Well it wasn't any better in the Fire Nation than it was anywhere else, if that's what you're asking. The things that some of the villages called food? Yuuuuck.

[Sokka will stick his tongue out at that.

[However, the next question... is complicated.]

Well... yes... and no? One of the weird things about this place is that people come... from different times. [Oh geez that sounds completely weird; please believe him, Aqua; he's not making this up.] And from when I come from, the last fight is still going on...

But apparently once we do win the fight, everything turns out A-OK, and one of my friends becomes the new Fire Lord!