Wibbly-Wobbly Ramblings

Does Brittania Rule the waves in TPOGAF

Absolutely Not.

Far and away the largest amount of ocean controlled by a unified political body is the 3/4ths of the Pacific controlled by Nihofornia's Immediate neighbor, The Republic of Moana*, sometimes called the Kingdom of Oceania, especially in dated public school textbooks. The republic is a constitutional monarchy, which elects a new "monarch" every 10 years or Sooner if the ruling monarch starts falling down on the job. Currently, it is ruled by King Kamehameha the IIVth, who is just starting his second term as Monarch.

*"Moana" means "Ocean". The Disney character's name is "Ocean". :/

The actual size of Moana is up for debate, because while the political borders extend over 8,000 miles from Rapanui (Formerly Easter Island) in the east to Palau in the west, and over 5,000 from the Hawaiian Islands in the north and Definitely as far south as Aoteroa (formerly New Zealand), including the entire South Pacific Triangle centered on Point Nemo, 15 time zones, the equator, and the international date line; some critics (read: whiny babies) try to argue that only the actual landmass counts. Anyone who has tried shipping or moving through Moana will tell you that the ocean ABSOLUTELY counts.

The "Definitely" part refers to the fact that the republic is still growing- After WW3, Moana's borders extended well into what had previously been Melanesia and Micronesia, and into the Coral and Tasman Seas. Currently, there are petitions going around and the beginnings of Legal proceedings for the independent nation of Tasmania to join the Republic, as well as claims on shipping routes that cut through the international waters close to Antartica, which has set the international courts into pearl-clutching mania.

Even more controversial was the not-entirely-joking motion King Kamehamea filed last year that suggested that, as the Republic is extremely large and important in terms of population, land mass (even by the smallest measure), economics and culture, that it was just plain silly that the international date line ran through his country, and that it should be moved to somewhere less populated, like the middle of the Atlantic, or perhaps some small island nation nobody cares about :)

How would the precautions when manufacturing toys affect figures you can swap out the parts of like nendroid or other anime posable figurines? Also how would this affect toys that you assemble yourself like mecha models and the like?

AH, Weeb Shit. Some of the most and least posessable toys on the market.

On one end, toys where the pieces can be swapped out and combined, or new outfits and props added to give the toy a new 'identity' are virtually impossible for an opportunistic spirit to posess, and are extremely resistent to the Velveteen Rabbit Phenomenon. The constant shifting of 'idenity' of these pices, or the regular construction and deconstruction of the body itself make trying to posess the toy like trying to squat in a house that's under active remodelling. For this reason, Lego, gunpla, and Barbie are some of the most posession-resistant toys on the market.

...but resistant is not the same as immune, and under certain circumstances, anime figurines go from "posession resistant" to "This is basically doing the spiritual equivalent of leaving your front door open in bear country with a tasty trail of steak leading inside"

Specifically, if the owner of the figurine gets obsessed with the identity of the character, like when people who already had dodgy mental health circumstances get so obsessed with Hatsune Miku that they develop a sort of pyschosis and think they're really dating her. That degree of obsession can warp the local thaumaturgic field and create a Hatsune Miku-shaped hole for something with a poor sense of identity to crawl into and now some Dungeoneer has to deal with an entire COLLECTION OF HAUNTED ANIME MERCHANDISE.

Tristan's dad tells that story EVERY YEAR at Comic-Con, because Taylor's Tools And Pest Control has a booth there to spread information on how to safely collect swag. It's the largest and most Dramatic scar Norman Taylor has from his entire career.