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@Sylvered: Simon is a real model, as we can see from the ending cutscene. He mentions Dision and Yoko by name, saying that Dision took Yoko away from him. So we can say with no doubt that Dision and Yoko were real people as well.

@Phoenix melody 93: I haven't played AC3 past Mission... 3? I mean, it's all up to the Project Nemo team who are translating the game for everyone to understand and play it properly. But from what I can tell, we can't exactly say that the corporations and characters featured in the simulation were real. At most we can say, for example on Acepedia, that they were featured in the simulation, but whether they truly existed in Strangereal or not isn't something we can definitively claim. Personally, this is just my belief, I think they did. I think Simon jumbled them together in a simulation copy of the real world, developed Nemo's AI, and let the AI take command of a simulated conflict between the people and corporations that really existed in his time. But there's no actual, definitive proof of it.

Again, I could be missing something, and I could be completely wrong. I don't know enough about AC3, which is why I've barely touched the articles related to it. But that's what I see/think/feel about it all.