All right, yeah. While this isn’t a novel theory or anything, I still think it’s important to point out that very few nations actually hate each other. Yes, there are periods where they do, but it’s not a deep-set hatred. I can only think of one example where it’s true hatred, and it’s only one-sided.

This isn’t strictly intended for ships, but it can certainly be used as a reference if you want to prove that the relationship dynamic is possible. I’ll touch on this later, but I want to reiterate again that the nations are cultural, not political representations.

Post coming up tonight.

I’m not an expert, far from it! All I do is link strips to make sense out of canon information. Religion actually comes up quite a bit in the strips, more than you’d think.

Vatican City is only mentioned by Hima in passing on his blog and lacks an official design/ formal appearance. He’s hypothetically described as an old man that would constantly get into arguments/make up with Italy.

Post on religion coming up tonight!

While some nations are taller as a result of their country’s statistical demographic height (i.e. Russia, the Netherlands), this isn’t always the case. Factors like sovereignty, historical political repression, and economic strength have been shown to impact the personification’s biological age.

As such, you have personifications with statistically taller heights like Latvia who are only 15.

The micro-nations, like Molossia, are an entirely different ballpark. Like regular nations, they’re personality and culture based [x]. Their ages aren’t something that can be attributed to a common sense explanation given that Japan shows surprise at Nikko Nikko acquiring micro-nation status. [x]

There’s also the fact that Lithuania expresses surprise at Sealand’s existence, and warns him not to become a full nation as it would be too hard on his “small body.” Latvia also expresses this concern, mentioning how nationhood would be hard on Sealand’s heart because of said small body [x] Put another way, the micro-nations are as a much of a puzzlement to us as they are to the other nations.

That said, tonight’s theme will be the influence of economic strength on a personification’s age. As mentioned by anon, while lacking full independence, Hong Kong and Macau have still aged because of their successful economies.