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5[[folder: Tropes that apply to all of them]]
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7* DarkestAfrica: PlayedWith. Though some, more culture-centric comics avert this, there are just as many comics that talk about the terrible state many African countries are still stuck in.
8* DysfunctionJunction: ''Like you would not believe.'' Between territorial disputes, surprisingly big cultural differences that sometimes end up being incredibly difficult to concile, precarious living conditions, having to deal with the consequences of colonialism, and (sometimes despotic) governments that come and go, they are undeniably the biggest {{Butt Monkey}}s in all of Polandball. Nonetheless, they try to stick together whenever possible.
9* AscendedExtra: African nations appear with surprising regularity, likely because the situations of many African countries slots into [[BlackComedy Polandball's style of humour]] like a key in a lock.
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11[[/folder]]
12
13[[folder:Nations of Central Africa]]
14
15!!Chad
16[[quoteright:211:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/chad_4.png]]
17 [[caption-width-right:211:Not Romania.]]
18* ArchEnemy: Needless to say, he and Libya do not have positive opinions of each other. The biggest reason is over the ownership of the Aozou Strip - which was claimed to be rich in uranium but ultimately turned out to be [[WorthlessTreasureTwist just a huge strip of sand and nothing else.]]
19* BerserkButton: Being mistaken for Romania.
20* DisproportionateRetribution: Gets put in US' travel ban list just because he ran out of passport papers.
21* IdenticalStranger: Often confused with Romania, as both of their flags are exactly the same with only a slight difference in shades of blue.
22* NonstandardCharacterDesign: His eyes are often drawn as 8-cueballs, which is of course, to differentiate him from Romania.
23* PerpetualPoverty: Is still struggling with this problem.
24
25!!Democratic Republic of the Congo
26[[quoteright:196:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/dr_congo_2.png]]
27 [[caption-width-right:196:Your local doctor.]]
28* AnArmAndALeg: Where did you think Belgium gets his hands from?
29* AntagonisticOffspring: He has a pretty low opinion about his father Belgium. Considering what Belgium [[AnArmAndALeg did to him]] back in his colonial days, it isn't very surprising.
30* AxCrazy: [[http://i.imgur.com/fEzrfsp.png JESUS!]]
31* ComicallyIneptHealing: When other nations need medical help, they consult him. This often never ends well.
32* DarkAndTroubledPast: He has witnessed colonialism, the Congo Crisis, an authoritarian dictatorship, and two large-scale wars.
33* OneSteveLimit: Sometimes gets in name disputes with the other Congo.
34* PunnyName: He is often portrayed as a doctor because of his abbreviated name, '''DR''' Congo.
35* TraumaCongaLine: He was relatively peaceful before Belgium came along. Since then, nothing in his life went particularly right.
36
37!!Republic of The Congo
38[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/congo.png]]
39* ArchEnemy: Although they are steadily improving their relations these days, he doesn't really view Angola in a positive way.
40* BerserkButton: Does not like being confused with his brother.
41* OneSteveLimit: Need to take a guess why?
42* OutOfFocus: In contrast to his more well-known brother, he does not get that much focus.
43* SiblingRivalry: Downplayed. Although they sometimes argue with each other (mostly due to name disputes), Congo and DR Congo mostly get along with each other. And due to being separated for so long, they seldom interact.
44* SiblingYinYang: Although he is not without his own problems, he is just about everything that DR Congo is not-- he is much more stable, developed and wealthy in comparison to his brother.
45* WeUsedToBeFriends: Averted. While he stopped being communist a long time ago, he still gets along relatively well with Russia and Cuba to this day.
46
47[[/folder]]
48
49[[folder: Nations of The Horn of Africa]]
50
51!!Djibouti
52[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/djiboutiball.png]]
53* OnlySaneMan: With Eritrea being insane even by ''Polandball'' standards, Ethiopia's PerpetualPoverty, and Somalia's problems with pirates, he can count as one in the Horn of Africa region.
54* PunnyName: [[http://i.imgur.com/jSYFWTm.png?1 Shake shake shake.]]
55* SpearCarrier: Appears exclusively for name puns and when the entire African family comes together.
56
57!!Eritrea
58->''"I kill everyone who talk about me. I kill everyone who look at me funny."''
59[[quoteright:189:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/eritrea.png]]
60 [[caption-width-right:189:Not pictured: sanity.]]
61* AxCrazy: This countryball is played less sympathetically than ''Serbia''.
62** Even North Korea, who is nearly as bad as him in this regard, is scared of him and knows that he is more insane.
63* CreepyMonotone: Hard to gauge in a comic, but his unchanging expression and lack of emoting in [[http://i.imgur.com/PywqgPa.png this comic]] seem to imply it.
64* CuteButPsycho: Fits the most basic qualifications of cute, being small and round with big eyes. Is an unrepentant genocidal maniac.
65* TheFundamentalist: An interesting case, in that Eritrea accepts more than one religion. If you're the wrong kind of Christian, wrong kind of Muslim, or something else all together, you're dead.
66* MurderIsTheBestSolution: Eritrea has this philosophy on life, [[http://i.imgur.com/uppN0r3.png as seen here.]]
67-->'''India''': Oh hello little Eritrea, we did not see yuo. Please, do tell, how did yuo into freedom and indepe-
68-->'''Eritrea''': I kill everyone. They said Eritrea is not free, not country, not autonomy. So I made killings of them. I made so many killings.
69
70!!Ethiopia
71[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/ethiopia.png]]
72* ArchEnemy: He considers all of his neighbors in Horn of Africa this, with the exception of Djibouti. Though, Eritrea is unsurprisingly the biggest one.
73** He also has this dynamic with Italy, going to his limits to defy Italy's claims of colonizing him.
74* CulturalPosturing: He is very proud of being the home of mankind's first civilization on Earth, and claims to be the beginning of everything. He sometimes expects being given food and aid because of it.
75* ImAHumanitarian: May resort to being this when he's way too desperate for something to eat.
76* NothingButSkinAndBones: Is portrayed this way during a famine. Even his ribcage is showing!
77* PerpetualPoverty: He is steadily recovering from it as of late, though.
78* SiblingYinYang: With Eritrea. They couldn't be more different with each other, to the point where Ethiopia calls him a 'psycho'.
79
80!!Somalia
81[[quoteright:278:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/somalia.png]]
82* ArchEnemy: Ethiopia, although he is not alone in this and shares it with Eritrea.
83* AxCrazy: 'Natch.
84* CrapsackWorld: Suffered from PerpetualPoverty, separatist movements as well as a lot of chaos in the past, although he is gradually recovering from it.
85* EyepatchOfPower
86* PerpetualPoverty
87* {{Pirate}}: Is well-known for his pirates, and he is often portrayed as one.
88* RetiredBadass: Somalia was once an important center of trade between Africa and the Ancient World. Wealthy empires and city-states populated the Somali coast during ancient times (including the current capital, Mogadishu).
89* TalkLikeAPirate: Sometimes throws in some pirate slang in with his traditional African-Engrish.
90
91[[/folder]]
92
93[[folder: Nations of East Africa]]
94
95!!Mauritius
96
97* BerserkButton: Just don't bother, especially with the flag stealing.
98* UnclePennybags: Has the highest HDI in Africa.
99
100!!Rwanda
101* AntagonisticOffspring: Rwanda has some resentment towards his father Belgium from triggering the hate between the hutu's and tutsi's, even worse ever since he was adopted from Germany.
102* ArchEnemy: The DRC has been in some bad blood with Rwanda since the genocide, and it only gotten worse after the Congo Wars.
103* TheAtoner: Trying to move on and improve after the genocide.
104* BerserkButton: Denying the Genocide
105* DarkAndTroubledPast: Not just the events of 1994, but also colonialism and the revolution.
106
107!!Seychelles
108[[quoteright:200:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/seychelles_with_a_straw_hat.png]]
109* PokemonSpeak: Seychelles [[IncrediblyLamePun says chelles]].
110* RainbowLite: Their appearance is often likened to that of a rainbow.
111
112!!Uganda
113[[quoteright:242:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/uganda_4.jpg]]
114 [[caption-width-right:242:Do you know da wae?]]
115* AxCrazy: Not to the same notoriety of Eritrea, but it's still there.
116* HeteronormativeCrusader: Hates all gays and will not hesitate to execute them.
117* {{Hypocrite}}: Blames gays for the spread of [=AID=]s in his country, yet does nothing to control the rampant sex of his citizens.
118* OddFriendship: With Russia. They [[CommonalityConnection seem to have bonded over their hatred of all gays.]]
119
120[[/folder]]
121
122[[folder: Nations of Northern Africa]]
123
124!!Algeria
125[[quoteright:288:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/algeria.png]]
126* AntagonisticOffspring: Averted. In spite of what France has done to him during his colonial days, Algeria holds little to no resentment towards him with the reasoning that the past is the past. This doesn't stop their relationship from being ''very'' complicated, though.
127* ArchEnemy: Israel, although he is not alone in this.
128* FriendlyEnemy: With Morocco. Algeria supports Western Sahara, much to Morocco's dismay, but they still have friendly relations to this day.
129* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Tunisia.
130* OddFriendship: With USA, even though he supports most of Algeria's enemies.
131* OnlySaneMan: He is one of the more normal African nations. Despite his press freedom and human rights problem, he has a pretty good living standards of living and one of the highest [=HDIs=] in the continent, and he is not embroiled in any political unrests.
132* TakeAThirdOption: He maintains pretty cool relationships with both the west and communists alike.
133
134!!Egypt
135[[quoteright:254:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/egypt.png]]
136* BerserkButton: ISIS and the way he acts has left him pretty bitter, due to Egypt coming up with the name "Isis" millenia ago to name one of the goddesses in his mythology.
137** Also, France and UK invading his canal (also stealing his artifacts for the latter).
138* CommonalityConnection: Has one with Japan, as they are both cat lovers.
139* EgyptIsStillAncient: To stand out from other Muslim countries, he sometimes adopts this aesthetic as his trope page indicates.
140* GloryDays: Views AncientEgypt as this.
141* KindheartedCatLover: He has a deep love for cats. This love sometimes borders obsession.
142* OddFriendship: Along with Jordan, Egypt is the only Arabian country who is cool towards Israel and signed a peace treaty with him, and is even somewhat thankful towards him for removing Gaza, although [[DownplayedTrope the friendship is acknowledged begrudgingly and is pretty much on-paper-only]].
143* RetiredBadass: Used to be a mighty empire, and once built the pyramids, but no longer holds too much political clout.
144* SplitPersonality: Sometimes reverts from a happy-go-lucky guy to a depressed remnant of his former self.
145* VitriolicBestBuds: UK and France may have bothered Egypt a lot, but he still considers them friends.
146
147!!Libya
148[[quoteright:286:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/libya.png]]
149* ArchEnemy: Chad, largely over the ownership of the Aozou Strip.
150* AxCrazy: As Libyan Arab Jamahiriya.
151* BoringButPractical: The jokes about his old flag usually involves this. Expect the line 'green is not a creative color' to float around when this gets brought up.
152* CrapsackWorld: He hasn't been doing a good job on governing himself since the fall of Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, finding himself on the verge of becoming a failed state and getting caught in a lot of civil conflicts. [[EarnYourHappyEnding Until 2021, that is, when the two rivaling governments merged to form a new unitary parliament.]]
153* TheQuietOne: Doesn't talk that much.
154* RetiredMonster: He used to be pretty AxCrazy, but has recently become harmless.
155* UnknownRival: Tunisia hates him due to their strained relationship from time to time, but he does not seem to reciprocate his hostility.
156* [[WarRefugees War Refugee]]: Along with Syria, he is usually the poster-boy of this in-universe. Of course, whether Europe likes it or not varies greatly time to time.
157
158!!Mauritania
159[[quoteright:310:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mauritania.png]]
160 [[caption-width-right:310:Does this look like the face of mercy?]]
161* ADayInTheLimelight: He has his own series of comics, ''[[https://imgur.com/a/7QABB Mauritania: Time Traveler]]''.
162* AxCrazy: ''Yes.'' Almost always appearing with a very jubilant smile even though his mood says otherwise? Check. Has rampant human rights problems in his country? Check.
163* BerserkButton: He doesn't take other countryballs mocking his perpetually-smiling face that kindly. Same goes for people who compare him with Joker.
164* {{Catchphrase}}: "Why so serious?" in reference to his constantly-smiling face.
165* FriendlyRival: With Morocco. They are mostly friends, but their dispute over Western Sahara crops time to time.
166* FreudianExcuse: The background of it [[DependingOnTheWriter depends on the writer]], but in general, his AxCrazy attitude as well as his never-ending smile are described to be born from France forcibly carving the smile to his face.
167* PerpetualSmiler: The crescent gives the appearance of a very jubilant smile. Expect this to be contrasted against [[TheStoic Saudi Arabia]] and [[PerpetualFrowner Venezuela]].
168** StepfordSmiler: Read Mauritania's mood by his eyes and it is evident that he is suffering at the mockery of other nations (and internally from the rampant enslavement in his country). Also see FreudianExcuse above.
169* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: Shows [[http://i.imgur.com/7rs9VYa.png no mercy]] to his slaves.
170* UnknownRival: He is one of the countries who antagonized Qatar as his diplomatic tensions rise, but Qatar himself does not know who he is.
171
172!!Morocco
173[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/morocco.png]]
174 [[caption-width-right:350:Not pictured: Western Sahara.]]
175* {{Archenemy}}: Always trying to [[InsistentTerminology anschluss]] Western Sahara.
176** Spain is also one, as he refuses to gib Ceuta and Melilla to him.
177* BazaarOfTheBizarre: Though you're more likely to find ripoffs of existing products. [[http://i.imgur.com/HGsmi1M.png And be scammed]].
178* BigRedDevil: Because of his colouring and the pentagram on his flag, some artists use him to represent Satan, usually wearing fake horns.
179* DarkIsNotEvil: Other countries tend to be afraid of him, thinking that he looks [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_Morocco satanic]], even though he's a pretty average guy.
180* FriendlyRival: Is competing with Mauritania over the ownership of Western Sahara. They are mostly friends otherwise, though.
181* IntergenerationalFriendship: With Colonial!America.
182* NosyNeighbor: To Western Sahara, obviously.
183* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Left the African Union after Western Sahara was recognized as an independent state, and was once quite vehement about staying out, though he has recently rejoined.
184
185!!South Sudan
186* AntagonisticOffspring: Doesn't like his "father" Sudan.
187* AxCrazy: Thanks to his bloody civil war, he's often portrayed as violent and genocidal.
188* PerpetualPoverty: Usually portrayed as very poor and desperate, to the point of rejoicing when he finds a rat to eat in one comic.
189!!Sudan
190[[quoteright:201:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/sudan.png]]
191* ArchEnemy: Unsurprisingly, with South Sudan. It's not always the case though (see EnemyMine below).
192* BodyHorror: The birth of South Sudan is rarely portrayed prettily.
193* EnemyMine: He and his brother might hate each other to bits, but they both agree on hating the US and siding more with Russia and China.
194* SiblingYinYang: Downplayed-- while he is doing much better than his brother, their conditions and personalities weren't really that different.
195
196!!Tunisia
197[[quoteright:248:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/tunisia.png]]
198* ArchEnemy: Has a rather deep-seated resentment for his neighbor Libya. Not that Libya himself actually reciprocate it.
199* BewareTheNiceOnes: He might be a NiceGuy who is one of the [[OnlySaneMan Only Sane Men]] in the whole of the [[DysfunctionJunction Africa]], but if you somehow ended up becoming his enemy, you're screwed.
200** He once called ISIS dinner. Consider that if you will.
201* DeadpanSnarker: Sometimes, he has shades of this.
202* HeterosexualLifePartners: With Algeria.
203* IdenticalStranger: He looks pretty similar to Turkey.
204* OddFriendship: With Serbia, because he did not recognize Kosovo as a country.
205* NiceGuy: Is generally friendly and jovial. Except if you are his enemy.
206* OnlySaneMan: Is currently fairly stable for his neighborhood. No civil wars, no trying to [[InsistentTerminology anschluss]] neighbors, no authoritarian regime.
207
208!!Western Sahara
209[[quoteright:248:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/df692c9_5aed5593_91f7_41f7_b61d_21eb676d81d1.png]]
210* DesignatedVictim: She's hardly ever given any characterization outside of being kicked around by Morocco and occasionally Mauritania.
211* SatelliteCharacter: She's only ever seen in comics about Morocco. Sometimes she's actually drawn as physically chained to Morocco.
212
213[[/folder]]
214
215[[folder: Nations of Southern Africa]]
216
217!!Botswana, aka. [=BOTswana=]
218[[quoteright:137:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/botswana_2.png]]
219 [[caption-width-right:137:Beep boop. Boop beep?]]
220->''"System has boot. Botswana is online."''
221* {{Determinator}}: Constantly strives to improve his situation.
222* IdenticalStranger: To Estonia and Argentina, who looks relatively similar to him.
223* KillerRobot: As [=BOTswana=]
224* NiceGuy: Is very polite and well-spoken to his fellow nations.
225* OnlySaneMan: One of the more normal African balls. Apart from his AIDS problem, he's doing rather well for himself.
226* RoboSpeak: When he portrayed as [=BOTswana=] he speaks in a Polandball-Engrish version of this.
227* WeUsedToBeFriends: He used to have a good relationship with North Korea in the past, but has cut diplomatic ties recently and designated him an enemy.
228!!Mozambique
229
230* AxCrazy: Sometimes can get very violent.
231* TriggerHappy: Often seen wielding, and firing, the AK-47 displayed on his flag.
232
233!!South Africa
234[[quoteright:235:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/south_africaball.png]]
235* BoomerangBigot: Due to having racist beliefs left over from the Apartheid Era.
236* IHatePastMe: How he feels regarding Union Of South Africa.
237* LoudOfWar: Sometimes uses vuvuzelas to annoy others into submission.
238* NonstandardCharacterDesign: May be portrayed as a doughnut(?!) or as having a hollow centre because of the Lesotho exclave.
239* SplitPersonality: Either because of his three separate capitals for his three branches of government, or because of his history of racial tension.
240
241!!Zimbabwe
242[[quoteright:256:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/zimbabwe_transparent.png]]
243* MeaningfulRename: He transitioned from Rhodesia, a name derived from an infamous British imperialist, to Zimbabwe, the name of a medieval stone city built by southern Africans.
244* RidiculousFutureInflation: Lives this out in the present.
245
246[[/folder]]
247
248[[folder: Nations of Western Africa]]
249
250!!Cameroon
251* ArchEnemy: Boko Haram.
252* AntagonisticOffspring: To say that he doesn't like France that much is... An understatement, to say at least, and he considers Germany as his true father.
253* EnemyMine: With Nigeria. They annoy each other time to time and constantly fight over Bakassi, but they agree on standing against Boko Haram.
254* TheRival: With South Africa and Nigeria. He fiercely competes with the former for the ownership of 'Waka Waka' and the latter for Bakassi, although the latter sometimes crosses into FriendlyRival when it comes into trade and commerce.
255
256!!Cape Verde
257
258* [[UnclePennybags Aunt Pennybags]]: She's got an excellent economy and a decent HDI in Africa, while remaining very friendly and approachable.
259* [[SirSwearsalot Dame Swears-a-Lot]]: [[http://i.imgur.com/oBsSBQM.png When frustrated]].
260* DoNotCallMePaul: She prefers to be known by her Portuguese name, Cabo Verde.
261* NiceGirl: She's known for being very gentle and hospitable.
262
263!!Ghana
264* FriendlyRival: With Nigeria. Both share a bond over being one of the only few English-speaking countries in West Africa with a history of British rule. However, they get into disputes over football and jollof rice.
265* MeaningfulRename: During British colonialism, Ghana was known as the Gold Coast. However, he named himself after the Ghana Empire which existed in West Africa during the 2nd-12th centuries, despite the fact he is actually related to the Ashanti Empire, which had no historical or ethnic ties to the Ghana Empire.
266!!Ivory Coast
267* IdenticalStranger: In coloration, he is an inverted Republic of Ireland.
268* DoNotCallMePaul: He prefers to be called Côte d'Ivoire.
269
270!!Liberia
271* {{Determinator}}: He currently struggles with his poor economy and ebola, but it isn't likely for him to give up.
272* HappilyAdopted: Is very accepting of USA's adoption of him.
273* PerpetualPoverty: As if this long-standing problem of his isn't bad enough, he's got ebola coming for him...
274* TheUnfavorite: He feels this way compared to Philippines.
275* WellDoneSonGuy: He loves and idolizes his father US, and struggles to be like him. Unfortunately, reality hits hard when he realizes that he still has a long way to go.
276
277!!Niger
278[[quoteright:130:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/niger.png]]
279* BerserkButton: Mispronouncing his name as the almost identically-written racial slur.
280* BookDumb: Often portrayed as not very bright.
281* IdenticalStranger: Needless to say, he and India are only inches-wide different, which becomes a running gag in comics that feature him.
282* KindheartedSimpleton: He is not the smartest guy around, but he is usually very friendly and polite to other nations.
283* PerpetualPoverty
284
285!!Nigeria
286* FourOneNineScam: His staple method in scamming other nations. Sometimes, [[DoubleSubverted he actually is a prince]]. He still wants monies, though.
287* ArchEnemy: Boko Haram, although he isn't the only one who views the group as such.
288* ConMan: Tries to trick the other nations out of their money through badly-written emails or letters. Sometimes even successfully!
289* TheRival: Has a long-standing argument with Cameroon about Bakassi.
290** FriendlyRival: However, they still rely on each other with trade and commerce, and agree on standing against Boko Haram. Ghana also counts as one; although they usually argue over who has the best national football team and jollof rice, they have also bonded over their similar pasts and economical agreements.
291* UnclePennybags: Is one of the richest countries in both Africa and the world. [[ConMan His method to gain his riches]], though, is another different matter...
292* TrademarkFavoriteFood: Loves jollof rice and Indonesia's Indomie. He sometimes tries to claim that Indomie is his product.
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