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Water Country is humid and not as heavily populated. The primary island is home to Kirigakure, the Village Hidden in the Mist. It rains there often, but the fog is more persistent. It can only be reached by boat.
The reputation the Bloody Mist carries was not ill-received, but the current government had distanced itself from it's former bloodlust. [Yes these are clearly the things he finds important about Water Country.]