I enjoyed reading this, agreed with most of it.
Perdan's armies are highly elite due to a long running military tradition and powerful central government. While most of the Kingdom is dark and tangled woods, populated only by the brave and the hardy, the coastal trade keeps the cities and townslands rich.
Ibladesh's economy was stopped since I was ever in EC, Perleone is half a welfare state, feeding a city that does literally nothing.
Vix is largely a mountain state, they remind me of what a militant Switzerland would look like, or a unified Balkans but inland
I'll concede on Perdan, but there must be stark economic inequality which fits the tangled and dense woods. Perdan is very much Russia in that regard.
Perleone would be all extravagant city life, yes.
Yes, that characterizes Vix in my mind 100%.
