Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-25266931-20151213225959/@comment-24891101-20151214184930

Then it's not Earth.

One can impose Doylistic boundary conditions upon the setting to ensure the existence of humans and similar things, however one should not have too many, else they choke the worldbuilding in the cradle. All the lore is accurate, it's simply undergone a transformation into a more useable form.