Thread:Kyletheobald/@comment-20551-20191104000953/@comment-3361105-20191104005928

It really depends on how anal you want to be about it, in all candour. As you probably know, the Help:Comic Template page does note that we suggest, as a rule of thumb, to include the next level up when two locations of equivalent type appear.

That said, I wouldn't say it's a policy that requires strict enforcement, despite the predilection of most wiki editors to be as anal as possible, to the exclusion of all nuance. My suggestion, in terms of exceptions, would be that if the step up doesn't actually have any relevance to the story (i.e. North America when Canada and the US both appear in the same comic, but there are no appearances of another continent (like Europe, for example), then there isn't much reason to do so.

So, in your example above, I'd say, according to both of those pointers, you'd be right that you should go up a level... but not to North America and Europe - rather just to United States and France.