Tropes of your nation!

[Penguinmark]

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• Bilingual Bonus - there are a few, such as surnames like "van de IJsberg" and "van Zuid-Georgië", though these aren't difficult to pick out.
• Berserk Button - penguins have several. Referring to the country as "Havilland", supporting human supremacy, insulting the royal family and homophobia.
• Everything's Better with Penguins - oh, so much!
• Evil Chancellor - Geert van de IJsberg isn't exactly evil but certainly schemes a lot.
• Fantastic Racism - although penguins and humans coexist quite well, there are specieist supremacy movements and sentiments on both sides.
  
  • With Fantastic Slurs to match, such as "Pingu" for penguins and "Tysk dreng/tæve" (German boy/bitch) for Dutch-speaking humans.
• Freestate Amsterdam - Løypen and Dordrecht have similar reputations. They have highly liberal attitudes towards cannibis, prostitution and even nudity, although the latter is highly inadvisable due to the climate.
• Norse By Norsewest - Danish language, Norwegian geography, Swedish politics.
• Obstructive Bureaucrat - the size of the government of Penguinmark is huge. Lately our civil servants have been taking cues from Radiatia.
• Polar Bears and Penguins - Despite being inhabited with penguins, the country is located in the geographical north of the Noctur region and has a Scandanavian culture. Yes, there are some polar bears.
• Our Presidents are Different - Prime Minister Anders Karlsen fits as "President Personable".
• Pretentious Latin Motto - it contians the word "sphenisciformes", the Latin word for penguin.
• People's Republic of Tyranny - inverted, as Penguinmark is a Nordic democracy that's officially called an "Empire".
• Police are Useless - the recent escape of a convict called Stor Lars and their botched attempts to catch him illustrated this.
• The "The" Title Confusion - Dutch speakers do this a lot. Unlike Dutch, Danish doesn't have seperate words for "the" but uses suffixes "-en" and "-et". Dutch speakers often borrow Danish words without removing the suffixes, resulting in words like "het Forsvaret".

[Astholm]

Funny Aneurysm Moment - people said that Celsan would disappear from VLT Automotive N.V's portfolio, and they were proved right.
Hilarious In Hindsight - the above too.
Missing Episode - the 1988 Celsan VXC3600, a 3.6-litre 6-cylinder saloon that looked like an overweight Mitsubishi Galant. Only about 4 are left in Astholm.
Cloning Blues / Me's A Clone - The Celsan Falina, an Opel Astra clone with Celsan's own engines.

[Gijinkia]

But You Screw One Goat! - Much like the Welsh, Scots and New Zealanders, Gijinkians are usually thought of as having a particular fondness for sheep. The fact they are able to communicate with some animals with whom they share blood doesn't help the case either.
Tall Poppy Syndrome - Not to an as big extent as some countries in Real Life, but people who are frequently boast about their achievements are subject to some very harsh backlash by the media. The Tall Poppy Syndrome is more frequently referred to as the Cookhead Syndrome in Gijinkia.
Bar Brawl - Just for the love of god, when it's your turn to shout, just shout. Lest you want to end up like Alfred the Cheapskate
Thank Your Prey - Due to some unfortunate implications that Gijinka are able to communicate with animals they are strongly connected with, killing animals for food tends to be a bit touchy for them.
Little Bit Beastly - The native population of Gijinkia are this.
Corrupt Politician - President Gregory Baudin. He's been in charge of the country since its independence, and has continuously been accused of electoral fraud, nepotism, bribing, and all-round hogging political power by constantly extending term limits for his position as president. He's not all that bad as a leader, and seems to genuinely care for the welfare of his people still, in his own weird manner.
Obviously Evil - Perhaps, with a Gengar Gijinka as president, all the corruption should have been expected.
My Country, Right or Wrong - The sole purpose of the existance of the Free Gijinkia Party. Of course, they did start out as well-intended fighters for independence, but ever since they got just that, they've just devolved into this trope, leading them to often be dubbed as the Captain Democracy Party by the media.
La Résistance - The independence war of Gijinkia is summed up as this. Let's face it, they could have only won through the power of friendship, oh, and massacring prominent slave owners and regular colonists.
Full-Circle Revolution - Just one president's been in power since the revolution ended in 1993. That's nearly 20 years, bloody hell.
People's Republic of Tyranny - The Democratic Republic of Gijinkia.
Deadpan Snarker - It seems as though the entire population turns into this whenever there are elections.
Pretentious Latin Motto - Country filled with native English speakers, majority of people are clearly of Germanic origin (plus animal ears), don't share a history with Italic countries, and their native religion isn't even abrahamic. They have a Latin motto.
Brave Scot - Most Gijinkians' accents are like this, cranked up to eleven.
The Chosen One - In history, those with the blood of legendaries in them were regarded as this.
Fantastic Racism - Due to the long-lasting history of Gijinkia being a colony, there are some tensions still between the Humans and Gijinka.

[Sagatagan]

Oh, too many to name.

The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized- Our 1970s socialist/democratic revolution was extremely bloody and included massacres on both sides. Bomb Throwing Anarchists took part in the Revolution, as did La Resistance, with Falangists and Militant Catholicson the other side. The losers vowed to fight some more forever.

The Political Officer applies to the Commissars of the Popular Militia as well as the local community accountability board members found in every police station.

[Cruciland]

Complete monster We often wind up looking like this on the international level, due to our alleged history of inquisition, in addition to the countless crimes against so-called "humanity" we've been accused of committing. We, of course, often choose to deny this.

Creepy monotone Emphasis on examples 1, 2, and 5.

Unstoppable rage If there's a fight, there's a war that follows. If you know us, then you know just how suddenly we snap whenever violence gets us involved in something. (or we get involved in violence)

Insane troll logicIf you visit Cruciland, or encounter Crucilandians, the only word to describe their technology is super-soft science, to the point where it takes every law of physics and throws it in an oversized meat grinder.

AI is a crapshoot Also known as the "Evil AI," this trope describes all of Cruciland's 900 septillion nanobots in a nutshell. A bunch of psionic machines suddenly went berserk and blew up half of humanity- that's Cruciland...

Morality chip There is hope! Crucilandians are not completely evil, as portrayed, because they cannot rebel their masters, have a sense of honor and morality, and all these other good virtues and values. Even stranger yet, these biomechanical posthumans are STILL pious. That's some strong morality...

Religious robots ...Speaking or morality and piety, in case if it wasn't obvious, Crucilandians are still deeply religious due to their past. If mentioning posthumanism wasn't obvious, they were once human, and still believe that God consequently still applies to them.

Super intelligence This one's pretty obvious. Have you ever seen a Crucilandian's AI? Okay, maybe not...

Psychic powers We all saw this coming- MJC uses psionic amplifiers to crank up their powers to the max. Crucilandians can kill intruders with their brains. The Emperor can open wormholes using his supernatural connections to the massive voids of psionic energy. It really is... *COUGH* *COUGH* a "no-brainer."

Gone horribly right Let's face it- Cruciland's very existence went horribly right for the Emperor when he created it. From there, everything that followed basically continued to be horribly right. Even the questions Crucilandians answer are horribly right!

Hive mind If you understood Crucilandian neurology, then you'd know that all their minds are watched by the Emperor, and all their actions influenced by the Emperor. The Emperor is the "hive mind."

I am legion Often, Crucilandians say "We" instead of "I," and "Our" instead of "My." They do not say their names often, instead saying, "We are the Network/Hive/etc." Their devotion to their "Unity" virtue, in addition to their psionic link to the Emperor, gives them this.

Macross missile massacre Back when Cruciland still used missiles, and in today's time when they use floating plasma/EM/proton/antimatter/big daddy balls, they unleashed ungodly amounts of missiles at their opponents in an attempt to overwhelm and carpet-nuke them. Talk about blitzkrieg...

Beam spam Turrets literally encrust every surface on Cruciland, thanks to the ingenious design of it all by MJC. This allows for an enormously large amount of energy beams to pummel foes with. It's freaking terrifying...

Grenade spam Speaking of terrifying, imagine a shit-ton of explosives being launched at the same time. Yup, that's MJC for you.

Teleport spam A tactic often employed by MJC's psionic close-quarters agents, this involves continuously flash-stepping wherever the enemy isn't looking and landing a light blow, resulting in either them using the "death by a thousand cuts" trope or the "rapid fire fisticuffs" trope.

Bullet hell Energy blasts are cool, but what if you spam the entire screen with them? Would that be enough energy blasts? Not for MJC, the multiverse's most frequent commiter of overkill! Speaking of which...

MOAR DAKKA! "AN' DERE AIN'T NO SUCH FING AS ENUFF DAKKA, YA GROT! Enuff'z more than ya got an' less than too much an' there ain't no such fing as too much dakka. Say dere is, and me Squiggoff'z eatin' tonight!" -An MJC Over-Lord, who had an addiction to crack-cocaine.

[Radiatia]

• The Great Politics Mess Up - the fact that Radiatia ("The Defender of Socialism") is now one of the most capitalist countries out there is something that no one saw coming.
  
• Polluted Wasteland - Most Radiatians believe smog is good for your lungs. See also:
  
  • Industrial Ghetto and
  • Nightmarish Factory
• Forbidden Zone - Examples include, ""No one knows what the Darku National Security Complex do. They're very secretive."
• Hot Chick in A Badass Suit - Women tend to dress in a certain way in Radiatia.
  
  • See also: Female Misogynist - Women's rights are still "in need of improvement" in the Radiatian Federation
• Consummate Professional - Radiatians value "efficiency" above all things, and aren't ones for letting silly things like emotions get in their way
• The Men in Black - Much like the military, very few people know the details of how law enforcement agencies work. They just know that they do work, are very effective, and it's best not to ask questions.
• MegaCorp - Best exemplified by such megaconglomerates as R-BEC (The Really Big Evil Corporation).
• Corrupt Corporate Executive - Radiatians are not known for their ethics, especially not in business. After all capitalism is about competition. And competition is about winning - right?
• Obstructive Bureaucrat - Anyone who has ever RPed with me will know all about this one.

[Penguinmark]

Bump.

[Grand Britannia]

Alternate History Wank: See Signature

The Empire: See factbook

The Evil Army: Britannian Armed Forces masquerade as a force of good to the Britannian citizens - not so much to whomever it attacks.

Democracy is Bad: Absolute Monarchy, so this comes naturally.

Awesome McCoolname: {OOC: I try to give my nobles exotic and interesting names )

Big Screwed-up Family: The Ruling Family

A Child Shall Lead Them Empress Nunnally is just 14 years old

Evil Brit: The whole nation

Fanservice: Plenty

Trope Overdose: Do you want all the tropes of my nation?

Undying Loyalty: The Honor Guard

You Gotta Have Blue Hair: Multiple colors at the very least.

Police State: Public Security and Intelligence Command invades the private life of all the Honorary Britannians for possible threats against the government. They are armed just as well as the military, and have enough training to rival the military of any foreign nation.

Big Brother is Watching You: PSICOM, see above.

Airstrip One: Conquered nations area stripped of their names and renamed an Area, with a number depending on order of conquest. The denonym for the citizens in that Area is then changed to its designated number.

Cyberpunk

[Saurisisia]

Everything's Better with Dinosaurs - Saurisia in a nutshell

Berserk Button - Just try saying that Dinosaurs are stupid and smelly, Humans/Mammals are superior, that Communism/Socialism/most other Statist ideologies are best, Reptiles are evil, Humans are the best species overall, or making a joke out of the K-T Extinction Event around a Saurisian. I dare you.

Our Dragons Are Different - They call themselves the "Drakonians", have a unique language that has similar elements to that of Germanic and Middle-Earth languages, possess a proud culture that excels in the arts and in warfare, not to mention that they're basically divided up between the Humanoid Civlæ and Non-Humanoid Regulus. Oh yeah, and they're a bit touchy about being called "Dragons"

Breath Weapon - This certainly applies to Drakonians, being able to breathe the basic fire in addition to a few other elements. The Regulus in particular are quite adept at this compared to their Humanoid counterparts.

Shoulder-sized Dragon - Not all Regulus Drakonians are enormous at adulthood, some are actually quite small and are usually the ones kept by the Civlæ as pets.

Stronger with Age - Most Reptilian species, both Humanoid and Non, continue to grow throughout their lives, with the Regulus Drakonians and Wild Dinosaurs growing to enormous sizes.

Dragon Rider - The Civlæ tend to ride Regulus Drakonians as steeds into battle (with their consent, of course). It's not uncommon for rider and steed to form a strong bond.

Eagle Land - Most Saurisians are basically a mix of both flavors of this trope, considering the influences from RL America that permeate the nation itself. Of course, they're generally more intelligent and rational than the second Flavor states.

Fantastic Racism - The Saurians distrust the Drakonians, who in turn also dislike the Dwarves, who in turn distrust the Sslurids and the Lupines, and so forth. And they all (or most, anyway) dislike the Humans. The Damon regime in the 1940s really cranked it up.

Fantastic Slurs - Comet Fodder, Torchmouth, Fish Bones, Slimy, Crawler, Stalker, Swamphead, Furballs, Leathery, Beardy, Kiddie Ride, Thumb Wavers, Jaws. The list goes on and on.

Our Presidents Are Different - Hadro Ironhorn definitely qualifies as a President Personable while Secretary of War David Santorez is a President Action with elements of President Iron.

Petting Zoo People - The vast majority of Saurisians definitely qualify under this trope

Lizard Folk - The Sslurids and various other "minor" Reptilian species definitely qualify as this, though most of them are actually kind-hearted (if rather xenophobic) folk.

Talking Animal - The so-called "Wild" Saurians definitely fit under this trope.

Sssssnake Talk - The way the Serpens, Sslurids, and other "minor" Reptilian species talk.

Snake People - The Serpens definitely qualify as this, though they're more Snake-like in appearance than Human.

Reptiles Are Abhorrent - Definitely subverted with Saurisia, as the local Reptiles are kind and welcoming (if xenophobic) folk. Somewhat played straight with a few of the "minor" Reptilian species, but mostly because they're super hostile to the so-called outsiders and chafe living under Saurisian rule.

Democracy Is Bad - Saurisians abhor Democracy, Justified in that they tried it in the mid-19th century but it went horribly wrong.

Police State - Saurisia under the United Enlightened Dinosaur Party. It was mildly authoritarian under Mark Taylor but really intensified under Leonard Damon.

Fan Service - Quite common with female Reptiles.

YMMV - This goes for the above.

Putting On the Reich - Seriously, most of the Military uniforms are quite similar to those of Nazi Germany.

Rule of Cool

Trope Overdosed - There's a lot of other tropes that fit Saurisia, these are but a handful.

[Ulvena]

Historically

Royals Who Actually Do Something: Antony Inzen, the First Emperor, was always active and on the run from the Crusaders during his rebellion. He leads his army on the front lines.

Unlikely Hero: Again, Antony Inzen, the First Emperor, never intended to start his revolution. He just wanted prosperity for himself and his village.

Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: A reverse of this. During the Revolution, the Holy Republic burned down Antony's hometown and salted the earth to demoralize the rebels. All it did was make the cities fear the Republic more and rise up against them.

Corrupt Church: The Holy Republic. While members of the Church lived in decadence and prosperity, the average citizen (85%) was dying in the streets from starvation. The Church also blocked major scientific advancements in biology due to their strict laws against publishing anything against the Bible.

Good is Not Nice: The Rebels killed all forces of the Church indiscriminately. Horrific torture was used on enemies. And the First Emperor installed himself as a dictator. But a benevolent dictator.

End of an Age: After the fall of the Holy Republic, the Arch-Priest Dynasty was considered over and the Inzen Dynasty began.

Current

Reasonable Authority Figure: The Great Emperor Aiden Inzen.

Not-So-Omniscient Council of Bickering: Sol-Luna Harmony Council.

The Omniscient Council of Vagueness: Before the purge, The Eternal Eclipse & Starlight Organization is this. They stayed hidden, knew the Emperor's every move, and had a small army able to take down the nation. Created by the First Emperor to extend his power.

The Empire: The Unified Eclipse Empire of Ulvena. They have a colony, regained much of their territory lost by the Holy Republic through conquest, and Aiden consolidated his power with military might during his coronation.

Steampunk: Saurisisia called us Steampunk Koreans. That's us in a nutshell. But it's far more akin to Steampunk Cyberpunk rather than just Steampunk. Technology is cyberpunk but are built with steampunk brass, wood, gold, etc. No plastic here.

Master Swordsman: Mu. Aiden's bodyguard of ten years and the greatest soldier in Ulvena.

Magitek: Most military grade pony armor is infused with magic on top of their technological power. Pegasi Nobleponies use magic infused wing guards made of brass to protect their wings from damage. Even computers are infused with magic to cool them (byproduct of Steampunk).

Functional Magic: Unicorns use leylines (think Strings in String Theory) to cast spells and use magic.

Talking Animal: Ponies!

Far East: Ulvenan culture and people are Korean in nature. More specifically: Joseon.

Speculative Fiction: What if proto-Koreans were left independent from Chinese control? What if a theocratic dictatorship masquerading as a Republic took them over? What if a Park Chung Hee character destroyed the Holy Republic and established an Empire? What if they lived together with Ponies? What if they were Steampunk but with a more Asian style?

the High Queen: How we regard Princess Celestia and Princess Luna. The highest authority. Not Gods.

[SCP Foundation (Ancient)]

A lot.

[Vetalia]

Two biggies:

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheFifties - Vetalia in a nutshell.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MisterSandmanSequence - Lampshaded in a sense because Vetalia really is like that, it's pretty much creepy as hell to those not initiated (or who haven't taken advantage of the decidedly non-50's dirt-cheap alcohol and cigarettes).

[New Matawan]

List will grow larger eventually, but for now I'll start off with five:

Bag of Spilling - A key motive of the Socialist Party's platform is to use every tax dollar we have on something constructive.
Big Brother is Employing You - Subverted and partially inverted. While most private enterprise is outlawed and almost everyone is employed by the government or a government-authorized organization, worker unions play an integral part in our economy and give Matawanian employees rights that most nations do not.
Full-Circle Revolution - In 1928, due to pressing concerns about Matawan's extremely weak economy, dictator Emanuel Boscht came to power through violence and brute force. Five years later, a resistance movement had sprung up making protests of secession, and by 1942 he was captured, tried, and hung aboard the NMNV Dawn.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero - After a terrorist attack in 1960, then-Prime Minister Joseph Kokhrane ordered a lockdown of three southern cantons that the terrorists were suspected to be hiding in: Brisby, Fuddshire, and Strathmore. What resulted was martial law in those cantons for five years, and growing resentment (especially in Brisby) of the left-dominated federal government. This eventually culminated in almost-civil war in 1961, 1965, 1972, and 1986, each time Brisby formally declaring its independence. War was averted, and Brisby was fully brought back in the union by 1988, but there's still a huge north-south scar that lasts to this day.
Ruritania - The southern cantons, especially Fuddshire and Marlborough.

[Novus Niciae]

Setting:
Rule of cool (OOC: lets face it my nation is sci-fi and if I could scientifically explain it I would be racing to the patent office rather than posting on this forum, so I stick with the old standby of sci-fi fiction if it looks cool and it fits with the theme I am going for I will write some technobabble that gives an in universe explanation and it will be used)
Settling the Frontier: We have VAST amounts of unsettled space to colonize.

People:
Cat Girl : 98% of the population are cat girls (GEMs)
Proud Warrior Race
Transhuman : The cat girls are also transhuman.
Super Soldier : GEMs were originally created as super soldiers in our civil war.
Comes Great Responsibility

Government & Politics:
No Poverty
The Republic
Flaunting Your Fleets
Million Mook March

I will think of more but that will do for now.

[Scithion]

Here are the top 5!

Übermensch -

The entire social milieu and cultural architecture revolves around, nay was founded to encourage this. One of the ways this is accomplished is by the social, unenforced-but-inescapable abolition of family; children are raised by powerful schools that indoctrinate the Will to Power in them. As a consequence, there is a lot of Blue and Orange Morality.

Crowning Music of Awesome-

Everywhere and all the time. We tend to foster science and megalomania.

True Neutral -

The Government is prohibited from expressing sentiments. The national motto even includes the phrase "Above Good And Evil"

Art Major Biology -

Subverted. Scithion is indeed an astronaval country with a biological base, but OOC I'm a bioengineer, and I can assure your that this is generally already MT.

Deconstructor Fleet -

Because we lack the density of assumptions that usually constitutes a "culture," lots of assumptions of things that go together get defenestrated.

One trope that isn't deconstructed, of which the president is a great example, is Bunny Ears Lawyer.

[Xekliv]

The Empire - Self explanitory.
Faceless Goons - All legionnaires are issued a "Deathmask", which is a mask made to look like a Xeklivian skull with a third eye, that conceals the entire face.
Malevolent Masked Men - See above.
General Ripper - Commissars are usually like this.
Berserk Button - Every Xeklivian in existence has one. And boy do you wanna be far away from them when it's triggered.
Papa Wolf - Xeklivian fathers will go fucking feral if you even dare lay a finger on one of their offsprings.
Democracy Is Bad - One of the many reasons why we're at war with the UEA
Evil Overlord - Every Xektus (and Xekta) ever.
Doom Troops - Legionnaires
Coat, Hat, Mask - Legionnairy Officers
Mook Horror Show - Poltergeists. Welkynd knights are so afraid of them that they actually believe them to be daemons.

[Estrimbaal]

Blue Blood
The Empire: Though its more like the Kingdom
The Emperor: Comes with the territory, but usually of the Benevolent Emperor variety.
God Save Us From the Queen: For the most part Averted, Unless, you were a Protestant during the Reign of Empress Isabella The Zealous.
Reasonable Authority Figure: By design the Emperor is supposed to be, YMMV to how far this actually goes.
Requisite Royal Regalia: 'Natch.
Royal Mess: You'd be forgiven if you couldn't tell a Duke and Peer of the Realm from a regular Duke, once.
Standard Royal Court: Again comes with the territory.
Praetorian Guard: The Point of the Imperial Guard

[Hatsunia]

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[Dyste]

Our Dragons Are Different - The Draconid species which takes up over 95% of Dyste's population.

Mighty Glacier - Pretty much every Draconid is like this; strong but not very agile.

Breath Weapon - Something every Draconid has.

Shoulder-Sized Dragon - The Wind Drakes, the national animal and beloved pets of the people.

Colour-Coded Elements - The elemental types of Draconid, which match the scale colours they have.

Hidden Elf Village - Dyste has, until recently, stayed out of external affairs, and hid themselves away from most countries.

Gentle Giant - What Draconids are usually like; calm and compassionate, and disliking violence...

Beware The Nice Ones - However, they are still large, very strong dragonlike people, and can be dangerous if provoked.

King Tyroth himself is full of tropes that apply to him:
Adipose Rex - He's the king, and also quite fat...
Stout Strength, Acrofatic, and Kevlard - He's also very strong, very durable, and surprisingly agile for his size and weight.
Big Fun - Tyroth is a friendly, sociable person to be around.
The Good King - A generally benevolent ruler.
Authority Equals Asskicking - Oh, heck yes...
Large and In Charge - He's the largest and most powerful member of his species.
Royals Who Actually Do Something - Alongside socializing with his subjects and attending diplomatic meetings, he is still a skilled warrior who will help defend his country if needed.
Modest Royalty - He does not wear particularly fancy clothing, and prefers being called 'Tyroth' by his friends.

[Miyager]

FanT:
Utopia Justifies the Means - The High-King and his Council do truly believe that the world they wish to create would be a utopia, but the creation of this world would basically include the extermination of various races like orcs, who the people of the Commonwealth cannot see as redeemed due to their previous transgressions against the Commonwealth.
My Country, Right or Wrong - The people of the Commonwealth do truly believe that they are one of the few civilized factions in the world they live in. A large reason for this is the large amount of propaganda fed to them by the government, but the people do in general largely believe whatever they're doing is right.
Grey and Gray Morality - Although the Commonwealth does commit a decent amount of villainous or despicable attacks, they also show their share of heroism and justice in many cases. And it doesn't help that most of the Commonwealth's enemies are like this as well.
Crapsack World - The world that the Commonwealth inhabits is really crapsack, with most everybody being a shade of grey or black, with only a few notable exceptions which fall under white morality. In a way, the world of the Commonwealth is like our own. There are no clear-cut good guys and only a few clear-cut bad guys.
The Empire - The Commonwealth exemplifies a neutral portrayal of "The Empire". The Commonwealth does not want to be the one world order, but they do maintain a rather loyal army and populace, and they do seek to make their own lands a better place for themselves. The Commonwealth considers itself to be the Legitimate State of Civilization and Order, and they are highly civilized, wealthy and organized, but also corrupt, arrogant and xenophobic.
The Alliance - The Commonwealth also shows traits of the Alliance. The Commonwealth originally started out as a mostly good-aligned group of nations that banded together for increased political strength, economic assistance, technological sharing, military co-operation and necessity. Over the years, the Alliance of United Nations gradually evolved into the Commonwealth that is seen today, a force that is capable of making the more elder or powerful races of the world take at least a modicum of thought to their words. Without the Commonwealth, the individual nations that compose it would fall surely on their own.
Five Races - The Commonwealth is a unified, fantasy replication of the traditional five races trope.
- The stout race are the industrial and craft-minded dwarves, who are divided into several clans, some of which prefer open-air habitations and others which prefer subterranean dwelling. Only one major dwarven clan chooses to voluntarily retain a non-industrial existence.
- The fairy race are the high elves, who are among the most magical inclined races of the world and are a mortal off-shoot of the dark elves, like the wood elves. The high elves left and headed across the sea to the lands which in time became the home of the nations of men, wishing to be rid of both their dark and grim cousins and their eccentric and xenophobic forest-dwelling cousins.
- The mundane race are humans, who are both inclined to magical talents and technological prowess. Humans are a jack-of-all-trades, a result of them having the most division between themselves as a species, although the various human nations do get along for the most part. Humans are a versatile race capable of adapting to almost everything.
- There is no real high men race, though some may count exceptional human or high elven heroes as high men.
- The cute race are the gnomes, a highly technologically blessed race which seems to have in their blood a knack for invention and innovation. Gnomes are both the shortest race in the Commonwealth and physically the weakest, but they make up for this by providing much technological advancement.

The Commonwealth also contains a notable number of half-elves and half-orcs, the former fitting mostly the mundane mold and the latter the proud-warrior race mold.
Fantastic Racism - Most of the Commonwealth's inhabitants view themselves as by and large superior to the other races of the world. Though the other races also feel the same about them.
Fantasy Kitchen Sink - The world that the Commonwealth is a part of is a mash-up which takes a large amount of influence from all sorts of settings and mythology.
White Magic - Alongside arcane magics, holy magic is the most practiced type of magic in the Commonwealth. Utilized for healing, protection and even resurrection, holy magic can and has been twisted as it can be wielded simply by the practitioner believing his or her use of it is morally correct.
Fantastic Science - Forms of science have many fantastical twists in this universe, such as anthropologists studying and classifying minotaur, for example.

[Greater Mackonia]

Utopia Justifies the means-The communist party of Mackonia genuinely think they are creating a utopia for their respective people,however this utopia
can only be achieved via the establishment of a totalitarian state.
-The philosophy of Mazhardiirzam believes that the extermination of all non-Mack sentient life is necessary for the aversion of doomsday and the ascension of the Mack to godhood.

Lizard Folk- The Mack .

Fantastic Rascism-The Mack have long distrusted humanity and discrimination is rife between the two species.
-The pony race are despised by both the Mack and cat peoples and were forced out of Mackonia after years of discrimination.

Affably Evil-Most Macks are kind,honest and friendly folk,but that doesn't stop them from plotting the demise of human civilization.

Reptiles are abhorrent-Macks run on this trope.

I'm a humanitarian-Cannibalism is the norm for most Mackonians.

Well intentioned extremist-Sikasith Mackhirvo genuinely believes he is making Mackonia a better place however many
beings he has killed.

Dirty Communists-Not everyone in Mackonia likes the party.

[The UEG-Space Command]

Well a majority of the Halo and Mass effect one should fill up that list pretty well. I Shall find some that works.

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Deflector Shields - All standard UNSC personal, vehicles and star ships have shields. This gives them a edge against races with Kinetic Barriers.

Fire-Forged Friends - During the end of the Historical Great War, many Sangheili and UNSC personnel fall into this Trope, especially John-117 and Thel 'Vadam

Kinetic Weapons are Just Better - The majority of UNSC weaponry follows the technology surrounding mass accelerators. Though the UNSC does use Plasma and Lasers here and there, the Mass accelerators rule the battlefield. Note that some weapons use a slug designed to generate Covi/Forerunner type plasma inside and explode inside a target, thus making it a deadlier weapon.

There is really to many to list, there's three off the tip of my hat.

[Great Islamic Caliphate]

The Fundamentalist. Yes, you know it. Our citizens consider themself very fundamentalist (although hate suicide bombing and all of bombing type, accuse them "liberal") and proud of it.
Moral Guardian. Yes, we're the true Moral Guardians. We prohibit children from sex, excessive words, and we're against racism.
Dirty Commies. Although our nation are proud center-left, we view communism (along with far-right) as ridiculous, authoritarian and atheistic political system.
Unstoppable Rage. If you want us to die, I suggest you, DON'T declare war to us. You'll disappointed.
Berserk Button. Don't underestimate the power of rage of our country.

[The Great Mob]

IC: Subversives attempted to link various 'tropes' with The Great Mob's reputation. They have been purged. However, the CIEO has agreed to allow one trope to be associated with us, because HE personally takes pride in said trope and lampshades it constantly:

People's Republic of Tyranny The People's Protective Service of The Great Mob is devoted to caring for our Peasants and ensuring that all Entrepreneurs in our Mob become rich from their labors and toils. Those peasants who starve either did not try hard enough or are too lazy to be allowed to live. Furthermore, peasants who attempt to harm the CIEO and/or the Board of Director's reputation(s) are to be recycled, since Human Resources are quite valuable. Soylent Green feeds billions every day here in The Great Mob.

[New Matawan]

List will grow larger eventually, but for now I'll start off with five:

Bag of Spilling - A key motive of the Socialist Party's platform is to use every tax dollar we have on something constructive.
Big Brother is Employing You - Subverted and partially inverted. While most private enterprise is outlawed and almost everyone is employed by the government or a government-authorized organization, worker unions play an integral part in our economy and give Matawanian employees rights that most nations do not.
Full-Circle Revolution - In 1928, due to pressing concerns about Matawan's extremely weak economy, dictator Emanuel Boscht came to power through violence and brute force. Five years later, a resistance movement had sprung up making protests of secession, and by 1942 he was captured, tried, and hung aboard the NMNV Dawn.
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero - After a terrorist attack in 1960, then-Prime Minister Joseph Kokhrane ordered a lockdown of three southern cantons that the terrorists were suspected to be hiding in: Brisby, Fuddshire, and Strathmore. What resulted was martial law in those cantons for five years, and growing resentment (especially in Brisby) of the left-dominated federal government. This eventually culminated in almost-civil war in 1961, 1965, 1972, and 1986, each time Brisby formally declaring its independence. War was averted, and Brisby was fully brought back in the union by 1988, but there's still a huge north-south scar that lasts to this day.
Ruritania - The southern cantons, especially Fuddshire and Marlborough.

Some more:

A World Half Full - From 1941-1946, we were undergoing a complete reconstruction of our nation, and attemtping to rebuild the country after years of totalitarianism.

As Long As It Sounds Foreign - The OOC explanation for New Matawan's name. "Matawan" is a city in New Jersey that I thought would sound cool as a country's name.

Baseball Episode - Whenever the Matauapoli Metropolitans are in the playoffs, our capitol city goes bonkers for the sport.

Black and Nerdy- Governor of Ayrmont Anibal Santos, who ran for Prime Minister in 1982.

Future Me Scares Me - Secretary George Abel (roughly 1961) was efficient, personable, and overall benevolent (if a bit snarky and rude), and his political ideology is between moderate conservative and libertarian. Minister of Commerce George Abel (roughly 1986) is ultra-ultra-conservative, and his personality ranges from Billy Martin to Gordon Ramsay. Needless to say, if past Abel were to meet present Abel...

Gratuitous Semi-Foreign Language - The commonly spoken language in New Matawan is Matawanian-English. Matawanian-English is basically English, but with slightly spelling and pronunciation differences. However, because standard English is our lingua franca, government officials sometimes slip back and forth between Matawanian- and Normal English.

A particularly awful example came in 1962, when Prime Minister Joseph Kokhrane held an address in Parliament that referred to a central canton as "Cheesecake" (CHEEZ-cayk), instead of its proper name "Qheesqhake" (CHESS-chak). Qheesqhake's MPs left the room immediately.

Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics - Exaggerated facts about New Matawan's economy were used in 1975 to promote drilling for oil in Lake Dean. Needless to say, Prime Minister Larry Goldbloom (who was against drilling) was not amused.