EVE General Discussion

minmatar are black space vikings

caldari are a japanese / german mix

gallente are a Frrench / USA mix

Amarr are the space Vatikan

Imagine how good we would have it ...
... if fake authority wouldn't force us to throw money away all the time ...
... and our traitorous governments wouldn't support them.

Interesting question / article. Was thinking this a few days ago while mildly daydreaming during the last hour of work. . . . .

I dont think it can be as clear cut as 'one EVE race = One RW race / Nationality, but rather an amalgam of different nationalities from different time periods.

Amarr - has a bit of a feel of 'age of exploration' conquistadors -perhaps in the back story, but also much akin to Japan in the 30's/ and 40's an era where they walked out of the league of nations and held strong imperialist designs while having a 'cult' psudo-religion based around the emperor, many of the 'great works' of Japan in that time were built on the backs of slave labor using POW, or citizens of subjugated 'inferior' countries (eg the burma railway). There are several examples throughout history where religion and royalty/leaders have become fused - Ancient Egypt, Charlemagne and the holy roman empire, Spanish conquistadors/inquisition era, through to modern day examples of the arabian peninsula and North Korea. Summing up, I think the Amarr are meant to represent this theme of the tie up of state and religion, but very difficult to give an exact country.

Caldari - That said, Caldari naming of systems, certainly has a japanese/korean/chinese flavor in the language. Though I can see the caldari more akin to the rise of the British empire where many overseas conquests were carried out by companies, and these companies held more power than the throne ( East india company - India ; West India company - carribean), until finally being subjugated back under the crown. Dont think the Caldari state is docile. I think like the earlier british example, the state owns a share and stake in most of the companies while allowing them to pursue their own paths. A more modern day example of caldari could well be america where it often seems that the mega-corporations have more power than the government and choose the president, lets face it, we all know the oil industry paid for Bush Jr presidency!!! Here, there are several other possible examples through time where the company is more powerful than the state, which is the model for caldari.

Gallente - I think I agree with earlier comments regarding Gallente and western Europe. The back story actually states they are descended from french colonists, (this can be seen with naming conventions of the systems in gallente space having a strong 'Gallic' flavor) - though again I think more akin to the whole of western Europe - right from the renaissance, through to modern times. Digging further back, the models for gallente would be routed in the Greek 'BC' city states and the later (though pre-christian) roman empire copy thereof, with their foundations in democracy and expansions in philosphy, art and science. Gallente are the idea of democratic state, where freedom of the individual comes first, above state, above religion, and above corporation. Throughout history again, there are many attempts at this kind of 'government' from a small tribal scale to some of the largest nations we have today, but then as Winston Churchill once said "Democracy is the worst form of government - except for all the others that have been tried!"

Minmatar - Clearly the Min are linked to all oppressed masses that have broken the shackles of their masters, ranging from the Isrealites under Egypt, through the many European Tribes at the breakdown of the roman Empire, and countless other freedom from oppression movements through the ages - usually involving breakdown of empires, through to the freedom of slaves in the western world, with a touch of the repatriation and rights of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and Australia. The one that most sticks in my mind as a representation of the Min is the post Russian revolution, in that all too brief period before the rise of the communist dictators and the 'party', with a hint thrown in of everyone that has ever been freed by an oppressing power.

In conclusion, I think it is wrong to try to link any particular EVE race with a direct real world counterpart, but rather see them all as an amalgam of ideals and representations of several countries/tribes/nations throughout the long development of human history.

This.

Or maybe I'm just kissing ass to get into a little bee corp.

Mr Epeen

Amarr = USA, monotheistic, slavery etc..

Minmatar = Africa, tribal themes, slavery

Caldari = Germany (early 20th century) rise of nationalism, great military and industrial strength (could also be japan)

Gallente = Western Europe - civil liberties, mix and match, french themes.

I wonder if *you* ever heard of that... only 10% of all Spaniard colonists were women, and they usually were married women traveling overseas to meet their husbands. So, care to guess how did all that 90% of single male colonists marry and reproduce...?

This is why Latin America is full of non-white people, whereas most of Northern America is full of non-American people.

How's about

Nah

Y'all

At this point in time, that's the whole of the "western civilisation". Imho.

Default Caldari names are a weird Finnish/Asian mix. Gallente names have a French ring to them. That's all I've got.

If I unconcsciously do it, how do I know? (just being facetious)

No.

Im proudly American centric

Amarr are Demcrats
Gallente are Republicans
Caldari are Libertarians
and the Minmitar are...well...every trailer park, ghetto and back alley dumpster in Amercia.


But honsetly, they seem to have taken every good and bad from nealry every emprical/dominate race in the world, and spread it out equally so that you see what you want to see based on your own views of the world.

There's a bit of Roman on every race, there's a bit of the US in every race, there's a bit of Europe in every race, ect.

What you see says alot about you, not about the game.