Esquarium Sign-Up & Map Thread [OLD | DO NOT POST]

[Korcako]

Short IC name: Korcako
Long IC name: Republic of Korcako
Population: 2,998,600
Capital: Pritnya
Government type: Parliamentary republic
Factbook (IIwiki preferred): http://iiwiki.com/wiki/Korcako (has been updated)
Map claim (Imgur link preferred): http://imgur.com/OrhbMvf (the red by Francilie)
Main NS account (if not the one you are applying with):
Roleplay sample (helpful but optional):
How did you hear about Esquarium? (optional):
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[Gheristan]

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[Tuthina]

Short IC name: Korcako
Long IC name: Republic of Korcako
Population: 2,998,600
Capital: Pritnya
Government type: Parliamentary republic
Factbook (IIwiki preferred): http://iiwiki.com/wiki/Korcako (has been updated)
Map claim (Imgur link preferred): http://imgur.com/OrhbMvf (the red by Francilie)
Main NS account (if not the one you are applying with):
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Why hello Kosovo.

[Hekou]

Short IC name: Hekou
Long IC name: Union of Hekou
Population: 52,132,532
Capital: Saran
Government type: Federal Democratic Constitutional Republic
Factbook (IIwiki preferred): http://iiwiki.com/wiki/Hekou (WIP)
Map claim (Imgur link preferred): http://i.imgur.com/gMmVuBA.png
Main NS account (if not the one you are applying with): Midrasia
Roleplay sample (helpful but optional): viewtopic.php?f=31&t=386198 (in progress, but latest one)
How did you hear about Esquarium? (optional): The ridiculous amount of articles you guys have on iiwiki
Anything else to add (optional): Despite running my own rp region, there is just a certain allure about Esquarium, I also sought to create a nation different to what I normally would with Hekou. Despite having nations in other regions, I can assure you I will be sufficiently active.

[Sjalhaven]

Short IC name: Hekou
Long IC name: Union of Hekou
Population: 52,132,532
Capital: Saran
Government type: Federal Democratic Constitutional Republic
Factbook (IIwiki preferred): http://iiwiki.com/wiki/Hekou (WIP)
Map claim (Imgur link preferred): http://i.imgur.com/gMmVuBA.png
Main NS account (if not the one you are applying with): Midrasia
Roleplay sample (helpful but optional): viewtopic.php?f=31&t=386198 (in progress, but latest one)
How did you hear about Esquarium? (optional): The ridiculous amount of articles you guys have on iiwiki
Anything else to add (optional): Despite running my own rp region, there is just a certain allure about Esquarium, I also sought to create a nation different to what I normally would with Hekou. Despite having nations in other regions, I can assure you I will be sufficiently active.

Application accepted.

[Tuthina]

Short IC name: Hekou
Long IC name: Union of Hekou
Population: 52,132,532
Capital: Saran
Government type: Federal Democratic Constitutional Republic
Factbook (IIwiki preferred): http://iiwiki.com/wiki/Hekou (WIP)
Map claim (Imgur link preferred): http://i.imgur.com/gMmVuBA.png
Main NS account (if not the one you are applying with): Midrasia
Roleplay sample (helpful but optional): https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopi ... 1&t=386198 (in progress, but latest one)
How did you hear about Esquarium? (optional): The ridiculous amount of articles you guys have on iiwiki
Anything else to add (optional): Despite running my own rp region, there is just a certain allure about Esquarium, I also sought to create a nation different to what I normally would with Hekou. Despite having nations in other regions, I can assure you I will be sufficiently active.

Hekou is not a Koy-Ama word. It is a Mandarin word as far as I can tell. The Koy word would be Haku and the Ama word would be Nay'uy Ip.

You might also want to be a bit closer to the eastern side of the continent in order to make the influx of Koy-Ama population slightly more plausible.

[Hekou]

I simply based my ethnic groups based on that of Ionland, since it was a similar location. Would I instead be able to make a derivative language based on potential Tuthinian or some other eastern powers early colonisation of the area?
I'd rather keep the location since i feel its integral to the modern history and my ideas for southerly Kaona peoples.

[Tuthina]

I simply based my ethnic groups based on that of Ionland, since it was a similar location. Would I instead be able to make a derivative language based on potential Tuthinian or some other eastern powers early colonisation of the area?
I'd rather keep the location since i feel its integral to the modern history and my ideas for southerly Kaona peoples.

If you want to remain in that location and have a substantial population and influence to justify using a Sinitic language, Namor is probably your best bet. While it is possible for Tuthinans to have come to your land in the middle ages through trading, it might be a stretch for a massive colonisation programme to induce such an influence on your people's languages. Of course, it would be much more likely if it is simply some of your people adapting the Tuthinan tongue, or that it was a trade language that was the only language most of your diverse population spoke during independence.

I recommend you coming on our IRC. That way we can discuss it much more efficiently.

[Greater Ziegenian Reich]

if youre basing your ethnic composition off of ireland then you'd be some weird polish-asian mixed state that makes zero sense whatsoever

[Ainin]

We should be up to date.

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Please write a paragraph or two based on this prompt.

Your country's leader is briefed of an imminent nuclear attack by his generals.

[Vanutia]

Short IC name: Vanutia
Long IC name: Vanutian Union
Population: 33,895,990
Capital: Vanutia Città
Government type: Parliamentary republic under military junta
Factbook (IIwiki preferred): http://iiwiki.com/wiki/Vanutia
Map claim (Imgur link preferred): http://iiwiki.com/images/e/ed/VanutiaLocation.png
Main NS account (if not the one you are applying with): This one.
Roleplay sample (helpful but optional): I can provide if given a prompt.
How did you hear about Esquarium? (optional): I was here a while ago.
Anything else to add (optional): I'm the nation formerly known as Gheristan.

[Sjalhaven]

Short IC name: Vanutia
Long IC name: Vanutian Union
Population: 33,895,990
Capital: Vanutia Città
Government type: Parliamentary republic under military junta
Factbook (IIwiki preferred): http://iiwiki.com/wiki/Vanutia
Map claim (Imgur link preferred): http://iiwiki.com/images/e/ed/VanutiaLocation.png
Main NS account (if not the one you are applying with): This one.
Roleplay sample (helpful but optional): I can provide if given a prompt.
How did you hear about Esquarium? (optional): I was here a while ago.
Anything else to add (optional): I'm the nation formerly known as Gheristan.

Application accepted.

[Caithaven]

Short IC name: Caithaven
Long IC name: Kiingdom of Caithaven
Population: 5 million
Capital: Horgswick
Government type: Constitutional monarchy in which the monarch does not personally excercise power
Factbook (IIwiki preferred): http://iiwiki.com/wiki/Caithaven
Map claim (Imgur link preferred):  http://iiwiki.com/wiki/File:CaiticMap.png (the blob of green
under Walminghaven)
Main NS account (if not the one you are applying with): This one
Roleplay sample (helpful but optional): None yet but can provide one if prompted
How did you hear about Esquarium? (optional): Lurking about on NS
Anything else to add (optional): A lot of my nation's history and stats are currently provisional, I can adjust them to fit other nations if required

[Ainin]

Short IC name: Caithaven
Long IC name: Kiingdom of Caithaven
Population: 5 million
Capital: Horgswick
Government type: Constitutional monarchy in which the monarch does not personally excercise power
Factbook (IIwiki preferred): http://iiwiki.com/wiki/Caithaven
Map claim (Imgur link preferred): http://iiwiki.com/wiki/File:CaiticMap.png (the blob of green
under Walminghaven)
Main NS account (if not the one you are applying with): This one
Roleplay sample (helpful but optional): None yet but can provide one if prompted
How did you hear about Esquarium? (optional): Lurking about on NS
Anything else to add (optional): A lot of my nation's history and stats are currently provisional, I can adjust them to fit other nations if required

Good start. Welcome! I'll try to update the map next weekend.

[Ossiva]

Short IC name: Ossiva
Long IC name: The Republic of Ossevia
Population: 14 541 942
Capital: Graustein
Government type: Constitutional Monarchy
Factbook (IIwiki preferred): http://iiwiki.com/wiki/Ossiva
Map claim (Imgur link preferred): http://i.imgur.com/lhlYKPg.png
Main NS account (if not the one you are applying with): ~
Roleplay sample (helpful but optional): Don't have one ready to paste over at the moment, but I can likely write something up, if necessary.
How did you hear about Esquarium? (optional): Not. I figured that the best regions were likely the ones that didn't advertise themselves a bunch through telegrams or whatever, so I picked a region, and went through embassy links until I found something that looked nice...
Anything else to add (optional):

[Vanutia]

Short IC name: Ossiva
Long IC name: The Republic of Ossevia
Population: 14 541 942
Capital: Graustein
Government type: Constitutional Monarchy
Factbook (IIwiki preferred): http://iiwiki.com/wiki/Ossiva
Map claim (Imgur link preferred): http://i.imgur.com/lhlYKPg.png
Main NS account (if not the one you are applying with): ~
Roleplay sample (helpful but optional): Don't have one ready to paste over at the moment, but I can likely write something up, if necessary.
How did you hear about Esquarium? (optional): Not. I figured that the best regions were likely the ones that didn't advertise themselves a bunch through telegrams or whatever, so I picked a region, and went through embassy links until I found something that looked nice...
Anything else to add (optional):

You should probably edit your claim a bit so that it doesn't conflict with Caithaven's claim.

[Ossiva]

Short IC name: Ossiva
Long IC name: The Republic of Ossevia
Population: 14 541 942
Capital: Graustein
Government type: Constitutional Monarchy
Factbook (IIwiki preferred): http://iiwiki.com/wiki/Ossiva
Map claim (Imgur link preferred): http://i.imgur.com/lhlYKPg.png
Main NS account (if not the one you are applying with): ~
Roleplay sample (helpful but optional): Don't have one ready to paste over at the moment, but I can likely write something up, if necessary.
How did you hear about Esquarium? (optional): Not. I figured that the best regions were likely the ones that didn't advertise themselves a bunch through telegrams or whatever, so I picked a region, and went through embassy links until I found something that looked nice...
Anything else to add (optional):

You should probably edit your claim a bit so that it doesn't conflict with Caithaven's claim.

Oh! My bad; I'll get an edit in as soon as I'm off mobile.

[Sjalhaven]

Short IC name: Ossiva
Long IC name: The Republic of Ossevia
Population: 14 541 942
Capital: Graustein
Government type: Constitutional Monarchy
Factbook (IIwiki preferred): http://iiwiki.com/wiki/Ossiva
Map claim (Imgur link preferred): http://i.imgur.com/lhlYKPg.png
Main NS account (if not the one you are applying with): ~
Roleplay sample (helpful but optional): Don't have one ready to paste over at the moment, but I can likely write something up, if necessary.
How did you hear about Esquarium? (optional): Not. I figured that the best regions were likely the ones that didn't advertise themselves a bunch through telegrams or whatever, so I picked a region, and went through embassy links until I found something that looked nice...
Anything else to add (optional):

Application accepted.

[Ainin]

We should be up to date.

[Tokuyama]

Short IC name: Tokuyama
Long IC name: The Tokuyamanese People's Republic
Population: 13,231,995
Capital: Fukuda
Government type: Socialist one-party state
Factbook (IIwiki preferred): I'm gonna make an IIwiki soon.
Map claim (Imgur link preferred): http://i.imgur.com/adx8TRu.png Top left corner of Tuthina. I want my country's geography and cities to be based off of Kyushu.
How did you hear about Esquarium?: I'm Rayanov's new nation, ya know me.
Main NS account: I abandoned Rayanov, so this one.

Roleplay sample (recommended): I'll try to make a newspaper article about pollution because we have a lot of pollution.
Anything else to add (optional): We have Japanese culture, Chinese pollution and military/weapons, and North Korean music and propaganda.

[Tuthina]

Short IC name: Tokuyama
Long IC name: The Tokuyamanese People's Republic
Population: 13,231,995
Capital: Fukuda
Government type: Socialist one-party state
Factbook (IIwiki preferred): I'm gonna make an IIwiki soon.
Map claim (Imgur link preferred): http://i.imgur.com/adx8TRu.png Top left corner of Tuthina. I want my country's geography and cities to be based off of Kyushu.
How did you hear about Esquarium?: I'm Rayanov's new nation, ya know me.
Main NS account: I abandoned Rayanov, so this one.

Roleplay sample (recommended): I'll try to make a newspaper article about pollution because we have a lot of pollution.
Anything else to add (optional): We have Japanese culture, Chinese pollution and military/weapons, and North Korean music and propaganda.

You should pick existing islands instead. You might also want to be on our IRC so that we can discuss more about your country.

[Tokuyama]

You should pick existing islands instead. You might also want to be on our IRC so that we can discuss more about your country.

Ok, I'll take the unclaimed chain of islands below Mingwok. I really wanted to make my own islands though.

[Tuthina]

You should pick existing islands instead. You might also want to be on our IRC so that we can discuss more about your country.

Ok, I'll take the unclaimed chain of islands below Mingwok. I really wanted to make my own islands though.

Whether you want to make your own islands or not have surprisingly little to do with whether you are allowed to, particularly if you are just going to rip off real life for that.

[Songye]

Short IC name: Songye
Long IC name: Kingdom of Songye
Population: One hundred and forty million of us
GDP per capita: $ 11,388
Capital: Jenne City
Government type: Constitutional Monarchy
Nation description (at least a paragraph, please): Modern African based nation with a Predominantly industrial Economy ( German-China hybrid type economy ). Federally administed Government struture, globalist leaning. Non-interventionist foreign policy, unless our interests are affected. Oh!, and we are french, well frenchish
Map claim (Imgur link preferred): Land in Central Nautasia, comparable to Congolese land mass with just a northern shore ( Sorry about having an image )
How did you hear about Esquarium?: Was reading II wiki, liked what I saw and was interested
Main NS account: Songye

Roleplay sample (recommended): None, sorry
Anything else to add (optional): None for now

[Isaurus]

Short IC name: Isaurus
Long IC name: The Blessed Realm of Isaurus
Population: 15,231,756
GDP per capita: $15,019 (nominal)
Capital: Irenopolis
Government type: Autocratic Monarchy
Nation description (at least a paragraph, please):
Isaurus is a medium-sized nation along the Southwestern coast of Conitia, it's only (supposedly) civilized neighbor being West Cedarbrook to the East. For nearly a thousand years, Isaurus has been an autocratic monarchy ruled by the Isaurian Dynasty, from which the name of the country derives. Founded by the semi-legendary King Illus I "the great", Isaurus has always been a poor and isolated nation, with a low population and an extremely mountainous topography, amplified by it's remote location, and often extreme weather. It would only be in the 18th century that Isauria finally met the modern world, with the discovery of vast and unexplored precious mineral deposits within its interior, untouched, save for some primitive iron and copper mines, by the native population. Although multiple attempts were made by foreign nations to claim Isarus as their own- some coming close to succeeding- all eventually failed, leaving Isaurus unconquered in the annals of recorded history. Although these mineral reserves greatly enriched the country and have provided for the rapid industrialization of the state, society has been slow to adapt. The politics of the nation remain centered around loyalty and reverence for the king, and religion- although the monarchy, through its relationship with the bourgeois, has managed to overthrow the power of the hereditary nobility, and (at least legally) abolish serfdom. Economic development has been stagnant in the interior of the nation for decades, with much of the increasingly small rural population living in the same conditions as their ancestors hundreds of years ago. Organized crime, although mostly eradicated on the heavily populated coast and in the few interior metropolises, maintains its grip on the lives of the agricultural peasantry, despite the best efforts of King Illus IX, (r. 1940-1993. Known as King Illus “The Modernizer” or, less generously, King Illus “The Old”.) who worked during his long reign to further modernize the nation, cracking down on corruption and crime, re codifying Isaurusian law and reforming the justice system. Culturally, although originally Luwian, Isaurusians are heavily hellenized, and most practice Iconoclastic Orthodoxy.

Map claim: http://imgur.com/a/hbspM
How did you hear about Esquarium?: Browsing
Main NS account: This one

Roleplay sample:

THE CROWNING OF TSAR SIMEON II OF BULGARIA
April 22, the Year of Our Lord two and one thousand.

SOFIA, Bulgaria. Smoke drifts into the sky, pushed by a cool Spring breeze towards the soft and snow-capped peak of Mount Vitosha, Scomius or Scombrus to the ancients. The sky is a joyous bright blue, with only a few wispy clouds lazily accompanying the city’s smog on it's trek towards the ancient rock. It is cool, but pleasantly so. One could not have asked for a better day for the inauguration of a new era for the Bulgarian state. It was as if God himself had attributed his divine approval to the pompous ceremonies of state and church which were to mark the day. Thousands, if not millions, of Bulgarians- from orphans and street beggars to haughty barons and tycoons of industry throng in the streets. The general hubbub of city life is intensified manifold- it is not just the city dwellers, but thousands of their compatriots from across the country who have come to attend the greatest even in Bulgarian history since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the Revolution against Zhivkov’s regime- the official coronation of Simeon II, Tsar of Bulgaria. Since his reentry into the country after decades of exile in the West, he has quickly won over the hearts and minds of the Bulgarian people. At one point, it was even thought that he might create the nucleus of a reformist political party. Although occasional shouts of “Death to the Tsar!” and similarly misguided political statements are heard, they are almost immediately drowned out by the slogans of his supporters. “God Save the Tsar!” and “Hail Simeon!”are two favorites of the monarchist camp. Behaving in a similar fashion, people line the main streets, squares, and boulevards of the Bulgarian capital. Military bands polish and tune their instruments, amusing the crowd with ad-hoc renditions of popular songs. Soldiers line the streets, holding back the force of the crowd, and military units make final preparations for the ceremony.

Finally, the ceremony begins. The tsar, surrounded by retainers, walks down the steps of the restored royal palace. Above it, the tricolor of the Republic still flutters weakly in the wind. At the bottom of its steps awaits a magnificent horse, the jet-black color of crushed coal. The tsar, with no assistance despite his age, mounts the great animal, and begins a slow trot to his ultimate destination, the Alexander Nevsky Cathedral- one of the most spectacular cathedrals in all Orthodoxy.

Bestride his charger, tsar Simeon begins a purposeful trot towards the Cathedral, it’s gold-inlaid bell tower visible just over the tops of the city center’s historic buildings. One can see it’s awe inspiring dome, rising over the cityscape like the newborn sun in the dawn. Alone, the tsar rides down the great artery of Bulgaria- Tsar Osvoboditel Boulevard (Boulevard of the Tsar Liberator, so named for the Russian tsar Alexander II who helped to release Bulgaria from the yoke of Ottoman hegemony.) As Simeon’s horse reaches the street, the crowds lining the road begin howling and cheering with enthusiasm and bolsterous joy. Horses, ridden by members of his ceremonial lifeguard, line the streets. As he passes by, they line up behind him- until a great thunderous host charges towards the Great Cathedral. Paying a quick salute as they pass by Parliament and a great statue of Alexander II, they soon reach the Church, followed by mobs of citizens wishing to witness the aftermath of the coronation.

Note:
Steam is still the dominant form of energy production in my country. Cross-country Travel is primarily through the use of advanced steam locomotives, with inter-city commutes being primarily achieved through the use three methods: elevated steam-powered subway cars, steam cars, and pneumatic or hydraulic subways.