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But then some settings...are different. They have nothing ''but'' Phlebotinum. That [[City of Adventure]] the heroes are exploring around? It's completely [[Floating Continent|floating]] in the air; not one building is touching the ground. Why? Phlebotinum! In fact, the whole planet is probably bound together with some sort of magical or super-science energy, without which it would simply [[Earthshattering Kaboom|explode]]. Every single thing around requires whatever the local flavor of Phlebotinum is to run in worlds such as these, whether it's [[Functional Magic|magic]], [[Nanomachines]], [[The Force]], or something else similar.
 
The main dividing line between a world that simply has a lot of Phlebotinum and one that's '''made of the stuff''' is this litmus test: if you took away the Phlebotinum, would your world still exist in any meaningful sense, or would it more or less just [[The End of the World as We Know It|collapse]]? If it would, your world is just plain '''Made Ofof Phlebotinum'''.
 
There is actually a great deal of evidence that ''[[Real Life]]'' is thus: when you develop a potent capability to the point that there are few side effects, you start using it for everything imaginable. When we learned to harness electricity easily, the only things weren't 100% electrical were the things that we used to generate electricity. When computers became advanced enough, we started carrying them around with us. Litmus Test? If you took away computers, it'd '''re-create [[The Great Depression]]'''. If you took away electricity, '''''ninety percent of the world would die within a decade'''''.
 
If something is literally made of Phlebotinum, see [[Made of Magic]].