Your Nation's Fact of the Week

[Massena]

During the Second World War, the Republic formed a Regimental Combat Team composed exclusively of Jewish soldiers to fight in Europe. Commanded in battle by Colonel Amir Malcah, the unit has one of the most impressive service records in the Republic's military history. Known as Task Force Tikvah, these soldiers fought to defeat the Third Reich and bring justice to the millions who had been murdered by Hitler's inhumane regime.

[Montesardo-East Adanzi]

Fact- The Pinaquet Unicornius-17 is the nation's most manufactured vehicle with over 5 million units created. The Unicornius-17 is also called the Montesardi Headache due to its unreliable transmission and loud motor.

[Enduvas]

The television wasn't introduced to the general population until 1963.

[Nation of the Genuine Peoples]

In Polandball, unlike Turkey who is often referred to as "kebab", America as "burger", Britain as "rosbif", Italy as "pasta" etc., Embal is referred to as "emboy" (usually only to male Emballs) for three reasons:
1. He is an uncultured gnat who won't make his own food or eat or drink too much of anything, and unlike Finland who is known as "viini", Embal had a millenium-long alcohol ban until recently. Essentially, this nation is not associated with a food or beverage in any way.
2. Emo fashion is popular in the nation and the word could be a contraction of "emo boy".
3. The word may be a contraction of "Embal boy", a word foreign androphiles use as a term of endearment and derision by certain others, the latter due to the liberal nature of the nation.

In some instances, Embal is referred to as "poutine", "baguette", "edam" or "meatball", and occasionally "feijoada", the former due to immigrants and the latter due to the similarity of the nation before colonisation to South American culture.

[Herminia]

Beer is the most widely-consumed beverage in the Reich, with coffee and sparkling water following close behind.

[Nation of the Genuine Peoples]

Blasphemous slurs are rare in Embal due to an "all-or-nothing" attitude towards theism and piety; if one is to reject God, they are to abandon them entirely, while if one is to follow God, they are to be faithful to them. In fact, "damn" and "hell" are the only common blasphemous slurs in the country.

[Zuurenbourg]

Zuurenbourg, as of 2014, does not have any airports.

[Gandoor]

Despite popular belief, the 1957 law which prohibits someone from holding the office of Prime Minister for more than two six-year terms was not passed in response to the reign of Alexei Petrikov, who ruled Gandoor as effectively a dictator from 1940 until his death of a heart attack 11 years later, but was rather passed to prevent someone from being in power for too long.

[Deus Mercenary Leadership]

In The Dinolands, donating your body as food is an option when you die.

That's actually a really good idea!.....yeah noooo, my brother just ate the dude in the coffin....OOOOKKKKK THIS FUNERAL IS RUINED!

[Deus Mercenary Leadership]

We make AC's...a lot of them...if you say air cons you are so wrong although we put ac's in our AC's.

[Multifarity]

The governing Progress Party chose it's colours and logo in the hope that people would subconciously associate it with the positive memories of eating Battenberg cake.

[Massena]

Massena does not maintain a national registry of firearm owners, despite it being widely believed the populace are more heavily armed than the national military forces.

[Minroz]

Minrozian military thought's most famous tome is Sunzi's Art of war, written in the Meng Dynasty Era. In the book, Sunzi laid out several important cornerstones of military thought, such as:

• The importance of intelligence.
• The importance of maneuvering so your enemy is hit in his weakened spots.
• The importance of morale.
• How to conduct diplomacy so that you gain more allies and the enemy lose allies.
• Having the moral advantage.
• The importance of national unity.
• All warfare is based on deception.
• The importance of logistics.
• The proper relationship between the ruler and the general. Sunzi holds the ruler should not interfere in military affairs.
• Difference between Strategic and Tactical strategy.
• No country has benefited from a prolonged war.
• Subduing an enemy without using force is best.

Sunzi's work became the cornerstone of military thought, which grew rapidly. By the Yuan Dynasty, no less than 11 schools of military thought were recognized. During the Tang Dynasty, a military academy was established.

[Empire of Buru-Buru]

Buruans are so religious that each holiday is celebrated by ingesting high alcohol quantities, until each and every person in a village or city is closer to God.

[Canaore]

A lorry driver has been arrested following a five-vehicle pile up in Enochia in which one person died and three others were injured.

[Felinendia]

Common Felinendian houses look like this on the outside:

There is no door, as on rainy days it is simply covered with a clear sheet. Police need to be able to see inside houses to be totally sure nothing illegal is happening inside.

Common furniture:

Cat condos act as tables and chairs, and the beds are obvious- Used for sleeping.

[Tol Eresea]

The human residents of Tol Eresëa are not coirëa, citizens of the Kingdom. They are known as tennë, or residents. As such, humans have no representation in the government and have long been treated as cheap labour. Despite having been enslaved by humans, the Elves of Tol Eresëa do not condone the enslavement of humans, as their High Elven counterparts do, though they do consider them lesser. The current king, Elerossë Lossëhelin, has worked hard to improve the living conditions of humans in his nation.

[Hazamaeia]

most of legal punishment in Hazamaeia is forced labour instead of imprisonment.

[Ecological Fascism ECOFA]

To counter-part smoking problems in society;

Special rehabilitation camps have been built to resolve the serious littering, CO2 & health problematic.

By law, it is compulsory to join the session for 7 months & repeat it every 6 years if the smoker hasn't acquired good results in limiting smoking.

If positive results are diagnosed a year later after internment, the state offers a free bicycle to the patient & no longer needs to wear the smoking badge in public.

[Toontown II]

The capital of Toontown II sells old video games and consoles. The Leader commisioned this store when he discovered in a census that only 2% of the population had ever played Super Mario World.

[Tuskamo]

Citizens of U.K. Tuskamo celebrate Changers', Founders', and Leaders' Day every April 23 (in the next five days from the day this was posted!). It is the day to honor people who made a great change, ones who made the nation true, and the ones who lead our nation and parts of our nation to victory. Changers', Founders', and Leaders' Day is the biggest holiday that is celebrated in Tuskamo considering that it honors three kinds of people. It is also on the day of Tuskamo's official founding. A huge party will be set up this Changers', Founders', and Leaders' Day in the capital. Almost everyone is invited to attend.

[Anollasia]

Our largest national park is the Ottolish Memorial National Park in central Anollasia.

Citizens of U.K. Tuskamo celebrate Changers', Founders', and Leaders' Day every April 23 (in the next five days from the day this was posted!). It is the day to honor people who made a great change, ones who made the nation true, and the ones who lead our nation and parts of our nation to victory. Changers', Founders', and Leaders' Day is the biggest holiday that is celebrated in Tuskamo considering that it honors three kinds of people. It is also on the day of Tuskamo's official founding. A huge party will be set up this Changers', Founders', and Leaders' Day in the capital. Almost everyone is invited to attend.

OOC: Coincidentally, on the same day as this.

[Walosia]

Even though Walosia have a aggressive anti-bullying policy that results in jail time for the worst and that the police have the right to arrest you and press charges for bullying, in most cases, the victim of bullying stands up for themselves.
Numerous anti-bullying campaign teaches young children to stand up for them self in case of bullies. Its in the most extreme cases the police is brought in and the bully/bullies put on trial and sent to jail.

Walosia have a very strong anti-bullying culture, you could say we have a bully hating culture. This results in people who are bullies to be freezed out of society by his fellow Walosians.

[Ceora]

117 members of Ceora's Pioneer* chapter has been asked to leave the Ring following a malicious attack on several worker drones. The Hub Intelligence has recommended that they be denied access to all other Rings and Ships, effectively making them outlaws and meaning they will have to settle on a planet instead. They have been given a (manually-piloted, non-AI) ship by the Ring and have a period of five days to leave.

*The Pioneers are a notable Humanist group with chapters right across the Coalition. They are most common on planets, and the Ceoran chapter is fairly small with only around 200,000 members. While the Pioneers' primary concern is to advance the interests of Humans (and other biological sapients) which are seen as being damaged by the near omnipresent and omnipotent nature of the Intelligences, they have been infiltrated in some places by more radical Humanists who can be more accurately defined as "anti-Machinists" and are often extremely violent. The exiled members of the Ceoran Pioneers belong to this latter category, which is why the Hub Intelligence has recommended they be barred from other machine environments.

[Fatatatutti]

Public support for the Air Cavalry Brigade is already "through the roof", according to commanding General Marie-Louise Castro-Stalina, because of the frequent raids staged on playgrounds and beaches. That support is expected to increase even further with the announcement of a major movie about the Air Cavalry. The brigade will cooperate fully, with camera crews going along in gunships and troop-carrying helicopters as well as mingling with the troops on the ground. Although few details are available about the production, it is believed that the movie will be about the recent "incursion" by a group of foreigners who intended to "free Fatatatutti from communism".