User blog comment:Hidden Scorpius XI/My impressions on "Taking Control" (V4-E11)/@comment-4010415-20170130005147/@comment-25936766-20170130023410

Mmm....wondering...are Atlas and Mantle different nations? I thought Atlas was the (current) Kingdom, but Mantle was still part of said kingdom, a second state within the same country.

If so, when Ironwood says "Atlas is closing it's borders", he may not mean just Atlas, but the Kingdom of Atlas.