The essence and mechanisms of genre?

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Originally Posted by Agemegos

This is not important to the discussion, but as an interesting aside Kafiristan was a real place until about 1896, in the east of what is now Afghanistan, and approximately the same as what is now called Nooristan. That's not to say that it was anything like what Kipling described.

Now I had not known that! In that case I withdraw Kafiristan from my list of imaginary countries.