Talk:Fire Nation colonies/@comment-1037137-20121013035152

How exactly do all these towns get annexed into the URN? They were scattered all across the globe and spread hundreds, if not thousands of miles apart all across the Earth Kingdom and elsewhere. Did they move all the settlers from all towns into the URN? Are these colonies now exclaves of the mainland URN? Did Aang clump them together with his Avatar powers? How does this work?

The exclave explanation would make sense, but is that what they mean to imply on the show proper? How exactly did they all come together into one nation? I know we don't know the boundaries for the URN, but they'd still have a hard time governing a nation formed out of scattered pockets of colonial populations spread across the globe, so how did they get together?