Civ games should have full terraforming. don't care about "making the best out of your circumstances" i should be able to raze those mountains and polderize the ocean if i bloody well feel like it
real-world location names sneak so easily into fantasy worlds. you can find Alterac Swiss in world of warcraft, or visit the Alpine Borderlands in guild wars 2, or own a labrador in path of exile. nowhere else in those games are Switzerland, the Alps or Canada acknowledged