Nope, I would say Polaris is much like Russia and you will find many Russian references in it. Ivan the Great could possibly be Ivan the Terrible. Polaris is going under a revolution right now and that happened in Russia in 1917 (I think) and they went under a communist revolution. The Rat is Rasputin. However, Nodor is basically Antarctica or the earth during one of its ice ages. I recall in Avalon there is a quest that mentions Nodor through a map and describes it to be extremely cold.
No, from what you hear in one quest in Pirate101, "Interesting about how they call them chips here in Marleybone. In Skull Island, we call them Polaris Fries. Strangely, in Polaris they call them just fries."