunate fact that the development team has focused in on that politically atypical area gives rise to misconceptions like this (and the irritating fact that they blew up the two large states in the region in the transition to 5e (for Luruar/Silver Marches) and in Descent to Avernus (for Elturgard, although Elturgard might somehow still manage to pull out of the mess in the latter); granted, Najara still exists, but it's definitely not a typical state). The area focused on 5e products manages to stop exactly where the large organized nations begin, at the borders of Amn and Cormyr. Widen your viewpoint beyond the Sword Coast, and you'll see that statements such as "there aren't even any nations in the world" are utter nonsense....</blockquote>