First up, world cultures. (incomplete)

ALFAR
Home of the true Elves.  An enchanted place of faerie forests and meadows dotted with standing stones and megaliths.  Fae-creatures like unicorns, intelligent white stags, jovial leprechauns, fauns and nymphs abound here.  Evil beings or those with malignant intent constantly feel ill and will seek to flee at the first opportunity.  Advanced technology will not function in Alfar and the elves have simple pastoral lives.

HJARLAND
Hjarland is a wilderness expanse of deep forests, rocky crags and innumerable river valleys. To outsiders the barbarians of Hjarland live in turmoil, but it is actually organized chaos based on controlled warfare, taking captives, ransoms and vendettas.  Disputes are handled in all-out pitched battles or ritual ‘judicial’ combat.  Hjarlanders have the highest percentage of natural gigantism of all races, with some individuals reaching 8‘ in height and weighing in at over 350 lbs.

NEUBÜREN EMPIRE
(nope, not done) Roughly equal to Anglo and Germanic 15th century Europe, minus the gunpowder.

VAMALDUR
The realm of the Dwarves seems like a rugged an inhospitable place land of frozen mountains and rock badlands, but there are alpine valleys with arable land deep in the interior.  Dwarves are master craftsmen with advanced technology other races cannot conceive.  No type of magic functions within their borders and all dwarves are immune to magic effects, positive and negative alike.

BAZGNATH WILDERNESS
(nope, not done) Former demonic realm

PANLONG
Panlong is shrouded in mystery as foreigners are unwelcome and the natives are reticent when dealing in foreign lands.  It is rumored the country is ruled by a caste of sorcerous nobility devoted to a serpent cult.  Little else is known about their society other than everything of value is based on the amount of grain it takes to feed one able-bodied man for a year.

HAANE
(nope, not done) it’s Southeast Asia with a dash of Melanesia/Pacific Islands

ABUDSASO
(nope, not done) Civilized jungle kingdom. Iron Age Africa and Vedic Indian.

SHADEKHAN DESERT
The northern regions of Shadek are a barren jumble of red rock mesas, boulder fields and noxious weedy flats.  Jackals, vultures and venomous insects are all that can thrive there.  The marauding Shadek tribesmen of the region are savages; cannibalistic head hunters and necromancers bent on killing, violating and then eating anyone in their path.  They build nothing and create nothing, existing in the shadow of a great ancient empire they are not the heirs to.  Shadeks have the highest occurrence of ghuls in any human population.  It is rumored that in the vast duned desert to the south an ancient necropolis is swarming with ghuls, ruled by a ghul arch-necromancer.