Talk:Fire Nation colonies/@comment-69.171.187.25-20120720045122/@comment-5153639-20120825193144

I also was surprised that we dont see any Dai Li agents, but overall we saw nearly nothing of the liberation, so they could be involved - Dai Li always fight from the dark, using traps and ambushes. That the Fire Nation needed troops, however, to secure Ba Sing Se doesnt mean that it is a colony.

The capital of Nanking gouvernment, the puppet-state I mentioned before, was also occupied by Japanese forces, but it was offically its own nation. And to make a modern comparison, the Iraq was also occupied by US-troops, but this dont mean that it was a colony during this time. The occupation or liberation forces in these examples also put their flags on buildings (like the Fire Nation did it with the palace), but only to show that they use this location as basement.