@Background Pony #3F82
The only way they can canonize the comics is if g5 has other cat & bird people, other zebras and nice-looking diamond dogs.
The abyssinians and the ornithians are from the G4 movie, the zebras are from G1, and the diamond dogs from the G4 are fair play for the G5 teams, who would like to cherry pick whatever they want from the IDW comics. A global society that Twilight may have indirectly ruled not as empress, but as some sort of answer to our world’s UN Secretary General, will have many different Kinds in addition to the Ponykind. Assume a couple to three dozen in all; the griffons, the dragons and the zebras as most mentioned.
From S9 we know that Twilight had sent Spike out to mediate between different realms not only as her ambassador but also as a world diplomat. This shows that Twilight led a very active foreign policy in contrast to Celestia who partly isolated Equestria, partly maintained diplomatic ties with other realms. Ever since Twilight met Zecora the zebra, she had been curious about what lay outside of Equestria, and when the Storm King was defeated, she had realized that the ponies had to go out into the world.
The license plate in the G5 movie showed 12 stars after “P.N” which could mean “Pony Nation”, this could prove that Equestria had been divided into twelve states. And there could be at least 12 major realms outside of Equestria that may have been under the strong influence of Twilight. Several of the races out there in the world lived in coexistence with others such as with the Farasi principalities where three peoples lived together. They may have experienced the same as the ponies after the world community collapsed. But I think they are more included in each other than in the old Equestria, even as we have seen very little of this so far in G5.
It is possible that only the ponies may have forgotten the past. If Spike is still alive and reigned over the dragons at the same time that he ruled the office after Twilight had disappeared, it would be natural if he were to be the world’s “most powerful” being. Although he is actually guarding an empty throne. The non-ponies would be happy to rejoin the world order if a new era of magical friendship is established. And it could be that Sunny, regardless of whether she becomes a princess or not, will start as Twilight’s successor.
A throne waiting for Sunny. With that single sentence, Opaline has revealed what is really at stake.