Stats and Soil: Fantasy Ethnostates as Idyllic Worldbuilding in Games

ABSTRACT This essay focuses on the common linkages between race and environment in popular fantasy works. Specefically, I argue that linking fantasy race, culture, language, and environment discursively and rhetorically align with White supremacists worldviews analyze the history of this trope across literature, digital games, and analog games then link the trope to the rhetoric and goals of far‐right actors. This work makes the case for greater attention towards the means by which race is created in speculative fiction, especially when such fiction does not pretend to verisimilitude.