More often than not I’ll crack into a sprawling fantasy series and, while I appreciate the luscious descriptions of furniture, landscapes, and clothing, all I’m focused on is that I don’t actually know how this world works. I only know what it looks like.
Including some functionality to your universe can add to immersion and give your reader a strong foundation on which to build their mental model of your universe.
You certainly don’t need to use all of these questions! In fact, I recommend against that, as all of these certainly won’t make it into your final draft. I personally find that starting my worldbuilding off with 5 to 10 functional questions helps pave the way for glittery and elaborate aesthetic development later on.
How is the healthcare funded in your world?
How does healthcare functionally differ between the wealthy and the poor? (i.e. can only the wealthy go to hospitals? do poor families often have to rely on back-alley procedures?)
Where are health centers (i.e. hospitals, small clinics, etc.) organized in your cities?
Does it differ in smaller towns?
How does this affect people’s ability to get healthcare?
Is healthcare magical, and if it is, how does that affect the healthcare system?
If healing is instantaneous, how does that affect people’s views on injury, illness, and chronic ailments?
If you have both magical and physical healthcare, which one is deemed superior and how does that affect society?
What illnesses are common in your world?
How does this affect daily life?
What do the people in your world think illnesses are?
Is it a miasma theory?
Humor theory?
Demons?
Do they know about biological viruses and bacteria?
How does this affect healthcare?
How do people get water?
Is the water sanitary and if not, how do they sanitize it?
How does agriculture work?
Is it large corporations or individual farms?
What sort of agricultural technology exists in your world and how does it affect food production?
Are farmers wealthy or poor?
What sort of natural resources does your world/country(ies) have and how are they obtained?
How does this affect the average wealth of the country?
How does this wealth affect the culture?
What livestock or beasts of burden are most valued? Least valued? Why?
What is considered a luxury good vs. a regular good?
What forms of transportation does your world have?
What classes use what forms of transportation?
How far has the average citizen traveled, given your transportation limitations?
Which cities are the most accessible and which are the least? Why?
How do popular transportation methods change how cities/towns are laid out?
Does your world have public transportation? What is it?
Is there a coming-of-age aspect to travel?
Describe your world’s postal system or whatever equivalent there is.
Who pays for it?
How reliable is it?
Are there emergency methods for transporting information?
How does your world keep time (i.e. watches, sundials, water clock, etc.)?
Does your world have a currency system, barter system, or something else?
If you have multiple countries, do different currencies have different values across said countries?
How does this affect travel?
Do you have banks in your world and if so, how are they run?
Who owns the banks? Government? Wealthy? How does this affect the economy and/or class system?
How does credit operate in your universe?
Does your world operate more on big corporations or small business? Something in between?
How are workers/labourers treated in your world?
Are there workers unions and if so, what are common views on unions?
Describe your tax system. If you don’t have a tax system, explain why and how your world is affected by that.
Can certain social classes not own property, certain livestock, certain businesses, etc.? Why?
How are business records kept? Are business records kept?
If your world has technology, does your world prioritize developing entertainment tech, communications tech, transportation tech or something else entirely?
What does this say about your world?
How does this affect your economy?
To the closest approximation, what type of government does your world have?
How are rulers/presidents/nobles put in place?
How much power does an individual ruler have?
Is there a veto process?
If you have multiple countries, do they have different types of rulers?
Describe any large-scale alliances (i.e. countries, factions, etc.) that are present in your world.
How did they come about and how are they maintained?
Are they strained or peaceful?
How does it affect the greater politics of your world?
Describe how wars are fought both internationally and nationally.
Do methods of war differ between countries/races?
What about philosophies about war?
If there is a military, what is its hierarchy structure?
How does the military recruit?
Is the military looked upon favourably in your society?
What weapons are used by each country/type of people during warfare, and how does that affect war strategies?
Describe the sentencing system of your world.
Is your accused innocent until proven guilty, or guilty until proven innocent?
How are lawbreakers punished?
If you have prisons, describe how they are organized and run, and who owns them.
Does differing ownership change how the prisons operate?
What are the major ways in which laws between countries vary?
Do laws between cities vary? If so, how and why?
How does citizenship work in your world? What rights and privileges do citizens have that others do not?
Can certain classes or races not become citizens?
Are there certain taboo subjects or opinions that artist/authors/musicians are not allowed to depict (i.e. portraying the official religion in a negative light, explicit sexual material, etc.)? What does this say about your society?
How do people get around these censorship laws?
What is the official hierarchy of duty in your world? (i.e. is family the most important, or patriotism? What about clan?)
How many languages are there in your world, and how many languages share a common origin?
How many people are multilingual?
Which language is the most common?
How is multilingualism viewed?
How are different languages viewed? (i.e. is one language ugly/barbaric while another is romantic and sensual?)
Feel free to add your own questions in reblogs or in comments!
Also, the first collected print volume of Gokushufudou has been announced to be released on August 9th! The cover hasn’t been shown yet, but in the next two releases hopefully I’ll tell you where to find it and how to buy it. (Search 極主夫道 on amazon JP if you wanna see for yourself!)
u kno one day we’re all gonna be adults and have jobs. kids are gonna go to school and their teacher will be a kinnie
one step further the students are also kin. “ok tord i understand that you dont like doubles but kokichi has just the same right to kin shinji as you do”
op is an exclusionist sooo lol
im literally asexual but go off
when i confided in you that i thought i was aromantic you called me a freak. stop lying for notes
you were mocking aces you piece of shit. dont twist my words you allo dirtbag
no i fucking said in confidence that i thought i was aro and i trusted you as my most loyal qpp at the time to not break that trust. i thought you would accept me for who i was but you told me i was a fucking turbo loner and said, and i quote, “you were talking about some guy you had a crush on just last week!” which a. WASNT true and b. what does it matter as i came to that conclusion after the fact. and now you have the fuckin audacity to id on the ace spectrum? i feel so physically sick
LMFAO. you were the worst qpp i ever had. why dont you just fucking kill yourself danny. no one will ever love you
i know your address you’re gonna regret ever vagueposting about wanting to qpp with me on your vent account. i’m going to come to your house and steal your fucking asexual nicki minaj shirt while you’re sleeping
this is why we broke qpps. you’re the same unreliable conniving asshole you were when we kindated.
no we broke qpps because you’re a freak exclusionist. and it was when you dropped vegeta that i really started to think we couldn’t be together anymore. what use is qpps kindating when they can’t even say they’re kin with gogeta?
you know just as well as i do that we both wouldve been killed for it. especially since [redacted] was kin with goku at the time. we wouldve gotten fucking torn apart and hung by our thumbs. was i risking all of that to be qpps with someone who didnt even love me?
I DID LOVE YOU YOU FUCKING IDIOT I LOVED YOU MORE THAN ANYONE ELSE IN THE WORLD AND YOU TORE ME DOWN. I ONLY SAID I WAS ARO SO YOU WOULDNT FEEL UNCOMFORTABLE BEING AROUND ME BUT I THOUGHT AT LEAST WE COULD STILL LOVE EACH OTHER THROUGH GOGETA
SO YOU ADMIT THAT YOU AROFAKED. the aspec identity isnt just a costume for you to put on so i’d love you. you disgust me, daniel.
Don’t you still love me? even after all that? i… i think i’m demi. and i think the person i created a loving bond with was… you.
i dont even know anymore. i feel like i dont know you. you were my best friend…my qpp. w-we were gonna move in together and exclude goku. but then you… you just threw me away for being ace. i’ll always love you…but i cant do this.
but. youre the one who threw ME away for being aro. i don’t understand. we put the downpayment on our new house together and everything but suddenly you didn’t want it and that really upset me. was this all a misunderstanding?
you distanced yourself from me as soon as i told you i was asexual. you didnt want to have an asexual qpp. i hope you choke on the shit that comes out of your mouth.
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