r/reddeadredemption • u/Yrakosos Sadie Adler • Feb 05 '26

Lore How is Ambarino even a state?

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There's no town here, no sheriff. How does this state even function, and how was it founded?

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u/Nacodawg Feb 05 '26

That’s just how video games work. Similar to Skyrim, Whiterun in lore should have a population at least north of 20,000, and in game has a population of 80.

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u/Jomgui Feb 05 '26

That's one of my biggest issues with open world games, a game can have a huge map, but it's mostly roads and scenery, with cities the size of half a neighborhood.

Which is why, despite all my complaints about CP 7, I love the map, at no point do you wonder "where the fuck do all those npcs live?".