I know it doesn't REALLY matter, but I wish you could change your "City-State"

[Feronar]

Probably technical reasons it can't be changed, as it's linked to your quests, and changing it would probably break a bunch of stuff. Even if they could allow changing it, the benefit would be far too small to justify the expense and the opportunity cost.

[Valfreyja]

It would mess up New Game+ due to the starting handful that are different for each city-state.

And given that one of the first quests after you enter the world proper involves going to your starting class HQ and actually taking up that class, that's probably a reason as well. If you have no jobs from Gridania, but set your City-State to Gridania, New Game+ wouldn't work for that part.

[Terin]

Probably technical reasons it can't be changed, as it's linked to your quests, and changing it would probably break a bunch of stuff. Even if they could allow changing it, the benefit would be far too small to justify the expense and the opportunity cost.

Yeah, that's kind of what I think it could be, as well. But it does make me wonder "what DOES the backend code look like on that?". Because some of those starting quests are in the Unending Journal thing, but are listed under those REGIONS instead of the traditional MSQ section, it does make me wonder.

Still, it would also make New Game+ a little more fun if you could experience all three starting areas, in addition to "changing your initial one". Same for the quest that happens when you FIRST choose a Grand Company, where the quest sends you to the region nearest your GC, where the Garleans survey the wreckage of Biggs & Wedge's airship, the cutscenes taking place in said region.