Talk:Monty and Jasper/@comment-26269248-20150420233622/@comment-26247132-20150420235519

That's just what the stations became, not what they started out as. I imagine when the Ark first formed, they took a census of all the people from all of the countries and determined who had what type of skills, splitting them up that way instead of by country. Then, most likely depending on the design and architect of the station (and not related to the country of origin), the stations were assigned specific tasks (Mecha, Argo, etc...).

Add to that, there were only ~300 original Arkers as the literal founding fathers/mothers of the rest of the ark, which in 97 years exploded to around 3000. This means that much of the ark population has most likely become miscegenated (to prevent inbreeding).