Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. VI

[Aufwachen]

"War with the Japanese is inevitable. The only variable that will change, is if any of us will survive."

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✙ General Niko "Totenkopf" Kocher

[Las Palmeras]

"The Japanese plotted to make us part of the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere's Government-General of Central America...they made a submarine with the capacity to carry a bomber that could strike the Panama Canal. Very frighteningly close to Las Palmeras.

Our wartime actions against Japan were dedicated to finding out a way to make the Japanese surrender to avoid a very bloody invasion. By May of 1945 we came up with a theoretical dispersal bomb with a certain aerosolized alkaloid to 'incapacitate' enemies and civilians alike, the report indicated that thousands and thousands of harvested seeds could be used to make a crude and economic bio-synthesized version. All while experimenting on rabbits and cats to find out if separated mothers would feel mental stress of their offspring in peril. Also researchers attempted to reach hypnosis through radio. Weather the scientists were taking a magic carpet ride themselves is to the day undisclosed."
-Office Lady

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"Turbina corymbosa is native to Las Palmeras and so is Psylocybe palmerensis, which carries it's name. Also Anadenanthera p. Introduced species were later Brugmansia from South America/Nueva Granada as a decorative plant, Turbina's cousin Ipomea from México/New Spain for similar reasons. The vulgar Lophophora williamsi was smuggled illegally despite Inquisition efforts and thrived in Coabana's more arid East.
-A text book

[Ruridova]

"And what if I wind up in Mackonia?"

"The Macks are the Macks, they operate on a morality that looks blue-and-orange to most of us. Just... let them do whatever it is Mackonians do, I guess."

"...and what do Mackonians do?"

"Talk in complicated prose, seek self-enrichment and self-glorification, produce really fucking weird propaganda, I dunno. Just don't do anything that could possibly be misconstrued as 'supporting the stagnant ideological enslavement known as neohumanist rights dogma' or whatever."

"...'neohumanist rights dogma'? What? What on earth is 'neohumanist rights dogma'?"

"I dunno, it just... if you find yourself in Mackonia, don't do anything that sounds like it might fall into that area."
- Josu Inaki and C.M. Tagliaferro

[Auzkhia]

"The Japanese have their eyes on Tsingtao, Palau, and the Caroline islands, and the British might support them."
-Admiral Kovács Ferenc 1902

[Allancia]

"Any army attempting to invade Allancia will eventually fail. They see our tiny army, with our terrible guns, with our poor discipline and our ragged flags. They see our poverty and our backwardness. They of course underestimate us. Who wouldn't? However, if there is anything that they don't take into account, it is how many people live here, as well as how little our generals care about their lives."

-Walter Morntell

[The Gamindustrian Union]

"Go and look at the soles of my shoes. I know they're attractive." -Iris Heart

[Bereia]

"Throwing waves of poorly trained, barely clothed bodies at the enemy is a gamble. You are taking a chance on the hope that the enemy will run out of bullets before you run out of bodies, that he lacks the willpower to kill seemingly ceaseless waves of people for days at a time, or perhaps both. If you are right, look to the German invasion of Russia, but if you are wrong, then look to Japan in the same war, versus America and their allies."

-- Col. Annabelle Sizemore, U.S.A.

[Exoatmospheric Britannia]

"The surface of Erebus still bears the scars left by the bloody conflict that was the Independence wars. Some areas are irradiated, others tainted by the effects of chemical warfare. The cities were left unscathed, as neither side wished to destroy the only places on the planet that were fit for human habitation, but it is recommended that any visitor avoids the so-called Death Zones."

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• Interstellar Travel: A guide to the Commonwealth

[Chzeng]

"A nation's victory lies not in the flag flying over the stormed building of an enemy nation, but how long that flag can fly."
-anon. official

[Singaporean Transhumans]

"The Bulgarians were indeed right; the Left never quite gets its shit together nor comes to one, the problems arising how to distribute the apples, and how to name those stupid methods of distribution."
-DHQ agent, undercover in Bulgar Rouge

[Jellyfish-Chan]

"Jellyfish, Jellyfish, Jellyfish, Jellyfish, Jellyfish, And More Jellyfishs!!"
~ Princess Jellyfish

[Cumberlanda]

"Theoretically, if we consider that the universe is infinite, and other universes also infinite, and an infinite number of universes, than the theory that there is scarcity is impossible. However, we do have the issue of accessing those resources, but think of it this way. If I owned a coal mine, and I could traverse to another universe with that coal mine, than I owned a potentially infinite number of coal mines. This could only mean that resources are infinite, but mouths to feed also so. But at the end it means that the entirety of Existence is both replenishing itself and destroying itself at the same time"
"That's nice, but that doesn't give you the right to take my sandwich, Bill."

-Bill and Frank, Watau'gah University Dept of Multiversal Sciences.

[Blakullar]

"Cursing is not in my nature ... but I swear, if I hear one more goddamn mantra about jellyfish, I may be forced to punch someone."

~ General Elena Trotskaya.

[Jellyfish-Chan]

"Cursing is not in my nature ... but I swear, if I hear one more goddamn mantra about jellyfish, I may be forced to punch someone."

~ General Elena Trotskaya.

Jellyfish
/skip

[Greater Mackonia]

"No ma'm, I assure you, when I say 'cannibal tribes', I mean 'cannibal tribes'. Those forests have not been mapped since the ninth century A.D, and we've felt no real need to map them since, the people in there have not the slightest shred of any emotion but antipathy for 'civilised society', now you can call me a post-colo-whawhodyist - but when you live in this country you understand there is a difference between civilisation and savagery. The Cyrzarii does not take naturally to civilisation, he a born predator, he's gotta overpower centuries of instinct telling him to rip your ribcage open every time he buys some tea. These Cyrzarii are the ones too mad for the other Cyrzarii to handle, now look around you fool, you see all this? All this Agonocracy or whatever the fuck it is this week? The people who run Agonocracy - think the people in that forest are too mad and bad and dangerous. So don't go there."

-Tentih Mattered-Fur, guide, to an environmental activist from the United States looking to 'save the indigenous people' of Greater Mackonia, unfortunately she did not take his advice and met a predictably grisly end.

[Singaporean Transhumans]

"Why a 'skip' in this place?"

"Well, I don't know quite either, maybe we should classify it as a DHQ..."

"'Skip' is already a SCiP."

"Fuck you, that's punacceptable."
-conversation in room

[Indonesia Ultranationalists]

"Good and Evil is rather ambiguous for me,because one thing can be seen as evil by someone and can be seen as good by others"
~People's President Rena Sastrawiharya Vissarionovich

[Blakullar]

"Cursing is not in my nature ... but I swear, if I hear one more goddamn mantra about jellyfish, I may be forced to punch someone."

~ General Elena Trotskaya.

Jellyfish
/skip

"Good grief, what happened here?!"
"He pissed off the General, sir."
"Which General? ... Okay, stupid question - but seriously, what the hell did the poor guy do to deserve that treatment?"
"I don't know the details of it, sir. Something about jellyfish..."
"Jellyfish? Must have been pretty serious to warrant ... um, that."
"Well sir, in this department, it's not the first time we've had to literally scrape someone off the ceiling."

~ Two SVB apparatchiks discussing an 'incident' outside of Trotskaya's office.

[Greater Mackonia]

"A healthy culture requires an overpowering aura of artistic conservatism, which individual creativity stuns and leads captive on its own path. It is a sign of imminent doom when each man sets himself up as master of his own taste and demands passive right to enjoyment thereof, that, I find, is not creativity, but a conservatism of the individual."

-Tseila Kathangi, snob.

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"We call ourselves Elitists and people immediately think we are somehow on the right. But really, who benefits more from the pseudo-compassion of Social-Humanism than the monied metropolitat of North London or Manhatten? Who can safely ignore the plight of the impoverished with the bestowal of empty liberties or compassionate platitudes of lecture circuit Marxism? Indeed is not the founding excuse of the industrialists' charter that since 'all men are created equal' his wealth is purely incidental? Agonocracy, in demanding a judgement of inequality ruthlessly blind to wealth rather than a superficial doctrine of equality is the only way to grant the working man true justice."

-Zilkas Soekthar-Mesok.

[Ashkera]

Excellent Mackposts today.

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"A man is a lot less likely to seek revenge if his buddy is, you know, alive."
- drunk bureaucrat conversing with totalitarian foreign bureaucrat

[New Frenco Empire]

"Throwing waves of poorly trained, barely clothed bodies at the enemy is a gamble. You are taking a chance on the hope that the enemy will run out of bullets before you run out of bodies, that he lacks the willpower to kill seemingly ceaseless waves of people for days at a time, or perhaps both. If you are right, look to the German invasion of Russia, but if you are wrong, then look to Japan in the same war, versus America and their allies."

-- Col. Annabelle Sizemore, U.S.A.

"On one end, you have a nation that could throw in more men than the enemy had bullets, and said enemy was trying to conquer a nation over fifty times it's size with a population roughly equal to that as well. On the other, you have a nation that was fighting a losing battle from the start, in which the enemy was superior on all counts; both technologically and numerically. They're hardly comparable."

-Mary Sue

[Auzkhia]

"Cannon fodder only works if you have more flesh than your enemy has bullets and shells."
-Lord Blue Thunder d'Azzini

[Ashkera]

"Welcome to boot camp. Now, I know literally all of you have some kind of allergy or disorder or whatever, which is why we put you all in one place, but seeing as you lunatics decided to come out here anyway instead of paying the military service tax, you WILL be learning your mandatory military training. Remember, you CAN fail boot camp, so if any of you are having second thoughts, turn around, walk out that door, and just pay the damn tax, because I promise you, this isn't for you. People die every year because they fucked something up. If you DO fail your training, it will NOT count for the tax exemption, and you WILL have to repeat it. Have I made myself clear?"
- sergeant, "Sniffles Brigade" boot camp. Ashkera uses compulsory military service for additional survival and weapons handling training not covered by the school system, in part due to the frequency of deadly animal attacks. Those who do not complete the service period are charged an annual tax.

[Amerikians]

"Once upon a time a cop beat a kid to death for calling him a 'dude'. Once upon a time, a crowd of onlookers beat a cop to death for the same. All were arrested, tried and most convicted because vigilantism is just as bad as a corrupt cop in the civilized world." - Ron Yuuda, Citizen.

[Barboneia]

"It's simple. Just write down whatever you see happen to the program that appears to-"

"WARNING. SYSTEM SHUTDOWN IMMINENT!"

"Oh god, it's happening!"

"What the hell?"

"My horoscope was right! AGH!" - Two programmers encountering a system failure, 1999.