Your Nation's Fact of the Week

[East Lodge]

The East Lodgean population has no humans.

[Bozopolis]

Bozopolis is doing everything it can to end the "murderous clown" stereotype.
_{^{We just wanna goof, man.}}

[Chernoblia]

Were always used for things like "This is what Capitalism leads up to" or "This is what will happen to us if he continue going down the route we are going down"
I mean, why you gotta be like that?

[Anexora]

Due to the State declaring where Citizens are allocated, District 0 (Capital City) is only the second most populated District right after District 11 (Iron Manufacturing Factories).

[Minroz]

The Eight Great Houses, they're the most powerful of the noble houses of Minroz, second to the Imperial family. Their ancestors were once servants to the Borjigins, dated back to the times of the Ling Dynasty. Eventually, they were elevated as the most powerful noble families in the Qing Dynasty. Here are their names respectively:

• Köke-Borjigin
• Il-khürgen
• Dular
• Tsagaan-Tatar
• Mangud
• Bayad
• Naiman
• Yunsheebu

[Batea del Nord]

As part of our rearming due to our bad international relations with Ucena. We got second hand Leopard2A4s. BATRA Trucks with foreign assistance is converting them to Leopard2BT. Mainly from KMW.
The works are being done in BATRA's plant in la Fatarella. After an overhaul in Arnes army depot 96 Leopards will sent to BATRA plant.They will receive new electronics, optics and the blue team battle management system. They will receive a Coltell RCWS with a M2HB. The gun, gearbox and the powerplant will remain the same but the gun will receive newer rounds. The protection is being increased with AMAPs add-on armor to increase protection against missiles, RPGs, mines and IEDs. Also SAAB barracuda camouflage is being fitted.
In spite of weight increase to 60 tonnes the mobility is not being affected.
The first vehicles are being delivered to the 10Th Armored brigade.

BATRA has experience in tank production as it assembled T72M. It already has undertaken previously the upgrade of Batean T72M and BT91 MBT production.

[Bears Armed]

As part of our re-arming, due to an increase in wyvern attacks along the eastern border, we have acquired two dozen second-hand Gloster Reapers.

[New Visayan Islands]

The first Japanese Protestant Visayan families established in the Confederation claim their ancestry from Japanese evangelized during the Meiji Restoration, settling down in ca. 1910 during the American era.

[United Universal Union]

During the uprising on Earth, at some point when the Manipulator behind it was eliminated, a Void Wanderer approached Freeman and offered them to join the Union.
Surprisingly, Gordon Freeman accepted the offer, which is why he was nicknamed "Reaper", for he switched from serving humanity, to serving the Union, in a sense, he was a fallen Angel, An Angel of the Dark.

[-The Islamic Queendom-]

Only 17% of the female Muslim population in our nation wears the hijab. Less than 2% wears either the niqab or burka.

[Cottony]

The nation just found out yesterday (through an internet search) that there might've been a native Dirlandic word for apple - so we might see łýmyno used a lot more than French-derived pým in the coming weeks.

Apples! That's the news.

[Spunkland]

There has been a drastic increase in the number of vanishing citizens in Spunkland. Authorities are not revealing actual statistics in case it causes some people to become sad. (Sadness is a very, very serious crime in Spunkland). The leader and royal family conspired a plan. To fabricate a “poll” which would hopefully keep the citizens smiling.
Next week, can not decide if we’ll have our official map (as imagined and drawn by 10 year olds) or our official yearly list of confirmed candidates to be sacrificed. (All candidates volunteer)

[Forlania]

All chemical pesticides are prohibited in Forlania, and have never been used in the nations history.
This is in stark contrast to the majority of the world, where both produce & the land itself is often filled with various levels of pesticides, even when the pesticide in question was outlawed decades ago such as DDT.

[Nuevas Texas]

Spanish is the majority language in the state of Rio Grande and is actually one of our two official languages, the other being English (duh).

[Nou Pais Valencia]

The veteran's memorial in Gàndia since 1997 consist of the M48A5V2 331. The casuality is that was same the tank in which our current leader operated, as loader, during his national service in 1993.

[Voxija]

Conscription is universal. All eighteen-year-olds, men and women, in Voxija have to spend a year in the army after high school and before college.

[The Plantain Republic]

Our national animal, the tuatara, has three eyes and lives longer than the average human citizen.

[Gandoor]

Since 1976, the various TV series which make up The Boardersverse have aired a grand total of 839 episodes on Gandoorese television.

The shows which make up The Boardersverse and their respective episode counts is as follows:
The Boarders (1976 - 1983), 52 episodes across 6 programmes
Claire (1978 - 1985), 39 episodes across 5 programmes
The Clark Davis Show (1981 - 1993), 63 episodes across 8 programmes
The Wilkinsons (spin-off of Claire) (1981 - 1993), 71 episodes across 9 programmes
George Yamaguchi's Place (1983 - 1990), 35 episodes across 7 programmes
Down the Street (spin-off of The Clark Davis Show) (1988 - 1995), 48 episodes across 6 programmes
28 South Drive (spin-off of The Wilkinsons) (1988 - 1990), 12 episodes across 2 programmes
Kenny's Restaurant (spin-off of Down the Street) (1993 - 2002), 57 episodes across 6 programmes
The Miyamoto Family (spin-off of Down the Street) (1995 - 2000), 42 episodes across 4 programmes
Michael and Deborah (spin-off of Kenny's Restaurant) (1995 - 2001), 34 episodes across 4 programmes
Nurse Reiko (spin-off of The Miyamoto Family) (1998 - 2003), 42 episodes across 5 programmes
Michael (spin-off of Michael and Deborah) (2001 - 2015), 85 episodes across 10 programmes
Dr. Reiko Miyamoto, PhD (spin-off of Nurse Reiko) (2003 - present), 110 episodes across 13 programmes, 8 episodes planned for 14th programme
The New Boarders (2006 - present), 72 episodes across 9 programmes, 8 episodes planned for 10th programme
Victoria and Beverly (spin-off of The New Boarders) (2010 - present), 77 episodes across 9 programmes, 4 episodes planned to air to finish the 9th programme

[The Thalassocracy (Ancient)]

Deep in the Thalassocratic outback, there is the Autonomous Territory of Yrafa, which is inhabited solely by sentient giraffes. These giraffes have full civil rights, pay taxes, and vote.

[Vallermoore]

Knife carrying is quite common in Vallermoore.

[Tsauki]

I have no landmarks.

[Democratic Republic Of Unified States]

We refer to pigs as animated bacon.

[Soleos]

Our Social Credit system replaced anything of monetary values. The higher your Social Credit, the more you can enjoy state-funded benefits. You could also use some of your credits to purchase luxury items, so it works as both a "Credit Score" for citizenry, but also some sort of currency for non-essential items.

[Hanigalbat]

There are savage populations Elephants along the Euphrates. They are either hunted for their ivory or for sport by the Aristocracy. So far, no one has yet to try and tame them. People there prefer horses.

[Aikoland]

While having the second-smallest population of Christians in our nation, our capital, Aiko City, has the second-largest percentage of Christians out of all of our administrative divisions. Out of a population of 2,381,516 people, 396,271 (or 16%) are practicing Christians.

For comparison, the largest Christian population, in terms of both number of practitioners and the percentage of the population that they make up, is in Korea where, out of a total population of 192,441,845, 54,345,815 (28% of the total Korean population) are practicing Christians.