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Terrathere; Latin for Country beast
Topic Started: Aug 11 2009, 05:42 PM (1,630 Views)
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I know at least 2 of you like Axis Powers Hetalia (I like it to but i'm growing quite fond of Afghanis-tan) but here is my idea. Moe anthropomorphism of countries but instead of being humans, their non sapient alien species in an ecosystem on an alien planet. Like Russia is a super organism/alpha predator and the communist bloc and baltic states are symbotic creatures/prey

what do you think?
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Could you refrase that and explain more because all I am getting is countries as organisms with anthropomorphic preferences which I am having a hard time comprehending.
Edited by ATEK Azul, Aug 11 2009, 06:29 PM.
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I should have been more clear

inspired by axis powers hetalia and Afghanis-tan I had the crazy idea of countries being represented by alien species in an ecosystem on another planet. take for example I think that Germany and Italy would have a ratel-honey guide symbiosis (with Germany being the ratel)
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That sounds interesting I would like to see more when you can.
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sorry but I can't because

1 I'm a lousy drawer and 2 I'm more of a concept man
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i like this idea, battle tactics could effect what kind of body design they'd have...
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Aug 11 2009, 06:28 PM
Could you refrase that and explain more because all I am getting is countries as organisms with anthropomorphic preferences which I am having a hard time comprehending.
He's saying take a country and make an organism that reflects it. Russia, for instance, would be a large organism with lots of symbiotic organisms living on/in it (representing the soviet bloc states).
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Perhaps Turkey would be like a strange terrestrial mimic octopus, since it has a culture that assimilates other culture types into it. Now what would be America?
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Now what would be America?
an alpha predator and in the past it would have a coyote-badger relationship with the uk (with it being the coyote) http://www.ecology.info/article.aspx?cid=10&id=24
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I think America would be a top predator with advanced brain and offensive capabillities and might be a hybrid like a liger or at least descended from one.

Reasons: America has alot of inovation going on right now, America has alot of weapons, and with the mixtures of human cultures, concepts and other things along with the fuanal interchanges throught the recent past.
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Well whatever America is it would have a super efficient metabolism to be analogous to America's monster economy.
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Now what would Imperium Romanum be? I would think an apex predator, constantly taking over lands around the Mediterranean Sea.
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should we incorporate the countries histories? because then at some point in it's life the Americanoid would be a super producer wouldn't it? or are we not going to do producers?
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should we incorporate the countries histories? because then at some point in it's life the Americanoid would be a super producer wouldn't it? or are we not going to do producers?
Honestly, producers, in my eyes, have been neglected enough, so I don't see any reason why we won't do any.
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Well if we're doing producers too then India would be the largest producer of all. Lots of Southern India is so fertile it gives three harvests a year. Not only that but it would be a perfect representation of the Indian national culture; many different languages, peoples, and religions all forming one greater whole. Like the trunk, branches, leaves, and flowers of a great fruit bearing tree.
Edited by Ànraich, Aug 13 2009, 03:51 PM.
We should all aspire to die surrounded by our dearest friends. Just like Julius Caesar.

"The Lord Universe said: 'The same fate I have given to all things from stones to stars, that one day they shall become naught but memories aloft upon the winds of time. From dust all was born, and to dust all shall return.' He then looked upon His greatest creation, life, and pitied them, for unlike stars and stones they would soon learn of this fate and despair in the futility of their own existence. And so the Lord Universe decided to give life two gifts to save them from this despair. The first of these gifts was the soul, that life might more readily accept their fate, and the second was fear, that they might in time learn to avoid it altogether." - Excerpt from a Chanagwan creation myth, Legends and Folklore of the Planet Ghar, collected and published by Yieju Bai'an, explorer from the Celestial Commonwealth of Qonming

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