Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. VI

[Ashkera]

"Let's be honest, here. The guys in Kuroiyama are fully aware they have no claim to the islands in the Eastern Xawin Sea, they're just doing it because they think they can get away with it and they want a potential chokepoint for traffic to Talkistan."
- talking head, television news, United States of Elan

"The foundation of all state power is violence."
- anonymous court official during the reign of the Second Empire

"Yes, we bootleg copies of Briefing and other Ashkeran government news, because it's technically more accurate than the news here, even though it has that pro-Ashkera bias. The stuff we get here is just that bad, and our state news, well... I saw for myself that if you believe the opposite of what they say, it's more accurate."
- shopkeep, quietly, in mainland Xawin country

"In Ashkera, Briefing, both the newspaper version and the television version, is allowed as a citation in schools. That's probably why it's always the last to break any story. I heard Section 2 [Intelligence] uses it in their archives."
- man

[Gorgashia]

"To be a Gorgashian is to exercise the vocal cords regularly. Yelling in the Tribal meetings, yelling in the Cooperative meetings, yelling in the Municipal Assembly. I dare say Gorgashians must have the strongest lungs in the world at this point, and probably the most weathered voices."

- Nami Atchich, Automobile Factory Worker. On the Gorgashian lifestyle.

[The Grand World Order]

"I once dated a Gorgashian woman; it was all fine until we had sex and she sounded like a frog crossed with a howler monkey. They're very loud." -Donald Hewitt, Orderian citizen

[Gorgashia]

Canon: Sex with Gorgashians is awful.

---

"On an unrelated note, Throat lozenges are the most consumed drug in Gorgashia."

- Nami Atchich, Automobile Factory Worker. Again, on the Gorgashian lifestyle.

[The Gamindustrian Union]

"Japan becoming an enemy in World War II from ally in World War I and the turmoil in Germany which caused the rise of Nazism is exactly why the Treaty of Versailles was evil. Then again, everything turned out fine in the end."

"Ma'am, Japan was with the Allies in World War I?"

"Yes. You didn't know that?"

-Conversation between some teacher and a student

[Okoyasu]

"Knowledge is not power. Knowledge is simply a means of extortion and exploitation, convincing the brutish and ignorant to do your own physical labor. THAT leads to inevitable power and success."

---

Dylan S. Rajehan, one of the very few non-Okoyasunese CEOs.

[Las Palmeras]

"The fear of invading Japan...or being used as a proxy for it...was the reason why since 1944, Las Palmeras tried to use mass hypnosis at least in paper, having access to little else and especially not nuclear technology. Though it wasn't until theoretical developments on the Schumann Resonance and the ionosphere in general that in the 50s and 60s the idea of transmitting imitation 'brain signals' from certain EEGs was taken seriously. Or trying to get people in tune (trance) so that they could supposedly be psychic spies using astral projection and telepathic viewing.

I wonder how eccentric the Japanese would have ended up if they'd have been bombarded 24/7 by '7.8 Cycles of Palmeran Mental Health Patients'. "
-No Name

---

"Considering this is the country that aerosolized an LSD-like alkaloid for military purposes and recommended (to American forces) fermented neural-inhibiting seeds as a defense against occupation rape...I'm not surprised."
-Office Lady

[Hamasho]

"International studies into the amount of alcohol consumption among the Hamashan populace in an attempt to explain the dramatically high mortality rate in relation to alcohol always make the critical error of averaging the results on an annual basis - which show that Hamashans drink only a little over half of the global average per year. It's not so much any day in the country one sees inebriated slobs on the streets of the capital, incessantly stumbling to their doom in the paths of drunken drivers - it's the fact that when Hamashans actually do make the trip down to their local state-run liquor store to stock up for, say, Golden Week festivities, they tend to use up their entire annual quota within a day."

-anonymous report

[The Gamindustrian Union]

"After further study, America is a nation with a culture based on egocentrism, especially in the South, which is very unpleasant for me. The rich seem to have corrupted moral, and big businesses seem to care less about consumers. And their favorite pastime is war, which seems to go too far. America needs to FORCE European progressivism, especially down the rich's throats."

-Exchange student to the USA, on the USA

[Okoyasu]

"The right wing grows not solely because of the want for tradition, which makes Okoyasu culture individualistic from all else, but to also revert the regressive left's socialist and communistic grip on or nation's politics."

---

an Okoyasunese political scientist

[The Isles of Lux]

"Stand back! Stand back, I say! Do not dare attack me! My followers will avenge my death tenfold!"
"Do not flatter yourself, Barsimeo. Your death will inspire nothing."
"You speak as if the battle has been fought already! You fool, I will kill you and end this war now!"
"No matter who dies here, the Republicanists have won. If you slay me, you start a revolution which can end in nothing but your death and the liberation of the Luxites. I kill you, and I will have achieved the very same. The tyrant dies and his rule is over. The martyr dies and his rule has just begin."
"....You may be quick with your words, Di Santi, but the quickness of your tongue does not match that of your blade, and this is a battle not of words, but of steel."
"We shall see." -High Imperial General Barsimeo Lo Surdo of the Imperialists and Chief Revolutionary General Ciro Campanile Orio Di Santi of the Republicanists during the Second Civil War, the Battle of Scavoli Forest, Circa 1611 CE.

[Greater Mackonia]

" Now, I think, and I hope you'll agree, that the tax regime here in Greater Mackonia is a very fair one indeed. We have one tax tsyr! Just one, you can make as much as you like, fuck the workers, tear down the rainforests, whatever, but your son is not entitled to that money when you are gone. By all means! He may go and make as much of it as he likes himself, he has earned that money and no man can rationally take it from him without force. No such merit hangs over money he has not earned, money merely granted to him by the dotage of some familial potentate. The land we have built here, this paradise, the last place on earth where man lives purely for himself, this wonderful system of ours is only viable so long as the lives of men remain as separate as heaven allows possible to be. Your son has already had a family, we let that slip, most Macks don't get that, but he's a smart kid and a human and an immigrant so we let it all slide - and you John, you're a good banker, you've served The Movement well. But inheritance?! Outright Altruism! Tsyr, you must understand this Movement rests on uncompromising principles, iron axioms forged from the harshest and most unrelenting logic. Should but one element of this mighty artifice come awry - the pillars of our worldview crumble. You spit on our principles, you imperil the state of our great nation. Now I look at the television, I see 'tax avoidance', I see ''public inquiries'' and ''demonstrations'' - the inane warblings of the demented democratic public. You know this land John, we do things differently here. If you don't open up that account within the next 17 hours, there will be dire consequences - you eat the fruit, don't shake the tree."

-Lithastir Mythurin, to a "tax-avoider", who swiftly saw the error of his ways after his son enjoyed the briefest of periods as a sex slave in the Islamic State.

[-the Ukrainian SSR-]

"Not one step back. She was utterly insane, do you know the utter futility of continuing the fight when your unit is combat ineffective?" - Gen. Valshannar recalling the Schayne Plains War

[Fatatatutti]

"Not one step back. She was utterly insane, do you know the utter futility of continuing the fight when your unit is combat ineffective?" - Gen. Valshannar recalling the Schayne Plains War

"When your unit is combat ineffective, go guerrilla."
-- General Marie-Louise Castro-Stalina, lecturing at the Infantry School.

"Defeat is the beginning, not the end."
-- Colonel Andrew "Andre" Timson, Commandant of the Guerrilla Warfare School.

[The Gamindustrian Union]

"I am considering your petition for the creation of the Vice Marshal of the Army/Air Force or Grand Admiral rank, or in Japanese, branch name, followed by fukusui (副帥). This is because honorary Marshals will just make it feel awkward and would dispute the command of the national or theatrical Marshals. I have duly noted that, upon creation, the Overseas Commander will be demoted to Army High General, and all future honorary promotions will be restricted to Vice Marshal. Also noted is that the Prime Minister and I will, as long as we hold our positions, by virtue of being subordinate supreme commanders, shall retain the rank of Marshal. On another note, I like how you proposed it such that the Vice Marshal rank is a combination of the High General/Admiral/Air General rank and the Marshal rank.

"I unfortunately find the High Marshal rank unnecessary for the time being."

-Mshl. Ultradimension IF, Minister of Defense, to a legislator's bill to make high command ranks more consistent

[Ashkera]

"The way that country has adapted to computers, you'd think the Transistor was invented in Kuroiyama."
- foreign businessman

"No, the 200X was originally developed as a police interceptor in the early 1980's for the government's Illegal Street Racing Intercept Program, INCEPTR. Though why they spent millions of dollars developing cars and training specific personnel to catch racers while they were racing, instead of just arresting them using spies like they normally would, I'll never know. Of course, now the 200 series is just Star Ashkera's generic sports car."
- car guy

"In the National Assembly, multiple factions are charged with writing complete policy proposals for the government to adopt, and carrying out the necessary research. These proposals are then submitted to the Oversight Council. One specific group is charged with devising radical proposals outside the bounds of conventional Ashkeran governance philosophy. I think you can imagine who was behind a program to produce 'supercars' and divert training resources towards turning professional drivers into enforcers. It was extremely beneficial for automotive exports."
- Theodore Hobbes

[The Western Porches]

"No, honestly, I don't care that my neighbor is a Sikh. I mean, yes, I do care in that neighborly sense that I want to know more about him, as a person, so we can be good neighbors and friends and citizens, sure. But it does not bother me the way you seem to think it should, as a, what did you call us? "Fellow atheists"? Get out of here with that. Let my neighbor Arvind believe what he wants. If hating him simply for being a believer is a tenet of atheism then I'm not your "fellow atheist" and I don't want to be." - Markus Cortez-Davis, capital city resident and newspaper columnist, during an interview

[Auroya]

"Auroyan Conservatism, in principle and practice, is designed around assimilating into a modern liberal society principles which are very ancient. It claims to be a modern conservatism; it respects many liberal principles, human rights, and adopts a system which appears to be liberal democracy, but incorporates tradition and nationalism. It is presented as being the natural ideology of the Commonwealth; the sum of the values of its people. But make no mistake: it was designed in the latter half of the 1940s and promptly adopted. Within its modern outlook it incorporates 'traditional religion and culture'; within the government it incorporates monarchy. It hide within itself the idea that people are naturally unequal. Within the monarchy is the idea that men can be born to rule. Within the religion, with its high priests and priestesses, is the idea that one's magical ability can decide one's place in society, and it is a call back to the ancient days of the archipelago when this was true. But it has gradually been made true again. Monarchs are selected very carefully for their ability to manage government, the confederal bureaucracy, and the people - by such skillful management the appearance of a consensus can be engineered around any reasonable desired position, which will then evolve into actual consensus. The vast wealth of the royal houses will flow into the campaigns of desirable candidates, disguised as 'ordinary lobbying' by special groups. We live in an oligarchy, a monarchy, a magocracy. We have done so for a very, very long time. The people would rule only over the dead bodies of them all."

--- Lou Kraan, left-wing blogger and activist

I swear this is the last ideological retconning for a while :<

[Star Trek America]

"The Imperials and the Bereians are offensive to the idea of peacekeeping succeeding because it shows that their heavy handed idea of 'peace making' fails utterly." - First Minister Daniel Martel

"If there is one thing the World Liberation Army has over other extremist groups it is that they do not dynamite three thousand year old cities because they offend their interpretation of God. Not that I approve of them, either." - King Charles IV

[Unrepresented Peoples]

Whats the best king of socialist? A dead one! -King Mihai I

[The Isles of Lux]

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." -Tivadar Akil Laizos, Luxite philosopher and soldier.

[Tamsien]

Do not complain about the state of things. Get in there and see if you yourself have the tact and dedication to see your desires be put into action.

―Minister of Economy Dawandato Bimaljai

e: nothing happened here

[Okoyasu]

"I really hate socialists."

---

Kizirama Ukotomi, CEO of the Hasu Economic Conglomerate

[Viet Mai]

"The Capitalists despise us because we are venerable proof that there is an alternative to their malignant ideology, and for that they loathe our very existence." - President Quân Phạm

[Xekliv]

"People are so full of themselves, they don't have room for compassion."

-- Nul-Holt

"It's depressing how passionate some people can be over things they don't know anything about."

-- Markis Martyr