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

THW will represent the first story (as far as we know) in which HT will engage the two Germanys and two Koreas in depth. Our normal pattern would be the straight forward placing of characters in categories named "West Germans", "East Germans", "South Koreans", and "North Koreans", etc. However, since most of those people (historical and fictional) will have been born in Germany and Korea when they were each a single state (plus the added wrinkle of German reunification), I think  we should consider double categorizing, rather like how we've handled the people from the Soviet Union (Stalin is in both the Georgians and the Soviets categories, for example). Adenauer would be in "Germans" and "West Germans" (or "People from the FRG" or something along those lines), Ulbricht would be in "Germans" and "East Germans" ( or "People from the GDR"), Kim in "Koreans" and "North Koreans" (or "People from the DPRK") etc.

ML4E was contemplating whether or not characters from "Chatsworth" and "Topanga" should be categorized along those "national" lines. Given that those city-states are pretty important to the "Topanga and the Chatsworth Lancers " story, I am inclined to say yes (so long as the meet the rule of three), but that because Topanga and Chatsworth are still firmly part of the US in the real world, a more specific category including both the fictional nationality and the story, e.g.. "Topangans in 'Topanga and the Chatsworth Lancers'". We could apply similar logic to The Valley-Westside War and The Disunited States of America. And, much as it doesn't thrill me to suggest this, we might want to redo the Quebecois category to reflect that they are from the Republic of Quebec found in Southern Victory, as opposed to the province that is still part of Canada. We could even go so far as to create categories for people from the North American Union and the Federated Commonwealths of America (although those are less urgent, since in those stories, there was a sense of "Americanism" in both of those countries, whereas in TDSA, for example, characters were Virginian first, and American in the sense that a Frenchman is European.)    