Okay, so loose worldbuilding as of now; may change, since it's kinda sloppy, but this is for current reference. If I do clean things up, it may come with a full fic overhaul in the far-off future (after I'm finished with writing it in full).
The world history of my Deltarune fic is very similar to current world history, but monsters exist as well, settled about human communities, the two groups tensely getting along for the most part.
After a few conflicts simultaneous with the various world wars, the groups came to a sort of agreement to keep the peace. Monsters and humans generally live in mutually semi-segregated communities; it’s not hard-coded, but places with high monster populations tend to have low human populations, although it should be noted that monsters are generally nicer to humans than vice versa, especially when it comes to humans raised in monster communities (Kris basically being seen as almost "one of their own," for instance). There's no real difference in QOL between monsters and humans as a whole, although humans generally still dominate politically due to having a higher overall population.
Germany was one of the first nations to implement the aforementioned structure, initially being divided in three; South Germany, a capitalist human-settled region, Westenrheinland, a capitalist monster-settled region, and Ostrheinland, a communist region that was truly integrated between human and monster administratively, similar to Volga/Russia within the Soviet Union. These states would eventually merge as one to form Rheinland in the 1990s, although the internal divisions would generally maintain the separate structure.
Most other states underwent similar shifts during the early phases of the Cold War due to Soviet pressure internationally; unlike the Rheinlands, they ended up generally having semi-separate state arrangements for monsters and humans under one federal structure. Britain fractured and became Anglia, Gwynedd, Alba, and a United Celtic State (England/Wales/Scotland/Ireland). Canada and the US merged to become the Federal Republic of Northamer, as a heavily US-dominated venture (forcefully so).
Generally speaking, the south of Northamer is predominantly human, as is the midwest. Many of the western states are either mixed or monster-dominant, and the northeast is similar; the Megalopolis metro is mixed, as are many parts of the Northern Provinces, but the rest of the Northeast up to New York/New Jersey is predominantly monster.
Monsters generally have different names for locales than humans do; humans may often still refer to Megalopolis as New York, or Bay City as Boston, and monsters may refer to cities like Atlanta as Terminus, or New Orleans as Jazz City (in both cases, unless quoting something like song lyrics; Dess would call the city Megalopolis, but not call it so if she were singing "Native New Yorker" or something like that. As a general compromise, state/province names remain unchanged while the countries merged and took on a new identity, and locales can choose between the monster and human names as official, or in some cases, dually official.
I'm not sure I'm a fan of the idea of monsters treating humans better than vice-versa; smells of "Humans are the embodiment of evil" and "Good race and bad race" tropes, but it's your story.
So what you're saying is the Cold War ended decades ago like in our world? I assumed it was much more recent due to the Red Scare apparently still being in full effect in Northamer to the point of a secret police apparatus.
Yeah, I should've phrased that better. It's not really a "humans always bad, monsters always good" thing, but generally the monsters of Hometown are better than the norm. I have to imagine that the further away from mixed settlements you get, the worse off things are in terms of animosity. And even as you'll soon see, Dess herself isn't all too keen on human visitors to Hometown (and it's admittedly poorly fleshed out, since the only contacts she'll have with humans besides Kris are negative, but the fact humans are going to be regularly seen in Hometown come the fall implicitly states that relations in the Northeast are generally quite good. It's really in the South that humans get particularly nasty for the most part).
As for the Red Scare element, while the Cold War did end with the fall of the Soviets, there's more of a domestic presence of socialist tendencies, especially in monster communities, which as a whole tend to be much more communal (albeit still Capitalist at the end of the day). Basically the merger with Canada was not exactly mutual, and the US-derived parts of the Northamer government have basically maintained a secret police state since the 1960s. There's a lot of paranoia around the possibility of a Canadian separatist movement, or an all-out socialist revolution, and for most humans and many monsters (although not many in the Northeast), the Red Scare never truly ended.
I should also mention that Hometown is very much an insular, isolated haven of a community, so that definitely clouds things, and a lot of the bias comes from the fact Dess is effectively our lens through which the story is told.
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