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Terrathere; Latin for Country beast
Topic Started: Aug 11 2009, 05:42 PM (1,631 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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What would the UK and France be? Probably descendent of animals that were much larger once but are now much smaller. Perhaps decolonized nations could be descended from the original powerful animal that got geographically isolated and adaptive radiation took place.

Burma could be a very bizarre, cannibalistic descendent, eating it's own offspring and weak. Singapore could be a tiny animal with a very powerful venom.
Indonesia could be a very aggressive invasive species, descended from a subspecies of Dutch Empire that bred with an Extinct form of Japan made it much stronger and caused it to diverge from the original.
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Should the natural and ecological histories be considered?

Also what would Australia, New Zealand and Tasmania be like?

I think it would be funny if these are from an alternate earth having ranges where the countries they represent are.
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nah, i think we should just go with human actions and how the countries interact with eachother
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Aug 13 2009, 02:46 PM
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Aug 13 2009, 02:33 PM
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.
maybe the organisms could be a combination of Heterotroph/Autotroph

and you know how when two subspecies of creature live in different contients and when one of the subspecies is bought to the other subspecies' contient and the two subspecies interbreed so much that their is no more "pure" members of the subspecies that oringinally lived on that contient? (like what happened to the north american red fox)

I think that should be the metaphor for imperalism (and ethnic cleansing)
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or maybe your avatar could be a metaphor for imperialism

-i know where it's from though so don't fret about that-
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So we aren't even considering recent ecological things?

Also what about my other idea and question?

There could be some other interesting ways to do this which may be worth discussion.
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Aug 13 2009, 06:04 PM
So we aren't even considering recent ecological things?

Also what about my other idea and question?

There could be some other interesting ways to do this which may be worth discussion.
well i'm not leading it, we could do ecological things if everyone else wants to...
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That works at least I know it is possible if people like the idea.

What would Egypt be like?
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Egypt would probably be a species that was originally very unique but then, through convergent evolution, became similar to Arabian nationisms.
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the United States of America was originally a subspecies of the United Kingdom (like all colonies) but became a seperate species (it's independence) then it grew larger and more agressive than its ancestor

we should also include subspecies, for example the subspecies for the United Kingdom would be England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales and one of the subspecies for the United States of America would be Texas

we should also include the United States of America and Russia fighting for the same ecological niche (apex predator) to be a metaphor for the history of Us-Russia relations (most notably in the cold war era)

Australopithecus > Human

Soviet Union > Russia

we should also include aliens which represent the original inhabitants of the world besides Europe (like Native Americans and Aboriginal Australians)

and also evolutionary splitoffs (Yugoslavia)
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Well we were never really controlled by the British. We considered ourselves Englishmen, but honestly the ocean was so vast there was no way to actually control America. So that's why I think it should be like; America was originally a subspecies of the United Kingdom but then, through geologic separation America became a separate species.
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what do you mean by aliens? because the Europeans would be the aliens in this situation...

the natives had their territories and even empires, we could treat them like organisms that were once in power but due to the introduction of others they were knocked out of their niche
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what do you mean by aliens? because the Europeans would be the aliens in this situation...

the natives had their territories and even empires, we could treat them like organisms that were once in power but due to the introduction of others they were knocked out of their niche
I didn't mean alien like foreign I mean't alien like a creature not from earth

and that's what I want, organisms that both represent european countries and "primitive" natives

and here's an idea. All organisms have a moss/fungi/plant/bacteria/virus on their backs which represent the producer side of the country/empire/whatever (like middle east organisms have black oil well shaped ones on their backs) the organisms would get nutrients from it's back Autotrophs through photosynthesis or other ways. Some organisms let other organisms eat this, while most either use force or symbiosis (ex in 2002 Iraq would let France and Germany eat it's oil well shaped ones but only if they distract the USA from attacking it. It didn't work out too well)
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Personally I would see America as a large predator, perhaps with an elephant-like habit of goring trees and wrecking the local landscape. The UK would be a much smaller related mammals, that has a symbiotic relationship with America, picking its teeth like so-called 'crocodile birds'.
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I'm going to revive this idea!

countries

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US of A: originally a subspecies of the united kingdom it has become larger and more agressive

UK: a medium sized predator that is nomadic, has 4 subspecies (England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales)

Russia: large predator that has a covering of very many fatty lumps which protrude from the body in finger-like masses (like a nobit )
when sleeping many creatures sleep near it to keep warm

France: mainly a scavenger but will hunt

China: smallish carnivore (like a weasel) that breeds like wildfire

Axis

Germany: a medium sized predator (but larger than UK)

Italy: usally hangs around Germany and scavenges after it has eaten its fill

Eastern europe

Lithuania: the prey of Russia

Estonia: the other prey of Russia (but not as much as Lithuania)

Latvia: the size of a baby Estonia it gets protection from adult Estonias

Poland: another part of Russia's diet

Belarus: has a oxpecker/rhino relationship with Russia

Ukraine: Russia chow

Nordic countries

Finland and Sweden: both pretty much the same (except Sweden is a bit bigger) both have the fatty lumps of Russia

Greenland: a split off of denmark that has taken on a marine life style (like a sea otter)

Jan Mayen: a small island dwelling subspecies of Norway that is much smarter than it's mainland relatives

others

Saudi Arabia: desert dwelling species that has large oil well shaped algae on its back that photosynthese and give Saudi Arabia nutrients it often lets other creatures eat this off its back for protection a carrier of Al-Qaeda fever

Sealand: like how even though the great dane and the Chihuahua look different but are the same species, this organism is still the same species of UK

Somalia: an agressive and very territorial species, another carrier of Al-Qaeda fever

Somaliland: some Somalias gave birth to docile young, most of these died, but quite miraculously some of these reproduced and so came this splitoff

so what do you guys think?
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