The Hispania (Spain and Mediterranean)

[Enkidu]

Who randomly decided Malta = Italy, and why?

EUROPE


that is all

I know you're joking, but I'm going to go full Internet and answer seriously.

Malta's geographic closeness to Sicily doesn't make it Italian. The people speak Maltese and English. It's been owned by Spain, France, Britain, at various points. You have the Knights of Malta.

The point is Chris Roberts decided to lump hundreds of Romance languages together and loads of nationalities - and now you end up with weird Italian stereotyping for Outcasts and Corsairs being this bizarre group of pocket racism.

The player factions have not helped.

Hell, culturally, Space-Britain, Space-USA, Space-Canada should be one entity if we're going that far to smother distinctions in allied nations. It's ridiculous Bretonia and Liberty are distinct from each other but loads of southern Europeans are lumped into two offensive "brown people" niche as criminals and parasitic to more "developed" societies. It's like the game was written with Hitler's better known work in one hand and the advice of the KKK in the other.

The same have been done to the Pot-o'-gold-top-of-the-mornin'-to-yer-terrorist-Space-Irish you see in the FL universe.

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