Your Nation's Fact of the Week

[The Vrree Nations]

In many Vrree cultures, spiking peoples' food or drink with hallucinogenic drugs is considered a (mostly) harmless prank that many young people do to each other.

[Anollasia]

You may encounter warnings if buying food with pork/pork products in them (WARNING: CONTAINS PORK OR PORK PRODUCTS, UYARI: DOMUZ YA DA DOMUZ ÜRÜNLERİ İÇERİR, UYARING: İÇTAINS DOMORK YOR DOMORK ÜRDUCTS). This is due to the majority Muslim and minority Jewish population.

[Auzkhia]

On advice of the Imperial Chancellor, the Imperial Council can appoint a regent if the Emperor is unfit to reign. Most state parliaments and prime ministers have this power too.

Regents often take power if a monarch is too young, too old, too sick, or too insane. Rarely, a regent is appointed during an interregnum, where the throne remains empty. Usually the regent is an adult Archduke or Archduchess, sometimes other high officials are appointed.

[Daniel-Franklin]

Bronies in Daniel-Franklin are gelded and sent to psychiatric facilities until they receive a certificate of clean mental health, since Bronyism is clearly a sign of mental illness.

[Aeitia]

The Aeitian national anthem is a piece of techno music. And we consider Bronyism our official state religion, though anypony is free to follow it or not.

[The Koniggratzer]

Brony is only a small village here. People from other universes talk about it being an ideology.

[Daniel-Franklin]

Criminality is deemed grounds for annulment or divorce, as is castration, which is a standard practice for all convicted felons. Also, there are no appeals courts in Daniel-Franklin. The Courts act according to the wisdom granted by God, so disputing their judgments is tantamount to blasphemy. All verdicts are final. All sentences are final except if commuted by the head of state, in this case General Adam Turner, who claims to be "hand-picked by Almighty God with an even better grasp of His Will than the courts."

[Pot4toes]

In Potoesian Culture, cacti are highly respected and cared for.

[Free Asian Ports]

In the FFAP, it's possible to do almost anything, as long as you have an appropriate permit. This can include scuba diving, flying planes, camping on natural reservations, prostitution, owning military hardware, consuming (but not selling) normally illegal drugs, and many more!

[Macureus]

Due to the necessary dissolution of the previous national legislature of the Socialist Union of Macureus since Reunification, all candidates for the All-Macurean Congress of People's Deputies must be approved by the Electoral Administration Council, because the previous one descended into chaos thanks to the subversive activities of the Faith and Family and New Feminist parties. Both parties have since been banned and the rest of the political parties have "voluntarily coalesced" into the National Unity Party, which is now the sole legal party in Macureus.

[Cadonica]

The strongest nuclear warhead in the possession of Cadonica's military is known as Twilight Breath of Satan. It has a power of 666 kilotons. Three of them exist, each one in different location, together they are referred to as "Unholy Trinity". Since Cadonica is mostly atheist/pagan nation, the name of these weapons is a "fuck you" to Shimbrica, Cadonica's northern neighbor, who are devout Christians. Cadonica and Shimbrica share a bloody history as each other's most usual enemy.

[Hyd Gohin]

In Hyd Gohin, there are two official writing systems for the two official languages. Gibdzgrip, a traditional Gohinigan alphabet, is used mostly for Dzanbazpagd. However, it can be used to some extent(and minor modification) with English. The Roman alphabet is used for English and for Dzanbazpagd on most of the internet, where the script is generally not supported by unicode. In fact,there is a special Romanized orthography for Dzanbazpagd.

[Halfblakistan]

Unitarian Universalism is very popular in Halfblakistan, as many people have grown disenchanted with traditional Christianity.

[Liberty and Alderney]

Liberty City and Los Santos both compete with each other for worst city traffic in America. Liberty lost to LS in 2014.

[Bothinia]

The King of Bothinia is known as "the Bothinian King" instead of "King of Bothinia"
This is because the Monarch gets its power to rule from the People.

Although it is fine to refer to "the king of Bothinia" as it sounds better, but for official stuff, HM king Andrew III is known as "the Bothinian King"

[Wanchou]

Did you know? Wanchou's Beikoku peninsula, home of the ethnic Yi-Wan, is also home to what is known in the island of Dongmu situated further north, as pidgin Korean or known locally as Insular Korean (Ch. 島嶼話; Ko. 도서화).

Historically, the Dongshu Court officially used Classical Chinese and Classical Wan in matters of diplomacy while the kings and queens themselves spoke Yi, Old Japanese and Old Korean as a status symbol as trade among other East Asian countries were very tight. Ports northeast of the peninsula were opened and were quite bustling. The port in Dongmu was particularly involved in active trade with the Kingdom of Baekje in the Korean peninsula until its fall to other Korean kingdoms which really did not sever ties. As time passed by, the locals of Dongmu started adopting the Korean language, only using archaic and classical terms from Yi until eventually their native dialect is now spoken in remote towns and counties. This then gave rise to Insular Korean despite little to negligible Korean settlement in the island.

On the other hand, the Korean language is known colloquially as Continental Korean (Ch. 大陸話; Ko. 대육화) which unlike Insular Korean, is acknowledged by natives as a full-fledged language rather than a pidgin. Another name to refer to the Korean language is used by the Gauliren settlers in the northwestern town of Pinchae in Bingsaek province whose origins date back to their political exile during the Chosŏn era. They called the language, Peninsular Korean (Ch. 半島話; Ko. 반도화) in reference to their homeland and unlike Insular Korean, is mutually intelligible to a greater extent with the language used by the Gauliren. Despite these differences, Gauliren language and Insular Korean can both be rendered in the Korean script and mixed script!

In the Wan language, Koreans are referred to as Shinluoren. Their ancestors being Guu-Shinluoren. When Korean settlements were established in Beikoku during the Japanese administration, Koreans were referred to as Chaursheanren while their present-day counterparts in Korea would be referred to as Hanrgworen which is a highly formal term and quite unpopular unlike Shinluoren.

To this day, neither Gauliren language nor Insular Korean are regarded as Korean dialects. Their official use is rather minimal and has only been associated with old-timers and ethnic Koreans rather than the modern-state of Korea itself; although, preservation status is underway. Standard Wan and Yi are to this day, the two widely taught official languages in Beikoku with English only second.

[Kazirstan]

Taxation in Kazirstan is dynamic, changing every week. Allocation of government funds is managed by a powerful supercomputer in the capital called EkanoKam-1. EkanoKam-1 analyses trends in government expenditures, GDP, growth or decline in all sectors, purchasing power, population growth or decline, currency strength, utility usage, etc. to determine levels of taxation required.

EkanoKam-1 can cut or boost funding to government services and state-owned industries or alternatively raise and lower taxes autonomously depending on trends in demand, economic strength, and amount of taxes collected.

EkanoKam-1's operation is officially overseen by the People's Congress, mainly to ensure it doesn't go all Skynet on them.

[Anollasia]

The Anollton-Weston Highway is the longest highway in Anollasia.

[Minroz]

Tankery (坦克路, lit. “the way of the tank), a practice of tank warfare as a traditional martial art, is one of the Minroz’s modern national sports. Ever since Qianlong Emperor’s national reformation, he made Tankery as part of the school curriculum in the attempt to encourage more volunteers to join the military and to prepare for war. It worked for most part, but it unfortunately drew criticisms and protests from the anti-war parties in the Qing Empire. Even though tankery is scaled back and confined to Military schools, academies and specialised Educational institutions, its popularity with the Imperial society remained. And that includes youngsters who wanted to play virtual war games with of course under supervision of adult handlers.

[Soyghuristan]

Even if Soyghuristan is a landlocked country, it owns a navy.

[Costena]

The name of Costeña's currency, the plata, simply means "silver" in Spanish. It is subdivided into 100 centavos or, informally, 4 reales.

The symbol for the plata is ₧, although it is usually informally written as Pts or P^ts.

[Pot4toes]

Pot4toes has a contest every year to see which citizen can take the best picture of a cat. Here's last year's winner:

[Southern Patriots]

An annual poll conducted nation-wide has once again confirmed tea to be more popular than coffee.

[Soviet Catalonia]

New President:

Hugo Chavez

[Republica Federal de Catalunya]

Inagurated the A-68 Motorway Tarragona- Alcañiz (Spain) and the A74 Girona through Ripoll towards Foix (France).