Throughout history, there always seems to be people that learned to do the same thing everybody else was doing – differently. They sometimes even manage to stun the world & flip the establishment on its heels, redefining how everybody else should think about an artform. I’m not saying we’ll ever do something like that, but it can’t hurt to try!
It all goes perfectly with another unorthodox citation:
“It’s simple: Overspecialize, and you breed in weakness. It’s slow death.”
- from Ghost in the Shell

Sounds like you’re working out some of the nitty-gritty of the world setting, which is good. Since you’re creating a whole world, it’s trying to work out details for the whole thing, but try and get a sense for the general culture of the world. Are you wanting to create a dystopic place, or one that’s generally optimistic? That sort of thing.

Since you know Gaiman, I’ll use him: he makes the claim that all cities have personalities, places have personalities, even entire nations have personalities. I’ve put down many a perfectly good fantasy novel just because the vibrant, lively-feeling characters were traipsing about a world that is utterly dull and lifeless. So you’re right, coming up with a world is coming up with rules and regulations, but it’s coming up with Characters too. Perhaps these characters aren’t as mobile as your other ones, but they’re just as important.

But honestly, it sounds like you already know all this: good work thus far. Looking forward to more.