User blog comment:Freelance Grammar Nazi/Kind of a Rant...?/@comment-98.232.138.109-20100628070526

I agree, but then again I'm pretty sure that after the creation of Hetalia, Hidekaz Himaruya has become a busy man himself (School and now a full blown series). Making a character for every countries is impossible, but probably the Micronations are just a fun side project.

I would love to see Mexico too, that would be interesting to read about... specially considering the USA's bad relations concluding till the Soviet Union Collapse.. Now because of the Illegal immigration, arms sales, and drug smuggling between the two countries the relations are a bit more complex... Would love it if Mexico was a girl too, there is a lack of girl characters and it would be hilarious. Mexico was mentioned in the Lithuania's outsourcing skit on one of the drama CDs by America, skeptical if it was just an adaptation on the CD developer's end, but it seemed that America might like Mexico. In real history I don't see that happening, Mexico has always had a border dispute with the USA which has been the bane of most of Mexico - USA relations...

Granted I'm still interested in is the relations between the territories of the United States (American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, and The United States Virgin Islands)(the Philippines and Cuba (Cuba has been confirmed to hate America) would be a part of this list, but they have been reviled already) and Alfred. I also wonder what Alfred did to the Republic of Hawai'i. Or Aupuni Mōʻī o Hawaiʻi (Kingdom of the Hawaiian Islands) for that matter, which became a republic after the US over threw the Monarchy in 1893. The Republic of Hawai'i became a US territory in 1898 and later the 50th state in 1959 (Post-WWII times, Alfred's jacket should really have '48' during the WWII strips... Its a pet-peeve of mine).

Sometimes I think England gets picked on more because he had more colonies then anyone else (Hell, during WWII he was the World's Biggest Empire and lost it post-WWII times). Thus his colonies get shown more than any other nations, including his micronations and his colonies' mirconations. Himaruya-sensei did previously state in his footnotes that England is probably the most pathetic character out of the series. In a way bringing in more characters like Sealand-kun and Seychelles is just to assure that fact. Although I do have to agree that England's brothers and sisters need to be shown, he talks about them a lot but has yet to show even a rough sketch of them. Which reminds me, Himaruya-sensei needs to make a Sierra Leone character too. From what I've been hearing, because of the UK interventions with the Civil War there, Sierra Leone might go under a neo-colonial rule by request of the residents of Sierra Leone. I still dunno the outcome of this, but last time I checked it was going to most likely happen.

Personal Footnotes: I would have love to see The Kingdom of Morocco and America sometime... Morocco is America's oldest ally dating back to December 20, 1777, in which during the war of independence Morocco provided safe ports for American merchants. Today Morocco remains America's oldest and one of the closest allies in the Middle East and North Africa. Morocco even holds the American Legation, Tangier (the first American public property outside of the US) as a Historical landmark of Morocco since January 8, 1981 (The USA declared it as the first American historical landmark outside of the USA in December 17, 1982).

I would also like to see Liberia, the African nation that was made by former US slaves back in 1821 (in which its motto, flag, and seal are closely related to that of America's). After the civil war (1862) the relations between Liberia and the USA grew since they both have very close diplomatic, economic, and military ties with each other until the 1990s. Liberia played a pivotal role in WWII as an Allied base in Africa (sorry Italy and Germany) and later hosted a relay station for Voice of America during the Cold War in efforts to suppress socialist and Marxist movements in Africa. Besides it would be funny (and rather annoying to Arthur) if there was a semi-Alfred (or even a black Alfred) clone in the series.

Sorry, I just have a have a hard time with the fact that Alfred doesn't have many friends within Hetalia. He is sorta my favorite character... But then again, much of what I do love about Hetalia is stereotypical and satirical in many ways. The US in general tends to stick its nose in other people's business. However, the US does have mostly good relations with most countries (if not tolerable), it just has a hard time is socialist/Marxist based governments and post British-colonial ties before WWI & WWII (in which the UK and US share a special relationship today, same can be said about most ex-British colony based countries with the exception of Canada).