Talk:Bending arts/@comment-3467624-20120830215639/@comment-4991841-20120831063918

I'm not sure if you could divide up the world to correspond with the elements in modern times. You could divide sections of it like a few countries at a time probably but the modern world is pretty much even across the board now. Most of the americas and almost all of Europe are highly industrialized. Not to mention Japan, China, Australia etc. Parts of Africa are highly industrialized as well so in a sense most of the modern world can be seen as the Untied Republic. Even countries that are not caught up on modern technology still have access to things like the radio, televison and such. They can roughly correspond to the UNR as well. Only when you can go into places where hardly any influences of modern technology reach could you possibly with some success divide up the world into the Avatar World. But even most of those places are confronted by the ever changing world.

As time advances and technology becomes better the world where ancient tradition rule become smaller as well. The world is constantly shrinking. (figuratively)