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

[Freedom Freelandia]

Makes sense. The Greeks ran circles around the Egyptians before the latter had horses, after all.

In R1, the Gog, like in real life, have claws and a tail with a hairy tuft at the end, akin to a lion. However, unlike in real life, the Gog of R1 is the same size as a human, with immense strength and durability, as well as a healing factor. Like in Shia belief, the Gog of R1 aren't descended from humans either. The design of the Gog in R1 was inspired by the Czarnians of the DC universe.

So far, only one Gog character exists, a villain whose name is unpronounceable to humans and instead goes by the pseudonym Scourge. He dresses like the stereotypical biker, and he rides a hoverbike. His weapon of choice is the chain, with techniques referencing old school rock music, including, but not limited to, the band Guns n' Roses and their songs. It is unknown how he escaped the wall built by Dzulqarnain or how he got his equipment.

OOC opinion: You've only got one of these Gog things, therefore he's unable to reproduce and the species dies with him. You also walled him despite having the intelligence of a human being. No wonder he has the shits with you

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Due to Covid-19, Freelandia has run out of funds for snow removal. The communities of Freelandia which recieve snow are few and far between, however, they're all snowed in, and the government can't afford to remove the snow. Most of the country doesn't recieve snow, but due to international sanctions placed against Freelandia for human rights abuses, no body wants to help Freelandia, and thus, Freelandia can't afford to remove snow from the communities which are snowed in. The rich can afford their own snow removal, but the poor are snowed in. At the height of the problem, the total number of people who were snowed was 25,000 approx. 0.1% of the nation's population. The government has declared a national emergency, but naturally, the government has heavily censored everything about the incident to ensure that the general Freelandian public and foreign media organisations don't find out about it. The government was considering deploying the military to shovel them out, but was worried it would take too long and by the time the shovelling had ended, more snow would have accumulated

[A m e n r i a]

Makes sense. The Greeks ran circles around the Egyptians before the latter had horses, after all.

In R1, the Gog, like in real life, have claws and a tail with a hairy tuft at the end, akin to a lion. However, unlike in real life, the Gog of R1 is the same size as a human, with immense strength and durability, as well as a healing factor. Like in Shia belief, the Gog of R1 aren't descended from humans either. The design of the Gog in R1 was inspired by the Czarnians of the DC universe.

So far, only one Gog character exists, a villain whose name is unpronounceable to humans and instead goes by the pseudonym Scourge. He dresses like the stereotypical biker, and he rides a hoverbike. His weapon of choice is the chain, with techniques referencing old school rock music, including, but not limited to, the band Guns n' Roses and their songs. It is unknown how he escaped the wall built by Dzulqarnain or how he got his equipment.

OOC opinion: You've only got one of these Gog things, therefore he's unable to reproduce and the species dies with him. You also walled him despite having the intelligence of a human being. No wonder he has the shits with you

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Due to Covid-19, Freelandia has run out of funds for snow removal. The communities of Freelandia which recieve snow are few and far between, however, they're all snowed in, and the government can't afford to remove the snow. Most of the country doesn't recieve snow, but due to international sanctions placed against Freelandia for human rights abuses, no body wants to help Freelandia, and thus, Freelandia can't afford to remove snow from the communities which are snowed in. The rich can afford their own snow removal, but the poor are snowed in. At the height of the problem, the total number of people who were snowed was 25,000 approx. 0.1% of the nation's population. The government has declared a national emergency, but naturally, the government has heavily censored everything about the incident to ensure that the general Freelandian public and foreign media organisations don't find out about it. The government was considering deploying the military to shovel them out, but was worried it would take too long and by the time the shovelling had ended, more snow would have accumulated

1. There are lots, but he's the only one that's free and boy does he get around.
2. We didn't wall him in, Dzulqarnain did. Irl some people think Dzulqarnain is Alexander the Great, somehow, despite never wearing helmets with horns.

/Skip

[Christenmark]

Makes sense. The Greeks ran circles around the Egyptians before the latter had horses, after all.

In R1, the Gog, like in real life, have claws and a tail with a hairy tuft at the end, akin to a lion. However, unlike in real life, the Gog of R1 is the same size as a human, with immense strength and durability, as well as a healing factor. Like in Shia belief, the Gog of R1 aren't descended from humans either. The design of the Gog in R1 was inspired by the Czarnians of the DC universe.

So far, only one Gog character exists, a villain whose name is unpronounceable to humans and instead goes by the pseudonym Scourge. He dresses like the stereotypical biker, and he rides a hoverbike. His weapon of choice is the chain, with techniques referencing old school rock music, including, but not limited to, the band Guns n' Roses and their songs. It is unknown how he escaped the wall built by Dzulqarnain or how he got his equipment.

OOC opinion: You've only got one of these Gog things, therefore he's unable to reproduce and the species dies with him. You also walled him despite having the intelligence of a human being. No wonder he has the shits with you

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Due to Covid-19, Freelandia has run out of funds for snow removal. The communities of Freelandia which recieve snow are few and far between, however, they're all snowed in, and the government can't afford to remove the snow. Most of the country doesn't recieve snow, but due to international sanctions placed against Freelandia for human rights abuses, no body wants to help Freelandia, and thus, Freelandia can't afford to remove snow from the communities which are snowed in. The rich can afford their own snow removal, but the poor are snowed in. At the height of the problem, the total number of people who were snowed was 25,000 approx. 0.1% of the nation's population. The government has declared a national emergency, but naturally, the government has heavily censored everything about the incident to ensure that the general Freelandian public and foreign media organisations don't find out about it. The government was considering deploying the military to shovel them out, but was worried it would take too long and by the time the shovelling had ended, more snow would have accumulated

That just shows how poorly your finances are handled if a mere virus such as the Chinese COOVID-19 can make something so basic unaffordable. SMH

Fact About Our Nation: The primary ethnic group of Christenmark is called Ruhridian, they average 7ft 2in tall for males, and 6ft 9in for females. the actual interesting fact here is that although they have maintained such height for centuries, they are prone to severe arthritis later in life as well as blindness due to rampant heterochromia as well. While they grow so large the human body is not designed for such heights. This has been mitigated somewhat due to modern medical advancements, but it is still a very real eventuality for most Ruhridians.

[Gemeanwealth of Man]

To be honest I don't buy that an entire ethnic group is just "naturally" 1ft 4in taller than the average European height. There has to be some eugenics involved -that or inbreeding, as rampant heterochromia would suggest. With that in mind, with that height I'm not surprised so many Ruhridians suffer from Arthritis.

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Long ago, there was the Drule Empire. The Empire, named after its main species the Drule, controlled much of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, with the farthest of its outposts more than 2,000 lightyears away from each other and boasted a population of trillions, if not more. The Drule at the time were a psionic species capable, in effect, of permanently altering reality itself through thought and sheer will, with skills like telepathy, precognition and "superhuman" (for their own standards, for even the normal Drule is stronger, faster and more resilient than your average human) strength, speed and resilience common among even the lowliest dredges of the population. They were a prosperous empire, and of their time two other Empires exist in form of Stagnant Ascendencies. Not much is known about the how and the why, but all records of their existence -annuls, historiographies, diplomatic missives, etc.- cease to mention them existing after some point roughly 7,500 years ago: We don't know why, but the Drule Empire -and with them nearly their entire species- disappeared almost overnight, leaving a large swathe of the Orion Arm a ship graveyard filled with Worlds filled with decrepit signs of ancient settlement. In fact, only twelve outposts, all filled with non-psionic Drule "Rejects" that nearly all records suggest were sent there to die out, survived. Those twelve settlements, with their difference in wealth, resources and level of upbringing, slowly but steadily devolved back to the Medieval Age, eventually shaping the Twelve Drule Kingdoms that exist in various parts of the Orion Arms Galaxy.

[Farnhamia]

OOC opinion: You've only got one of these Gog things, therefore he's unable to reproduce and the species dies with him. You also walled him despite having the intelligence of a human being. No wonder he has the shits with you

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Due to Covid-19, Freelandia has run out of funds for snow removal. The communities of Freelandia which recieve snow are few and far between, however, they're all snowed in, and the government can't afford to remove the snow. Most of the country doesn't recieve snow, but due to international sanctions placed against Freelandia for human rights abuses, no body wants to help Freelandia, and thus, Freelandia can't afford to remove snow from the communities which are snowed in. The rich can afford their own snow removal, but the poor are snowed in. At the height of the problem, the total number of people who were snowed was 25,000 approx. 0.1% of the nation's population. The government has declared a national emergency, but naturally, the government has heavily censored everything about the incident to ensure that the general Freelandian public and foreign media organisations don't find out about it. The government was considering deploying the military to shovel them out, but was worried it would take too long and by the time the shovelling had ended, more snow would have accumulated

That just shows how poorly your finances are handled if a mere virus such as the Chinese COOVID-19 can make something so basic unaffordable. SMH

Fact About Our Nation: The primary ethnic group of Christenmark is called Ruhridian, they average 7ft 2in tall for males, and 6ft 9in for females. the actual interesting fact here is that although they have maintained such height for centuries, they are prone to severe arthritis later in life as well as blindness due to rampant heterochromia as well. While they grow so large the human body is not designed for such heights. This has been mitigated somewhat due to modern medical advancements, but it is still a very real eventuality for most Ruhridians.

*** Warned for trolling *** ... "Chinese" was unnecessary as a modifier for the virus' name.

[Suid Africana]

To be honest I don't buy that an entire ethnic group is just "naturally" 1ft 4in taller than the average European height. There has to be some eugenics involved -that or inbreeding, as rampant heterochromia would suggest. With that in mind, with that height I'm not surprised so many Ruhridians suffer from Arthritis.

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Long ago, there was the Drule Empire. The Empire, named after its main species the Drule, controlled much of the Orion Arm of the Milky Way Galaxy, with the farthest of its outposts more than 2,000 lightyears away from each other and boasted a population of trillions, if not more. The Drule at the time were a psionic species capable, in effect, of permanently altering reality itself through thought and sheer will, with skills like telepathy, precognition and "superhuman" (for their own standards, for even the normal Drule is stronger, faster and more resilient than your average human) strength, speed and resilience common among even the lowliest dredges of the population. They were a prosperous empire, and of their time two other Empires exist in form of Stagnant Ascendencies. Not much is known about the how and the why, but all records of their existence -annuls, historiographies, diplomatic missives, etc.- cease to mention them existing after some point roughly 7,500 years ago: We don't know why, but the Drule Empire -and with them nearly their entire species- disappeared almost overnight, leaving a large swathe of the Orion Arm a ship graveyard filled with Worlds filled with decrepit signs of ancient settlement. In fact, only twelve outposts, all filled with non-psionic Drule "Rejects" that nearly all records suggest were sent there to die out, survived. Those twelve settlements, with their difference in wealth, resources and level of upbringing, slowly but steadily devolved back to the Medieval Age, eventually shaping the Twelve Drule Kingdoms that exist in various parts of the Orion Arms Galaxy.

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It’s actually pretty amazing how that species was able to advance like that

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In Suid Africana, Apartheid ended in 1968. Whites in this timeline make up 30.3% of the population, and on and off again since then there has been a white leader, usually with a black vice president. This happened in 1977, 1989, and 2017

[Great Nortend]

I suppose that's good. Is society peaceable, or are there conflicts still between the races?

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The national colours of Great Nortend are RED, WHITE and SWART . These come from the colours of the two flags of Great Nortend, the Great Cross (the ordinary national flag) and the War Cross (where the inner red cross is replaced by a swart cross). Swart is the Erbonian English term for a very dark blue navy.

[Catsfern]

National colors are important for it's identity. Catsferns national colors are yellow red and black. They are found on almost every flag used by the Catsfernian government.

Catsferns navy still makes use of battleship along side missile ships and aircraft carriers. Battleships are typically used to assault coastal areas and provide artillery support for amphibious landings. They also serve as escort ships alongside naval supply ships.

Catsfernian battleships are typically outfitted with 16 inch guns with 3 barrels each as main guns. They also feature modern anti air equipment and submerged torpedo tubes.

[Tsarstvo Alyaski]

National colors are important for it's identity. Catsferns national colors are yellow red and black. They are found on almost every flag used by the Catsfernian government.

Catsferns navy still makes use of battleship along side missile ships and aircraft carriers. Battleships are typically used to assault coastal areas and provide artillery support for amphibious landings. They also serve as escort ships alongside naval supply ships.

Catsfernian battleships are typically outfitted with 16 inch guns with 3 barrels each as main guns. They also feature modern anti air equipment and submerged torpedo tubes.

Hmmmm... The implementation of using modern battleships for sea - to - ground artillery support is rather interesting, and plausible. What isn't quite plausible is using a big f*ck off ship to escort simple supply ships. The Catsfern navy must be huge, and extremely well funded to be able to use battleships so liberally.

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Alaska was originally colonised by the Russian Empire in the mid 18th century, and has seen an interesting history. During the 19th century, the colony was a de-facto part of the British Empire. In exchange for the formalisation of the Russo - Anglo alliance, Britain requested special privileges, which forced Russia to unofficially hand over to the colony to them.
During the Russo - Japanese war, the colony of Alaska was released from Britain's influence, as the British Empire wished to avoid a war with Japan should they attack Alaska. Still, Alaska wasn't captured, and served to save Nicholas II, the Romanov family and their supporters during the Russian Revolution, retreating through Siberia to Alaska.

Even though the Soviet Union captured all of the Russian Mainland, the Russian Empire existed in Alaska. They claimed to still own Russia, similarly to how the Republic of China, though stranded in Taiwan still claims to be the rightful controllers of Alaska. Tsarstvo Alyaski only gained formal independence in 1993, when Russia was 'ceded' to the Russian Federation, and the Russian Empire finally ceased to exist.

[Tundra Terra]

National colors are important for it's identity. Catsferns national colors are yellow red and black. They are found on almost every flag used by the Catsfernian government.

Catsferns navy still makes use of battleship along side missile ships and aircraft carriers. Battleships are typically used to assault coastal areas and provide artillery support for amphibious landings. They also serve as escort ships alongside naval supply ships.

Catsfernian battleships are typically outfitted with 16 inch guns with 3 barrels each as main guns. They also feature modern anti air equipment and submerged torpedo tubes.

Hmmmm... The implementation of using modern battleships for sea - to - ground artillery support is rather interesting, and plausible. What isn't quite plausible is using a big f*ck off ship to escort simple supply ships. The Catsfern navy must be huge, and extremely well funded to be able to use battleships so liberally.

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Alaska was originally colonised by the Russian Empire in the mid 18th century, and has seen an interesting history. During the 19th century, the colony was a de-facto part of the British Empire. In exchange for the formalisation of the Russo - Anglo alliance, Britain requested special privileges, which forced Russia to unofficially hand over to the colony to them.
During the Russo - Japanese war, the colony of Alaska was released from Britain's influence, as the British Empire wished to avoid a war with Japan should they attack Alaska. Still, Alaska wasn't captured, and served to save Nicholas II, the Romanov family and their supporters during the Russian Revolution, retreating through Siberia to Alaska.

Even though the Soviet Union captured all of the Russian Mainland, the Russian Empire existed in Alaska. They claimed to still own Russia, similarly to how the Republic of China, though stranded in Taiwan still claims to be the rightful controllers of Alaska. Tsarstvo Alyaski only gained formal independence in 1993, when Russia was 'ceded' to the Russian Federation, and the Russian Empire finally ceased to exist.

A most interesting circumstance. Does this mean that as a new nation your official language is Russian/English/Inuit or some mix of the three? My own nation's history in WW1 may have a hand in also saving Nicholas II so i wonder how that may have affected you.

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Today i thought i would be interesting to state the tax system of Tundra Terra and you may enjoy it. The government despises paperwork to such an extent that legally only two official taxes exist with a third being an adjustable war tax. The two official taxes are a flat 10% income tax and a permanent 5% tariff to all import/export. The government adopted such pro-economy policies purely to grow their war chests and war hosts. Meaning that as a military government they can sustain larger armies and sustain newer upgrades of the equipment for those armies at ever increasing speeds. The average Tundran is also euphoric to such policies since that means they can enjoy that much more to life and also more confident in sending their children to strings of victories than merely dying before life begins. Also as a consequence this has meant that expansion of the realm and the resources thereof could be much more easily exploited to increase every major sector of an economy or (in)directly the lives of these war like citizens.

[Tsarstvo Alyaski]

A most interesting circumstance. Does this mean that as a new nation your official language is Russian/English/Inuit or some mix of the three? My own nation's history in WW1 may have a hand in also saving Nicholas II so i wonder how that may have affected you.

The national language of Tsarstvo Alyaski is Russian, and English (Both British and American) and Yupik/Inuit are other official languages.
I'm... Not sure your nation is part of Tsarstvo Alyaski's universe... Confusing...

/still TundraTerra

[Comerciante]

"I am quite certain that is... not at all how that works in relation to taxes... being in a constant state of war means losing citizens... which means ya need to constantly replenish those losses by taking more from your citizenry which relieves your state of manpower to support your industry, which then affects your people's ability to be productive because you'll need to convince them to breed which circles back all around.

But if it works for you I guess okay then."

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"In addition to most of the Northern Hemisphere being Irradiated, thanks not only in part to the Nuclear Strikes but also Orbital Bombardment from the Moon or from a cavalcade of Warships that committed to Orbital Bombardment of Earth, our Home Planet has been knocked off its axis a bit which has really messed with seasonal patterns.

We now have only 2 seasons Summer and Winter!

During the summer temperatures become scorching hot all across the world averaging 63 degrees Celsius or 145.4 degrees Fahrenheit. At peak periods of time, however, what is considered the "Solar Flare Hour" the surface of the planet can become as hot as 12,000 degrees Celsius or 21,632 degrees Fahrenheit for as long as 1 hour.

Anything caught out in the open in this period of time will probably die.

Opposite of Summer, Winter is considered the safer period. The Solar Flare Hour randomly occurs and gives only an hour in advance notice. While Winter's periods of below zero drops in temperature are more consistent and have been cataloged."

[Freedom Freelandia]

Can't there just be a mass exodus between hemispheres between seasons?

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As of 1962, Freelandia's offical language is English. Most people can only speak English

[Nacrad]

That's how a lot of the countries (among ex-British colonies at least) that have monolingual populations. Not really that weird.

More linguistical madness with Nacrad! Officially, Nacrad has 2 official languages, namely Chinese and English. However, in practice, only English is spoken. Chinese is a written-only official language. This makes most citizens at least bilingual, as they speak a Sinitic language at home. The reason for this madness is because of the multitude of Sinitic languages (Cantonese, Hakka, Min, etc) spoken in Nacrad. However, they use the same characters, hence Standard Written Chinese is ethnically-neutral, but spoken Chinese is not.

[Lemmingry]

So, how do the people not forget their native languages, or their Chinese dialect, to be precise? I suppose after a while they leave home and settle somewhere else, which means they would be speaking English most of the time.

As voted by the Citizens, charity donations are compulsory in Lemmingry. If anyone is found not pitching in to the charity cup, they are humiliated in the middle of the trailer. These humiliation shows are a very popular form of entertainment and people who organise them make a lot of money off of them.

[Hanoverian Great Britain]

While compulsory charity does sound noble on paper, I wonder if there's actually a hidden catch underneath it since there are other people, especially the organisers of the humiliating events profited off as well from those who refuse to abide by the law.

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During the Second World War, several days prior to the Battle of Britain, the Nazi High Command had initially envisaged a covert operation known as Operation Augusta, named after the wife of the last German Emperor Wilhelm II. Reportedly, it was said that in the case of a hypothetical Nazi victory over the United Kingdom, members of the Fallschirmjäger, Nazi Germany's paratroopers alongside the Brandenburgers, the country's special forces unit would coordinate a so-called 'rescue operation' of the UK's Queen Louise, formerly known as Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia who is also the only daughter of the late German Emperor. To them, due to her strong ties to her former country (though her views, alongside that of her husband Edward VII were said to be critical of the former), she was to then be installed as the new reigning monarch of the United Kingdom with the sole aim of establishing a possible Anglo-German alliance which was said to had been Hitler's potential leverage in his later war against the Soviet Union. However, Britain's victory in the battle ultimately nullified the entirety of the operation, and the rest is history.

[Palmyrion]

While compulsory charity does sound noble on paper, I wonder if there's actually a hidden catch underneath it since there are other people, especially the organisers of the humiliating events profited off as well from those who refuse to abide by the law.

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During the Second World War, several days prior to the Battle of Britain, the Nazi High Command had initially envisaged a covert operation known as Operation Augusta, named after the wife of the last German Emperor Wilhelm II. Reportedly, it was said that in the case of a hypothetical Nazi victory over the United Kingdom, members of the Fallschirmjäger, Nazi Germany's paratroopers alongside the Brandenburgers, the country's special forces unit would coordinate a so-called 'rescue operation' of the UK's Queen Louise, formerly known as Princess Victoria Louise of Prussia who is also the only daughter of the late German Emperor. To them, due to her strong ties to her former country (though her views, alongside that of her husband Edward VII were said to be critical of the former), she was to then be installed as the new reigning monarch of the United Kingdom with the sole aim of establishing a possible Anglo-German alliance which was said to had been Hitler's potential leverage in his later war against the Soviet Union. However, Britain's victory in the battle ultimately nullified the entirety of the operation, and the rest is history.

Could have been an interesting way to follow the Battle of Britain, changing the course of the war.

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The immense financial and emotional cost of the Marshite-Ralkovian War, perhaps the most costly war fought by Palmyrion, to the Palmyrian civilisation-state is best described by these excerpts:

"In 2028, for the first time since forever, the religious leaders of Palmyrion's major religions - Christianity, Marshism, Islam, and Judaism - have united to bless those killed in action in the ongoing Ralkovian War, as the first wave of deceased have come from Ralkovia to be buried in Palmyrion. This included soldiers of unknown identity recovered by Palmyrion, who may or may not be Palmyrian; these bodies will be cremated after DNA samples were taken for future possible identification, their ashes displayed and consecrated at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. Additionally, Indigent religious groups have also joined to consecrate their tribal dead.

UP Diliman's Sunken Garden, normally a place for rest, recreation, and joviality, has turned into a place of pensive mourning, for about a hundred or so coffins lay in state for public view in UP Diliman's Sunken Garden as friends, family, and the general public come to pay their respects for fallen AFP personnel who were UP Diliman alumni or students. Some coffins were covered up, for the injuries sustained by their entombed were severe enough so as to inhumanely desecrate their bodies. This has been the status quo for the next two years.

By the end of 2030, 8,000,000 Palmyrians lost their lives in Ralkovia. 2,000,000 more remain missing."

Today in the UP Sunken Garden, the University of Palmyrion - Diliman holds a mass necrological service for UP students who were conscripted during the Marshite-Ralkovian War - and almost 25% of these dead would have graduated have they survived the war.

#AragonEncounters

Palmyrian Science High School - Main Campus students hold a mass necrological service for their fallen comrades, who were conscripted during the Marshite-Ralkovian War. Almost all of the fallen were graduating students. Pisay-MC has no graduates from 2028 to 2030.

#AragonEncounters

Every university and high school in Palmyrion has a plaque listing their students and alumni who were killed during Palmyrion's involvement the said war.

[Freedom Freelandia]

That's sad. Hopefully the war will end soon

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When the six countries which now constitute Freedom Freelandia were liberated by the Freedom Party in 1962, the Freedom Party implemented English as the official langauge of Freedom Freelandia. As the six countries spoke 7 different languages, Freelandia needed a new language to unify everybody, and chose English in order to assist with international trade. As most people were poor and illeterate, and as the government could not afford to educate them, the transition period took 3 decades and involved educating small pockets of the population and forcing all government services to exclusively English. Today, over 80% speaks English only, however, those who can afford to attend school will learn some of the seven "old langauages" in order to keep them alive. Some communities can speak the "old languages" as second languages. Freelandia is one of the few countries which speaks English as a national language, despite never being an English colony

[A m e n r i a]

Tfw you decivilize a country and force it to adopt a western language but couldn't financially support it.

When choosing a Hero name, one could adopt the name of a former Superhero, both retired and deceased, of one doesnot wishto come up with his/her own. This makes them his/her Legacy Hero, which comes with the extra responsibility of living up to his/her predecessor's reputation. Naturally, most people who chose to be Legacy Heroes adopt similar themes as well, including, but not limited to, costumes and colour scheme.

One could also adopt similar themes to an active Superhero. This makes him/her a Contemporary Hero. Contemporary Heroes are usually students or fans of their namesakes who learn from them, and thus have similar Powers as their original counterparts.

[Crysuko]

A good idea, as it shows homage to a respected former, as well as recycling a name you know is cool and if you're somewhat creatively challenged. the concept of contemporary heroes shows a cycling of ideas, using the old to bolster the new.

ICON/ECON (intelligence services) agents undergo some perculiar trials during their training. Such as holding a conversation while perfectly mirroring a target's body language, subconciously making them seem more trustworthy. But most notably, they are given a pet animal. a cat, a dog or suchlike to take care of throughout the course to teach them the importance of long term responsibility. the final act, they are told to kill it. to pass, they must refuse, or otherwise find a way out of it. The lesson? No matter your orders, never harm the innocent.

[Diarcesia]

A good idea, as it shows homage to a respected former, as well as recycling a name you know is cool and if you're somewhat creatively challenged. the concept of contemporary heroes shows a cycling of ideas, using the old to bolster the new.

ICON/ECON (intelligence services) agents undergo some perculiar trials during their training. Such as holding a conversation while perfectly mirroring a target's body language, subconciously making them seem more trustworthy. But most notably, they are given a pet animal. a cat, a dog or suchlike to take care of throughout the course to teach them the importance of long term responsibility. the final act, they are told to kill it. to pass, they must refuse, or otherwise find a way out of it. The lesson? No matter your orders, never harm the innocent.

Did you take that from Kingsman?

Did you know that in the Dieresis-Kingdom of Chiyginia, the King's official car is called (translated in English) as the "Coupe of State"? Their language is French.

[Freedom Freelandia]

Interesting. Coup of state is indeed an interesting name. For us non-French speakers, how did you arrive at that name?

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In 2019, 700 poor people were known to try to defect from Freelandia. Of them, 620 were shot on sight (free men and free women) or sent back to their masters (slaves) and the remaining 80 managed to escape, so the Freedom patrol (i.e police) captured their families and sent them to "school" (i.e
labour camps) where they could "learn about how great Freelandia is, and how much Freedom exists in Freedom Freelandia". The slaves who tried to defect were given 100 by the Freedom Patrol lashes each and returned to their masters who either put them immediately back to work or punished them further. Had any of the 80 who'd managed to escape been slaves, their masters would have the right to make their families work harder to make up for the missing labour

[Crabaiaia]

Interesting. Coup of state is indeed an interesting name. For us non-French speakers, how did you arrive at that name?

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In 2019, 700 poor people were known to try to defect from Freelandia. Of them, 620 were shot on sight (free men and free women) or sent back to their masters (slaves) and the remaining 80 managed to escape, so the Freedom patrol (i.e police) captured their families and sent them to "school" (i.e
labour camps) where they could "learn about how great Freelandia is, and how much Freedom exists in Freedom Freelandia". The slaves who tried to defect were given 100 by the Freedom Patrol lashes each and returned to their masters who either put them immediately back to work or punished them further. Had any of the 80 who'd managed to escape been slaves, their masters would have the right to make their families work harder to make up for the missing labour

Interesting.

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Crabaiaia experienced 3 coups in December 2020, all 3 of them were stopped by the military.

[Novostia]

I am 90% sure the military was listening to the Doom Eternal OST




Novostia has a massive climate (and cultural but that’s slightly less interesting) division between the southern region and the northern one where during summer and spring in the southern area you will be melting alive and in winter or fall the northern part will be a frozen hellhole

[CBG-Palisade]

Wait, why'd they not just enslave the non-slaves trying to defect? It feels like the sort of thing a horribly evil regime that's evil for no real reason would do, tbh.

Also, as an aside, "coupe" is just another name for car. It's not "coup". The pronunciation is entirely different.

AN: How'd that happen? Is the nation just massive as all hell or is there a significant geological or geographic cause to that?

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Of the philosophers of the Stellar Renaissance whose works largely served to codify colbureau (or Colonial Bureaucracy) into a coherent ideology as opposed to a vague mess of happenstance and necessity, the one with the greatest impact was undeniably the economist Adelyn Ngugi and her work on trade in the interstellar environment- to summarize, she proposed that any spacefaring state would in order to keep itself together on a scale larger than a drift or even a single stellar system require some degree of minimum consumption, or enforced exchange of goods.

While this is important to understand what comes next, she's not the focus of this excerpt.

Rather, we'll discuss Matthias van der Lyn, whose rather more esoteric work On the Synthesis of Liberalism and Functional Society served as the foundation for demcolbureau. I'm certain you can guess what that's portmanteau for. Democratic Colonial Bureaucracy, for the people in the back. He argued that though a liberal society was entirely opposed to maintaining macro-level efficiency, it was functional on the micro-level, building off that platform to propose that minimal consumption and its enforced dependency would lead to a consensus-based micro-level "community", far more liberal and democratic in nature, complying with the mandates of the efficient and bureaucratic State. Yes, efficient and bureaucratic sound opposed to each other, but in colbureau the idea is about macro-level success and the argument is that a bureaucratic system is inherently the best disposed to preventing micro-level influences on macro-level processes. He further proposed that these communities would, after their construction, become necessitated to eventually supersede to some extent the organ of State; these communities ideally organizing into a confederation that influences the bureaucratic structure to work towards the people's will based off the pressures of minimum consumption.

While van der Lyn's ideas never caught on in the mainstream while he was alive, he enjoyed immense popularity in the wake of the Authority's collapse, as he would find his ideas co-opted by states wishing to portray themselves as kinder faces than the Authority to their people. In essence his ideas were never realized but were used to justify other, far less altruistic modes of governance developed after his life. The most common fate for any moderately-popular ideological notion, really.