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

[The City-State of Palmont]

Well, every cult of personality can turn into terrorism according to what I've seen, so the labeling could be correct.

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The Palmont Police Department is well-known for its disproportionate retribution when going FAST (By this I don't mean going five miles over the posted limit, traffic and speed enforcement cops are lenient with that, I mean blasting it at 70 MPH in a 40 MPH area, which is the majority of the city), with the event being described in the police scanner as an 11-44 (Street race) even if you are ALONE. Shortly they'll dispatch supercars equipped with 350,000$ worth of immobilizing equipment to shut you down. And if getting your tires popped and your car electrics fried by an EMP and then get that said car impounded wasn't enough, later they even take the liberty to BEAT YOU UP while in custody. In short, the PPD has turned into a spoof in behavior of the RCPD (Redview County Police Department, which has more complaints about police brutality than the LAPD during the nineties).

I know that Palmont is largely based on my Authoritarian beliefs, and I've stated in my sig that the police force does represent my views. But considering all the influence the PPD has, of course, I had to have some realist thinking on it and make the police abusive when it comes to speeding. Power does corrupt, even the best of people.

[Knessniet]

Knessian police tend to use automatic weapons much more than probably necessary, so we're on the same page.

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While Knessniet expels those they deem heretical, the reverse is also true. Knessniet grants asylum to fundamentalist Christian activists, monarchists, and other people persecuted for holding beliefs also held by the state. They are reviewed on a case-by-case basis, and if denied, sent right back home.

This is also the only way to become a refugee in Knessniet. All other migrants are turned back, often with force.

[Scottish Socialists]

Wow.
Kind, but on the other hand, hypocritical, I guess?
I don’t know.

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The Soviet Republic of Scottish Socialists used to be a very dictatorial nation, but recent changes in laws has seen us reclassified from a “Psychotic Dictatorship” to “Democratic Socialists”.

(tbh if we get good integrity levels then I might start fully using NS stats)

[The Isle of Beithe]

Wow.
Kind, but on the other hand, hypocritical, I guess?
I don’t know.

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The Soviet Republic of Scottish Socialists used to be a very dictatorial nation, but recent changes in laws has seen us reclassified from a “Psychotic Dictatorship” to “Democratic Socialists”.

(tbh if we get good integrity levels then I might start fully using NS stats)

The introduction of Abilify to the Soviet Republic of Scottish Socialists's water supply must be working.

Beithen Standard English includes more than three-dozen rules regarding the Oxford comma; consequentially, Beithen professional editors regularly have been accused of autosadism.

[Solandia (Ancient)]

You guys must have given a new dimension to the 'British vs American English' argument.

Flagpoles are very rare in Solandia. Not because citizens are unpatriotic or anything, but because no one bothers about that. If you want to plant a flagpole, you have to buy it yourself and no one wants to pay something that doesn't a direct benefit. The places you will see with a flagpole is often foreign embassies.

[Hathian Prime]

That's pretty odd, but it does make getting a flag pole a sort of honor. It's an interesting fact that I'll probably remember out of nowhere 20 years from now.


Hathian Prime is known for producing the deadliest tanks in the world. They're notorious for easily bouncing shots, moving fast, and dealing out serious damage to foes. There was a battle where one Hathenian medium tank destroyed 13 enemy medium tanks without suffering any serious damage. Many of Hathian Prime's enemies have tank doctrines that demand that tankers immediately retreat if they come across a Hathian Heavy Tank.

[The Great-German Empire]

That's frighteningly strong. Then again, the (OOC: Tiger) was also able to ignore the rules of tank warfare until '43.

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The German Armed Forces, while containing a fair amount of conscripted men, are still based mostly around prestige rather than numbers or compulsion. Being in the Army beyond the mandatory year means having honor and being a true lover of Germany. In fact, dodging service in any way other than legitimate illness is very much looked down upon; 'Conscientious Objection' simply doesn't exist.

[Soleos]

Conscription is rather an outdated concept. Why not clone elite soldiers? Or create mechanical killing machines?

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The Statue of Liberty was mostly torn down in the 2090s and replaced with a marble statue of Thales of Miletus, a Mathematician and Astronomer from Ancient Greece. This is to symbolize the fall of Democracy and the Rise of Technocracy, as the United States, Canada, and Mexico were the last stronghold of Democracy during World War III. In Southern Turkey, Gobleki Tepe had a statue of an undefined human, both genderless and faceless, outside the site. Gobleki Tepe was the site of the first human construction project, and the Technocracy chose to mark that area as a Sacred site where humanity (and later Taloans) as "The birthplace of our Nation".

[Union of Albandrite Socialist Republics]

Another technocratic regime backed by the international bourgeois. Delaying the inevitable worker's revolution.



The UASR is known to have statues of Communist revolutionaries sprinkled throughout the forested areas of the Mountains, in areas where people least expect to run into them. The statues were placed as memorials to those who died during the revolution. This gives some forested areas the nickname "Forest of Statues"

[Crysuko]

An interesting concept, running into history and remembrance when you least expect it.

The president and cabinet members have frequent interaction with the public, not just at official events but in off hours. Foreign secretary Kadahan Malell can be found in uptown bars, and head of armed forces Alueck Sangh loves him a library.

[Frievolk]

Interesting. Most world leaders don't really fraternize with the people they're supposed to represent and/or govern while in office.

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The theme of "God Save The Queen" has been anthem of only one country in our world, and that's the United States of America. The British have always used "Rule Britannia", while Prussia never switched to Heil dir im Siegerkranz (and used Preußenlied until the formation of the German Empire, at which point both Die Wächt am Rhein and Deutschlandlied were used alternatively, until the second world war ended and Deutschlandlied became the official anthem).

[Soleos]

It always fascinates us how some nations have this idea that they're somehow special over the others and make songs out of it.

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Despite the Technocracy being an automated, (mandatory) contribution-based economy, the majority of citizens are required to work at least 30 hours a week in the fields of Research, Service, or Art/Culture. The majority of the Technocracy does not work in Research but rather, Service. Mostly as soldiers and explorers so they can observe the galaxy firsthand without the necessity of university science courses. However, those that are well educated in STEM fields typically get to do more than just see different worlds: They get to live in them. Artists typically can travel to, but mostly for exhibitions and concerts. However, with more and more systems becoming colonized and FTL travel more efficient (it'll take a month to travel from Sol to Alpha Centauri for example, now it's about to be reduced to 3 weeks), it won't be surprising when "Mandatory 2 month leave" involves citizens exploring other systems. This doesn't scare the military, however, as the Technocracy relies more on Cloned and Manufactured soldiers.

[Multiversal Venn-Copard]

Well, that's one way to encourage travel and expansion - won't deny that offering the opportunity to work in new places gets a lot of people moving. The step you should probably be gearing up for next is AGI takeoff, at which point you can safely step down contribution requirements to "voluntary".

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Due to the requirement that extended operations in new universes require zero-point reactors to be set up, the VCMR's covert operations tend to follow one of two extremes: either they last only a few seconds, only long enough to snipe important targets, brute-force any information to steal, and get out, or they are so thoroughly concealed that the spacecraft guarding the reactors keeping VCMR assets active need to shut down most of their own systems to avoid detection.

There's a name for duty aboard a ship kept totally silent during this type of operation, sitting near a reactor to guard it against attack while the ship itself is mostly inoperative: "ice duty". Crewmen serving extended (often year- or decade-long) shifts aboard an "iced" vessel are known to return home with mental facilities slightly damaged and often require therapy due to the limitations on communication, energy usage, and even thought (memetic detectors are known to exist amongst the VCMR's enemies). Bizarrely, huge numbers of military personnel volunteer for these positions anyway, taking it as an extreme form of downtime and a way to relax from the frenetic activity of the advanced multiversal civilization's normal state.

[Sycar]

That's very interesting. The Sycarian Armed Forces have been experimenting with space-borne weapons systems, but in Sycar we have only seen reactor-driven space craft in science fiction films.
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The Sycarian Armed Forces did not start experimenting with self-loading rifles until the early 1950s, and the first branch of the military to adopt a semi-automatic rifle was the Navy.

[Normund]

Thats...quite honestly pathetic.
Really, it is.

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AntiFa is a stigmatised group in our country, largely due to the actions of American AntiFa affiliates and the violent nature of the group. However, fascistic and other dangerous groups are also stigmatised.

Edits: Replaced “organisation” with “group.”

[New Transeurasia]

Thats...quite honestly pathetic.
Really, it is.

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AntiFa is a stigmatised group in our country, largely due to the actions of American AntiFa affiliates and the violent nature of the group. However, fascistic and other dangerous groups are also stigmatised.

Edits: Replaced “organisation” with “group.”

Makes sense. AntiFa and other dangeroug groups are bad.

AntiFa is actually banned from operating in New Transeurasia, along with RNU(Russia national unity), other nazi groups, NT Bolshevik party, extremist movements, etc..

[Wawakanatote]

If only Antifa worked like that than maybe a ban on it could actually work, but Antifa isn't a single group, it's a movement and an ideology that are dependent on the characteristics of the country they are in. It makes as much sense to ban on liberalism, fascism, or communism. You should probably say many groups who identify with Antifa are banned.

Also, this isn't a defense of American antifa, most of those people are either liberals or ultra-"revolutionaries" who think that kicking trashcans is revolutionary.

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The relationship between Yugoslavia and the other Eastern European states are based off of unfair trade agreements and bad practices that benefited the Yugoslav Republic into becoming the dominant power of region. Many of these policies hinder growth and economic development of neighboring states with the worst of them being in the Socialist Republic of Orykovo (northern border), and places like Albania have had their relationships with Yugoslavia scarred. Much of these policies were made worse under the decentralization period of the Morgen administration of the 2050s that saw a sort of anarchy within the SUSR market, which wouldn't begin to fix until about 2058(59) when Chairwoman Morgen adopted many policies from Chairwoman Song.

[Astoriya]

Surely revolts would spring up quickly

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[Wawakanatote]

They have over 3,00 billionaires
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I smell a hideous income gap

This isn't how it works....
You're supposed to respond to the fact in the post above, and then put your own fact below it using "{hr][/hr]".

Also, 3,000 is the total number of billionaires worldwide, not the SUSR on its own.
//skip, but not really unless AN changes post//

[Astoriya]

They have over 3,00 billionaires
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I smell a hideous income gap

This isn't how it works....
You're supposed to respond to the fact in the post above, and then put your own fact below it using "{hr][/hr]".

Also, 3,000 is the total number of billionaires worldwide, not the SUSR on its own.
//skip, but not really unless AN changes post//

Sorry

[The Islands of Versilia]

That’s great to hear. I applaud this.

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Vampires are more likely to have female children than males. This has resulted in somewhat of a shortage of male vampires in some communities, and some communities have resorted to polygamy to solve the issue.

[Alamka]

Wow, that's weird.

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No matter how traditional or old fashioned we seem, we are secretly the most powerful nation and one of the most technologically advanced nations ever to exist.

[Crysuko]

So says every nationalist of every nation to exist, ever. Bah.

In the red terror aftermath of the first civil war, an estimated 2.3 million were purged, with twice as many exiled and displaced. It's taught as heroic in the part of the provisional revolutionary government, even a (extremely biased propaganda) film was made on the topic.

[Frievolk]

Purges, Terrors, and Oppressive Instabilities are a natural result of any revolution. I'm not surprised.

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In our world, the Schengen Agreement was signed between Frievolk, the Netherlands, Germany, Austria, Britain, and Piedmont. These six countries have officially agreed to an open border between their nations in order to ease the border friction between, respectively, Germany and Britain, Austria and Piedmont, Frievolk and the Netherlands, and also in order to battle the -at that point- rising threat of the French Commune in the early years of the Construction Era. Since the agreement was signed in 1963, these countries have had an open border between them, but a harsh border control on non-members. Similar agreements exist between a number of Other European Nations (Italy, Venetia, Piedmont, and Switzerland have a similar agreement, so do Austria, Romania, Bulgaria, Greece, and Venetia)
It was only fairly recently that talks about officializing these informal agreements into a Continent-wide Border policy began in the European Union.

[Union of Albandrite Socialist Republics]

Free borders and peace are good, but with the goal of suppressing worker's states, not so good....


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The Capital of the Southern Republic of Albandry "Syoma" is often considered the Islamic Capital of the UASR as a whole. Due to the large Islamic population in the southern part of the nation, many of the largest Mosques in the nation are held in the Southern Republic's capital. Islamic centers are sprinkled throughout the town and a large selection of restaurants from multiple cultures of the Muslim world can be found. The city was the site of anti-Muslim terror attacks during the ethnic wars in the 90's, thus making it the most police heavy city in the country. Its architectural influence (outside of the Soviet Style government housing that towers over most of the city), is predominately Islamic in style, when it snows, houses and buildings that one would often associated with the hot desert are covered in thick layers of snow.