Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25626-20150618181425/@comment-21519-20150618182920

I think "People from West Germany" etc is the way to go (since we've got the article titled West Germany, introducing FRG into the category would be needlessly confusing). There are geographic divisions in Germany and Korea, of course, but those will not have had any effect on national identity, certainly not as early as 1951; so at that point there's really no such thing as a South Korean or East German, at least not to the extent that it would displace Korean or German as their national self-identification.

On a related note, Chinese characters in THW will be sharply divided between supporters of the PRC and supporters of the RC. We can't call the latter "People from Taiwan" because in almost every case that's not where they're from; Chiang for instance was born in Zhejiang Province. And more importantly, less than a year and a half after the end of the civil war, partisans of the republic will still be seeing Taipei as a temporary refuge while they plan to retake Beijing (and who knows, in this timeline they might actually pull it off). So in those cases, we might want to include the name of the government in the category after all: "Citizens of the [People's] Republic of China." They would still go into the Chinese category, and maybe the citizenship categories would belong in the supercat Characters by Political Affiliation rather than Characters by Nationality.

To the second paragraph, I think TR's suggestion for what to do with Topangans is the best way to handle it.