Hetalia: The Fifty Stars

Side Chapter 6: Canada's Provinces & Territories and Mexico's States

Hello, Readers ~

This side chapter is basically a summary of relationships my 50 States OCs have toward Canadian provinces/territories and Mexican states. However, I won't go in-depth on those regions due to knowing little about those places. Like the U.S. territories, I'll give brief ideas and traits on each region followed by some of the 50 States' views and interactions with the personification.

If there's anything that doesn't make sense or doesn't match with a personification, my apologies. I might fix the problem determining if it's major or not. Just know such mistakes are due to my inexperience with such places, and that this chapter was never meant to offend anyone.

The reason I'm doing a side chapter on the matter is because I'm aware of other Hetalia OCs not based on the States of America, so I thought it would be neat to do a side chapter regarding my OCs' relationship with their respective neighbors. Like always, feel free to skip this chapter if not interested, but for anyone curious on the matter feel free to continue reading.

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Despite this fanfiction being based on the States of America, I would like to take this side chapter/opportunity to explain more of their relationship with the rest of the world.

Hetalia OCs tend to be created from various reasons and influences. In general, most Hetalia OCs are based on personifications of the land, similar to how countries are personified. For others and myself included, we like APH America and want to see his States personified and see what he and the States would do in that same universe. This kind of thinking may also apply to those outside the United States of America as well.

For example, take America's neighbors, Canada and Mexico. Some Hetalians from either of those places have created their own OCs based on the smaller areas within their favorite country. I've seen a couple of their artwork and writing, and grew interested in such personifications, teaching me a little more of that region and its respective country while providing some humor as well.

Even though I'll give brief explanations on such regions and state their relationship with my 50 States OCs, most likely I'll never have OCs based on such regions show up in this fanfiction series. This is due to having over fifty OCs which already is enough hard work for me to deal with. Still, I thought it would be neat to briefly go over what I learned from these regions and state my characters' thoughts on such places. Plus, this chapter is in a way a shout-out to such OC creators for their passion in the subject, and for anyone interested in such places as to look them up or make OCs based on such places.

Anyway, let's begin this side chapter.

To start things off, I'll talk about Canada's 10 provinces and 3 territories first. Normally I would list each province/territory according to their formation, but due to my lack of knowledge on Canada (along with other complications) I'll simply go down the list according to their population. Before explaining each province/territory, here's a brief summary on how they came to be:

Like America, Canada came to be partly due to England/Great Britain's control over them. Originally there were three divisions of Canada at the time during colonization. There's the Province of Canada (Quebec and Ontario), the Colony of New Brunswick, and the Colony of Nova Scotia. Until the eventual exploration of the north and west were more territories created and provinces established to where the country is today.

Today, Ontario is the most populated among Canada's provinces. As such, most Canadians and some native Ontarians tend to think of the province as the center of Canada, a place full of selfish, urban dwellers who like their daily Tim Burton's coffee and mug of beer whose only fear are pesky mosquitos, heavy snowfall, and death by pollution. In a sense, they are the New York of Canada.