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What was the greatest disaster to ever happen to your nation? A plague? A natural disaster? A war? Famine?

Capitalism.

Sumovis wrote:What was the greatest disaster to ever happen to your nation? A plague? A natural disaster? A war? Famine?

Well, Single post OP, what's the worst thing that happened in your nation?

In Rephesus, it was probably the Unification wars, spanned 200 years and resulted in the deaths of nearly every non-ethnic Rephite in the Agoras peninsula, and over the course of these years Rephesus was found by Alkharanians who carried disgusting foreign diseases, which really didn't help because y'know, black death.

The Imperial Nuclear Civil War, our leader went insane, and essentaily nuked the rebel cities, and his own cities.
Cassulties:375,000,000

The Kaheim Tornado

So far there hasn't been a big disaster in our nation. But if the biggest disaster that happened to our nation counts, probably the sinking of 5 warships and shooting down of 5 transport planes in one day (each ship carrying 500 sailors and each plane 30). Only one survivor.

The revolution
Discovered new island
and Davin Hue lead an army to wipe out the nation we were in

We had a global thermonuclear war.

We got destroyed by Kolechia.

Insurrection of Dragonia Re. It's still very painful to talk about. But.... some wounds must be reopened to remind us of both our failures and how lucky we are to survive.

The Insurrection of Dragonia Re started on January 18 and ended on February 7. It was a short but devastating war: Military analysts compare the slaughter to the Holocaust. The reason was simple; only 1 in 20 dragons managed to escape Dragonia Re alive. It gets worse, though. The human-supremacists who were behind the Dragonia Genocide (as it's now called) used ALL methods to clear us out of the region; Nero-toxins, nerve agents, conventional weapons, and even nuclear weapons (to a degree). At least half of the former region is now barren because of humanity's scorched earth tactics. Our previous leader, Grevok, was one of the casualties, using himself as a shield to protect a group of civilians from a mortar round. To this day, we still grieve and are still in pain from those dreadful 2 weeks. It's doubtful that we will ever return to our former glory. *bows head in shame*

The Xinhai Revolution was the greatest man-made disaster to befall the Empire of the Great Qing.

The greatest natural disaster is harder to pinpoint, many have been devastating to the Chinese nation and peoples and as we are an ancient land, that list is very long indeed.

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Sumovis wrote:What was the greatest disaster to ever happen to your nation? A plague? A natural disaster? A war? Famine?

Well, Single post OP, what's the worst thing that happened in your nation?

In Rephesus, it was probably the Unification wars, spanned 200 years and resulted in the deaths of nearly every non-ethnic Rephite in the Agoras peninsula, and over the course of these years Rephesus was found by Alkharanians who carried disgusting foreign diseases, which really didn't help because y'know, black death.

The Worst thing to ever befall my nation was The Sumovian Civil War of the 1940s. It began when several provinces tried to secede in our Northeast. It killed about 10,000 people, 5,000 on the rebel side and on our military. It ended when our military troops stormed the largest city in that portion of the country. They then surrendered and peace and order was restored after several years of fighting.

Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan) in 2013. Next would be the eruption of Mount Pinatubo in 1991 and then the deadliest one being the 2033 magnitude 7.6 Manila big one which killed more than 20,000 people creating a massive humanitarian crisis in Metro Manila that was resolved only by the following year.

Conspiracy theories all blame the American HAARP program.

The Great Southwestern Aperonian Earthquake of 1959. Killed 1,333 people and wounded 2,876 more.

3rd Estenian-Ideosian War, Estenians went crazy and invaded and captured Ideos in 5 weeks, Estenian kept Ideos for 1 year and the casualties were around 780.000 people.

Natural: 1852 Earthquake of Gulf Oren. It destroyed 3/4th of the city and killed 658,000 people. City was rebuilt and today it has 18,444,000 people.

Human caused: World War II. Total losses 2,500,000.

Sumovis wrote:What was the greatest disaster to ever happen to your nation? A plague? A natural disaster? A war? Famine?

A xenomorph outbreak that killed 3 million

Natural: An earthquake in 1909 along the southern coast which killed 5,500 people and caused 12 billion dollars in damage (inflation adjusted).

Manmade: The raids during the Second Great war killing 217,000 civilians.

Hyperinflation.

Civil War

The CMA Chemical Spill, when a chemical tanker carrying 34,000 tonnes of chemicals from China collided with another ship, releasing the chemicals into the sea a few kilometres from the port of Marseille. As well as affecting the drinking water supplies, the spill devastated the fishing industry of Marseille and the surrounding areas, as well as hurting tourism as the beaches around the area needed to be closed. The Provencal Government spent about €200 Million on cleanup, although the wider cost to the economy is estimated to be anywhere from €800 Million to €1 Billion.

The earthquake that was the great rupture.

The Great Rosentuyn Landslide of 1998, in wich large parts of the City of Rosentuyn sank away in mud.

The biggest was a Riot that lasted 2 weeks, 379 casualties.

The Drought of 1969 was horrible as the government was saving food only for government officials and other people of high status, which was was followed by constant flooding. Overall, it killed millions.