Culture Shock the Above Nation(Mk 4)

[Auzkhia]

For some people, Yodeling (Jodeln) is enjoyed unironically.

[Doom Legions]

Generally generating a lot of noise, be it by yodeling or otherwise, is a quick way to get yourself arrested. All it takes is one noise complaint and you'll find yourself spending the rest of the day in jail, or worse.

If it is done in a habitated area before 10am, there even is the chance of execution.

[Troperia]

We have no official anti-noice laws.

[Akiramori]

The three biggest nations on the Island are Futurist social experiments.

[Leonorian Federation]

The three biggest nations on the Island are Futurist social experiments.

our whole politics is basically an "experiment"

[Ashkera]

The three biggest nations on the Island are Futurist social experiments.

our whole politics is basically an "experiment"

"Anarchist" occupies the same snarl word position as "Fascist" does in other countries. In fact, the national religion is quite statist.

[Abidawe]

our whole politics is basically an "experiment"

"Anarchist" occupies the same snarl word position as "Fascist" does in other countries. In fact, the national religion is quite statist.

It is tradition in Abidawe to burn your nation's memeflags

[Yugoslav Memes]

71% of Adulian land has been rendered uninhabitable following an apparent nuclear meltdown in 1984 dispersing various elements that "would supposedly make trees glow" and "make the country cool" by the government. No less than half of the population still suffers effects of this debacle to this day.

Adulia also spent years claiming they made an AI that could algorithmically administer the nation as a whole even though it was only an economy management programme and knew nothing about politics. The facade fell apart after a ČOZANS agent exposed it.

A terrorist group, "True Manzhaloryans", regularly assassinates top generals with their notorious feared marksmen to accomplish political goals otherwise completely unrelated. They threaten to "kill all the world's head generals" someday if their demands are not met.

[Ashkera]

Cryptography isn't just for security of communications, but is used as an element to design the structure of governmental organizations.

[Libertarian Paumanok]

We have no Jews here. We didn't holocaust them or anything, they just never showed up. Our country is predominantly Christian with Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity being the most common.

[Ashkera]

We have no Jews here. We didn't holocaust them or anything, they just never showed up. Our country is predominantly Christian with Catholicism and Orthodox Christianity being the most common.

In many countries it's an unfair stereotype that all Chinese know Kung Fu, or all Japanese know Karate. In Ashkera, thanks to culture and government meddling, "all Ashkerans know a martial art" is quite nearly true.

The government also supports shaming second generation emigrants if they don't know one, and actively promotes the stereotype abroad. It has become a running joke in America that all Ashkerans are ninja.

(The other GX nations aren't quite so intense, and in fact this bothers GX China.)

[Provincias Unidas Sudamericanas]

Military technology never evolved much after WW2.

[Serenvia]

It may come to a surprise to many, but Serenvians take pride in being 'the remnant' of the former Prussian authority that dominated the country during the Age of Enlightenment, despite being non-Germanic peoples.

[Provincias Unidas Sudamericanas]

The Axis won WW2, so English never became the lingua franca.

[Ashkera]

Bison burgers are a surprise hit.

[Wanchou]

Wanzhounese sushi contains chicken, not raw fish.

[Ashkera]

Access to tiltrotor aircraft is considered a status symbol within the state bureaucracy. Previously, it was access to helicopters.

[Arenas Blancas]

The designation of 'Cavalry' is used specifically for short-range horse-mounted troops who need a chain of posts and ever-important water, often as a hypothetical and fast defense system. The 'Dromedaries' are not cavalry and the use camels (as the name implies) to patrol larger areas because they require less water to operate.

[Libertarian Paumanok]

We have no need for camels or horses. Our military mostly uses heavily armored jeeps that are similar to American Humvees. Our Dune Legion, which is in charge of patrolling and defending our beaches from invaders uses a type of militarized dune buggy called a Sandviper. The Sandviper is most commonly mounted with a heavy .50 caliber M2 Browning machine gun, two lighter 7.62×51mm M60 machine guns, and two M136 AT4 anti-armor weapons. In some cases, the driver's M60 or the gunner's M2 is replaced with a 40 mm Mk 19 grenade launcher. Other light machine guns such as the M240 machine gun or 5.56×45mm M249 SAW can also be mounted.

[Ashkera]

All citizens are understood to be subjects of the Sovereign, which is the Empire itself, with the current Emperor or Empress acting as its embodiment/chief representative, though most power has been delegated to the civil government (OC-1's Cooperative Technocratic State). Very few people see anything wrong with this part of the arrangement - even the pro-democracy protesters.

[Saunrea]

Vocational education institutes happen to also serve as bases for Saunrean cyberwarfare assets, with attacks from Saunrea often jokingly referred to as "holiday homework".

[Akiramori]

Coco J. Riley has two foreign male models as husbands, as well as a rotating tabloid-worthy gauntlet of girlfriends, additional boyfriends, etc. Her party on becoming the PM involved both hookers and drugs. How scandalous!

[Provincias Unidas Sudamericanas]

Alcohol is illegal in the PUS.

[Auzkhia]

Auzkhia is world-famous for its drinking culture, particularly with our beer of Munich and Bohemia, the wine from the Rhine. Needless to say, prohibition is very unpopular.

[Akiramori]

Many straight women have left Akiramori for neighboring Kyougan due to there being a combination of insufficient men and lots of relationship interest from people they don't want.