There’s no mystery why they left - the placed just sucked, what with the kings and landed aristocracy preventing upward social mobility on the one hand, and the Socialist/Communist oppression and forced poverty on the other, who would WANT to live in that suckass continent? Geez, even the pea-brains figured that one out.
I’m being repressed! Look, look. - he’s repressing me!....
Flash backs to Monty Python’s search for the holy grail...