Hah But Koviri people resembles rather Venetians, Genoans or citizens of other Mediaeval/Renaissance maritime republics. For proper Londoners, I would look in Hengfors or Luton. Povissite people would be crazy Irishmen, Caingorn would be Scotland, and those mozaic of minor duchies like Talgar, Narok, Velhad or Creyden would be mix of Celtic, Germanic and... Kazakh cultures (Talgar is a city in Kazakhstan).Wow. You're actually making me like Kovir. I'm a hopeless anglophile
Different culture, different mindset, different customs, different religion.But still humans cities, ruled by humans... right? How could it be different from a Novigrad city but with more gnomes around?
Esterad was crowned in 50s, just before action of the "Eternal Flame" short-story - so it is not so long ago. As for the safety... well, in the books there were some clues about Tankred's lack of competences for the crown. Infortunately, it would be really hard to outstrip TW3' Radolfovid.But that happened when? Ages ago? I'm talking of the present, Kovir is completly safe and calm.