Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-86191-20150615222149/@comment-61022-20150617141130

According to entry on Latveria, Transylvania shares a border with Latveria. It makes a point to make distinction between Transylvania and Romania. However there are a lot of conflicting entries in various handbooks and comics that refer to Transylvania as an independent nation and as a part of Romania. I would attribute that on a lack of research in the respect to popular culture and its use as Transylvania in modern vampire stories. In fact, although the Atlas shows a border around Transylvania, there isn't a separate entry for it as an autonomous nation, but is identified as part of Romania. Historically speaking, Transylvania used to be it's own autonomous nation starting in the early 1500s. It did not become part of Romania until December 1918.

Dracula was born in 1430, at the time Transylvania was technically part of the Hungarian empire. His place of birth should identify the name of where he was born as it was identified at the time and then name of the modern day equivalent to the region in parenthesis. IE: Schassburg, Transylvania, Kingdom of Hungary (Modern day Sighisoara, Romania). His nationality would be Transylvanian because during most of his early life Transylvania was an autonomous nation (free from the Hungarians in the 1500s) and he specifically chooses to identify himself as a Transylvanian due to his own personal sense nationalism. So identifying his citizenship as Transylvanian is not inaccurate. As an undead being he's not been considered a legal entity of anywhere for quite some time, and even if he was, he probably doesn't much care or recognize any authority other than himself.

In regards to Jack Russell, since he is a character active in the modern age who ages normally (or at least he did prior to becoming a werewolf at age 18) his history is subject to the Sliding Timescale of Earth-616. As such, his place of birth would be considered as part of Romania. So it should actually state Medias, Sibiu County, Transylvania, Romania. His citizenship (by birth) would be considered Romanian. His ancestors that existed prior to Transylvania joining Romania in 1918 would still be considered as having Transylvanian citizenship.