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As an aside, I find that this game is woefully lacking in representation regarding East Asia in general. It has two representative nations from a civilization that rivaled and perhaps exceeded that of the West for most of recorded history. Again, For Christ's sake, (no offense to the developers who are Scandinavians but...) Scandinavia gets 3 representatives in the Early Era of Dom III. I suppose Scandinavia has historically been more important than the entirety of the Far East put together! 
On a related issue, it seems to be insulting to conflate the entire steppe/Mongolian civilization with the Sinic civilization of China. While the histories of the two people often collided and intersected, they developed distinctively different traditions, in particular military.
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This is an odd complaint. Dominions isn't striving to be an accurate portrayal of the world or the relevance of it's various cultures. Nor does it make the claim that any of the nations are made up of influences from just one specific nation, or that the representation is fair. It is a work of imagination and reflects whatever influences caught Kristoffers, mainly, imagination. Complaining that there isn't enough east Asian influences in dom3 is all but tantamount to writing to the Tolkien estate and asking for revised Lord of the Rings where sino elves are included. I am sure Japanese games with mythic content often draw more heavily on Japanese myth's and tales than they do on western, this is as it should be. Besides many turn of the century occultists believed the entry to Agartha to be located somehwere in Tibet, ergo Illwinter believes Tibetans to be big one eyed monsters, also Egyptians are Lizards and Persians can fly.
Edit: Btw C'tis names are mainly Assyrian, and there is some Sumerian/Babylonian influnces in there as well. I hope the Egyptians and Iraqis will survive the insult.