E-Z Fantasy world generator

E-Z Fantasy World Generator
	1. Government
		1. Absolute monarch
		2. King and council
		3. Oligarchy
		4. Theocracy
		5. Elite democracy
		6. Full democracy
		7. Warlord
		8. Clan leaders only, perhaps a king in wartime
		9. None at all
	2. How is the leader chosen?
		1. Heredity
		2. By family council
		3. By the secondary powers (council, priests, voters - see previous item)
		4. By contests of skill, strength, and/or intelligence
		5. By the military
		6. By divine powers
		7. Randomly
		8. By a secret cabal
	3. How unified is the country?
		1. Completely centralized
		2. Nobles govern their own lands but king is powerful
		3. The center has few uncontested powers
		4. No central power
	4. How tolerant are people?
		1. No dissent allowed!
		2. Best to follow convention
		3. Eccentricity is mocked but permitted
		4. Do as you please
	5. How do most people get their food?
		1. hunting and gathering
		2. Fishing
		3. Garden agriculture (plots cleared, cultivated awhile, then abandoned)
		4. Rainfall agriculture
		5. Irrigation agriculture
		6. Animal herds (pastorialism)
		7. Magic
		8. Algae vats and slabs of mutant chicken meat
	6. What's the climate?
		1. Temperate
		2. Tropical
		3. Extreme - deserts, mountains, tundra
		4. Unusual - the sea, outer space, the spirit realm
	7. What kind of economy is there?
		1. Communities are self-sufficient except for luxuries
		2. Command economy - industry controlled by the state
		3. Nationwide market economy
		4. The nation is part of a sophisticated international trade network
	8. How does the army work?
		1. Professional standing army
		2. The powers that be each have their own army
		3. The citizens as a whole form the army
		4. There's nothing we'd call an army
	9. What's the most-used weapon?
		1. Bow and arrow
		2. Sword
		3. Spears or pikes
		4. Guns
		5. Antimatter propulsors
		6. One's own body
		7. Magic
	10. What's the literacy level?
		1. Nearly universal
		2. Only the elite
		3. None
		4. Writing is superseded by telepathy or high technology
	11. How prevalent is magic?
		1. Almost everyone can use it
		2. Restricted to a small, secretive class
		3. Rare - there are only a few wizards
		4. Nonexistent
	12. What is the essence of magic?
		1. A biological ability
		2. A natural power that can be harnessed like technology
		3. A natural resource (e.g. mana) which may be exhausted
		4. Communing with supernatural beings
		5. Accessing a separate dimension
		6. Special properties of some herbs or minerals
		7. Superstition and chicanery
	13. What's the overall technology?
		1. Tribal
		2. Bronze age (looms, kilns, chariots, spears)
		3. Classical (sailing ships, aqueducts, water mills, swords)
		4. Renaissance (telescopes, watches, windmills, artillery)
		5. Early modern (science, rifles, sailing ships, factories)
		6. Age of steam
		7. Contemporary
		8. Futuristic
		9. Godlike
	14. What do people worship or invoke?
		1. God
		2. The gods
		3. Spirit animals
		4. Their ancestors
		5. Another species
		6. Minor spiritual beings
		7. Nothing
	15. What is the most admired class? Or to put it another way, whose values and interests are paramount?
		1. Nobles and kings
		2. Priests and clerics
		3. The military
		4. Merchants or manufacturers
		5. Scholars or magicians
		6. Another species
	16. What's the lowest class?
		1. Slaves
		2. Serfs
		3. A motley collection of poor people
		4. Castes devoted to unpleasant jobs (e.g. gravediggers)
		5. A foreign community or racial minority
		6. Another species
	17. How are women treated?
		1. Equally with men
		2. Men are completely dominant
		3. Men are usually the leaders, but there are powerful women and some female-run institutions
		4. The sexes divide up work and control different institutions in society
		5. Women are in control
	18. What's the attitude towards sex?
		1. Restricted to marriage
		2. Marriage is one thing, romance/sex is another
		3. There are some accepted outlets besides marriage
		4. Freely indulged
		5. Restricted to an elite
	19. What are the major species?
		1. Just humans
		2. Just humanoid cats
		3. Several species, but separated by region or habitat
		4. Several species, fairly intermingled
		5. Several species, separated by class or profession (e.g. one forms the servant class)
	20. What's the most pressing problem?
		1. Other nations (barbarians or civilized states)
		2. Demons
		3. Another species
		4. Rebellion or civil war
		5. Tyranny
		6. A dangerous secret cabal
		7. Ecological collapse
		8. Just ordinary cussedness