>>105258744I always figured it was
Chinese = French/Germans; whenever they get their shit together they run the place. However whenever they get their shit together they also pretty quickly self-destruct and turn the whole place into a slaughterhouse.
Japan = UK. The weird little island full of wonderfully polite and quirky psychopaths. Xenophobic, consider themselves superior to and separate from the mainland, despite really being neither. National obsessions include: sports nobody else plays, excrement, paedophilia, institutionalized self-worship.
Low Countries = Tibet/Nepal/Bhutan, trying hard and failing not to get totally fucked by China/EU.
Russia = Russia. Big weird alien shambles to the northwest/east. Way less threatening than it's hyped up to be, unless everyone's assuming it's not dangerous at all, in which case it's insanely dangerous. (Seriously, it's this weird thing the Russians have going. whenever anyone's scared of them? Don't worry. Whenever anyone is talking about how we're assured a quick victory over the filthy slavs? It's gonna get nasty.)
I could go through the SE asian countries and their parallels with southern and Europe, but they're both pretty much an undifferentiated mass of mass of swarthy garbage people (at least to the first three entries on the list).