Earth vs The Multiverse

An interesting thought. Realize that MOST fantasy settings are based on real earth mythology. Elysium, Muspelheim, Gehenna, Limbo, etc. These and many more planes and layers have names and environments scooped right out of our very own mythology.

With that being said. This topic doesn't really belong in this subforum so much as the main planescape one.

I think that there's some truth in the premise, but you may be missing the point of the planes. They aren't places, they're ideas.

The Outlands embodies the three concepts of concordance, conflict, and neutrality -- that could represent the US, but no more than it represents most nation-states.

Sigil is New York, but it is also Shanghai, London, and every other city, as well as a metaphor for the unknown.

Ysgard is based on Asgard the "heaven" from Norse myth, but it isn't terribly representative of Scandenavia itself -- especially not the region as it is today. It's more representative of the concept of action without consequences.

The Beastslands is not Africa, nor is it terribly close. I'm honestly not sure where the connection is besides the fact that the Beastlands are full of animals and Africa is known for its strange (to non-Africans) wildlife. Besides, Africa is simply too big and diverse a place to be defined by a single plane.

Iraq does bear similaries to Acheron (at least from the perspective of one looking in from outside), but no more than any other war zone does. Acheron represents the horrors of war, so any horrible war (and I challenge you to find a war that isn't) is going to bear a certain resemblance.

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We had one in switzerland, once in the middle ages. Was a civil war. Well, someone was killed and they took that as an occasion to stop.
Might be some kind of urban legend though, since the swiss were also the greatest mercenaries of all europe in the middle ages and fought in almost every war, often on both sides.

Hmmm... Poland would definetely be something like Dis in Baator.