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What stereotypes do people in your world have for one another?

Who is regarded as lazy?

Who is regarded as rude?

Who is regarded as officious, or polite, or kind, or loud, or warlike?

How accurate are these stereotypes?

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What range of skin, hair, and eye colours are you likely to find in any given sample of the population?

What colouring would be seen as rare and unusual?

What would stand out in the street?

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Are certain colours or styles of clothing reserved for certain types of people?

Is this a question of social class? (e.g. no bright colours for poor people; only royals can wear blue; etc.)

Is this a religious requirement? (e.g. green is reserved for priests and the holy)

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If the political leader (e.g. king, president) wanted to issue a proclamation, how would they go about doing that?

Do they have a balcony to shout from? Who makes sure that everyone has heard?

How is their message relayed to far-off parts of the country?

Are there heralds or a television network?

How long might it take for everyone under their authority to have heard their words?

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Are there forests?

What sort of trees do they have?

What creatures call them home?

What sapient people call them home?

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What small annoyance of daily life in the home do people always complain about?

For example:

noisy neighbours

spiders in the house

having to polish the brass

fire went out

and so on

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What is taken seriously by people in our world but unimportant to people in your world?

Why?

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What do the elites do for fun?

How do the regular folk feel about this?

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What is the biggest, most beloved celebration of the year?

What does it involve?

Is it a religious event?

How widespread is it?

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In the city, would a professional (e.g. doctor, lawyer, clerk, etc.) be more likely to own or rent their residence?

Would you expect them to have a house? A set of rooms? A flat?

Would it be usual for them to be a lodger? Or perhaps to share lodgings with another professional?

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How many suns are above your world?

If there are more than one, what names are they known by?

How do they affect the seasons?

How does this affect the length of the average day?

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Are people vaccinated in your world?

If so, what are they vaccinated against?

Are vaccines a new or old technology?

How effective are they?

Is there an equivalent of the anti-vax movement?

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What sort of animals are used for travel?

Do they pull carts and carriages? Are they used for riding?

How do animals for each differ from one another?

Could a working animal of this type also be considered a pet?

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Is law enforced at sea?

If so, how and by whom?

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Who knows how to predict the weather?

Do they use natural clues or a form of magic?

How common is this skill?

How accurate is it?

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Is there a difference in how genders dress?

At what age does this come into play? Are babies interchangeable? How about toddlers?

How would people respond if somebody dressed outside of their gender's norm?

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What do people wear to sleep in?

How acceptable would it be to be seen that way by somebody outside your immediate household?