Your Nation's Fact of the Week

[Constitutional Technocracy of Minecraft]

On Minecraftian highways, both manually operated vehicles and autonomous vehicles can drive on the outer two lanes, which have a speed limit of 150 km/h, while only autonomous vehicles can drive on the inner three lanes, which have no speed limit (although autonomous car software typically does not exceed 250 km/h)

[Gandoor]

Coinage of the Gandoorese pound, which was replaced by the gdyn in 1779, can still be exchanged for modern currency at the same exchange rate from 1779, 1 penny being equal to ½ of a cendyn.

[Lanoraie II]

Only 0.5% of the Lanoraie populace is overweight or obese, while 4% are underweight (but not medically malnourished). Quite hard to believe when the country is full of such delicious food, and when the portions are quite large! One of the main suspected contributing factors is that food production is tightly regulated, and food companies are not allowed to spread misleading or blatantly false info about what is in their food. Another factor is the country's attitude towards food--it is something to enjoy, but it is also simply fuel. Living a balanced, healthy lifestyle is extremely important to Lanomirans. The aim to have at least 5 colors represented on a plate at proper meals.

[Nou Pais Valencia]

València (Cup winner) CF was beaten by Vila-reial CF (league winner) 0-2 in the Supercup final played Yesterday in the Estadi Ciutat de València. Both teams are among the Candidates to win the league this year while Castello CF, Llevant CF and Hercules CF will compete to be the surprise this year.

[Bears Armed]

After glowing reports from our head-of-mission at the WA, several restaurants in Council Groves [our capital city] are now seeking a reliable source for ("the right kind of") trilobites...

[Ah-eh-ioh-uh]

There is no gun registration or permit system, nor any background checks nor limitation on ammo or amount of guns one may posses. These types of laws have been in place since the Stone Age due to citizen's unnaceptance of restrictions on self defense and vigilance against unchecked military power and police brutality. With every new weapon save for things like nukes or other internationally reaching weapons of course, for the most part citizens may own and purchase any type of weapon that the government may give out to the military. Manufacturing requires no licensing or registration. Starting with simple sticks and going up to things like military grade helicopters and armored vehicles such as tanks, it can be purchased, and manufactured with no regulation whatsoever. Of course to protect buyers rights, actual selling of the products is controlled by an independent body of inspectors, those being soley so that buyers aren't being swindled into buying defective products or whatnot. If buyers choose to buy those products anyways, they're usually allowed to so long as they KNOW it's faulty and their weapon wouldn't effect others in a negative way.

[Minroz]

Minroz is deeply influenced by Confucianism. Confucianism places a heavy emphasis on the importance of respect for rulers, family, and social harmony. It's a national philosophy, but also a religious system of beliefs.

Even over 6,000 years on, Confucian beliefs are still ingrained in mainstream ethics and religion, and this can be seen as one travels throughout Minroz.

[Subhurbia]

Subhurbia’s total population is over twice as China’s.

[Norja]

Adventure is a daily activity for several Norjan.

[New Visayan Islands]

The most prolific AV actor in the Confederation is Joseph Jose, the stage name of Pedro Perez, who joined the AV industry at 30 after an uneventful time as a banker and has starred in over 1000 adult scenes.

[Pratapgadh]

A Rana (King/Ruler) can stay as Rana till his retirement or death.

When his kids turn 15, there will be a competition between his sons to become the next Rana of Pratapgadh.But the Rana only has one son, he will automatically become the rightful next Rana of Pratapgadh.

[Pratapgadh]

We have many war morals, such as:

1. Not to attack any soldier or aggressor if they don't have a weapon in their hand.If they do, cut their throats.
2. Not to attack anyone from behind their backs.
etc.

[Airrajul]

The ARANUKE-118, an Airrajulic ICBM carrying a total of 118 megatons, has never been used due to possible risks of global environmental destruction.

[Pan-Asiatic States]

In 1989, Soviet Scientist Manuel Paramore spilled a mug of coffee unto Aetherium once, and blew up his entire lab, with the personnel in it.

[Soleos]

Even though our government has essentially wiped out "Racism" among the human race, our early history post-Calamity (2090s - 2190ish) saw some form of racism among nationalities that were Technocratic (Nigerians, Indians, Chinese, Vietnamese, Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Icelandic, Chilean, etc) against nationalities whose countries fought for the United Nations/Third Worldists (South African, German, French, British, Indonesian, Cuban, Persians, Indigenous North/South Americans, Pakistani, etc) to the point the Technocratic Council made open sentiments of the sort a criminal offense as it gets in the way of Human Unity, and thus, hurting the Technocracy's values of Progress, Efficiency, & Discovery.

[Naxera]

Naxeran armed forces are being expanded from our current 11000 actives plus 6000 reservists to 15000 actives plus 8000 reservists.

[True Alimeria]

Many important political decisions at the Alimerian Politburo were made by throwing the dice. Such include:
lethal injection as a form of capital punishment, abortion, dropping a nuke on foreign land and thus starting a nuclear war ( which did not happen) etc. etc.

[Anollasia]

There's a town called Terazilastik, which is a reference to a Turkish children's rhyme ("o piti piti karamela sepeti, terazi lastik jimnastik"). The town's sports complex is also called Terazilastik Jimnastik. The locals are known for their sense of humour.

[Colonial Germania]

The Bavarian state, located in the southern corner of Germania. The leader of that state is her apparent to the throne of Prussia, and thus Germania.

[Gandoor]

There are no TV channels that broadcast on channels 1, 5, or 9 in Gandoor.

Channel 1 is reserved for emergency broadcasts only.

Channel 5 was the former channel of GBN Culture, which broadcast from 1986 until 2003.

Channel 9 is unassigned but is automatically reserved for the GBC, if they desire to establish another television channel.

[Minroz]

The discovery of silk in Minroz is said in one story, a silkworm cocoon fell into the emperor’s wife cup of hot tea and thus formed fine threads of silk.

[New Visayan Islands]

A hypothetical acquisition of the America-class amphibious assault ship would be designated depending on flight; Flight 0 would be considered as a CVL, with Flight I as an LHA.

[Hazukenia]

Soon after Vine was shut down, Ordinance 908 (Banning Vine accounts) was rewritten to ban Twitter accounts, as Vine was owned by Twitter.

The document says it's Ordinance 12

[Airrajul]

Airrajuli live forever, unable to die by natural causes. Magic is also prevalent but rarely used in warfare.

[Bolkenia]

The largest Naturist convention, NatCon, in Bolkenia is attented by around 350000 visitors per year. It had grown spectaculary during the 2016 election, in a form of protest against the MRF movement declaration about "public indecency". But this is not the on'y naturist event in Bolkenia. Since 2007, in a lot of bolkenian schools, the 24th of May is the "Nature Day" in which students are encouraged to go to their school without any clothes. Althought this is considerated as a bank holiday (making sure that if you don't want to attend it then you don't have to), it is often seen as a "Body Positivity" event.