Russia MBTI Personality Type
Personality
What personality type is Russia? Russia is an ENFJ personality type in MBTI, 9w8 - sx/sp - 946 in Enneagram, SLUAI in Big 5, IEI in Socionics.
I think Russia’s biggest priority, the lens through which he primarily filters the world, is his alignment with other people (Fe). He has a persistent vision of them specifically getting along under his umbrella, becoming one with him if you will, so that seems to indicate auxiliary Ni to me. But for a more complete functional breakdown… If you look at his characterization, his main interests always lie in getting everyone else to like him, to be his friend. Here’s a link to one of his manga appearances: https://hetarchive.net/hetalia-world-stars-chapter-385/. Since Fi is a function that fundamentally judges right and wrong/determines what “matters” solely based on one’s individual perception, without reference to the values of others (though that could probably be a value in and of itself… though a Fi user will still reference how they came to that decision from their own values even if they do this), I don’t think Russia has Fi in his stack. He doesn’t have a strong internal moral compass—his emotions are solely geared towards others. He lacks a strong sense of identity outside of his relations to other people altogether, while even a Fi user who highly prioritizes social harmony will ask themselves first and foremost if it “feels right” to them, specifically as an individual existing separately from any groups they choose to be part of. Russia doesn’t ask himself those sorts of questions at all—he just jumps straight to “everyone be friends with me”. I think he falls under the Ni/Se axis and not Ne/Si. He’s an impressionistic thinker and doesn’t give particular importance to any given sensory experience. (Recall how he got rammed by a tank for his boss and just kind of brushed it off.) In the volume I linked, you can see how his perception is geared towards one thing and one thing only—the other countries making friends with him. He makes a plan for how they can do it (not Te, by the way—Te is a function fundamentally about valuing objective logic), and doesn’t acknowledge other possibilities. As for tert Se, well… Estonia can tell you about that. We’ve seen how he acts when under severe stress (kolkolkol), and he actually seemed pretty sound of mind when he chased Estonia with his pipe (non-inferior Se). As in-his-head as he can be concerning his idea of friendship, he quite naturally turns to the world around him to effect change aligning with his goals (https://hoshiko-2000.livejournal.com/43521.html), which I interpret as a strong—childish, if you will—reliance on Se. And in the World Stars chapter I linked above, we see that he “is” oriented towards objective reality. He just hates it. And then, there’s the infamous, impulsive massacre of his people. I already thought he was an ENFJ and not an INFJ because of his primary focus on other people, but APH seems to go out of its way to highlight how uncanny “this” particular ENFJ’s balanced perceiving axis is. If he didn’t switch so naturally between living in his head and going into action, he might not be so unpredictably terrifying to the people around him. Major characterization moments aside, though, he’s pretty consistently Ni/Se. Although he’s gone through horrifying things, as mentioned before, he doesn’t have lasting “impressions” of past sensory experiences the way a Si user would. He just treats them as factual things, like he treats General Winter and his continued presence in his life. If he didn’t have Si demon, the objective fact that he’s never made real friends might have left an internal impression on him, but he’s instead attached to his subjective ideas/internal intuition (Ni) about how friendships work, preventing him from changing. And that’s part of his tragedy. Inferior Ti? He’s got that, too. He’s not one to rely on external facts to judge the world—he follows what makes sense to him, and only in service to his main judging function. This terrifies Lithuania in one volume (https://www.fanpop.com/clubs/hetalia/images/32686919/title/hetalia-manga-photo)—Russia seems surprisingly willing to incorporate Lithuania’s reasoning into his worldview (he is a Ti user, and will accept something if it subjectively makes sense to him even if external facts seem to contradict it), but makes Lithuania’s reassurances that other countries like him make sense to him by saying it’s because Lithuania is his friend. Ti is supporting his worldview through self-serving rationalization, and it appears whenever he needs to subjectively judge a situation. He never makes a subjective moral judgement—value considerations are almost textbook Fe in him, oriented towards what he thinks others will like or value (even though he’s totally blind to his own selfishness, that’s the way he thinks). So, Fe-Ni-Se-Ti. That’s how I call it, anyway.
Biography
Russia (ロシア, Roshia) is a main character in the series Hetalia: Axis Powers. In 2008, Himaruya gave out human names to some of the characters and he received the name Ivan Braginsky (イヴァン・ブラギンスキ, Ivan Buraginsuki, Russian: Иван Брагинский). Da!
