These components from other cultures are simplified rather than embellished, empowered by slightly unusual social life, and rearranged to make a new and interesting nation. Consider this country carefully, and whether it might actually exist. A society, not so much one nation as a collection of provinces, and even more truly a collection of farmsteads, spread over more than 150,000 square miles. A population of roughly two million. There are a few modest cities, all harbor towns.
Transport goes at the speed of a horse or a sailing vessel.
Most of the population lives within 50 miles of the seacoast, and there is considerable use of wooden coastal sailing ships. Except for some city streets, there is no pavement. Nothing like radio, much less television or films or even photography. Books are not exactly common, but they are valued and used. There is a social class that serves as a kind of an aristocracy, though it is largely based on merit, or family prestige, or earned wealth, rather than inheritance.