So are the nations holiday homes the homes that colonizing nations live in their colonies?

Yes and no.

As mentioned, the colony system in the manga doesn’t have the colonizing nation live with their colony 100% of the time. Instead, the colonizer visits the colony in the latter’s home.

Ex: England visits America at his home. Long gaps of time pass between each visit.

Ex: In his character song “Absolutely Invincible British Gentleman”, England mentions that he has holiday homes – presumably in India and Hong Kong given the lyrics.

“Curry, Chinese cuisine, my holiday houses’ meals.” [x].

What you’ll see is that the word “home” is also used generically to refer to a piece of land/ territory/ settlement. It’s just like how nations will refer to their entire country as their house.

(e.g., “My house [country] has the best food!”)

Another example would be Finland and Sweden’s colonization of America. They make a settlement [home] in America, only to have it taken from them by Holland. In this case, the strip is making a reference to New Sweden, otherwise known as Delaware [x].

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