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(Specific but cool trope) Post-apocalypse/rebuilding civilization stories set places considered "unimportant" to civilization in the modern day.
Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind is set a thousand years after western civilization has collapsed due to ecocide. While the rest of the planet is considered uninhabited, the remains of civilization, particularly the remaining states of humanity exist somewhere in Europe that is often forgotten about: The Caucasus isthmus.
Attack on Titan takes place in the far future, after humanity has seemingly been forced into a singular civilization defended by three immense walls from the giant titans that exist outside of them. As the world around Eldia is slowly learned about by the protagonists, we learn that the civilization is in fact on the island of Madagascar.
u/MixRemarkable8524 — 2 days ago