Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-31621711-20170328225223/@comment-67.186.234.66-20170331044649

Cyrania de Bergerac wrote: Atlas could also be seen as Germany, with how its a major source of technology while being more orderly than the others and Vale could be the US.

I could see Ironwood taking over Atlas as a "benevolent" dictator, then Vacuo and any remnents of the other kingdoms might charge in to free Atlas. (Mistral's fall would be the final straw that causes Ironwood to take such drastic action.)

Also, with White Fang's part in fall of the kingdoms, Ironwood might decide to crack down on the Faunus population on the suspicion that any of them might be White Fang members. I could definitely see Ironwood as an ultimate dictator, seeing his current stance in Atlas' grand council. Idk though...I still really do think that it could be the US. During Volume 4, we learned that Atlas had gone into an embargo, and near the end of the Volume we learned that Ironwood was pulling Atlas into isolationism, which is exactly what the US did after WWI. Once WWII started in the other countries, most Americans wanted to stay as far away from the war as possible. We see that Ironwood kinda has the same thing going on: He doesn't trust anyone, and I think that's going to be an important part of later volumes. While the other kingdoms are collapsing, Atlas will be in withdrawal and I think it's going to be too late before Ironwood realizes they should have been there to help. Another thing I've been thinking though regarding Atlas is that from some of the World of Remnants and RWBY episodes, we can see that Atlas' government is heavily involved in a lot of things (military, the academy, business, etc.), which isn't a whole lot like US government. I've been thinking lately that maybe Atlas could actually be representing Soviet Russia, which would explain a lot of the government which may be communistic. Idk.