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I suspect the adventures that come with it will have a degree of spoilery-ness, but its definitely an extremely interesting set of world settings (particularly Stormlight/Roshar) if you wanted to use it in a campaign using a different system.

I would obviously recommend reading the books, the first couple of Stormlight books are awesome if your fine with a slow start. Unfortunately I think the second Mistborn book is considered the weakest of the series, still good though!

A lot of Iceland uses municipal hot water/heating, so this means that they may not be able to heat their houses properly. (although I don't think its that bad currently)

I don't think you are right on SUVs not being a thing here. What is the legal loophole in the US about?

My understanding is that there are some interesting demographic effects at play in Israel - their percentage of heavily religious population has been increasing and is therefore getting more and more political control.

The ultra-orthadox (I think this is the term) Jews are also exempt from military service I believe.

This is/could lead to increased internal instability in the coming years/decades.

The barriers would have worked too ☹ (lava from the main vent has been redirected away)

Ah, that's a shame, they placed the barriers on an area around the town that had never had an eruption (just lava).

Looking at the live videos I have to admit I had to laugh initially, it looks so much like Mother mature just saying FU to our attempts to control her, it stops for the barrier, has a gap, then pops up again just outside town. (Man made lava barrier route (ish - as far as I can see, guessing in the distance, if even built) highlighted - it even left a nice gap for the barrier!)

I guess it just shows how you can't trust volcanos!

The thing about laws, is that all it needs to remove them is another law...

It makes sense for navies here to favour their own ships and those contributing to the coalition over third parties. A lot of companies list their ships with cheap countries (little to no navy) and/or ones with cheap labour laws, but then expect to be helped by bigger navies.

Not quite sure why there are problems with US ships specifically, are there just a lot more US listed ships there? Don't they have an entire strike group there?

South African not Saudi.

So it doesn't apply to residents of Paris? Is that just saying that resident parking (in your street etc) is not effected or that if you live in Paris you can park anywhere without it applying?

If it's the former, then fine, but if it's the latter that feels a bit toothless (but probably required for it to pass the referendum).

How complex is their parking system to be able to do this though? I assume it's a model lookup through the he number plate?