Quote Originally Posted by Iceglow
Gabaldia is a military country, it is ruled by a president at the start of the game who is likened to a dictator on more than one occassion, it's then siezed by Edea when she kills Deling at the welcome ceremony for her. Edea truly is a dictator, she rose to power by force and ruled without democratic competition.
No, that was all Ultimecia, not Edea. Ultimecia was inside Edea`s body during most of the Disk 1 event. I.e. when she killed Deling, taking control of Gabaldia, giving orders, etc until SeeDs defeated her later in the game: she got out of Edea`s body. When Ultimecia possesses you, you pretty can't do anything to stop her from interposing your decisions.

If Ultimecia didn't possesses Edea in the first place, there's no way for Edea to kill Deling and take control of Gabaldia.

This thread acting as a possibility was to show why Ultimecia chose them, not other continents.

Most of the locations you show are in Gabaldia's capital city, Deling City (Deling was president, how dictatorish to re-name a city after yourself? I think this stands as sufficient evidence of the dictatorship ruling. I believe there was more information on this ingame somewhere I will attempt to find it on my current play through) A military state will have it's flag everywhere for propaganda reasoning the more flags flying the more "pride" there is to be of that nation. It's very similar to America actually in this regard, both display their flag for everything and anything. General Caraway's mansion at the least and the presidential palace are both very explicably highly decorated with the symbol...after all would you be happy if the houses of parliament, buckingham palace and whitehall didn't display the union jack or if the pentagon, white house and capitol hill didn't display the star spangled banner? Ofcourse not, it's propaganda and patriotism.
The universes of real life and FF8 are very different. Galbadia is not standardised in this game because other continents serve different purposes.

As for the gabaldian troops and other military assests, including X-ATM092 and the bikes, all military forces and equipment displaying the flag of their country on their uniforms and such...it's necessary for many reasons, the main one being identification. In WW1 and WW2 many bodies were badly mangled by artillery or tanks, the presence of identifying flags on multiple locations of the body provided atleast a nationality for the dead in question. This is something which has been realized for centuries and yet re-learnt in the two great wars, look at how distinctive the uniforms of the troops at the battle of waterloo were? Red coats british, blue coats french. spanish troops wore gold and green. I'd expect no less than to see the Gabaldian flag everywhere on their military equipment. As for the G.D.F. standing for GabaDian Forces, I have a better suggestion of what it means though ofcourse am willing to admit I may be wrong: Gabaldian Defense Forces. I say this because Square is a japanese company and it is popular in square games to make references to the Japanese army, the Japanese army is called the JDF or "Japanese Defence Forces" the JDF includes the police if I remember correctly. Ofcourse if anyone has a official source stating the GDF stands for GabalDian Forces I will conceede the point there, however if this is a hunch then I'd go with my own definition as the most probable.
You mean JSDF?

When g-garden and b-garden collide with each other, the g-forces were the first to get out of the garden and flew to b-garden to attack it and its people, all took place on a different continent. Did that count as defense? Nope.


PS. Side note, thats not Bigg's tool, it's his tool kit if you look at the fmv it's taken from a wrench vibrates itself free of the bag and bounces down the tower to the ocean below.
Either way, it was his tool.