Talk:Fire Nation/@comment-24.34.102.146-20120523020524/@comment-4662143-20120525134353

Being smart and industrious is hardly "unfair." At any rate, it would seem to me that it is the Earth Kingdom that is the sparsly populated country; we see Team Avatar travel for entire streches of territory where no one lives, and aside from Ba Sing Se and Omashu, most settlements are small. In contrast, everywhere we see them in the Fire Nation, they're near a densely populated town. Given that the Fire Nation is more technologically advanced, they probably have a higher standard of living, and therefore larger population centers.