Stille Nacht Hub/Recruitment Thread [Open, MT]

[Murovanka]

I can link you to my main nation (long ass posts in recent RPs) or I can write one of those things. Right now, it's just a time issue, I'm insanely busy.

I'm probably going to miss this ball. I can't get up an app until Sunday and by then the whole thing will be a page and a half.

Anything works. As for the ball, considering putting the OP up a week after it was promised, and the fact that RPs usually take 3-4 months to finish (mine anyway), it shouldn't be a problem to hop in sometime later if you're interested.

[Cyrden]

Nation Name: The Allied States of Cyrden
Economy Description: Limited Free-Market economy
Government Type: Republic
Geography (climate, terrain, landform): Sweeping plains in the middle with snowy highlands to the north and rocky mountain ranges to the south.
Preferred Map location:
Demographics (Population, ethnicity, language): Population: 49,032,543. Natives are called Holdari, and the settlers are Cyrdeve. The population is roughly 34% Holdari and the rest is Cyrdeve. The settlers speak Cevim and the Holdari have four languages (depending on tribe): Nekuti, Kolin, Istano, Bazille. Cevim is the most widely used language with Kolin the second most used. Bazille is almost extinct, known only to about 3,000 Bazbinm native people.
History (can be worked out, but what have you in mind?): I'm thinking of having a tribal culture that stood its ground and was able to survive and even coexist when new comers came by land and chose to stay there.
Military: 620,325 (1% of the population, might move it up to 2% if that's okay)
RP Examples: I'll just do a new thing.

Yulvin, Cyrden
1927

Snow had begun to fall more steadily. By noon, the city of Yulvin, the former capital of Cyrden, had succumb to its own savior, the snow. For two weeks, Cyrdeve forces had been pent up within the rocky walls and defenses of their city. Outside was a cluster of enemy soldiers, invaders who had taken half the nation by October. They had invaded in April. In Novermber, they had tried to take the city again and again. Yet the trenches were too deep, the machine guns too hungry, the people too desperate to make it to the next day. Now, in December, the bastards had been forced to halt and take shelter from the cold. They still, however, shelled the city daily. The only way out of the city now was by a single rail-line that had been destroyed and repaired on several occasions. President Lenrik had ordered the evacuation of the city but the going was slow.

The trenches surrounding the city were almost half buried in snow. Desperate soldiers had given up on their safe havens and dared to stay on open plains, to get closer to the bonfires of the city. On one such field, atop a brown horse was a man with his wool uniform coat pulled tightly shut. His eyebrows had been left exposed to the elements and had been ravaged by frost. They twisted like serpents and seemed to be leaping off his face towards the ground. The man was past middle-aged, almost considered "legally elder". He had curvy black hair, that despite surrendering to age at the temples, refused to yield any more scald to the horrid ancientness of the grey. A thick mustache hugged his face as the wind hissed against him. The sound of an artillery shell made the man look up and watch with twinkling green eyes, eyes that had seen too much and tried to look for hope in faces of the young, in echoes of memory. The shell exploded onto a grouping of tents. Screams of men and horses danced around in the aging man's ears. He made a sound akin to a rock being scraped against pavement. A tear rolled down his face, ignoring the sniff he'd tried to retract it with.

This was a man who had some inkling of power. At least, many lifetimes ago, he would have. But now, the hopelessness had eaten away at him. Every morning he woke, staring himself in the mirror, demanding what good his title was. Demanding what good he was. Demanding who he was. King Brojm looked up from his coat and stared at the enemy army. And then his heart sank as he saw it readying to attack.

Now that Yulvin was buried, the train could only be taken once or twice a day. And with about 4,000 civilians still within, not everyone was going to make it. Brojm turned his horse and looked up towards the city, knowing that supplies were low, that his people were on the breaking point. Again and again, Brojm cursed President Lenrik for not listening to him at governmental functions. While he was mostly a figurehead, the old king was a wise and practical man. He had known that attack was coming. And like ostriches, the politicians stuck their heads in the sand. They called him a war dog, an echo of a bygone era of war. They villianized him, told the people to scorn his crown and family. Told them to ignore their mad king.

Brojm reflected on the irony of those lies. It was only he who had come to the aid of the people. He smashed open his family line's entire fortune to fund the army and to pay for food for the people. He'd sold the estate, liquidated more than half of the royal art collection, donned a uniform and fought. And the politicians stayed warm in the capital. But the people knew this and had finally grown to respect King Brojm again.

The old king heard the battle cries of the enemy troops across the plains. He turned his head and saw them rushing forward into the embrace of his countrymen's machine guns. But there were too few Cydeve. A horde of invaders reached the trenches and fought their way through the battered and broken-spirited soldiers. The old man turned his horse, unable to watch his nation fail. There was only one thing left for him to do. Make sure the train had left. He spurred his horse on, got low and put out his rear like he had in his youth. Brojm coughed violently has his skeleton cracked and argued against him. He whipped his reigns, going fast than he'd gone in more than twenty years. His horse, Club, was as old as him in horse years. He was named Club because it was discovered that one of his feet was a bit oddly shaped. Yet, he refused to leave Club for a new horse, much like how a child will always love the mutt that he finds in the street. For, although Club was slower than the other horses, he had more endurance than them all.

Together, the old pair charged towards the city, an army at their heels. Brojm looked over his shoulder and saw a sea of black dots rush past his soldiers, they were through. With renewed urgency, the old Cydeve rode faster. He coughed hoarsely and heavily, his horse wheezed for breath. They were from a forgotten age, a time of honor and glamor. They remained while the republic grew. It had formed in 1467, but the elected members did not have much power until the mid 1500s. After that, the monarchy lost duty after duty, until in 1871, the monarch lost the power to levy taxes and declare war. Now all the king had left was a duty to serve his people. And so he rode.

Brojm reached the train station just in time to see it begin to pull away. Soldiers ran back and forth, preparing to make their final stand. Amidst the chaos, a boy of about four or five stood looking around. He screamed "Mommy! Mommy!" as tears rolled down his face. Brojm rode over to the boy and reached down for him and lifted him up, straining as he did so. The old man smiled at the boy "Hello there, little one. Where is your mother?" The boy shook his head and continued to cry. Brojm removed his cap and placed it on the boy's head in an attempt to distract him momentarily. Just then, a woman on the train cried out to the king "Sir! Sir! My child! Please, sir, my child!" The train lurched forward and began to pick up speed. The woman's eye became pleading as she cried out "Please! Please! My child!"

"Ye-ha!" Brojm shouted as he snapped the reigns for Club. The old horse rushed forward, running towards the slow moving train. The woman elbowed her way to the door of the train and held out her arms. Club began to falter and the train began to pick up speed. Gunfire filled the air and the boy cried louder. The mother begged for her child. The king snapped the reigns of his horse again. "Run Club! Run old boy!" he ordered. The old horse ran harder and soon Brojm was parallel to the woman. The king placed the boy in his mother's arms. Someone shouted "Slow the train, let this man on!" The king yelled over the train, and the bullets, and the tears "No! Do not stop this train! Go, go and alive!" The woman smiled and screamed "Thank you!" Then she looked down and saw the man's cap on her son's head. Then she saw the gold pin of the crown. The crest of the king. "The king!" she screamed "Stop the train, it's the king!" People looked up, trying to catch his face. Their king? How could they not have known! Brojm was lagging behind know but shouted "Don't stop! Go! Live!" Screams of horror rose up to the heavens as Club's neck flashed with blood from a rifle round. The old horse dropped to the ground, his rider bounced and rolled onto his back. King Brojm cried out in pain as his rib-cage broke.

The old man looked up at the sky and saw the clouds. He felt confused and blinked his eyes. Then he felt warm by his ear and knew that him must have hit his head and that he was dying. He looked up at the sky and tried to utter a prayer, or say something profound. Nothing came to his lips. He thought hard, yet no dogma surfaced in his head. It was true, he'd been less than religious his whole life, yet he'd always felt a sense of respect for doing justice. A trust that someone was going to make things better up there somewhere. Brojm thought of a time he saw a Monastery of the Holies, of the stain glass window of the girl in armor. She was nineteen, with vibrant red lips, a hard grimace, and eyes that looked into your soul. Her sword lit up with the sunrise and with the sunset. Her brilliant white armor let in light, bathing the entryway inside the monastery with the radiance of the sun. Brojm had been fifteen when he saw that window but he still shivered with fear when he met the gaze of Martyr Juimre. The Holy Records said that the Holies and the Martyrs always watched them. Brojm didn't fully believe them, yet he believed in Saint Juimre, in eyes that saw all of your sins. And all your goodness. In her story, Juimre set out to avenge the rape and murder of hundreds of her townspeople, guided by the goddess Neiwarin, goddess of justice. And Juimre cut down rows and rows of those who had wronged the people. However, when she found some with goodness, deep within or on the surface, she offered mercy. Live returned for a life spent in serve of others. Juimre had died at the hands of a man she showed mercy, while saving and purifying the life of a killer.

Brojm thought of that woman and finally found a prayer "Juimre, hear me an old man. I am worried I may have been too greedy for most of my life. Too cold. Too arrogant. But please now, grant me mercy-" He stopped. That wasn't the right prayer. He felt his life slipping away and then whispered "Juimre, watch over that boy. Let him grow, let him thrive. Protect him and help him save my people, save Cyrden. Let him be a better man than I." A short exhale followed. The king was dead.


Is this your main account (Y/N): No
Idea for RP: A war about the fall of Yulvin and the eventual retaking of Cyrden.
Anything else: Nope
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Done.

I would like to ask for a suggest for where I should go on the map in order to have a colder climate and be near a semi-Scandinavian region.

[Murovanka]

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1. Map-wise, do you envisage an island or somewhere attached to a main continent? Anywhere north at the latitude of Slovanna would be considered 'cold'. You could be south of Clandestia (way west), north of Lincolnocracy (east) or take some of those peninsulas from Achesia or Gauliscia, if they're fine with it. Keep in mind the islands way north would be have the waters around them quite frozen over and wouldn't support such a big population.

2. For government type, are you a parliamentary democracy/constitutional monarchy?

Your app is rather short, but its fine to work out details later on and your RP example is excellent (do post it to the 'Snapshots of Life' thread). If you want to edit the spreadsheet/canon document send me a gmail account so I can share it with you.

Cyrden accepted.

[Achesia]

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1. Map-wise, do you envisage an island or somewhere attached to a main continent? Anywhere north at the latitude of Slovanna would be considered 'cold'. You could be south of Clandestia (way west), north of Lincolnocracy (east) or take some of those peninsulas from Achesia or Gauliscia, if they're fine with it. Keep in mind the islands way north would be have the waters around them quite frozen over and wouldn't support such a big population.

2. For government type, are you a parliamentary democracy/constitutional monarchy?

Your app is rather short, but its fine to work out details later on and your RP example is excellent (do post it to the 'Snapshots of Life' thread). If you want to edit the spreadsheet/canon document send me a gmail account so I can share it with you.

Cyrden accepted.

I like muh peninsula sorry

[Cyrden]

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1. Map-wise, do you envisage an island or somewhere attached to a main continent? Anywhere north at the latitude of Slovanna would be considered 'cold'. You could be south of Clandestia (way west), north of Lincolnocracy (east) or take some of those peninsulas from Achesia or Gauliscia, if they're fine with it. Keep in mind the islands way north would be have the waters around them quite frozen over and wouldn't support such a big population.

2. For government type, are you a parliamentary democracy/constitutional monarchy?

Your app is rather short, but its fine to work out details later on and your RP example is excellent (do post it to the 'Snapshots of Life' thread). If you want to edit the spreadsheet/canon document send me a gmail account so I can share it with you.

Cyrden accepted.

1. I'm imagining a peninsula on the north of some other country. But I don't want to be too trapped. This will explain why the population is less than 50 million.

2. Well, the monarch barely has any power any more, so it really is just a republic that happens to have a king. I guess a Crown Republic is the proper term.

[Demetland]

1. Map-wise, do you envisage an island or somewhere attached to a main continent? Anywhere north at the latitude of Slovanna would be considered 'cold'. You could be south of Clandestia (way west), north of Lincolnocracy (east) or take some of those peninsulas from Achesia or Gauliscia, if they're fine with it. Keep in mind the islands way north would be have the waters around them quite frozen over and wouldn't support such a big population.

2. For government type, are you a parliamentary democracy/constitutional monarchy?

Your app is rather short, but its fine to work out details later on and your RP example is excellent (do post it to the 'Snapshots of Life' thread). If you want to edit the spreadsheet/canon document send me a gmail account so I can share it with you.

Cyrden accepted.

1. I'm imagining a peninsula on the north of some other country.

2. Well, the monarch barely has any power any more, so it really is just a republic that happens to have a king. I guess a Crown Republic is the proper term.

What are the real world analogues for the cultural groups within your nation?

[Anagonia]

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[Achesia]

I apologize for the intrusion. I'm interested in participating, but my nation as it stands may conflict with the way you want to run things in your region. Is there any possible way we could work together on RP's, me being an out-of-region partner? Do you have an application for that? I'm very interested in long-term RP's to help flesh out my world.

Thanks for your time.

Hey welcome! What are the conflicts you forsee? We'd be happy to work something out, we are always down to RP.

[Anagonia]

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[Achesia]

Hey welcome! What are the conflicts you forsee? We'd be happy to work something out, we are always down to RP.

Well, I've always used stat-tracking (I see nowadays it isn't popular, but it was in my early years!). I maintain my population at a little over 20 Billion, with all the stats necessary in my factbook to support it. My siggy shows what site I use (NSTracker) to keep track of things. That includes military power. With that stated, I'd be pretty large, and I'm not sure where'd I'd fairly fit in. I can adjust if necessary (I really want to have a community to RP in!), but I guess I wanted to test the waters and see what was tolerable by you.

If I'm okay as I am right now, should I go ahead and apply for a position or are there - like I mentioned - issues that would better suit me for an outside partner?

Furthermore I am an over-the-road truck driver, who has wild and varied schedules. One day I could be on for hours (like today! Used the time to work on my newest Factbook), to no hours online for a day or two because I'm so tired from driving 11 hours a day. That could present an issue, also.

I deff understand the schedule thing, happens to me as well! No problem there.

You deff couldn't have 20 billion. We go by realistic RL like pop sizes so most nations are 100 mil pop or less.

Do you have any example RPs? I like the factbook! seems very well thought out.

[Anagonia]

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[Murovanka]

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As it stands our region doesn't have any nations with over a billion, Achesia is highest with 600-something, and with what we have to me it makes sense. Imagine the IRL world back in the 1920s when nationalism ruled and the global market wasn't free. Leave out the world war, the massive population and wealth growths following it (though technology did advance from regional/smaller scale wars), and you have us. There's one nation listed with GDP/PC above NSD 30k. IRL anyway there are only ten or so nations with populations > 100 million, and all with exception of two are high-income countries.

We have a hard pop cap of 100 million at the start, but that is by no means final. If you have an RP history with us or do an RP in the region, have shown that you can handle more IC power in a cooperative manner and have sufficient activity to match that (a post per month is what I consider active) we'll be happy to 'buff' nations.

We're not a closed region and we're happy to open RPs to you, but consider that you'd have to scale down your power and stats for those so as to avoid a complete imbalance of power. You could apply here with a scaled-down version of your nation but continue to keep original stats for II RPs, that is fine too.

[Anagonia]

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[Cyrden]

1. I'm imagining a peninsula on the north of some other country.

2. Well, the monarch barely has any power any more, so it really is just a republic that happens to have a king. I guess a Crown Republic is the proper term.

What are the real world analogues for the cultural groups within your nation?

I'm making it up as I go along.

[Demetland]

What are the real world analogues for the cultural groups within your nation?

I'm making it up as I go along.

Well all right then. I just thought it might make finding a place on the map for you easier.

[Anagonia]

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[Gauliscia]

Anagonia, what's your nation's ideology in some detail?

[Murovanka]

@Anagonia, looks great, but I'd say the base is better on some island than on mainland (we have plenty on the map). Our canon wise it would've happened 1960-1980 where there was a civil war in Wanka.

@everyone: To be clear, Anagonia does have a large pop using ns stats, but due to this arrangement it will have negligible effect on regional balance while allowing him to rp with us (albeit on limited scale). If there are any queries do ask.

[Anagonia]

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[Achesia]

Tbh I'm really not in favor of outside power colonies within the region. Im ok with RP participation but colonies just take up space that actual residents could have.

[Inoroth]

Just checking in to say I'm still following what's going on -- Just working and schooling a lot of hours this week and have only been on mobile for most of it.

[Achesia]

Just checking in to say I'm still following what's going on -- Just working and schooling a lot of hours this week and have only been on mobile for most of it.

I feel ya, I've been hotel hoping.

[Murovanka]

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Last questions. If it is rural-based, is your country pre-industrial (which would mean much lower level of development) or post-industrial, as in we see today that industry has been transferred outside the country, or how do you explain the perceived lack of urbanisation where as far as we know in history they have played a central role in economic growth and social change (like equal rights, communism), being the financial powerhouses.

I'm assuming its a democracy, in which case what major divides exist in society and what role does the opposition play?

Edit: in response to your TG, anytime 1960-1980 would be fine. As with this special case I'll let any further concerns be clarified before accepting.

Tbh I'm really not in favor of outside power colonies within the region. Im ok with RP participation but colonies just take up space that actual residents could have.

That's fair. Though it is only a small island, and we won't recognize per se the NS stats being used (it will be negligible). I agree we shouldn't have outside nations just having colonies, and this is an exception based on the RP examples and the effort and thought put by Anagonia into this as well as the TGs we've exchanged.

Anagonia, would you foresee bringing in your nation itself in future? We can't say 20 billion, but on the higher end compared to what we have, if we see fit.

[Achesia]

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Last questions. If it is rural-based, is your country pre-industrial (which would mean much lower level of development) or post-industrial, as in we see today that industry has been transferred outside the country, or how do you explain the perceived lack of urbanisation where as far as we know in history they have played a central role in economic growth and social change (like equal rights, communism), being the financial powerhouses.

I'm assuming its a democracy, in which case what major divides exist in society and what role does the opposition play?

Edit: in response to your TG, anytime 1960-1980 would be fine. As with this special case I'll let any further concerns be clarified before accepting.

Tbh I'm really not in favor of outside power colonies within the region. Im ok with RP participation but colonies just take up space that actual residents could have.

That's fair. Though it is only a small island, and we won't recognize per se the NS stats being used (it will be negligible). I agree we shouldn't have outside nations just having colonies, and this is an exception based on the RP examples and the effort and thought put by Anagonia into this as well as the TGs we've exchanged.

Anagonia, would you foresee bringing in your nation itself in future? We can't say 20 billion, but on the higher end compared to what we have, if we see fit.

I mean I guess thats fine. I'd be willing to let him have a higher pop than usual but 20 bil is just not realistic of course. I know your going off NS stats and all but outisde of FT no one really does that.

[Percy Island]

Nation Name: Percy Island, other names (Those stated in IIWiki) are not canonical and yet to be determined. Reason why will be explained shortly, where in particular will be at the "Anything Else" portion of this application. Name may be determined again but I prefer not.
Economy Description:"Since the late 20th Century, the island is subjected to hydroponic facilities, hydraulic engineering experiments, motorbike testing, dog breeding, and plant nurseries. Furthermore, farming and animal husbandry is a way of living for 50 percent of the population.

Tobacco, fish, corn, and salt, are raw exports offered by Percy Island and mostly sold in the Hadrish market. Manufactured exports compose of cigarettes and rum."

GDP (nominal) | 2016 estimate
- Total $66,349,712
- Per capita $15,610.74

THESE MAY BE DETERMINED ONCE AGAIN

Government Type: A directorial democracy. Sovereignty belongs to another country who is/was a colonial power. (To be determined) May be determined again but I prefer not.
Geography (climate, terrain, landform): A tropical island that is mostly hilly ascending to that of mountainous proportions and the rest are ranging from hillsides to flat lands surrounding the hills and mountainsides. Climate is humid subtropical. (Open for determination, whether it is needed or otherwise)
Preferred Map location: CLICK ME, the island ONLY.
Demographics (Population, ethnicity, language): To be determined.
History (can be worked out, but what have you in mind?): CLICK ME, certainly not canonical at the moment but the new story will be inspired by this.
Military: Unremarkable for noting but here is what I got: CLICK ME
RP Examples: CLICK ME

Is this your main account (Y/N): N

Idea for RP: Diplomacy, mystery solving, depicting lives of people as an individual, and the like.

Anything else: Now, on those marked "yet to be determined," the like, and seemingly so - Before determining those I would like to settle with a former/colonial power as my nation's, or in this case, my polity's metropole.
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