What question do you want to ask AU?

[UNSPDC]

Q1. Did you make all the vehicle and infantry sprites yourself or did you base it off an existing template?
Q2. When did you start using homemade sprites instead of regular old google images to represent your vehicles/infantry?
Q3. How did you come up with the concept of Fenvarium?

[Atheris]

Why are you on anime? Drugs are bad!

BN: I dunno, dude. They just appeared one day.

[UNSPDC]

Why are you on anime? Drugs are bad!

because i got high

/SKIPME

[The Independent Republic of Mars]

I was reading through your history and wondered, in your lore, is there any sort of anti-Earth sentiment like the anti-Martian sentiment on Earth? If so, what forms does this take?

Oh there certainly is, especially after the Necrophage Crisis. Many Martians blame the Necrophage Crisis, and the deaths of over 28 million people, on the gross incompetence of the United Nations and Earth in general. Given that the project that caused the Crisis was willingly protected by high-ranking UN officials - including even the Secretary-General - during its development, Martians continue to see Earth as a persistent threat to its independence, with its leaders constantly scheming to restore Mars' status as a colony of Earth. As such, Martians tend to view their cousins on Earth as untrustworthy, unreliable, and power-hungry, though this anti-Earth sentiment doesn't give rise to violence or anything like that. That being said, the use of the term "Earther" by Martians to refer to H. sapiens in a derogatory context, as opposed to the more politically-correct "Terran", has been observed to be on the rise again in the wake of the Crisis.

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[Tsaivao]

Why are you on anime? Drugs are bad!

What... exactly is going on in your nation's factbooks? What strange visions compelled you to make those? What do they even mean?

[Fenvaria Republic]

Q1. Did you make all the vehicle and infantry sprites yourself or did you base it off an existing template?
Q2. When did you start using homemade sprites instead of regular old google images to represent your vehicles/infantry?
Q3. How did you come up with the concept of Fenvarium?

A1: All of the vehicles, guns, planes, and boats I drew by hand and with my own scales. As for the infantry sprites, I got an outline from a friend and then edited them to fit my own lore and stuff.
A2: Mmm, I would stay I started using my own drawings and stuff back in like 2016 with one of my older nations. I typically don't put up a picture until I draw it, cause most of the things I find don't fit. Like a lot of the Space Battleship Yamato concept art does not fit the fens even though its sci fi WWII in space. But, it also lets me do something other than writing and I always liked drawing, even if I am terrible at it.
A3: Now that is a long question, but in short; I wanted to have some sort of sci-fi space fuel that wasn't just nuclear power. At the same time, I was watching several WWI documentaries and playing too much Gears of War. So, after some thinking and talking to friends, I came up with fenvarium: a highly toxic but powerful space fuel that is on par/slightly more powerful than fusion energy. That has a wide field of application, from powering civilian vehicles and starships to chemical weapons.

/SKIP ME

[Louisiana and Arkansas]

Where's your flag from?

I noticed you're relatively close to where I ended up on the Sapply compass so I've got to ask, how do you reconcile libertarianism with "southern nationalism", especially given the potential connotations and implications of the latter? From my non-American perspective, I would've thought the two to be mutually exclusive.

I believe in a free South consisting of the states of Texas, Oklahoma, Louisiana, Mississippi, the Carolinas, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia and Tennessee, and finally Kentucky.
The reason I want that free South is because I hate the modern US government and the corruption within it. The only states I still see as possible to convince to secede are the states I listed, especially Texas and Louisiana. Every other state and it's populace would more than likely want to remain in the shitshow that is the USA.
As for how it's compatible with Libertarianism, I don't see how it wouldn't be. I don't want a second Civil War and I don't want a White Ethnostate. I'm absolutely fine with peaceful secession, and if it came down to civil war or remaining in the US, I'd pick remaining in the US.
I'd like to know what you think Southern Nationalism is, since you seem to see it as incompatible with Libertarianism.
/skip

[The Saucer Pilots]

Why are you on anime? Drugs are bad!

What... exactly is going on in your nation's factbooks? What strange visions compelled you to make those? What do they even mean?

1) Is imagining alien/xeno psychology hard or would you personally consider your characters to be feathered humans?
2) What's the most tiring/repetitive thing people say of your leaders?
3) I say this to every FT/Alien nation, so brace yourself: what is your favorite fictional alien species?

[The Caleshan Valkyrie]

When naming your nation, did an image of people flying around in teacups pass through your head at any point?

[Free Ravensburg]

Why is there a cassette player AI as a leader, and how does it work?

Where's your flag from?

NS, any further is my mind

/ski

[The Saucer Pilots]

When naming your nation, did an image of people flying around in teacups pass through your head at any point?

BN: No, this isn't a Disney movie. Don't be silly. I imagined those big white plates from pancake diners. And cheap pulp novels from the 30s-50s. Btw, Did you know that George Lucas wanted to name the 4th Indiana Jones movie " Indiana Jones and the Saucer Men from Mars". That man's my spirit animal. I can't think of names to save my life./SKIP ME, do CALESHAN VALKYRIE

[Tsaivao]

What... exactly is going on in your nation's factbooks? What strange visions compelled you to make those? What do they even mean?

1) Is imagining alien/xeno psychology hard or would you personally consider your characters to be feathered humans?
2) What's the most tiring/repetitive thing people say of your leaders?
3) I say this to every FT/Alien nation, so brace yourself: what is your favorite fictional alien species?

1) I mean, yes and no. A common trope I like to embrace is xenofiction, so in many ways Vao act like humans as a sort of allegory. However they do have many notable differences in their behavior; they're much more unempathetic and egoist than your average human. Cooperation is not something that is expressed between willing parties, but something to be enforced by a higher one. Additionally, they're more territorial and sedentary, which is rather unusual for flighted birds in particular. This leads to being much less explorative, as both a psychological consequence as well as an analogy to how trapped many of them feel. My biggest concern is less the psychology, and more the sort of literary consequences I want to tell, and this can often lead to quirks that are contradictory to both birds and humans. I'd say it's not really that hard, but it is hard writing it all down lol
2) Honestly people don't really ever seem to get the same read on my characters. Everyone who looks at my nation seems to take different things away from it, and honestly I really like that a lot. Nobody ever annoys me with what they say about my leaders. Well, except maybe the people who are "ur nation bad cuz i'm xenophobic and i hate aliens!!!11!1!one" people, they really annoy me a lot.
3) Really hard to find out what my favorite is! I've consumed so much sci-fi shit through my life it's hard for me to nail one down. I'll say right now that my favorite is the Vasari from Sins of a Solar Empire. In addition to their oppressive societal structure and curvy architecture, they played a big part in my childhood as it was a strategy game I played a whole lot of. But ask me some other time and you'll probably get a different answer. Honestly, I like just about any species other than "typical human federate republic with blocky starships"

/skipme

[Catsfern]

When naming your nation, did an image of people flying around in teacups pass through your head at any point?

did you always want this nation to be a tribal society?

and follow up question

Why a tribal society? what's the appeal to you?

[Cavirfi]

Why did you put the letter "C" in your flag? The basic rule is that there shouldn't be any text in one's flag.

[Louisiana and Arkansas]

What exactly is the "NMNAOS group"?

[Catsfern]

Why did you put the letter "C" in your flag? The basic rule is that there shouldn't be any text in one's flag.

Because vexillology be damned I wanted a big ol "C" for Catsfern there. Its only one letter and yes you normally don't want text on your flag, but one letter isn't too egregious a violation.

/skip

[Cavirfi]

What exactly is the "NMNAOS group"?

The NMNAOS group which stands for "Non-Member Non-Applicant Observer Status group" is an alliance of 6 nations (including Cavirfi) who have ties with the EU, and are willing to contribute to EU trade, politics, and culture, but don't want to change their societal status quo to match EU standards.

This group is also meant for nations who want to be members of the EU but can't fit the first criteria for joining the EU, which is...be in Europe.

Currently the NMNAOS group members are: Israel, Lebanon, Morocco, Estima, Weissprussine, and Cavirfi. Estima has a bit of trouble with Cavirfi being part of the NMNAOS group, because... Cavirfi is just a bunch of Estimans who didn't want to cooperate in a war against "nice girls".

/skipme

[Zitravgrad]

What exactly is the "NMNAOS group"?

Are we seeing pictures in your factbooks soon? My bnuuybrain hurts. So much.

Joke aside:
What inspired you to make this nation?
How much of your real life political views do you portray in this nation?
Is your nation currently in 1850s? Seems illogical to ask but I want to be sure.

[Louisiana and Arkansas]

What exactly is the "NMNAOS group"?

Are we seeing pictures in your factbooks soon? My bnuuybrain hurts. So much.

Joke aside:
What inspired you to make this nation?
How much of your real life political views do you portray in this nation?
Is your nation currently in 1850s? Seems illogical to ask but I want to be sure.

What inspired me? My love of Confederate history (to clarify, I hate the Confederacy and what it fought for; but it had damn interesting history) and my love of both Louisiana and Arkansas.
How much of my own views is portrayed? Few, if any. The only things even remotely similar to my genuine beliefs could be the economy and the governmental system (with states and cities having significant autonomy). The rest is based off either the Confederacy or 1800s-America.
What year is it? 1866.
Also for your joke question, I do actually intend to add pictures to any other factbooks I write when I have the time to write them.
/skip

[Daarwyrth]

What exactly is the "NMNAOS group"?

Are we seeing pictures in your factbooks soon? My bnuuybrain hurts. So much.

Joke aside:
What inspired you to make this nation?
How much of your real life political views do you portray in this nation?
Is your nation currently in 1850s? Seems illogical to ask but I want to be sure.

Has your nation participated in any/many RPs here on NS? And if 'yes', what was the one you have the fondest memories of? Also, if the answer to the initial question was 'yes', how would you recommend someone get into NS RP (other than WA RP for example)?

[Toreador Loyalists]

Q1) Do you ever plan to use the WA representative in F7 threads?
Q2) What is your process when creating a conlang such as Daarish? Were there any challenges along the way?

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Shin-Makai
The Neo Wokou Raiders
The Shin-Sonno Joi
FenexOrg
FenexOrg ABRIDGED
The Northern Wind Marauders
Caribbean Arena
India 2 Nuclear Boogaloo
Toreador Loyalists
North Guryeo
Annex My Heart

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Question: How do you manage so many nations?
Response: Too much free time.

[Ebnious]

Question: How do you manage so many nations?

[The Dodo Republic]

Your flag is a shetech of something. What exactly is it a drawing of?

[Ebnious]

Your flag is a shetech of something. What exactly is it a drawing of?

Ahh, it’s an ink study I did in my class
Basically I was experimenting with ink, ink washes and different techniques. The symbols are Korean for “Bang” and I did this triangle and circle symbol as kind of like a signature for all 5 of the studies.
I thought this one was cool looking and kind of flag like so I took a picture of it and made it my flag.

[Surrealist Patagonia]

Your flag is a shetech of something. What exactly is it a drawing of?

Why do you like dodos to the point you put them on your flag and name