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"What Your National Cartoon Says About You\n\nNORTH KOREA\n\n The Character: Mighty Wing\n\n The Synopsis: When a traitorous worker bee redirects labor resources to construct \"country homes\"\u2014rather than a sorely needed aqueduct\u2014it's up to Mighty Wing to design a new irrigation system that will save the colony's supply of honey.\n\n The Takeaway: It's a thinly veiled allegory for North Korea's heroic survival of the disastrous mid-nineties drought and famine. Further propagandistic proof: Mighty Wing is also beset by the evil armies of the Spiders (a.k.a. the UN) and the Wasps (a.k.a. the Japanese and Americans).\nRUSSIA\n\n The Character: Cheburashka\n\n The Synopsis: Cheburashka, a bear-monkey creature, occupies a world whose retiring inhabitants bemoan the fact that birthdays come but once a year. The waltzy soundtrack is vaguely like a mashup of Dr. Zhivago's and The Godfather's**. One of the series' characters compares Cheburashka to a \"defective toy.\"\n\n The Takeaway: Cheburashka is a friend to the oppressed, the uncategorizable, the socially displaced, and the melancholy\u2014i.e., future vodka drinkers.\nAUSTRALIA\n\n The Character: Blinky Bill\n\n The Synopsis: A cheeky koala bear delights in stealing neighbors' treats undaunted by the fact that his father is killed by a hunter. Originally a beloved illustrated character from an Australian children's book series, Blinky was later syndicated on TV and transformed into a passionate though mischievous conservation activist.\n\n The Takeaway: As if begging to be kidnapped by the late stoner comedian Mitch Hedberg, Bill cemented his status the mascot of lazy and unemployable types and left no question as to why he's so \"blinky.\"\nCANADA\n\n The Character: Bert Raccoon\n\n The Synopsis: The goofy but environmentally conscious hero of The Raccoons occupies a corner of the Canadian forest where he cavorts with his furry friends. His enemy, Cyril Sneer, is a cigar-chomping, gold-toothed aardvark industrialist who despises \"agitators\" and is aided by three motorcycle-riding pigs.\n\n The Takeaway: Young Canadians become mysteriously suspicious of capitalism.\nSWEDEN\n\n The Character: Bamse\n\n The Synopsis: He's the world's strongest bear\u2014when he drinks honey, his muscles expand\u2014but he uses his strength only to save and never to hurt others. In one episode, when a cannonball is fired at his ship, he leaps into the air and catches it with his bare paws.\n\n The Takeaway: We'd like to see him arm wrestle Popeye, but we'd hate to offend his pacifistic sensibilities.\nBELGIUM\n\n The Character: Tintin\n\n The Synopsis: A young Belgian reporter, Tintin travels the world solving mysteries, catching criminals, evading assassins, and generally getting into and out of trouble while learning about science.\n\n The Takeaway: Given the current media climate, these days Tintin is probably an unpaid intern at the Huffington Post.\nKUWAIT\n\n The Character: The 99\n\n The Synopsis: They're like the X-Men, but Islamic. A team of 99 superheroes from 99 different countries, each representing one of the 99 different attributes of Allah.\n\n The Takeaway: Not all of Allah's attributes are badass. Just ask the 99's Sami the Listener or Darr the Afflicter.\nPOLAND\n\n The Character: Reksio\n\n The Synopsis: Poland's answer to Snoopy, Reksio is an astoundingly mature and independent little dog who showers and feeds himself in the morning and plays a mean harmonica. On t\n\nhe show, characters communicate by only whispers, barks, or pantomime.  The Takeaway: Though the bigger dogs occasionally give Reksio trouble, at least they never partition him into pieces and claim possession of his severed parts.\nSOUTH ASIA\n\n (India/Pakistan/Bangladesh/Sri Lanka)\n\n The Character: Meena\n\n The Synopsis: An animated 8-year-old widely known throughout the subcontinent, Meena was conceived by UNICEF in 1990 to address issues like health, hygiene, and human trafficking. As her American counterparts cry over bullies and boyfriends, Meena takes in a fellow young girl who has lost her family in an earthquake.\n\n The Takeaway: Kids\u2014they grow up so fast these days.\nJAPAN\n\n The Character: Doraemon\n\n The Synopsis: A robotic cat who plays with Japanese children, Doraemon has a magic pouch on his stomach that he can pull just about anything out of. He travels via a desk that has a time machine inside it and was sent from the future to protect his friend Nobita.\n\n The Takeaway: What the Terminator would look like if he were sent to Japan."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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