How about...Punjab?
>tons of rivers>glorious mountain fortress for the Elite Four in Ladakh>plenty different climate>plenty different topography>religious conflict>both urbanized and tribal>>18430519Taiwan would be cool, though no real Surf incentives. Well perhaps, there are a lot of outlying contested islands, but they are small. Then again, maybe they are viable, since the Orange islands aren't really big irl either.
>>18433335Iran itself is way too big nigra. Gotta zoom into a part of it.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geography_of_IranPerhaps Northwestern Iran? Plenty of climate variation, jungles even, polarized cities (Qom is the spiritual heart of Shia Islam, Kermanshah still has Zorastrians), different people (west Iran has Kurds, Azeris, and Arabs further south), and the like. Maybe 2controversional though. The whole argument over the identity of Azeris (Turks? Persianized? Both? Neither?) alone could attract way too many Turk keyboard warriors.
>>18432120Russian Far East does sound nice
But you're retarded for saying its based on roubles. You seriously never noticed the bar?