Talk:Menagerie/@comment-26397825-20161114025135/@comment-26397825-20161114040559

That's why I said it's sorta a mashup of all western countries. They just picked the best of everything and slapped it together with a water backside and a hilly front.

04:05, November 14, 2016 (UTC)

I'd make a point about Australia being a very multicultural country and not a shirt and tie kind of place as well but...well. Everyone is sorta so casually racist we don't even notice it anymore until someone makes a fuss. We may be super multicutural, but we're also so super casually racist that dropping insults based on race doesn't even phase most people, nor do they think twice about it.

You sorta don't realise how racist your family is until you make friends in other countries and they start dropping racism bombs about them sounding Russian...when they're not. >.<

The Africa conparison is from how the other countries came in and started mining the Dust for themselves; Vacuo sat on the largest deposits, but the SDC and other Kingdoms came in and started mining it all for themselves, claiming it for themselves, sort of like what I ave heard the other countries did to Africa and a lot of its natural resources. The oil thing is a big similarity too though, so I can see the Middle Eastern aspects (I don't know enough about Venezuela to say yay or nay to that point).

04:05, November 14, 2016 (UTC)

Lol. Yep. Soviet Murica.

04:05, November 14, 2016 (UTC)

I really don't feel any sort of Africa vibes from Menagerie yet, because other than the 'minority' thing it's got more in common with Vacuo. The whole 'force the Faunus to be there, no we don't want to stay there, oh okay you don't have to, lol we'll still live there though' thing that happened really makes me think of how England treated the first settlers of America when they kicked them out, and the convicts of Australia. The fact that they reached out and started building settlements in other kingdoms' lands makes me think America as well.

So it seems to me that it's a mix of Australia and early settlement America, with Vale picking up the modern America capitalism.