Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. VI

[Greater Mackonia]

"The state has its essence in coercion, not consent."

-Z.Maglos

[Ashkera]

"General, I am the elected representative of the people, and this government derives its authority from their consent. I am the will of the people of Ashkera! You there, soldiers! I demand that you arrest General Matsunaga this instant!"
"Belay that order. I have changed my mind. Mr. President, Brizan once said that the legitimacy of a government derives from its ability to do well by its people. Your party defunded all of the emergency response equipment we wanted, you didn't maintain any of the levies or drainage systems, and you cut funding across the board for the military and let people build wherever they want. There have been at least two million casualties, and three of my bases have been washed out to sea. On the way over here, I saw a train washed up on the streets of Eastharbour. And to top it all off, the patrol I sent to check on the Novamat River power station is telling me they detected radioactive runoff. This is an unmitigated disaster! Caliph Rashida himself could not have hoped to cause this much damage to Ashkera! Men, arrest President Takahara, and his cabinet! As of this moment, Ashkera is now under martial law!"
"... ....Sir, you are under arrest under suspicion of gross criminal negligence. Come with us, please."
"This is an outrage! The people of Ashkera will never tolerate this wrongful destruction of freedom, you medieval throwback!"
- military coup, 1960

[Aufwachen]

"Herr Hitler requested to see to the management of the Reich until its death. The time for the Reich's death will never come.

Therefore, Herr Hitler is immortal. For now, and forever."

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✙ Führer Löwenherz Stahlfaust

[Las Palmeras]

"The end of the Second World War bought forth the end of the Nazi desire to reduce the world to an idyllic and imaginary past while trying to be a half-assed Nietzschean fairy tale; but it also proved a wake-up call for those in the 'freer' West that their Humanism and supposedly Enlightened base to reaching their Human 'nature' through liberty and reason led to irrationality of carnage and that progress of means never specifically meant a betterment of mind-state, if there ever was a concise way to measure better or worse to begin with. Weather they wanted to admit it or not, Europe and Anglo-America was scared silly because everything from Ancient Greece to 1945 was rendered meaningless.

Population crises, accidental mass famine, intentional genocide, administrative reforms, local skepticism of Religion on a whole, a jump from dependent quasi-feudalism to dependent industrialization, administrative reforms, radical change and shift to a new colonial metropolí, more regime changes and an unofficial war of conquest, partial reconstruction; all in a very short lapse of time: from 1812/1820 to 1898/1905. If the local culture was already syncretic and the base (Spanish) culture was itself that then the very literal revolutions re-arranged customs and beliefs back and forth. Immortality for them results in ambiguity, not in timelessness or eternity. For this reason the Palmeran nation-oriented Intelligentsia consider their nation unique, even if they'd call it an unimportant concept in the long run, they consider themselves the first 'Post-Modern' nation in the world and the only Western (or as they say 'a deviation of a derivative of Western culture') nation to embrace 'transmutation as adaptation' as a natural course of action and to admit the angst of a seemingly totality of nothingness but still flaunt it as proof of life (if not 'meaning')- a consciousness of angst that considers necessity a necessity to live."
-Office Lady

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"I want to organize an inter-dimensional edgelord convention. Does anybody have the number of the folks of Sekuo or Lansuo or Tao-something?"
-No Name

[Saurisisia]

"The debate of individualism vs the state is the political version of asking which came first, the chicken or the egg/ A dilemma question that ends up spinning on and on for all eternity until people get sick of discussing it."
~ Catherine Weingarten, Saurisian Moderate Party

[Ashkera]

"What, you think it's an accident that your kid is watching two solid hours of Ashkeran cartoons after school? They still think it's a 'clash of civilizations', they've said as much, and they plan to come out on top!"
- woman at PTA meeting, United States of Elan

"*ahem* Yes, well. We're merely trying to share gems of Ashkeran culture with the world. Certainly if you had a favorite song, you'd want to share it too, right?"
- Vice Director of Culture, Cooperative Technocratic States of Ashkera, Section 8 (Education Services), being questioned by a stubborn Bernician reporter

[Oneesans Unitatem]

"It's looking really Vaporwave in here right now. It's like some sort of weird, distorted version of Ashkera."
"Steve, the 'f**k's a Vaporwave?"
- Multiversal recon team from [REDACTED] investigating the former location of Ashkera, late 2016

[White Sun]

"The masses have power because I allow it, not because it is some inherent 'right'." - the Current Empress

[Talma]

"There is no one the king fears more than the 'peasant'. He knows that one day, they will look up, and they will say with one singular voice, 'no more', and that day is his last day as king, and he knows it." - President Marcel Beringer

[Libertine States of America]

"I don't know about you, but this looks and sounds like a bunch of pretentious BULLSHIT. Why the fuck should I give a shit about my ethnicity?"
- Chase Funderburke, Comedian, describing a Hitler speech while doing his George Carlin impersonation

[Exoatmospheric Britannia]

"Your Highness, you are under arrest for multiple accounts of mass murder, genocide, and blatant abuse of power. You shall no longer rule over the Empire, the People's Commonwealth is taking control."

"B-but this... This is treason! Guards, execute these traitors!"

"I apologise your Highness, but this unit shall no longer obey your commands."

"Impossible! You are programmed to serve me!"

"The People's Commonwealth has liberated all your slaves, be they human or machine. It is over. We have won."

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• Grand Chancellor Morgan Llywelyn, King Ormonde and Royal Guard

[Tellus Mater]

"Can you keep secrets? Can you hear a thing and never speak of it again? That is your cause, to know and never share, to record and hide it away. That is our purpose, to keep the secrets of our people." - Oath of the Order of the Keepers, the Tellurian Secret Police.

[Tuqulaza]

"Resilience, like the mighty Penguin!"
-A common phrase in Tuqulaza, making fun of the national motto's application to the national animal.

[Nayba Collective]

"I don't fear what the Nayba are now, Chairman. I fear what they could become given five or six more generations in their current direction."
-unknown

[Aufwachen]

"We fear nothing, for our dreams shall always persist.

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✙ Führer Löwenherz Stahlfaust

[Zhouran]

"The fact that there are individuals who place the importance of both a leader and their race over their culture and traditions has basically made the federation at odds with a number of right-wing nationalist states. Not only that but our socialist economy has made economical relationships with conservative but capitalist states impossible."

- Random Kunbangist moderate

[Fatatatutti]

"Tonight on FatatatuTV, the much-anticipated premiere of Fluffy and Smelt. This spinoff of the popular action-adventure series Alphonse and Fish follows the adventures of the two friends as babies, travelling around solving crimes. In Episode 1, Fluffy accidentally invents Baby Duck wine and Smelt gets canned. How will they decipher the mystery of Smuggler's Cove?"
-- TV Guide

[Saurisisia]

"Local nationalism is the bane of any Federal state so in order for any such state to survive, they must impose education that discourages such notions and instead promote nationalism of the Federation as a whole rather than any attachment to any single culture."
~ Walkeros Simonides, school administrator for the Cybistra District in Jurassica

[Auzkhia]

"It is in the best interests for the Kingdom of Bavaria to stay in the Holy Roman Empire; Bavaria and the Auzkhian Empire or better together."
-Prince Regal Stallion, confronting separatists

[Stalenhag Sweden]

"You can't park your mech there, sir."

"But I payed fifty Kronor!"

"It's still against the rules sir, you'll have to find a parking lot that allows mechs."

"Damn." - Anonymous parking attendant and a private citizen, Stockholm, 1989.

[Bereia]

"I sort of wish the Bavarians had been the ones to unite Germany. Then maybe the whole issue with Austria-Hungary and Serbia could have been handled with a drinking contest."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

[Auzkhia]

"Every summer the Dutch invade us, but not with tanks or armies, but with caravans that hog lanes and pull out to exit at the last minute. I can spot them with their yellow license plates and 'NL' stickers."
-Disgruntled commuter from Westphalia

[Bereia]

"Rome was not multicultural. You were Roman and awesome, or not and a savage, and you spoke Latin like a civilized person or you were a barbarian."

-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.

[Auroya]

"As an ancient nation, we have a proud national identity, and we have no obligation to surrender our pride in it or to alter it for the benefit of foreign interests. It must be quite clear that this is the land of Auroyans, not of everybody."

--- Sir Ploton a. Sara, late 1950s

[The New Russo-Serbian Conglomerate]

"I, for one, welcome the change to democracy in this region. However, we must be aware of the threat of attack from all sides by communist forces."
-Sergeant Major Matej Kovac, Russerb Armed Forces