Chris was coming in from his morning jog , huffing and puffing as he ran past Roman . Chilly day , huh ? He said out of breath as he hopped inside the building . <| sep |> Make it a thing ? They ' re already one of the most popular dogs in America . <| sep |> Those are all good points , but I still don ' t agree with the another region bit . Mad Max and Metro were successful because they were still largely recognizable to western audiences . Postapocalyptic Australia is really not all that different from what postapoc Arizona would probably be like and honestly it ' s not like the movies really did up the whole Australia thing too much anyway , and I can ' t even remember if they had accents or not , and Russia is pretty ingrained in our fiction at this point too most people would recognize Red Square for example and really most of their culture isn ' t that different either . Thailand , on the other hand , would probably be totally alien to most Americans and probably a good number of Europeans who I would imagine are the two biggest consumer demographics for the genre and any cultural references or derivatives you ' d find would pass well over the heads of most people who read them . Ethnic groups , regional weapons , political issues , languages , wildlife even , would probably all just draw a what the hell is that from anybody who isn ' t from the area or spent time studying it and would likely prompt most of them to just put the book down and move on to something they DO understand . That ' s not to say that the stories would be bad , but I don ' t think that they would garner the interest necessary in a large enough audience for them to be successful outside of their home regions .