Guide compiled and sources reviewed: 24 October 2026. These are independent sources, not Amurlin partners, participants or endorsers. Only links and our original summaries are published, not photographs or full texts. The guide date does not replace source publication dates. Applications to Amurlin are our research questions; no model recalibration, parameter changes or changes to HOLD statuses have been made.
Read materials and access boundaries
1. Making maps with noise functions
Making maps with noise functions
Author / publisher: Amit Patel / Red Blob Games
Publication: July 2015; updates listed through 2022; day unspecified.
Reviewed: 2026-10-24
The tutorial turns elevation, noise frequency and multiple scales into controllable terrain parameters. For Amurlin, it offers a useful interface pattern: show how assumptions change the result.
Evidence boundary: Tutorial text read. Map generation is not a validated economic or social model; the proposed application to Amurlin is our interpretation.
2. Датун — сердце пыли
Author / publisher: Илья Буяновский / Varandej
Publication: 30 March 2026, 22:50; page timezone not established.
Reviewed: 2026-10-24
This travel essay connects modern Datong with trade routes and Shanxi geography. It suggests a network-based historical layer for Amurlin, considering settlements, transport and exchange together rather than only national boundaries.
Evidence boundary: Author essay read. Observations and historical interpretations still require independent checks of dates and causal claims; this is not quantitative calibration data.
3. The World in Faces — FAQ
Author / publisher: Alexander Khimushin / The World in Faces Foundation
Publication: Original publication date not established; the review date is not a publication date.
Reviewed: 2026-10-24
The official FAQ explains the relationship between portraits, stories, original author texts and usage rules. For Amurlin, the key lesson is to distinguish documentary testimony about real people from fictional country-building.
Evidence boundary: Methodological FAQ read, not individual portrait stories. No permission to reproduce photographs or use them in AI is assumed; this is not an ethnographic model.
4. How a Republic of Chinese Red Beards was Invented in Paris
How a Republic of Chinese Red Beards was Invented in Paris
Author / publisher: Mark Gamsa / Cambridge University Press, Modern Asian Studies 36(4), 993–1010
Publication: Online: 6 September 2002; issue: October 2002.
Reviewed: 2026-10-24
The accessible extract examines later political narratives about an 1880s Amur mining settlement. It cautions against inferring republican ambitions among residents simply from subsequent descriptions calling the settlement a republic.
Evidence boundary: Publisher extract and metadata read, not the full article. Settlement history, later interpretation and fictional institutions must remain separate; this does not establish historical sovereignty for Amurlin.
5. За степным фронтиром: история российско-китайской границы
За степным фронтиром: история российско-китайской границы
Author / publisher: Sören Urbansky / Новое литературное обозрение; перевод М. Закировой; original: Princeton University Press
Publication: Russian edition 2023; original Beyond the Steppe Frontier — 2020.
Reviewed: 2026-10-24
The introductory excerpt treats borders as outcomes of changing policies and everyday practices. For a future Amurlin model, it raises separate questions about institutions, mobility and residents’ choices rather than reducing development to territory.
Evidence boundary: Bibliographic pages, contents and parts of the introduction in a 36-page publisher sample read, not the whole book. Suggested variables are our questions, not the author’s quantitative model; no parameters were derived.
6. Архив
Author / publisher: Приморское краевое отделение РГО — Общество изучения Амурского края (ОИАК)
Publication: Publication/update date unavailable; copyright is not used as a publication date.
Reviewed: 2026-10-24
The archive description identifies maps, early newspapers, photographs and collections on place names and ethnography. It offers a research trail from broad historical narratives to identifiable records for Amurlin’s documentary layer.
Evidence boundary: Collection description read, not individual files. Availability, catalogue currency, reproduction rights and specific documentary claims require verification. OIAK is a learned society, not a government authority.
Starting points: complete works not yet reviewed
7. Worldbuilding Festival 2026 — Polity Chart announcement
Worldbuilding Festival 2026 — Polity Chart announcement
Author / publisher: Nikolai Lofving Hersfeldt / Worldbuilding Pasta
Publication: Page displays August 26; 2026 is the event year in the title, not a separately verified publication year.
Reviewed: 2026-10-24
The announcement proposes discussing fictional polities through influence, organisation, territoriality, cohesion and privilege. It is a starting point for explicit country-building assumptions, not a ready-made dynamic model.
Evidence boundary: Only the public announcement was read; the complete recording was not watched. The method has not been assessed or adopted as a validated mathematical model.
8. Timelines of Political Parties
Timelines of Political Parties
Author / publisher: UsefulCharts / Matt Baker
Publication: 6 May 2025.
Reviewed: 2026-10-24
This collection links materials on political-party timelines in Germany, the United Kingdom and Canada. It offers a navigation pattern for institutional change over time, not independently verified causal findings for Amurlin.
Evidence boundary: The collection page and its listed contents were checked. Full videos and charts were not reviewed; their historical claims were not assessed.