Outside World

The Outside World, also known as Earth, is a location implied to exist, but never directly visited. It is the world of rationality and reason outside Gensokyo's reach.
== In Touhou Canon ==
Go outside.
== In FTK Canon ==
While the Outside World is never directly visited in either game, the ambience in the intro room of FTK1 implies something happened. The fact that the player would respond with "No way in hell I'm going back up there" when they tried to go back up the stairway implied some sort of crisis or major battle/war that necessitated evacuating back into Gensokyo.This section refers to non-canonical information used on the koisherminal.carrd.co website.It is known the initial human expedition into Gensokyo obviously originated from outside it, given they describe it with an obviously alien wording. Whatever happened to them in Gensokyo forced the expedition to fall back to up above and declare a hasty evacuation.Section ends here.According to the lore, Gensokyo was in conflict with the Outside World for a while during an event known as the Reclamation War, which led to the existence of War Shrines and Singularitrons. Gensokyo lost this war and the human race established an occupation zone, which later became a junk-and-graveyard for Singularitrons when they began to destabilize and destroy Outside World civilization.
=== Known Outside World Locations (implied or otherwise) ===
* Japan: No shit.
** Tokyo: The Tokyo Tower can be found buried in The Necropolitan.
** Gensokyo Occupation Zone (GOZ): Mentioned in the Singularitron lore dossier. Fictional creation.
* United States of America: CVN-9 Koishi Komeiji and Hornetishi are references to Azur Lane, which based their respective counterparts (Enterprise and Hornet) on member ships of the United States Navy. Thus, the argument can be made that both Koishis reference America. Clownpiece is also a more blatant example.
** U.S. East Coast: Lore dictates that a sole Persephone unit managed to destroy the entire Eastern Seaboard of the United States during the Second Lunarian War. This, of course, is a net-positive, because this implies that New Jersey is no longer a thing in the FTK2-verse.
*** New York City: The Empire State Building can be found in Mr. Sandland and Ancient Koigypt. The city is presumed destroyed according to FTK2's lore.
*** State of New Jersey: Implied through New Jershi. The state is presumably in an unchanged state of inhospitability and irrelevancy according to FTK2's lore.
*** Washington, D.C.: The Washington Monument and the Statue of Freedom can be found in Ancient Koigypt. The city is presumed destroyed according to FTK2's lore.
**Las Vegas / New Vegas: Potentially implied by the presence of Ms. House? 
**State of Texas: A visualization of the state is buried in Mr. Sandland, emblazoned with an image of Markiplier.
**State of California: The entire state is learning to swim in Port Navalantys.
* Greece: The country is directly named in the lore of FTK2 as a location that was destroyed by a Persephone attack. This may be fitting as the Persephones are themselves named after a Greek mythological goddess.
* Egypt: Pluh.
* Paris, France: The Eiffel Tower can be found in New Heresy.
* London, United Kingdom: The Elizabeth Tower can be found in Mr. Sandland and Ancient Koigypt.
* Germany: Roonishi, Koizhi der Grosse, Koishmarck, etc. are based on Azur Lane's personifications of members (real or fake) of the Kriegsmarine. This therefore implies they exist within FTK2's Outside World.
* Iraq: Ea-Nasirishi's description references the "Inbetween-Rivers", a name for Mesopotamia.
* Flavortown: Guy Fieri, it's mayor, is emblazoned faintly on a pyramid in The Necropolitan.
* The Multiverse: Koishi Yakumei's lore dossier outright states she's from a parallel universe, dragged into the agonizing hellhole that is FTK2's universe as an experiment to see if Gensokyo could adapt to a shrine maiden not of their world.
== Trivia ==
* Although Touhou is a Japanese series from, well, Japan, Marecrisium is from the United States and thus a fair chunk of references pertaining to American culture and media are present in FTK2.
** The only argument one can make when trying to justify this in canon is that the Expedition probably brought their Western outside world knowledge to isolated Eastern-themed Gensokyo, like the most probably story of what led to "John Frum".
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