Talk:Thaumaturgy/@comment-5982863-20131120132613/@comment-5982125-20131120182152

Yes, I got the reply :P I check this site dozens of times a day you know, since I'm always working on it, and it'll pop up on the main page with "Talk: [Article] etc" under Recent Activity.

The nations portion is quite fun and yes, that's why I included the Byzantines, because I also really like them ... and because there's a lot of mysticism and such surrounding the Byzantine Empire that fits well with the atmosphere of the series. Although I don't really see how Byzantium compares to Austria-Hungary ... the multiethnicity of it ? I would think the Byzantines would be considerably less multiethnic, since they have pretty much managed to cofine the Muslim Arab population to their original homelands on the Arabian peninsula... although the infiltration of Islamic non-Hellenistic peoples into Asia minor is causing them a lot of internal problems, which is the universe's version of our own Middle East's general instability. However, the Byzantines are quite rich (not as rich as the FNA or the UK, but richer in resources and money than the Confederation - even if they aren't quite as industrially developed) ... so they can keep a lid on the problem so to speak. Eventually though it will probably get the better of them, or force them to take some really drastic measures that might cause the Commonwealth to attack them. There's no U.N. though to police the world against human rights violations, so it's hard to say how the rest of the world would react if they started killing or mistreating their Muslim minorities.