Talk:Menagerie/@comment-160.3.10.104-20161023143307/@comment-128.62.66.98-20161106201330

I always get irritated when people compare Mantle/Atlas to Russia when it clearly represents PRUSSIA/IMPERIAL GERMANY. Both states have a very strong industrial and scientific base, are renowned for being centers of innovation, and both are basically controlled by the military. Russia, by contrast, was always technologically and industrially behind, even during the Stalinist days (heavy industry caught up, but nothing else did), and it is much larger in area than Atlas ever could be. In fact, Atlas seems similar in size to Brandenburg, let alone Prussia.