Gurpel said:
I was under the impression that wow accounts were region-locked, that's why we don't have Chinese players on our realms.
There are, too! They farm gold there. Otherwise they wouldn't be able to sell it to people on these servers.
In addition, I had a hunter who tamed a bear. I named it "Mishka". I got a bunch of inquiries from people from Russia asking if I was from there, too. Seems that going on a different server group is great because your peak times are server off-times.