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** Mormons? Don't you mean [[JustForPun Maremons]]?

* Chancellor Puddinghead, in contrast, had the opposite problem (is there a trope for Reverse Flanderization?): In reality, she was even [[UpToEleven more of a]] [[TheCaligula Caligula]] than advertised. However, she was toned down for the play due to RealityIsUnrealistic and PoliticalOvercorrectness.

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[[folder: The Nation]]
[[WMG: Equestria is an allegory of America]]

[[WMG: Equestria is one of the nation-states of a larger government]]

[[WMG: The reason for the SchizoTech is because Equestria is way behind the tech level of other nations]]

[[WMG: On the structure of the Royal Guard]]

[[WMG: Equestria is THE WORLD! Of ponies.]]
The way I see it, Canterlot could be an allegory for London- Camelot=Canterlot, Ponyville is [[EverytownAmerica Anytown USA]], Crystal Empire part of Ponymerica, Saddle Arabia exists, etc. Maybe Britain takes over the world in this work. Non-Equids are treated as barbarians, [[ValuesDissonance much like the Chinese treated other people in the 1400s. ]]

[[WMG: Equestria is actually an abandoned amusement/theme park.]]

* This would explain even more about Ponyville in Generation 3. Perhaps the G3 cartoons portrayed Ponyville the amusement park in its early stages of abandonment, and the reason all the ponies kept throwing parties, putting on shows, redecorating the place, and serving desserts with such frequency back then was that they still expected guests from the outside world to show up and wanted to stay in practice. Like Disneyland, they had a castle that was mainly just for show, and there were even a rollercoaster and Ferris wheel, free to ride, right in the middle of town!

[[WMG: Hoofington doesn't exist.]]

[[WMG: Equestria is just one of 12 to 15 "nations" on the planet. Each ruled by a species based on the EasternZodiac.]]

[[WMG: Somepony will make a reference to Salt Lick City.]]

[[WMG: Cloudsdale is a mobile sky fortress.]]

[[WMG: Ponyville is experiencing a subtle mass migration from Canterlot.]]

[[WMG: Equestria has no "Welfare" system]]

[[WMG: Tartarus is not pony Hell, but an actual city]]

[[WMG: The railroad is over 1000 years old.]]

[[WMG: Equestria is a federation]]

[[WMG: The roles of princesses and queens are reversed in Equestria.]]

[[WMG: The Everfree Forest, Cloudsdale, and Pinkie's family's rock farm were the original settlements of the Unicorns, Pegasi, and Earth Ponies]]

[[WMG: Equestrian government structure.]]

[[WMG: Gelding Grotto is not a town, but a prison for foal molesters.]]

[[WMG: The guards standing next to the throne in the opening sequence are [[EliteMooks Elite Guards]].]]

[[WMG: The royal guards are actually magical constructs created by the princesses.]]

[[WMG: The Royal Guard are ordinary ponies enchanted to look like that]].

[[WMG: Equestria will be destroyed in the finale]]

[[folder: History]]
[[WMG: Equestria was originally founded by [[{{Precursors}} ''horses'']].]]

[[WMG: Equestria entered a technological dark age after the imprisonment of Nightmare Moon.]]

[[WMG: Cloudsdale first existed as a weather factory, not a town.]]

[[WMG: Discord was the one who created Equestria.]]

[[WMG: The play in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve Hearth's Warming Eve]]" is not historically accurate.]]

[[WMG: The Flag shown at the end of the [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve play]] is not an anachronism]]

[[WMG: The flag in Hearth's Warming Eve is what Celestia and Luna's parents looked like.]]

[[WMG: The historical events depicted in "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve Hearth's Warming Eve]]" occurred ''after'' Celestia and Luna overthrew Discord.]]

[[WMG: The old pony kingdom depicted in "Hearth's Warming Eve" was fresh from a quiet revolution.]]

[[WMG: The alicorns on the flag in "Hearth's Warming Eve" are not Celestia and Luna.]]

[[WMG: Though united, the uneasy tension between the three races after the founding of Hearth's Warming Eve is what sets the stage for Discord to be created/arrive and take over Equestia.]]

[[WMG: Building off the "Hearth's Warming play isn't historically accurate" WMG above:]]
The play in was [[HollywoodHistory a sugarcoated version of the actual history,]] but everypony knows the real story.

[[WMG: The Hearth's Warming Eve play is the bowdlerized, all-ages version]]

[[WMG: Canterlot Castle is built out of the cave from "Hearth's Warming Eve", that's why the Fire of Friendship burns above it]]

[[WMG: Ponyville has been destroyed and abandoned before]]

[[WMG: The story in the Hearth's Warming Eve play was completely fictional.]]

[[WMG: Another timeline.]]

[[WMG: Hearts and Hooves Day accidentally revealed Discord's origin story to us.]]

[[WMG: The name of the titular contraption from [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E15TheSuperSpeedyCiderSqueezy6000 The Super Speedy Cider Squeezy 6000]] gives us a hint about Equestrian calendar.]]

[[WMG: The accounts of the founding of Equestria were [[WrittenByTheWinners written by the second in commands]]]]

[[WMG: The settlements of Pegasopolis, Unicornia and Earth would become Cloudsdale, Canterlot and Mainehattan respectively.]]

[[WMG: Ponyville is a multiracial experiment.]]

[[WMG: Equestria was once named Equustria.]]

[[WMG: Rather than happening immediately after, or immediately before the reign of Discord, Hearth's Warming happens ''because'' of it.]]

[[WMG: The Windigos are symbolic. The actual cause of the freezing and famine was the sun failing to rise.]]

[[WMG: Equality among races did not come so quickly...]]

[[WMG: An attempt at creating a {{Mythopoeia}} consistent with ''Literature/TheJournalOfTheTwoSisters:'']]

* [[{{Wendigo}} Windigoes]] are spirits of cold, desperation, and [[ImAHumanitarian what else?]] It's more likely the smart trio survived by consuming their pointy-haired bosses and then swore never to talk about that particular winter again.

[[folder: The Everfree Forest]]
[[WMG: The Everfree Forest causes the ponies to have an existential crisis.]]

[[WMG: The reason the Everfree Forest is weird...]]

[[WMG: Everfree Forest LITERALLY runs itself.]]

[[WMG: The Everfree forest was created by Luna.]]

[[WMG: The Everfree Forest first came into existence when Nightmare Moon was sealed, and it has been spreading gradually since then.]]

[[WMG: The Everfree Forest is a remnant of Discord's reign...]]

[[WMG: The Everfree Forest resists all forms of outside influence.]]

[[WMG: The Everfree Forest is the boundary between our world and theirs.]]

[[WMG: The Everfree Forest is where ponies lived before Equestria was founded]]

[[WMG: Celestia purposefully gave the Apple family land near the Everfree forest]]

[[WMG: The Everfree Forest was the source of Discord.]]

[[WMG: The Everfree Forest Is Not As Bad/Dangerous as Ponies Think.]]

[[WMG: Ponies used to be much more war like]]

[[WMG: The Everfree Forest is the remnant of Discord's original reign, contained by the Tree of Harmony.]]

[[WMG: The Everfree Forest doesn't actually function by itself.]]

[[WMG: The Everfree forest is able to manage itself because the [[spoiler: Tree of Harmony]] ]]

[[WMG: The Everfree is not the only place where nature runs itself.]]

[[WMG: The Everfree Forest is a necessary evil]]

[[folder: The World]]

[[WMG: Equestria's Planet is actually a few lightyears from Earth.]]

[[WMG: The show takes place AfterTheEnd.]]

--> "Could it be? In a bizarre twist, a horse is abusing a jockey! Might this be the start of a terrifying [[Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes planet of the horses]]? In this announcer's opinion, almost certainly yes! And away I go!"

[[WMG: Alternatively, Equestria is before the End.]]

[[WMG: Equestria is (a post apoc) earth, and humans become the ponies]]

[[WMG: Equestria is an attempt to create a better society for Earth after mankind has failed]]

The sciantists within look on the preserved remains of the internet and find that even after the rest of pop culture dies, the bronydom and the Elements of Harmony principles remain and decide to create a new race based on these principles. They know humanity can last only a short time more so they use their remaining resorces to create a new race. They create them in the image of the utopa that eqestria was said to be. They create two mighty leaders for them, Celestia and Luna, and give them the controls to the centre and all it’s facilities. A new race emerges with the power to restore the earth.
Their is no such thing as a free lunch. As long as their is light their is also shadow. As long as their are bronies their will also be haters. One such creates a chaotic being and chrisens it ‘discord’ and also sabotages luna so one day she will be corrupted. The last hater then realises his mistake as discord kills him. Discord takes the controls but is defeated by the Elements of Harmony. Unfortunently by then he has killed the last of humanity who had wanted to see the begining of equestria. A new age has begun.

[[WMG: Equestria was originally an uninhabitable hellhole.]]

[[WMG: France, zoos, and Dutch apple pie don't actually exist.]]

[[WMG: The show is foreshadowing the end of OUR Earth and what it'll look like in the future.]]

[[WMG: In Equestria, a lunar or solar eclipse would be a mind-blowing cosmic horror.]]

[[WMG: Four Stars are ponies who served Nightmare Moon for thousand years or they got awaken before series pilot. After Nigtmare Moon gone they got transformed or turned back back to more normal ponies.]]

[[WMG: Related to above. Four Stars are now normal ponies, nothing indicating their hidden power and role as NM servants.]]

[[WMG: Also related to the above. The four stars are Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death.]]

[[WMG: Related to the above as well; the four stars are actually Creator/TeamFourStar.]]

[[WMG: The thing behind the creation of Nightmare Moon was also responsible for the destruction of whatever came before Equestria.]]

[[WMG: The Equestrian world is flat.]]

[[WMG: Equestria is a micro planet.]]
Somewhere out in space, there is a tiny meteorite capable of sustaining life... but only if it's citizens were less than an inch tall. Because of it's tiny size, the residents have to maintain the ecosystem very carefully or every time there's a sunspot, the equestrian civilization would be wiped out. Princess Celestia's job is actually extremely difficult, making sure the tiny planet gets the proper amount of sunlight without burning up.

[[WMG: It's Celestia's magic that keeps nature in Equestria dependant on ponies.]]

The end result is the present day where guiding nature is the Status Quo and the Everfree Forest where nature can run itself is deemed creepy and just ''[[EldritchLocation wrong.]]''
* It does make sense. We've seen a small taste of Discord's idea of "fun". Yes, candy weather is funny and tasty, but it'd also reek havok on the environment. We know Discord threw ''everything'' into chaos over 1000 years ago and doesn't give a darn about any kind of order, natural or otherwise. Probably before he appeared, nature worked fine, but after he showed up and threw everything into chaos, ''nothing'' made sense anymore. He destroyed natural order because it was order and he wanted chaos. And after his defeat, there was no way for the princesses to fix a great deal of what he'd done, so the only choice was for everyone to begin doing things themselves to have any semblence of natural order. It honestly sounds like something Discord would come up with to do, doesn't it?

[[WMG: The IDyeGrass nature of the setting was due to the fixing of the land after Discord got through with it.]]

[[WMG: The ponies no longer need to manage nature]]

[[WMG: The whole REAL story behind Equestria.]]

[[WMG: The old country is habitable again]]

[[WMG: Equestria is a WorldOfWeirdness where citizens go on epic world-saving quests quite frequently.]]

[[WMG: Tartarus holds [[CanonForeigner Krastos The Glue Maker]]]]

[[WMG: Tartarus has a continent on the planet that overlooks the mouth into it.]]

[[WMG: The land surrounding Equestria is extremely dangerous and hard to get through.]]

[[WMG: It's the Earth, and the Elements of Harmony are what used to be the Franchise/{{Dragon Ball}}s.]]

[[WMG: The old country is still under Windigo control]]

[[WMG: Equestrian Weather Is Just Local.]]
Because Pegasi have to put effort into weather, this limits the amount of weather there can be. Its possible to have a tornado over a water shed for example, but it will only be as big as the Pegasi can manage, to have GLOBAL weather, you'd have to have Pegasi all over the world, and there probably aren't that many Pegasi to station.

[[WMG: Pegasi take ''Shortcuts'' when making weather.]]

One of those problems being that with clouds so close, getting struck by lighting is much more likely. And probably explains why Rarity/Applejack and possibly others are so affraid of storm.

[[WMG: The reason for Winter Wrap-up and the manual changing of seasons...]]
Celestia's sun provides light, but little heat, not enough to melt snow in soon enough time. Seasons are caused by the presence/absence of cloud cover. Summer has minimal cloudcover, while Winter has the opposite. Spring/Fall is a happy medium between the two.

[[WMG: Tarnation is their version of Canada]]

[[WMG: Equestria is the result of a successful Terraforming project which left permanent marks on the ponies' culture.]]

[[WMG: Equestria is a place for reincarnated people.]]

[[WMG: Equestria is a {{Layered World}} of our world, Earth.]]

[[WMG: In Zecora's home land, there's a place called [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brazzaville Zebrazzaville.]]]]

[[WMG: Equestria is not only the post-apocalypse Earth, it's much more...]]

[[WMG: Equestria is metal-poor]]

[[WMG: Equestria is an Earth which underwent a GreyGoo catastrophe.]]

[[WMG: All landmasses - or, at least, the habitable ones - sit close together on one side of the planet.]]
Tying into the whole "timezones vs. NMM's plan for eternal night" thing - by keeping the sun from rising, she was, in fact, condemning ''all'' habitable lands on the planet to eternal night. Her plan was to leave the sun to shine eternally on the other side of the world - where nobody lived, anyways (basically, imagine that habitable landmasses on our planet consist solely of the American continent).

[[WMG: Equestria is mosly frozen, with a narrow habitable zone on the equator.]]

[[folder: The Universe]]
[[WMG: Equestria is a dimension parallel to ours that we humans control.]]

[[WMG: The pony world is fantasy of a little girl.]]

[[WMG: The entire setting is the future of WesternAnimation/PeaceOnEarth.]]

[[WMG: Every previous MLP story has just been the story-book version.]]

[[WMG: The series is set within our world, just another aspect of it.]]
Specifically, Equestria is within one of the many strange worlds to be found in the Sidhe, possibly with a smattering of AllMythsAreTrue and was cofounded by Epona, Slepnir, Pegasus, and possibly the early unicorns. This would mean that Ponies are all actually very benign Fair Folk, and Discord and whatever turned Luna into Nightmare Moon were invaders from the Unseelie Court.

[[WMG: Equestria is the afterlife.]]

[[WMG: Equestria is contained in a PocketDimension.]]
While in many ways, Equestria seems to exist within our own dimension, there are many factors saying that it does not, such as the existance of magic, and the fact that the sun and the moon have to be physically/magically moved by sentient beings, rather then by gravity. How, then, can it exist?

* The existence of magic: An obvious difference between the world of MLP and our own is the existence of magic, although there is the possibility that the ponies of this world utilize some form of energy that our science cannot yet detect. But if the world of MLP takes place in a pocket dimension, then again, Celestia and Luna can institute laws and rules in it's physics, similar to how the machines in Franchise/TheMatrix programed the artificial world to resemble earth at it's peak, with most of it's inhabitants being unable to tell that what they were living in was, in fact, an illusion.

* Hints as to previous events in pony history: Based on Pinkie Pie's party cannon, as well as Rainbow Dash naming her pet turtle, "Tank," it is reasonable to guess that ponies are aware of instruments of war, which suggests that, at certain points in Equestria's past, there were armed conflicts using weapons of war. While the combatants in these conflicts are anyone's guess (pony vs. pony, pony vs. dragons, etc.) the mere mention of these items suggests that the history of Equestria is not as idyllic as it would first seem. One would think that the three tribes of ponies engaged in armed conflict, but considering the level of technology they seemed to posses, it would be reasonable to assume that they would use cannons, and were not technically advanced enough to use tanks, suggesting that there were armed conflicts with 21rst century weaponry between then, and the era of Twilight Sparkle and friends.

[[WMG: Celestia is [[{{Manga/Berserk}} "The idea of good"]].]]

[[WMG: All the Pinkie clones come from AlternateUniverse's that contain {{Flanderized}} versions of the characters]]

[[WMG: Ponies like Celestia, Luna, and Sombra are ''not'' gods and goddesses but instead ponies who created some magic of their own and became alicorns.]]

[[WMG: The whole series takes place inside the mind of a fangirl.]]

[[folder: The Crystal Empire]]

[[WMG: The Crystal Empire is underground]]
The Crystal Empire is called an empire as it once continued into Equestia under the ground. The caves used by Chrysalis were once connected to it. Sombre was banished there and worked his way to the empire where he quickly took over due to having unicorn magic. When he was defeated the empire collapsed and the caves now only exist as huge networks similiar to the ones the diamond dogs use to get around. The Crystal Empire seen in the show is only the capital city that's name has been forgotten in the 1000 years it was gone.

[[WMG: The Crystal Empire had close relations with the griffons.]]

[[WMG: The Crystal Empire was once [[VestigialEmpire a lot larger]]]]

[[WMG: There are no children in the Crystal Empire]]

[[WMG: Queen Chrysalis was the first queen of the Crystal Empire]]

* And, of course because [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen queens are evil.]]

[[WMG: All of the crystals in the Crystal Empire have their own brand of unique magic.]]

[[WMG: The Crystal Empire is a GildedCage for the Crystal Ponies.]]
The prosperity of the Crystal Empire appears to be dependent on the crystal ponies themselves. [[FisherKing the land and its ponies are one.]] If any of them were to leave to visit other parts of Equestria, the Empire will fall and succumb to the raging blizzards just beyond its boarders. This is probably the reason why we haven't seen any crystal ponies outside of the crystal empire and why hosting the games there was very important. It would allow this otherwise isolated group of ponies to mingle with the rest of Equestria.

[[WMG: The Crystal Empire was the first nation in Equestria.]]
Originally, the Crystal Ponies inhabited the future continent of Equestria alone, with the country remaining in a permanent state of summer due to the harmonic resonance of the Crystal Heart. However, many years after the founding of the Empire, the first expedition from the old country, led by Commander Hurricane and a small band of pegasi warriors, arrived and brought with them the snowy wrath of the Windigoes. Temperatures began to decrease, and autumn gripped the land. The pegasi were ultimately indifferent to the Crystal Ponies, and resolved to head south for more available land. Days later, the Unicornia party arrived, and temperatures dropped further with the discovery of the pegasi party. The final party, led by Chancellor Puddinghead, arrived to discover that the other two parties had beaten him to the new land, and soon the land was plummeted into winter as the war began anew.

Meanwhile, the Crystal Ponies had become fearful of the warring "dull-coats", and as a result set up a magical shield to protect the capitol city of their Empire. The relentless winter combined with the violence of the warring tribes led to a total collapse of the Empire, with only the capitol remainging. Eventually, the war ended with the Heart's Warming, but having been cut off from contact with the rest of the land, the hatred of the Crystal Ponies towards the outsiders kept the northern lands of Equestria in a permanent frost, eventually altering the landscape until it was impossible to go back. Relations were restored some time later, primarily through the defeat of Discord, leading to the Empire's current state of peace with other Equestrians.

[[WMG: The Queens of the Crystal Empire were all unicorns.]]

* The ruined palace in the middle of the Everfree Forest where Twilight found the Elements of Harmony is the heart of Old Canterlot. The Celestia/Nightmare Moon battle drove out the ponies and turned it into a {{Ghost City}}. Not long after that, the magical fallout from the battle unleashed some wild powers, and TheLostWoods grew up and consumed the city.

[[WMG: Cloudsdale first existed as a Weather Factory, not a town.]]

[[WMG: The play in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve Hearth's Warming Eve]] is not historically accurate.]]

* It does make sense. We've seen a small taste of Discord's idea of "fun". Yes, candy weather is funny and tasty, but it'd also reek havok on the environment. We know Discord threw ''everything'' into chaos over 1000 years ago and doesn't give a darn about any kind of order, natural or otherwise. Probably before he appeared, nature worked fine, but after he showed up and threw everything into chaos, ''nothing'' made sense anymore. He destroyed natural order because it was order and he wanted chaos. And after his defeat, there was no way for the princesses to fix a great deal of what he'd done, so the only choice was for everyone to begin doing things themselves to have any semblence of natural order. It honestly sounds like something the ChaoticEvil Discord would come up with to do, doesn't it?

* Chancellor Puddinghead, in contrast, had the opposite problem (is there a trope for Reverse Flanderization?): In reality, she was even [[UpToEleven more of a]] [[TheCaligula Caligula]] than advertised. However, she was toned down for the play due to RealityIsUnrealistic and PoliticalCorrectnessGoneMad.

Similar to [[StarWars Emperor Palpatine's]] red royal guard, these are specially trained guards, used as a last defense. Yet they never travel with her...

* The existence of magic: An obvious difference between the world of MLP and our own is the existence of magic, although there is the possibility that the ponies of this world utilize some form of energy that our science cannot yet detect. But if the world of MLP takes place in a pocket dimension, then again, Celestia and Luna can institute laws and rules in it's physics, similar to how the machines in Film/TheMatrix programed the artificial world to resemble earth at it's peak, with most of it's inhabitants being unable to tell that what they were living in was, in fact, an illusion.

!![[center: [-[[WMG/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSettingSharedUniverses Shared Universes]], [[WMG/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSettingPonies Ponies]], '''Equestria''', [[WMG/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSettingEquestrianCulture Equestrian Culture]], [[WMG/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSettingScienceAndMagic Science and Magic]], [[WMG/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSettingOtherSpecies Other Species]] ([[WMG/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSettingChangelings Changelings]], [[WMG/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSettingDragons Dragons]])-]]]

Much like the jewels and gems inches below the soil, the land itself is filled with rumors and mysteries. If you have guesses on anything else then:

-> [[WMG/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSettingSharedUniverses Shared Universe guesses go here]]
-> [[WMG/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSettingPonies Pony guesses go here]]
-> [[WMG/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSettingEquestrianCulture Guesses on Equestrian Culture go here]]
-> [[WMG/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSettingScienceAndMagic Science and Magic guesses go here]]
-> [[WMG/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSettingDragons Dragon guesses go here]]
-> [[WMG/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSettingOtherSpecies Guesses on other species go here]]

-> Go back to the [[WMG/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicSetting Main Setting Guesses page here]]

-> and you can still go back to the [[WMG/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Main WMG Page, here]]

This helps with the sort of demi-god / quasi-god status they have, especially if you consider the possibility that the Sun and Moon can "rise" without Celestia and Luna, but they have the magical power to do it and it's simply become a symbolic thing / they have sort of become venerated as Gods and thus need to act as if they are.

* Princess Platinum, while by no means a generous soul, [[{{Flanderization}} was not as obnoxious as portrayed]]. Rather, she had [[DeadlyDecadentCourt a court of nobleponies who forced her to demand outrageous concessions or face civil war]].

[[WMG: Celestia is [[{{Manga/Berserk}} "The idea of good" ]].]]

[[WMG: Equestria is contained in a virtual world.]]

At some point in the far distant pass, all the nations/cities/etc. in Equestria were at war with each other, possibly due to pony society being in a state similar to many countries today (with the mindset to obtain wealth and material goods, and less on personal growth). As a result of the warfare and fighting, Equestria was devastated, possibly beyond it's ability to heal or be repaired, resulting in a wasteland in which little to no life could live. Celestia and Luna, being the only survivors of the royal family (theorizing that their parents had been killed in the conflict, which would explain their absence), saw the ruins of their kingdom, and realized that they could not return life to the planet. Thus, combining the might of their powers, they were able to create a pocket dimension, and created a copy of Equestria. The two worked to perfect it, creating weather, physics, etc. as well as the illusion of the stars and the universe, working hard to erase every trace and hint that could reveal to the ponies that they were living in a simulated reality.

[[WMG: Equestria is contained in a PocketDimension.]]
While in many ways, Equestria seems to exist within our own dimension, there are many factors saying that it does not, such as the existance of magic, and the fact that the sun and the moon have to be physically/magically moved by sentient beings, rather then by gravity. How then, can it exist?

* The sun and moon: While the realm of MLP appears to be similar to our own (with varied landscapes, seasons, a sky/atmosphere, etc.) there's one big difference between their world and ours: the sun and the moon have to be manually raised and lowered by Celestia and Luna every day and night. Based upon what we know of astronomy, and the rotation of planets, it is impossible for this to take place in our universe, as Equestria either is a planet that doesn't rotate, or it is situated around an inert sun and moon. Considering the unlikeliness of a pony being able to move a star, it seems reasonable that, in a pocket dimension that is completely under Celestia and Luna's control, they can bend the very fabric of it's reality to suit their needs.

1: They had a life before signing up
2: They get paid, so they probably have free will, days off and individuality
3: They accept females into their ranks, though we haven't seen any yet

An epic between good and evil will cause the land of Equestria to erupt. With the nation in on the brink of destruction Twilight, the Royal Sisters, Discord and Starswirl teleport everyone to the other side of the planet and battle Grogar. The villain is defeated and Twilight teleports away to where the others are. Everyone moans at the loss of their home but Twilight encourages everyone to move on and restart from zero.

The way I see it, Canterlot could be an allegory for London- Camelot=Canterlot, Ponyville is AnytownUSA, Crystal Empire part of Ponymerica, Saddle Arabia exists, etc. Maybe Britain takes over the world in this work. Non-Equids are treated as barbarians, [[ValuesDissonance much like the Chinese treated other people in the 1400s. ]]

[[WMG:Equestrian government structure.]]

[[WMG:The royal guards are actually magical constructs created by the princesses.]]

[[folder:History]]

Just like there was a tradition in 20th century to give cutting-edge stuff [[Trope2000 names that end with "2000"]] in order to make them look more [[{{Zeerust}} futuristic]], the same thing works for Equestria. And since 6000 seems to be their equivalent of 2000, it would indicate that the show takes place in 5900s according to the local calendar. The event from almost six thousand years ago that marks the beginning of the era (many millenia before Nightmare Moon rebellion) was probably the founding of Equestria as told in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve the holiday episode]], or maybe [[AfterTheEnd the overthrowing of the former human overlords]].

Just like there was a tradition in 20th century to give cutting-edge stuff [[{{Trope2000}} names that end with "2000"]] in order to make them look more [[{{Zeerust}} futuristic]], the same thing works for Equestria. And since 6000 seems to be their equivalent of 2000, it would indicate that the show takes place in 5900s according to the local calendar. The event from almost six thousand years ago that marks the beginning of the era (many millenia before Nightmare Moon rebellion) was probably the founding of Equestria as told in [[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E13HearthsWarmingEve the holiday episode]], or maybe [[AfterTheEnd the overthrowing of the former human overlords]].

The Crystal Empire is called an empire as it once continued into Equestia under the ground. The caves used by Crysalis were once connected to it. Sombre was banished there and worked his way to the empire where he quickly took over due to having unicorn magic. When he was defeated the empire collapsed and the caves now only exist as huge networks similiar to the ones the diamond dogs use to get around. The Crystal Empire seen in the show is only the capital city that's name has been forgotten in the 1000 years it was gone.

[[WMG: All of the crystals in The Crystal Empire have their own brand of unique magic.]]

Meanwhile, the Crystal Ponies had become fearful of the warring 'dull-coats,' and as a result set up a magical shield to protect the capitol city of their Empire. The relentless winter combined with the violence of the warring tribes led to a total collapse of the Empire, with only the capitol remainging. Eventually, the war ended with the Heart's Warming, but having been cut off from contact with the rest of the land, the hatred of the Crystal Ponies towards the outsiders kept the northern lands of Equestria in a permanent frost, eventually altering the landscape until it was impossible to go back. Relations were restored some time later, primarily through the defeat of Discord, leading to the Empire's current state of peace with other Equestrians.

[[folder: The School of Friendship]]

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During an epic beween good and evil causesthe land of Equestria to erupt. The nation in on the brink of destruction Twilight,the Royal Sisters,Discord and Starswirl teleports everyone to the toher side of the planet and battles Grogar .The villain has been defeated and Twilight teleports away to where the other are.Everyone moans at the loss of their home but Twilight encouarages evryone to move on and restart from zero.

[[WMG: It's the Earth, and the Elements of Harmony are what used to be the {{Dragon Ball}}s.]]