[Crakkerjakk]

I kind of liked the idea Eberron came up with, that regardless of race, people identified mostly with the country they lived in. There are a few "pure race" countries (one for gnomes, elves, and dwarves, IIRC) but an elf from country A has more in common with their fellow countrymen that is human than an elf from country B.

I always thought it might be cool to have racial templates, and then... not templates, but common skills and stereotypes for each country/region, so that you may pick elf for that +1 DX, but your horse nomad elf looks with disdain upon your buddy's merchant prince elf, and gets along fine with the half-orc northman.