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Originally posted by Slartibartfast
Countries don't just fall apart into city-states.
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It wasn't clear to me that *all* the countries had... just England. But you've got a good point... I can easily imagine several scenarios where a country breaks down in to city-states. But most of them involve a catastrophe that destroys most technological capabilities, which is not the picture we get of the world Stark is living in. Of course it would build back up after such a catastrophe.
On the other hand... there is the right-wing secessionist movment that's looking at taking South Carolina out of the USA.
I didn't mind the ending... I thought the whole use of Jeamland throughout the book was already bringing in a "fantasitic" element, so I didn't feel the stuff at the end really turned into genre-jumping.