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Nations as People
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This is a particular type of Anthropomorphic Personification that depicts a country (or some other sociopolitical or geographical unit) as one person, using that person's actions and foibles to make a comment on the country's politics and history. Sometimes this "person" is an animal or landmark (like the Statue of Liberty). This sort of metaphor can be very descriptive of the feelings a writer has about a place, be they great affection or sentimentality, or something else. While it is Older Than Dirt with precedents going as far back as The Middle Ages if not Ancient Greece (the myth of Europa and Asia), this technique has been closely associated with newspaper political cartoons for the past few hundred years, and nowadays can be found in webcomics as well. As such, it may be considered a genre of comic, though it's been known to appear in other media (such as the anime of Hetalia: Axis Powers) once in a blue moon. |
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Spoofed in El ChapulÃn Colorado, whilst Chapulin seems to be the personification of Mexico (or sometimes Latin America as he's called the "hero of Latin America"), his bitter rival is Super Sam (mix of Uncle Sam and Superman) whose main weapon is a bag of money. | |
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Not as people but, the Polandball comics follow this trope to a T with the countries being, well, balls. Except for German Empire, which is a rectangle note The German Empire is called the Reichtangle, which is a Portmanteau of "Reich" and Rectangle. Also Israel is a hypercube because of Jewish Physics. And Nepal is a monster, due to its non-standard flag design.* And there are even more nations that aren't balls due to various reasons, such as Kazakhstan, Singapore, Bermuda, the Maratha Confederacy and Omsk. Also has a U.S. centric spinoff in Stateball. |
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And by extension, the fanworks the State-tan Project and I Am Matthewian, which expand on APH with personifications for the US states and Canadian provices, respectively. | |
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Afganisu-tan personifies nations as well, though more in a Moe style with a focus on Central-Asia. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-1761 seems to be the personification of a country that doesn't exist. Or he may be a former human who somehow became a country. Or perhaps he is just a delusional Reality Warper who thinks he is a country. | |
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Scandinavia and the World, which was created by a Danish artist who felt that some of the stereotypes of the Nordic countries in Hetalia: Axis Powers didn't match the ones that she was familiar with. Also provides the page image. | |
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Also has a U.S. centric spinoff in Stateball. | |
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The James Bond films have featured Britannia at least twice in Title Sequences — in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (one of the Sexy Silhouettes wears a helmet and wields a trident) and in No Time to Die (a statue, which then gets frozen and crumbles into the sand, accompanied by a shield with the Union Jack). | |
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CGP Grey videos depict countries (as well as other political entities like states or territories and NGOs like the International Olympic Committee) as female stick figures starting from "How Many Countries Are There?" — the main exception is the Vatican, as their citizens are overwhelmingly male. Their skirts contain the patterns of their country's flags to identify them, and some countries get other features drawn on as well: the US carries a gun holster, monarchies like the UK wear crowns, Russia or the Soviet Union sometimes wears an ushanka, etc. | |
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Monstrous Regiment has an in-universe political cartoon of Borogravia kicking Zlobenia in the crotch, while Morporkia (the personification of the city state Ankh-Morpork, who resembles Britannia) sarcastically looks on. This a nod to the Punch!. | |
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Welcome To The Table by comedian Ben Brainard depicts each US state as a personification based on its biggest stereotypes, particularly their response to the Coronavirus Pandemic. The bulk of the videos consist of arguments between the federal government as The Straight Man and Florida as, well, Florida. Among other shorts, California is a Bourgeois Bohemian who hates everyone else, Texas is a Good Old Boy who enjoys teasing Cali, and New York is an irasciable jerk. | |
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Hetalia: Axis Powers, as stated above, uses anthropomorphic personifications of various nations across the world as the main characters, using typical stereotypes to create the exaggerated personalities. It's considered by many to be the Trope Codifier. And by extension, the fanworks the State-tan Project and I Am Matthewian, which expand on APH with personifications for the US states and Canadian provices, respectively. The cat personifications of the countries in Hetalia Axis Powers are called Nekotalia. |
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Studio C has two sketches featuring this, "International Relations" and "National Relations: Republicans vs. Democrats". | |
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Punch!'s political cartoons helped popularise some of the classic personifications. | |
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United Queendom represents the 2014 Scottish Independence Referendum using the gay couple Scott (Scotland) and Adrian (England), and, in one episode, 'the Scandinavian Model' (Scandinavia). | |
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Alternate History Hub uses colored human figures with their flags on their stomach, with some other differences (USA is blue, has Sunglasses and the flag is in the shape of a star, the Soviet Union is red and wears a ushanka, etc.) | |
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Paris Burning is set in a world where cities have anthropomorphic personifications. | |
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Flagland, as you'd expect from the title. Inspired by Scandinavia and the World and Polandball and drawn with a combination of their styles. | |
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In Rammstein's music video for "Deutschland", Germania is presented as a black woman, played by German actress Ruby Commey. | |
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