Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27888871-20160318190713/@comment-26397825-20160318202405

Menagerie has more in common with the Protestant movement to the US than the convict movement to Australia.

The way the humans treated the Faunus at the time and the idea behind moving them all to Menagerie was 'out of sight, out of mind'. They didn't want them there, they didn't want to deal with them at all, and once they shipped them to Menagerie they didn't want anything more to do with them. The difference between the Faunus and the Protestant's is that they revolted before the humans could finish shipping them to Menagerie, whereas the Americans revolted after the English decided they wanted what the Americans had and were taxing them pretty heavily. Otherwise, the English wanted nothing to do with the Americas.

With the convicts and Australia, it was a very different story. The convicts weren't shipped to Australia because they didn't want to deal with them; they were shipped there because the English were running out of room in their prisons. The English set up infrastructure and support the convicts in creating new settlements from the very beginning. Once a convict had served his term, he was free to either return to England or own land in Australia and become one of the land owners, free to do as he pleased.

The Faunus certainly weren't going to be allowed back into 'Human Land' after they had served their time on Menagerie. They were being exiled, not used to establish a new colony. The convicts were used to establish a new colony due to running out of room for them back in England, but they were allowed back at the end of it. Australia has never revolted against England, and even though the country no longer pays tax to them they are still part of the commonwealth.

The First Settlers of America were kicked out, no ifs or maybes, because England didn't want to deal with them any longer. They got no support from England, and England only became interested in them again after the Americans proved they had something of interest. This, alongside other factors, eventually resulted in a revolution and America completely broke away from England, and is in fact no longer part of the Commonwealth. This is what would have happened with the Faunus.

The only difference is that the Faunus revolted earlier than the Americans did, and stopped themselves from being kicked out of 'human kingdoms' altogether.