It's another world, where there are isolated countries (or rather, a country in this world is a city), so it's pretty interesting to see how each isolated culture has developed, and their relations with the other countries.

Kino's a great character, you'll have to watch it. I'm not quite sure how I'd exactly describe her. She's good willed and appears very introverted from the outside.

I have the box set a few feet away from me, I could get my brother to lend it to you.