Talk:Fire Nation/@comment-6693453-20130522211844/@comment-68.50.240.219-20130531204443

No, no, no! The FN is nothing like North Korea! Are you saying the FN is a piss-poor country with a military that poses no threat and a leader who only focuses on deluding his population of 99% poor people into thinking he is a literal god and building statues of himself? That's North Korea. The Japanese Empire during WWII best represents the FN. Like the FN, the Japanese Empire sought to conquer other lands (Asia) and their reasoning for it was because they were the superior culture and they needed to spread their greatness. Like the FN, the Japanese Empire had a powerful military, great infrastructure, and was industrialized. Like the FN, schools censored information to paint a picture of Japan being benevolent and trying to help other cultures. Also the Fire Lords are not ditactors, but monarchs. Japan is also ruled by a monarch, the Emperor. Monarchs and their family, unlike dictators, have been in power for generations and the people see them as having a divine right to rule. The Fire Lords were no dictators. To the other nations they were trying to conquer? Yes. To their own people though? Nope. The Fire Nation citizens went along with the war because their divine leaders demanded it just like how the Japanese did. Yeah, the poor people of the FN were repressed, but that is how it is in any country. Poor people always have it worst, but the average FN citizen lived fine. In North Korea though, everyone is poor (unless you're part of Kim Jong-Un's inner circle).