Earth Rustic is a quiet evolution, seldom visited. At the highest levels of organisation, a few simple and relatively peaceable kingdoms lay claim to the fertile coast and the leaf marches. In rural parts there are rumoured to be hidden passages into The Green World, where vanished denizens have been stolen away. There are almost certainly connections to The Autumn Country at the right season. Technology progresses slowly but steadily here, perhaps retarded by the relative peace of the world. Since the Stability Council has been observing, it has advanced from something similar to the late seventeenth century on Earth Zero, to something aproximating the middle nineteeth and this had taken a little more than five hundred years.