Strange Nations

Strange Nations is a collection of more than thirty cultures ready to be dragged and dropped into your world, with cultures appropriate for every kind of setting from high fantasy to contemporary horror to space opera. While each entry has certain setting assumptions, there are also suggestions for adapting them to other genres. 

Here is the city-state of Iditt, where necromancy is an accepted cornerstone and self-mummification is the first step to repaying your lifelong debt to society. Here are the Balas, whose buildings hang off the edge of a flat world. Here are werejaguars, mad fairy refugees, and wagon-drivers with a religious injunction against touching the ground. 

This book also holds a wealth of information on other subjects useful to a worldbuilder, including: 

• How to get your vitamin c from only meat or mushrooms, and the salinity tolerance of plants in case you want to try growing them on a ship. 
• Comparisons of various low-tech methods of long-distance communication, from relay running to drums to the Pony Express. 
• How to prepare maize, what cactus can be used for, the ingredients for "carrot whiskey," and more. 

Everything in this product, from the text to the illustrations, is offered under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license. You can use, transform, and distribute these cultures however you'd like, so long as you allow others to do the same.