Set of individuals in a town, region or nation

The Army Men are guided by a set of common terminologies for easier communication. Therefore, it is worth highlighting the differences between both terms: Community and Faction, to avoid confusion, without considering the meanings they have in other worlds, such as those assigned by the lost humans in the Real World.

Community:

A community is a group of toykind who have certain elements in common, such as language, customs, values, tasks, worldview, age, geographic location (a neighborhood, for example), social status or roles.

Generally, a common identity is created in a community, through differentiation from other groups or communities (generally by physical forms, signs or actions), which is shared and developed by its members through socialization. Generally, a community unites under the need or improvement of a common objective, such as the common good; Although this is not necessary, a common identity is enough to form a community without the need for a specific objective or to agree on many things. It is the link that unites people with a geographical place and the feeling of belonging to a group with which they share a common identity, such as color (Green, Tan, Gray, Blue).

In terms of administration or territorial division, a community can be considered a singular population entity, a nation, a commonwealth, etc.

A community is also called any set of toykind or living beings such as Blocko-mans, RoboChangers, Action Figures, animals or plants, that share certain elements.

An example of a community of common interests is Stonehenge, in the Real World.

Allegiances

Loyalty or an Allegiance is a devotion of an Army Men, civilian citizen or any other toykind to a country, ruler, community, person, cause or themselves.

There was not even an agreement among human philosophers, the extinct wise creators of the Army Men, about things or ideas to which one could be loyal. Some also argued that you can be loyal to a very broad spectrum of things, while others argued that you can only be loyal to another person and that this is a strictly interpersonal relationship, among other philosophical doctrines that can be found in the giant books they left behind.

Loyalty is a principle that basically consists of never turning your back on a certain individual or social group that are united by ties of friendship or by some social relationship, that is, the fulfillment of honor and gratitude, loyalty is more attached to the relationship in a group.

Loyalty is a fulfillment of what the laws of fidelity and honor require.

It is a virtue that consists of compliance with what the standards of fidelity, honor and gratitude require. Adhesion and affection for someone or something.

Loyalty has numerous aspects and edges. Humans such as John Kleinig, professor of philosophy at the City University of New York of the Real World, highlighted that over the ages the idea has been the subject of analysis by human creative writers from Aeschylus to John Galsworthy and Joseph Conrad, and the subject of study of all types of human disciplines such as psychologists, psychiatrists, sociologists, religious scholars, political economists, business and marketing scholars, and especially political theorists, who dealt with aspects such as oaths of loyalty and patriotism. As a philosophical concept, loyalty was not a topic of study by philosophers until the work of Josiah Royce, the “great exception” according to Kleinig. John Ladd, professor of philosophy at Brown University, who raised the topic toward the end of the 20th century. has been the cause of “limited attention in the philosophy literature.” Ladd attributed this to “hateful” associations that the subject has with nationalism and with the metaphysics of idealism, which he characterizes as “obsolete.” Ladd maintained that such associations are erroneous, however, and that the idea of loyalty is “an essential component in every human and civilized system of morality.” Kleinig stated that since 1980, the issue has been a matter of attention, and the Philosophers have addressed, among other topics, its links with professional ethics, whistleblowing, friendship, and virtue ethics.

What is a Toy Nation?

Terminology born in the Plastic World and from the Army Men, then applied in other worlds, especially in the Real World.

In a broad sense, a nation is any historical and cultural toy community capable of providing individuals with a sense of identity that differentiates them from individuals belonging to other cultures, even if they are of the same type of Toy (different or just like them). Usually it also has a territory that it considers as its own.

In that sense, one can speak of a nation to mean a state, a country, a territory, an Toy group, a town or a race of Toys, depending on the considerations of the case.

In the Plastic Soldiers case, most of the times an Army Men Nation is composed by individuals of the same type/shade of color

Army Men RTS army colors — Colors of nations involved in Army Men: RTS events

What we understand today as a nation (nation-states) emerged together with the homeland and nationalism of the Army Men. Its point of birth is considered to be the First Great Army Men World War, when the absolutism of the Ancient Gray Regime that gave the monarchs absolute power over the Gray Army Men fell.

In contrast, the sovereignty of the Grey citizens (the “people” or “nation” of the Grays) emerged. If before the King was the State, now it is “the Nation”, and therefore we speak of the birth of the nation-State.

With the birth of the nation, the love for it was also born, which is nationalism. This is how the concept of the national was formed, as opposed to the foreign.

In the case of the Army Men, each nation was normally born from a color, although that has currently changed. Originally there were Greys, Reds, Blues and Yellows, with grays being the entire range of shades that ranged from White to Black. Therefore, the colors Black and White were born from the Grays (although these are actually tones, not colors). After Yellow with White and Red, Tan was born. After Yellow and Blue, Green was born, while Orange was born from Red and Yellow. After Blue and Red, Violet and Purple were born. Black and White got independency from the Grey too. Brown was born from Red and Black or mixing them with other colors. Finally, from White and Blue, Light Blue was born (Cyan), and from White and Red, Pink was born.

Elements of a nation:

Every nation, roughly speaking, is made up of the following elements:

– Territory: All nations have, in one way or another, a territory in which they consider their home and in whose land their dead ancestors rest. This is much more complicated to define for certain nomadic Toy nations, such as the Dwarves tribes of the Medieval World, but this is because they maintain a non-agricultural based model of life, and in that sense they do not require a fixed territory, but rather a series of intermittent territories.

– Language: Some Toy nations has an official language different than others, in which its bureaucracy, its legal code and its historical documents are written, and with which its population identifies. In some cases the official languages may be several, given that in the same nation there may be more than one culture or Toy type, but one is always considered predominant, above the others.

– Government: Every nation governs itself or joins a common government together with others (in the case of plurinational States). Said government makes the State function, imposes the legal code and organizes the population, in addition to exercising sovereignty in the national territory on behalf of the members.

– Population: There is no nation without inhabitants who make it up, that is, without members who speak its language, who inhabit its territory and who obey its laws. That is, there are no nations without their members.

Sources for this article:

https://armymen.fandom.com/wiki/Nations
https://concepto.de/nacion-2

What is a faction?

A faction is a group of individuals united by common ideas or interests within a group or community, or on the contrary, a group of mutinous or rebellious toys. In this case it is a division within a social or political group (the expressions “side” is also used). When the term is used in contexts of mutiny, rebellion or revolt, or even insurgency, guerrilla or civil war, it usually designates a broader-based social movement (partiality of the mutinous or rebellious people; each of the subdivisions of the group main, head or focus of the insurrection). And example of this last can be the Rogue Colonel Rebels or Dr. Madd followers.

There is no obvious difference between political factions and other informal groupings, such as internal “tendencies” within a political party, a government or a society. Therefore, in the World of Plastic as in the World of Toys, a “faction” can indicate either a group of separatist, but non-violent nature, that is part or was part in the past of another large group such as a species or a nation, as well as it can also indicate a warlike group that seeks to separate or demonstrate its point of view or interests in a negative and violent way.

Beyond our world there are several other worlds…

Beyond our world (our planet) and the other worlds, there are many other worlds and an immense variety of factions, governments and organizations.

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Commercial business or a type of product manufactured by a particular company.

In the case of extinct humans, in addition to nations, factions and simple communities, they had brands and business franchises to which they belonged out of simple fanaticism or because of their jobs. Sometimes consisted in a type of product or a product manufactured by a particular company, under a particular name. Example: “Real Combat” Plastic Soldiers brand, under Morris Toy Co.

Sources for this article:

https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Company

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