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Chrome Hounds is a video game for the XBox360 game console. The player takes
the role of a mercenary in a conflict between three fictional nations in
the (also fictional) Neroimus region, apparently located somewhere in
Central Asia, southeast of the Black Sea.
Eugene Ipavec, 3 December 2006
This is set on an Alternate History scenario, with a divergence point right after WWII (see "Timeline" on the game's story line page at the Sega website. Therefore, fictional historical events are mentioned (such as a 1981-1992 Eastern European War), but the background includes many real-world elements, such as a collapsed Soviet Union. (I leave aside a lot of unrealistic details, such as toponimy and linguistics, which do not change abruptly in two or three decades, but I account it for the usual handicaps of this particular brand of scenario-builders.)
I found a map at the world view page of the Chrome Hounds website. Too bad it is utterly silly.
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 December 2006
![[canadian pale, dark blue, yellow, light blue, yellow, dark
blue]](../images/f/fic@chho1.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 3 December 2006
This Republic is modeled on one of the more Western-oriented states of Eastern Europe,
perhaps the Czech Republic. Declared independence in 1992 – prior to
that was apparently part of a larger entity, though not the USSR. Flag
resembles a Canadian pale with nothing in the center, and with the two
sidebars divided vertically: dark blue, yellow, light blue, yellow, dark
blue.
Eugene Ipavec, 3 December 2006
On the previously mentioned Sega site, for this nation, under language it says «English»: Surely these are the good guys!
António Martins-Tuválkin, 3 December 2006
![[red, white and black horizontal stripes, black emblem]](../images/f/fic@chho2.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 3 December 2006
A former Soviet republic. Flag is a red/black bicolor with thin white
stripe in the middle and an odd white-fimbriated black emblem of some
kind, a bit reminiscent of an Orthodox cross rotated 45 deg. Borders on
the Black Sea; probably based on the Ukraine, "morsko" being a Slavic
root meaning "of the sea."
Eugene Ipavec, 3 December 2006
![[black, yellow and orange vertical stripes, diagonally divided green/yellow, orange emblem]](../images/f/fic@chho3.gif)
image by Eugene Ipavec, 3 December 2006
Petromonarchy, arid and desertlike. Ethnically Turkish; otherwise seems a
lot like Saudi Arabia. Flag has three unequal vertical stripes at hoist:
black, yellow, orange, proportions approx. 5:1:1; the rest of the field
is diagonally divided green/yellow, with an orange emblem in the center.
Eugene Ipavec, 3 December 2006