Okay, well, not a huge priority but she'll keep it in mind.

Up to her!

Right now she'd like to visit a library.

They can provide directions to one.

Okay, great. Is there anything like an encyclopedia?

There is!

Okay. So she knows that elves and lion-people and dragons and bird-people exist, what other sentient species are there?

(The lion people are leonines and the bird people are skyfolk.) Vampires! Halflings! Dwarves! Merfolk! Pixies, sprites, fairies! Wolfriders! Assorted crossbreeds!

So many. Wow. What are some of the most important political units?

She's in Corenta. Corenta thinks Corenta is pretty great. Ertydo's also a big deal. Esmaar's kinda a big deal, and Nirlan, and Mekand. Oridaan in its own way and Eem in its.

She will go ahead and spend a few hours researching various features of this odd square planet.

The odd square planet is extensively documented.

Oh, good. Anything as interesting as the fantastic diversity?

There's lots of magic (though it's not allowed everywhere; Illia landed in a place where it is not allowed) and very little technology. It has religions and languages and foods and clothes and customs.

...Ugh. That one place looks repulsive.

It is widely agreed to be pretty repulsive. Its neighbors take refugees.

Good for its neighbors. Why hasn't anyone tried doing anything about the place, does it say?

Sometimes people overfly it and collect refugees who haven't made it all the way to the border. It seems like nobody wants to, like, conquer it, and you can't issue trade sanctions when there's no trade.

How come no one wants to conquer it?

Then they'd have to administer a bunch of people who hated them and wanted to kill them. By squarewide standards the place has no useful resources, natural or labor. If somebody wants land that would require annoying amounts of cultivation to be pleasant to live on they could just go to the bottom of the world, also perennially unpopular. (Someone has written an entire book about Why Nobody Conquers Ryganaav.)

That's hilarious. Goodness these people are non-expansive, the humans in her world would have been crawling on every available square inch of surface area this place has.

Nobody lives on the moon, either!

...Presumably the moon is harder to get to. Right?

Well, you can't walk there, but you could take a scoot or get a dragon to fly you there or an air mage. And once you'd visited it you could teleport.

Say, how does down work on the moon, since it's a hemisphere for some crazy reason.