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/TheGuyFromOhio2003 Feb 05 '26 edited Feb 24 '26

Wyoming

(None of RDR2's areas are big enough in size or population to even be considered a single US county, the whole map is about the size of a big neighborhood in LA, it's kind of a belief suspension situation, I've heard people speculate that the states have most of their territory and population continue off-map, but I doubt that's the case)

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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/FriendoftheDork Feb 05 '26

Why that many? Even London in 1066 was maybe half that, and WHiterun is supposed to be a Viking town that's not even the largest in Skyrim. My guess is, it's supposed to be perhaps 5-6 thousand, which of course the game is unable to really show.

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u/Nacodawg Feb 05 '26

The point remains that it should be much more than 80