The Tabletop Shamers' Empire of Former Crusaderland, better known as Jerusalem, is a place in the Middle East. It is where the stage where Virtual Beasts, the only cartoon Jerusalem is known for, is filmed. Somehow, despite it being founded by Stardust Cutie Mark Crusaders in 1099, it has become overrun in the modern day by shamers. Quite ironically, these shamers are into real-time strategy-based mapping shames as well as tabletop shames, such as Magic: The Gathering, Cyberpunk 2077, Dungeons and Dragons and the like.
The most played shame in Jerusalem is Warhammer Infinity+9001. In fact it's so popular, they have adapted aspects of the shame into its government, even renaming their King the "God Emperor of Mankind". In this case, the self-proclaimed God-Emperor of Mankind is Henry Somerset, Duke of Plantagenet.
History[]
Jerusalem used to be part of Israel until the Cutie Mark Crusades, when equine beasts from a distant circle of Hell conquered it and molded it in their image.
It would have been a perfect paradise for bronies, but tabletop shamers took over and made it into a real-life tabletop shame, summoning dragons and all sorts of creatures from their favorite shames to prove it. Those bronies would later flee to a distant island and introduce the natives to their fandom, hence the persistence of the brony fad in Papua.
Culture[]
In today's Jerusalem, it is neither easy nor hard to find someone who behaves like one of the original Cutie Mark Crusaders. Because nowadays 99.9% of Jerusalem's population are tabletop shamers, history nerds and the like.
Cosplay[]
Jerusalem is the country of origin of the so-called "Costume Problem", in which people constantly get transformed into their costumed characters. Since then the phenomenon has spread to 69 countries, with Papua being the second country to experience the phenomenon after Jerusalem.
The phenomenon still happens on a daily basis nationwide, although cases are most prevalent on Halloween, when most tabletop shame players and their personal wizards (and minions) would use costume TF spells to enchant costumes into merging with their wearer.
The problem is attributed to the 10 thousand wizards summoned daily from tabletop shames by 16-year-old tabletop fans. Those wizards run 101% of the more than 7.7 thousand costume shops in Jerusalem, where customers buying masks and/or costumes emerge transformed into and behaving exactly like the character they were masking or costuming as.
Either way, they end up subordinate to either the wizard, the player(s) who summoned him/her, or both. In most cases however, those characters are banished to the tabletop shames where they belong and the cartoons from which they originated. Sometimes, the characters might be used by the wizards and their generally 16-year-old summoners as their own personal slave-minions.