Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. VI

[Singaporean Transhumans]

"Clearly Mecharussians are malnourished, and that goes to prove that commies can not manage even the food of their own people even in an advanced era like that of the Frencoverse's. Which is why PROMEK should, must and will fail."
-anon, on this news report

[Ashkera]

"Under this approach we consider a more meaningful freedom to be the intersection of the sets of what you have the resources to do (including mental resources) and what you are not prohibited from doing. Opinions are divided on whther to include the set of things that one actually wants to do as a further restriction."
- philosopher

[Surawi]

Let loose, and embrace the ebb and flow of the mind. Careful breathing whilst reading a book, drawing, or playing an instrument.

That's how I personally deal with enraging thoughts. Sometimes it is best to simply step away from it all and be in the present, there is only so much one can do at one time that it simply wears out the person.

―Yasmin Tooka Suihaddin (Suihaddin Tooka), Japanese-Suravese singer-songwriter

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Property in the form of housing and plots of land are always passed on through the mother's or wife's side. Finances are split in accordance to Shariah and typically favors the property owning spouse, that is, the woman. Children are expected to go to the mother was well. Clans names are paced down from mother to son, mother to daughter. The husband takes the clan and tribal name of the wife. The wife takes the native patronymic from the husband.

Nobility has the eldest son be the successor, if no sons, then the eldest daughter. The Sultan and his deputies are elected from each clan and tribe through unanimous vote of the respective matriarchs of each clan and tribe. Of whom are elected as well by each family of the that clan or tribe. However, in circumstances where the Sultan has no successor, the throne is declared property of the original familes of Hassan, Saed, Teramgar, Teramgari, or Abdulhaqq of the clan Salim. This scenario has the respective successors be tested on their competency of rule via an intricate ritual of various tasks. Traditionally they were tested on the Classics of Confucian thought and Shariah as well as combat skill and strategy. Nowadays it includes finance, natural sciences, philosophy, and Shariah. This method was last used in 1933 and has been used six times predating the founding of the historical Surawijaya Sultanate.

The rationale behind all this was that, due to the coastal lifestyle and the main sustenance was in the deep calm and mysterious ocean―which often is a dangerous place, the woman was automatically the head of the household and lead the maintenance of property and finance. The selection of Sultan was as a result of interactions with the Minang and Riau Malay peoples, as well with significant Chinese influence. This was the basis of the Suravese family unit, and by extension, society as a whole.

―Minister of Cultural Affairs Dato Seri Hj. Dr. Yusuf Abdulhaqq Bakrani, on Suravese inheritance laws and an abridged history behind it

[Estainia]

"Why are all of my friends either weird, or dead?"

"Consider who and what you are and then ask that question again, little brother." - part of a conversation between Cornelius A. Maximilian and his brother, Canas

[Surawi]

What people forget when they come to Surawi is that English as well as Suravese is an official language here, and that basically every Suravese citizen is expected to be bilingual if not at least able to use a few phrase here and there.

And while you can survive here speaking Malay or Indonesian... well... let's just say you'll kena sepak*.

―E. Mosa Tan (Tan Jinhai), journalist and tour guide

*kena sepak: to get smacked/hit

[Greater Mackonia]

_{"We were lucky enough to be discovered in the gap between Christ and Darwin and by a culture which had never previously needed to formulate a justification for colonialism. According to the reigning Idealist-Romantics as self-conscious agents interacting with God in Nature, we were as much a part of Geist as man. It is quite correct, had we been discovered a century earlier or later by the British or the French we would have undoubtedly been enslaved and exterminated under the banner of Christ or Natural Selection. Moral of the story: if you're going to be colonised by evil Europeans, make sure they're Transcendental Monists...Actually our colonial past is still being written researched, quite possibly the British owned part of the island...though not definitely."}

-Tyserthi Masjin Rasmarth-Myrzeroth, on 'why the humans did not just kill the Lizards and Cats'.

[Bereia]

"Killing a tank is not as hard as many believe. You can kill a tank with a stout log and a bottle of booze. All it takes is the right tools, determination, intelligence, and a slight touch of insanity to ignore the blinding terror long enough to get it done right."

-- Capt. Brianna Schell, U.S.A.

[Gigaverse]

"We've lost count of how many 'Galactic Empires' are conquered and unconquered by now."

-An Imperial Scribe, regarding dozens upon dozens of entities named "Galactic Empire" out there.

[Singaporean Transhumans]

"We've lost count of how many 'Galactic Empires' are conquered and unconquered by now."

-An Imperial Scribe, regarding dozens upon dozens of entities named "Galactic Empire" out there.

"Ah...it's normal for reality-stretching empires like us. We've lost count of how many Japans we have conquered too."
-AI

"GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME CHIPHEADS! NO! NO!! NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!-"
-A baseliner tourist after talking shit about Singaporeans

[Insulatia]

"Hard states breed hard people. Hard people breed success. Success breeds envy! And that's why we've a sizeable Navy." - Sgt. Joseph Smith

"The key to a good nation is a happy people. The key to happy people is not freedom; it is pride and wellbeing." - Prof. Alfred Walker

"Yes, I'm an immigrant. I know, my accent gives it away.. What do you mean, Insulatia better than the Soviet Union? Of course it is! There's almost no criminality here! Not much poverty either. Sure, it's a bit strict, but I knew that when I immigrated. That's -why- I immigrated after all -- Insulatia's a haven for the national socialist! I'd give my life to protect our glorious country! Besides, people don't go missing in the night here. Very rarely, they are taken and shot in broad daylight." - Yekaterine Walker, Housewife.

"Insulatia is the best islands in the world! Other nations have hobos and eat curry! Eww!" - Timothy Walker.

"We are losing members, yes. However, this is in no way the churches fault. Neither is it the government. But I fear that the people are cynics nowadays. The belief that God exists is becoming rarer and rarer. Of course, most people thinks our Lord exists.. But a frightening percentage of those believe that he once existed, and died some time ago." - Reverend Eric Vimes

"Nah, there's no racism here. I mean, my father's from India, while I was born here. He didn't get that much flak, he said. Only some for his accent. And for his surname.. But nothing about his colour! Nothing about my colour, either. Insulatians have a way of judging by character, not race. If you work hard, keep your chin up, own a medium-sized dog, and eat lots of tuna; then you're Insulatian. I'd probably get lots of suspicion pointed at me if my name was 'Sanjay Chandragupta' instead of what it is though. Can't blame them, after all, I'd sound like a curry-eating foreigner." - Samuel Bordeaux

"The streets are clean, the poor are hard-working, and all of us are brimming with pride! What's not to like? I mean, sure, we could've been a bit nicer to other countrie--- Wait, we couldn't? Oh, right, no, of course we couldn't.. Sir." - Jennifer Wilkins

[Barboneia]

"People often forget the fact that we Finns are the one who invented the Molotov cocktail. Molotov made them so that they could be used to easily destroy the Soviet tanks, because if thrown onto the vents behind the main turret it'll ignite the liquid inside and cause the tank to burst into flames."

*Sound of glass shattering and a roar of flames*

"AAAAGH! AAAAGH! WHO THE FUCK THREW THAT?!"

"Tuls... That wasn't a training tank..."

"...Whoops."-A Finnish-Barboneian, a Greater Barboneian Army Tank Corps member, and an anon. Greater Barboneian Army soldier.

[Las Palmeras]

" ' Resident Reasonable (But Not Sane) Anime Land', we are not unique?

Eh, 'anime-esque'. And definitely not very attractive to many, even anime enthusiasts for it's cheapness or purposeful dis-appeal like plainness and relatively small eyes. If translated to Japanese it'd be spoken in a very thick Kansai dialect, or NYC English if seen in the English world. Soul-crushing banality, sniveling protagonists who look down or around a rustic populace and unforgiving and aimless world in contempt or confusion. No visible gods. No magic or magical girls. No super-powers or superheroes. No giant robots. No ninjas. No Katanas outside of museums. No Z-cup sized breasts...I think some people have technicolor hair but there's no telling because everything is near-monochrome."
-Two people conversing in an unkempt metro

[Christian Dominion of the Levant]

(FT)

"Valles Marineris has been a site of major conflict for resources between the Dominion, the Caliphate, and the UTA¹. I sense, however, that we may succeed in capturing it if we let the UTA dogs and the Moslems fight it out. Then, we can bring RELAY. . ."

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- Grandmst. Elliot V. Jonathan, circa. 2201 Anno Domini.

^{1 - United Terran Alliance; The rest of the sovereign states in the world that isn't within the Christian or Muslim theopolitical spheres.}

[Ashkera]

" ' Resident Reasonable (But Not Sane) Anime Land', we are not unique?

Eh, 'anime-esque'. And definitely not very attractive to many, even anime enthusiasts for it's cheapness or purposeful dis-appeal like plainness and relatively small eyes. If translated to Japanese it'd be spoken in a very thick Kansai dialect, or NYC English if seen in the English world. Soul-crushing banality, sniveling protagonists who look down or around a rustic populace and unforgiving and aimless world in contempt or confusion. No visible gods. No magic or magical girls. No super-powers or superheroes. No giant robots. No ninjas. No Katanas outside of museums. No Z-cup sized breasts...I think some people have technicolor hair but there's no telling because everything is near-monochrome."
-Two people conversing in an unkempt metro

"We must license this for Ashkera."
- Ashkeran animation director, speaking of a one-shot to be known as "Las Facepalmeras"

(Later, an actual "Las Facepalmeras" would be discovered as a result of the PFTS-Ashkera Time War.)

[Las Palmeras]

Ashkera. Me gusta.

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"Yes! Multiversal recognition by the nonhuman vampire-anthro freaks that would potentially cause paranoia but would also be 'admired' for their direct application of...stuff. Hold on -soft paedophilia. Heh, yeah, there was no multiversal confusion...hold on. What is that about-"
-No Name

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"Conclusions: We only know how to infantilize and sexualize the Indigenous of the Andes and the Amazons due to Colonial and Imperialist experiences with simplified sex-gender stereotypes placed over geopolitics. This is not like Western Orientalism though because those Mongoloids crossed the Bering Strait eons ago and as fellow Americans we help each other out weather they want it or not. All will learn to appreciate us! "
-The Worker's International Potato, spoof newspaper #721

[Akhurea]

"I, Alhazred the Great, he who hath conquered, and he who hath unified the great lands of the Akhurean Empire, hereby declare myself Pheron of this newly-unified nation. Let our people sing in the streets, let our people feast on a bountiful harvest, let us build!

- Alhazred the Great, first Pheron of the Akhurean Empire

[Las Palmeras]

"My new Mother is actually a patient benefactor, 'bettering' me here and there. Lucifer or Prometheus stealing from limiting Divinity to make something divine out of humanity but making them mortal at the same time and that Man can only try to make an Eden on Earth, even through wars with Barbarians who are infantile. That civilization separated Homer and Hesiod and that the Gods' essences are useless in the face of mortal actions. That the union of a life essence, a physical body, and rational mentality are pinnacles of a great civilization which we indirectly inherit thanks to the more direct Romans so loved here. That Christianity placed Zeus/Deus backwards and in definition it was already hazy, as were the concepts of infinity and the follies of 'Hope' in Pandora's vase as compared to Christian Hope and docile malleability...but that Las Palmeras placed it back in order in the 19th Century and that's why Santeria was banned, and that the truly civilized don't need God completely to mediate their society.
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All this to prove I don't have anything Japanese in me and she said that Shinto is rubbish. What the hell does that even mean?"
-Tsuneko Zorilla

[Ashkera]

"Your so-called 'art' is nothing but unsubverted pandering moe garbage! You bring shame to the entire industry!"
- Ashkeran animation director Thomas Hobbes, to director Peter Conne, as recorded by nearby smartphones and uploaded to AshTube, along with the resulting fight

"Silence, fool! My work is the most sublime and transgressive art! You're the one only operating two layers deep you stereotypical beret-wearing, tea-swilling, panorama-loving hack!"
- Ashkeran animation director Peter Conne, to director Thomas Hobbes, prior to fight

"Presented without comment."
- employee of Ashkerimation Studio 52, before showing clip of animated version of this fight at a subsequent Ashkeran film festival

"It happened in the mid 1980's. Each studio did the locally rational thing and focused only on the most reliably profitable series and genres. Audiences were becoming increasingly numb. It reached peak in 1987. Literally every show failed to make back its production budget except for a title many of you will be familiar with from its modern remakes: Futur Soldat et La Guerre. The title, which might have failed had it been released ten years earlier, was known for its highly intellectual script, blending of philosophy, narrative, reality, and dream-like virtual reality, and avant-garde animation style. It blew every other series out of the water, and some believe, 'broke' the Ashkeran animation industry permanently.

In 1988, studios began to hire popular writers from abroad, and cult-classic writers from at home, and produce many experimental works. From 1988 to 1994 is known as the 'Golden Age' of animation in Ashkera as the studios began to branch out and produce innovative works that rivaled - or even surpassed - the live action films of foreign nations. But by end of 1994, the culture had been set in place, and arms race to further shock Ashkeran viewers and appear more 'transgressive', 'avant-garde' and 'edgy' had been set into motion, limited only by the commercial viability of the works. Fortunately for the rest of us, the equivalent of meaningless, content-free faux-trangressive foreign 'modern art' bombed for any studio that attempted it, which left the other direction, where works have tunneled deeper and deeper, including more and more content and layers of meaning, both direct and allegorical. It's not uncommon these days for a 24-episode anime to come out with three 500-page books and two thousand pages of comics which are required reading to fully understand it. World-building has become an addiction among the Ashkeran creative class.

Foreigners see this in either one of two ways: either they love it as an escape from the torrid, hollow reality TV of their home countries, or it slowly drives them mad.

Video games used to be the exception to this, but the influence this 'modernized' Ashkeran animation has had on the generations now responsible for creating them has leaked through. You can see this even in modern triple-A titles such as Inflection Point, even though it's ostensibly about space cyborgs doing rocket parkour."

- professor of film history

"The purpose of creating new genres is to burn them to the ground."
- Ashkeran animation director, regarding the Ashkeran film industry's obsession with creating Dead Unicorn Tropes [TVTropes warning], some of which are later adopted seriously by foreign film makers.

"Sequels are for morons!"
- Ashkeran director making deliberately provocative statement for reasons, although some series are deliberately left without sequels, as it is considered a mark of creative genius to create something "unsurpassed"

[Bereia]

"The peace which all sane men cherish is not born of grand speeches and flowery treaties. It is born of the sacrifices made by great men and their companions."

-- President Dalton Barbosa.

[Greater Mackonia]

_{"Mackonian visual art like most sectors of thought was slave to party policy until Sikasith's lunacy reached high-water mark and he later did us all a favour and got stomped on by some Necron. Largely around Sterkvelso a new artistic scene developed, it was largely contested by the pure radicals who favoured western style conceptual art, and a second smaller but more closely knit band which, to vulgarly paraphrase their manifesto, was devoted to using strictly traditional forms to display highly bizarre or radical scenes. I mean I suppose the closest analogous form in the West would be surrealism but what the New Formalists meant by 'traditional form' was of course, Socialist Realism...so it looked a bit like some Soviet propaganda hack trying to rip off Dali. Whereas the stereotype portrayed them as trendy, creative, tolerant hipsters...the reality was anything but, the Neo-Formalists despised the Alvexion regime and saw their battle against conceptual art as part of one against Democratic vulgarity. The group were closely aligned with the Sakystrumaar."}

-Tyserthi Masjin Rasmarth-Myrzeroth.

[Bereia]

"One night a local warlord, accompanied by one hundred or so armed men and boys, surrounded the Colonel's tent and walked in on him. Setting his old teacup aside, the Colonel laid his pistols on his camp table, looked at the warlord and bid him leave...and he left."

-- James G. Sims, historian, The Boyle Expedition: Colonel Ambrose Boyle in Africa, a book concerning an anti-slavery expedition launched in the 1800s.

[Greater Mackonia]

"...so then they shoved a spear through his eyes and used his genitals to make potions."

-Z.Maglos, trying to tell a joke at a dinner party concerning his dead cousin; the late Governor of Mackonian Congo Kurtz Maglos. This story has many variations depending on what time of day it is told.

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_{"Generally speaking modern Mackonian culture could be said to be characterised by a furious reaction against postmodernism and perceived dumbing-down in general. Essentially an attempt to ruthlessly resuscitate old style with new content and a renewed national obsession with the Wagnerian Gesamtkunstwerk."}

-Lauriem Excahvir.

[Auzkhia]

"Some expatriates who come to Auzkhia are more German and the Germans themselves."
-Princess Wish Darling

[Christian Dominion of the Levant]

“We adapt. We evolve. We survive.”

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— Grandmaster Yehoshua B. Weber of the Poor-Knights of Christ, during the Crusade on the United Kingdom and United States¹.

^{1 - The United States and the United Kingdom declared military action against the CDWL in the Middle East, South America, Africa, and Asia; the CDWL invaded and attacked Europe and North America as a result.}

[Ashkera]

"By 2034, the position of 'Director' had become largely divorced from the actual direction of the work. A director was someone who was hired to embody the ideals of the project or studio in an exaggerated and passionate way. Most infamously, Soichiro, a director for Ashkerimation, attempted to, and nearly succeeded in, launching a coup against the corrupt government of a tiny, underdeveloped foreign country. He was then arrested by Ashkeran operatives, and the show the studio had been working on was reclassified as banned information by the government. The entire incident was considered a national disgrace. The second collapse of the Ashkeran film industry several years later would seem obvious in retrospect.

About twelve years were then spent making bog-standard films and animation which were utterly indistinguishable from foreign tripe. It wasn't until after the war, when the Oversight Council returned to power amid the ruins of a battered and bloody Ashkera, that people began to look back with nostalgia at what was then a uniquely Ashkeran identity. The trauma of war left our people in desire of cultural roots. And so it began again, but somewhat calmer this time."
- professor of film history