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Sekuo
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Postby Sekuo » Sat Aug 15, 2015 9:07 am

You have Sekuo. Bog standard 'communist' dictatorship when really it borders on revisionist... something. Cynical. Not too religious, although has a lot of temples and strong Buddhist heritage. You won't get much out of here, except cynicism, downright angst, and jungles. One can trace it back to a recent history of slaughter and political zealotry. Realism is tantamount. Fairly secure in it's own universe.

Syla. Quite generic I'd say. Considers itself to be a protector of the dharma and considers Myanmar and Sri Lanka to be dens of degeneracy and backwardness. Piss poor, but good internet. Not Malay. Otherwise, generic... overly religious monarchy. Very Buddhist, very calm and obscure. Apathetic to it all. Multiversal anomaly, but not to a great extent.

Lansuo, slightly more familiar for multiverse travelers and the like. Reincarnated from the ashes of some other nation it appears... Styles itself as a dominant party state with rather high levels of democratic rights of the meaningless populism sort, and a knack for meritocracy within the government. Not as religious as the previous two, and rather militaristic and hostile towards 'Christian values', and has no qualms about showing such behavior. Deeply invested in self power over salvation, possibly from a combination of orthodox Buddhist notions on enlightenment and Confucian traditions. In comparison to Sekuo, they are rather optimistic and gungho about life. Most clear cut case of a multiversal anomaly, with constant glitching.

It is assumed that Lansuo and Syla are mere alternate timelines of Sekuo. But upon further observation, the deviations are far too large. Both nations have clearly different cultures, linguistics, and attitudes. However, I believe they are one in the same. Simply a programmed multiversal anomaly.


—Jumithak (Melissa) Ngāmy, Fashion Designer and Multiverse Investigator
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The Democratic Republic of Sekuo―Sēkuo Pāngyūthap Šōmghathāk

Capital and largest city: Haiban

Official Language and Demonym: Sekuonese

Government: Socialist Single Party State
President: Vīnthet Siācōny
Prime Minister: Sikyūvathi Cākhvuthi
Premier of the Politburo: Nūcingh Kōchanavān

A tranquil dictatorship with untouched beaches, stunning mangroves, and not so shabby resorts. Ruled with a somewhat iron fist by The Party, Sekuo remains somewhat of an enigma, and is best for the adventerous tourist. Welcome to the land of the Thousand Temples, Sekuo.

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Las Palmeras
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Postby Las Palmeras » Sat Aug 15, 2015 9:20 am

"Show off in front of Lansuo! Do it! Our 'Christian values' are different...

Oh yeah. God through guilt is a pretext for eliminating self-guilt. It's not, 'Forgive me', it's 'Fuck me!' because 'God is Love' was never changed from 'Love is God'; and God isn't God in the context. It's 'divine' in the closest terms...and more of an essence of God or everything belonging to God in existence. Only separated in immaculate and maculate; sacer being excused as full of error.

'God's in his Heaven and all is Right in the World'? "

-Reiki and Tamiel
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Lansuo
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Postby Lansuo » Sat Aug 15, 2015 9:38 am

Desire for salvation is a sign of self mediocrity and laziness.

Well, as far as I'm concerned, it's simply odd that any supporter of individualism would throw themselves upon the so called 'Grace of God' I mean please, be more fucking consistent.


―The Cafe Owner
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Auzkhia
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Postby Auzkhia » Sat Aug 15, 2015 9:44 am

"I wonder what life would be like if we kept Belgium, instead of giving it up to the likes of the French and the Netherlanders. Maybe we would be more strong."
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Fatatatutti
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Postby Fatatatutti » Sat Aug 15, 2015 9:45 am

"On this week's episode of Alphonse Dynasty, Alphonse's hillbilly relatives go fishing and wind up feuding with Fish's hillbilly relatives. Then, stay tuned for a special crossover episode when everybody's favorite TV detectives, Cunliffe and Clitherow, arrive at Fish Junction looking for a missing tourist. Mayhem and marriage ensue."
-- TV Guide

"Although Fatatatutians are often perceived by the outside world as lazy, TV producers can be amazingly prolific. Some popular series have been known to produce as many as nine hundred new episodes in a single season."
-- R.G. Siskelebert, film critic

"Fatatatutti's most famous fish actor, the Fish With No Name, who is also Fatatatutti's current President, was once known as the Actor Formerly Known As The Fish With No Name."
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Las Palmeras
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Postby Las Palmeras » Sat Aug 15, 2015 9:46 am

Lansuo wrote:Desire for salvation is a sign of self mediocrity and laziness.

Well, as far as I'm concerned, it's simply odd that any supporter of individualism would throw themselves upon the so called 'Grace of God' I mean please, be more fucking consistent.


―The Cafe Owner



"Here's where feeling gets into the question and makes it totally selfish, social restraint being feeling for typical people which wouldn't otherwise do 'bad' things. The grace of God, the essence to Create, the show of Free Will makes somebody's 'destiny' and leads to a state of salvation or damnation. Heaven and Hell being immediately inside, even if metaphysical contemplation can blather all it wants about places.
...
'Bad' is feeling bad. Maybe nowadays envy as a way of striving more is acceptable as long as you don't off somebody in the factory or office; but back then things were grimmer due to material limitations. Infanticide, suicide, stealing, betrayal...really, all centuries of peon labor taught people is that they're willing to do anything for a few bits of bean and rice. Looking into the mirror was seen as strength, could one really stomach it?
...
In this case, accomplishment was so much of a strain for a normal person, that it was close to death. 'Mediocrity' being more useful because one wouldn't have to feel horrible about themselves. And this is coming from a nation which killed off a third of it's populace and mutilated hundreds of thousands of countrymen, or subjugated others to replace themselves. Your Confucian bargain being Faustian, relativity only works completely if one is completely blind to suffering. But one would desire an end to it all otherwise."

-The Office Lady
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Imperial Paleoworld Germania
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Postby Imperial Paleoworld Germania » Sat Aug 15, 2015 9:59 am

"At first, the people of Alsace-Lorraine were hostile towards the German regime who harshly suppressed the French heritage of the Alsatians, to the point that most Alsatians drafted into the Imperial military service during the First Great War served in the Kaiserliche Marine or were sent to the Eastern Front. After the war, however, this changed due to growing fears regarding the radical socialist regime that had taken power in France in the late 1930s, combined with the loosening of restrictions on the people of Alsace-Lorraine and a propaganda campaign launched by Reichschancellor von Schleicher meant to solidify Alsatian confidence and pride in the German nation. To the point that many eager young Alsatians joined the Reichswehr in order to combat the French forces still loyal to the Roquist regime and there was much local resistance to the parts of Alsace-Lorraine occupied by the French during the Second Great War. In 1954, the Imperial Territory was replaced by a Principality, upon decree from newly-crowned Kaiser Ludwig Ferdinand, with Emich Kyrill of the House of Leiningen being crowned as Prince of Alsace-Lorraine."
~ Dr. Felix Thonberg, historian
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Ruridova
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Postby Ruridova » Sat Aug 15, 2015 10:01 am

"Hey Josu, how are you t-"

"Shut up, C.M. I'm calling myself the Hairstylist now."

"What?"

"You find a color or an occupation or something like that and that becomes your pen name. Makes you cool and mysterious. It's the cool thing nowadays. The Office Lady, the Cafe Owner, the Blue and Orange Guys..."

"Josu, you're not a hairstylist!"

"So?"

- C.M. Tagliaferro and Josu Iñaki, in conversation
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"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink; I was a stranger and you invited me in; I needed clothes and you clothed me; I was sick and you looked after me; I was in prison and you came to visit me... Truly, whatever you did for one of the least of my brothers and sisters, you did for me."
- the Gospel of Matthew, 25:35-40

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Auzkhia
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Postby Auzkhia » Sat Aug 15, 2015 10:05 am

"My name is quite inconsequential."
-The Bureaucrat
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Lansuo
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Postby Lansuo » Sat Aug 15, 2015 10:09 am

Ruridova wrote:"Hey Josu, how are you t-"

"Shut up, C.M. I'm calling myself the Hairstylist now."

"What?"

"You find a color or an occupation or something like that and that becomes your pen name. Makes you cool and mysterious. It's the cool thing nowadays. The Office Lady, the Cafe Owner, the Blue and Orange Guys..."

"Josu, you're not a hairstylist!"

"So?"

- C.M. Tagliaferro and Josu Iñaki, in conversation

I ship it.


Las Palmeras wrote:"Here's where feeling gets into the question and makes it totally selfish, social restraint being feeling for typical people which wouldn't otherwise do 'bad' things. The grace of God, the essence to Create, the show of Free Will makes somebody's 'destiny' and leads to a state of salvation or damnation. Heaven and Hell being immediately inside, even if metaphysical contemplation can blather all it wants about places.
...
'Bad' is feeling bad. Maybe nowadays envy as a way of striving more is acceptable as long as you don't off somebody in the factory or office; but back then things were grimmer due to material limitations. Infanticide, suicide, stealing, betrayal...really, all centuries of peon labor taught people is that they're willing to do anything for a few bits of bean and rice. Looking into the mirror was seen as strength, could one really stomach it?
...
In this case, accomplishment was so much of a strain for a normal person, that it was close to death. 'Mediocrity' being more useful because one wouldn't have to feel horrible about themselves. And this is coming from a nation which killed off a third of it's populace and mutilated hundreds of thousands of countrymen, or subjugated others to replace themselves. Your Confucian bargain being Faustian, relativity only works completely if one is completely blind to suffering. But one would desire an end to it all otherwise."

-The Office Lady

Reliance on the other, particularly when that other is a mere question of one's own faith, is not alleviating suffering and liberating one from their desires. It is blind denial of suffering and desire. The only reliance one needs is the one of the natural codependent order, not on some magical mighty being or some magical self.

As a result, salvation is not just weakness, but an irrational belief. There isn't salvation to begin with, only moments of realization through mindfulness.

One becomes greater once they realize the trivial distractions for what they are, instead of believing them to be the end all be all.


—Ñg Lyī, householder of Thēing Vyīhàr
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Ruridova
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Postby Ruridova » Sat Aug 15, 2015 10:19 am

Lansuo wrote:
Ruridova wrote:"Hey Josu, how are you t-"

"Shut up, C.M. I'm calling myself the Hairstylist now."

"What?"

"You find a color or an occupation or something like that and that becomes your pen name. Makes you cool and mysterious. It's the cool thing nowadays. The Office Lady, the Cafe Owner, the Blue and Orange Guys..."

"Josu, you're not a hairstylist!"

"So?"

- C.M. Tagliaferro and Josu Iñaki, in conversation

I ship it.

"Oh my god, how many times do I have to say that this is a heterosexual friendship, not something out of slash fanfiction?"

"As many times as I have to apparently remind you that I'm not straight, I'm asexual! How do you keep forgetting?"

"Look, Josu, I'm sorry but can this wait? Because it doesn't really disprove my poi-"

"I am the Hairstylist!"

- C.M. Tagliaferro and Josu Iñaki

"...so that's your grandfather?"

"Yep."

"What's he like in eccentric old age?"

"Trust me, you don't want to know."

- A.V. Tagliaferro and Eneko Iñaki, in conversation
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"For I was hungry and you gave me something to eat; I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink; I was a stranger and you invited me in; I needed clothes and you clothed me; I was sick and you looked after me; I was in prison and you came to visit me... Truly, whatever you did for one of the least of my brothers and sisters, you did for me."
- the Gospel of Matthew, 25:35-40

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Las Palmeras
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Postby Las Palmeras » Sat Aug 15, 2015 10:20 am

Lansuo wrote:Reliance on the other, particularly when that other is a mere question of one's own faith, is not alleviating suffering and liberating one from their desires. It is blind denial of suffering and desire. The only reliance one needs is the one of the natural codependent order, not on some magical mighty being or some magical self.

As a result, salvation is not just weakness, but an irrational belief. There isn't salvation to begin with, only moments of realization through mindfulness.

One becomes greater once they realize the trivial distractions for what they are, instead of believing them to be the end all be all.


—Ñg Lyī, householder of Thēing Vyīhàr


"Careful with what you wish for. Natural Codependence would just be another weaker form of 'God' and nobody would have stopped half-way, you're the one being cheap. God or no God but no compromise in heart, people went fully 'magical self' mostly, or 54% of people at least. It was this or a Caribbean Mackonia with people. So just like the national viewpoint in life; 'Bad or Worse, but at least laughing before Death gets the last laugh'. "
-The Office Lady




"One could argue how much of it was purposeful. By then Spain knew it was clear it was tied up partly due to all their European war debts, the French expulsion, and the inflation. That the regular and insurgent uprisings in Iberoamérica were uncomfortable so different means were to be used in Las Palmeras/Nueva Andalusia. Before the British Raj's bad administration, before the Holodomor, a forced famine was placed as a reprisal to the uprising.

From there on, things broke loose. Not much is known of how much was purposeful but it most definitely went out of control and before we knew it, one of every three people were dead. The terrible climate being only a circumstantial misery. If that weren't enough pacification resulted in being more brutal and often resulted in collective punishments. By the mid 1830s, there were no qualms in gathering workers abroad to replace friends and family. Idleness when things bettered is the source of national misery, it bought self doubt."

-Ferdinando Rojas, 1900
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Lansuo
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Postby Lansuo » Sat Aug 15, 2015 10:37 am

One who acts must act accordingly to their own ideals, be them self serving or altruistic, irrational or rational. It doesn't matter, they shall act upon their own ideals, as it should be the case.

Those who witness that individual will label them accordingly.


―Lyī Thēing (1906-1963), anti-imperialist and radical
Lansuo — Ransuğaral

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Postby Allancia » Sat Aug 15, 2015 10:37 am

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The Multiversal Species Alliance
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Postby The Multiversal Species Alliance » Sat Aug 15, 2015 10:40 am

"Nemo me impune lacessit"
- Clan Bulger motto
In regards to RP,see my factbook:
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My nation absolutely DOES represent my beliefs.
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