The ol' map clearly shows arbitrary borders of some kind. Imaginary lines in the dirt are always sure-fire indications of nations, or at least city states.
Those "meetle balloons" never actually struck me as living creatures. They're certainly organic, and may have domesticated wildlife employed to work them, perhaps being colonial organisms themselves. But as far as I'm concerned, the meetles and mugs depicted in the Hand of Odd art is canonical until OWI says otherwise.
The "meetle wasp" calibre does me no end of irritation, it is such a fabulous design, but it exacerbates confusion.
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