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[–] Wheaties@hexbear.net 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's a hard sell when Legend of Korra has Republic City as the more obvious, yet superficial, analog to the United States.

[–] halvar@lemm.ee 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Just because it's a cool, developed city state with peace and neutrality it doesn't mean it's the USA. I would argue it means quite the opposite.

I can't source it right this second, but in an interview, the show runners said they based Korra's setting on the 1920s US, simply because they thought it would look cool, which is.... Horrid world building.