User blog comment:D. Cello/Assassinews 03/05 -- ACWiki's Fan Section and AC3 first trailer/@comment-182.239.197.102-20120307083538/@comment-1153722-20120307171645

Florence was a city-state, not a country. Plus, the Assassin's Creed team always picks out settings that held quite a significance on the world, but are rarely visited in games. They wanted to explore revolutionary America this time, which doesn't mean they are doing it to please American fans, but only to show how the AC lore reached out to the New World. At least it's not modern day America which nearly all games have as a setting. Why do people start complaining anyways... it's not like this will be the final game. There will still be a lot of settings available for explore in future media. The next French comic (which they should integrate into a canon modern day component and stop releasing in only a few countries) will explore Egypt next.