What question do you want to ask AU?

[Las Palmeras]

Why do you like Mesoamerican/Carribean "Aztec and Mayan-like" catgirls? Your kink? xd Is Mesoamerican/Carribean catgirls an extant trope in any pop culture I simply haven't heard, or even in Mesoamerican /Carribean niche myth?

@Feyrisshire
I got the idea while having a course, Discovery and Conquest, less about Mesoamerica and more about the Spanish perspective and the process of European settler colonization in the Americas and I more or less challenged myself to make a nation with people that wouldn't get genocided. But the catgirls of LP aren't part of Mesoamerican civilization by a longshot, there's no ethnic ties nor do they share any culture complexes. I know squat about the Carribean. Go try Tohorin, where I actually include Central Mexican (Altiplano Central) and Southwestern American Indian motifs while I poke fun at an obsolete theory that said that the ancients were actually East Asian. And yes, dark hair and almond eyes are very pretty. Pls no kinkshame.

And no, catgirls don't exist in any myths from what I know. But funnily enough, there's an illustration on a Maya vase that has the Corn God as an effeminate pretty-boy with jaguar ears and a tail. I'm not bullshitting you. It's bound to be on the John Kerr Mayavase/Mesoweb photo archive if you're interested. /SKIP ME DO FEYRISSHIRE

[Hamatu]

What would occur, if OOC me (use the information from my signature) happened to go on a vacation in your IC nation?

Short answer: You would not be able to go to Feyrisshire, all tourism is banned due to Covid.

Long answer: Assuming no Covid restrictions, nothing really. It's not like tourists are rounded in for their political affiliations. Rather than the Catgirl KGB, upon entering Feyrisshire you would be surprised at how lax and lenient the customs are (you can even bring drugs), and the thing that would probably bother you the most are the tourist quotas, tourist fees and the tourist handbook you need to present for lodging and dining that would bring you a fee if you lost in.

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Sooo...why the breast milk thing in your canon? Is it a niche or does it tie to lore over vat-grown meat and feelings about animal exploitation?

Why do you like Mesoamerican/Carribean "Aztec and Mayan-like" catgirls? Your kink? xd Is Mesoamerican/Carribean catgirls an extant trope in any pop culture I simply haven't heard, or even in Mesoamerican /Carribean niche myth?

1. What's been your favorite interaction on NS so far?
2. I really like all the links and footnotes you've put in your factbooks. What gave you the idea to do something like that?

BN: Uhm... none of the above? I don't really know what would make you think it'd be any of those...
I mean, I guess I try to make it have some meaning, but for the most part, I just want it to be interesting. I definitely don't consider it a meme, I guess maybe parts of it could be considered satirical (?), but I don't think it should count, nor as parody. I do think I imitate some things, but I don't think I do it in a parodying way.

[Kombinita Socialisma Demokratio]

If you could take control of just one nation on Earth and be it's supreme leader, which would it be?

KoSoDo (simply to force it to exist in via the same handwave) or Neutral Moresnet (so that it exists again). Although if that is not allowable, I think that taking control of Tajikistan or North Korea would be prudent, as those have plentiful and clear improvements to be made.

AU: Are you satirical, parody, or just meme?

[Aequalitatis ac Libertatis]

Why are your factbooks exclusively in Russian? Doesn't really seem based on Russia at all

[Hamatu]

Why are your factbooks exclusively in Russian? Doesn't really seem based on Russia at all

(Look again, they aren't...)

Who's your favorite political figure, and why?

AAN: How did you come up with your conlang? (I think that's what it is?)

BN: Honestly, pretty sure it just sorta happened, not sure why, but they are really cool, so that probably had something to do with.it. I guess wanting an underwater theocratic republic probably made it necessary, though.

[Greater Victora]

Was there anything that directly influenced you to create a nation of merpeople? Or did it just kinda "happen" 'cause you thought it would be cool.

[Catsfern]

so Im getting a lot of Warhammer 40k vibes from your nation, And im just getting into the series. You got any advice for places to start getting into Warhammer 40k lore?

[Free Ravensburg]

Why use NSStats

[Kiu Ghesik]

Why? Just... why?

[Western Fardelshufflestein]

In what way do you think Ari and Ross can work? And how can I, as the RP boss, protect the rol?

[Romextly]

In what way do you think Ari and Ross can work? And how can I, as the RP boss, protect the rol?

How can one leader not get sick from drinking excessively?

[Insaanistan]

How did you form the culturally Buddhist religious views you have now?

What inspired you to make your leaders shapeshifters? And what can each of them shapeshift into, or if they can shapeshift into multiple animals, what animals do they prefer?

BN: It's been so long, I don't quite remember. But, I seem to recall that it basically involved several google searches at my local public library's only desktop, and I think I tried out a few others (I remember CyberStates, I think it was called, and some other one like Polity or something) but they were a little too much work or too complex-looking or something and I got bored. For some reason NS didn't, and I've more or less visited it semi-regularly ever since. Given I didn't even know what the forums or RMBs were for a few years, I guess the issues were just that interesting?

It was an idea I largely came up with on the fly during an RP of Mustafa’s cousin’s birthday party at the palace. They can only shapeshift into animals. Mustafa seemed to prefer an African Lion while Nura prefers to turn into a wolf. She often, even in human form, goes around with her canines still as lion or wolf fangs. They can also heal people with their hands, read the minds of other people and creatures, spout fire or water from their palms, levitate, engage in telepathy, and fly into a murderous rage. And also some other stuff they haven’t discovered yet.

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[Azur Deutschland]

Romextly, have you considered putting some of your factbooks together into more robust factbooks? For instance, the four civil wars, you could probably just have a central factbook for that.

I believe you can only have like 25 factbooks, but you can have as many dispatches as you want.

[Romextly]

Romextly, have you considered putting some of your factbooks together into more robust factbooks? For instance, the four civil wars, you could probably just have a central factbook for that.

I believe you can only have like 25 factbooks, but you can have as many dispatches as you want.

Really? I've never figured out the niceties of Coding. I only had like a semester of mandatory Coding and it showed nothing. And there's like no thread for help on this
/skip

[Kiu Ghesik]

Romextly, have you considered putting some of your factbooks together into more robust factbooks? For instance, the four civil wars, you could probably just have a central factbook for that.

I believe you can only have like 25 factbooks, but you can have as many dispatches as you want.

Really? I've never figured out the niceties of Coding. I only had like a semester of mandatory Coding and it showed nothing. And there's like no thread for help on this
/skip

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=219095
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=97589
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=330837
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1

That's just a start. Pay particular attention to the BBCode dispatches.

Note Ponderosa's is just a template example, and practically the most popular one at that. F&NI also has template threads scattered about.

In what way do you think Ari and Ross can work? And how can I, as the RP boss, protect the rol?

1. I don't know. Let's find out. 2. You can't at this point, unfortunately, and I'm scared.

/skipmeanddoAzur

[Federal Remnants]

What compelled you to the aesthetics of WW2 Germany, compared to say, something like the aesthetics of the USSR or another nation/movement? I know for my nation it was more of a mixture of aesthetics all blended together.

[Azur Deutschland]

What compelled you to the aesthetics of WW2 Germany, compared to say, something like the aesthetics of the USSR or another nation/movement? I know for my nation it was more of a mixture of aesthetics all blended together.

It's a bit hard to explain further than just saying that I have a thing for WW2 German vehicles, weaponry, and uniforms. It's just, the way they are designed just looks really nice and appealing. For instance, I will continue to say that the Panzer IV looks really cool with the side skirts. The 88s and Pak 40s are also some of the coolest looking anti-tank guns in my opinion. The Tiger tank has also been my favorite tank since childhood, alongside the standard Shermans with 75mm guns. There's just something off about the 76mm turret for the Sherman. I also play Germans in the tabletop game Flames of War.

/skipme

[Catsfern]

What compelled you to the aesthetics of WW2 Germany, compared to say, something like the aesthetics of the USSR or another nation/movement? I know for my nation it was more of a mixture of aesthetics all blended together.

what was the inspiration for your nation, at first I thought your nation was like the Enclave from Fallout, but no its really different, what made you think of the idea?

[Kiu Ghesik]

Why is your leader John Henry Eden?

[Wexas]

1. Mongols, Scythians, or Comanche?
2. What is the meaning behind the flag?
3. If the Berghi Empire really worship Lovecraftian beings, does that make Kiu Ghesik the good guys or the lesser of two evils?

[Free Ravensburg]

Where lord

[Catsfern]

I just noticed that "raven man" thing in your factbooks, mind telling me if you have any ideas for where you're going with that?

[Federal Remnants]

What compelled you to the aesthetics of WW2 Germany, compared to say, something like the aesthetics of the USSR or another nation/movement? I know for my nation it was more of a mixture of aesthetics all blended together.

what was the inspiration for your nation, at first I thought your nation was like the Enclave from Fallout, but no its really different, what made you think of the idea?

it's definitely not the enclave, the only relation it has to the Enclave is the Advanced Power Armor

i wanted to make a post-climate change america and also have it be far right, but that wouldn't be very distinct on its own to just have Mussolini-style fascism, and after looking at TNO for HOI4 and some of the historical figures in that mod i decided to look further into esoteric fascism or generally more fringe sects of the far right for the sake of worldbuilding

there is a large amount of ungodly, insane, and frankly vile writing under this umbrella, under the likes of Savitri Devi, Julius Evola, etc. Hyperborea is a motif that comes up a lot in these writings, but i figured this america would find the Germanic/Nordic/Indian connotations too "foreign" on its own, but if i could make a syncretic version of it based off of an idealized and pseudohistorical past of America, that would then be palpable to this America. (look into it if you dare, you'll find Ancient Astronaut theory but also racist among other things)

Why is your leader John Henry Eden?

oops, yeah no it was just a reply i made to someone several months earlier in F7, that's not actually canon, currently considering writing the Federal Remnants President, i just have to make sure to actually make them compelling as well

/skipme

[Valentine Z]

I just noticed that "raven man" thing in your factbooks, mind telling me if you have any ideas for where you're going with that?

How did you manage to amass 100 cards of your own?

[Kiu Ghesik]

1. Mongols, Scythians, or Comanche?
2. What is the meaning behind the flag?
3. If the Berghi Empire really worship Lovecraftian beings, does that make Kiu Ghesik the good guys or the lesser of two evils?

1. Scythians primarily, they're the closest thematically. Definitely elements of the others, though; a number of Ghesite words are derived from Mongolian, for example, and their use of dogs as smaller pack animals is primarily taken from Great Plains natives like the Comanche.

2. No meaning ICly. It's a cool rug Ari found. They have no reason to have a flag ICly. OOCly it's meant to imply the "steppe nomad" feel. If you wanna get further into it, the spikes/tassels on the side can be said to represent a sense of impending danger and the shield in the center as averting said danger, or at least trying to.

3. The Ghesites worship the Lovecraftian being, the Berghi religion isn't wholly fleshed out but I think is gonna lean heavily on "seasonal" gods, with those gods existing in a more traditional sense. It's worth noting Mummy Tengri is more Lovecraftian in Her implications than anything, and is benevolent, at least as benevolent as a massive eldritch being constituting the entirety of space and time can be. And while I try to avoid the concept of any one "side" being good or evil, the Ghesites are definitely the "good guys" within their own moral framework, which a large portion of the factbooks are presented in or at least analyze. Of course the same goes for the Berghi, who view themselves as the noble, civilized race fighting off the rampaging barbarian hordes. Nothing like an actual nation of looters and pillagers as a neighbor to give you one hell of a statewide superiority complex, after all.

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