>>3974246I dunno, I don't think that's a good explanation.
Getting the real reason out of the way (the creator is a fudanshi and this is a fujo series) and focusing just on diegetics, that would mean that the Hetaloids are purely based on the elite leadership classes, and that just doesn't seem right. A lot of ex-colonial states would be basically white in that case
And I do think that a near-total lack of girl representation is an issue, but I'm not whipping out the big M
Personally, I really dislike the gender balance we get from Hima's fudanshi brain: every time I hear or see personifications of India and the Philippines elsewhere, they're almost always women. But here, they're men, so it kinda throws me for a loop
It's not lore-breaking for me, because by the standards Hetalia has already set, there should be, like, thousands of nation-tans we just never see, so I headcanon a lot more women.
Like, Prussia exists? Then we should have Bavaria, right?
Scotland exists? Then we should have Sarawak.
South Italy exists? Then where is South India?
They must exist, and I imagine them as girls