Shireroth

The game works like this: I ask a question. You give an answer for your county or other subdivision. If we get four or more answers, then whoever gives the best answer, as measured in things like completeness, creativity, and self-consistency gets a small monetary prize, possibly to be raised to a large monetary prize if I get national funding.

For example, I might ask "What kind of food is popular in your county?". Maybe the count of Yardistan describes how everything there is very spicy and similar to Mexican food, and there's also a lot of fish because it's on an island. And the Count of Discontinuity describes Straylight's program to create vat-grown genetically engineered meat, and the Count of Monty Crisco gives the ancient Imperial recipe for moose stew.

Send a postcard from Egypt, and it's almost guaranteed to have a pyramid on it. Send one from France, and you'll see the Eiffel Tower. Send one from Japanese, and you'll probably get Mt. Fuji.

What famous structures, natural wonders, or other landmarks might appear on a postcard from your county or subdivision?

The "Ode to Post-Multiculturalism" is a controversial art installation created by the artist Ravii who used an arrangement of the skulls recovered from remains of the victims of the Ohl'Tar to starkly illustrate the limits of tolerance and which furthermore seeks to demonstrate the fate that befalls dissimilar yet co-located communities in the absence of a strong governing authority.

The title serves as a riposte to the naive and already ancient "Ode to Multiculture" which is found in Eliria.

The choice of location is also significant. The installation is set before the walls of the ruined Babki Cantonment of Islus which was destroyed during inter communal violence after the Second Hyperborean Descent.

Alalehzamini children as well as older Elwynnbrigaden recruits are routinely brought to the site on field trips as part of their studies in order to learn what the alternative to the long-standing benevolently paternalistic rule of the Khans would be.