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Ahh excuse me adding to this post when I also don’t know (or remember) as much about this from school than I probably should. But I think this is a highly interesting question!
For me it all starts with the question: how much is a nation’s base metabolical rate? A quick look at this website tells that for a man in his mid twenties with a height of 185cm and a weight of ca 100kg (I kinda eyeballed these numbers for Ivan or Alfred, these aren’t any specific headcanon) the BMR is around 2000kcal per day. This means the body needs around 2000kcal per day just keep up basic functions without doing anything else than lying around - breathing, heartbeat, brain function, etc. I have bo idea really if the BMR would be higher if your bone density was increased, but considering the faster metabolism of the nations aka their healing abilities I would wager that their BMR is higher than the average human’s.
Again I’m not a professional or anything, but it would be logical that under the presumption that their bones are more dense, the calorie intake the nations need for basic movements throughout the day is also higher than the average human’s because they are carrying more weight than us. And then if they had a serious injury or were to contently regrow their teeth that would require even more energy from their bodies..
What I’m trying to say is that I don’t think 3000kcal per day is exaggerated even for nations like England who are not as tall as Russia and pulling trucks around for fun like America.
But (and this is an important point to consider I think) there’s also the question if nations need that much kcal to function at all. As they are more or less immortal and I think it is canon that they don’t die that easily and it’s just a very unpleasant feeling but not the same as a human death (someone correct me here or elaborate but I have faint memory that there’s a piece of canon where Finland talks about drowning?) - so what we should also ask ourselves in nationverse is: Do they need food at all or do the nations eat only for their own enjoyment and not out of need?
Maybe their metabolism is adapted in some way so they can survive on a daily intake of 100kcal or less. Maybe they survive on something else entirely. They aren’t human, we wouldn’t know. But this was still fun to think about.
I'm not going to make this long because I am tired and am being consumed by the thoughts BUT
If nations were to keep up the insane amount of repair their body has to go through every day, ie if they have normal bones and tendons and shit they just repair real fuckin fast, or even if they aren't they would thereby weigh more if they had a different bone density and structure and need to eat more calories, so like what would the average caloric intake of a nation be and how much would that vary from let's say an Ivan to an Alfred to an Arthur?
Bc I font think 2500kc are cutting it
i gotta admit heam i unfortunately don't know as much about this stuff as i probably should/could. but you're absolutely right in saying that organisms of their size and with their ability to repair would not be able to sustain such abilities on 2500. and like any organism they would also have differing metabolisms and lifestyles. like in the modern day, one arthur does not require the same intake as one alfred, given the fact that one is likely way more physically active than the other. ivan (for me) probably requires a higher intake based on size alone, but again, is not as active as some others.
but yeah like if they're structured fundamentally different, they're going to be pushing at least like...2800? i'm not exactly sure of the measurement/scaling on such things. 3000 seemed like a high number. but i mean if you're occasionally having to regenerate a whole limb or something, you're going to need something to keep you going during that process.
at that point i would literally just give up and say magic sdkjhfd can't have weird eldritch nation abominations without a healthy dose of the arcane i think
#hetalia#Idk what to tag this as#hetalia meta#?#smh#Riva.txt#sorry for going off under your post germ pls lmk if you want me to delete my reblog and I’ll make my own posy#*post#long post
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