Ah, divided nations, how storytellers love thee.
Ukraine is roughly half in favor stronger ties with Russia, who supplies their natural gas and kind of controls their survival as a modern society in the process. The other half are pissed about their President just signing a deal that allows the Russians to maintain a military base of some importance [correction: extends Russia's lease of the Black Sea Port of Sevastopol] in exchange for reduced fuel prices, essentially. In the parliamentary chambers, opponents were actually pelting the president [correction: Speaker Volodymyr Lytvyn] with eggs and throwing smoke bombs. This makes our own breaches of protocol ("You lie!") seem quite civilized.
[And here's how I transferred this real world situation into game development.]
[QUESTIONS:]
A. What issues would divide fantastical populations?
B. How would each side treat the other?
C. Where would the debates take place?
[Example Answer] GOBLINS:
A. Eat the dangerous humans, taking their buildings and livestock, or just steal the livestock and run away?
B. Greedy and reckless vs. cowardly and self-preservationist. The former would threaten while the latter would deceive.
C. After reaching the human community, not having planned much beyond "invade and eat."
I'll do more of these and call them Creature Resource Development, or CRD.
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