Mordovia ('Card Table Blues')

Mordovia is a location in 'Card Table Blues.' Chonzheje Grzywacz is known to speak one of the two local Mordvinic languages, Moksha; in fact, the Gades Colonial Authority knows to send Chonzheje coded messages in Moksha.

printing presses
Kingdoms, regions, etc. are often referred to in 'Card Table Blues' by their printing presses. Taghbalut mentions magazines from two locations: Chevan Erke, a real-life lake in the Republic of Mordovia, and "Panzhaems Torkud" ("to open/bloom + sheath," roughly "a sheath opens like a blossom").