Almost everything in Sovereign Empires lives on a single huge map. There are no abstract province menus: terrain, water, resource deposits, city claims, districts, and armies all occupy the same ground.
What it is
The world is an enormous grid of tiles. Every tile has an elevation and a terrain type, an owner, and sometimes a finite resource deposit. It is big enough that expansion, distance, and travel are all real considerations rather than afterthoughts.
How you interact with it
You read the world before you commit to it. High ground, coastlines, forests, and mineral deposits all decide where it is worth founding a city and where you would be overextended. Once you settle, the same map is where your borders meet rivals and where your armies have to physically travel to reach a fight.
Why it matters
Because resources are tied to the ground and run out, geography is not backdrop, it is the economy. The map is also shared: rival empires expand across it under the same rules you follow, so good land is always contested.
The World branch covers Terrain, Cities and the districts you build inside them, and the rival empires you share the map with.
This article reflects the game in active development and will change as systems evolve.