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Really? Interesting though I could have sworn that it really was a wasteland due to being more Northern mostly. Though, now that I come to think of it the parallel of it being Batavia wanting to leave the Holy Roman Empire and then being hated for it makes a lot of sense. 

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Norlund and Ostland are the two northern most provinces of the Empire actually and people with Norscan blood are also common up there.