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

[Las Palmeras]

All good so long as over-confidence doesn't lead your people to miss the big picture or to completely deny whatever bad blood may have happened in the past. Granted as a former colony and ever-lasting satellite, we consider empires to be prone to over-estimating themselves.

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Because there's no skeletal record of neko before 15-12,000 BCE AND because they appeared simultaneously in the Palmeran isles and Japan in that time-period without traces of a migration route (that'd have been over 12,500km), the Paleocontact/Ancient Aliens hypothesis holds a considerable degree of academic seriousness in our world; with proponents saying the we are descended from marooned extraterrestrials or part of some remote civilization which only could have created us through genetic engineering. Not that there is any proof of that either.

[Soleos]

Reminds us of some mystery as to how every human species but homo sapiens disappeared almost simultaneously.

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During the early days of post-war humanity (2090s - 2100s), there were actually race-motivated attacks against Caucasians, Latinos, Africans, and people from the Middle East. People of South, East, Southeast Asian descent blamed mainly "Bairen" （白人）for almost causing human extinction with their Anti-Vax, anti-automation, anti-"Green Capitalism", "Build der wall" beliefs which caused severe stagnation in the global economy as the majority of the world's wealthy countries collapsed due to their rejection of modernity, and destroyed the environment thinking coal is somehow better.

The Technocracy's logic is that it's better to kill off the Ben Shapiros of the world than to convince "Unsalvageable Defectives" that XYZ is mathematically sound, believing Ben Shapiro always thinks he's right and thus can not be saved, Recycle him anyway so he can at least be some use to medical researchers.

[Metamen]

"This timeline sounds rather wonky... it may serve the interests of the republic to see it deleted."

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"The Republic has often been thought to be an entity so massive as to micromanage, their entire civilization. It is true, the Republic is massive, however, in reality, the Republic macromanages it's territories most of the time. There are very few instances where a conquered territories culture and ethics deviate so far away from the Republics code of conduct that they would require rewriting, and the few that do are an exception, not the rule.

All else fails. Force is always an option. Imperators all across Republic History has long wished Force to be the only option... but that's what the Council is for.

It is no small thing as to say the Republic would rule over an Empire of Corpses if the Imperators always had their way."

-Imperator Ordea Felicitas

[Knessniet]

It is not only impossible, but unrealistic to think that you can directly govern an area bigger than a few thousand square miles. Some form of local government is required, otherwise the people are not truly represented or governed according to their needs.

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To encourage manufacturers to make their goods in Knessniet, there are no excises or tariffs on exports. However, there is a base 5% tariff on imports. This proves to provide a very nice balance of trade, as the cheap and plentiful labor, low tax, and lax regulation make it the dream of any corporation. The only downside is that Knessniet is very fond of issuing additional taxes on individual countries, or even companies, when they conflict with the will of the government. For example, back in they day, the British East India Company had to pay an additional 2.5% on imports to Knessniet, in protest of their monopoly of India.

[Frievolk]

"cheap, plentiful labor" sounds very much like slavery, especially when you consider that it is used as an incentive to lure in foreign corporations. Then again, your country already has slavery so eh.

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Once more, about death-related traditions in Frievolk. People are almost never buried horizontally. Instead, people are burried in a coffin vertically in a way that their head is the closest part of their body to the ground, above with a gravestone is erected. Said Gravestone often has a Kruis des Sankt-Franz (Cross of Saint Franz) as well as a eulogy (often a stranza of poetry) as well as the diseased individual's name and date of birth-death.

[The Intermarian Order]

Interesting. Is there any particular reason why or it just looked A E S T H E T I C A Lly Pagan and cool?

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The Germans are quite the despised and distrusted bunch among the Poles in the empire in our time. Memories of the Kingdom of Prussia-Bradenburg's attempt at partitioning Polish-Lietuva back then ended in failure and Prussia was forced to cede Posen, Lower Silesia, and Danzig to Polish-Lietuva in the Treaty of Elbing in 2047. Immediately, the German minority became citizens of Polish-Lietuva overnight. Some peasants left in exodus but the majority of the Junkers stayed after the previous dynasty guaranteed them that they will protect their property. Although such feelings has subsided ever since Konstantyn took the throne of Imperator, there are some ultranationalists that would like to stir up trouble by presenting the Germans as schemers controlling the nation economically and politically due to their massive wealth and reluctance in integrating into our culture. Thus, turning them to a scapegoat for most of the empire's problem. Nonetheless, many minority Germans have become influential figures in Intermarium in politics, military, academia, media, and many others where they are proud in identifying themselves as Intermarian.

[Normund]

I am glad to see their allegiances have changed and conform to the Intermarium. It’s about time Germany got its arse handed to it, hah!

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Multilingualism is expected in contemporary Normundic culture. Second languages are usually learnt from parents or family, but schools heartedly endorse it as well. Hindi, Mandarin and Japanese are the most studied in language classes nationwide.

[Athralia]

I am glad to see their allegiances have changed and conform to the Intermarium. It’s about time Germany got its arse handed to it, hah!

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Multilingualism is expected in contemporary Normundic culture. Second languages are usually learnt from parents or family, but schools heartedly endorse it as well. Hindi, Mandarin and Japanese are the most studied in language classes nationwide.

That's excellent, multilingualism is an incredibly beneficial and rewarding skill.

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Whilst being relatively similar to human cuisine over all, traditional Athralian cuisine can perhaps be most effectively compared to the cuisines of the Koreans and the Japanese, albeit with a much heavier focus on the Athralian equivalents of red meats and fish. Such meats are traditionally barbecued and served alongside any number of smaller side dishes. This can be attributed to the largely carnivorous natures of the Athralians themselves. Having evolved from the strictly carnivorous proto-Athralians, omnivorous modern Athralians are much better equipped to consume such a meat-heavy diet than humans. Examples of this include their famously sharp teeth, strong stomach acids, extremely efficient digestive systems, and their ability to digest even bone. In terms of drinks, the most iconic is undoubtably syrivla, an alcoholic beverage analogous to human wine. Made from fermented berries native to the Athran Archipelago, syrivla is famous for it’s dark blue colour, sweet taste, pleasant smell, and health benefits.

[Knessniet]

That actually sounds like a good menu. I'd eat it for sure.

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Knessian cuisine is like the country, it hasn't changed in 1,500 years and it varies greatly by socioeconomic class.

Among the peasantry, the diet is very bland, mostly consisting of meat, grain, and starch. Potatoes, beef, chicken, and bread are mainstays. Recipies vary greatly, as most are passed throughout families or are suited to the local area. The idea is whatever is cheapest and most plentiful gets mixed with whatever else is available in a stew, or gets served with bread.

Among the middle-class factory owners and merchants, they tend to eat similarly to the peasants, but with taste as more of a concern. They may also utilize luxuries such as imported cheese or wine. In short, they make stew like the peasantry, but with more concern towards taste than affordability. They also tend to eat more fresh vegetables than the rest of the populous.

The nobility and upper classes eat a diet considered not only gluttonous, but plainly unhealthy by modern standards. Veal, roast meats, imported cheese, plentiful alchohol, and foreign recipies guaranteed to be more tasteful than any of the peasants can imagine. They eat what they want, when they want, and it is always a show of wealth at the dining table. As a result, most of the nobility is 'big-boned' to put it nicely. It's the source of the hated fat capitalist pig that the reds like to go on about.

TL;DR: Knessian food is bland unless you can afford to hire foreign chefs.

[Soleos]

How bleak, and this is coming from us. At least we see the artist and culinary geniuses as equals of scientists.

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The Technocracy actually has a universal definition of 'Human', and it's universal to the point where Conservative thinkers and Left-wing Indigenous Nationalists aren't considered Human because their "psychology doesn't match Human psychology" and are often used as lab subjects ("Recycled") since their biology is at least identical to actual humans. Genetically, they are humans. Legally, they are not. That's a big difference in how the Technocracy treats you.

Standard of living improved greatly in the late 21st century when this was implemented since it got rid of many obstacles to progress, albeit at the cost of ethics and morality.

[Athralia]

That's horrific. The whole "you don't share my ideology so clearly you're not even human" thing is dangerously Nazi-esque. Treating everyone you disagree with as untermensch and an obstacle to progress doesn't sound very progressive to me.

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Athralia Prime is a large terrestrial world with a surface area approximately 2.2 times that of Earth, and with the only important differences in the planet's atmosphere being that it is comparatively slightly more dense and has a higher proportion of oxygen. The planet itself is almost entirely covered by vast metropolises of a scale that dwarfs human imagination, although as a result of the Athralian's deep love for their natural habitat, they have always been experts of seamlessly blending civilisation with their environment. A number of artificial and natural factors contribute to Athralia Prime's global climate being relatively constant, and is best comparable to the climates of Earth's Pacific archipelagos, such as Fiji, Hawaii, and the Cook Islands, but even that does not do it justice. Those few humans that have visited the Athralian homeworld have described it as a tropical paradise unlike any other, with some even going so far as to name it the "indisputable crown jewel of the galaxy". Roughly 85% of the planet's surface is covered by calm, clear, and warm oceans, teeming with marine life that shares its home with Athralia's many great underwater cities.

The weather of Athralia Prime is warm and humid all year round, with temperatures remaining relatively constant and with comparatively little seasonal variation between the dry and the wet seasons. As such, a typical Athralian day is often characterised by calm and clear mornings and afternoons followed by heavy rain in the evening that provides welcome relief from the heat. Complete cloud coverage is a somewhat rare occurrence, however, and so intense rainbows are very common. Athralian nights are often cloudless, allowing the planet's denizens to enjoy both astonishingly vibrant views of the galaxy and the occasional aurora streaking magnificent lights across the night sky. The balmy climate of the planet is responsible for its lush flora and fauna, and life in all its forms is often strikingly colourful. This, contrasting superbly with the planet's crystal blue oceans and abundant vegetation, gives Athralia Prime a natural beauty that few, if any, can match. The Athralians are pentachromats that are capable of distinguishing up to 10 billion different hues, and many have said that they pity humanity for not being able to perceive their colourful world, and indeed the entire universe, as they do.

[Metamen]

"The ability to see so much suggests a possibility of missing the smaller details of things. While pretty it appears solely impractical. Hopefully, this planet while larger then the earth is also as rich in resources.

We of the Republic would have the nearest Mining Freighter Fleet on there way now."

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"Cloning Technology has long been perfected before even the Establishment of the Republic, so much so that they can have Souls, can think for itself and believe in things just like the non-cloned counterparts.

Publically the Republic denounces the usage of Cloning Technology, however, there was and is no legal action against the practice, and considering how long the technology has existed, and how common the technology is. We'd have to skewer literally 93% of the worlds under our control to confirm whether or not the technology is being used to clone cattle, or... for "other" reasons (you may translate this in any way you wish it should already be obvious that the Republic is beyond caring about standard morale quandaries by now).

So whenever the Republic needs to test a new weapon against a certain species, or when military draft quotas come up short (they never do... but no one need knows where the awkward kid in the corner of the ITV came from) The Republic Total Population never suffers."

-Imperator Ordea Felicitas

[The Great-German Empire]

Yeah, you're overstretched and underscrupulous.

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The German space industry has very few national assets, with the only truly prominent one being the famed lunar base, Meyerburg. Most materials and even astronauts are delivered to space and to the moon using rockets operated by three different private ventures. Competitors to this Cosmic Three rarely surfaces due to the zero-tolerance policy towards delays maintained by the Imperial Office for Education and Research.

[Zitravgrad]

Hey, it's still cool that you have a lunar base!

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If there is anything Zitravgradian government would never ever nationalize, it is the adult media. Ruled by conservative (so-called) intellectual elites, the Workers' Party believes that pornography hinders productivity and leads to social problems, especially relationship. They cracked down any form of pornography imaginable and managed to ban a number of websites containing such contents.

It is not entirely surprising, however. Zitravgrad evolved from a semi-theocratic and conservative society. There would be occasional crackdowns on such kind of media anyway. Moreover, the socialist government also openly outlaws prostitution and adultery, both of which were frown upon (but somehow legal) in the Imperial Rule.

[Five Nations]

OK!

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King of Five Nations Piast II has 5 wives and 16 children (the oldest is 45 years old and the youngest is 2 years old). Also Piast II is 230 years old!!!

[Normund]

That’s rather dumb in my opinion. Also, fuck polygamy.

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The Normundic government is attempting to mediate between Europe and Syria.

[Athralia]

Good luck with that, although I am not sure that mediating between Europe and Syria is the biggest priority.

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Athralian literature is generally not too dissimilar from European literature as a whole, although it should be mentioned that the Athralians moved away from written literature in favour of an electronic alternative a very long time ago. Some of the most famous Athralian works often centre around the themes of freedom, struggle, and most importantly, love. Although not an example of "classical" Athralian literature, perhaps the most iconic of Athralia's written works is "Daughters of Liberty", a retelling of the tragic story of two young lovers who fought against the Loyalists on the front lines of the Liberation War. Despite serving with distinction and playing crucial roles in the evacuation of civilian populations, they were ultimately captured and later executed together in one of the Loyalist’s infamous death camps. The story touches the heart of every Athralian, and is popular not just for its tragic romance, but also for its libertarian and anti-war messages. Romance is by far the most popular genre in Athralia, in literature and other media. This can be attributed to the very romantic and emotional natures of the Athralians themselves.

[Awesome Dudes and Dudettes]

The AN is wordy

Flannel is often worn by the president at speeches.

[Five Nations]

Whatever.



Our anthem is mix of patriotic songs.

[Zitravgrad]

What about using just one song?

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Due to those zones being highly important to the economy, the Imperial Rule insisted on sending workers into the mines, the oil wells, the factories and all that were in there with increased protection. Now, the socialist government still does just that. The zones are now walled with metal walls with nets to catch the radiated particles during the radstorms. The economic buildings are still operational, albeit with more machines and AIs than before. The mutants are rampant in the zones, leading to a few laboratories being set up. All these are managed by the special paramilitary Commissariat of the Wasteland Authority, who act practically as police of the zones. They check every person and vehicle going in and out, they get rid of mutants and they issue warnings of radstorm when it happens. (S.T.A.L.K.E.R.S. and Metro 2033 fans gonna know how dealing with mutants feels like.)

[Kyneland]

It’s really interesting how you’ve incorporated nuclear exclusion zones, yet still have persons work and operate within them on such a scale. Plus, mutants are quite cool.

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Kynish girls are expected and stereotyped differently than in the rest of the world. Girls, much like boys, are expected to embrace a warrior-like lifestyle; athleticism and muscle are considered highly attractive, and the calling a Kynish woman a valkyrie is a great compliment.
Women are also expected to equally share household responsibilities and duties with men, and visa versa. More often than not, it is the woman that takes charge in relationships - especially with foreigners.

[Veise]

I'm not into muscle-girls, so I certainly would not be into the ideal Kynish woman.

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On the subject of a nation's women, Calidian women dress a tad less conservatively than Veise's neighbors. While Veise's time asked women to cover all down to their ankles, Veise is a tad less looser. Very small amounts of cleavage and knee-length dresses are not considered abnormal in Veise. This very much bothers Veise's neighbors, but they don't particularly get to call Veisers degenerates because of their inferior wealth, power, and even sometimes tech.

[Soleos]

I guess one could say how "free" a population is from cultural norms, the stronger they become.

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There's still a very small segment of the Human population who are still "Ethnic-Separatists", those who believe there is a difference in humans (Whites, Blacks, Semitic, etc). They conflict with the Cultural-Uniformists (Those who believe the Chinese-Japanese-Korean-Thai-Vietnamese-Singaporean-Indian centered cultures of the Technocracy to be the sole culture of humanity) except that the Cultural-Uniformists are left alone as they're only seen as Human Traditionalists as those mentioned cultures have dominated the Technocracy since the late 21st century, they only reject reviving European, Arab-Persian-Jewish, African, and Indigenous American/Oceanian cultures since they're historically "Defective" and fear it'll stagnate Humanity with anti-vax, anti-tech, everything-is-capitalism left-wing horseshit, "fAcTs don't care about your FeElInGs" right-wing shenanigans being brought back.

Ethnic-Separatists are seen as outdated and, thus, Recycled. The logic here is "If a machine part is outdated and can no longer work with new models, it is discarded". However, they are very few and any Ethnicists found and Recycled make big headlines. Cultural-Uniformists are only criminalized if they start attacking scholars or start burning books by Ibn Sina or Isaac Newton because they're not South and/or East Asian in origin. Destroying statues of Napoleon or Caesar is okay, because they're not from the Indian-Chinese-Thai cultural sphere. Isaac Newton or Nietzsche are protected since they're "Academics", so burning a book by an African or European scholar is punishable via Recycling. Sounds a lot like East Asia's obsession with education and high respect for teachers.

Basically, the Technocracy is kinda Eastern Supremacist despite trying to revive dead cultures (and then Asianize it) the way most developed nations in the 1700 - 1900s were Western Supremacists.

[Grand Celestial Domain]

The more we read about your near-soulless society, the more we want to convert your entire nation's populace into a sacrificial skull rack. Your style doesn't make up for a lack of substance. And you'd probably want to destroy us to.

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The GCD's ideology sees Modernism (and most derivative ideologies) as equivalent to degeneracy as Gaussian classifications led to alienation of humanity towards nature, and thus humanity's roots to nature and the ancestral spirits in them. Though we mind to keep the scientific method, it is only seen as a tool for understanding a portion of the material world and overcoming material obstacles, but anti-harmonious to other forms of "properly" contemplating reality. Thus, we can be marked with the label of "anti-rational". As a bonus: because our founding empress -Red Rabbits- was a considerable Pastaboo, she mixed our religious fixation (see Neo-Taoism in our factbook for more details) with cycles of life-death and rebirth to an extreme admiration of vitality and youth. And she also mixed the admiration of ancestor worship to a fixation of the heroic figure and humanity's capacity to act.

TLDR: As our religion sees humanity as the maintainers of cosmic balance; reality is driven and protected by heroic action by means of faith, myth, and a will to live...not just rationality.

[Valentine Z]

That sounds pretty cool, in my opinion. It sounds a bit prophecy-based, or those ancient religions of the Mayans and Incas, though I'm putting this in a positive way, of course. Scientific method for the most parts, but nature is still leaving us without answers.

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IQ tests and anything to measure intelligence have been abandoned in Valentine Z. It is on the grounds that it is inaccurate, and that it tends to discriminate and separate people simply because they are of "higher intelligence" than others. Not that we embrace ignorance, but at the very least, we believe that someone is always good at something.

As for inaccuracies? After taking several variants of them, and averaging out, accounting for other knowledge, we got this:

Foresittend Marcus' IQ is put at 150, which is a little higher than usual, not bad, pretty accurate.

Vice Foresittend Jolyn? IQ of 254, and even though Jolyn is slightly more knowledgeable than Marcus, it was... not THAT high.

Exuberant Surveillant Clarissa, in the meantime, got an IQ of 3, and that wasn't because of her mechanical/AI nature either.

Zastępca Strażnik Adriana, a robot like her, got an IQ of 300.

Valentijn: 89

Valentina: 188. Both are the same person, more or less!

Chief Aviator Gwen: 48. Gwen was not happy.

And so it was abandoned.