User blog comment:Freelance Grammar Nazi/Kind of a Rant...?/@comment-99.141.115.197-20100628221253

It's odd that Portugal hasn't been portrayed yet. This country has the oldest known alliance in history with England, sorta like a marriage contract that both countries seem to forget they had in the first place, heh. I believe this alliance was made to check Spain's growing power (and for access to port wine?), and that it had a mad rivalry with Spain during the earlier part of the Age of Discovery (Treaty of Tordesillas!), so it's pretty weird that Portugal hasn't shown up yet.

I'd like to see the Persian Empire be portrayed; it was supposedly the largest empire in ancient history. I'd be happy with a cameo, which would then give way to introducing Iran, Iraq and Afghanistan. Also, the Fertile Crescent would make for some snarky (if not downright naughty) comic strip, being a Vital Region and all. It was so "vital" that even the ancient Greeks knew about it!

If India will ever be portrayed, so should Pakistan and Bangladesh. And Sri Lanka too. My head canon is also insisting that India should be female, and a voluptuous one at that, and Sri Lanka (Ceylon) is her little brother.

I'm actually looking forward to seeing the entire ASEAN 10. And due to their geographic location and cultural ties I can actually see Indonesia (male), Malaysia (male) and the Philippines (female!) as triplets that were kind of separated from birth and reared (more like kidnapped) by different parents-- the Netherlands, England/British Empire, and Spain respectively. America then factors in after he buys the Philippines from Spain (who's just about going bankrupt from all the wars that he's been involved in).

In any case, since Himaruya has started with micronations, I wonder if he'll ever draw newer countries like East Timor. This country's the youngest one so far, I think. So I wonder how, if ever, will this country be represented.

And finally, I wish Himaruya would flesh out Hungary's background. She's got an interesting history, and it would be a nice lead-in to finally introducing Romania and Mongolia.