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Sto Plains

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Sto Plains describes an area on the main continent by the Circle Sea, next to the Octarine Grass Country, and across the sea from Klatch. People on the Sto Plains consider themselves the most civilized and the most technologically advanced. Being civilized is a subjective view (and in this case refers to nations that have invented the fork as well as the knife), but technology had in fact been behind those in the Agatean Empire and Klatch until very recent years; dentures, spectacles, and iconographs are developed from Agatean prototypes, and telescope is "invented" in Ankh-Morpork very recently but has been in Klatch for long enough to be an heirloom from someone's grandfather (see Jingo).

Principle exports of the Sto Plains:

Cabbages
Guilds and Businesses
Smog

When a visitor is fortunate enough to be far enough from Ankh-Morpork, so that he is not choking on the Ankh-Morporkian smog, he will be aware of the very distinct smell of cabbages. The people of the Sto Plains are proud of their cabbages; cabbage export merchants get angry if another country, ex. Klatch, rejects a shipload of cabbages full of caterpillars, which are honest proteins.

Regardless of the arrogance and the small geographical size, the city-states on the Sto Plains are powerful political entities. Their traditional enemies are one another and Klatch. Lancre is considered an unimportant kingdom long way away in the mountains, which are rural, uncivilized, no cobbles or pavement anywhere, capital is hardly larger than a village. Überwald is, to the nobles of the Sto Plains, a place to take a tour in and sneer at.