Your opinion on a interesting fact about the AN (II)

[Eorwic]

I've read most of this in one of your earlier facts on this thread (or maybe its predecessor? Honestly I don't remember) but I will react thus: I'm not sure how I feel about the gov't banning making conspiracies on the royalty. The entire point of having a royalty in a country that isn't absolute monarchy is to gossip about them lmao

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After Harald the Conquerer successfully invaded Angland from Norge and defeated Harold Godwinson and William the Bastard, he needed to compensate his Jarls, Þegns and lendmenn. One of the main ways he did so was confiscating the lands of rebelling Anglo-Saxon nobility once they inevitably revolted the Nordman rule and redistribute it to those who were more loyal to him. The other -more immediate and inevitably less costly- way was to pretty much sell whoever he had managed to take hostage during the Battle of Hastings and the Battle of Stamford Bridge into thralldom. Either to the person he was trying to compensate directly, or to others so he could pay his men with the income. This, of course, enraged the Norman nobility along the Albion Sea (TTL's English Channel), something that was made even worse when his successors inevitably claimed its seat and actually conquered it thanks to successive "marriages" between his dynasty and theirs.

[Borgevia]

Initially, it sounds like a good idea to keep loyal men loyal to you. But, neglecting the citizenry into revolt is also something to be worried about. I guess in your Conquerer's case, it was a tough political decision to balance stability on either end as a "Damn if you do, damned if you don't" sort of thing.

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During the Reform Period (1947 - 1968, of which 1949 marked the start of Paoli's dictatorial, albeit reformist, administration), Borgovia made reparations to its historically marginalised populations: chiefly those who they perceive are "barbarians" in the eyes of the Romans. One such reparation is a massive job training programme for the country's 9 million Germanic population alongside 400.000 Central Asian & Mongolian, 2 million Nordic, 1,5 million Celtic, and 4 million Slavic. They were historically relegated to servile work and are victims of forced Latinisation/Sinicisation known as the "Vitas Aureum" Project where their identities are erased at birth and forged documents are used, prompting millions of citizens unaware they're not really Latino/Sinosphere/Thai/Ethiopian/Persian/Levantine/Greco-Turks. The reform was heavily education centric, and Reformists obsessed with making every citizen at their peak, believing if the average resident is at a job best fitting of their talents (Analytical types being Accountants or Engineers, Physically fit types being Plumbers or Carpenters) would make Borgovia stronger. Within the 20 years of reform under a reformist dictatorial rule, academic and income mobility of historically marginalised people narrowed the gap with privileged groups to the point it became a model for Lee Kwan Yew's Multiculturalism in Singapore. This comes at suppression of human rights, however, as those who wish maintain the racial caste system were arrested, tortured, and even executed alongside Communists, Fascists, and Liberals who stand in the way of the government. In some cases, conservative politicians who are against these reforms were executed and/or humiliated/arrested to be replaced by a German, Central Asian, or Polish Borgovian who are less likely to be against these reforms. The government also offered free ancestry tests and research to citizens who suspect they may be "Forged Latinos/Sinics", descendants of children who lived their entire lives unaware they're not Latinos or Sinic. Should it be proven their ancestors were victims of the Vitas Aureum project, their National ID Card would have an eagle crest on it to help employers meet their affirmative action recommendation; an attempt by the dictator to narrow the wealth gap.

Many speculated the German Embassy, costing billions and caused the deaths of 14 construction workers (all Communist/Liberal activists who are arrested), was an attempt to show genuine remorse for all the horrors they've caused. Ironically, despite all this, the government of Borgovia didn't formally apologise until decades later when Angela Merkel of Germany mentioned they're only missing an apology. It was a joke, but the Borgovian government took it seriously.

[Eorwic]

Initially, it sounds like a good idea to keep loyal men loyal to you. But, neglecting the citizenry into revolt is also something to be worried about. I guess in your Conquerer's case, it was a tough political decision to balance stability on either end as a "Damn if you do, damned if you don't" sort of thing.

That's pretty much the problem. The former territories of Norþenhybmer¹, East Angland², East Saxeland³ and Eastern Marchia⁴ were used to being ruled by Nordmen, because they were at various points ruled by Nordmen under the Danelaw (and had a much larger Nordic demographic) but Harald had to do with the South (in particular West Saxeland⁵) a milder and less genocidal version of what William of Normandy did to the North in real life. The revolts weren't due to neglect, they were due to the fact that the native Anglo-Saxon majority was ruled by a foreign culture that was taking over everything. /skip

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¹ _Northumbria
² _{East Anglia}
³ _Essex
⁴ _Mercia
⁵ _Wessex

[Coryanhafflaruda]

Wow, this is even beyond Rome considering foriegn people barbarians. Having a xenophobic past will get you in the butt in the present.



Not much is known about the early age of homo sapiens on Terra, all information of it was sadly lost, all we knew that in Terran Calendar 2055, the entire world fell into a large group of Corpoorations named The Terran Coorporacy. it was due to large coorporations fully controlling the markets, interference on major democratic elections, and complete economic depression and poverty after Terra's unknown third world war, notably on the poorer Terran countries. They were the only effective organisation that can bring Terra into stability with some of the states of the planet unable to take actions due to struggling economy and tens of millions dead. The coorporations risen their way to the international scale and waged war against the now weak nations of Terra with the production of robotic soldiers being controlled by them, making the nations and their old international assembly; The United Nations having a large technological disadvantage. While some employees of the coorporations decided to support their countries other than the giant companies they work for, they were immeadeatlely forced to join in the Coorporacy's favor.

5 years later and the entire world bowed down to the confederation's knees, they guide humanity now and they are going to steer what would happen in our ancient fate and unknowingly, will give birth to a multiversal power

[Silver Commonwealth]

Opinion:Huh, that sounds like a world of corporatocracies, but taken to the steroids. That said, just as one user mentioned in cliche thread, I wonder what would be the corporation motives be, other than more profit. Sure, anti-communism could be one of them, as communism would be one of its fiercest enemies, but it might have fallen in irrelevancy at that point.

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Ministry of Education

Fact time!

''If compared to most of the other industries, gaming industry in SC is still relatively not nationalized, and a lot of the game developers are private groups. In comparison, the AAA game model hasn't really taken off, and a significant portion of the games would still be classified as ''indie''. However, the reason why game industry has been left alone from extensive nationalization is more because the old generation and bureaucrats still don't fully understand the potential of the gaming industry (And a lot of government organizations or branches are still using older versions of the Temple OS, provided by extended support package by OS provider), despite the fact, that videos about gaming reach a lot of views in SC's internet (For SC's standards), and a some form of streaming sites have already started to appear, along with gamer conventions. Once the private gaming companies start growing bigger and start earning more money, it is likely that the government would intervene with collectivization in full force, and take control of most of the gaming industry. In fact, gaming industry isn't like full wild west either - SCPS is already monitoring developer published games for possible ''anti-patriotic'' content, and there have been cases of SC's Communication Ministries shutting down some of those games. It is also rumored, that SC's state internet provider have consultants from younger generation too, which monitor the internet in an attempt to understand, what are the interests of the younger generation, and how it could possibly be channeled in raising the support for SC's governments. (However, according to unconfirmed info, the younger generation consultants have advised to not be ''too political'' and don't clamp down too much, unless really needed, in order to not turn away them''. That might be also one of the reasons why SC's governments haven't started cracking down or controlling the gaming industry much, for now. In case of government nationalization, it is likely that they would pay the developer or their team (mostly indie) for ordered games, but in lack of private market, government orders or public organization orders would be one of the few ways of how developer could earn money. (A bit inspiration from this thread).''

''(The favorite type of games in SC are things like Real Time Strategy (Rise of Nations, Hearts of Iron IV), first person shooters, flash games, or games such as minesweeper, or solitare. For SC's Rise of Nations, however, there are either weekly or monthly scenarios - developers add a new scenario, and the person who beats it the fastest will earn a place in ''world record'' table. In case if level has a time limit, the badge will be earned by player who manages to complete the scenario with either the most points, or least casualties. One of the most popular scenarios is ''Surprise Attack'' preset (Defense scenario). In those levels, you usually defend a small town in the middle of harsh terrain (Desert, tundra, etc), but the town is rich with rare resources like oil or uranium. However, there are bandits which desire the resources, and you have to hold off their attacks for a set amount of time. Although raiders attack in less waves than in IRL counterpart, their attacks also aren't as disorganized, and are more numerous. So, if the player doesn't invest enough in their military units, they might get overrun early on, or in the last, biggest wave. Post apocalypse or corporate capitalist dystopias are an another popular theme in SC's gaming too.'')

[Arkeyana]

Huh, not all nations tend to go into such detail regarding their gaming industry, but this is really neat, whatwith the whole "still adjusting the older generation to it" bit and having to employ younger people to try and figure out how to exploit it.

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Aaaaaaand going from games played in the virtual realm to games played in the physical realm, we have the Arkeyanan war-game of "LandWar".

LandWar is a professional wargame where numerous teams compete in massive Landships, immense crawlers that move either on treads, legs, Nanogel, or even hover engines. Typically, the "Projectiles" are dummy rounds equipped with the necessary systems to suddenly and rapidly decelerate before impact, rendering them non-damaging to the enemy ship, but also registering as a "tag".

As a match progresses, "Damage" starts registering across the Landship's systems, guns going inoperable, treads falling apart, and even the ship "crippling" itself with a secondary explosion or losing the ability to navigate. There are stringent regulations and checks in place in order to make sure that Damage-Registration hasn't been tampered with.

There are typically upwards of thirty Landships in a single match of LandWar, although some of the larger professional matches can have as many as one hundred.

[Eorwic]

So basically each (group of) soldier(s) ride (and/or otherwise control) a Mecha (herein called a LandShip) and try to beat other (groups of) soldiers who also ride Landships? Did I get anything wrong? Because like, this is actually a pretty dope wargame -really close in the epic scale to Tankery.

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(New fact)
The King of Jorvik also lays claims to the thrones of Norge, Dania, Brunswick, Frisia and various landless duchies in Francia. Each of these is due to the fact that at some point in history, a king of Jorvik was either descended from the rulers of these lands or actually held them. Things are made a tad more complicated as Friþrice III, the current King of Jorvik is actually on the first-digit numbers in the lines of succession to both Frisia, Norge and Dania. Brunswick as a state has ceased to exist as it was merged into Germania, and the landless duchies are, well, landless and as such hold only claims to prestige in an era gone by, but there is a very good possibility that if Friþrice can outlive his distant cousin Onna, he will succeed her as the King of all Frisians.

[Godular]

Look far enough back on the genealogy table and you can pretty much 'lay claim' to entire continents...

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Kal'Shazzar enjoys gardening in his infrequent free-time, though it is important to note that the plants in his garden are all enormously toxic, having been genetically spliced to incorporate new and intriguing poisons and other chemicals useful to his aims. He employs a nanoswarm as a gardening tool, enabling him to alter DNA on a holistic or topical level, and he is often highly interested in the purchase of most any kind of plant that has unique properties to introduce to his menagerie.

It is in point of fact a purchase from a world known as Myrkr that enabled him to develop the chemicals necessary to produce the Ascension. The heavily force-attuned flora and fauna of that world gave him a means of employing botany as an extension of Godulan psi-tech.

He has also been exploring in some depth the relationship between the plants of Terivine and the Morphic Crystal that composes the Kython Scourge. The plants seem to have some form of organic resonance effect with the crystalline Kythons, causing both to grow at a highly accelerated rate, even without the necessary power sources that Kythonic Crystal would normally require in order to grow in combat scenarios.

Sarathress allows this state of affairs to continue, as it provides a shockingly rare source of scientific novelty. Her previous understanding of morphic crystal was in regards to self-powered doors, but she has recently recognized that the Godulans were on to something with their combat applications.

[Borgevia]

Gardening is an intriguing hobby, but to what means you mentioned I don't know. However, the fact he prefers toxic plants raises a lot of concern.

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While the official languages of Borgovia is Italian and Spanish, the colloquial is a creole of Spanish, Italian, and Mandarin. Depending on region, Tamil, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Thai, Vietnamese, French, Portuguese, Greek, Persian, Turkish, Polish, Russian, and German loanwords are used. While it's called "Borgovian Spanish", it's actually more "Italian" around the area IRL known as Uruguay as that's where Italian is mainly spoken. The further away from "Uruguay" you are, the more 'Spanish' the creole gets. The Atlantic side also has Persian, Greek, French, Portuguese, and Turkish loanwords or they pronounce an Italian/Spanish word like a Persian, Greek, or Turk would. The further to the inland, the more German/Slavic sounding it gets. The more to the Pacific, the more South & East Asian the creole gets. It is due to this that the government maintained standard Italian and Spanish as the official lingua franca. Borgovians speak standard Castilian Spanish or Italian until they know which region you came from. In a way, it's like Singdarin. Many Borgovians don't even say "Perdoneme" even if Spanish is their main language. They often go for "Mi Scusi" (Italian), "Pardon" (French), or "Xin Loi" (Vietnamese) since it's a lot easier and quicker than "Entschuldigung" (German), Perdoneme (Spanish), "Sumimasen" (Japanese), "Dui bu qi" (Chinese), or "Przepraszam" (Polish).

An example of how one would say "When does the train from Cordoba arrives?":

Standard Spanish: Cuando llega el tren de cordoba?
Standard Italian: Quando arriva il treno da cordoba?
Montevideo: Quand arriva il treno de Cordoba? (Kon ar-reeva eel threno duh Cordoba?) - French, Italian, Spanish
Buenos Aires: Quand llega il peiyang de Cordoba? (Kon yeh-gah eel pay-yang duh Cordoba?) - French, Spanish, Chinese, Italian
Mendoza: Wann der peiyang/pochig de Cordoba llega an ma? (Vann eel pay-yang/poh-chunk duh Cordoba yey-gah anh mah?) - German, Chinese/Polish, Spanish, Italian
Santiago: Cuando de el peiyang da Cordoba arriva ma? (Kwando duh el pay-yang dah Cordoba ar-reeva mah?) - Spanish, Chinese, Italian

[Gylthas]

How hard is that to learn?

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The Imperial crown prince/princess does not become Imperial Prince/Princess of Wesgorn until he/she turns 26. That's because 25 is the usual age he/she finishes his/her mandatory Princely and Imperial Governance Schooling (PIGS), and the period between finishing school and ascension is usually considered a "honeymoon" period.

In the case the current Imperial Prince/Princess of Wesgorn ascends to the throne, and his/her heir apparent is not present or has not reached the age of 26, he/she maintains his/her title, albeit as Imperial Prince/Princess Regent. This lasts until the heir apparent turns 26, in which case he/she then becomes Imperial Prince/Princess of Wesgorn.

[Kerlodia]

How hard is that to learn?

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The Imperial crown prince/princess does not become Imperial Prince/Princess of Wesgorn until he/she turns 26. That's because 25 is the usual age he/she finishes his/her mandatory Princely and Imperial Governance Schooling (PIGS), and the period between finishing school and ascension is usually considered a "honeymoon" period.

In the case the current Imperial Prince/Princess of Wesgorn ascends to the throne, and his/her heir apparent is not present or has not reached the age of 26, he/she maintains his/her title, albeit as Imperial Prince/Princess Regent. This lasts until the heir apparent turns 26, in which case he/she then becomes Imperial Prince/Princess of Wesgorn.

AAAA CONFUSING NUMBERS AAAAAA
But why 25?

Kerlodia is mostly left-wing, with the current ruling party of most provinces and the central government being, surprisingly, a Neozapatismo party. However, democracy still does exist, with all people, not just citizens above the age of 12 able to participate in biannual elections and "decision sessions", where hundreds gather to debate and decide on new policy. Despite producing interdimensional weaponry, the ruling party, the Neozapatismo Alliance of Kerlodia (NAK), has sworn never to use them in conflict.

[Gylthas]

How hard is that to learn?

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The Imperial crown prince/princess does not become Imperial Prince/Princess of Wesgorn until he/she turns 26. That's because 25 is the usual age he/she finishes his/her mandatory Princely and Imperial Governance Schooling (PIGS), and the period between finishing school and ascension is usually considered a "honeymoon" period.

In the case the current Imperial Prince/Princess of Wesgorn ascends to the throne, and his/her heir apparent is not present or has not reached the age of 26, he/she maintains his/her title, albeit as Imperial Prince/Princess Regent. This lasts until the heir apparent turns 26, in which case he/she then becomes Imperial Prince/Princess of Wesgorn.

AAAA CONFUSING NUMBERS AAAAAA
But why 25?

Kerlodia is mostly left-wing, with the current ruling party of most provinces and the central government being, surprisingly, a Neozapatismo party. However, democracy still does exist, with all people, not just citizens above the age of 12 able to participate in biannual elections and "decision sessions", where hundreds gather to debate and decide on new policy. Despite producing interdimensional weaponry, the ruling party, the Neozapatismo Alliance of Kerlodia (NAK), has sworn never to use them in conflict.

The PIGS is a streamlined education set for Imperial family members. It starts at age 6, and covers 13 years of basic education and 6 years of higher-level education. The last 7 or 8 years are geared towards leadership and politics, fit for a prince/princess or an emperor/empress. It's as strict and regimented as regular school is.

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[The Empire of Occitania]

Kerlodia is mostly left-wing, with the current ruling party of most provinces and the central government being, surprisingly, a Neozapatismo party. However, democracy still does exist, with all people, not just citizens above the age of 12 able to participate in biannual elections and "decision sessions", where hundreds gather to debate and decide on new policy. Despite producing interdimensional weaponry, the ruling party, the Neozapatismo Alliance of Kerlodia (NAK), has sworn never to use them in conflict.

Disregarding the hypocritical ideology, surely swearing to never use "interdimensional weaponry" - whatever that may actually entail - completely undermines their use as a deterrent? And if they are not going to be used even as a deterrent, then what is the point in having them? This reminds me of when Jeremy Corbyn said that he would under no circumstances use nuclear weapons, and this saw him ridiculed for undermining the UK's nuclear deterrent (and which I would argue is one of the reasons Labour still hasn't won a General Election).

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Empress Lúcia, the great granddaughter of Ramon II and one of Occitania's most fondly remembered monarchs, was a famous trobairitz before she acceded the throne in 1319. The majority of her songs and poems focused around themes of love and romance, and unusually for the time, all such works seem to have been dedicated to women. Some even seem to have highlighted her dejection over having been married to someone against her will. Many of her recently rediscovered works also seem to have uncovered a secret romance that blossomed between the Empress and one of her ladies-in-waiting, and as a result, the Occitans consider Lúcia to have been a lesbian and their first homosexual monarch. Her poems are very famous in Occitania and the Occitan-speaking world, and are even taught in Language, Literature, and History lessons in Occitan schools.

[Gylthas]

Imperial Prince John Oliver would see her as an interesting person, especially because he was a ballet dancer prior to his becoming Imperial Prince of Wesgorn.

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The Gylthan military has its own farms. The farms they have are crop farms, vegetable farms, livestock farms and poultry farms. They even sell surplus produce on the market under the brand Gymil Farms, with Gymil being a contraction of Gylthan military.

[The Cosmic Mainframe]

Imperial Prince John Oliver would see her as an interesting person, especially because he was a ballet dancer prior to his becoming Imperial Prince of Wesgorn.

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The Gylthan military has its own farms. The farms they have are crop farms, vegetable farms, livestock farms and poultry farms. They even sell surplus produce on the market under the brand Gymil Farms, with Gymil being a contraction of Gylthan military.

(Imperial Prince John Oliver? Any relation to this John Oliver?)

Reminds me of how Norway owned an oil company, before it was largely privatized by conservative governments. Hopefully that's bringing in a lot of revenue for your government.

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About 10% of the Mainframe's sentient population consists of artificial intelligence. The vast majority of these artificial intelligence have no mobility of their own, and are effectively prisoners within their own computer towers, instead interacting with the real world through multiple drones and other remotely controlled devices, and occasionally manifesting in virtual reality. There are also androids and uploaded consciousnesses, but because they are far more costly to produce than basic computers, there are only a few hundred thousand of each in comparison to the trillions of other AI.

[Borgevia]

That sounds like the eventual result of a eugenicised society: One small "oopsies woopsies" and things start falling apart. Unless the non-sentient population are diversified in code/whatever the DNA equivalent is?

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16 March 2020 was the start date of Borgovia closing its borders to the United States due to COVID-19. The Borgovian Parliament, which was dominated by a coalition of the Centre/Centre-Left Progressive Party and the Left Labour Party, took note of America's ineffective measures regarding the spread of the global pandemic as well as the two frontrunners: Joe Biden and Donald Trump, being both against Medicare for All. The DSA (Sanders) and Libertarians (Petersen) are behind the Democrats and Republicans by a good margin. In this universe, the US is a multi-party system where individual states have their own parliament, but a similar Federal government as IRL, it's a mix of IRL US and French. The Labour Party & the Progressive Party believe that a country that willingly voted against healthcare despite a global pandemic and a large population unable to afford much needed care is a "risk" and therefore, all non-commercial flights from the US to Borgovia is restricted. Any Americans in Borgovia have until the 15th of March to leave the country or apply for a temporary residency permit for Borgovia. Americans without either are automatically in the Temporary Residency programme. Some exceptions are made when the Trump Administration pressured Borgovia to allow a few evacuation planes to pick up Americans who are late to leave but only Americans who are shown as clean after a 2 week self-quarantine. Many of America's youth chose to stay behind since a Temporary Residency status grants them access to Borgovia's healthcare programme and they are to be given jobs to "make the best of their situation". Most ended up just studying in Borgovia's many universities or grab temp/contractor jobs at train stations, English schools, or the US Embassy.

As Temporary Residents, they don't get the same pricing as citizens. Instead of paying an equivalent of $150/month, they pay the non-citizen price of $350/month but if they are making under a livable income or if they are employed by a Borgovian business, roughly 50 - 60% is paid by the state/employer. However, since this is a pandemic, the government waived all fees. Before Americans are banned from entering or leaving Borgovia via a national quarantine, Iran, South Korea, China, and Italy were given the same treatment: They have roughly a week to leave or get paper works to stay here before the country quarantine their entire home country. In the eyes of Borgovia, it is their civic duty to contain the pandemic as much as possible, and it is better to take care of sick foreigners than let them spread. Their economy is hurting from the outbreak anyway, so all they can do is make sure no Borgovians get sick and die even if it means babysitting American, Italian, and Korean nationals. By the end of March, the COVID-19 outbreak in the US got bad as Skid Row and Tenderloin in California became hotbeds for infection, giving Borgovia's rather extreme measure some validity. Borgovia's early adoption of RPAs, Medical IoTs, and automation in the healthcare sector alleviated many of the stresses but hospitals were still booked to the bone despite how much automation gave doctors more time to focus on patients.

[Arkeyana]

Sounds a...tad harsh and definitely seems rather taxing on Borgovian healthcare and the like, but nonetheless appears to be effective.

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To take away from modern-day Arkeyana, let us travel back to the times of Humanity before the First Collapse, to the United Nations Global Navy, and one of it's most famous ships.

The UNGN Enterprise was a fusion-powered Supercarrier that operated in the Pacific Ocean, serving as a major force multiplier in the region and going on to be a primary combatant in the First Collapse. Her captain was Admiral Harrison Caldwell, and had a crew of almost 3,200. The Enterprise was designed uniquely in relation to previous carrier designs, with one primary hull and two "Secondary Hulls" that swept out and forward from the Stern, giving her a unique shape as well as an increase in the diversity of aircraft she could launch.

Unfortunately, the Enterprise would meet her end in the First Collapse. Fighting off wave after wave of Pan-Eurasian and Antarctic fighters, missiles, and even killsats, the carrier's fleet, and thus, primary support against enemy ships, was slowly eroded to nothing. She made her final stand off the coast of Alaska, launching the entirety of her fighter complement to buy time for lifeboats to escape the sinking leviathan, before an orbital Killsat managed to get a kinetic rod through the ship's defenses and strike it's reactor, obliterating most of her lower hull and capsizing the supercarrier.

Almost a century later, with the aid of the APoO, the Enterprise was lifted from the depths along with countless other ships as part of the Flying Dutchman Project, an attempt to gather artifacts from and around Earth for display in a museum. After extensive repairs, the Enterprise now sails an eternal voyage among the Cavern-Seas of Europa, launching replica fighters for "patrols", and occasionally firing her PD guns in anger at the ceiling above.

[Crysuko]

Now that's an interesting way of preserving military history, especially after the ship in question survived for so long against such a vicious assault, which no doubt caused the enemy no small amount of frustration. Even the current incarnation seems more a celebration than some kind of ghost or funeral pyre.

Our current president, Distel Neos was born with a congenital deformity (MRKH syndrome) which leaves her entirely incapable of pregnancy, but has been extremely open about it, which has been spun into inspiration for others who were born with deformities and abnormalities. most recently was a speech given on women's day about how being infertile doesn't make you less of a woman. The propoganda has had a field day with these sentiments, building the president up as a salt of the earth imperfect human like the rest of us. Head of armed forces Alueck Sangh is also known to have a prosthetic left foot, as it was severely clubbed when he was born, and later amputated as it made walking near impossible.

[Frisia Magna]

Well, I mean if it makes the whole of the country even slightly less ableist, then it's a good thing, isn't it? Obviously I'm not comfortable with the fact that people inside the country are pressured into outing themselves because a politically relevant person has, but eh. You win some, you lose some.

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While the concept of class society isn't as relevant in Frisia as it is in the rest of Germanic Europe, the three primary social statuses (Noblemen, Freemen, Thralls) are very important in many matters. While Decretum Libertatis gives each of these classes a lot of leeway in ways that other contemporary legal codes don't (for instance, the oaths of loyalty between the Freemen of Frisia and the nobility are not that of bondage but of subjecthood) it still doesn't change the fact that one of the three groups (which is also larger than the other two) can legally be owned and inherited. The first attempt to rectify this was done by Alfbad IV (the current king's successor) who established that a subject of the Frisian Crown inherits their status the same way a person inherits property. That means the offspring of a thrall and a person who's not a thrall necessarily gets the status of the other spouse. Of course, this was promptly protested by the nobility, because by its very definition this law negates the principle of Left-Handed marriage.

[Gylthas]

I wonder how many people attempted to better their lives this way.

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The Free Barony of Granger have some police cars as ordinary cars with hidden sirens that only activate when on duty. The only way to tell that they were police cars was via licence plate. That said, Granger also has regular police cars.

[Coryanhafflaruda]

Narcs but with cars



The Insititute

Truly the first organisational power that arguably brought peace and stability to the underground shelters for almost a hundred years. It follows a autotalitarianist republic government with a socialist economic policies, it was the first to give out hope to the dwellers and tried to improve the shelter's lifestyle. But eventually fell into civil war against it's political rivals, brutal civil wars would continue on to the entirety of the underground era that means for a million years.

[Champagne Socialist Sharifistan]

I wonder how many people attempted to better their lives this way.

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The Free Barony of Granger have some police cars as ordinary cars with hidden sirens that only activate when on duty. The only way to tell that they were police cars was via licence plate. That said, Granger also has regular police cars.

Interesting.
The former would be good for undercover policing.

Most members of the Sharifistani Foreign Legion are convicted criminals.
More often than not, they’re convicted murderers.

[Coryanhafflaruda]

The former would be good for undercover policing.

Most members of the Sharifistani Foreign Legion are convicted criminals.
More often than not, they’re convicted murderers.

ninja'd
i'll patiently wait..
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[Iransahr]

I cannot imagine this is very good for Sharifistan’s international reputation nor the integrity of its foreign legion. While it makes sense (barely) to open up to those who wish to leave their past behind, one must be very cautious and keep ever watchful eyes on those who are criminally inclined. They would be better off forbidden from any form of public services or access to weaponry.

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The state religion of Iransahr is not Islam. It is in fact a Judeo-Mazdan religion that has its origins in Mesopotamia, specifically the holy city of Ekhnukh. It combines Zoroastrian and Judaic traditions, rites and beliefs, though it leans more towards Zoroastrianism than Judaism. Qâbil, known in the West as "Caine" is a very important figure who was cursed by Ahuramazda with undeath for the murder of his brother and lying about it, having been deceived by Ahriman. His son, whom was born by the witch Lilit, was the first dhampir and founded the dynasty that rules Iran to this day.

Members of the Ekhnukhid dynasty live unnaturally long lives, require weekly consumption of blood, have a greater proficiency with magic than most and tend to be on average stronger, faster and deadlier than their human counterparts. The current head of the dynasty is Arman II the Pious, who ruled Iran for nearly 150 years until he abdicated in favour of his daughter Akeldama, whom is now the de-jure religious and temporal leader of Iran as the Queen of Queens and Priest of Priests.

[Godular]

Well, that’s certainly an original take on the story. Props, yo.

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Due to their frequent contact and cooperation with a nation known for its association with a rather large number of esoteric (OOC: anime) powers, there exist several individuals within the Control Framework that exhibit skills generally considered outside the Godulan norm. Several magic users, witches, and even a small coterie of pokemon trainers exist within the larger Godulan population.

Of particular note is Kaz’ramael, the Godulan Spymaster. Like most Godulan avatars, he is composed of five separate minds working in concert. The dominant mind, however, belongs to a pre-existing avatar by the name of Naberius. Naberius is unique for his extremely advanced skills in (OOC: Sourced from Naruto) Ninjutsu. Naberius keeps these abilities hidden, preferring to present the image of a noncombatant unless absolutely necessary and only when those abilities are deemed absolutely necessary.

So yes, there are Godulan Ninjas.