I am English. I live in the city of York, one of the largest tourist cities on the planet and drowned in history.
We also have archaic laws, like its legal to shoot a scotsman with a bow and arrow on a sunday from the bar walls if he is wearing a kilt. My body count is so far 0... but I am working on it.
York still has a lot of medieval architecture, so I can look at games like planeshift and just see how wholey inaccurately we romanticise the past... Nevermind though, I mean 99% of people may have lived in absoloute destitute poverty, but hey paladins and there racist crusades are cool.