Can we have like, a "Trivia" section with the real life counterparts or something? I'm really interested in what's the inspiration behind each country/isola/organization.
From what I gathered:
-Vesper and Messina: Italy? Messina is a real city, and the name reminds me of the Kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia.
-Mesque: seems an obvious reference to Mexico, and also sounds similar to Mezcal/Mescal (a famous Mexican alcoholic beverage), culturally it has Spanish names and even language, based on Mañana's dialogue and names like Franconegro (Frank-Black?¿). The Marietti/Mariachis, the loyalty and cultural atachment to Catholic church and its popes (Innocences). There are some Portuguese words too, and the "boiaderos" are actually real life Brazilian cowboys (in Spanish is Vaqueros). So probably the countries have multiple real life inspirations.
-Ubi Sunt?: based on the same Latin phrase which means "where are they/those/them?"; the complete question is Ubi sunt qui ante nos fuerunt?, meaning "Where are those who were before us?". The stereotype of their bestiality could be applied to literally every country in the world with a rural subculture, lmao, but I'm guessing it refers to the Irish (Iraesh) or Welsh, both are often mocked as goat/sheep fkers in English media.
-Gottwald: ¿Götaland, Sweden? Names like Knut are clearly nordic.
-Oranje: like the anglo-french word Orange (?) but with weird French and Dutch names, part Belgium part Netherlands?
-Sur-la-Clef: France and West Europe in general? Dolores Dei came from here apparently, like many, many popes from West Europe, they have a prominent role on World organizations, they are colonizers, etc. Irene the Navigator seems like a mix between Portuguese prince Henry the Navigator and Spanish Isabella I of Castile (one of the Catholic Monarchs that funded the discovery of the Americas). Ozonne seems to share some of this too.
-Meteo: ancient civilization with names like Thylakos and an important and prominent sea, so ¿Greece? Pisantic sea doesn't sounds too much like the Aegean and/or Mediterranean but idk.
-Konigstein: the name is German but the reference to mounted police and "dominion" reminds me of Canada.
-Kedra: the Mare interregnum and dust storms makes me think of some random African country bathed by the Mediterranean Sea (Roman "Mare Nostrum"). The "possible candidate to X organization but never becoming a full member" it's literally every 2nd and 3rd world country ever lmao X.X
-Saramiriza: culturally similar to Mesque/Mexico, the best cocaine and coffee, former colony, communism (FARC), PMC warfare and gang conflicts, it's literally Colombia.
-People's Republic of Samara: Asian-like, hooked up with cocaine (irl Opium) by a colonial power, civil war, ends up as an isolated socialist dystopia with "self-immolating protesters", it's early Maoist China with influences of other Asiatic socialist regimes like North Korea or Vietnam (Lo Manthang?). Koko Nur's deserts sounds like either Gobi or the steppes of Mongolia/Central Asia.
-Seol: sounds like Seoul but the isolationism and "panisiolary" characteristics are surely inspired on Japan, specially the "Empire of Japan" from early 1900s.
-Katla: Scandinavian asf, Arda has fishes, fjords and names like "Kvalsund". Vaasa is a socdem (Nordic Model/Welfare State?) tundra where Ignus Nilsen hided (Didn't Lenin or some other commie guy hided in Finland?). Vaasa also has an indigenous group called Suru, like Finland's Sami. Cunoesse also uses Finnish words.
-Semenese islands: black people, jungles, colonization, colonial PMC warcrimes, voodoo magic, could be Africa/Madagascar or Haiti/Jamaica/the Caribbean islands.
Moralintern sounds like Komintern, EPIS sounds like BRICS, yet the countries from those fictional organizations are culturally/politically more like NATO, I'm thinking it's a reference to imperialism in general (from both sides of the political spectrum).
Feel free to add more info or correct me if I'm wrong. Or even better, make a Trivia section with the real info :P
Urgalak (talk) 02:50, 8 March 2024 (UTC)