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Most of these ideas have been popular (to the extent that "popular" describes the Civverse) throughout the previous occasions where there has been activity in this area, and the few Civ fictions that currently exist are based around a 23rd-century-esque theme with rival megacorporations, so building the setting around this could be good start.

The geography of the planet should be open to change given that there are almost no details about it anyway. A major point in previous discussions about Deisna was that it should have multiple sapient species while being fairly realistic about it, hence the idea of myriad islands and small continents where creatures could evolve mostly independently. The other idea was mass genetic engineering for cosmetic purposes, which may still exist, but not everybody may want that for their creations.