---
uai: "1.0"
type: topic-memory
status: active
project: iarpg.com
release: "IARPG-OPS-2"
version: "2.0.14-wip"
review_state: current-until-superseded
---
# Global Identity and Cast Realism

Characters are built from individual causal biographies rather than national templates. Required dimensions include relationships, work and class, housing, education, language and code-switching, religion or nonreligion, disability and access, mobility, migration and diaspora, routines, values, contradictions, humor, leisure, and off-screen life.

Nationality, ethnicity, race, religion, language, gender, disability, region, and institutional affiliation never determine moral alignment, competence, loyalty, emotional range, or threat level.

Sources:
- /docs/report/worldwide-identity-without-default-assumptions-names-languages-citizenship-territory-and-migration
- /docs/report/ordinary-lives-in-a-worldwide-mmo-regional-cast-relationship-routine-and-off-screen-life-research

## Current Durable Research Routes

- [Realism Analysis of Adult NPC Characters](../docs/long-term-memory/reports/realism-analysis-of-adult-npc-characters.md#reviewed-synthesis) — reviewed with limitations; use only the linked Reviewed Synthesis and retain its truth boundary.