Anon said: You might have done
this one before idk and it probably can’t be answered without more information
from Hima but do you think you could do something on how the nations are born
or how you think they’re born? Are they actually birthed as a human and become
countries, or do they just appear, or variations of that sort?
I think the problem here is that
there isn’t one way for a nation to come into being. You’re right though, it is difficult to confirm anything, but we can speculate from the material we are given.
Hima seems to show us multiple
nuanced methods of how nations are born/come into existence, so rather than
focusing on this process, I think focusing on how they continue to exist is
more important. What links them is their nationhood – micro-nations included.
Anyways, we see from America and
Japan that they can be born as toddlers. Either that, or they existed before
without being detected by the other nations.
However, they can also be born as
babies, namely Egypt.
We also know that nationhood can
be achieved by humans, as seen with the Republic of Nikoniko who went from a
middle-schooler to a micro-nation, and then back to an aging human again. Even
though Japan finds what happened to Nikoniko’s fluctuating nationhood status as
an “anomaly”, it’s still a possibility.
Overall, this is just the tip of
the iceberg in terms of the many ways that nations can be born. As long as
there is some claim of belonging and belief from the people, then that’s likely
what gives them their immortality.
I guess what I’m trying to say is
that there is no true answer. Instead, what I’ll probably do is analyze the
many different ways nations form themselves in another – more detailed – post.
There are plenty of more examples where you see personifications possessing
nationhood, despite lacking sovereign status. Becoming a nation seems to be a
rather flexible process!
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