Your opinion on a interesting fact about the AN (II)

[Kyria]

I assume this is a roleplay with significant influence from video game mechanics? Well so long they’re adhered to and it functions it sounds alright. I personally don’t find it much fun, but you do you.

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The following information is connected solely to the canon detailed here.

The crown is not passed on hereditarily but rather through imperial elections. The Imperial Patriciate is an oligarchy comprised of the empire’s most powerful and noble patricians who elect the new monarch upon the death or abdication of the previous monarch. The oldest child of the monarch is usually elected to their parent’s position, though this needn’t always be the case.

Should a monarch become tyrannical or threaten the established order than it is down to the imperial electors to oust the monarch and replace them. This has yet to happen, but the power of the electors to remove a monarch helps to dissuade any tyranny that may otherwise come to pass.

[Blanjiland]

I assume this is a roleplay with significant influence from video game mechanics? Well so long they’re adhered to and it functions it sounds alright. I personally don’t find it much fun, but you do you.

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The following information is connected solely to the canon detailed here.

The crown is not passed on hereditarily but rather through imperial elections. The Imperial Patriciate is an oligarchy comprised of the empire’s most powerful and noble patricians who elect the new monarch upon the death or abdication of the previous monarch. The oldest child of the monarch is usually elected to their parent’s position, though this needn’t always be the case.

Should a monarch become tyrannical or threaten the established order than it is down to the imperial electors to oust the monarch and replace them. This has yet to happen, but the power of the electors to remove a monarch helps to dissuade any tyranny that may otherwise come to pass.

Reminds me of the Holy Roman Empire before the Habsburgs took control. Interestingly, our neighbor, the Keepo Republic, used to be an elective monarchy as well.

Blanjland’s economy, while based very much in information technology and automation, also has an enormous tourism industry, often understated when mentioned. Paris, the cultural capital of Blanjiland, is the most visited city in the world, amassing an average 40 million tourists every year, nearly twice the cities’ urban and suburban population. The two most employed occupations in the country is hospitality and cuisine, which towers over third place, which is business. Other cities also see tens of millions of tourists as well, such as London, Bath, Brest, Köln and Copenhagen. While the tourism industry continues to grow greater and greater every year, many economists in Blanjiland are fearing that the nation may become too focused on tourism and not enough on actual business ventures.

[The Burke Islands]

I'm not surprised, those are some beautiful cities.

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The Burkish language has arguably more terms of insult than any other tongue in the world. While most nations choose insults that are based on parentage or appearance, the majority of Burkish pejoratives are concerned with cowardice, stupidity, laziness, dull conversation, or lack of hygiene. It reveals the preoccupations of their egalitarian warrior culture where bloodline matters less than personal qualities.

[Democratic Exodian Territories]

I'm not surprised, those are some beautiful cities.

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The Burkish language has arguably more terms of insult than any other tongue in the world. While most nations choose insults that are based on parentage or appearance, the majority of Burkish pejoratives are concerned with cowardice, stupidity, laziness, dull conversation, or lack of hygiene. It reveals the preoccupations of their egalitarian warrior culture where bloodline matters less than personal qualities.

That’s amazing and I admire its background.
Suddenly the Exodian Pirate’s English sounds considerably tame...

Despite being considered one of the most sexually promiscuous and active nations in the world, the right to life and ban on abortion is supported by a majority of citizens and is enshrined in our Constitution, and a majority of us are religious- Christian Catholics or some other sect of religion.

[North German Realm]

That's stupid. Both the premises (a sexually open people who aren't pro-abortion? What's even the point) and the fact your people are anti-abortion. The fact that you're both sexually-non-repressed and religious is... questionable at best. Why would you be sexually active if you're Catholics?

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Within the American Continent, the two most explosive territorial issues are between Central America and Mexico and between Argentina and Chile. While the latter of these actually resulted in a relatively explosive war less than a decade ago, the former has essentially been a topic of debate in almost every single session of the Continental Association ever since its founding back in 1908. It is not actually believed it will result in a war -despite how bitter an issue it is for both sides- but that is only because Mexico outnumbers, outclasses, and outguns Central America in every way and has been guaranteed by FRCA's southern neighbor Colombia.

[Tohorin Social Republic]

Mexico and Central America's conclusion makes sense, in terms of realism. I mean, Mexico is gigantic and rich compared to them. If it's anything like their tiny dispute in 1958, then it is mostly irrelevant in terms of how they use resources...and the borders around them change due to rivers anyways. Argentina and Chile seems more worrisome should tensions rise.

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For proponents of an ancestral cultural link between the nekojin in Japan and ourselves, the myth of the Sun Goddess is seen as proof that the neko in Japan and us shared a common culture long ago. Both myths roughly involve a Sun Goddess bringing order to the world and the Imperial family being descended from these divinities...but there are big divergences:

Goddess B/Terasu (Amaterasu?) is presented as the twin sister and rival of Goddess A/Tohorin, the warrior patron Sun goddess of the old Cat Empire. Both compete over the right to be the Sun. Terasu is painted in a negative light against her twin sister. Though Terasu is described as a beautiful and rich fair-skinned fertility goddess, she's a coward who is mocked for hiding in a cave. While Tohorin is depicted as a plain and near naked red-skinned figure who's poor and brash, lecherous and always flushed from drinking berry wine. Despite Tohorin's flaws, her foolhardiness makes her kill all the Night Stars to pacify the world for settlement and she sacrificed herself when Terasu hesitated. As a reward, Tohorin is reborn as the Sun Goddess and courts the Moon Prince.

Weirdly enough, Tohorin doesn't exist in Japanese or any Asian mythology but shares some attributes with gods from Mesoamerica and the American Southwest despite our isolation: specifically Tohorin has been compared with Xipe and Tonahtiuh, and she embodies the belief in a cosmic battle between sunlight and night/starlight during the Winter solstice.

[Nationalist Union of American States]

A nation with quite a long cultural history, quite an impressive background

The Nationalist Union of American States was founded on 22nd of October 2027 following the Second American Civil War between the Nationalist military forces and the United State's Constitutionalist Armies. The Nationalist dropped a Atomic Bomb on Washington D.C. on 11 September 2025, destroying the city, the United States government, and much of its military leadership. However, victory was not declared until 22nd of October 2027, when the last of the Constitutionalist Resistance capitulated. The Nationalist have implemented a policy of political repression, widespread personality cultism, absolute control over the economy, restriction of speech, mass surveillance, and widespread use of state terrorism.

[Palmyrion]

A nation with quite a long cultural history, quite an impressive background

The Nationalist Union of American States was founded on 22nd of October 2027 following the Second American Civil War between the Nationalist military forces and the United State's Constitutionalist Armies. The Nationalist dropped a Atomic Bomb on Washington D.C. on 11 September 2025, destroying the city, the United States government, and much of its military leadership. However, victory was not declared until 22nd of October 2027, when the last of the Constitutionalist Resistance capitulated. The Nationalist have implemented a policy of political repression, widespread personality cultism, absolute control over the economy, restriction of speech, mass surveillance, and widespread use of state terrorism.

Another day, another pariah state.

Among the Armed Forces of Palmyrion, there are stereotypical music tastes, which are linked to how old a certain branch of the AFP is.

• Palmyrian Army and Palmyrian Navy: The oldest branches (Formed on 1820 after Palmyrion secured its independence from the British) are stereotyped to have a taste for indie rock, modern swing, and jazz-fusion music; notable examples include Postmodern Jukebox, Caravan Palace, and (the Palmyrian counterpart of) SUD.
• Palmyrian Air Force: The second youngest branch of the AFP, formed only in the wake of the Bellum Interregnum (1948-1952) by the former Stalinist regime, the Palmyrian Air Force is stereotyped as having a liking for epic music.
• Palmyrian Civil Defence Force: The youngest branch of the AFP, formed on 2018 after the Northern Troubles (2009-2018), CDF troopers are stereotyped to have a taste for electronic dance music, with notable examples being composers such as Martin Garrix, Skrillex, and Knife Party.

[Great Nortend]

One wishes to enquire what 'epic music' is.

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Under the Restriction of Drugs Act 24 Edm. IX, all drugs are classified as Schedule I remedies, Schedule II medicament, Schedule III drugs or Schedule IV medicinal poisons. The first include pharmaceutical 'remedies' such as cough syrups, lozenges, pastilles, &c. These may only be sold at a licensed dispensing apothecary on the customer side of the counter. Schedule II medicaments, commonly known as 'over-the-counter' medicaments include common painkillers, fungal treatments, medicated ointments, medicated eye drops, anti-histamines, antacids and laxatives. These may only be sold from the assistant side of the counter, but may be displayed. Schedule III drugs require prescriptions from a doctor. Opium, cocaine, cannabis, heroin, morphine, oxycodone, methadone, barbiturates, contraceptives &c. are all classed as Schedule IV medicinal poisons, which also require a prescription and authorisation from the Board of Health.

[Soleos]

I can understand opium, but why cannabis? If anything, it should also be sold at apothecaries or private dispensaries given how it's hardly something to be concerned about.

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For a government founded on the idea that Academic Experts are better fit to lead and protect humanity than politicians and businessmen, the Technocracy actually rounds up Scientists and Recycle them for proposing eugenics as a means of environmental preservation after the fall of the United Nations. The logic behind this is that the Technocracy values the reports of a Sociologist and Historian as equal to that of Physicists and Engineers because "All knowledge are intertwined". Sociologists, Historians, Environmental Scientists, etc states that the majority of pollution and environmental degradation is due to Multi-National Corporations and Governments that promote their actions. They're destroying the planet for profit. Culling human population is basically eugenics on the poor and marginalised just so the wasteful few can continue to be wasteful at a net-sustainable level which goes against the Technocracy's militant obsession with "efficiency-for-all". That doesn't mean the Technocracy is pro-Communism either as Communists are by extension Neo-Luddites ("mUh FaCtOrY wOrKeRs!") in their eyes and are suppressed with equal ferocity.

Such scientists alongside the wealthy elites, were executed via Medical and Military lab experiments for promoting "Defective Thinking" which Technocratic Courts argued poses a threat to human survival. Their families are then "Nerve Stapled" which is lobotomising them and then 'reconditioning' their blank slate to be worker drones who took part in the African Green Wall Initiative before being organ and blood harvested for hospitals upon death or completion of the project. Ironically, the Technocracy does promote eugenics in its own way as they genetically engineer future humans to be free of physical or mental ailments like hemophilia and down syndrome.

[Uinted Communist of Africa]

So oppressing a political party is legal in your nation? By default in a democracy every party has the right to exist.




Here in the UCA we have multiple parties and none are oppressed. We rule as a direct democracy with absolutely no representatives. Further more we still kept the many monarch in the continent but stripped them of any real powers. King Emillio does hold full power though, and has held his office since the nation was founded. He will most likely reign until death do to the need of a majority vote to dispel him from office

[New Transeurasia]

So it would just be a direct democracy with a constitutional monarchy, then.

Street foods and fast foods are very popular and cheap in NT. American, chinese, and european foods are most commonly found as street foods, while fast foods are more diverse in origin. A hot dog in NT can cost as little as 20 Kopeks(equal to about 0.01667 NSD). A McDonalds Burger costs around 4 Rubles(0.33 NSD). The reason for these being so cheap is that NT has had record amounts of population and economic growth since the 1960s and 1970s, though with much of the nation being relatively poor(which has become more of a middle class though with the same incomes due to government welfare and housing programs since the 1990s), food had to be cheap. Lots of people began selling street food and creating fast food/street food chains as ways to make money, with tax break incentives from the government causing companies to enter the food markets as well. Competition between food companies/food vendors has driven prices of food down.

[Ungvarnfjall]

It's thanksgiving and now I'm hungry. You, good fellow, are a witch indeed. I'm gonna go get some pie now.
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By law, all individuals taking residence in Ungvarnfjall are required to have a sword or weapon of some kind by the age of fourteen. If they are without one, they will simply be provided one by the forgemaster of the High Jarl of standard quality-that is, of course, unless they are incapable of wielding a weapon for whatever reasons they may have.

[North German Realm]

Our people are also armed, but not for any such benevolent reason. People simply leave their military service with their own rifles (and sidearms) along them, and since almost everyone goes through military service, almost everyone is armed.

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The Empire of Yugoslavia had a problem going for it, and it was the fact that its two "primary" components were not of the same mind. The Serbians -the benefactors and the original cause of the Bulgarian Civil War that created Yugoslavia in the first place- had held the idea of "Greater Serbia" as paramount ever since early 19th century and as such wished to "Serbianize" the rest of their newfound Empire. The Croatians, having been part of the Habsburg Empire or centuries, instead wished for regionalism -each region controls its own thing and is in turn vassal to Belgrade, the Imperial Capital. The clash between the Serbians and Croatian -which became more prominent when Bosnia-Herzegovina left the Serbian sphere and joined that of Croatia in early 1960s- would eventually result in the collapse of the Empire of Yugoslavia in a violent war that started over a crisis in Macedonia in early 2014.

[Great Nortend]

It seems to me that it would be better if both countries had compromised a bit on their ideals. The Serbs should allow independence for other imperial holdings, whilst the Croats should be receptive to some Serbian influences. This is what holds an Empire together. It is when, however, compromise goes too far that empires fall. Britain should have tightened its grip on its imperial holdings, and instilled greater loyalty and allegiance to the Crown. Unfortunately, it failed to do so with the African colonies. On the other hand, it failed to compromise at all with the American colonies. Both have the same result : division and damage to the imperial ideal.

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Bank clerk : A person who deals with customers at a bank counter.
Cashier : A senior bank clerk who is in charge of the cash, vault and cash account.
Teller : A person who adds up and counts the money in an account. A bank clerk may also be a teller in smaller banks.
Bank manager : A person who superintends a bank.

Counterman : A person who serves customers in a shop behind a counter.
Shopman : A person who serves customers in a shop.
Till clerk : A person who operates a cash till. Often is the same person as a counterman.
Shopkeeper : The proprietour of a shop. In small shops he also acts as counterman, shopman and till clerk.

[The Unfounded]

Uh... yay dictionaries? What exactly is supposed to be interesting about a set of definitions?

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The name of all of the followers of the True Way of the Will— ‘Shirassi’— is actually based on the closest thing that their parent race —the An’Kazar— ever had to a racial slur that applied to their own species. The word effectively means ‘those who have their tenses mixed’ and specifically referenced how the first followers of Samma tended to speak of things covered by the prophetic/future tense as if they were declarative/present tense. In An’Kaz society, such a thing was considered to be the height of insanity.

After their expulsion, Samma took on the name Kir’Shissar—‘He who sees the future and makes it reality’— and adopted the term Shirassi as the name for his people as one of his first acts of defiance and subsequent retribution against his technological former brethren.

[Heavenly Kingdom of Great Peace]

It's always interesting to see some thought put into etymology, and I do appreciate the symbolism of their renaming as a rejection of their fellows.

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Due to a swifter Taiping victory over the Qing, the European powers were unable to intervene in China as the country practically collapsed into another warring states period. This effectively cut off one of Britain's largest markets, with the Taiping's strict anti-opium policies depriving them of income. Thus when the American Civil War broke out a few years later, Britain and France decided to intervene directly to prevent the loss of their other largest trading partner. Seeing an opportunity to weaken their growing rival on the continent and avenge past defeats, the British and French lent their industrial power to the Confederacy, allowing them to secure their independence from the Union at the price of becoming economically dependent on their European backers.

[New Transeurasia]

So in summary, an early fall of the Qing dynasty in China led to the CSA becoming independent.

Almost all automobiles in New Transeurasia run on Natural gas, hydrogen, biofuel, or electricity. This is due to extreme pollution/environmental regulations placed by the national government since the 1980s. This is because faster economic and population growth led to environmental problems(similar to that of OTL projected to be 2025). Most filling stations sell more than 1 fuel. Gasoline is extremely expensive(from taxes levied on gasoline due to the environmental regulations), often averaging over the equivalent of 60R/Liter(equivalent of 5NSD/L), along with being hard to find(as few filling stations sell it). Most vintage cars have been converted to run on natural gas, and most trucks and buses use biodiesel.

[A m e n r i a]

It's nice to know YN's elite isn't as suicidal and pollution-loving as those irl. How did the technology come so fast tho?

Some members of the Starchild Sorority were planned to be villains in the concepting phase. Fragment, in particular, was planned to be a Caucasian thief/robber with Splice as his unrelated partner. That's right, both Fragment and Splice were initially planned to be male. In addition, Splice was planned to be an African-American teenager. The earliest ideas for them came when RMD was so bored in EFL class he started designing villains and drawing sketches for them.

[Walkerfort]

huh, pretty neat I say.. They'd be cool as villians



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because of the poor living conditions in the totalitarian nightmare that most call walkerfort, it's populace has a high suicide rate.
most suicides in the nation are caused by jumping off buildings, drug overdose and hanging. when the famous actor Johnson
tucker committed suicide recently, a national campaign about suicide awareness has spread around walkerfort. the suicide rate is
declining after Miguel ordered reforms and a plan to improve living conditions.

[Shuumia]

The worldbuilding is pretty interesting, and I like how this acknowledges its problems and establishes the culture.

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Shuumia lacks significant funding due to its geopolitical irrelevance, but Shuumi traditional structures also keep it in line quite well, leading to the government acting as more of a Shuumi activist organization. One of the major recent initiatives has been introducing official writing conventions to increase literacy.

[The Unfounded]

How does a government implement its will in a barter society, I wonder? Do they have government agents trotting around doing favors for later cooperation?

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The word 'Shenryax' is the most feared word in the Shirassi/An'Kazar language, and in other species that have had the misfortune to find themselves on the receiving end of either race's wrath, it is roughly synonymous with those other species' concepts of armageddon. The An'Kaz developed on a world where survival itself was a no-holds-barred battle of attrition between many different ascendant species, and so they are no strangers to warfare. Even so, the word 'Shenryax' has only been used sparingly, and never in vain.

It is the declaration of a war of annihilation, and is most often delivered with the assistance of enough kinetic rods to shatter entire planets, in keeping with the policy of Shenryax being a 'Declaration Punctuated in Blood'. It is made when the An'Kaz have decided that a specific enemy no longer has permission to exist, and it is executed with both efficiency and effect.

It is also the word that preceded the An'Kazar nearly being wiped from existence, when the forces of Samma Kir'Shissar announced their return to the galaxy after many thousands of years in exile. As Kir'Shissar's main act of retribution against his forebears, his forces threw everything they had into a massive sucker-punch that left entire swaths of the galaxy forevermore uninhabitable. For those races that developed after this 'final war', their first explorations of the galaxy revealed that they were not originally alone, but that something had wiped every last one of them out. The cause of this great ending had no explanation whatsoever, until a giant metal tablet was found that had a sound file attached to it in much the same fashion as a record. This sound file only had two words: 'Sivv'Nakh', and then 'Shenryax' repeated over and over and over and over...

Literally translated, it means 'Ashes in our Wake'.

(incidentally, the 'motto' on the Unfounded nation page is wholly OOC... the Servants don't adopt a specific motto)

[Borgevia]

So your Armageddon is a war of extinction? Sounds way too costly of one if you ask me taking into account how hard the other faction will fight to defend itself and how difficult it is to fully declare a species extinct. However, the warlike nature is still an issue.

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One Western Borgovia's favourite street food is "Birria Noodles". Birria is a Mexican spicy beef stew, similar to the Korean Yuk Gae Jang or Vietnamese Bun Bo Hue. It is used as a broth and flavour with whatever noodles of choice depending on who's cooking. Though originally it was Ramen and Udon noodles as the dish was invented by Virginia Nagatomo whose father is a Japanese-Borgovian while her mother is Mexican and the food is a fusion of the parent's cooking. It was quickly adopted by the Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, and Thai communities in Western Borgovia and started using their own noodles: Glass, Vermicelli, Biang Biang, etc. Incans, who historically were more privileged than Germanic, Slavic, Hmong, Laotian, and Central Asians, began mixing it with their Pachamanca style dishes alongside various potatoes.

Indian communities also started using lamb instead of beef and added their own spices to it. It's a soup to eat alongside rice or dip naan bread. It didn't caught on in Eastern Borgovia though, whose cuisine is more Latin European (Spanish & Italian mostly), Persian, Ethiopian, Greco-Turkish, and Levantine influenced compared to Western Borgovia's East Asian, Southeast Asian, South Asian, Incan, and Spanish. There's still a divide between Eastern Borgovian, Central Borgovian (mostly Latino, Germanic, Hungarian, Persian, Chinese, and Slavic), and Western Borgovian cuisine.

[Walkerfort]

Interesting, I'm not a fan of noodles myself or stew but sounds like a tasty dish for others




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walkerfort has been called a terrorist state, but there seems to be attempts at change as a few new factions has risen to call for universal sufferage.
the umbrella party (somewhat based on current HK stuff) is the biggest threat to the Miguel regime, in recent years there has been major support for
the UP from international and domestic groups.
The fortian people's liberty front is a very violent faction and is usually the target of crackdowns and
arrests, it's classified as a terrorist organization within a terrorist country.
finally there's the Max Berry worshippers, they're.. intresting to say the least, they worship some guy max berry and support democratic traditionalist values.

[Kabzeel]

So basically you're saying that the Umbrella Party is the worst group while the Ma(r)xists are the most based.

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The Conservative Party, commonly referred to as the "Syukoseva Bloc" since 2001 in reference to the President of Kabzeel, is the largest and most well-known political party in Kabzeel and as of 2015 holds 2,085 (or 81.86%) seats in the National Parliament. Conservative Party members have maintained this majority of the National Parliament since 2008.

The Conservative Party formed in 1876 through a merger of the United Women's and the National Women's Militia parties to safeguard the Feminine Revolution of 1875 from the reactionary and invading foreign threat of the time, specifically Russia. The Conservative Party, along with thr Kabzeel Unity party, supports the policy of Kabzeelian president Ekaterina Syukoseva, who is also de facto leader of the party.