User blog comment:Freelance Grammar Nazi/Kind of a Rant...?/@comment-1271618-20100706031501

San Marino's the one out of those five that I see as being the most likely. Puerto Rico would be interesting, Hawaii too, though s/he would have to be living with America in the present-day strips (if it's not an accessory of some sort even taking the Kingdom into consideration).

Sicily and Sardinia...I don't see those as too likely. Veneziano's name derives from "Venice" but he only sometimes represents it in pre-unification strips. Other times he seems to be Milan or Piedmont-Sardinia (which included Corsica too), especially with the Austrian Succession notes that were left out of someone's scanlation. If we go by volume 3, Romano seems to be both Naples and Sicily. Unless we get a "long-lost brother" Sicily that Spain was raising up too, I guess we can assume that Himaruya has Romano as both of those. But in the Italian city-state case, he would've had to design a LOT of Chibitalias if he was ever going for total accuracy (and you thought one or two were bad enough!)