Thread:Waterkai/@comment-24433794-20140112221445/@comment-951734-20140113073039

Okay, so basically, not long after the Fourth Shinobi World War ended, Onoki died and a new tsuchikage was appointed. However this dude, while a powerful shinobi, was also quite traditional in his beliefs, and thus wanted to alleviate the damage by following the old ways of Iwagakure - using whatever means necessary to establish Iwagakure as the greatest of the five. Thus, even in the wake of the Great Shinobi Alliance he attacked some small bordering countries. But because the World War had already drained Iwa's resources, everything became focused on supplying for the world, causing the living conditions of the citizens to worsen drastically. Eventually, before the war could yield any kind of result, the people of the Land of Earth (I'm always saying Iwa, but this applies to the whole country really :v) revolted against their Tsuchikage and dethroned him, all French-style. From then on, instead of the most powerful ninja leading Iwa, there would be a village leader elected by the people. Okay, so after that, the country's problems still weren't over, cause the two wars had pushed it into an economic crisis. None of the other shinobi countries wanted to help out, cause they still weren't okay with Iwagakure invading those countries plus they needed all the resources they had to recover from the world war themselves. So, Iwa turned to their northern neighbors, Magoseong for support. Magoseong gave out just that, but the country became so reliant on it that the land of earth is currently only really in name independent. Now, from the perspective of a citizen, they would probably hold Magoseong in high regards, seeing as it did save the whole country after the Tsuchikage sacked it. The shinobi force of Iwa itself is currently very minimal, so the current generation of genin would probably feel the pressure of having to rebuild the village. Eumm... Can't really think of anything else at the moment. So yeah, basically Iwa is now a democracy, unofficially a part of Yulryeo (country of which Magosong is the capital) and slowly recovering from two wars and an economic crisis because of the latter's support. If you have any questions left, feel free to ask! :>