Ah, that makes sense. 1600s Sartar, no, but the Taming - yes, the idea that any other "real" people are so far away as to be irrelevant fits. And the strange non-human (?) inhabitants.
> Most of the colonies were actually geographically
> quite small - although spread out along a huge coastline.
Yes, it wasn't the size of each settlement I was thinking of so much as the distance between them. Not that I've ever understood *why* the American colonists wanted to move so far away from each other! "As far as you can walk in a day" is surely more than enough? They can't have been *that* obnoxious, can they?
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