Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. V

[Bereia]

"Foreign military forces seeking to intrude upon U.S. sovereign territory without permission will be shot down, sunk, or otherwise destroyed as appropriate. As such intrusion is an act of war, the hostile state behind this action will then have some fast talking to do if they wish to avoid a response."

-- Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro.

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"Bereia does have Progressives, just as the Empire has democracy advocates. As in that case, they are an extremely small minority, and overall sociopolitical trends means you won't likely see them in the political mainstream of society. As the Progressive imagines his to be the only logical ideology, this results in no small amount of distress."

-- Representative Jennifer H. C. Brunel.

[New Frenco Empire]

"If the neighbor boy breaks your window with a baseball, it is not up to you to drag him into your house and give him a spanking. We can discipline our own children, thanks. If they've done anything to offend you, we assure you they will be punished, and we'll even foot the bill for damages, but it's upon us to decide the sentence. Not you. I don't care if they shoplifted a candy bar or murdered and raped (in that order, mind) an entire preschool. You're not going to put Frenkish nationals in front of a kangaroo court and hang them the next day just so you can fuel your daily dose of 'offending the international community' or whatever it is you people get off to. We'll be more than happy to consult and work with local authorities in matters of justice when it involves our nationals, but they will not rot in your jails or hang in your gallows. When things go that route...we tend to respond with missiles and Spec Ops."

-Franklin Donnelly, Frenkish Ambassador to the Republic of Antarctica, following the sentencing of seven Frenkish citizens to death for supposed drug smuggling in the Southern Ocean, c. 2110. Although the Empire was too late to save them, the Embassy was closed and all major Antarctic ports were blockaded, their ships torpedoed wherever they popped up. Unrestricted naval warfare would only be broken by Ardavia's conquest of the region many years later.

[Auroya]

"Well of course we'll persecute foreign nationals who do not follow our laws when upon our soil, and we'll do it right here. You can't trust foreign courts to do it properly; they're bound to make some kind of political statement out of it. And in the same vein we shall not allow Auroyan nationals to be 'brought to justice' overseas. Foreign courts are bound to make some sort of stupid political message out of that, too, and we can't have that; it could be an insult upon national pride if a weaker nation was to get its way in regard."

--- Curtis Archer

[Las Palmeras]

"The whole of ECCO (Earth Coincidence Control Office) has came up with describing protocol on what information to hand down to potential inter-universe ambassadors who may go to that particular place...seeing as how most of them end up mauled. 'Cordially request a list of things and actions that would get you mauled, or if easier, things and actions that wouldn't.'

That or lying on the floor pretending to be dead.

I prefer not doing anything at all.

You never do anything either way. Besides Cosmic Control Center will grant permission in like...eons..."
-Chatter between "angels"

[Auzkhia]

"It is amusing that small backwaters always rattle their sabres at giants, they are all noise and no movement."
-Lord Blue Thunder

[Bereia]

"Threats by a foreign diplomat against the sovereignty and people of the Republic are grounds for immediate expulsion, both of the diplomat, and of their entire mission. Have a pleasant trip."

-- Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro, in conversation with a foreign emissary.

[White Sun]

"It is amusing that small backwaters always rattle their sabres at giants, they are all noise and no movement."
-Lord Blue Thunder

"Yes, the Zhong thought that of us, and the Imperials. Both knelt before our might. We 'backwaters' are not as weak as the 'mighty' like to think we are." - Nishimura Katsu

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"...You're staring, what?"

"He's like fifty."

"Yes, so?" - A Sunese discussing her husband with a Californian friend.

[Greater Mackonia]

"This contemptible gang of deluded fanatics is neither international nor a court, it is however criminal, a criminal organisation devoted to the promulgation of the Ethical Ideology via global terror. This cartel of mediocrity has waged a campaign of pugnacious intimidation against the agents of progress, reason and genius throughout the world under a cowardly phantasmagoria of sanctimony called 'international law'. A derisive concept I have already refuted numerous times. This is not a court, it is an apparatus of political terror, its morality is a phantom ethics of hatred and stupidity. I do not nor am I obligated to recognise its foul diktats, you will see justice for this justice. We do not abandon our own."

-Premier Lithastir Mythurin, regarding the ICC's sudden arrest of several Sakystrumaar members on foreign soil. Several days later, on June 5th 2019, the ICC headquarters at the Hague were destroyed by two bombs killing 956 people, two days afterwards two senior ICC judges were found dead in their hotel rooms, a week from then a senior American ICC judge resigned after his Cocaine habit was revealed on the internet. The ICC has since dropped the charges.

[Bereia]

"If a Citizen is arrested in a foreign state, we do one of two things. In the event we believe the local justice system to be legitimate and fair, we send a State Department lawyer who is versed in both local laws, and the culture of the nation in question. On the other hand, if we believe it to be corrupt, inhumane, or simply engaged in a game of gotcha', we send warships."

-- Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro.

[New Frenco Empire]

"We're not hypocrites on this matter. If a foreign national breaks our laws, we'll gladly send them back to wherever they came from along with a Justiciar's consultation and a bill for all damages to state and/or private property. Smuggling or thievery isn't worth all the international outcry."

"Of course, when someone we really don't trust is scheduled to return home...there's almost always someone with a handgun or knife standing off to the side on the prisoner's walk to the hoverplane. Perhaps their victim's loved one or a paranoid associate who fears they will rat. It matters not. The prisoner always ends up dead and the person who did it is supposedly shot down by the Enforcers on duty. The prisoner's corpse is sent back home and our own corpse is taken away to be...vaporized. It is a strange coincidence indeed..."

-Francis Levine, Party Whip of Foreign Affairs

[Children of the Macrocosm]

"No saber rattling. That's what makes it exo-law so particularly hard...the Kids won't settle terms. They'll aim to kill because they'd expect the same treatment. In past times this would be considered 'genocide', we'd be talking 2 to 7 G in just one established colony using our terms...this considering a hypothetical extraterrestrial lifeform with similar needs. A hominid killing a hominid though would be close to blasphemy."
-No Name

[Gajra]

"This contemptible gang of deluded fanatics is neither international nor a court, it is however criminal, a criminal organisation devoted to the promulgation of the Ethical Ideology via global terror. This cartel of mediocrity has waged a campaign of pugnacious intimidation against the agents of progress, reason and genius throughout the world under a cowardly phantasmagoria of sanctimony called 'international law'. A derisive concept I have already refuted numerous times. This is not a court, it is an apparatus of political terror, its morality is a phantom ethics of hatred and stupidity. I do not nor am I obligated to recognise its foul diktats, you will see justice for this justice. We do not abandon our own."

-Premier Lithastir Mythurin, regarding the ICC's sudden arrest of several Sakystrumaar members on foreign soil. Several days later, on June 5th 2019, the ICC headquarters at the Hague were destroyed by two bombs killing 956 people, two days afterwards two senior ICC judges were found dead in their hotel rooms, a week from then a senior American ICC judge resigned after his Cocaine habit was revealed on the internet. The ICC has since dropped the charges.

“The International Cricket Council arrested them? Hory shit, I hate those mother yuckers too!”

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— An illiterate Gajran.

[Children of the Macrocosm]

"Exo-Law and Exo-Politics are the attempt to create basic concepts between alien psyches for the service of mutual survival, and if things were to deteriorate; the protocol that would guide wars based on losses and scales and property rights. The futurologists rightly predicted that any interstellar organism would be akin to a very loose confederation with client states owned by actually 'equal' members but that's really the easiest thing to describe using vulgar terms."
-No Name

[Greater Mackonia]

"This contemptible gang of deluded fanatics is neither international nor a court, it is however criminal, a criminal organisation devoted to the promulgation of the Ethical Ideology via global terror. This cartel of mediocrity has waged a campaign of pugnacious intimidation against the agents of progress, reason and genius throughout the world under a cowardly phantasmagoria of sanctimony called 'international law'. A derisive concept I have already refuted numerous times. This is not a court, it is an apparatus of political terror, its morality is a phantom ethics of hatred and stupidity. I do not nor am I obligated to recognise its foul diktats, you will see justice for this justice. We do not abandon our own."

-Premier Lithastir Mythurin, regarding the ICC's sudden arrest of several Sakystrumaar members on foreign soil. Several days later, on June 5th 2019, the ICC headquarters at the Hague were destroyed by two bombs killing 956 people, two days afterwards two senior ICC judges were found dead in their hotel rooms, a week from then a senior American ICC judge resigned after his Cocaine habit was revealed on the internet. The ICC has since dropped the charges.

“The International Cricket Council arrested them? Hory shit, I hate those mother yuckers too!”

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— An illiterate Gajran.

[b]"Nah mate, it was the Icelandic Crab Confederation."

"Fuck off, their the Invisible Car Club."

"Might be the Irish Catholic Church."

-Conversation at a nursery.

[Auzkhia]

"Nobody expected the Japanese to join the ranks of the Great Powers, and St Petersburg is rather surprised that the unexpected happened. Our mission in the Orient should be more afraid of the Samurai rather than the Mandarin."
-Anon. army officer 1905

[Children of the Macrocosm]

"Oh yeah, Imperial Japan lives on in some way or another. The Military Bureaucrats/Faction is insistent that any battle with a technological equal needs a decisive Naval engagement...or in this case, a decisive space battle. With ships. Lots of them with lasers. Luckily, we're not stupid enough to have a seaworthy design in space. Generally they're-um-giant prisms with a 360° view, or simple shapes bristled with 'porcupine'-like angles for lasers rendering the same result. That and there's the fact every able citizen could be a potential warrior and kamikaze but they don't like talking about that.

They are however insistent that any space battle wouldn't be like a Pacific War style mass dogfight and bomber runs and more like an instant gunslinger duel in the Old West due to the vastness and the need for particle-based weaponry. Yippie ki-yay. "
-No Name

[Bereia]

"Mr. Ambassador, let me be frank. Diplomatic pressure will not work, and neither will economic sanctions. We will simply brush off the condemnations and trade with other sources. The only way left to you is the use of naked force. In short, you must commit an act of war, to which we will react, or accept that your national, who committed a crime here, will be tried for it here, and if he is legally convicted, he will be punished for it here. Think carefully when choosing your next sentence."

-- Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro.

[The Yorkshire Commonwealth]

"When we're in the bar, I'm a player, and your the nerd. When I overtake you on the motorway, I'm the low-rider and you're the nervous-driver, when we're in the hotel, I'm the one stylin' and profilin' and you're the one going to bed alone. And when we're in the ring, kid. I'm the wrestler, and you're the body-builder with a pretty face, trying to do moves and falling flat on his arse.
Badda-bing, badda-bang, badda-boom... The realest guy in the god damned room.
Self-high-five."

-Cool-heel YWC Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Jack Church (1995)

[Lunikia]

"Attention: it is illegal to be high whilst your ship is performing maneuvers."

-- Transmission from the Pleiades Safety Council (FT)

[Saurisisia]

"Always beware the rising power, for they will do anything to prove themselves to the established powers."
~ Isiratuu Kananishnu, former Secretary of Foreign Affairs

[Children of the Macrocosm]

"In the Local area, the Kids accept two equals. The Blues and the Gascows, yes...they come up with the names. As mentioned elsewhere, the lack of competition derives from different biological needs, coupled with a lack of clear psychological bases when the Gascow or Gascows are mentioned. Though Fermi failed to predict some things about encryption and bunched-up communication within Background Radiation through scattering, the Mediocrity Principle itself resulted optimistic for many but near-barren through the eyes of a Star Wars fan or a Trekkie. Exotic chemistry does give potential in many areas not just Earth-like but the current situation itself is against revised odds and evolution to favor overtaking the 'cultural' line is questionable...as the Gascows could be a genus loci in a Gas Giant, capable of creating complex tools but seemingly void of 'culture' and near hermit-like. The LIN Frogs/Blues are the only people to talk to as equals."
-No Name, rambling

[Ruridova]

"He who acts aggressively, hostilely, or belligerently towards other nations has no right to complain if the favor is returned. If you use gunboat diplomacy, do not be surprised or upset when it is used on you. If you bully your neighbors, do not whine when the world responds negatively."
- fmr. Foreign Affairs Minister Iakov Krassovitsky

[Nueva San Cristobel]

"I am amused and terrified. Someone has been assaulting CLF positions in the southern mountains and having victories."

"That bodes so well, it isn't us?"

"No, nor our silent partners against the cartels, this is someone new." - President Ojeda in conversation with his NSA.

[Blackwing Coast]

"Blackwing Coast does not truly have a citizen status - you are a resident. And if one of our residents is caught commiting a crime on foreign soil - up to and including mercenary activity for other residents of Blackwing Coast - that is their problem and not ours. The only exception are residents working for the Inquisition, or Hir God-Empress Shinra directly. In both cases said resident has sworn a good dozen blood oaths - some as many as five dozen - each of which will kill them if broken. One of the things their first oath prohibits is being caught alive. So unless the power arresting them has means of blocking innate magic - for the oath runs as deep as the blood itself - or access to skillful necromancers, there will be nothing left to interrogate. And given how many freelancers take this oath to avoid torture and execution if caught on foreign soil, it is not even a strong indicator for the Inquisition - I'd say the ods he is one of ours is one in five." - Inquisitor Valus Toth

[Blakullar]

"Yes, the Zhong thought that of us, and the Imperials. Both knelt before our might. We 'backwaters' are not as weak as the 'mighty' like to think we are." - Nishimura Katsu

"Except the nations you define as 'mighty' have obviously never tried scorched earth before. We tend to find that sabre-rattling backwaters are, indeed, very weak when it comes to absolute annihilation tactics."

~ A Mecharussian Red Army commander.

"If a Citizen is arrested in a foreign state, we do one of two things. In the event we believe the local justice system to be legitimate and fair, we send a State Department lawyer who is versed in both local laws, and the culture of the nation in question. On the other hand, if we believe it to be corrupt, inhumane, or simply engaged in a game of gotcha', we send warships."

-- Secretary of State Amaya Tagliaferro.

"If a foreigner is arrested on our soil, they go into a fucking Gulag. On a side note, we would like to inform you that the Aerofleet has a penchant for using surface-based warships as target practice."

~ Same commander.