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

[Advancia-Sizzletown]

Val: So like, does Valentijn's old body disappear or does it just stick around? Pretty sad though, that Clarissa managed to cry in spite of her seemingly endless reservoir of digital dopamine.

Advancia-Sizzletown: So World of Tanks IRL?

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Wander is an experimental Arkeyanan megastructure based around finding the feasibility and practicality of Mobile Ringworlds. It consists of six such Ringworlds in a hexagonal formation, with a Mckendree Cylinder in the center serving as a way-station between them.

Yes, with a hint of Girls und Panzer.

/skip

[Godular]

State sanctioned indoctrination... they aren't truly faithful if they never had a choice.

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The An'Kazar fear one entity above all others: The Shirassi.

Followers of Samma Kir'Shissar, an An'Kazar who has since renounced his mortal body in favor of a form of living stone, they are a multi-galactic anti-technology crusade. They have discovered a means of manipulating the universe through sheer force of will, and have essentially mastered the power to reprogram reality to suit their needs. The Shirassi have acquired legions of faithful from other races, who are capable of lesser feats, but are no less devastating in their application. Many entities that possess powerful technologies have been laid low by a determined assault by the followers of Kir'Shissar.

(I might start describing things more thoroughly with one of my puppets...)

[Borgevia]

So an species with reality bending powers on a crusade against technology? I guess the Luddites in every civilisation are cheering them on. Uh oh

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Despite being a predominately Latin (Italo-Spanish specifically) culture, its population condensed on coastal cities (and Cordoba, Rosario, and other inland cities with Cordoba especially being the Agricultural centre of commerce) made it necessary for the now defunct Corpus to social engineer a 'culture' of organisation and optimising spaces and a Sinic "respect" culture.

Everyone avoid walking in the 'middle' that is, everyone walks on the sides to make room for the speedier people to easily walk by them without hassle. People also don't stand in the way and always stand as far in the edge as possible to not block incoming pedestrian traffic. When you enter or leave a building, always check your surrounding to see if someone nearby is coming in or out because it's your obligation at that point to hold the door until it's clear no one else is approaching within a 3 second mark. Even in theaters or concerts, people uniformly leave in an organised fashion because Borgovians are always in a rush and this is the most optimised way to get people out of the venue without pushing or shoving which may delay pedestrian traffic. This is to improve efficiency and speed. At restaurants, always stack your items in the most safe, organised way possible and clean up whatever mess is left on the table. More importantly, don't throw items off plate and onto the table, don't intentionally make messes. This is so waiters can quickly clean up the table and prepare for the next customer in the most optimised time possible, therefore a more efficient profit-generation while "Good manners" are expected of customers. Borgovians are taught to walk fast, almost like speed walking because trains, airplanes, or buses need to come and go at a very efficient timeline. Borgovians have a handwash culture as well: Once with soap for urination, twice with soap for defecation. When your paper towels are 'used' up, you then 'roll' them around your hand to make the most of it before throwing it onto the compost pile.

Sanitation is also taken very seriously, which isn't surprising given Borgovia's harsh beauty standards. Public urination & Defecation are treated as harshly as physical assault or damage of property. Littering, spitting, and smoking outside of designated smoking areas are treated as harshly as IRL Singapore. The above was taught in public schools, the later is strictly enforced, because the Corpus knew efficiency and optimisation of society means better profit generation and a more productive workforce. This "Social Respect" culture was further encouraged by its immigrants from Imperial Japan, Qing Dynasty, and Empire of Vietnam. Unlike IRL Singapore, however, there's no state enforced violence for the crime of being unsanitary. Socially, you'll be harassed by locals if you stand in the middle of a busy street or yelled at and even refused service if you don't hold your door for people. You may also get a stern lecture if you don't wait in line to enter/exit a train. The left lane on the highway is always the speedier lane, if you drive slower than the lane to your right, you will get a hefty ticket worth the price of a San Francisco's rent. The furthest right lane is only for those about to make an exit or waiting for room to change to the more left lanes.

[Tohorin Social Republic]

One works to live, not the other way around. Though the rush in big cities would mark similar behavior here at times, it isn't particularly seen as a wholly good thing, efficiency aside. It's nice that we're not the only ones who support rolling paper to make the most of them before they are thrown though.

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Our island is/was regarded as a Man's Paradise for it's heavily unbalanced neko sex ratio of 1:10 in favor of women during the time of European contact, leered over due to the frequent "situational lesbianism". For us, it is nothing short of a Demographic Hell marked by irregular population booms and hill-like declines due to the limited incentives of being a single mother which assured the economy perpetually had ups and downs. Mixing with humans (mostly Spaniards) over the centuries helped a bit, though that ratio isn't at all the idealized and balanced one of 1:1...it is about 1:3 in favor of females. And now our fairly-affluent (not miserable) industrial nation's population graph resembles a near-plateau of slow growth.

On a similar note, a CIA report once said that "for obvious reasons", the Soviet 48th Combined Arms Army stationed here is envied in Russian military circles.

[Silver Commonwealth]

Opinion: Huh, I have noticed a some form of pattern for your neko nations - a gender ratio, which is usually skewed to females more or less, and with females being in charge of most of the positions in society. Quite interesting, imo. I also assume, that the population booms are less regular than human ones, and while the global population might decline in future, neko population individually might grow.

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Ministry of Education

Fact time!

*SCPS agent takes a cup of coffee*

''1.The ''apolitical grunts'' aren't really a thing in SC, due of ideology seeping through its society, making practically everything politicized. Also, the excuse ''Just following orders'' doesn't work in SC's world very well either, especially when captured by UDU's partisans, because your judges would be those, who you have fought against, and possibly killed a lot of their comrades and close people. While the higher-ranks would suffer the worst fates in UDU's hands, UDU has no intention to let civilians off the rope either - in UDU's eyes, most of civilians are either ''undrafted combatants'', or ''cowards, who didn't resist the hounds of darkness''. Due of the Party, and its countless regional branches often running things for decades, it is very hard, if impossible to find someone, who wouldn't have even indirect or distant ties to the Party in some form, so in the scenario, where UDU somehow takes power at least in SC's USA (It operates in Canada as well, but not outside those two Commonwealths), there would most likely be lots of bloodshed, as UDU's troopers would root out the supporters of the old regime. Some of UDU's members might also grow disillusioned with the movement, and defect (Considering that UDU has been fighting nearly for a century right now, and ever since its foundation, it has been nearly driven to destruction many times). However, if they would lose most of their sanity during the partisan warfare, it is likely, that they would be more interesting in enacting revenge and blood, rather than in actually forming a stable country. In the end, though, UDU is a fringe group by SC's standards, and no faction, who's support and reign in power depends on The Party and SC as a whole, supports or likes UDU, even the National Anarchists - in fact, sometimes it seems, that the National Anarchist militia soldiers and vigilantes are more eager at completely destroying UDU than the SCPS units, as the NatAns in Midwest have committed some of the worst atrocities against the UDU's democratic fighters. If anything, with SC in power, lower ranked soldiers and officers, along with their families, are often those, who suffer from UDU's attacks the most, as they don't have nearly as much protection, and are more vulnerable. In comparison, high-ranked generals often have a large escort, protection, and even poison testers (In fact, Supercomputer Tom's residence is so protected, that UDU has abandoned plans to try to destroy him with diversion). So, the attacks against them are rarer, as they can be done only by larger UDU's cells, and require more planning. For the same reason, however, they usually inflict more casualties, when those attacks happen, as there are more people for UDU to target. Those few ethnic minorities, which have been left in SC's Megastates, usually are heavily persecuted, so a lot of them have joined UDU. If anything, in UDU's victory scenario, it would probably treat worse civilians from those minorities, who didn't join their cause, as UDU's leadership would probably view it as ''even more unacceptable cowardice for not fighting against their former, vile masters'' (In SC's collapse AU, UDU rises up more openly as well, but still fails to unite the Megastates, as although the various regions now are weaker, some of them are still strong enough to fight off UDU's partisans).''

''2 (SC's space expansion AU, a.k.a. the most unlikely scenario. Non-canon, of course! ''Current'' year would be 6030) There are multiple reasons, why SC's astronauts haven't settled, or even traveled much outside of the Solar System - one of the things are the vast distances in space, and limited amount of speed in which a spaceship can travel. However, the other thing is much more dangerous - the deadly cosmic rays. On Earth, the planet's atmosphere protects the living beings from both Sun's, and outer space's cosmic rays, as most of the radiation is trapped in the Van Allen radiation belt. Crossing this zone might be dangerous for astronauts, but Pax Solaris (SC in space) usually tries to not do so. When it comes to rays, the most dangerous place is near the sun, as not only gamma, but roentgen rays are emitted from it as well, and it, in combination with extreme heat, is going to kill most of the life forms, even the microscopic life. Planets like Mercury and Venus are way closer to the sun, and both of them are very hot, and in the end, they both have deadly levels of radiation. Moon is outside of Earth's magnetic field, which means, that it isn't shielded from the Solar Wind. Jupiter too has similar radiation belts to the Van Allen Belts, which generate even more radiation - it has seriously damaged quite a few of SC's probes sent in space. However, it is not much safer out of the solar system either, as Sun at the same time works as a shield, which shields the solar system from the cosmic rays from outer space. Living on the colonies on Pluto, which is at the edge of the Solar system, already means, that more rays from outer space will effect you, but outside of the solar system, there are things like supernovas, or pulsars, which eject charged rays in space. While they don't threaten the SC's Earth directly for now, an effect of them being relatively near Earth would be devastating, as a supernova could easily destroy most of Earth's atmosphere. So, SC's technicians also spent a lot of time to provide SC's space ships and colony domes with appropriate forms of defense against radiation - like coils, or a layer of water between the walls. Still, even with protection on, astronauts and colonists can get exposed to lots of cosmic rays during long term travels in space. This in general has been one of the issues, which hindered SC's space program, and also one of the reasons, why even after more than 4 millennias, SC has been pretty much contained to the Solar System. Assuming, that Pax Solaris doesn't achieve any means of transport faster than light, is colonization is ultimately going to be limited to the local star cluster, which was one of the arguments of those, who preferred to ''instead transform all of Solar System into our home'', as it would prove to be a triumph against the horrible conditions universe had given, and would secure its position back at the home, and could actually give time to centralize, instead of what it would be, if it just kept expanding.''

[Nouveau Quebecois]

/i dont want to read that

/bump

[Nordeilun]

Opinion: Huh, I have noticed a some form of pattern for your neko nations - a gender ratio, which is usually skewed to females more or less, and with females being in charge of most of the positions in society. Quite interesting, imo. I also assume, that the population booms are less regular than human ones, and while the global population might decline in future, neko population individually might grow.

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Ministry of Education

Fact time!

*SCPS agent takes a cup of coffee*

''1.The ''apolitical grunts'' aren't really a thing in SC, due of ideology seeping through its society, making practically everything politicized. Also, the excuse ''Just following orders'' doesn't work in SC's world very well either, especially when captured by UDU's partisans, because your judges would be those, who you have fought against, and possibly killed a lot of their comrades and close people. While the higher-ranks would suffer the worst fates in UDU's hands, UDU has no intention to let civilians off the rope either - in UDU's eyes, most of civilians are either ''undrafted combatants'', or ''cowards, who didn't resist the hounds of darkness''. Due of the Party, and its countless regional branches often running things for decades, it is very hard, if impossible to find someone, who wouldn't have even indirect or distant ties to the Party in some form, so in the scenario, where UDU somehow takes power at least in SC's USA (It operates in Canada as well, but not outside those two Commonwealths), there would most likely be lots of bloodshed, as UDU's troopers would root out the supporters of the old regime. Some of UDU's members might also grow disillusioned with the movement, and defect (Considering that UDU has been fighting nearly for a century right now, and ever since its foundation, it has been nearly driven to destruction many times). However, if they would lose most of their sanity during the partisan warfare, it is likely, that they would be more interesting in enacting revenge and blood, rather than in actually forming a stable country. In the end, though, UDU is a fringe group by SC's standards, and no faction, who's support and reign in power depends on The Party and SC as a whole, supports or likes UDU, even the National Anarchists - in fact, sometimes it seems, that the National Anarchist militia soldiers and vigilantes are more eager at completely destroying UDU than the SCPS units, as the NatAns in Midwest have committed some of the worst atrocities against the UDU's democratic fighters. If anything, with SC in power, lower ranked soldiers and officers, along with their families, are often those, who suffer from UDU's attacks the most, as they don't have nearly as much protection, and are more vulnerable. In comparison, high-ranked generals often have a large escort, protection, and even poison testers (In fact, Supercomputer Tom's residence is so protected, that UDU has abandoned plans to try to destroy him with diversion). So, the attacks against them are rarer, as they can be done only by larger UDU's cells, and require more planning. For the same reason, however, they usually inflict more casualties, when those attacks happen, as there are more people for UDU to target. Those few ethnic minorities, which have been left in SC's Megastates, usually are heavily persecuted, so a lot of them have joined UDU. If anything, in UDU's victory scenario, it would probably treat worse civilians from those minorities, who didn't join their cause, as UDU's leadership would probably view it as ''even more unacceptable cowardice for not fighting against their former, vile masters'' (In SC's collapse AU, UDU rises up more openly as well, but still fails to unite the Megastates, as although the various regions now are weaker, some of them are still strong enough to fight off UDU's partisans).''

''2 (SC's space expansion AU, a.k.a. the most unlikely scenario. Non-canon, of course! ''Current'' year would be 6030) There are multiple reasons, why SC's astronauts haven't settled, or even traveled much outside of the Solar System - one of the things are the vast distances in space, and limited amount of speed in which a spaceship can travel. However, the other thing is much more dangerous - the deadly cosmic rays. On Earth, the planet's atmosphere protects the living beings from both Sun's, and outer space's cosmic rays, as most of the radiation is trapped in the Van Allen radiation belt. Crossing this zone might be dangerous for astronauts, but Pax Solaris (SC in space) usually tries to not do so. When it comes to rays, the most dangerous place is near the sun, as not only gamma, but roentgen rays are emitted from it as well, and it, in combination with extreme heat, is going to kill most of the life forms, even the microscopic life. Planets like Mercury and Venus are way closer to the sun, and both of them are very hot, and in the end, they both have deadly levels of radiation. Moon is outside of Earth's magnetic field, which means, that it isn't shielded from the Solar Wind. Jupiter too has similar radiation belts to the Van Allen Belts, which generate even more radiation - it has seriously damaged quite a few of SC's probes sent in space. However, it is not much safer out of the solar system either, as Sun at the same time works as a shield, which shields the solar system from the cosmic rays from outer space. Living on the colonies on Pluto, which is at the edge of the Solar system, already means, that more rays from outer space will effect you, but outside of the solar system, there are things like supernovas, or pulsars, which eject charged rays in space. While they don't threaten the SC's Earth directly for now, an effect of them being relatively near Earth would be devastating, as a supernova could easily destroy most of Earth's atmosphere. So, SC's technicians also spent a lot of time to provide SC's space ships and colony domes with appropriate forms of defense against radiation - like coils, or a layer of water between the walls. Still, even with protection on, astronauts and colonists can get exposed to lots of cosmic rays during long term travels in space. This in general has been one of the issues, which hindered SC's space program, and also one of the reasons, why even after more than 4 millennias, SC has been pretty much contained to the Solar System. Assuming, that Pax Solaris doesn't achieve any means of transport faster than light, is colonization is ultimately going to be limited to the local star cluster, which was one of the arguments of those, who preferred to ''instead transform all of Solar System into our home'', as it would prove to be a triumph against the horrible conditions universe had given, and would secure its position back at the home, and could actually give time to centralize, instead of what it would be, if it just kept expanding.''

Response to Silver Commonwealth'

Partisan/Guerrilla warfare is never an easy thing to resolve. People in a democratic society are especially the most difficult kind of combatants to suppress, since a free man is going to fight for a cause and future worth defending. By contrast, people in an authoritarian/totalitarian society are going to be more compliant yet less effective combatants, since they're fighting for something that is largely vague (e.g. Khmer Rouge; their form of communism is so backward that not everyone understood it) or terrifying (e.g. North Korea; fighting for a so-called 'supreme leader' and 'great nation' are two different things, and you don't need to scare the shit out of your people to make them worship and obey you). Hence, a free man fighting for an idea or freedom is going to be a great struggle ... unless you can talk them to a middle ground or convince them to abandon their beliefs.

Seriously, it's the year 6030 and you still haven't became a spaceferrying power? I mean, between 2019 to 6030, that's a long time to come up with new technologies and go out into space. Hell, in real life, we've just came up with the idea of a warp drive not long ago, and we're working on a solution to make it a reality. Not to mention, energy shielding technology would be much more effective at defending against cosmic rays; it doesn't take up as much space and weight when compared to thick plating or water-filled hulls. Technology beyond the 21st century would've already found the solutions for us humans to go out into the cosmos and begin space colonization.

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Nordeilun is a thalassocracy; a state with primarily maritime realms, an empire at sea, or a seaborne empire. More specifically, the government is a form of plutocratic oligarchy, where the state is made up of a myriad of free Nordeilun merchants, companies (not to be confused with 'corporations'), and guilds that have banded together in common commercial interests. To avoid power struggles, Nordeilun organizes its government into a council, hence making Nordeilun leadership rather collective. Despite the small size of the Nordeilun government and state, a strict system of checks and balances ensures that no single individual gains so much power and influence. Hence, Nordeilun has one of the most competitive and largest economies in the world; however, only companies native to Nordeilun are allowed to govern the country, with outside companies (e.g. Exxon, LG, Ford, Acer, etc.) prohibited from doing the same.

As a country built from a society of sailors and merchants, Nordeilun relies heavily on international trade and commerce. While Nordeilun is able to have its own agricultural base, along with a thriving fishing industry, it's industrial and manufacturing base is humble when compared to other countries similar in size (e.g. Japan and Britain). This mostly due to Nordeilun's natural of resources, with fossil fuels largely non-existent, hence explaining why Nordeilun's electricity is generated by nuclear power or renewable energies. Nordeilun is also an archipelago nation, comprised of islands that would've been called, Greenland; however, Nordeilun compensates this with a vast naval empire stretching across all of Earth's oceans.

As a thalassocracy, it retains thousands of overseas colonies, 90 percent of them being islands. With territories stretching as far north as the Arctic Ocean, far south as Antarctica, far west as Madagascar and the Falklands, and far east as half of the Pacific Ocean, Nordeilun is considered a nation where 'the sun never sets'. Most of the Earth's islands are controlled and owned by Nordeilun, with the biggest exceptions being Britain, Ireland, Japan, and New Zealand. With so much territory to cover, all Nordeilun ships (civilian and commercial alike) are all sail-powered; however, military ships are either powered by diesel or nuclear power.

[Troyskova]

Opinion: Huh, I have noticed a some form of pattern for your neko nations - a gender ratio, which is usually skewed to females more or less, and with females being in charge of most of the positions in society. Quite interesting, imo. I also assume, that the population booms are less regular than human ones, and while the global population might decline in future, neko population individually might grow.

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Ministry of Education

Fact time!

*SCPS agent takes a cup of coffee*

''1.The ''apolitical grunts'' aren't really a thing in SC, due of ideology seeping through its society, making practically everything politicized. Also, the excuse ''Just following orders'' doesn't work in SC's world very well either, especially when captured by UDU's partisans, because your judges would be those, who you have fought against, and possibly killed a lot of their comrades and close people. While the higher-ranks would suffer the worst fates in UDU's hands, UDU has no intention to let civilians off the rope either - in UDU's eyes, most of civilians are either ''undrafted combatants'', or ''cowards, who didn't resist the hounds of darkness''. Due of the Party, and its countless regional branches often running things for decades, it is very hard, if impossible to find someone, who wouldn't have even indirect or distant ties to the Party in some form, so in the scenario, where UDU somehow takes power at least in SC's USA (It operates in Canada as well, but not outside those two Commonwealths), there would most likely be lots of bloodshed, as UDU's troopers would root out the supporters of the old regime. Some of UDU's members might also grow disillusioned with the movement, and defect (Considering that UDU has been fighting nearly for a century right now, and ever since its foundation, it has been nearly driven to destruction many times). However, if they would lose most of their sanity during the partisan warfare, it is likely, that they would be more interesting in enacting revenge and blood, rather than in actually forming a stable country. In the end, though, UDU is a fringe group by SC's standards, and no faction, who's support and reign in power depends on The Party and SC as a whole, supports or likes UDU, even the National Anarchists - in fact, sometimes it seems, that the National Anarchist militia soldiers and vigilantes are more eager at completely destroying UDU than the SCPS units, as the NatAns in Midwest have committed some of the worst atrocities against the UDU's democratic fighters. If anything, with SC in power, lower ranked soldiers and officers, along with their families, are often those, who suffer from UDU's attacks the most, as they don't have nearly as much protection, and are more vulnerable. In comparison, high-ranked generals often have a large escort, protection, and even poison testers (In fact, Supercomputer Tom's residence is so protected, that UDU has abandoned plans to try to destroy him with diversion). So, the attacks against them are rarer, as they can be done only by larger UDU's cells, and require more planning. For the same reason, however, they usually inflict more casualties, when those attacks happen, as there are more people for UDU to target. Those few ethnic minorities, which have been left in SC's Megastates, usually are heavily persecuted, so a lot of them have joined UDU. If anything, in UDU's victory scenario, it would probably treat worse civilians from those minorities, who didn't join their cause, as UDU's leadership would probably view it as ''even more unacceptable cowardice for not fighting against their former, vile masters'' (In SC's collapse AU, UDU rises up more openly as well, but still fails to unite the Megastates, as although the various regions now are weaker, some of them are still strong enough to fight off UDU's partisans).''

''2 (SC's space expansion AU, a.k.a. the most unlikely scenario. Non-canon, of course! ''Current'' year would be 6030) There are multiple reasons, why SC's astronauts haven't settled, or even traveled much outside of the Solar System - one of the things are the vast distances in space, and limited amount of speed in which a spaceship can travel. However, the other thing is much more dangerous - the deadly cosmic rays. On Earth, the planet's atmosphere protects the living beings from both Sun's, and outer space's cosmic rays, as most of the radiation is trapped in the Van Allen radiation belt. Crossing this zone might be dangerous for astronauts, but Pax Solaris (SC in space) usually tries to not do so. When it comes to rays, the most dangerous place is near the sun, as not only gamma, but roentgen rays are emitted from it as well, and it, in combination with extreme heat, is going to kill most of the life forms, even the microscopic life. Planets like Mercury and Venus are way closer to the sun, and both of them are very hot, and in the end, they both have deadly levels of radiation. Moon is outside of Earth's magnetic field, which means, that it isn't shielded from the Solar Wind. Jupiter too has similar radiation belts to the Van Allen Belts, which generate even more radiation - it has seriously damaged quite a few of SC's probes sent in space. However, it is not much safer out of the solar system either, as Sun at the same time works as a shield, which shields the solar system from the cosmic rays from outer space. Living on the colonies on Pluto, which is at the edge of the Solar system, already means, that more rays from outer space will effect you, but outside of the solar system, there are things like supernovas, or pulsars, which eject charged rays in space. While they don't threaten the SC's Earth directly for now, an effect of them being relatively near Earth would be devastating, as a supernova could easily destroy most of Earth's atmosphere. So, SC's technicians also spent a lot of time to provide SC's space ships and colony domes with appropriate forms of defense against radiation - like coils, or a layer of water between the walls. Still, even with protection on, astronauts and colonists can get exposed to lots of cosmic rays during long term travels in space. This in general has been one of the issues, which hindered SC's space program, and also one of the reasons, why even after more than 4 millennias, SC has been pretty much contained to the Solar System. Assuming, that Pax Solaris doesn't achieve any means of transport faster than light, is colonization is ultimately going to be limited to the local star cluster, which was one of the arguments of those, who preferred to ''instead transform all of Solar System into our home'', as it would prove to be a triumph against the horrible conditions universe had given, and would secure its position back at the home, and could actually give time to centralize, instead of what it would be, if it just kept expanding.''

Response to Silver Commonwealth'

Partisan/Guerrilla warfare is never an easy thing to resolve. People in a democratic society are especially the most difficult kind of combatants to suppress, since a free man is going to fight for a cause and future worth defending. By contrast, people in an authoritarian/totalitarian society are going to be more compliant yet less effective combatants, since they're fighting for something that is largely vague (e.g. Khmer Rouge; their form of communism is so backward that not everyone understood it) or terrifying (e.g. North Korea; fighting for a so-called 'supreme leader' and 'great nation' are two different things, and you don't need to scare the shit out of your people to make them worship and obey you). Hence, a free man fighting for an idea or freedom is going to be a great struggle ... unless you can talk them to a middle ground or convince them to abandon their beliefs.

Seriously, it's the year 6030 and you still haven't became a spaceferrying power? I mean, between 2019 to 6030, that's a long time to come up with new technologies and go out into space. Hell, in real life, we've just came up with the idea of a warp drive not long ago, and we're working on a solution to make it a reality. Not to mention, energy shielding technology would be much more effective at defending against cosmic rays; it doesn't take up as much space and weight when compared to thick plating or water-filled hulls. Technology beyond the 21st century would've already found the solutions for us humans to go out into the cosmos and begin space colonization.

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Nordeilun is a thalassocracy; a state with primarily maritime realms, an empire at sea, or a seaborne empire. More specifically, the government is a form of plutocratic oligarchy, where the state is made up of a myriad of free Nordeilun merchants, companies (not to be confused with 'corporations'), and guilds that have banded together in common commercial interests. To avoid power struggles, Nordeilun organizes its government into a council, hence making Nordeilun leadership rather collective. Despite the small size of the Nordeilun government and state, a strict system of checks and balances ensures that no single individual gains so much power and influence. Hence, Nordeilun has one of the most competitive and largest economies in the world; however, only companies native to Nordeilun are allowed to govern the country, with outside companies (e.g. Exxon, LG, Ford, Acer, etc.) prohibited from doing the same.

As a country built from a society of sailors and merchants, Nordeilun relies heavily on international trade and commerce. While Nordeilun is able to have its own agricultural base, along with a thriving fishing industry, it's industrial and manufacturing base is humble when compared to other countries similar in size (e.g. Japan and Britain). This mostly due to Nordeilun's natural of resources, with fossil fuels largely non-existent, hence explaining why Nordeilun's electricity is generated by nuclear power or renewable energies. Nordeilun is also an archipelago nation, comprised of islands that would've been called, Greenland; however, Nordeilun compensates this with a vast naval empire stretching across all of Earth's oceans.

As a thalassocracy, it retains thousands of overseas colonies, 90 percent of them being islands. With territories stretching as far north as the Arctic Ocean, far south as Antarctica, far west as Madagascar and the Falklands, and far east as half of the Pacific Ocean, Nordeilun is considered a nation where 'the sun never sets'. Most of the Earth's islands are controlled and owned by Nordeilun, with the biggest exceptions being Britain, Ireland, Japan, and New Zealand. With so much territory to cover, all Nordeilun ships (civilian and commercial alike) are all sail-powered; however, military ships are either powered by diesel or nuclear power.

I can't imagine how much instability that system must have. I also believe that the system is weak, since reliance on other nations is never good, especially oversea trade. However, I believe it is a unique twist than most of the governments on here.
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85% of all industry in Troyskova is automated by machines, causing an unemployment rate of 43.2%. Even though the unemployment makes it seem like the nation is suffering a crippling depression, the latter is true. Troyskova is experiencing a huge economic boom, with an industry centered around manufacturing. You might ask: If people are so poor in your nation, how do businesses thrive if people can't afford their products? Well, what is a business? At its core, businesses pay for your productive time so you could buy goods and services provided by other businesses. If your productive time is obsolete to that of a machine, businesses don't need to provide you with goods and services just like they don't need to pay you anymore. If a human's time is worthless, then the human has no economic value.

[A m e n r i a]

What a sad, corrupt, dystopia.

Military and government officials are like celebrities in Amenria, complete with fanart, fanfics, and other fan works all over the internet. Of course, official promotional material, such as posters, profiles, photo cards and other things with info on the person are produced by the official's corresponding Noble Family, or in the case of the Imperial Armed Forces, the corresponding branch. It's not surprising to see a teenage boy's room with a poster of the Heavenly General in her famous red bikini, nor is it surprising to see review videos for a minister's speech on YouTube.

[Tohorin Social Republic]

We don't approve. Celebrities and figure worship are not in line with the National Committee's way of doing things as it can be dangerous; a government preforms ideological goals through individuals, not the other way around. And there is the issue of public representatives' lack of formality....imagining the young Premier's wife, "Toad-chan", in a red bikini is very...awkward.

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The "Kid Premier", Tomás Tamayo is considered showy and "new" by our standards. He is redundantly noted for his young age, just 38 years old in his great position. Most chairmen of the National Committee usually have usually been between 50 and 75 years old. Instead of the usual dull pallete, he occasionally likes using brightly colored ties and suits as is fashionable in the West (it's 1985). Even his wife is proof of a "New Generation" of reformist "open-mindedness". Though his wife, Tsuneko Nagi, is also "kin"(the nekomimi minority from Japan), she is one of the few notable foreigners within our nation. The fact that the Premier/Chairman has a foreign wife came at a heavy shock and the NC was hesitant in choosing him for it.

[Kyria]

Well, isn’t he something special? It’s kind of funny hearing that he sometimes wears bright suits and ties, but I suppose it adds variety to the political landscape, in a manner of speaking. I hope he continues to do well in his post.

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Social engineering is a very prominent thing within the Kyrian Archonate. As a result of the state’s ideology and strong belief in the survival of humanity above all else, the state has been constantly experimenting with various cultural elements found throughout the world in an attempt to construct an """ideal culture""", with the New World serving as the perfect testing grounds. Since this century-long project began, Kyria’s culture has been largely influenced by a combination of European and Asian cultures, particularly English, Japanese, German and others. An example of this is in how the family unit is constructed. In both Chinese and Japanese culture, elders and one’s social superiors are paid great amounts of respect and elders in families are keenly taken care of by their children and their children’s children, with most extended families having lived closely and often under the same roofs throughout much of history. This attitude towards one’s superiors and elders was incorporated into state cultural re-education, and has not only helped to solidify Kyria’s already stratified and hierarchical culture, but has shown to have improved the care grandparents and other elders receive from their kin.

Other elements of Asian and European cultures can be found in bits and pieces throughout Kyria, such as in the people’s great hospitality to others, very environmentally conscious attitude and so on. One Japanese phrase that holds truth in Kyria is: "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down."

[Great Nortend]

Respecting one's elders is hardly a solely Asian concept. It simply has somewhat died out to some extent in other cultures. It is a shame.

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It is not considered proper for a business to send a letter to a customer or another business which is typed using a typewriter in Great Nortend, as they are considered informal. A typical formal business letter is either be printed or handwritten in ink. Typewriting is usually used only for writing documents which would be tedious to write out by hand but not required in such quantities as to be uneconomical to set for printing. Social letters are all handwritten in ink, although calling cards and invitations are often printed.

[Blanjiland]

Typewriters viewed as informal? It’s about time you catch up with the rest of the world. The amount of money you’d save on ink from switching to typing, or even better, digitalizing everything, is enormous.

During the restructuring of Blanjiland following the Wars if the Coalition, term limits were put in place to prevent Oligarchs from retaining office for an excessive amount of time. For the position of Prime Oligarch, term limits were put at max 4 terms (16 years), however has only been reached once in all of Blanji history since the establishment of the Federal Oligarchy. This of course refers to Vilhelm Buhl, Prime Oligarch from 1902-1918. Buhl was the head of the Republic Now Party (its first victory since the party’s inception in 1860), and brought great reforms to Blanjiland, including the legalization of workers’ unions and the decriminalization of socialist parties. In 1906, he tied with Corporate League candidate Leon du Belgique, and was chosen to lead a coalition government between the two parties (which would last until 1914). Buhl would lead Blanjiland into the Great Blanji-Swadenian War in 1912, after declaring war under the justification that Swaden had allegedly assassinated Leon du Belgique (which is still disputed to this day). This publicity stunt garnered Buhl unprecedented popularity, but on several occasions he was documented spiting the war and his involvement, quite famously describing the war as “The war that will doom us all”. The most notable action Buhl made was in his final year in office. In 1918, Blanjiland was practically losing the war (with territory lost on all fronts and several major allies surrendering) and the horrid living conditions on the front lines made many in the BAF restless. In a twisted spin of fate, many soldiers unionized (due to the fact no one considered outlawing unions for PMCs) and demanded better pay and living conditions for the war they were fighting. Buhl sided with the unions and enforced their demands, which nearly bankrupted the defense industry. By the time his term came to an end, he was ostracized by his own party for betraying the nation. Due to this, the party fell into obscurity and would lose all its seats in the Cabinet, and become a minority party in the Higher and Lower Parliament until 2013, when tech mogul Edward Rowe won the party a seat in the Cabinet, which he still occupies today.

[Hypnodia]

oof


Computers and video games are banned.

[Borgevia]

What a mundane, horrible life your people have.

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The universe of Borgovia is both better off and worse off depending on where you live compared to IRL timeline. In Borgovia's timeline, countries that are aligned with the US-Borgovian-Franco-British alliance against the Sino-Soviet sphere live multitudes better than their IRL counterparts. For example:
Brazil, Costa Rica, Peru, and Paraguay are technically considered 'high income economies' because their GDP Per Capita are $14.000, $24.000, $14.000, and $12.600 respectively. Mexico's IRL GDP Per Capita is $9.000 roughly the same as IRL China, but in Borgovia's timeline, it's $11.000. All of South America are either high middle income countries (GDP Per Capita $7.000 - $12.499) or high income ($12.500+) with Borgovia being $60.000 per capita (below USA and Netherlands, GDP growth lower than Brazil's, but still the 3rd largest economy with a $8 Trillion GDP ahead of Japan's $5 Trillion by 2019 records) The poorest country in the pro-US Sphere is Haiti with a GDP Per Capita of $2.500 in this timeline's 2019 record compared to its IRL $720 (GDP of $27,5 Billion vs $8 Billion) which is a Middle Income Economy. Liberia is the 2nd poorest with a GDP Per Capita of $3.100 compared to IRL $500. The prosperity in Borgovia's timeline seems amasing, right? Not really, the pro-Soviet Sphere fared much, much worse than the pro-Soviet Sphere IRL after the Cold War (which like IRL, ended in 1991).

The only post-Communist country to survive was Yugoslavia which followed similar reforms to China's Deng Xiaopiang or Vietnam's "Doi Moi" (in this universe, Vietnam never went Communist but China and most of the world did) but with a more Federal, Parliamentary Democracy take. Yugoslavia peacefully became a left of centre Social Democracy after democratic reforms succeeded instead of the violent revolutions of IRL. Still, it survived and is much better off in this timeline than IRL. Poland also got lucky, developing exactly the same way it did IRL. The rest of the Communist world though, minus China, suffered greatly. The illiberal "Russian Commonwealth" which replaced the Soviet Union, has an ageing population, broken infrastructure, negative GDP growth for the past 20+ years since 1991 with occasional tiny growth between 0,5 - 1,5%, and a lower life expectancy IRL made Russia literally a shadow of its former self with a strong but inevitably-to-evaporate military. Minus China, Poland, and Yugoslavia, Albania & Romania are as pisspoor as IRL Yemen. Every African country not aligned with the US have a GDP Per Capita half of their IRL counterpart. There's more global income inequality, higher global life expectancy gap, and lower global economic growth than IRL with only the pro-US side living better than its IRL counterparts. Even though the poorest IRL countries are doing much better in Borgovia's timeline, the Average Human in Borgovia's timeline live worse off than IRL Humans because of such an extreme wealth, quality of life, and growth gaps. It's better to be Liberian in Borgovia's timeline than IRL Liberia, but it's better to be IRL Ethiopian than Borgovia's Ethiopia. Wealth is more evenly distributed IRL, but there are less Middle Class compared to Borgovia's, but Borgovia's world is also more bleak for the majority of the population.

[Godular]

Okay, so what caused such a stark difference? Was an explanation ever presented?

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The Godulans have long maintained a storefront for a variety of robots and mechanical products, even so long after their ascent to the stars. One of the most entertaining things they sell (to proven allies only) is the devastating Vorpal Kitten. Dubbed 'Fuzzy Wuzzy' by its original designer, it has since become known solely as 'The Vorpal Kitten'. It is about the same size as a four week old Maine Coon kitten, and functions as a supremely therapeutic bodyguard and/or assassination droid.

When not in combat mode, it typically accompanies its attuned user by perching on a shoulder or sitting on the owner's lap. In this state, it purrs, producing both therapeutic sounds and generating short range EM waves that can induce either a mild sense of euphoria or a meditative calm. When petted, these effects are amplified. These EM waves also function as a monitor of the general surroundings by which the kitten maintains a constant threat assessment, identifying hostile intent, concealed weapons, or most any other close range threat while also producing a deflection field that can disrupt any attempts to assassinate the owner from afar.

In combat mode, it leaps into action with a mew of utmost hate and malice. It moves with shocking speed and agility, leaping from one opponent to the next and utilizing its monofilament claws with astonishing proficiency. It is virtually immune to small arms fire by virtue of being just as fast. It can peel an enemy tank apart in moments, and can swat aircraft from the sky like a tiny little furmissile. Once all hostiles have been cleared from the area, the kitten shifts back to non-combat mode and returns to its owner.

And that's the version for sale. The Godulan dedicated military equivalent is... substantially more effective.

[Nouveau Quebecois]

That is really creepy and repulsive. You had me at "'Fuzzy Wuzzy'", need not say more. The fact that it's even allowed to kill is astonishing.

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The National Assembly of Quebec employs a government office with the title of "Lead Conductor." The Lead Conductor is responsible for managing the Quebecois National Orchestra. They play classical music for all of the Government's assemblies. The government is not allowed to convene without them; should any of the orchestra members fall ill and cannot be replaced, the government assembly must be postponed. Currently the office is held by 31 y.o. Romalov Landry, who is considered to be one of Quebec's greatest musical prodigies.

[Borgevia]

While it's great that music is a big part of your political culture (in a world lacking appreciation for the beauty of art, music, theatre, etc), it's unfortunate that it does get in the way of political efficiency when a member gets sick & isn't replaceable temporarily. Perhaps have a backup plan in the case it happens so even if one member or two or three are missing, they can still perform particular pieces before convention.

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Okay, so what caused such a stark difference? Was an explanation ever presented?

To answer your question & a fact at the same time:
The Sino-Soviet split never happened so Communist nations were never forced to reform until after the dissolution of the USSR. That, and Borgovia's historical policies of developing its allies so they can be politically stable enough to be reliable, militarily strong enough to be 'extra muscle', and economically developed enough to be an asset (politically and economically) led to its allies, ruined by WWII, to receive not only the Marshall Plan, but with a South American counterpart having its own rebuilding initiative, boosted the US sphere's economy. This also create a "dependency" on Borgovia, which is why South America as a continent is entirely loyal to Borgovia's interests because it benefits them economically and politically. Borgovia's hostility towards its enemies is more geared towards economic warfare than through means of arms since their foreign policy is "The balance sheet is stronger than the enlistment rolls" while the US, USSR, China, and France normally see the reverse.

A combination of European exploitation of Africa coupled with Soviet/Chinese support of Pol Potesque dictators in its sphere led to a ruined Red Africa while the Pro-US countries in Africa received US support to 'contain' Communism in Africa alongside Borgovia's "Develop our allies" initiative, all while Borgovia seeks to economically ruin the Communist nations (minus Yugoslavia) to accelerate its population to revolt against its government before the West can swoop in once it appears the Sino-Soviet alliance is cracking. Because the Cold War exists mainly in Africa with occasional conflicts in Asia (China, North Iran, and Iraq vs Vietnam/Japan, South Iran, Syria mostly), Eastern Europe was mostly contained while Africa & Asia were sites of proxy wars, economic espionage, and Israel-like financial support to contain Communism's spread as much as possible. The Reds don't have the industrial capacity outside of the Soviet Union, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Ethiopia, and Northern Iran that the former colonialist Western Europeans, Bloodthirsty industrialist Borgovian-led South Americans, US-dominated North Americans, and Japan can muster and because of a large swath of land with no industry (thanks, Europe), the Communist sphere not only are isolated North Korean style, but its industrial allies don't have the logistics or resources to develop them the same way the already industrialised West/Japan can do to Africa and Asia.

This also means the USSR ignored its European sphere because most of the focus is on the much less developed Africa, who are too far for Moscow to directly influence. Africa is too rich in manpower and resources to ignore and unlike IRL, the continent is more involved so every power has their eyes on it, especially since the Soviet-Sino alliance controls most of the continent. China has to deal with the Prussianesque military dictatorships of South Korea, Vietnam, Taiwan, and Thailand with a Swiss-esque civic society (in the case of an invasion) with India to its West being a threat to Afghanistan and North Iran. Unlike IRL 80s when manufacturing moved to China, it moved to India for this reason. With the USSR and China being too far, and with China already being surrounded by aggressive countries and an obligation to protect its agrarian Laotian and Cambodian allies sandwiched between Vietnam & Thailand, it screwed Red Africa over despite being the key focus of the Cold War and it especially reduced the IRL economic support Eastern Europe had from the USSR. Yugoslavia, despite being Communist, is anti-Soviet so Borgovia and the USA are nicer to them. The fact that Borgovia prevented the USA from turning South America into a "Banana Republic" and the threat of Communism forced the USA to be nicer to Mexico & Central America, many of the economic devastation didn't occur with Mexico especially being forced to take a different path from its IRL development so the US at least has 2 stable neighbors to back them up geopolitically. The "Friendly Cold War" between the USA & Borgovia also led to more research and testing, so even after the USSR collapsed and China began its reforms, Cold War level competition still persist between the two allies leading to automation and the digital economy becoming a reality quicker than IRL which screwed over the post-communist countries who IRL relied on manufacturing in order to generate wealth for infrastructure and educational development.

[Kyria]

There is a lot of information in the multiple paragraphs in this post. I dare say this is not an "interesting fact" rather it’s a bloody wall of text with facts smudged all over the place. Anyway, what I take from this is that Borgevia chose to economically develop their allies to defend against communism whilst the Second World struggled in poverty and stagnation. Not a very pleasant world, not at all, especially with Borgevia’s existence seemingly fucking everything up. The only good thing I’d say is that Yugoslavia’s still around.

By the way, for the love of God, can you people stop posting fucking walls of text? Please?

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The Lord-Archon (Lady-Archoness if female), Kyria’s head of state, is a sort of constitutional dictator elected for life by the country’s 500 strong Senate. In some aspects, the position of Lord-Archon is monarchic, in that the holder rules for life, is titled similarly to a monarch, must be of the Patrician class and is crowned with a golden laurel wreath upon ascension; yet it can also be considered the same as a constitutional dictator as religious belief isn’t required, nor is the title hereditary. A sensible comparison would be the Doge of Venice, or the elective monarchies of antiquity.

[Hypnodia]

damn



we vegan

[Las Palmeras]

There is a lot of information in the multiple paragraphs in this post. I dare say this is not an "interesting fact" rather it’s a bloody wall of text with facts smudged all over the place. Anyway, what I take from this is that Borgevia chose to economically develop their allies to defend against communism whilst the Second World struggled in poverty and stagnation. Not a very pleasant world, not at all, especially with Borgevia’s existence seemingly fucking everything up. The only good thing I’d say is that Yugoslavia’s still around.

By the way, for the love of God, can you people stop posting fucking walls of text? Please?

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The Lord-Archon (Lady-Archoness if female), Kyria’s head of state, is a sort of constitutional dictator elected for life by the country’s 500 strong Senate. In some aspects, the position of Lord-Archon is monarchic, in that the holder rules for life, is titled similarly to a monarch, must be of the Patrician class and is crowned with a golden laurel wreath upon ascension; yet it can also be considered the same as a constitutional dictator as religious belief isn’t required, nor is the title hereditary. A sensible comparison would be the Doge of Venice, or the elective monarchies of antiquity.

Experience brings results, very good. But on the other hand, we would not be too fond of having a ruler for life unless the old dog can learn new tricks in senility.

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The Island Doctrine is our current expression of our sovereignty during the apparent height of this Cold War. We have indirectly promised the United States we'd be dedicated anti-Communists when the USSR poses an immediate threat but will otherwise do things our way. Ironically because we want to be a commercial node in the middle of the Atlantic open for everyone, this means that we refused to turn away East Bloc shipping or join NATO, much less actually join it's integrated command if we would have. The CIA's involvement in foreign regime changes also led us to seek nuclear cooperation with Gaullist France (cheap uranium ore for technology) to prove we can "defend ourselves" in the world scene.

Not all was lost for the impertinent and pushy Americans though, as our intelligence agency routinely spies on Soviet/East Bloc merchant shipping, and sends them transcripts.

[Nouveau Quebecois]

Nice one. Striking a pike in the arse of both world powers. Hopefully they both don't come back to bite you.

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The National Assembly of Quebec employs a government office with the title of "Lead Conductor." The Lead Conductor is responsible for managing the Quebecois National Orchestra. They play classical music for all of the Government's assemblies. The government is not allowed to convene without them; should any of the orchestra members fall ill and cannot be replaced, the government assembly must be postponed. Currently the office is held by 31 y.o. Romalov Landry, who is considered to be one of Quebec's greatest musical prodigies.

[Tundra Terra]

Nice one. Striking a pike in the arse of both world powers. Hopefully they both don't come back to bite you.

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The National Assembly of Quebec employs a government office with the title of "Lead Conductor." The Lead Conductor is responsible for managing the Quebecois National Orchestra. They play classical music for all of the Government's assemblies. The government is not allowed to convene without them; should any of the orchestra members fall ill and cannot be replaced, the government assembly must be postponed. Currently the office is held by 31 y.o. Romalov Landry, who is considered to be one of Quebec's greatest musical prodigies.

I'm going to assume this is largely meant to "keep the pace and rhythm" for the assembly to conduct themselves to...or at least tell when it is dinner time. Maybe it is possible this is to maintain the civil atmosphere?

The government form of Tundra is almost entirely stratocratic with advancement of the government often being led by achievement and results far over politicking and popularity contest in a twist of irony. After the Kraknir reforms, mandatory conscription became codified into law with specified ages and introduction stages even going far as to allow children as young as 12 to be drafted. However thanks to the reforms such children continue their education and merely engage in non-combat roles like cooking or logistics...yes some of these kids learn to drive a truck or tank.

[The Zravvisk]

Sounds like we're not too different. We don't politick and use have advancement done by duels. We also consider every citizen of the nation part of the army and train our children for war. Maybe we should compare our children's gunnery skills?

Since every member of the Armada is considered part of the military and we require auxiliaries to carry weapons at all times, we teach auxiliary children how to use firearms. We do this by taking them down to the gun range, hand them a pistol, and have them take aim at their zravvisk classmates. This does two things. First it lets them practice their aim on a living target that can doge. Secondly its a good early lesson to the zravvisk hatchlings that their scales will protect them from small arms and that they shouldn't worry about them. That will help them a lot in their later careers as zravvisk warriors knowing most of their enemies weapons can't hurt them. That said we will harshly discipline anyone points a gun at anyone besides the designated hatchlings. While real guns are less dangerous than a paintball to a zravvisk, we do realize not every species has scales as tough as ours.

[New Transeurasia]

Sounds like we're not too different. We don't politick and use have advancement done by duels. We also consider every citizen of the nation part of the army and train our children for war. Maybe we should compare our children's gunnery skills?

Since every member of the Armada is considered part of the military and we require auxiliaries to carry weapons at all times, we teach auxiliary children how to use firearms. We do this by taking them down to the gun range, hand them a pistol, and have them take aim at their zravvisk classmates. This does two things. First it lets them practice their aim on a living target that can doge. Secondly its a good early lesson to the zravvisk hatchlings that their scales will protect them from small arms and that they shouldn't worry about them. That will help them a lot in their later careers as zravvisk warriors knowing most of their enemies weapons can't hurt them. That said we will harshly discipline anyone points a gun at anyone besides the designated hatchlings. While real guns are less dangerous than a paintball to a zravvisk, we do realize not every species has scales as tough as ours.

Well, that's certainly one way to educate about guns, but humans don't have scales, so it wouldn't really work for people.

High-Speed rail in New Transeurasia has, for some decades now, been competition between state-owned companies and private companies. Same as the US, the building high speed rail became motivated by the opening of the Japanese Shinkansen. New Transeurasian railway companies saw the line as profitable, and by 1966, the New Western railway company had upgraded its mainline for operation up to 170 km/h. It didn't count as real high-speed rail, as high-speed rail requires speeds over 201 km/h. The first true high-speed rail line was opened in 1971 by Moscow Northwestern between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, with a maximum speed of 230 km/h. This was the fastest railway line in the world until 1981, when the TGV opened in France with a maximum speed of 260 km/h. Across NT throughout the 1970s, railway companies were upgrading lines to high-speed standars or straight out building new high speed lines. The creation of NTŽD in 1983 consolidated many high-speed railways(including Moscow Northwestern and New Western) into one company, though still leaving many private companies operating high-speed railways. NTŽD competed with many other companies along crowded routes such as Moscow-Warsaw-Berlin, Moscow-Saint Petersburg, Moscow-Kijiv, Jílín-Vladivostok, Budapest-Warsaw and even long-distance routes such as Moscow-Jílín, Moscow-Vladivostok, and Moscow-Kabul. This competition between railway companies helped keep fares low. In 1988, NTŽD raised the maximum speed of the Moscow-Warsaw section of the Moscow-Berlin high-speed line to 280 km/h, becoming the fastest rail line in the world until 1991, when Northern National upgrades its Moscow-Saint Petersburg-Helsinki high speed line from 250 km/h speed to 300 km/h operation. This record was kept until 1993, when a new french high speed rail line opened with a maximum speed of 320 km/h. In 2011, NTŽD opened a dedicated high speed rail line between Moscow and Vladivostok, with a maximum speed of 320 km/h. In 2017, China upgraded one of its high speed rail lines to a speed of 350 km/h, becoming the fastest in the world until 2020, when NTŽD upgraded a section of its transsiberian high speed railway to 380 km/h operation, and to the whole line by 2022, and the line was upgraded again to 400 km/h on some sections in 2028-2029, the speed at which the line operates to this day.