Meanwhile another group of countries, including America, England, France, China, Russia and Canada are getting together to fight against them this gives Italy plenty of opportunity it wave his white flag. This series of short episodes where each character represents a country and national stereotypes are to the fore could easily have caused offence but for the most part managed to avoid that by making all of the characters likable although it might seem that way to me because the worst thing said about my country was that it can't cook! Most early episodes follow poor cowardly Italy as he tries to befriend Germany, they are later joined by Japan.