@PrpleTrtleBuBum: Well, that is what the author did. He literally misplaced Europe. Eastern Europe, anyway.

But I'd also push back against that notion that "it's better to compare EU countries to US states" or that this is any sort of excuse. Spain has what? 40-50 million people in it? The US is 350. The EU is 450. Eastern Europe is 300 million. That's a lot of people to be entirely clueless about. I mean, just with the Spain thing you've misplaced all of Texas. I am pretty sure I wouldn't have placed Texas in the middle of Quebec if you gave me a blank map, and I'd like to think neither would most Europeans. Pretty sure we've all seen games set there and we all got roughly where in the world they were supposed to happen.

But hey, you made me curious, so in the process of fact checking my own assumptions I also went and checked something else. You know how many US states *put together* you would have misplaced, ordered by population? 23. Spain has as many people as the 23 least populated US states put together. By Wikipedia's count you'd get all the way up to Connecticut. That's counting Puerto Rico. If you want to exclude them you have to swap in Oklahoma. So... yeah.

Look, this guy probably just got things mixed up because he was thinking about RE8 (although the mistake lasted at least a few passes, because it made it to the video review script). The reason the OP is probably reacting to it is that the game is already pretty crappy about its depiction of the location and the culture (just as RE5 and RE8 are, by the way), so this feels like doubling down on not giving a crap about it. Getting defensive about it just feels like an extra layer of dickish on top of everything else.

I believe it takes place in western Europe, not eastern. A strange version of Spain where they use pesetas and speak Mexican-Spanish ;)