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@Mr_Fanboy
Any jurisdiction where centaur/human marriage (or, for that matter, centaur/troll, centaur/orc, etc) marriage is legal?
Well, most countries there’s a sort of “they’re all monsters, who cares what they do with eachother?” so there aren’t any laws against the nonhuman races marrying
eachother. Admittedly, some countries do classify marriage to another nonhuman race as bestialism if they aren’t close enough physically to have viable offspring.
As for non-human races marrying humans? The exact line varies, with different countries classifying different races as “close enough” to legally count as human for marriage with humans (for instance, the race whose hair goes from white to dark as they age is accepted as human almost everywhere, ghouls hardly anywhere), but centaur/human marriage is verboten everywhere except in Calonak, where it requires permission from the king, and also Sweden, North Burgundy, and the New Netherlands. (Well, in the Cannibal Empires nobody will raise an eyebrow if you have
sex with them, but you don’t marry slaves.)
I assume that the monster races of the European possessions on the Southern Continent aren't generally at risk of being completely demographically overwhelmed, though?
Those lands aren’t particularly densely populated (it may not be our Antarctic, but they’re fairly cold), but the Columbian colony is the only place where the number of settlers approaches the locals. (They’ve been Bantustan’d: north Americans don’t think much of the Monster Races, although they do get along better than OTL with American Indians and black people).
Could you make a note of, roughly what the worldwide religious demographics of the world are? That is, the rough percentage that subscribes to each major religion. Just eyeballing the WIP so far, it looks like the world is generally more Christian (that is, the Old World looks more Christian, but the New World less Christian), somewhat more Jewish (lots of Lost Tribes, and I imagine no Holocaust, thank goodness), less Islamic (less Muslim penetration into Central Asia and almost none in Southeast Europe, and even a stronger Christian presence in the Middle East by way of the Chaldeans), and with more adherents of traditional native religions in Central and South America (unsure if an isolated Vinland would've ever converted to Christianity, though). Anyway, I could be completely off-base in my assessment, but yeah: just note the rough percentages, please!
Chaldeans are mostly Muslim nowadays. The real difference in the Islamic world is not central Asia (Khorasan and Khwarezem are still Muslim) but India and SE Asia: there’s no Muslim Indonesia, and India east of the Indus has few Muslims outside of the islands. Vinland has converted to Christianity, the more remote Saguenay has remained mostly pagan, although human sacrifice is now totally out. There are also two major non-OTL religions, the apocalyptic monotheism of Gog-Magog, and the many strange, horrible gods of the Cannibal Empires.
Very rough estimates: Christians make up about 34% of the world’s population (somewhat larger than OTL, since there are more nations and a bigger Asia), vs 31.5% OTL, Muslims drop from 23.2% to 16.3%, Hindus drop a bit from 15% to 13.5% (whatever the inhabitants of Bragman and their neighbors are, it’s not Hindu),and Buddhism rises a bit from 7.1% to 8% (Few
atheistic commies). Among religions we don’t have, the followers of Yahweh The Wrathful (confined almost entirely to Gog-Magog) clock in at 4.5%, the Cannibal Empire’s nightmarish pantheon at around 2.3%. Another 6% can be called “indeterminate monotheist” [1].
Among smaller religions there are about 35.4 million snipped Jews (less than ½ of 1% of the world’s population, but rather more than the estimated 14.4 million of OTL), of which some 12 million, or over a third, belong to the lost-but-found tribes.(Given that they follow something a lot closer to the pre-diasporah form of the religion, there is considerable dispute between them and the other Jewish groups as to who are the “real” Jews). Some 80 million Aethiopians follow a form of Polytheism suspiciously like that of the ancient Greeks. (Not the Amazons of California: almost all of them- 15 million – follow a systematized religion derived from the ancient religion of the Black Sea steppe). There are some 90 million followers of the various branches of Voodoo, although only a fraction are loyal to the Priesthood of Haiti.
Native American religion is doing better: while the majority have converted to Christianity, some 15% of the United States of Columbia’s 12 million native Americans or 1.8 million follow their old faiths, in El Dorado some 3 million, and most prominently in the Restored Empire of the Four Quarters where some 50% of the population (13.5 million) at least part of the time follow the Old Religion, and 20% (5.4 million) follow it full time. (Christians are till over 50% of the population: it’s complicated, in an East Asian sort of way). The rest of Latin America is hard to estimate.
Oh, and also: please note what percentage of the world's sentient population is nonhuman. I can't imagine that it'd be especially large, probably 10% or less, but just make a note of it as well, please.
A lot of those countries aren’t very densely populated: the larger sized ones simply need a lot more space individually than humans, and the tribal groups generally aren’t very numerous. They really don’t even make it to 3% of the world population, not counting mermaids and shark-men.
[1] Mandeville as he moved east kept running into people who worshipped God and were often more praiseworthy in their behavior than Europeans, but was often very skimpy on the details.