What question do you want to ask AU?

[Las Palmeras]

Would you characterize Las Palmeras, and her extended universe, as more science fiction or fantasy?

There's no magic involved in the origins of the Tohorinese in LP or Greater Tohorin, or at least none that I'm willing to admit, so Las Palmeras and it's 19th Century spinoff verges more on sci-fi.

Tohorin, unrelated despite the name, is more nuanced. In many aspects, Tohorin is a straight-up fantasy derived from Isekai anime and stories about inter-dimensional travel, which I've come to hate, but it's set in a thinly-veiled Spaghetti Western, and I like Spaghetti Westerns. There little to no magic in that setting and all the main characters wouldn't know how to use it. Tohorinese myth-history is derived from mostly IRL Nahua and bits of Southwest Indian Pueblo and Navajo culture, so it's actually grounded in "non-fantasy" events and elemets. I wouldn't put a definitive label on Tohorin's setting, the closest thing would be a "weird Western" or Low Fantasy meets Western. /SKIP ME

[Cavirfi]

Which user would you like to be for a day?

[Drongonia]

What were you DEATed for?

[Cavirfi]

What were you DEATed for?

Non-PG 13 stuff, it isn't graphic though I promise

/skipme

[Atheara]

Which user would you like to be for a day?

To be frank, i don't really know.
/skip me yes im lazy.

[The Independent Republic of Mars]

What were you DEATed for?

Your factbooks are amazing, so I've got to ask, how long has it taken you to get them to this point?

Also, not a fan of North Island I take it?

[Nacrad]

Does the Republic of Mars have plans to either mend relations with Earth or conquer Earth, if given the ability?

[Drongonia]

Your factbooks are amazing, so I've got to ask, how long has it taken you to get them to this point?

Thank you so much. Overall, I'd say about a year of on-and-off work. I can't tell you how many hours in total - probably too many to count. If you want an insight as to how they looked back when I first started NationStates, you can take a look at this archived page (warning, it stinks lmao).

Also, not a fan of North Island I take it?

it's alright. North Drongonia DLC coming soon???

/skip

[Cavirfi]

Is my military realistically sized now?

[Catsfern]

Is my military realistically sized now?

so what did you actually get DEAT for? Trolling? Flaming? or something else?

[Cavirfi]

Is my military realistically sized now?

so what did you actually get DEAT for? Trolling? Flaming? or something else?

A mixture of trolling, flaming, and self-advertisement. Just finished reading the rules after months of being too lazy to actually read them.

/skipme

[Las Palmeras]

Is my military realistically sized now?

so what did you actually get DEAT for? Trolling? Flaming? or something else?

Hi. Is there something in particular that motivated you to integrate your NS Stats within your lore?

[Erianu]

Hello hello! I wanted to ask, I'm curious about any other alternate projects you might have in the works or if there's something that you're hoping to potentially work on in the future? Are there any concepts, ranging from PT to FT that you might want to explore and if so, what would they explore specifically and what are they about?

Also, I'm curious for your own personal opinion about post scarcity in general, although I guess I'd advise approaching it from a worldbuilding perspective for the sake of staying on topic, how varied would a post scarcity society be from your personal perspective? Do you think post scarcity would resolve the majority of humanity's current problems, would it introduce a new age of conflict or is it simply 'unrealistic' to achieve, perhaps due to human nature or some other explanation that you might have?

Sorry if this comes off as overwhelming questions. Take your time. Have a good day/night!

[Sengoku Americas]

Oddly enough, I had a difficult time coming up with questions for you. Nevertheless, I found two: would you say that the current form of government is more or less stable in long term than pre-Prodasian times? Also, what do you think Anippe would like her reign to be remembered for?

[The Independent Republic of Mars]

Does the Republic of Mars have plans to either mend relations with Earth or conquer Earth, if given the ability?

Thank you for your question! Mending relations with Earth would certainly be an ideal President De la Rosa would want to strive for, though given that there is still a great deal of mistrust between Earth and Mars (especially in the wake of the Necrophage Crisis, which I'm still in the middle of writing), it is unlikely that relations will improve any time soon. As for conquering Earth, even if Mars had they ability to do so, why would it want to? The population of Earth outnumbers the Martians by more than seven to one, so trying to govern that would be an administrative nightmare and a significant resource drain for Mars. The Martians would much rather maintain their high living standards than waste resources on such a project.

/skip

[Erianu]

Oddly enough, I had a difficult time coming up with questions for you. Nevertheless, I found two: would you say that the current form of government is more or less stable in long term than pre-Prodasian times? Also, what do you think Anippe would like her reign to be remembered for?

Hm, I'd say it's stable in the sense that Anippe quickly replaced the vacuum of power left by the death of her former colleagues of the Shutari council. As a result, Anippe appropriate the majority of their assets and through swift political, cutthroat actions, she's managed to consolidate her rule and her newly formed dynasty in Nebumet. However, beneath the thin veneer of stability is a silent war between Anippe and her power base against criminal underworld elements cultivated by the Shutari to act as their eyes and ears. They're an unaccounted variable and are responsible for most political friction due to the difficulty of locating and capturing such independent agents of chaos or even earn their loyalty. They're remnants of the Shutari power base and resorted to becoming a decentralized, loose league of criminals, rogues, activists and so on. They're an underworld filled with different types of factions who decided to pave their own path after their previous employers, the Shutari, bit the dust. Now that they're not on the payroll of anybody, some are generally antagonistic towards Anippe's new regime due to her consolidation of power and stubbornness leaving little room for them to exert their influence on the population while others see Anippe's reign as an opportunity to get in her good graces and loosen her paranoid grip on the state, letting her compromise and areas where it won't hurt her overall future of the state and even add onto it if they can convince her. Anippe wants Nebumet to be remembered as the nation that "rediscovered its connection with the gods". To become a hub of 'spiritual intellectualism and rationalism', as she says it herself. She wants to shift Nebumet's focus as a mercantile trading center to a cultural hub of knowledge, particularly esoteric knowledge seeing as magic was a contributive factor to her rise to power, especially after she noticed other distant nations leading the charge in martial, industrial and agricultural technology. She fears that, eventually, Nebumet would lack the national identity, industrial capacity and educated populace to exert its own brand of hegemony in the world and thus be subsumed by stronger nations.

As for what Anippe hopes for her reign to achieve and be remembered for? Anippe wants to cultivate a diverse culture that rejects regionalism and tribalism fully, hoping to instead cultivate her own brand of civic Nebumetian nationalism, based on freedom, unity through a shared spiritual struggle and equality between the citizens of the state, believing that with the diversity of thought within her nation, she'd be the first of many intellectuals to come, planting the seed of education throughout the state so that Nebumet can evolve from its tribal constrictions to a fully fledged nation-state, dedicated to greater causes than their immediate family or neighbors. From that point onwards, they can plant their feet in the world and reach out to spread their own brand of civilization across the world and to rightfully extend the borders of Nebumet, leaving the harsh desert and colonizing new lands and making their name known to the other major and minor powers of the world, embracing any who want to contribute to the Nebumetian cause.

Anippe's goals are extremely lofty but with her affinity to magic, political power base, military support, popular support that she cultivated during her time as a Haftari, blessings from certain deities and her adept state-building skills, she hopes to at least make a great start and convince others of her righteousness so that they can carry her legacy. Still, that's not to say she isn't interested in seeing her plans to its end within her unnaturally extended lifetime. Perhaps a secret side-goal is to achieve spiritual immortality so she can continue to act as a guardian angel for Nebumet, stripping herself of humanity and become a goddess when she nears the end of her life and purpose, letting others finally guide the nation to her idea of glory. Yet another side goal of Anippe is to create her own royal dynasty and while that might come off as contradictive to her philosophy (it is but she has her own justifications), she believes that having a family of her own with an elevated status would result in her having a stronger grip on the nation as well as knowing that her immediate family are confirmed proponents of her ideology. It's an elitist viewpoint of hers but she sees it as necessary. She's already set up a democratic system that, by design, should slowly increase its political power in Nebumet, with legislative power tipping from Anippe's dynasty to the Nomarch as time goes on or in a situation where an heir of Anippe proves to be totally incompetent, hopefully ensuring that her progress is not reversed by an anomaly within her family tree due to the legislative power bestowed upon the nomarch assembly.

/skipmeplease

[Atheris]

Oddly enough, I had a difficult time coming up with questions for you. Nevertheless, I found two: would you say that the current form of government is more or less stable in long term than pre-Prodasian times? Also, what do you think Anippe would like her reign to be remembered for?

Why did you choose to use the Red Ensign for your national flag?

[FenexOrg]

Where are your fanfics boi? I need ‘em.

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Q1: Are the creator deities in your Canon malevolent?
A1: Interesting question. I would hesitate to use the word malevolent for the deities that I plan to add to my canon. They are more of an antithesis to Sven's inner ideals with some overlap between them that neither side wants to fully acknowledge.
Q2: What's your favorite foreign leader? That is, another user's character you come into contact frequently ICly?
A1: Another great question. I'll admit, there's just so much great characters to choose from and it's hard picking a best. However, I will say that I heavily enjoy both Baizou's and TLoT/Hamatu-User's characters. I also enjoy Patagonia's characters, though they have an odd tendency to inspire both euphoria and depression.

[Las Palmeras]

Hello hello! I wanted to ask, I'm curious about any other alternate projects you might have in the works or if there's something that you're hoping to potentially work on in the future? Are there any concepts, ranging from PT to FT that you might want to explore and if so, what would they explore specifically and what are they about?

Also, I'm curious for your own personal opinion about post scarcity in general, although I guess I'd advise approaching it from a worldbuilding perspective for the sake of staying on topic, how varied would a post scarcity society be from your personal perspective? Do you think post scarcity would resolve the majority of humanity's current problems, would it introduce a new age of conflict or is it simply 'unrealistic' to achieve, perhaps due to human nature or some other explanation that you might have?

Sorry if this comes off as overwhelming questions. Take your time. Have a good day/night!

Hi Erianu.

Yes...I've shelved a project relating to having the neko Home Island being closer to Macaronesia and Africa. As it's known, I tease over a semi-mythical Atlantis-like super-advanced Bronze Age empire that collapsed due to desertification and the 4.2 Kiloyear event (the climate shift that destroyed the Old Kingdom in Egypt). I made a spin-off "what if?" story about the neko leaving and coasting down to West Africa. By guesstimating over Africa's demographics prior to in the 3rd millennium BC, I found it easy to imagine the Tohorinese could've drastically altered the history and demographics of Sub-Saharan Africa prior to the Bantu Expansion. I got to 400BC-1 AD until I gave up in disgust when considering the Horn of Africa and global trade, that would provoke massive historical divergences I'm not prepared to consider. And I don't wanna be accused of having some interracial kink...awkward.

I also wanna revive or re-do a FT puppet that has to do with human aliens/the descendants of the neko that LARP as grey aliens and travel in time to fix their shrinking Y chromosomes (something acknowledged in LP's canon), I'm a huge fan of Ufology and abduction lore. So it'll involve Roswell and shady pacts with the 1940s-1950s US Government...to get "genetic samples". Aw darn, that's also awkward even if it is a part of UFO lore. Maybe I'll change that plotline.

But for now, I should just focus on some finishing touches on LP's characters and work on Tohorin.

On your question over post-scarcity: I'm stumped, sorry. There's a reason why I stick to PT or early MT, even when I try to be FT. IPost-scarcity societies are, eh, not something I find easy to envision as there is no IRL point of reference. I don't know much about science and technology to predict production methods and I can't start to want to imagine what it would do to society and economic trends...and when I do try to make FT settings, the technologies are often there to make a story possible than to explore the setting. I personally consider Post-Scarcity would be a hell of a lot better than anything we know today, but I'm not sure if it'd usher an ideological "End of History" or if those idle hands would be focused on even more extravagant goals that exceed our current ambitions.

Where are your fanfics boi? I need ‘em.

1) Are the creator deities in your Canon malevolent? That's something I haven't understood to well.
2) What's your favorite foreign leader? That is, another user's character you come into contact frequently ICly?

[Novia Xeneia]

Hello hello! I wanted to ask, I'm curious about any other alternate projects you might have in the works or if there's something that you're hoping to potentially work on in the future? Are there any concepts, ranging from PT to FT that you might want to explore and if so, what would they explore specifically and what are they about?

Also, I'm curious for your own personal opinion about post scarcity in general, although I guess I'd advise approaching it from a worldbuilding perspective for the sake of staying on topic, how varied would a post scarcity society be from your personal perspective? Do you think post scarcity would resolve the majority of humanity's current problems, would it introduce a new age of conflict or is it simply 'unrealistic' to achieve, perhaps due to human nature or some other explanation that you might have?

Sorry if this comes off as overwhelming questions. Take your time. Have a good day/night!

Hi Erianu.

Yes...I've shelved a project relating to having the neko Home Island being closer to Macaronesia and Africa. As it's known, I tease over a semi-mythical Atlantis-like super-advanced Bronze Age empire that collapsed due to desertification and the 4.2 Kiloyear event (the climate shift that destroyed the Old Kingdom in Egypt). I made a spin-off "what if?" story about the neko leaving and coasting down to West Africa. By guesstimating over Africa's demographics prior to in the 3rd millennium BC, I found it easy to imagine the Tohorinese could've drastically altered the history and demographics of Sub-Saharan Africa prior to the Bantu Expansion. I got to 400BC-1 AD until I gave up in disgust when considering the Horn of Africa and global trade, that would provoke massive historical divergences I'm not prepared to consider. And I don't wanna be accused of having some interracial kink...awkward.

I also wanna revive or re-do a FT puppet that has to do with human aliens/the descendants of the neko that LARP as grey aliens and travel in time to fix their shrinking Y chromosomes (something acknowledged in LP's canon), I'm a huge fan of Ufology and abduction lore. So it'll involve Roswell and shady pacts with the 1940s-1950s US Government...to get "genetic samples". Aw darn, that's also awkward even if it is a part of UFO lore. Maybe I'll change that plotline.

But for now, I should just focus on some finishing touches on LP's characters and work on Tohorin.

On your question over post-scarcity: I'm stumped, sorry. There's a reason why I stick to PT or early MT, even when I try to be FT. IPost-scarcity societies are, eh, not something I find easy to envision as there is no IRL point of reference. I don't know much about science and technology to predict production methods and I can't start to want to imagine what it would do to society and economic trends...and when I do try to make FT settings, the technologies are often there to make a story possible than to explore the setting. I personally consider Post-Scarcity would be a hell of a lot better than anything we know today, but I'm not sure if it'd usher an ideological "End of History" or if those idle hands would be focused on even more extravagant goals that exceed our current ambitions.

Where are your fanfics boi? I need ‘em.

1) Are the creator deities in your Canon malevolent? That's something I haven't understood to well.
2) What's your favorite foreign leader? That is, another user's character you come into contact frequently ICly?

Who's the person in your flag?

[Atheara]

Do you plan on making more factbooks?

[Cavirfi]

How did you make the Athearan dialect aside from the basic formations like base language and phonology?

[Atheara]

Answering Cavirfi:
I don't really know how i did it. My head just thought "Let's make a Language" and i decided to mish mash a bunch of weird stuff. To be honest my mind is mixed about the result.

/skip

[Novia Xeneia]

Do you plan on making more factbooks?

Yes
/skip

[Subhurbia]

How did you make the Athearan dialect aside from the basic formations like base language and phonology?

Is YN based on a real life culture? If so, what is it?