utter pointlessness

I need to stop trying to fit Ivalice into some kind of real-world historical context. REPEAT AFTER ME: FFXII IS AN UNHOLY MELD OF CLASSICAL EMPIRES, 18TH CENTURY POLITICS AND 20TH CENTURY MORALITY. Also Dalmasca is not East Central Europe, wtf Subdee. Just because it's your area of interest a contested area full of crazed nationalists plus a Golden Age no one outside the region has heard of doesn't mean you have to drag others down into your madness.

Although if Archadia is the Byzantine Empire and Rozaria is the Holy Roman Empire then the countries in the middle would obviously be NO.