Your Nation's Fact of the Week

[The Draemon Provinces]

Any hair besides head hair, eyebrows, and eyelashes is considered taboo.

[Great Mojave]

We dropped heroin into Salt Lake City when invading Utah in order to weaken the enemy's resolve and budget.

[Epoecuaotoe]

In Epœcuɒtœ, young women, and to a lesser extent young men, dress to imitate a snow phoenix occasionally, usually on dates.

[Imperial Slovonia]

Anastasia II, the previous Empress of the Slovonians, was killed when the train she was traveling on struck a bus and derailed. The bus driver was sentenced to death.

[Jacrain]

Jacrain actually has several Islands, but like Australia, it has a main landmass, as well as several tiny islands nearby. The mainland of Jacrain is where the inhabitants primarily reside, and is home to nearly 42,000 city states. The tiny islands surrounding the landmass is where non permanent people reside, for their own purposes. For example, just some of the islands are:

• Military Islands (home to Jacrain’s military and where the enlisted go)
- Army Island
- Navy Island
- Air Force Island
- Coast Guard Island
- Marines Island

• Prison Island (where the prisoners go)

• University Island (where on campus college students live, this Island alone is divided into regions based on the subject of study)

[Minroz]

The blue world - Royal sigil of House Borjigin - the ruling imperial family of Minroz.

The Blue Wolf is their royal symbol in references to their ancestor Genghis Khan and the clan's legendary origins of the union of the blue-grey Wolf and fallow Doe.

[Voxija]

According to Article 1.2.5 of Voxija's Flag Code, a woman, and only a woman, is allowed to wear the Voxijan flag on her bathing suit if the flag is portrayed in a complete and entire fashion. Men aren't allowed to put the flag on their bathing suits at all.

[Shiruku]

The most popular drink in Shiruku is Sunbeam, an orange flavored soda

[New Visayan Islands]

Most government offices reduce staffing to a skeleton crew the day before a Federal Holiday.

[Saralonia]

there is a propaganda office and a spionage office but no one of my citizens knows it and if they do they are killed by the secret police

[Vallermoore]

It is legal to carry (most) weapons on the street although most towns ban public carrying of firearms within town/city limits, tazers and batons are only for police, and possession of pepper spray is treated as a very serious offence.

[Subhurbia]

In the Twilight Divisions of Suhurbia (The Central Division, the Northeast Division, and the Southwest Division) as well as in the SARs of Euraea and Dravonia, music is played in the standard frequency of 440 hz. Which is the tone most music is played in real life today. In the Diurnal Alliance, all music is played at 528 hz, making it sound a little bit higher than the standard. An A key song at 528 hz sounds more like something between A and A#. On the other hand, in the Nocturnal Alliance, all music is played at 432 hz, making it sound a little bit lower than the standard. An A key song at 432 hz sounds like something between A and G#.

[Quaeg]

Instead of Gods, we worship millions of ghosts.

[Lillorainen]

Two cities in Lillorainen, namely Freudenberg (Rathland) and Saskilde (Visholm) use a suspension railway for public transport - the former opened in 1934 and re-opened in 1977 after a closure during the Civil War, the latter has continuously been running since 1953. A third one, in Vren (Polypolia), is projected to open in August 2019.

[Gandoor]

As the Gandoorese school year begins in March, summer vacation lasts only three weeks during June.

[Zhouran]

In Zhouran, the percentage of women studying at university in STEM fields is one of the highest in the world. Not only that, Zhouran also has one of the highest percentage of women studying vocational trade in the world. This isn't surprising since being a meritocratic society that values social mobility and labor participation & social contribution, both men and women are traditionally expected to work and earn money rather than relying on a sole breadwinner.

[Andocara]

Like America, Andocara’s metropolitan areas are more liberal/democratic (or what Andocarans call Reformist) while rural and small towns are usually very conservative. Though Andocaran conservatism is slightly different from US conservatism due to history. Similarly, Andocara’s Reform Party fits more into the ideologies of Progressivism than liberalism.

[Grand Unity of the Righteous Nation Cele]

City of Uusturku is concidering building a gigantic international floating airport.

[Dictoriahon]

We have a fleet of Nuclear MRLS trucks.

[Zhouran]

For rural Zhouranese people who live in the countryside as well as those who live a nomadic lifestyle, cooking meat with the fats retained is traditionally common generally for the tastes but mainly because the fats provide the needed energy for country people and nomads to withstand the cold Zhouranese winters while doing hard outdoor work. Not all Zhouranese people in the countryside would choose to consume the fats due to health reasons.

[Bears Armed]

Orrianna Owlwise, Serron SunBird, Harroya Heehyorrh, and Urrth'hrro Uppreight: The four wizards who founded Hogwings School, and after whom its four 'groves' (i.e. 'houses') are named.

[Batea del Sud]

Southern Batean Airforce has a great number of double seater fighters (pe of 20 F/A18 there are 12Cs and 8Ds) and trainer`s light fighter version to trick the disarmament treaty with Lololia our bitter enemy.

[Silver Commonwealth]

Ministry of Education

Fact time!

*SC's Historian takes a tobacco pipe*

''This time's topic - New Guinea, and its surrounding isles. There were plans by the Dutch to eventually give Western Guinea independence, and so had Australians. However, those plans never came to reality, because of the SC's arrival - it took longer to get there than the British Home Isles, but eventually New Guinea, and surrounding isles firmly came under SC's control. Of course, Papuan People were not okay with this, and waged partisan warfare in the jungles, and mountains. At first, only the eastern part of New Guinea was occupied by SC, but western part, which was previously owned by the Dutch, became a part of the disputed zone. However, later on, SC moved in, and occupied the Western New Guinea as well, establishing it as a part of the Pacific Frontier, in order to be closer proximity to Indonesian isles for naval operations in disputed zone.''

''Indigenous rights for the most part weren't the priority of the Pacific Frontier's government, as state companies often were given free hands in the region, to extract resources when needed, and government organized penal expeditions in the jungle against resistance, and Pacific Frontier even built some internment camps on some of the more remote isles. Those were often combined by the attempts of ''civilizing'' the Papuan tribes, and SC's missionaries took a large part in it. In result, various battle rituals, and other traditions were changed by SC's Christian missionaries, as native autonomies weren't a thing back then, and indigenous beliefs were slowly replaced by Christianity. However, most of them still retrained their languages, and other customs. In fact, Christianity there often has its own local, distinguishing elements. In either way, clarity about the New Guinea's future, and delegation of more powers to natives happened only in the 2030s - way after the reformist period, and long after the ''Native Governance Act'' in South America. Islands like New Britain, and New Ireland weren't included in the New Guinea region for a while, however, and were still directly administrated from Canberra - the capital of Pacific Frontier. (Now Australasian Confederation)''

''During the Scramble for the World, some Papuan divisions were recruited by SC's government to fight off partisans in Indonesian jungles, and islands, as SC was moving in the former disputed zone. However, they were mostly used as an assist troops, and their deployed numbers weren't high. Weapons, with which those soldiers were supplied with, usually weren't from the best quality either, and in some cases, local tribal leaders actively resisted the conscription of the jungle, and mountain tribes.''

''Despite the years of oppression by local SC's government, New Guinea still is one of the most ethnically, and linguistically diverse places in SC's world, and some of its tribes still haven't been fully contacted yet, despite SC's attempts of doing so, as New Guinea's jungles, and mountains are quite a maze - in fact, it is one of the most ecologically diverse places in the world as well, as a lot of the species in the world live only there, and SC's scientists haven't fully understood all the aspects of it yet. For those tribes, who SC already has contacted, however, it has tried to implement a regional system similar to other regions - some Papuan tribes already have adapted SC's autocratic oligarchy, while others have a strongman with lots of power in hands - those yet to have develop the bureaucratic system. In result, New Guinea has been turned into one of the most politically divided regions, due of the immense amount of regional autonomies in the system.''

"Alright, let's move to the next topic, students."

[Zhouran]

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[Union of Kalmar Republics]

You can own any weapon other than chemical weapons and bikes as long as they stay on their property