As of now I'm gaming this out with a Skyrim run where the character in question is currently leveling up smithing while producing weapons and shields for causes domestic and abroad

Unfortunately I seem to have gotten into a Niche Mood and ended up accidentally designing the executive level of government for a Totally Not Chinese Dynasty Setup complete with minister names and titles and the like, maybe I'll explore this further, maybe I'll make references to them later

Not gonna lie I kinda like the internet-chat dynamic between 'terrarium benefactors' while their tiny civilizations are limited in forms of communications.

Doesn't matter if it's Not-IRC or a Not-Discord type method of communication

Though at this particular one you have several different political blocs sending their own people to Try To Help Mold Society In Their Direction

Thinking about post-apocalyptic super-sized terrariums being attractions in community centers, as sort of a nano-zoo of sorts and promoting a "Wow, look at all these poor tiny people, aren't you glad we're more civilized than them?"

... of course the benefactors I write about think differently

There’s part of me that wants to write an aftermath of this that takes place in that terrarium but unfortunately it’ll be one of those is/ought things where I have to go OOC and state that I By No Means Believe In This Particular Group’s Ideology

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Well, taking steps into more serious-ish writing subjects with my Terrarium Civilizations series. Here's a short I put out while on vacation, Breakout at Cadrian Mill: www.furaffinity.net/view/64539167/

Also soccer will undoubtedly cover every groyp because yes even the Place Based On Rome will get involved despite their general balance between Roman Empire and Caesar’s Legion

Thinking about various aspects of my worldbuilding that I’ve been lazier on: Baseball and Soccer as universalizing sports, reusing military equipment from historical armories, going straight through to “Yeah, that one group is actually entirely based on Rome”

Part of the fun of having a "World where everyone got a chance to choose where they wanted to live because the alternative is far worse" is how I *think* I got around the "biomes determine names" curse, i.e: "Desert means Arabic and Iranic names by default"

Kudos to Football Manager and Out of the Park Baseball for making it *somewhat* easy to do this

I've been putting off seriously worldbuilding athletic/sports leagues for my Terrarium Civs environment for a while but I should honestly just bite the bullet and Fecking Do It Already

Partially inspired by playing Fallout 4 and 'who needs a marketplace of ideas when we have a battleground of ideas among the artificial wreckage of Earth-based society'

Thinking about Fallout-esque landscapes/environments being All The Rage for 'watch the nanos!' type things at community centers.

Probably the one thing I'll never go into *public* detail about is the sourcing of some of the more organic fertilizer for agriculture. I'm sure those of you that know me can probably guess at it.

That's how you get places like Ilwaco/Long Beach, Washington State being the site of a metropolis that probably, realistically, would not be able to *be* there in real life.

Honestly it's kinda fun having terrarium-based landscapes as places where nanos are living even if the scale might be horrendously off.

Blame the geographic imperfections on a group of folks who see parts of Earth and think "Wow that'd make SO much sense if there was a big city here."

Shrunken on a desk, being loomed over by stuff like a coin, pencil and soda can

Tents in settlements while receiving regular shipments and providing peacekeeper-esque infantry patrols along roadways to protect from raider gangs and potentially politically-regressive factions

Unsurprisingly there is probably a bit of Political Intrigue involved here

Playing straight in my canon: A 'we're rebuilding society/nation-building' mission to a terrarium intentionally created as a post-apocalypse setting as folks begin to realize Maybe This Actually Kinda Sucks.

Currently being undertaken by members of the United Workers Federation

I feel like if I tried to communicate which factions hated each other or which benefactors disliked each other or hated each other, I’d need flow charts that looked like they came from the Department of Defense

Horror scenario: Someone just learned about containerization and no other ports have the infrastructure to support it

Terrariums’ primary method of long-distance travel between terrariums is, unsurprisingly, ocean liners. Planes were just too logistically challenging except for short hops.

This may or may not be because I like the concept of the ocean liner

Think of this spreadsheet as a potential way to explore this sort of world on your own, maybe even go off and create your own! You aren't beholden to the concept of a specific 'canon.' Go nuts.

The technological level of the micro world can be best described as a sort of arrested development, fixed at a point prior to the invention of the atomic bomb in Earth-Year 1945.

The larger world however is a lot closer to 'modern' 2026, as of the time of this writing.

Terrarium Civilizations (still, working title!) is at its core a world sandbox. There is no real specific 'canon' per se. One constant however is a sense of separation between micro (probably nano-sized) and macro worlds.

Terrarrium Civilization Spreadsheets

Anyway, welcome! Here is my ongoing spreadsheet for organizing my Terrarium Civilizations (working title) world. It is in a constant state of flux, so you may find things being added, or removed, at my own will! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Woohoo! It works! Muahahaha!