u/DaleCherry8

In Valcer, accurate maps were once restricted to the navy, so civilian cartographers had to invent one street, bridge, or district boundary before publication. The law survived into the modern republic, where the false feature is now called the Courtesy. Locals compare several maps, taxi drivers memorise which publishers lie about which neighbourhods, and courts refuse maps as sole evidence. I like the contradiction: everyone trusts cartographers to lie consistently. What secondary habits would this create beyond navigation? I am especially interested in education, property disputes, and whether citizens would treat unmapped places as more truthful.