Quotes of people in your nation MK.III

[Dhelpratia]

"All hail to thee, Dhelprater Renhardi, King of the Vulpines and Vulpinia! May your reign be blessed, and may your children rule for generations. You are the first leader and the greatest of the Vulpines, and in tribute to thee, the country you rule will eventually bear your name, known to all its people as Dhelpratia.
You are the favorite of Heaven and the Three Great Deities, oh Great King. From your youth you were phenomenally clever and cunning, and when you inherited your father's throne, that of a lowly princedom, your tact and charisma made you allies that boosted it to prominence and power. Your strategic knowledge crushed your enemies, and united Vulpinia under your banner. Your wisdom brought you a reputation as a fair and wise leader, and made even your rivals admire you. Under you the Vulpines first flourished. However, recently, the people of Dhelpratia have fallen upon hard times. The populace is impoverished and desperate, the government corrupted and cruel, the land facing terror and rebellion.

Great King Dhelprater, the Three Great Deities have chosen you to again lead the Dhelpratian people to greatness. It is up to you to rebuild the wealth and power of the country that you know as Vulpinia, the only home the Vulpines will ever have. Can you again unite and inspire the discouraged masses with your intelligence and cunning? Can you create a civilization that will stand the test of time?"
- intro for Vulpinia/Dhelpratia in the Dhelpratia Civ5 mod

[Bereia]

"Bereia has survived challenges the likes of which nightmares are made. She will survive you."

-- Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro, to the El Presidente of the week.

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"I don't care what the government Public Relations hack says. It always costs, and the people always foot the bills in the end, no matter what."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

[Wisconsin9]

"Let me sum up Dhelpratia for you:
Before what you humans would consider 900, the Vulpine peoples lived in many warring tribes and fiefdoms and confederations. In the 900s, one of these princes, Dhelprater Renhardi, rose above the others and established a single Vulpine nation, the Vulpinian Kingdom. For the most part, his dynasty, bound to a code of strict honor that they had begun following when there were many nations here, not one, ruled fairly and justly, with ups and downs of course.
In the 1400s, his dynasty died out, and another dynasty took its place. They renamed the country the Kingdom of Dhelpratia, after the first king. Their first king swore to uphold the same code; not all of his descendants did, though, and corruption and cruelty began to spread through the monarchy. The majority of the kings of the new dynasty quickly fell into one of two categories: unwilling to rule or unable to do so, or corrupt and cruel. The country's wealth trickled away; the peasantry grew poorer than it had already been, the nation's coffers were bankrupted by increasingly large royal pet projects, exorbitant palaces and grand monuments in their name.
In what humans consider the late 1600s, a popular uprising began, and was able to successfully overthrow the kingdom. Some among its leadership, some exemplary Vulpines, decided to try and create a government of the people. They proposed a Senate elected by the people, which would then pick a Consul to serve as their representative, and a judiciary to serve justice as was needed. They called it the Republic of Dhelpratia. Some of the other leaders, however, became corrupted by the promise of power, and began to figure out ways to destroy the system that had been built.
By the time the human year 1710 came around, all the just leaders had been mysteriously martyred, and the system no longer functioned as one of freedom, but as one of oppression. The just leaders protected the right to free speech, and pardoned the officials of the royal regime; the new leadership made the Senate hereditary, and destroyed the people's rights, executing those it considered threats and dissenters in a Reign of Terror. The Senate soon became apathetic, interested more in pleasure than rule, and thus gave the Consul autocratic powers, declaring that only he would have the power to solve the issues of the nation, that only he would at least have to know what was going on so as to figure out a way to abuse the people while getting his way so that the Senators could pamper themselves. The judiciary was reduced to puppetry; the church as well. The nation was now reduced to the silent, humiliating suffering that they had faced under the final kings; the consul was simply a king of a different name. The military went from being the hero of the peasantry to the oppressor.
In the 1800s, the two castes of Dhelpratia existed in much the way we know them. The Upper Caste of the Senators and the Consul and their families and their allies and the wealthy and the clergy and judiciary, and the Lower Caste of everyone else. The country had barely changed. The coffers were empty, the money used to build mansions for senators and consuls. The people were without rights and without hope. The upper class lived exorbitantly. But now there were no revolutionaries. Those who showed sparks were rounded up, sent to secret military prisons, given trials that they were forced to lose, and then extensively tortured before being killed.
And in the 1950s, at last, Dhelpratia, having turned the Vulpines into obedient slaves, having fended off invasions from foreign countries and foreign species, began to industrialize. The Lower Caste did not make money off of this industrialization. The Upper Caste controlled the companies, prevented labor laws or unions or anything of those lines from coming into existence. They made rapacious profits off of these companies, and their employees were given wages that had one benefit: they were higher than what a farmer would usually make, and were easier to obtain than a job working as a servant or butler or maid for an Upper Caster. By the 1990s, the first white-collar jobs appeared; call centers and such. The case was similar with these new service jobs as the industrial ones; you earned more than you would as a factory worker or a farmer, but you still had no hope of leaving the Lower Caste. You could maybe buy an apartment now, feed yourself meagerly but steadily, so forth. But the standard of living was only raising for the Upper Class.
In fact, by this time the Dhelpratian traditions of polygamy and having many children were becoming a hassle. The Upper Caste, having adopted the human traditions of monogamy and having fewer children, grows slowly, making more money than it needs. But the Lower Caste, ravaged by starvation and sickness and crime, decided it needed many children if any were to live. Thus already meager wealth was being divided and split. They became trapped in poverty.
However, at about the same time as the start of industrialization, communism came to Dhelpratia, and a group of those who were swayed by its rhetoric declared that they would break the law and found a political party, the Communist Party of the Dhelpratian Revolution. Like the first Republicans, these first leaders legitimately wanted a just, equal society. But the government responded swiftly and brutally, and those with good hearts in the party were slain. Those that rose to follow the just, the heads of the party's military wing, called the party's new ideology proletarian communism. It decried the industrialization, tying it totally to the bourgeoisie and the corruption of the Republic. Under them, they said, the people would be made equal, rights would be granted, pay would be raised in all sectors, living conditions would be improved. Their rhetoric got them many supporters, and the Republic's attempt to crush them meant that the party ceased to be a political movement, but a violent insurgency known as the People's Liberation Army of Dhelpratia. As they drove the National Dhelpratian Republican Army out of various outer provinces, the control zones of both sides fluctuating, with each controlling different areas at different times, with the opposing force being reduced to low-level guerilla combat as the other gained total power, the actual plan of the former CPDR, now the PLAD, became obvious. In these areas they had evacuated cities, warning them of imminent aerial bombing, destroying factories and offices and government buildings, driving the people of the cities into the farmlands, forcing them to work as farmers. Those who dissented, those who worked for the government, those who were considered intelligensia, were rounded up and sent to death camps that had once been schools and hospitals, to be tortured and killed.
Ultimately the Dhelpratian people now found themselves forced to totally give up hope. The government and the revolution were identical. Neither was looking for anything but power. The only people you could trust were those like you; Vulpines simply seeking to live. Here, nobody in power is looking out for you; they seek only what they want, not what the people need.
This is a land that has no luck, no hope, no future. It is a land of desperation, where only the past has good men doing the right thing for the benefit of all. It is dead inside, but it shows no sign of changing. If you want a vision of what an Orwellian nation looks like, it is here. There may not be cameras in your house, but there are cameras in the street, there is the police and the secret police, there is the poverty and the torture and the ever-present hatred, the lack of total hope. The boot will not stomp on a human face forever; it will stand instead on the face of the Vulpine."
- a Dhelpratian expatriot in Ruridova

"Good God... we need to help these people."

"I'll have someone start drawing up plans."

—Alisa Andreev and Dmitri Kozlov, after reviewing a report from a DSI operative undercover in Dhelpratia.

[Ruridova]

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"Good God... we need to help these people."

"I'll have someone start drawing up plans."

—Alisa Andreev and Dmitri Kozlov, after reviewing a report from a DSI operative undercover in Dhelpratia.

I've already denied Luz the pleasure of making Dhel a puppet played by me. Expect the same. ;p

[Bereia]

"It has never been the policy of this nation to lend terrorists legitimacy by negotiating with them. We will not start today."

-- President Dalton Barbosa, in response to the capture of the cargo ship Empire Bay.

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"These people need to be made an example of, ladies and gentlemen. Those considering emulating them must see what happens, that we do not enter talks with those who kidnap U.S. Citizens."

-- Vice-Admiral Isador Woods, U.S.N.

[Vaxon]

"Hey. Hey. Fawk the police."

- Comedian before being shot in the head for making a bad Guy Fawkes mask joke.

[Wisconsin9]

"Good God... we need to help these people."

"I'll have someone start drawing up plans."

—Alisa Andreev and Dmitri Kozlov, after reviewing a report from a DSI operative undercover in Dhelpratia.

I've already denied Luz the pleasure of making Dhel a puppet played by me. Expect the same. ;p

Who said anything about a puppet? Some advice and election monitoring was all I was thinking. After launching a rebellion and invasion, obviously.

[Ruridova]

I've already denied Luz the pleasure of making Dhel a puppet played by me. Expect the same. ;p

Who said anything about a puppet? Some advice and election monitoring was all I was thinking. After launching a rebellion and invasion, obviously.

Elections? Please. The Senate is actually hereditary, and the consul is one of it's corrupt own.
Also, please, no invading and rebelling. I work to make these things detailed, I don't need them changing permanently forcing me to rewrite everything.

[New Frenco Empire]

"Train operating bitch, mother fucker what you know? Train operating bitch, watch dat train go! I pull up to the station, yeah, I'm on time! Stacking mad chips when they hop on my line! I ride trains all day because it's my motherfucking day job! Just give me the controls and I'll motherfucking take off!"

-A (clearly enthusiastic) metro engineer

[Polska rzczpolspolita]

"A man comes into the world kicking, screaming, and covered in blood. It is honorable to leave in the same manner.
-An Ancient Sarmatian proverb.

[Allancia]

"The Mechanische Soldat is a true triumph of engineering. So fast, so quick, so graceful and so elegant. And yet it is the single most destructive peace of technology we have ever created that is controllable by a human being. Soon, it will operate completley independent of man, making it the perfect weapon, free of human error and morality."

-Prof. Heldat Krommet
Designer of Mechanische Soldat
When asked about how his invention worked

[Dhelpratia]

"Let the fool talk himself to death trying to defend himself against his past actions. Let his opponents who are similar do the same."
- Dhelpratian proverb

[Allancia]

"Every day, we create more soldier designs. Uber Soldat, Feuer Soldats, Schnelle Kleidung and this thing that we haven't translated a name for yet but gives the user oculonisis. It's great, absolutley amazing. One day we're even going to create soldiers that can fly and teleport."

-Prof. Heldan Krommet
Weapons designer
when asked about his research by a reporter.

[Amerikians]

"This is my country, whether it is 'right' or it is 'wrong', this is my country, and I will support it, whatever its decisions." - Bob Newhart, Citizen, probably an Ultranationalist too but I haven't developed that part much.

[Dhelpratia]

"This is my country, whether it is 'right' or it is 'wrong', this is my country, and I will support it, whatever its decisions." - Bob Newhart, Citizen, probably an Ultranationalist too but I haven't developed that part much.

How many Americas do you need?

"Among the Lower Caste, one of the main causes of death was starvation. Among the Upper Caste, the top killers were typically related to high blood pressure and blockage of the arteries, both of which are frequently related to obesity. If that doesn't say something, nothing does."
- Dhelpratian census taker

[Amerikians]

This one was first and it's an 'America gone right!!!!1111!!!" sorta bit. G.A. is more 'American' than it is 'America'. Besides I only have two if one discounts the abortive CSA I deliberately let die because the very idea of that "state" makes me vomit violently.

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"Wait, did the post boy for America First!* just win the nomination for the Republicans? Oh fuck..." - Senator Norton Terril, on Bob Newhart's running for president.

*By no means a good thing.

[Dhelpratia]

"With the warfare, poverty, starvation, sickness, and emigration, it is a miracle from the Three Gods that the Dhelpratian population manages to increase annually."
- anonymous Dhelpratian

[Auzkhia]

"I am the patron saint of mediocrity. I absolve you."
-A senile Italian composer to other patients in a mental ward in Vienna.

[The Grand World Order]

"Mmm, there's many pluses to using a small-caliber handgun like the Ruger MKII I always had. They're quieter, they're typically smaller, have less recoil, they're easier to aim quickly, you can have more rounds in a magazine... but my favorite part, the best part of all is when you shoot a terrorist right in his pelvic girdle, flooring him no matter what he's on or how determined he is to keep going, and he just sits there screaming, cursing, either begging for his life or crying about how the proletariat will end our regime. Rarely, unless you shoot them in the eye, does a .22 immediately kill your opponent. It usually takes another shot. But I fucking love hearing Commies and anarchists screaming as they wait to die. It's the most soothing, loving noise I've ever heard. I love watching their eyes move up and down the barrel, staring straight at the muzzle before I would end their miserable life. I wish, I wish that I could somehow make that sound for my little girl when I hold her in my arms. I wish I could sing it for my beautiful wife. I wish the whole fucking world will one day experience it." -Drake Lance, former CVRA operative, at his debriefing after receiving disciplinary separation from the Commission

[Bereia]

How many Americas do you need?

(OOC: You can never have too much America.)

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"What will I do once I leave politics? A good question, that. I'll probably going into business with the family, and put all this expensive college education to use making millions."

-- Representative Jennifer H. C. Brunel.

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"The leaders of the World Assembly do not understand us. We have no desire to join their little debate society, and there is nothing they can do, no argument, threat or bait, which will sway us."

-- Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro.

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"That's easy. I want a state built on the ideals of liberal democracy, a strong free market economy, and a society of free, upright individuals where liberty and justice are for everybody, and not merely those with the resources to seize political office."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen, when questioned on her blog page.

[Auzkhia]

"I only have one thing to do, that is to serve my realm as its emperor. When I was appointed as the heir, I had to live with the Emperor and the empress. They were like a second set of parents. Destiny, by the Gods' will has brought me forth. I would've been another archduke. The people shall look to me in a world after Heinrich."
-Crown Prince Franz Otto

[The Grand World Order]

"Communists mass murder a million people? Nobody cares. That's what Commies do. We fuck up, bomb a wedding? The international news is all over it, cause, first off, their governments hate us, second off, because it doesn't happen often." -Senior Master Sergeant Joaquin Winslow, intelligence chief of the 903rd Infantry Battalion

[Wisconsin9]

"Communists mass murder a million people? Nobody cares. That's what Commies do. We fuck up, bomb a wedding? The international news is all over it, cause, first off, their governments hate us, second off, because it doesn't happen often." -Senior Master Sergeant Joaquin Winslow, intelligence chief of the 903rd Infantry Battalion

You'd be surprised the kind of hate mail and criticism I get.—Dmitri Kozlov, Commander in Chief. Since assuming the position, the CSW has openly attacked more than 40 cities with nuclear weapons, and fifteen incidents of nuclear terrorism have been inconclusively linked to the CSW.

[Northern Rus]

"History shall forever revere us for whatbwe have done today, whether weblove or not, this army will forever be sung as the heroes of not only Rus, but of all of Europe! Into battle comrades! Ura!"
-Artydom Ivanovich Azarov, battle of Vladimir. Artydom and his 800 soldiers perished in the defense of the city. His army managed to kill 4000 Mongol invaders and allowed the Novgorodian army to regroup and retake what was left of the city.

[Estainia]

"Invade Long Island, somehow connect this to another state entirely to hold New York City at ransom in exchange for Puerto Rico and the Philippines and the entire United States Navy. That's an idea so hilariously flawed I can't describe it in words. When Great Britain the preemptive superpower of the day does not want to fuck with the 'barely civilized' state across the pond middle powers at best shouldn't even think about it." - Cornelius Maximilian, after discovering 1901