Odd Facts About Your Nation

[Republica Federal de Catalunya]

The Tió or Christmas log.

Is a Christmas tradition of my country and nearby territories both sides of the Pyrinees.
In most houses there is a log in Christmas day, normally it has stick leg, a smiling face and wears the traditional cap. That is "fed" by the household children the days before Christmas.
During Christmas children assemble around the log and beat it with sticks while playing a song to make it the defecate presents.

[Meridiniem]

Meridiniem's national animal is constantly seen breaking into homes and stealing children. This has caused population growth issues in the last few decades.

[Cakasia]

There's an abundance of completely pink trees located on the central and surrounding islands of my nation, they have pale pink bark and hot pink leaves, they were named Caka trees, and one thing led to another, eventually my nation was named Cakasia, land of the Cakas.

[Cavisco]

Though Cavisco has lazer pistols, robots and hydrogen powered cars, 98.7% of television sets in the nation are black and white. We use AM radio as well.

The transistor has not been invented and computers, robots and automated systems are all vacuum-tube based.

[Igilgili]

Both the Igilgilian Legislature and its house (the Parliament) are officially named 'Council of Fools'.

[The Greater Gothic Empire]

At least almost every Goth owns a DaBaby convertible, which is the Volkswagen Beetle for the Empire.

LESS GOOOO

[United cacti of Estaban]

All of the United Cacti of Estabans states are named after species of cactus

[Gadalland and Aspern]

The first job of the newly elected Customary Logistics Council members is to do their laundry by hand. This tradition supposedly dates back to the 14th Century when the members of a CLC equivalent bunked together and had to wash their new uniforms.

[Kingdom of Halia and United Territories]

The Hali people have genetic resistance to capsaicin because they eat very spicy local plants. The spices have only recently become a luxourious export.

[Voxija]

In Voxija, polygamy is legal only for Muslims.

[Bolslania]

In Bolslania,

The German Kaiser sits on the throne of a Technocratic Republic that was first suggested to Europe by Bulgaria.

Figure that one out.

[The Koskr]

While the Koskr possess an external currency for foreign trade, the internal domestic economy functions without currency and uses systems of calculation-in-kind, barter, economic planning and reciprocity.

[Destyntine]

11% of the human populations within the nation suffers from a formerly rare disease called Trimethylaminuria, multiple members of the royal family included as well. The disease causes the affected individual to emit a rather unpleasant scent. Despite being technologically advanced, there is no cure for this disease or genetic alteration discovered yet that could prevent the next generation from inheritance. Being a recessive genetic, it is believed that the percentage affected will remain around the same in the long-term future.

Anti-discrimination laws have been enacted in the year 2102 to prevent anyone affected from being denied a position specifically based on this disease after the situation got so bad that studies reported that a higher percentage of people with the disease feeling less accepted and worse treated by society.

It is believed that this once rare disease was made common as a consequence of the voluntary repopulation program in which the nation was set to restore the 75% of people killed off during the Great Plague of the 21st century. A volunteer was speculated to have been holding the recessive gene and passed it down to many offspring, leading to the current state of of how many are holders.

[Philosocom]

The website's amount of "citizens" is determined by the amount of members who have created an account on the site. In other words, as of writing this post, the number of citizens are around 100-200. The frequency of activity on the site is irrelevant to said membership.

[NationStates Trade Company]

[1] The Trade Company is actually many smaller thalassocratic based companies that travel globes in order to settle down ports for more of their fellow developing companies to use as a sort've mega highway for seafaring trade to flourish.

[2] Despite having no standing army and is usually rooted in diplomatic solutions, the NationStates Trade Company has a colossal navy protecting the many companies' ships from danger such as surprise attacks or pirate raids.
[2.5] Adding to its unusually large universal navy, for much of the NSTC's history, it has also served as a navy-for-hire. Though, due to the organization's best buyers becoming more technologically and militarily advanced, this caused the activity of the navy to die down in recent decades.

[3] Unknown to outsiders, the organization regularly buys children from slave centers. They are reeducated in all sectors and then taught in business to be given a second chance at a new free life where they can become successful businessmen / businesswomen.

[Zhouran]

While the Chairman of the People's Defense Council is the Supreme Commander of the Zhouranese People's Army, thus making them the overall head of the world's most powerful military force, the People's Defense Council is subordinate to the State Presidium and thus the Chairman of the PDC generally needs democratic approval from the State Presidium including the President of the SP when it comes to highly-strategic crucial military decision-making. Nevertheless, within the framework of Zhouranese politics, the Chairman of the PDC is the second most powerful in the country following the President of the State Presidium.