Princess Toadstool doesn't have any hair. I mean why would she?
She doesn't have a crown either.
After WW2 the world entered what generally gets referred to as the Cold War, a decades-long war between communist and capitalist factions. As more states turned Red the war became less and less cold.
The war was called Cold not because there wasn't oceans of blood and mountains of skulls, but because the underlying threat was mutually-assured destruction, which is when two superpowers -- a state with access to extinction-level-event nuclear weapons -- shoot their extinction-level-event nuclear weapons at each other.
Western Europe -- which still has monarchies and popes and shit to this day -- followed in the US'es shadow, right, because we didn't 'win' so much as we 'came in at the last minute and took all the credit' and had the important strategic advantage of having a gd bigass ocean on either side.
But, well, we can all see what happened with the US. Nazi science and self-worship and every humane instinct perverted to evil ends.
The great and shining city on a hill.
Everybody knows House Toadstool turned its own lower class into bricks and coins enchanting treasures that'll shimmer you blind.
Just like everybody knows mushrooms don't have hair and can't wear crowns.
But you can pretend to have hair and wear crowns. Lure in some very strong and good-natured, industry-appropriate, working-class warriors from a far away land with a, let's call it a very childlike and ahistorical understanding of what monarchy was is & breeds.
The communists, of course, are generally people who never had power before and mostly want good things for most people and generally don't like fighting and are consequently not much good in a fight, but those who do fight fight fucking hard because they know the truth and they know the stakes.
So mean ole Uncle Joe comes along one day and steal just steals for no reason, our beautiful and totally absolutely 100% a human woman princess, for no reason. Communists sure are evil, huh? Break blocks to find treasure! See you at the next castle!
