Halloween in your nation?

[New Vudnia]

We don't have halloween, but we do have a similar holiday called "Oktoberfest". Unrelated to the german beer festival, people dress up in costume, go to parties, and many types of sweets (and alcohols) are shared amongst the guests.

[Chaorica]

Halloween has been eliminated by the Chaorican government for public safety reasons.

Last year there was an incident in which the fuse on a child's firecracker costume accidentally set fire to a neighbour's trellis. There were no injuries.

Our government will have to keep the incident in mind if people start complaining about the ban. Leaving out the no injuries part, of course.

[Yannia]

Halloween, or Samhain, is not an official holiday in Yannia, and it is therefore not officially celebrated, but some people celebrate it anyway.

An official holiday that happens late October, or November, is the Hunters' feast, which is celebrated the day after the night of the second Full Moon after the autumnal equinox. It marks the end of the barbecue season, and is celebrated with large neighborhood barbecues.

[Nogova-]

Illegal.

[Beoujistan]

Halloween is celebrated in Beoujistan; but not with dressing up.

[Maldovania]

Halloween is unknown in Maldovania

[Gannitron]

Halloween is banned in Gannitron due to religious reasons.

[Summerset Plains]

We send an armed unit of 15 soldiers armed with weaponry and armor. To guard each neighborhood. We send our Christian,Muslim and Jewish priests,Imams and Leaders to ask the God to protect the country from each vile thing to harm us. And we lock all trade and Pray and preform religious activities in our homes.

[Gannitron]

We send an armed unit of 15 soldiers armed with weaponry and armor. To guard each neighborhood. We send our Christian,Muslim and Jewish priests,Imams and Leaders to ask the God to protect the country from each vile thing to harm us. And we lock all trade and Pray and preform religious activities in our homes.

We believe it and we receive it.

[Eternian Union]

Halloween isnt a thing here in Eternia

[The Faoladh]

Halloween?
I think you mean "All Hallow's Eve," which is part of Samhain, an age-old festival celebrating summer's end, which lasts from sunset on the 31st of October to sunset on the 1st of November.

[Brunerist Delegate]

Halloween is banned.

[Gigaverse]

Limited celebration, but we do have fun.

[Corte]

In Corte the undead army is fought often, and on Halloween they attack the hardest.

[Luziyca]

The same as in USA!

Ditto.

[Mieraskya]

Octboer is celebrated as a Holiday and Halloween is one of the bigest and most widely celebrated holidays, people dress up, trick or treat, go to haunted houses, have Halloween party's, have ghost story party's, and the T.V's are shoeing horror movies all day

[Omudroum]

Halloween is not celebrated commonly here. It is popular among upper middle class and upper class young adults. They tend to throw private costume parties. Scary movie marathons are hard to come by as movies with more than 2 minutes of gore total are rated A6A and thus are heavily taxed to discourage viewing and gore cannot be shown on TV outside of medical drama. So in conclusion halloween is an expensive luxury party holiday for the rich.

[Sebastianbourg]

We don't celebrate Halloween in Sebastianbourg as we've got better things to do.

[TurtleShroom]

Unlike most ultra-right nations with extreme religious cowtowing, we do not ban or persecute the celebration of Halloween. WE EMBRACE IT.
Let's start with the basics. In TurtleShroom, it isn't called "Halloween", but "All Hallows' Eve". All Hallows' Eve is the most popular secular holiday in TurtleShroom, and an official national holiday since 1962.

The truth behind All Hallows' Eve is well known. All Hallows' Eve is a pagan holiday of death and evil, where the barrier between Hell, ghostly realms, spirit worlds, alternate universes and the mortal plane are at their thinnest. (Read on, because we actually combat that behind the festivities.)

We never fought it, though. We stole it. The Church, at the dawn of TurtleShroom, took Halloween by the pumpkins and completely and totally beat the smack out of the filthy pagans' attempts to keep the holiday as theirs! (-and it was easy, what with the sorcery bans and what-not.) For a while, then, All Hallows' Eve was nothing but a precursor to All Saint Day (November 1st), which TurtleShroom acknowledged despite it being Catholic in origin (Catholics never appeared in TS in any sizable number until the 1920s).


When pop culture got ahold of it, though, it took off beyond all compare. Starting in the 1930s when TurtleShroom's absolute wealthiest crowded to see imported USA movies (technology that the Free Market finally made profitable that year), "Halloweenie movies" have always been a box-office smash.

Halloween is a time of family fun, costume creativity, and increased police presence. It is unlawful to dress as Satan or a demon (to this day), but by and large, there are few restrictions. The state taxes the sale of costumes to encourage thrift and save raw materials, adding to our culture's belief that Halloween costumes for sale are a waste of money.


Every year, the government issues its Halloween Proclamation at the midnight on October 30th. Per law, the Stock Exchanges and banks are closed. By choice, schools and most workplaces (companies that don't close on holidays tend to face angry employees looking elsewhere for work) do so as well.

Halloween correlates and is very close to Founders' Day- the date which the Constitution of TurtleShroom was ordained -which adds to the celebratory hype and the festivities that make October such a joyous time.


All three species celebrate Halloween in near identical fashion, except that mushrooms can not consume candy.

Traditionally, Halloween consists of trick-or-treating at dusk, costume parties, and church gatherings. The Church is the largest player in Halloween; most creatures don't live in cities and lack the ability to trick-or-treat, so the Church combines spreading Jesus with free candy, and the locals from all over gather for an all-night celebration, followed by a worship service on All Saint Day. Patrons from all over go to their local church for a simulated trick-or-treat for the ultra-rural youth and adults. Since candy is a luury, they usually just opt to distribute candy corn, since it literally is penny candy.
(Turtles are especially fond of candy corn.)

There are parades, parties, celebrations and festivities, fairs, carnivals, contests, games, and don't forget the tourism and the casinoes. There's no party like an All Hallows' Eve casino party! Whoopee!



The Board of Censors is largely in control of the regulation and enforcement of Halloween codes and regulations. Primarily, they publish an annual "Forbidden Costume List" to the police. (The fine is forfeiture of all acquired candy. This is enforced by the Inquisition.)
However, the Board of Censors also plays a major role in the regulation and screening of "Halloweenie movies".

A movie classified as a "Halloweenie Movie" receives a special coding alongside its usual content rating. Denoted by "AHE", Halloweenie Movies can only be shown in October, and can only be sold from October 1st to two days before Thanksgiving Day. This is because it takes the Board of Censors that long to edit immorality from a movie, or to ban it. The process for allowing Halloweenie Movies is, by their very nature, an extreme difficulty. Halloweenie Movies tend to deal with the occult, with witchcraft, and with unnatural and villanious things. They are subject to extensive examination for weeks, even months, leading up to their ultimate approval for screening or their banning.

So yes, to put it mildly, Halloween is huge in TurtleShroom. It is the largest secular holiday in the country.


-but there's one last aspect of Halloween that you need to know, and that is one that traces to its original use. Remember that All Hallows' Eve is believed to be the day when the boundary between mortal world and other, wicked or dangerous realms (such as ghosts and Hell) are at their thinnest.

TurtleShroom takes this very seriously, and we have elite police and military squadrons that patrol the entire week leading up to Halloween to prevent anything stupid or evil from happening. Vampires, monstors, and demons have had confirmed sightings in TurtleShroom for generations, and all of these always try to get in on Halloween. We know from experience.

These elite squadrons are under plausible deniability. They are essentially death squads for the occult. Vampires, demons, monsters, zombies, ghouls, ghosts, and anything that goes bump in the night that isn't a kid in costume will be shot on sight. (We differentiate kids in costumes from the real deal with very expensive and intricate equipment that detects the paranormal. Emphasis on expensive.)
Witches and sorcerers, likewise, either surrender or get shot on sight. The witchcraft arrests are always the highest on Halloween, and with their powers enhanced, some sorcerers try and fight back. That's what we have death squads for the occult for in the first place.
(To prevent endangerment of citizens, it is illegal to dress as a witch, warlock, sorcerer, or wizard for Halloween.)


While the citizens play all night, TurtleShroom's government is up to its ears fighting paranormal activity and the constant nuisance of filthy pagans trying to take back their holiday. It's always the worst in October.

[Davinhia]

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[Olwe]

Samhain -- we still call it by its original name here -- is one of Olwe's most important holidays, as it marks the changing of the year on our calendar. Trick or treating is mostly reserved for children and the younger teens, while the vast majority of adults and older teens have costume parties that usually very quickly devolve into orgies. Samhain has the second highest child conception rate of any Olwean holiday, bested only by Alliance Day in September.

[Davinhia]

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[Mieraskya]

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[Davinhia]

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[Mieraskya]

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