What the F***? in your nation.

[Parhe]

We despise atheist

[Hresejnen]

The fact that you can theoretically chuck a heavy object at a major politician walking in the street - and the fact that it won't be the government that gets you for it, it'll be the other people on the street.

[SteevyT]

If the police are the first ones to get to you after committing a crime, you should consider yourself lucky.

[Senestrum]

Well, the most common religion* acknowledges the existence of the gods of all other religions, so it is in a sense polytheistic. However, it does not worship any gods, full stop. Instead, gods are reviled as the ultimate enemies of humankind. Humanity is seen as having the potential to overcome and destroy all gods, from the most obscure tribal gods to the nigh-omnipotent gods of major world religions. Indeed, slaying the gods is seen as the prime goal of humanity, for this is the only way for humanity to achieve true freedom and self-determination. The religion is, in a sense, a continuation of the ancient state religion, in which the old monarchy was revered as living gods. When the revolution occurred and the main line of the monarchy was slain, many believers acknowledged this and treated it as the actual death of their gods, which served as the seeds for the modern misotheistic faith.

*Or rather, least uncommon. Senestrum is an atheist-majority nation.

[Strong-Badia the FREE]

Our population is, officially, "Tire."

[Aleckandor]

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[Neo-Ezo]

100% of all Aleckandorean adult heterosexual men have sexual fetishes for petite Asian women in military officer uniforms. True statistic.

Funny thing. Ezo has loads of petite Asian women who also happen to be military officers. True statistic.

Ezo's national culture is a sometimes lopsided mixture of Japan, France, and various Western cultures mixed sometimes past any recognition. This confuses some people.

[Aleckandor]

*Deleted*

[Neo-Ezo]

Then expect a lot of male immigrants from Aleckandor to be arriving in a massive flood.

Fine by us, just so long as they behave themselves. Duels are still legal in the Republic, you see, and what more appropriate reason to draw a blade than to defend a woman's dignity and honor?

That's one more thing which visitors find odd, by the way. We still permit duels.

[Cadonica]

State of Killfield in its entirety. Murder, rape and such activities are completely legal there. Of course it has highest murder rates on whole continent, maybe in the whole world.

[Sebastianalandia]

On the 25th of December, Yule, foreigners might be surprised to see the Vozhd, our leader, standing on the balcony of the People's Palace before a massive crowd in Red Square... telling jokes. He spends all year thinking up new ones just for this day.

[Snake South Amerika]

Bullshit pop culture

[Neo-Ezo]

Every once in a while...crap like this just sort of happens.

Ms. Mutsuki Shindou, a resident of Noboribetsu, is seen here protesting to Chairman of the Student Council Aoi Desrochers (the one she's holding in her hand) that she does not know what happened any more than he does. He is being somewhat rude, which we suppose is to be expected, but, really, accusing a young lady of deliberately crushing a big building like that? It'd jolly well serve him right if she dropped him, or bit his head off, or...something else equally nasty.

Thankfully, she didn't, but he did wind up soaked when she burst in to tears a few minutes after this picture was snapped.

[Vorond]

We have tank-races: tracked vehicles of a minimum wheight of 15 and a maximum of 85 tons race each other on a cross-country track. A second class of races exists where they actually have to shoot targets underway, using a regulated 57mm long-barreled cannon.



The vorondian speed record (flying mile) for a tracked vehicle of these specifications was 101,017 mph, held by a heavily modified IFV with a modernized christie-suspension and two tuned T72-engines. Some racetracks include smashing through a brick wall or maneuvring through a forest of smaller trees. Either crush them or be maneuvrable enough...or bring a chainsaw. Usually each track will only be used once and a new one built for the next race. Usually the track also involves chained animals to get things more entertaining. There was an initiative to add deathrow-felons, but squeamishness prevailed.

OOC: Imagine...a tank hitting a pony at 70mph. *splat*

[Terra Mariana]

Some of the things that a Marian would respond to with "WTF":

Unarmed policemen
Rehabilitation of criminals WITHOUT the use of torture
The right to speak ill of one's national leader
Gay rights
Multiculturalism
Open promotion of liberal ideas in general that don't result in being thrown in prison
Communism
Anarchism
The followers of any of the above being allowed to hold demonstrations
Legal drugs

Now reverse all the said, and you get what outsiders usually find striking in Terra Mariana.

[Neo Athena]

Our nation is run by mad scientists. As a result there are many things that a visitor would find strange.

[Fomer Soviet Gaymenia]

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[Shnercropolis]

anyone, place, or thing that speaks Russian
This is mainly because Shnerrish is very similar to Russian, with similar traits. But Russian sounds like someone speaking pidgin to a Shner.

[Alehkkmincon]

People born within the borders of Alehkkmincon have an unexplained heriditary inability to cope or experiment with orientations besides heterosexuality(which is great, by the way). That means, we're all completely straight. Most have never seen an LGBT person, let alone hear of one.

[Planta Genista]

• Our nation still has a dedicated group of Witch Hunters that is considered a government agency.
• There are three bills of rights in Planta Genista: The People's Bill of Rights, The Animal's Bill of Rights, and The Nature's Bill of Rights (plants, land &c.)
• Up until recently a common greeting was "By Mary the Holy Mother of God, how are you" this is still used by older generations.
* The King is younger then any other government official, by 20 years. He is only 19
• The King often goes to parties, and has hosted several at the Royal Palace. Despite Alcohol being illegal in Planta Genista he has been known to smuggle drinks in for these parties.
• When deciding the national animal, many people debated on whether it should be the Grey Wolf, The Aye-Aye, or the Angora Rabbit.

[Fomer Soviet Gaymenia]

Marriage between humans and nonhumans is legal. Also, the age of majority is 15 for humans and "age of maturity for nonhuman species", that varying according to the life cycle of each species. (See National Legal Code, Title IV, Schedule B.) Our laws concerning the sexual exploitation of minors take this into account,and penalties for the rape or sexual trafficking of underage nonhumans are as severe as those for human minors (up to and including public beheading).

[Wikipedia and Universe]

One of the oddest things in Wikipedia and Universe is the infamous Incest Channel. The Incest Channel is a controversial TV channel which only comes on large cable/satellite plans and is far up into the quadruple digits. It is known to befall bored or unfamiliar channel surfers. It's basically a porn channel which airs pornographic soap operas about incest. One of the most notable and controversial shows on the Incest Channel is a soap opera known as His Cousin's Keeper. The basic premise is that a guy in his mid-late teens is sexually involved with his similarly aged and good-looking female cousin, and is trying to hide it from the world while still carrying out his relationship and having sex with his cousin on a regular basis. He has become extremely paranoid, constantly getting into fights and beating up often clueless people in order to prevent them from finding out about his affair. The Incest Channel and show itself are not mainstream or popular, but they have a cult following.

The Incest Channel logo.


A still image from the show His Cousin's Keeper, depicting a makeout scene between the main character and his cousin.

[Maraque]

• Our nation still has a dedicated group of Witch Hunters that is considered a government agency.
• There are three bills of rights in Planta Genista: The People's Bill of Rights, The Animal's Bill of Rights, and The Nature's Bill of Rights (plants, land &c.)
• Up until recently a common greeting was "By Mary the Holy Mother of God, how are you" this is still used by older generations.
* The King is younger then any other government official, by 20 years. He is only 19
• The King often goes to parties, and has hosted several at the Royal Palace. Despite Alcohol being illegal in Planta Genista he has been known to smuggle drinks in for these parties.
• When deciding the national animal, many people debated on whether it should be the Grey Wolf, The Aye-Aye, or the Angora Rabbit.

We find some of these normal. We also have a separate bill of rights for animals, our king is also young (6 years old), and he most certainly goes to parties, as well as throws them at the Royal Palace quite often. He's also been known to down a few drinks at said parties, although alcohol is legal here.

[Neo-Ezo]

Foreigners who come to Ezo and find that those strangely marked, fenced-off areas in public parks are actually designated dueling fields tend to be shocked.

We do not know why. It stops some legal problems before they even get going.

[Sebastianalandia]

100% of all Aleckandorean adult heterosexual men have sexual fetishes for petite Asian women in military officer uniforms. True statistic.

Your men would like to tune into the Sebastianalandian Central Pornography Station. The most popular CPS fetish is, as a matter of fact, Asian women in officer uniform.