Your Nation's Fact of the Week

[Akhanda Bharata]

In Great Bharat, its illegal to stick your smallest toe into car's exhaust pipe. Punishment is fine of Rs. 7 Lakh or 6 months in jail. No one but Leader of Bharat, Sureshni Pillai, Prime Minister knows why this is case.

[The Islands of Versilia]

Kremvhism is Henotheistic, and thus makes no decision on whether other gods exist or not.

[Free Chernakova]

The Soda industry in Chernakova begun as a alcohol industry, pointing back to the Eastern European ties of the state.

[Fothergilland]

From taxes on tobacco the Government of Fothergill-Conely gained FM10,556,000,000 in revenue last year

[Minroz]

The Minrozians put a tremendous emphasis on lineage and family ties. Some families can trace their genealogy back over centuries. For men, carrying on the family name by having sons is a major goal. Many men, especially firstborn sons, remain at home with their parents in order to care for them in old age. Even married couples often live with parents. Many young couples consult matchmakers in order to find a mate. Once a woman is married, she is expected to join her husband's family and often moves under the same roof as her in-laws.

[Hashitoro]

Our First Minister is our first very openly gay leader, being married in 1991. He took office early 2009, after a massive scandal ousted the former First Minister, who quickly retired afterwards

[New Visayan Islands]

The drug laws of the province of Bohol are the strictest, allowing only transshipment of narcotics perfectly legal in other provinces; consequently, narcotics undergoing transshipment are always escorted by armed police officers.

[Pampersburg]

The main stream media of Pampersburg is so untrustworthy that they are now in direct competition with The Onion for funniest fake news publication.

[Batea del Nord]

Batea Education and Science Minister inagured the new building of the BIT (Batean Institute of Technology). Batean education minister, said to the press, that next year GDP dedicated to R+D+I will raise a 11% and this invesments will grown constantly during the next legislature years.
She also announced fiscal benefits for R+D+I investing small and medium sized bussinesses.
As part of plan Batea 2025 white paper. Batea expects to close the gap between the Batean and the ACSN nations average invesment in R+D+I.

Last year 0,63% Batea's GDP was dedicated to R+D+I, this year it raised to 0.7% of GDP. Goverment plans to invest to 2% by 2025.

[Pavelania]

In Pavelania, Alcoholic beverages such as beer and wine, are heavily restricted on the amount of alcohol in them. Alcohol for consumption is nearly illegal in Pavelania. The government recommends that Martinelli's sparkling apple cider or grape juice is used instead of wine or beer around the holidays. Because of this, drunk driving incidents in Pavelania are pretty rare.

Any form of smoking whether pot or tobacco is highly illegal in Pavelania as well. Since no stores carry cigarettes or any other smoking products in Pavelania, the only way to purchase smoking products is through the black market, which is also hard to come buy as the National Police are constantly on the lookout for black market operations. If a citizen is caught smoking, they are fined $20,000. Repeated smoking can lead to a month in jail and possibly deportation.

[Manges]

Crucifixion can be used in capital punishment, although it is extremely rare.

[Elemenordia]

The wedding of movie actress Penelope Smith took place this week. She, his wife Martha Silva and her husband Ricardo Omar were married at the 16th Registry Office in the capital Nordia."It was a very exciting time for us," Penelope said after leaving the church with her wife and wife. "Love is a complex and beautiful thing."

[Aldina]

Beheading is one of the valid methods of execution in Aldina, and may be requested by death-row criminals. A functioning guillotine is maintained in the Imperial City Penitentiary for exactly that reason.

[Pampersburg]

Stuffed animal plushies are so ubiquitous in our homes that people find it incredibly strange when a person doesn't own even a single teddy bear.

[The Zenithalist Entity]

The Dihzenndtian federal government's official public journal is called the The National Algorithm, and is usually read by politically conscious citizens on its regularly updated online database.

[United Layfet]

Edmond Dantes, the current Executive Minister of Layfet is 40 years old

[Auzkhia]

The Grand Duchy of Thüringen is the only state that has a communist Prime Minister, because The Left (Die Linke) has the most seats in the state parliament, but is in a coalition with the Social Democratic Party and the Greens (Red-Red-Green), which are typically the largest left wing parties in the Empire.

[Great Karoo]

Byelections have been held in the ridings of West Uitenhage, Victoria West, and Central Karoo. The Country Alliance party keeps their seats in Victoria West and Central Karoo, while the riding of West Uitenhage was won by the Alliance Party, having formerly been a Liberal seat.

[Pampersburg]

The popular nineties game of POGS has seen a recent revival in Pampersburg, and the dishonest media is having a field day connecting the phenomenon to everything from nefarious brainwashing cults to a secret Russian plot to overthrow the monarchy.

[Minroz]

The Qiángdà-class, known as the Formidable-Class, are premier frigates of the Minrozian Navy

[Bears Armed]

This country's people have just learned about poutine, and it's rapidly becoming quite a popular dish here.

[New Visayan Islands]

The LGBT community of the NVI treat homophobic slurs as though they were the equivalent to the N-word for Black Americans. Consequently, "F-word privilege" is a local trope in itself; someone with said privilege can get away with calling LGBT people "faggots" (the "F" in "F-word privilege") but someone without would have all Nine Circles of Hell to pay.

[Det hellige nordiske rike]

The Scandinavian variety of national socialism is highly nationalist and race-centric, but quite liberal with regards to social norms.

[Nigrum Oculus]

Nigrum Oculus was on the side of the Axis during the Second World War, but was unable to be of much help due to the British presence in the North Sea.

[Chun Nan]

The Bureau of Defense is charged with commanding the Zhang Military in the stead of the Emperor