Setting
Sylvanian Families is apparently set in a 1970s British country village. The majority of the families are rural middle-class, with many of them owning localised but successful family businesses, or having white-collar jobs as doctors and teachers.
They can live in large, multi-storey houses, or own dwellings based on the premise of a kind of holiday home. They can also indulge in many stereotypically middle-class leisure activities such as sailing or horse-riding, and often host garden parties or go on short holidays.
Most families consist of a father, mother, sister and brother, and continue to add family members from there on such as grandparents and babies.
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