User blog comment:KatDWolf/I wonder..../@comment-1616397-20100118003440

Technically, there is a canon continent-tan. His name is Australia.

The South Slavs are hard enough even with the six standard divisions of Yugoslavia. Kosovo is probably still a child nation, with Serbia and Bosnia doing a Battle For America thing with it, except a whole lot nastier. I'd say that until Hidekaz does something about it, leave the matter to Tix. She's on the spot (she's a Serb), and her South Slavs are very well-developed and balanced.

New Zealand...New Zealand isn't related to Australia at all. There was a concept of a Maori people before Europeans landed there, albeit a disjointed one without any nation structure. If you take the premise that a cultural idea of "people" can create a nation-tan (as I do with Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus, who I think existed before their nations did), then New Zealand today is a Europeanized Maori who's very in tune with nature and has an unhealthy fixation with rugby.

If you want a really quick course on the pre-European history of New Zealand, as well as a lot of other ideas that can help flesh out your Hetalia head-canon (especially regarding China, Mama Egypt, and non-canon nation-tans like Inca), read Jared Diamond's Pulitzer-winning book Guns, Germs, and Steel.