Talk:Earth Kingdom/@comment-201.27.139.213-20120219115222/@comment-4521003-20120219211136

Both China and Japan influenced the Fire Nation. Japan is the one that started a global war trying to expand control. Also, the Fire Nation is similar geographically to Japan (despite the actual landscape design coming from Iceland) because both are volcanic island nations. There are other parallels as well. The things you pointed out do not exclude any possible connection to Japan.