Regional Overview
Introduction
Originally it was intended to be a free region where I can experiment with layouts whichever way I liked, and to help me relax before sleeping. As I was building it up over several months, it slowly got wrapped up in my modern alternate-universe headcanon/fanfiction. To that end, this city journal will serve a dual purpose: to showcase the wacky unconventional layouts, and for me to geek out about AoT so I can finally move on 
I’ve posted the map files for rendering the bare map previously, as well as the pre-built region which like I said was done in pure vanilla - I invite you to download and have a look, though you might need the 4GB patch to load it since it is a large-ish map (12x7 large city tiles). To recap, I took someone else’s Madagascar map, flipped it vertically, flattened the southern half, then added navigable rivers for ferries. For most of the southern half I tried going for that “organic” look inspired by an often-reused aerial shot of the walls as seen in the city journal description and banner image; I like to imagine the southern half was the historic heartland that grew organically over the centuries, while the northern half was haphazardly developed within a few decades on a wave of rationalist progress.
"Paradis gets destroyed? I want Eldians to live peacefully for a while! Ten years, at least!" - Ellen Yeager
Regional Lore and Backstory (skip this part if you want to avoid spoilers, or simply don't care and are just interested the gameplay bits)
Referring to the country info sidebar - which I edited from the Wikipedia entry for Madagascar - the story takes place in the Year 1000, about 150 years after the canon events of the series, which occurred around the Year 850. It’s not really explained in-universe what exactly happened in the Year 0, but I digress.
Continuing from the events leading up to the ending, the rumbling was 80% completed and the Yeagerist faction dominated the island, adopting the Scout Regiment’s wings of freedom and the Star of Eldia on the national flag and seal respectively, along with “Dedicate your hearts!” as the motto, quoted from Commander Erwin Smith whom the Yeagerists revered.
Personally, I think the main theme of Vogel im Kafig could work so well as the Eldian national anthem, if going off of the translated lyrics. Perhaps they could have used a shorter abridged version though instead of the full six-minute track.
Just like the regional map, the globe map is flipped upside down, while the borders of the outside world have been erased – the rumbling was so destructive that even now 150 years later, the former nations have struggled to recover.
The central district Mitras retained its governmental and royal functions and served as the capital for the new nation. However, in the decades of rapid growth that followed, the historic southern district of Shiganshina closest to the ports eclipsed it in both size and population to become the nucleus of the country’s largest metropolitan area.
The primary ethnic group still consists of the native Eldians who were born and raised on the island. The largest minority are the descendants of Marleyan volunteers, captives, and refugees. The remainder consists of other ethnicities along with some Eldians born in the former internment zones on the mainland, as well as people of mixed Marleyan-Eldian descent who refuse to identify as either.
To establish firm political control over the island, the Yeagerist faction founded a new religion called Yeagerism, praising Eren as the savior of Eldia, though in more recent times religious practices became less relevant in daily life and the number of its adherents have steadily decreased. Among the minority religions, the wall worship cult has all but disappeared along with the walls themselves, meanwhile intelligence services are monitoring the activities of so-called “Marleyan Restorationists” in the underground.
The population figure of over 4 million is lifted straight from the in-game regional population. Considering it was at 1 million 150 years before, a four-fold growth is quite realistic compared to our real-world global population quintupling over the same length of time: from ~1.2 billion in 1850 to ~6 billion in 2000
The GDP figure of 139.5 billion Eldian Marks is a reference to the 139.5 chapters, while the HDI figure of 0.845 is a caiiback to the in-universe year when the main story started. The GINI coefficient of 34.5 is from the 34 volumes, though I forgot why I added 0.5 there. Taken together, these economic statistics put our modern Eldia in the same league as many of the post-Soviet Eastern European countries like Poland or Czechia.
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