User blog comment:ArceusFan2013/October 25th - New Feature: Characters!/@comment-6138112-20131025193734/@comment-6138112-20131027115457

I think it means that Human characters can be represented in a map animation (I have no clue how). However, as I said, the whole purpose of our mapping style is to have countries as characters, and not to have "Millions of people pointlessly fighting one another", to quote MervueMeringue.