Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-44248215-20191113060242/@comment-24018437-20191114163103

I really fail to see how Vale is in any way similiar to China. If anything, their culture is pretty much identical to 21th century mainstream Western culture. There is absolutely nothing Chinese about them.

Atlas and USA...Also not really seeing it. Atlas does have a bit of America in that its innovative in terms of technology, but imperialism is far from exclusive to the USA, so that's not a good enough reason. So it just seems like a sci-fi militaristic society with a hint of dystopian influence. Saying Atlas is based on America because of imperialism is very flawed because you can then also say it can also be based on China, the Roman Empire, Nazi Germany, the French Empire etc. Being potentioally imperalistic simply isn't good enough of an analogue to prove a link with the USA.

Mistral is the one very clearly based on Asian countries such as China and Japan if we look at architecture, clothing, art etc. Vacuo...Not entirely sure. Then again, we've only really seen them in The Fall and even then it wasn't the culture of the main city.