Talk:Geography of the World of Avatar/@comment-3119569-20110116025129/@comment-99.138.92.222-20110808053726

I think I heard somewhere that the Fire Nation was meant to resemble something of Imperial Japan, although I feel it resembles Nazi Germany much closer.

Fire Lord Sozin had plans to rule the world as acquired Fire Nation territories, much like Adolf Hitler and his conquest of Europe (and most likely the world) for Germany. Zhao even said in "The Blue Spirit" that he (and possibly the rest of the Fire Nation who agree with Ozai) perceives the Fire Nation as the "sons and daughters of fire, the superior element," which fits in perfectly with the Nazis' ideology of Aryan superiority.