AESTHETICS

• art & sculpture
• building materials
• building/architecture design
  • homes
  • office
  • shops
  • temple
• clothing design
• design to adapt to environment/weather, etc
• form vs function
• furniture design
• high vs low class
• makeup
• technology

CULTURE

• "inherited" significance (wealth, profession, gender role)
• art and music (instruments)
• artisans (crafted goods)
• calendar & date system
• child-rearing
• church vs gov
• cooking & eating customs
• cultural taboos
• elderly care
• family unit, familial relationships
• friendships
• funerary practices
• generational beliefs, differences
• holidays
• hygiene
• language & communication, vocabulary & slang
• living arrangements, cohabitation
• marriage/dating practices
• personal space
• religion, worship, temples, & deities
• rite-of-passage
• romantic relationships
• segregation, social segmentation
• sex & gender treatment
• social hierarchy
• societal expectations
• superstition & fears, conspiracies
• trade & currency

ENTERTAINMENT

• free forms of entertainment (locations & types)
• high class vs low class
• social dining/drinking practices or etiquette
• social entertainment professions, trades & locations
• technology (as entertainment)

ENVIRONMENT

• adaptation (intentional, equipment or otherwise)
• adaptation (unintentional, physical effects)
• air quality
• biomes
• common fauna
• common flora
• crops & livestock (food available)
• differing physical law
• disaster, danger
• fauna (land, air, water)
• flora (land, air, water)
• overall landscape
• sky & stars, celestial bodies
• uncommon fauna
• uncommon flora
• water quality
• weather & climate, seasonality

GOVERNMENT & HISTORY

• conflict between nation and others
• festivals/celebrations
• government control or oversight, enforcement
• justice/judges or punishment for crime, prisons?
• large moments in history (invention, war, disaster, etc)
• military or other security/protection (civil & leadership)
• people of significance - rulers, leaders
• plotting/upheaval/political turmoil
• political stability
• public opinion of government/leadership
• site of government/leader spaces
• type of government
• types of crime
• war (past or present)
• weaponry

IDENTITY (PERSONAL)

• heirlooms & artifacts
• hobbies or trades
• luxuries & basic necessities
• ownership of goods, property, home, etc
• physical traits
• privacy
• races or species & relations between
• ritual
• titles or formalities for speaking, communicating
• unique ability (magic, giftedness, etc)

LANDMARKS & CITIES

• city/settlement history
• cleanliness
• cultural exchange
• decline or growth (area, population, industry, etc)
• forbidden/off-limits areas (public vs private ownership)
• horizontal vs vertical growth
• illegal or shady business
• layout/map (relational to one another)
• local hangouts (lively, dead, niche, family-friendly, etc)
• modes of transportation
• nightlife & neighborhoods
• ordinances/local laws of city
• population (density) & demographic makeup
• public areas & public services (lighting, trash, etc)
• rural vs urban or mixture
• services & industry, shop types
• types of food offered (poor meal vs lavish meal)

WORKFORCE & EDUCATION

• assigned or freedom of study
• conspiracy & misconceptions
• domestic labor needed/common jobs
• economy
• illegal work
• important scientific discoveries, secrets
• literacy, how information is spread
• manual labor needed/common jobs
• medical capabilities, hospitals (right to)
• mental labor needed/common jobs
• other labor/industry
• professional guilds
• secret societies, entities or professions
• unique or upcoming fields of study
• unsavory labor
• what are schools like (if applicable)