I love developing my world. I have lots of useless information about it now, that the readers will never get to experience, but it is just so much fun to think about which parts of the world would influence each other! I want to draw a map, when I find the time, to at least give a little bit of understanding of the surrounding world, since my story takes place in one city for the most part.
My comic The Machinist takes place in a Land called "Robigo", a desert like country with a lot of valuable minerals. The country got rich due to the abundance of rare metals. But it is also under an oppressive regime. You see, in the world of my comic more and more people are being born with deformities and other mutations and the government of this place tries to separate them form the healthy population as far as possible. This lead to the country being torn apart by war. The story focus lies on the capital of Robigo, which is called Rust City in the slang of the locals. A city that got rich through mining, which I try to reflect in the architecture. The infected population is not allowed inside the inner rings, which is guarded by a special police force. A little outside the city a huge slum has formed, because of people searching refuge from the wars on the countryside. It formed out of a small community of salvagers, building little shacks around the garbage dump and just grew bigger and bigger.
I recently did a comic page illustrating some of the city districts.
The overall time period of this world is roughly the same as ours, with different countries developing faster or slower. Robigo is a bit more advanced than we are right now.
That being said I am already looking forward to exploring the rest of the world in my second comic, which will take place on another continent. There is some mystery to why Robigo has so much more mutated people, than the rest of the world and there are some fantasy elements I want to explore later. Hehe, so many plans. 
But for now I am fine with my little dusty world.
