User blog comment:WonderfulAsia/Hetalia English Dub Cast Updates/@comment-1271618-20100714000411

They probably did it as a compromise I guess, or how Igirisu is technically "Britain". It's hard to tell. All I see now though is a lot of disappointment, some outright rage over it too. Especially from people that live in the British Isles. Quite the voice-rage too. It seems like we won't even have to worry about Vic causing an explosion to crank up the controversy XD

"England" would have sounded better, but then we see the UK flag so much too. Hopefully they'll refer to kid England as that, or have some sort of compromise, I wonder how they dubbed that episode with him.