Mariah+BC1

There were some similarities between my region and //Nation,// the island that the book focused around, but they weren't all that alike.

Nation, which is the island in question, has a beach all along the shoreline, and then it's a forest with some clearings. There are also caves and the like. In Iustus Bellum, there's an expanse of beach all along the island, and there are clearings, but there are no caves.

The creatures are different in each place, as well. In Nation, they have wild hogs, tree climbing octopi, hermit crabs, dolphins, sharks, and birds of many different kind. Basically, if it exists in real world islands, it's in Nation. In Iustus Bellum, there are two main creatures. Those are nares, which are a type of bird close in nature to toucans, and belua, which are basically dogs who walk on their hind legs. Aside from the two, there are a few background creatures that I haven't thought about yet.

Customs are another big difference between the two places. In Nation, men and women are separated very clearly. There is a Women's Place, where no male over the age of 8 is allowed in, and the rest of the island is for the men. Women are, of course, allowed out of their place and into the "men's place," though. In Bellum, women and men are side by side in everything. There are no inequalities at all between the sexes, and there are no specified places for either kind.

Oh, and Iustus Bellum is populated with fairies, not humans.

All in all, I'd say that these places both look the same at a glance, but are very different in nearly every way.