Biased alert. Avatar: The Last Airbender is the greatest show of all time! I would definitely live in this universe, although there are still cons.

Unlike a world like Harry Potter or X-Men, where the supernatural is separate from that of the Muggle world or from those without the X-gene, benders and non-benders live together. They are aware of each other even without having a family member who bends. It’s the norm for both to exist.

However, in the Legend of Korra saga of the Avatar universe, there’s a conflict between benders and non-benders due to Amon’s propaganda promoting non-bending citizens as lower class citizens and seemingly abusive nature of benders.

During Aang’s time, waterbenders and earthbenders were suppressed so that they don’t rebel against the Fire Nation. Cities, towns and tribes are being slowly overtaken by the Fire Nation army and their freedom relies on a 12 year old and his friends. The last part about a 12 year old savior is much less likely, but expansion and colonization are things that we read about in history books. It’s something real that is put into a program meant for children and is not that much different than our world.

The map of the Avatar world looks very familiar. It mimics that of countries in eastern Asia. I once did a project about the aftermath of an Earth destroyed by some sort of disaster. My partner and I morphed our world after the Avatar world and our disaster was a nuclear bomb (basic) destroying everything except east Asia. It was easy to complete the checklist for the assignment, including economics, energy use, politics, societal relations and the impacts on the individual. It’s all included in the show!

The only real difference between our world and the Avatar universe is the fact that no one in our world can manipulate the elements of water, fire, earth or air at a whim, that we know of. The technology is also not up to date with our world but we see the improvements in industrial tools during Aang’s saga but there are even more advancements found during the Korra’s era.

Imagine being a bender. It would be like trying to perfect any innate skill we have now. This is just something we have to learn to control as we grow up. I would definitely prefer to live in a world with bending. But again, with this universe being a part of my favorite show I’m bias about living in this fictional world.