Old Country

"The old country" could possibly refer to a real-world location (England being the most popular suggestion), or to an unknown rural area in SimNation. "The old country" was first mentioned in Mortimer Goth's and Gunther Goth's bios in The Sims and The Sims: Unleashed, respectively. It is explained that Gunther, Cornelia, and Mortimer moved from "the old country" when Gunther founded what would become Pleasantview. References to "the old country" may have been intended to imply that the family kept at least some of the "old ways", but that is speculative.

Florence Delarosa, one of the moved-in Sims living in the sub-neighbourhood of Bluewater Village (introduced in Open For Business) could possibly be another former resident of "the old country", as her bio refers to her as "a recent arrival" and "graced with old world charm". However, this is merely speculation.

The Old Country has been created several times in SimCity 4 as a quiet and rural region of SimNation. This is highly possible because it is known that neighbourhoods such as Riverblossom Hills and Veronaville are in an old English and rural setting.