How did borders such as these effect the average peasant?

Those borders didn't actually exist, they were created on that map for the convenience of modern historians

they made for excellent CBs if you had the right ideas unlocked.

>>2008109
You need to be checkd whenever you go to the grocery store.

That was during the late HRE, atfer the HRE, the Germans were so pissed off in stopping for customs every few miles that they initiated the Zollverein, which is usually seen as a blueprint to the EU today.

>>2008109

It established their protectorate. War bands that were foreign or domestic who raided a village had to answer to the king or the landlord of these borders.

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>>2008109
even as a late-stage HRE-aboo, is it even humanly possible to understand this shit?

>>2008292
A shitton of those (the lila ones) were ecclestial states. So wherever you have an abbey or a monastry, it became its own realm.
Red are Free Imperial Cities.
The rest actually are not that fucked up in regards to HRE states.

>>2008327
There are also the Imperial Knights, were you might have a castle plus some surrounding countryside being an independent state