Wolftalia: A Brand New Take

Entry 3: Raven Gillen January 14

Entry 3, January 14, 3:00 AM
Raven Gillen

    This island certainly is a strange one! I'm not just talking about the animals, everyone here acts different than back at home. Lloyd is less blunt and more sweet, Lilly has actually been nice to me, and Cooper...he's still pretty stupid so, no change there. But no seriously, he put entree instead of entry, if that tells you anything.

    The animals of course are the most interesting thing about this place. The weird division of the island into biomes aside, the animals do actually show characteristics of being evolved for the conditions of their nation. This leads me to believe that there might have been a point in time, no more than a hundred years ago, that the wolves lived within' the lands they represent. My thought is they migrated at some point to avoid being discovered and hunted by the very creatures than unknowingly created them. They seem to live mostly isolated, but there is a trend. The smaller a country is, the larger their pack. Pretty much all of Western Europe, save for the Nordics, is clumped together in one pack. The 5 Nordic nations have also clumped together in a fairly equal pack. There doesn't seem to be any alfas in these social structures. There are also  cases where nations from completely different continents form packs. A perfect example of this is the United States and Australia's pack of a mixed variety of nations. The wolves also seem to be able to be in multiple packs at once or not in one at all. 

    The wings on the arctic nations were the first puzzle I set out to solve. Examining Canada, I discovered that the wings are built to keep in mass amounts of body heat which is why when they exit the arctic biomes, the wings are always partially open, kept close to the body. The only arctic nation that doesn't open their wings when exiting the colder areas, is Russia. He can be used as an exception to almost every single trend we see with the nations. He doesn't have a pack and doesn't interact with any other animals even when prompted. He is the reason we now know that these canines have retractable claws. Some don't have claws at all and some have huge ones like Russia's. It makes little to no sense and we still have to figure out a reason as to why this is. They don't seem to be used for anything other than to look threatening although we haven't yet seen the animals fight.

    On the topic of combat, we have strong evidence to suggest that they are built for it. I'm not going to lay it out because it pretty simple. There are built like predatory animals but don't seem to eat...anything? They drink water, but they don't hunt or eat vegetation. They will accept food when it is given to them though which is rather interesting. So we know they can eat but they just don't? Perhaps they thrive off energy from the nation they represent. If their people have plentiful amounts of food and the economy is healthy, the nation won't be hungry nor will they be sick.
    If a nation happens to have a food crisis then they will be hungry, but even if they eat it doesn't do anything, odd. This is beyond science and as much as I respect Lloyd for he is such a smart man, I have a feeling Cooper might be onto something with his magic idea. It might not be magic or divine but it isn't science either. Perhaps if we stop trying to make logic out of something so beyond human comprehension, we simply treasure it for what it is? The physical embodiments of what we have created here on out oh so small Earth. An opportunity to see a side of our political affairs that we never knew existed. I should probably get to sleep now, it is very late, or early I should say.