NationStates

So your navy is not so powerful, then?


Hazuken bans anything related to memes as bring Anti-Hazuken

Hazukenia wrote:So your navy is not so powerful, then?


Hazuken bans anything related to memes as bring Anti-Hazuken

The frog god of Egypt is displeased with your policy

During Panem’s mandatory marching drills in schools, students march with actual (unloaded) rifles.

Best that it's blank rather than loaded.

Hazukenia has had a few heart attacks in his lifetime, all in the 1970s and 1980s and due to smoking.

Well, he still manages to live... pretty long too.

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The Kremlin have banned and unbanned a number of books during ten years of administration. The banned books, however, are available in the Kremlin's Archive and can be used for study purpose. You only need to fill seven pages of permission form, show your ID and proof of employment and confirmation letters (in case you are a student.) The permission will arrive in seven days and then you will be allowed inside the Archive. You can stay until the Kremlin is closed at 4pm but cannot bring any book out, only your own possessions. Most of the time, you will be accompanied by a guard.

The list of banned literature shifts according to political situations in the country. During the height of national depression, books containing suicide were banned. During Act of Atheism, holy texts were banned. Most of the time, books that are known for gruesome contents, excessive immorality and strong political radicality are banned from bookstores, libraries and websites, and are only available in the Archive. Right now, there are about 13 - 15 books on the list.

I guess that for a socialist state, this power of censorship is very sparingly used. Good on ya.

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The moniker of 'The Chief' given to President Edward Raphael Trent is almost unprecedented in the history of the United States; many of our residents feared that such a cult of personality around a President could undermine American democracy. His preferred Navy attire and an unusual running mate (De Louw, a former mercenary) didn't help matters, and thus late 2016 was a year of anxiety and fear for many Americans who misunderstood the ex-military man for a dictator-in-waiting. Newspapers burst with speculation and American League countries issued diplomatic warnings and such. In the end, however, those fears proved to be unfounded as Trent readily accepted the framework of the Constitution and his office's limited powers.

Perhaps the White House should do more in allaying people's fears.

Lasar Makonos, PM of Atlantis during 1968-1976, stated on his will that only his head, his heart and his bones should be buried, and even then, only after being burnt into ashes. The rest of his body is to be administered by a specific butcher and served up as food to his family, his siblings and their families, and his siblings-in-law and their families. Mara Makonos, his wife, claimed thay his will, while unusual and unsettling, was a symbolic method of saying "I will always be with you." His son, Karl, claimed that "the unsettling memory caused by this will make sure we remember this message."

He died in 2000, and his body, sans his head, heart and bones, was indeed cannibalised, as per his will.

"Well, you got to go out some badass way."

Marcianus Capitis, the nation's capital, is located in a crater near Valles Marineris.

It must be one of the most fascinating and beautiful places in existance.


We don't use elections, except for referendums. Instead we use lottery to select a sample of random citizens for parliament. You can check https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sortition. It is the mathematically most fair and proportional system, it also ensures stability and prosperity as well as democracy.

I honestly can’t see that as working very well for a larger country. But, it’s an intriguing and could work for a smaller country.

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The Sarcanan head of state is the Lord-Archon, whose position is mainly hereditary and lifelong. However, it lacks religious and monarchal ceremony, and is thus more akin to a hereditary dictatorship than a monarchy. However, the Lord-Archon has checks and balances, and the Prime Minister heads the government.

Sarcana wrote:I honestly can’t see that as working very well for a larger country. But, it’s an intriguing and could work for a smaller country.

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The Sarcanan head of state is the Lord-Archon, whose position is mainly hereditary and lifelong. However, it lacks religious and monarchal ceremony, and is thus more akin to a hereditary dictatorship than a monarchy. However, the Lord-Archon has checks and balances, and the Prime Minister heads the government.

Why do you think it wouldn't work for a large country?

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Swindenland wrote:

Sarcana wrote:I honestly can’t see that as working very well for a larger country. But, it’s an intriguing and could work for a smaller country.

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The Sarcanan head of state is the Lord-Archon, whose position is mainly hereditary and lifelong. However, it lacks religious and monarchal ceremony, and is thus more akin to a hereditary dictatorship than a monarchy. However, the Lord-Archon has checks and balances, and the Prime Minister heads the government.

Why do you think it wouldn't work for a large country?

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I just doubt it would.
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Sarcana wrote:I honestly can’t see that as working very well for a larger country. But, it’s an intriguing and could work for a smaller country.

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The Sarcanan head of state is the Lord-Archon, whose position is mainly hereditary and lifelong. However, it lacks religious and monarchal ceremony, and is thus more akin to a hereditary dictatorship than a monarchy. However, the Lord-Archon has checks and balances, and the Prime Minister heads the government.

I don't see much of a problem with that

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Minecraftian highways have five lanes - both manual and autonomous vehicles are allowed on the two outer lanes, which have a speed limit of 150 km/h, while the inner three lanes are exclusively for autonomous vehicles and have no speed limit (although autonomous vehicle software typically does not exceed 250 km/h)

Well, why not put limits to 250km/h, then?

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In Siberia, robots create a larger percent of the population than in other Commonwealth nations, and sometimes you can meet robots there more often than humans. It is also the only Commonwealth state, which's leader, and UNC's representative is a robot. It also produces ''Battery Acid''- a robot-only drink, which is a modified variant of normal battery acid, and kind of similar to nuka-cola. It was created, so robots could feel the sweet taste too.

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My head, dear lord. Apologies, but it is truly an “out-there” idea. So... kudos, I suppose.

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The Sarcanan government granted the right to vote to black (male) citizens as early as the 1880s.
Black women were granted the right along with all other female citizens of the required age and above.

That’s great!

Welskerland is a mostly human country, but sentient robots have equal rights and are also citizens.

Fantastic

In 1980 the US Federal Government was reorganized from the ground up. One of the major changes was the abolishment of the offices of Vice President and President, with the implementation of a Swiss style Federal Council a eight member council serving as the collective executive head of government and state, the position of Federal President rotates among the eight Councillors on a yearly basis, with the year's Vice President becoming next year's President. The members of the Federal Council are elected for a term of three years individually by secret ballot.

<claps hands>

The third previous Lord Regent, Dio Makros, was impeached in 1987 due to corruption involving supporting the Liberal Democratic Party, thereby breaking the Lord Regent's mandate of partisan neutrality. This is known as the "Regentgate Scandal".

You can impeach royalty? Wow...that seems...eh...un-royal.

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The flag of Koshkaya is the flag of the old Cat Confederacy. It has nothing to do with the Confederate States of America or Dixie. Instead its a modified Imperial Russian naval jack that the slavified neko tribes adopted when they traveled to and fro from Hokkaido to Sakhalin and when they later sided with Russia during the Russo-Japanese War.

Koshkaya wrote:You can impeach royalty? Wow...that seems...eh...un-royal.

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The flag of Koshkaya is the flag of the old Cat Confederacy. It has nothing to do with the Confederate States of America or Dixie. Instead its a modified Imperial Russian naval jack that the slavified neko tribes adopted when they traveled to and fro from Hokkaido to Sakhalin and when they later sided with Russia during the Russo-Japanese War.

TFW nobody knows the significance of St. Andrew's cross and automatically assume it has something to do with the Confederacy

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Casually advocating for the death of a person or a large group of people - even if in jest - is considered by the Reach Psychiatric Association to be a major sign of psychopathy.

The Imperial Reach wrote:Casually advocating for the death of a person or a large group of people - even if in jest - is considered by the Reach Psychiatric Association to be a major sign of psychopathy.

That actually has sense.

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The Liberation Wolves have a batallion called "Van helsing Method". Used usually in desperate situations in case of defensive wars, the regiment is kind of new as it is was an experimental - yet new army. Those are considered the Marines of New Wolvers, usually brave men and women who are willing to go in a berserk fight for their own country to protect it from invaders.
Of course, being this regiment only for those who are werewolves, AI soldiers cannot join, nor can normal humans.

Could be risky, berserker units historically had very high casualties.

In Crysuko, there exists worker's communes. basically a block of shoebox flats annexed onto a place of work, complete with 3 hot meals provided a day in a food hall, internet access, a games and recreation club equipped with a bar, pinball and pub games, TVs and video games and communal kitchens where one's own food can be prepared and shared. Each one is considered a self-contained close knit community, the leave your front door wide open with no fear of being burgled level, each one with a unique little culture of slang, in-jokes and history. The communes house over half of the workforce, and are beloved by those who live in them for the sense of community.

That's bound to be more than how it's described. I'd wager every commune also has a cetrain reputation to others close by it, and a rich history of successes, failures, perhaps some betrayals, too. Kind of like tiny countries - or huge families. I can't say if I like it or not.

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The origin of Belarusian/White Ruthenian statehood was the Russian defeat in the Great War. The German Dnieper-Bjaresina Line - the occupation line agreed upon in the late-1917 Treaty of Kiev (and also happened to split that city into two parts) - placed a large amount of western Russian territory under German Army control. The section below the Pripyat river was promptly proclaimed "Ukraine", ruled by an Austrian king with German advisors; The section to the north, however, proved to be a right headache as the locals fought each other over nominal 'leadership' in the territory, with some claiming to be Russian and some 'Belarusian'. In light of the Russian Civil War and Russia's then-inability to do any damage to Germany if it tried to break a truce, the Germans simply withdrew their troops and left the region to its fate. The Belarusian National Republic was formed; but it was short-lived, as in 1921, when Germany's war with Britain re-ignited and German troops went to Ireland and Africa, the victorious Reds seized the war-torn BNR and claimed it for themselves, whereupon it was touted as one of the founder nations of the USSR - the Belarusian Soviet Republic.
In the Second Great War, German troops once again entered Belarus in 1946, as part of their push into Russia. In 1947, the Soviet leader Bukharin came to the negotiation table early, and signed the country away to the Germans without a second thought. He was deposed a year later in the middle of the Second Russian Civil War. The Republic of Belarus became an independent country, joining various pan-European treaty organizations thought up by the Germans; in the 1950s, over 2.5 million Russians emigrated from the now-dictatorial Russian Derzhava to join the almost-million already in Belarus, making it a bilingual state. In 2008, nine years after Russia had democratized, the Russian nationals in Belarus forced a referendum on re-union with Russia as an autonomous Republic. It returned with a 54% Yes vote, and in September 2009, Belarus as a sovereign state was again no more.

"In conclusion, kingdoms to empire to divided sovereign states and to independent states? I am not sure what to comment about that though..."

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From 1500's until 1900's, Christians who were born on December 25th (or to some, January 10th), were consider 'children of God' and 'siblings of Jesus' because the Christians believed that those who were born on the day when Jesus where born, were blessed with the divine power of the unified God. In contrary, those who were born on June 6th and on a year where there is six at the end (e.g 1506, 1676, 1706) were consider 'offspring of Satan' and not long after their birth, they are usually killed for the same reason.

Even though in modern time, most Christians have abandoned such practice (believing someone born on certain date indicates divinity or accursed), some rural and isolated Christians still continued practicing the tradition.

Even the infanticide?
Barbaric, I must say.

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The Sarcanan revolution for independence ended similarly to that of the French Revolution. Many people were hanged or killed, and a general purge of society occurred for many years. An anarchist “state” briefly popped up, but the new government under the first Lord-Archon forcibly quelled the population into a status of civility and obedience to the new state. Centralisation occurred in the following years.

One notable consequence of the revolution was the harsh secularism imposed upon society by the republican government.

Meh. The French Revolution and its offshoot wars were the worst thing to happen in the 18th and 19th centuries. No brownie points from me.

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The French Revolution, while not quelled in its entirety, was mostly contained in the Coalition wars. Unlike in OTL, The French were crushed in four of the seven wars (in our timeline, only the last two) and forced to pay reparations each time (though, they never managed to put the royalists in charge, those pesky Frenchmen) until the last one, were a monarchist government was enforced on them from literally every single one of their neighbors (Prussia and Frievolk were decidedly adamant on that one, after Napoleon fucked up for the last time)
As a result, the number of Republics in our lifetime are surprisingly low.