The entire premise of Hatsunia is about being the futuristic country people expected Japan to be. iiwiki.us/wiki/Hatsunia

Stonehenge at vector 350, 8 miles.

October 21, 2015 in Back to the Future Part II (1989) was intended to be a subversion of dark and gritty cyberpunk media like Blade Runner. But it was still based on the 1980s idea that Japan would become an economic superpower (the fear of which being known as “Japan-bashing”).

"Hell Valley" by RvBOMally A map inspired by Back to the Future Part II's dystopian alternate timeline and cyberpunk tropes. On October 21, 2015, President Biff Tannen leads the US in an alliance with Japan, both being corrupt corporatocracies. deviantart.com/rvbomally/art…

Small scale government space activity: “justified scientific research” Large-scale commercial space activity: “evil waste of money that should go to fixing Earth”

Tokyo is my favorite city in the world.

An alternate history in which India was never partitioned, if it could be kept stable with decentralized regional autonomy and protections for religious minorities, could have mitigated the rise of the Taliban and al-Qaeda and prevented 9/11.

I love JAXA's cute mascots for their spacecraft.

In the 1980s, Hatsunia (初音国) launched the "Martian Moons Discoverer" (MMD) spacecraft to Phobos and Deimos.

Congratulations on the launch of JAXA’s Martian Moons eXploration spacecraft! It aims to be the first spacecraft to return samples from Mars’s moon Phobos.

I am working on tracing Hatsunia's terrain and rivers (made using GIMP and the Wilbur erosion simulation software) into a vector format in Inkscape. It is taking a long time because of the high level of detail.

The base of the International Space Elevator in Ace Combat 7 and 8 resembles the X-Seed 4000, a proposed megatall arcology for Tokyo, Japan that would have been taller than Mt. Fuji.

Belka is supposed to be Ace Combat's analogue of WWII Germany, but there are some similarities to Russia. Both lost influence in the 1990s, and both have revanchists who sow divisions in other countries. While Yuktobania represents the idea of US-Soviet/Russian reconcilation.

Vincent Harling was a based president of Osea, advocating for space development and peaceful diplomatic relations.

Sotoa's military megafloat "Fatsia" is named after the plant genus and shaped like its leaves, as well as the symbol on the Sotoan flag.

What deradicalized me was seeing the unreasonable extremes on both the left and the right. Both feed off each other in a vicious cycle, as I saw back in 2020.

Mobius 1 has my favorite emblem in the Ace Combat series. I like the color and the futuristic vibes it gives off, and how it's based on the mathematical concept of a one-sided surface.