Welcome to le fic! I know I'm busy as crap right now, but I could not help pulling up this 100 themes list and coupling that with my recent addiction to watching Crashcourse world history videos. T-T I've also decided to try expand my horizons by using not commonly seen nations, such as those from Africa, Caribbean, India, maybe some Middle East Nations, along with Southeast Asia. My portrayals of certain nations might be a tad bit different from yours, but let's not fight over that, k? At the bottom, you'll see me babbling an explanation about history references I may or may have made. Enjoy!


001. Introduction

Xia.

So this is what the little brat looked like, thought Indus.

His(?) black hair was up in a bun, and he was dressed in thick and tattered robes. His eyes blazed with gritty fire in them, something almost vicious. His mouth and eyebrows were set in an expression of displeasure and one side of his face was drenched in blood.

The child opened his mouth and from it, came an indecipherable mess of noise and cacophony. Indus must have appeared confused, for Xia had begun to yell in an angry fashion of sorts. Indus put his hands over his ears, wincing at the harsh discord of sounds.

Little did he know, he was going to have put up with the bastard for more than 4,000 years.

002. Love

To invite love was to invite pain.

Falling in love with a human was out of the question; their lives were but a fleeting second in the average nation's lifetime. To fall in love with another nation was a dangerous gamble. You never knew whose people would kill another member of another nation's people, and before you knew it, you would be bathed in your "lover's" blood. That was how China came learn. Crushes came and went in his early years, but he quickly realized how truly worthless the searing pain of love was. And so came that cold pitying look in his eyes when he watched young micro nations flirting with the possibility of love.

003. Light

The bright glare of the flashlight made Uganda want to throw his covers back over his head. He still hadn't healed from the Lord's Resistance Army's attacks and his head felt like it would split. He gave a scowl to Kenya, who was grinning widely at him, with the flashlight in her hand.

004. Dark

No nation was completely sane.

Almost all them had endured pain and fire that would have driven any human to insanity a long time ago.

The old world was a cruel place. Any nation could almost always tell you stories of slaughter and mass sacrifice, a fleeting memory in their extended life. China could tell you how he once was the most powerful nation, the wellspring of civilization, the king of kings, and the emperor of all under heaven. And if you ignored how ashamed Tibet was to admit it, he too, was once an empire, bloodthirsty and vicious. And don't even get Mongolia started on his own, with his boss being responsible for the blood of 40 million people. Ghana would remember the days of her power and influence fondly, with a sharp smile.

So no matter how innocent or how goofy they all seemed, they all had that same festering darkness at the back of their minds, grinning.

005. Seeking Solace

India choked.

The clawing hunger was killing him. It scratched at his insides, crying. He pressed his thin knees against his frail mid-riff, hoping that that would alleviate the pain. It didn't. He gritted his teeth. England.

"You see," the Aryan looked cruelly at the seething Indian. "According to Malthus, you savages will always grow to a population extent where you simply cannot sustain your own population. It's inevitable, and while your people's deaths may burn your filthy skin, there is nothing you or I can do, after all, we mustn't stop nature's will."

India opened his mouth to screech Hindi obscenities at the monster, but not before he was kicked to the ground by a heavy boot. Another one of his colonizer's lackeys.

England frowned. "I honestly would be doing you a favor by ripping out your throat, like I have done with so many others."

India looks up from the ground, a flare of anger explodes on his face. But then he gave bitter laughter to the already congested atmosphere. "How pitifully inadequate you are, Angrez. Do you not remember how I am older than you by thousands of years? I have seen many countries fall, and no doubt you should too." He remarked acerbically, with a mocking smile.


For No 1, I like to imagine that China and India have known each other for a LOOONNNNGGGG time, after all, they're both freaking ancient. Xia is China, as China's first dynasty, and Indus is India, the Indus Valley being India's first known civilization. The Xia dynasty started 2070 BC while the Indus Valley civilization began hundreds of years earlier. So I imagine India was probably 12ish physically while China was probably 8 or 9 in physical age. And before anyone complains that the Xia dynasty was not real, there has been quite a lot of evidence in the form of artifacts saying that the Xia dynasty was indeed real. I estimate that India was 200 or 300 years older than China at the time.

No 3, I made a reference towards the fact that Uganda has been fighting the Lord's Resistance Army, an extremist Christian group, for quite some time. They've committed many crimes against humanity, such as child-sex slavery and mass homicide, with tens of thousands of people dead. Of course, this is not to say that Uganda's government is great, his leader has been increasingly dictatorial by severely restricting the right of assembly and may have plans to succeed the role of presidency to his son which is another cause for tensions.

No 4, China had been the leading power in Asia for many centuries, up until the 1800s due to Western powers introducing opium into Chinese society. China's power and influence is the primary reason why most other Asian countries have lots of Chinese influences on their culture. Tibet, surprisingly also had been an empire at one time, under the leadership SongtsÃĪn Gampo, the person who is usually credited for bringing Buddhism into Tibet. The Mongol Empire was terrifyingly massive, they were able to conquer more land in 25 years than the roman Empire did in 400 years and controlled over more than 11 million continuous square miles. And when I says boss, I mean Genghis Khan, and that little tidbit about 40 million people dead because of him? That, is true.

No 5 is talking about how after the Industrial Revolution, Britain discovered a faster and cheaper way to create textiles which utterly decimated India's primarily labor reliant textile industry, India had many famines. To pay their taxes, Indians began to grow cotton, which in turn, meant less land for growing food to feed said people. Not to mention, the Indians who turned to cotton for money had to pay a lot of money to even get started, which drove them into debt. Britain's government tax policies made things worse, and so Indian farmers were forced to grow more and more cotton which drove people further into starvation and damaged the land. During the droughts at the turn of 19th century, the British raised taxes by 24 percent and continued to collect from farmers, those who could not pay had their land confiscated. The taxes mainly went to British military and Indians rarely saw a benefit, excluding railroads. However, the railroads weren't much of a benefit either, they were not used for bringing relief and only used for transporting raw materials. The Victorian British rulers often justified their policy of letting people starve by Thomas Malthus's theory that people will always grow to a point where they will outstrip all resources, thus providing a natural reason for the starvation. Angrez is Hindi for Englishman and is also used for English.

*inhales deeply* Review please!