Your Nation's Fact of the Week

[Wallenburg]

Wallenburg only has a handful of prisons. Due to a strong focus on rehabilitation over punishmet, Wallenburgian correctional funds are devoted mostly to reeducation clinics, which convicted criminals must attend in order to regain their full rights. Prisons are dedicated to the incredibly dangerous, foreign criminals, and those who refuse to attend their mandatory reeducation programs.

[Minroz]

The Shen Dynasty is the first Minrozian dynasty (traditionally dated 5205BC?-3788BC?). However, no written documents or archaeological remains dating to the time of the Shen Dynasty have been found to corrobate later accounts of the events of the period.

[Mixo-Lydia]

We have changed our national motto, as displayed in NationStates, from ‘Hey! We’re over here!’ to ‘Potatoes hurl midnight onions.’ In truth, the latter has always been our national motto; the former is actually nothing more or less than a ‘joke’ perpetrated by our much larger and more obnoxious neighbour, Coccygia, whose citizens take a perverse and unseemly pleasure in subjecting us to all manner of cruel taunts. It was indeed not so long ago that they put it about that our nation’s name was ‘Wossname’, an ‘error’ which we of course corrected as soon as we became aware of this scurrilous imposture¹.

¹Or rather, as soon as they remembered what their nation’s name was!^2
2 Footnotes by Coccygia.

[The Solar Cooperative Union]

The Solar Cooperative Unions' main food is actually kelp, made into all manner of dishes such as kelp cakes, kelp noodles and kelp paste.

[Outer Sparta]

Outer Sparta doesn't have a compulsory military service. In fact, we don't have a military at all!

[Northdeigo]

The southern most province of Northdeigo has a highly developed interstate system, despite its location and that it is made up up 15 or so big islands. However, it is connected the mainland by a two land highway that travels over 40 some islands and nearly 600 miles before crossing a 35 mile bridge/tunnel to the mainland. This route is Deigan Route 11.

[Luxdonia]

Did you know that the Luxdonian village of Greenport is famous for having a mispelled sign?

[Jacobania]

Did you know that surrepani (sorghum, honey, and butter on french toast) with boiled eggs is a popular breakfast in Jacobania?

[Alessin]

Did you know Alessin is famous for it's smoked ham?

[Anollasia]

Outer Sparta doesn't have a compulsory military service. In fact, we don't have a military at all!

Same. Our military was shrinking since 1912, and in 2014, it ceased to exist.

Did you know Alessin is famous for it's smoked ham?

No, I didn't.

[Oreenia]

Back when Oreenia was an autocratic "democracy", the 3rd Sovereign Markus Rinean had a physical issue with his ear, due to his left ear being one and a half times larger than his right one. This lead to him forcing media outlets to resize his ear. The punishment for not would be a labour camp or death, unless you were a small state on a moon 4 million meters away, then it was orbital bombardment and being turned into a plasma weaponry test site.

[Oreenia]

Outer Sparta doesn't have a compulsory military service. In fact, we don't have a military at all!

Oreenia's military has been growing since 2135, when Sovereign Damien Arhen (Nat) doubled military funding, lowering welfare and ushered a new wave of patriots, and the small 8.9 Million strong army grew to over 23,000,000 - though most of the military is now in an OR3 Suit, or unmanned drones and mechs do the work for us.

[SS Thief]

The SS Thief's Captain, Svess Kon Remington, was once captured by an enemy government, while he was still in office (although it happened once before in his military career when he was younger). Stuck in a POW camp in his own seperate cell, over the course of three months he exercised until he was sure he was ready. When the latch to his cell door was opened to feed him, he grabbed the arm of the man delivering the food, knocked him out by pulling him against the door, stole his keys from his belt, used it to unlock his cell, took the man's gun, and made his escape out of the camp. Over the course of twenty minutes he fought his way to the camp's garage, killing several guards on his way, and manged to take an armored jeep, using it to drive out of enemy territory and into the waiting arms of the SS Thief military. The camp was raided the day after, easily releasing all POWs, even those not of the SS Thief.

[New DeCapito]

New DeCapito was, is, and always will be misread as both New DiCaprio and New DeCaff. Exhausting research of internet forums has proved this.

[Isla Gazebo]

In Isla Gazebó, it is rare for tickets to be checked on trains. And when they do check tickets, they only check trains if the number of the leading car is prime.

For example:
101 - caught
111 - safe
120 - safe

[Neragua]

The Neraguan Navy – South America's largest – is divided into three fleets:

• Red Fleet – Operating in the Atlantic Ocean and based at Port Madryn.
• Blue Fleet – Operating in the Pacific Ocean and based at Valparaíso.
• White Fleet – Operating in the Southern or Antarctic Ocean and based at Ushuaia.

The divisions are primarily administrative and vessels assigned to one fleet aren't necessarily bound to the geographical location that fleet is nominally assigned to.

[Riechelburg]

The national sport of Riechelburg is football with SV Voss being the current league champions and record champions with 18 league titles, 5 of which have been won in the last ten years.

[New Ravania]

The first Dorn to participate in a the Ravanian Nationals Baseball League was Daryl Gulliksen of the New Theden Titans in the first game of the season against the Modaroka Meduzas in 2e392. As Gulliksen took the plate he gave a speech to the cheers of the crowd, exclaiming that this was the first step towards equal rights for all Dorns throughout the nation. Against the first pitch Gulliksen hit a line drive back to the pitch striking the PItcher, Alejandro Ventual, in the chest with enough force to cause commotio cordis, leading to complete cardiac arrest. Ventual was pronounced dead on the scene, also marking the first death in the League.

Gulliksen was later acquitted of the charge of involuntary man-slaughter and was allowed to take part in the Dorn League, an organization created mere days after the incident.

[Tayosia]

We have a sport where you run threw a forest of spike trees. Whoever comes out first wins. That is if you come out alive.

[Kisume the bucket youkai]

Again the hidden reporter seems to have struck. Somehow the mysterious reporter which seems to move at the speed of sound has taken a picture of Kisume falling from her bucket. The reporter which uses the probable fake name of A.Y.A. S.H.A.M.E.I.R.U. took the picture while Kisume was trying to get her little teddy bear. The newspaper which produced the picture was sold out in an hour. Who ever this reporter is, he/she sure is bold as again the flag has been altered to the picture in question.

[Bentalia]

There is no crime in the Democratic Republic.

[Aaronian]

We still have analogue television, it is used mainly in small, rural areas, where digital signals cannot be transmitted due to jammers in these areas.

[PLESSUR]

The royal dynasty from about 300 years ago turned up recently to reclaim the throne. Confusion reigns.

[Helltank]

Idiocy is a crime in the Overlordship of Helltank. Convicted idiots may be subject to beating, mutilation, torture or in extreme cases sterilization.

[Arkmenistan (Ancient)]

our most common dog is the central Asian shepherd
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