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Prologue
Among with the current 195 sovereign states, the total estimated 3,600 to 5,200 subnational divisions (states within nation and provinces), varying around 10,000 to over 50,000 cities, city boroughs worldwide, and other political units with forms of self-goverment in some degree, have a common divine unknown ancestor from the beginning of the human race and the dawn of civilization from Neolithic tribes to Mesopotamian states, the personified blood phenotype's creation started through a process of one Mother Nature's creations as to give the world an "unacknowledged" gift to pass it onto future generations as an instrument of her vengeance, a punishment to mortals, blinded leaders with the greed for more, and dehumanized them for a false hope. As a new leader steps into a new or existing political entity, a personification of the political entity chosen from birth steps into the spotlight, controlling the minds of the mortals that have the heart of courage to take on for the lead.
Time is a silent reminder that all roads lead to Rome. The personifies could foresee events, election results, and have the apparent ability to discern the thoughts, feelings, and secret information of mortals.
"The price of freedom is high, it always has been. And it's a price I'm willing to pay. And if I'm the only one, then so be it."--Steve Rogers, Captain America: The Winter Soldier"An empire toppled by its enemies can rise again, but one which crumbles from within, is dead forever." --Zemo, Captain America: Civil War
Section one: DNA and internal structure
Just like any other mortal on Earth. they're just like them (Homo Sapien), and that's how they're seen as in the human world and between their own "species." The twist to that though? They control their own life span and life force since their soul as a whole is connected to the political entity they personify. Anything they do can affect the length of their lifespan (in this case, mental health, mood, emotional health, and spiritual health) as it can affect a nation and the course of history, for example as a whole. They can appear youthful and adapt to their surroundings after centuries and centuries, but despite being ageless due to a certain age of maturity, they're not immoral. It's just the way they can shape their destiny and their date of "expiration" but overall, they'll eventually die along with humanity if they even manage to live up to that point. This doesn't mean that they can obtain a free pass to utopia since just like mortals, they're still exposed to pain, fatigue, and exhaustion due to their intense duties and responsibilities as political entities. Internal conflicts (revolution, rebellion, civil war, corruption, etc), economic struggles (inflation, economic depression, etc), and invasions are some ways a political entity can be affected mentally and physically and in the worst case, meet their demise. Their role can lead to stress due to their weight of their duties and the consequences of their actions on the world stage as they compete in the market and in system. Although self-glazing and nationalism plays a crucial role in their lives, they still feel a sense of loyalty and concern for other personifies as they're interconnected in some way. To sum this up, they don't age but their minds get tired and started to mentally decline at one point.
Blood phenotype has something to say when it comes to categorizing personification types as some are "Pure Blood" while others are "Half Blood" or "Raw Blood." Personifactions are not encouraged to breed with their own species as it becomes a distraction and too much of a toll for their minds to handle so many married mortals which would soon become the main reason theres a large number of Half Bloods among the personified society but that comes with a heavy cost since they have to make the decision of either leaving the child on them and how to make a sudden end to their marriage as they "have a secret that would create an atmosphere of horror among both of them." Most just ditched their partner but some took the extreme method where they killed them as of telling them that they should've chose someone else instead. Despite this, there are still a few personifiys that managed to "tie the knot" with their own species and are still doing well and thats the least to say for them. Could've been worse. Raw bloods are personifiys that are born to mortal parents and are personifications by birth because of mutation. As raw bloods, they have the hardest time as a child since they are much more aware and conscious of the outside world since as personifications they have a sixth sense known as ESP (extrasensory perception) which includes telepathy, clairvoyance, and precognition. In the human world, ESP is not proven by science as most scientists state that it defies some of the laws of physics. As unmatured personifys, their senses are not regulated which could be an issue without the Mist.
Section two: The Mist
The Mist also known as The Obscruter is Mother Nature's protection barrier that obscures science and technology when the risks of a personify getting their abnormality detected is bleak.
Section three: Maturity
In personify terms, maturity means that a personify's appearance begins to appear ageless after a certain time in their lives and starts aging extremely slowly beyond that point. It also means that a personify's senses have developed completely aware, fitting the duty as a political entity or other political matter. The age of maturity might vary for every personify which some might appear as a grown adult and some might still be in their teenage years as the age range among the personified beings are between 14 to 55.(The nations in the Americas, Africa, and Asia are mostly younger than the nations in Europe.) Most cities are much older than the current nation they reside in as they served for the precedents of the current nations and a target point for others as they're the most vulnerable during invasions as a possibility for siege to occur can happen. Otherwise, they thrive and keep the political sovereignty economically and financially stable with something to show some self-worth and gaining traction. Other political entities like special forces, space programs, spy agencies, military branches, and political parties are mostly around the same age as their respective nations but some are slightly younger or much older and have more experience, especially personifys of military branches and special forces, since all were hardcore veterans who used to serve in previous wars in their lifetime. Many served among numerous revolutionary wars in different eras and other types of armed conflict within their respective nations. Personifiys as young as 14 are expected to take on political duties as a way to prepare them for future events and situations as they're going to the next generation to carry on their precedents work.