What question do you want to ask AU?

[Berhakonia]

What was your inspiration from Eriana and how well does she reflect your personal views?

[Atheara]

What was your inspiration from Eriana and how well does she reflect your personal views?

Honestly, i had zero idea on what she would be like, as a character. One person had mentioned she looks eerily similar to Hatsune Miku, but that was just a big coincidence. I had truly no direction. And since i was a first time worldbuilder, i just went with the flow.

As for if she reflects my views, in some cases, yes. But mostly not, in other cases.
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[Feyrisshire]

How did your population diverge from humans to the point where they've all become single-gender hermaphrodites, and how have gender stereotypes developed in such factors?

Re: This question is not entirely correct.

While it's perhaps true that the Feyris population has diverged from typical humans to a significant extent, it's not entirely true that they are all intersex. More on that later.

First, the Feyris population was not really indigenous in any locale in Earth for a significant amount of time and geographic and environmental isolation led to an island syndrome. The first base Feyris population was perhaps from Earth with a very tiny initial population (20-100+), then they got swept away to a different world that they dubbed "Jawmund Danschiyen" - the first wave of migration. The second wave of migration was then another very small population (roughly 5,000+) from Jawmund Danshiyen back to Earth - this was the nucleus population of modern Feyrisshire, but is insignificant as the Feyris had already differentiated at this time.

The increased prevalence of intersexuality was due to a lot of factors not only to island syndrome, but also to a very small population bottleneck leading to a Founder effect. The intersex genes was probably more pronounced in the initial group of settlers leading to Founder effect. Another is that the different environment encountered in Jawmund Danschiyen - affecting epigenetic, hormonal, natal and biological such as foodways, chemical composition, etc led to mutations and expressions of genes. The third is also primarily cultural - the first settlers already had a kink of futanari, leading to those genes being positively selected for in the population, and were also probably evolved for social cohesion.

All of this however were genetic differentiation that took place over decades and centuries, so the first Feyris people might have very few futanari compared to modern Feyris populations.

For gender, "single gender" is also explained by the fact that it was simply diffused from the culture of the initial settler group. The initial settler group was already homogeneous, had different gender norms and in such circumstances simply became the norm which was reinforced by y'know the futanari thing.

how have gender stereotypes developed in such factors?

For brevity I direct you to a similar answer of mine to a similar comment a long time ago, but the answer is no longer correct. The narrow 50-50 ratio of intersex no longer is correct as some Feyris only have male gonads (common), and some only have female (more uncommon).

The gender norms of the first settler group however reinforced by the fact that most Feyris share the same gonads led to an over-arching concept of gender called "byishi" which is synonymous to feminine gender. They still do have concept of biological sex though - some "byishi" get pregnant and menstruate, some "byishi" don't. In Feyris society though "gender" or gender stereotype does not factor in things such as school, work, daily life.

This is not entirely correct though as a "pseudo-patriarchy" still existed with femboys marrying futa, such as in marriages (polygamous), family structure, inheritance even if everyone is single gender (more on that later). Also division based on biological sex and gonad (not necessarily gender) might have still applied on conscription, or in ancient and prehistoric division of labor, even if everyone has the single gender.

I don't really think that a lot of this stuff is understandable to you or you would vibe with it, but even so I still find my answer still inadequate and insufficient (I have yet to write a Factbook about it and none of this is written in my Factbooks!) and if longer might be unproductive, so feel free to ask me (or anyone) if you have more questions about this stuff.

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[Res Publica Solaris]

What was your inspiration from Eriana and how well does she reflect your personal views?

1) What frictions (cultural primarily) existed between hellenics and Chinese during the sino-hellenic dynasties and what (threat, opportunity) motivated them to overcome these tensions and establish a joint reign?

2)Is Alexander the Great remembered as a national hero or as an illegitimate invader?

[Berhakonia]

What was your inspiration from Eriana and how well does she reflect your personal views?

1) What frictions (cultural primarily) existed between hellenics and Chinese during the sino-hellenic dynasties and what (threat, opportunity) motivated them to overcome these tensions and establish a joint reign?

2)Is Alexander the Great remembered as a national hero or as an illegitimate invader?

1. Cultural frictions were definitely tense during the Thirty Tribes and Seventeen Princes Period, not racial per-se, but more along the lines of both sides believing the other to be more barbaric and less civilized/pious, but I think our understanding of ethnic conflict is very modern. Some Chinese settlers refused to even interact with Greek settlers and vice-versa, while others readily embraced their fellow warriors as brothers in all but blood. The founding of Berhakonia was a collective feat accomplished with the aid of allies from Sogdia, Persia and Karluk lands, and any subsequent Berhakli settlements were going to be multiethnic in nature. The three main factors that really helped quash cultural tensions among the ruling and warrior classes were their shared Orthodox faith, the fact that they were "better" than the subjugated North Indian tribes, and their common enemy of the Oghuz Turks. Like most multiethnic states, intermixing begins to happen and the newly-mixed population goes back to hating on outsiders and fringe minorities ad-infinitum.

2. Everything before the spread of Manicheaism stays the same, with very slight changes that shouldn't butterfly until centuries later. Alexander is still remembered as a cultural hero in the west, a scourge and a devil by the population of the subcontinent, and a point of contention for hellenophiles and sinophiles to have dung-flinging competitions over who the greatest general was. In short, not much changes besides the smaller details.

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What does the hive mean to you? Is it a reflection of your desires or your fears? Is it your proposal to the world, or a morality tale against that which you stand against? Were you inspired by any person, event or story in particular, or was it entirely a thought experiment of your own? And most importantly, did you have fun writing it?

[Res Publica Solaris]

What does the hive mean to you? Is it a reflection of your desires or your fears? Is it your proposal to the world, or a morality tale against that which you stand against? Were you inspired by any person, event or story in particular, or was it entirely a thought experiment of your own? And most importantly, did you have fun writing it?

1)The Hive is a thought experiment in how would humans behave if we had an ant/termite like species consciousness. It was done purely for fun and has no underlying meaning.

2)It is inspired by a science fiction short story (can't remember the name) that sealed with a planet-wide library staffed by some kind of genetically altered humans that behaved exactly like ants. That, and H.G Wells' classic "The Time Machine", with it's dim Eloi and brutal workforce, the Morlorck (if I remember the names correctly).
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[Perikuresu]

For Berhakonia:
1. Can you summerise the culture of Sino-Hellenes in a short paragraph?
2. You know the tab above ur factbook? (the one that says Home | Economy | History | Government | Defense | Culture | Geography | Religion) Right now only Home and Governments exist, which one will you do next? (also you should put a * to tell the reader that you haven't worked on it yet)
3. What role does the Black Turbans have in the Government?

[Foehn Paramilitary Regions]

Perikuresu:
1. Apart from the Siege, what role would Perikuresu play in WW2? Would it be a strategic point within the grand scheme of the War in the Pacific?
2. Regarding education, are there any sort of university admission exams (ala Spain's Selectividad) after the end of Upper Secondary?
3. Have there been any major crisis within Perikuresu (say, widespread riots, coup d'etat attempts...)?
4. How has Perikuresuan culture altered ideologies such as, say, social democracy? Assuming it has, obviously.

[Berhakonia]

For Berhakonia:
1. Can you summerise the culture of Sino-Hellenes in a short paragraph?
2. You know the tab above ur factbook? (the one that says Home | Economy | History | Government | Defense | Culture | Geography | Religion) Right now only Home and Governments exist, which one will you do next? (also you should put a * to tell the reader that you haven't worked on it yet)
3. What role does the Black Turbans have in the Government?

1. Sino-Hellenic culture is partly influenced by their ancestral traditions and partly influenced by the unforgiving nature of the steppes. Many Byzantine and Tang Dynasty celebrations that have gone out of practice in their respective home countries are still very much alive among the Sino-Hellenes, and their traditional music still employ the classical Chinese pentatonic scale, double-harmonic scale and Raga/Iranian chromatic scale without all the changes and modifications that were later introduced in the 17th and 18th centuries. But the Sino-Hellenes have also taken inspiration from Turkic and Sogdian practices and have long-held traditions of archery, yogurt-making, gunsmithing, embroidery, introspective poetry, mountain-trekking and horseback riding. Liturgy is conducted in Khosan, but most Sino-Hellenes will exclusively attend liturgical service conducted in Koine Greek and Middle Chinese. Sino-Hellenes, like all Berhakli, have a strong river-faring tradition and engage in many traditional dances during gatherings or events. There's also a whole lot more I could go into concerning liturature and myth, but that would bloat this thread up more than my factbooks.

2. Yeah, I need to fix that lol

3. I haven't yet planned out a natural progression for the black turbans, historically speaking, but they essentially act as an analogue to the control yuan in the ROC, or the frumentarii of ancient Rome, etc.

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[Berhakonia]

Perikuresu:
1. Apart from the Siege, what role would Perikuresu play in WW2? Would it be a strategic point within the grand scheme of the War in the Pacific?
2. Regarding education, are there any sort of university admission exams (ala Spain's Selectividad) after the end of Upper Secondary?
3. Have there been any major crisis within Perikuresu (say, widespread riots, coup d'etat attempts...)?
4. How has Perikuresuan culture altered ideologies such as, say, social democracy? Assuming it has, obviously.

1. What changed in your timeline to allow the Allies to invade and occupy the Soviet Union at the end of WW2? Some kind of early Operation Unthinkable or did tje French sign a mutual protection treaty with Poland against the USSR?

2. How does Africa and the Middle East look with the collapse of the American behemoth?

3. What is Yunru's relationship to her subordinates? How does she treat them and how does she view them? How do they view her?

4. Unyu?

[Foehn Paramilitary Regions]

1. What changed in your timeline to allow the Allies to invade and occupy the Soviet Union at the end of WW2? Some kind of early Operation Unthinkable or did tje French sign a mutual protection treaty with Poland against the USSR?

2. How does Africa and the Middle East look with the collapse of the American behemoth?

3. What is Yunru's relationship to her subordinates? How does she treat them and how does she view them? How do they view her?

4. Unyu?

1. Alright, so, first things first (and I should've mentioned this, I might write up a few paragraphs about all of this in the lore factbook), the Second Great War did not start in 1939, but rather, in 1946, thanks to Einstein's post-WW2 (yes, this is why I don't call the SGW "World War 2") grievances leading to him building a time machine for the sole purpose of going back in time and - bear with me - taking him off the map before he could even rise to power, under the belief that, without him, the war would've not been a thing. I'm not making this shit up, this is genuinely Red Alert 1's lore right here!

His experiment was a success... to some extent. You see, what he hadn't predicted is that, thanks to this, Stalin (under the effects of 90's RTS worldbuilding) would instead start the war in 1946 via the invasion of Europe, which would band together under the Allied Nations, successfully managing to defend themselves from the Soviet Armed Forces until an offensive ala Operation Unthinkable could be done. Right, so what went wrong for the Soviets? Number 1, their economy not being able to sustain a war this big, not helped by the fact that in this timeline they became more like late-WW2 Germany, developing crackhead projects like the Mammoth Tank and the Iron Curtain, a literal invulnerability device. Number 2, the fact that the Allies weren't completely alone, given that the US would, under the Lend-Lease program, supply Europe with whatever material would be needed, which would essentially give them the upper edge in the logistic war. Number 3? Let's just say that Stalin wasn't surrounded with the most trustworthy of advisors... I think you can tell where I'm going with this.

As for how the Allies managed to occupy the Soviet Union? To be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if it mostly was "put some troops in Western Russia until we can get this Romanov guy in power and we can sign the goddamn peace deals". Still haven't quite decided on that, though.

2. To be honest, Africa and the Middle East were already pretty semi-chaotic during the Third Great War, given that there was already a war in the MENA region between the Euro-American garrisons and a coalition of nationalist guerrilla movements. All that the collapse of America and the near-destruction of the European Alliance did was pretty much speed up the end of the war and allow Epsilon to take more and more of Africa. That doesn't mean that it's completely under Yuri's control, since Central Africa (more especifically, the Kivu Region) is the subject of an anti-Epsilon insurrection led by the leader of the original coalition. So... calmer than OTL, but not quite completely calm in-universe.

3. It's... weird (and probably not gonna be accurate by the time I actually elaborate on this in the factbooks, because, remember, this is all WIP and thus, subject to change). Depending on which level you are in the power structure, you could go from "respected and with some privileges, such as patches for your uniform" (Revolutionary Guard AKA Yunru's bodyguards, higher-ups within the Reverse Engineering Lab) to "your death will be mourned for a bit, but you're just another number in the grand scheme of things" (basically, most of the Paramilitary). That being said, she does try to supply and feed everyone to the best of the Paramilitary's capacity, even going as far as to order raiding parties into nearby settlements, all for the sake of keeping the troops fed, even if it is partially because without them, the fight against Yuri couldn't be done. Another reason for this sliver of benevolence within the reign of repression she's established is because nearly all of the Paramilitary's members aren't civilians, but rather, people who've lived through both wars and told her some of the horrors they've seen. As a result, she does view them as humanized tools, so to speak.

As for how her subordinates view her? There's... quite the variety. On one end of the extremes, we have the ones who see her as a nuisance that should be replaced with someone else ASAP. On the other, we have the ones who practically worship her. The majority, though, range from "her regime's sadly a necessary evil" to "I wish I could desert, but... where?". That being said, within the spectrum I've mentioned earlier, there are also the ones who see her as a mere tool to further their political goals (such as the leaders of the Paramilitary's political cliques, which are merely just informal associations of ideologically similar people who pretty much go up to her and say "hey, can you carry out this directive the boys and I cooked up?"). That being said, all of them do share the idea that she is the critical part of the entire organization's structure, and that there's really no alternatives to her regime. Or to the Paramilitary, for that matter, seeing as the only two non-nomadic alternatives they have is either trying to live in one of the free territories (and thus, risk having their necks being breathed down by both Epsilon and Foehn and, in case of invasion by either, go back to being pretty much wandering in the middle of nowhere) or to defect to Yuri, neither of which are considered as being particularly desirable.

4. ...what? I'm genuinely confused over what you're trying to ask me here. Did I make a typo like that in any of the published factbooks?

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[Perikuresu]

Perikuresu:
1. Apart from the Siege, what role would Perikuresu play in WW2? Would it be a strategic point within the grand scheme of the War in the Pacific?
2. Regarding education, are there any sort of university admission exams (ala Spain's Selectividad) after the end of Upper Secondary?
3. Have there been any major crisis within Perikuresu (say, widespread riots, coup d'etat attempts...)?
4. How has Perikuresuan culture altered ideologies such as, say, social democracy? Assuming it has, obviously.

1. Stroking my ego, I could say that the resistence in Toi Bien is akin to the Perikuresuan Viet Cong, but it's the WW2 version, and like the Yugoslav resistance, any Japanese soldier stationed there pisses his pants. Ultimately, the Islands were (fully) liberated when Japan surrendered, as America still would've gone the same route for their Island hopping campaign. L'Hexagone Island was in the same situation as French Indochina.
2.It'd be P-TAR, Perikuresuan Tertiary Admission Rank Also somebody checked out the new content woo hoooo
3. There used to a Civil War but I'm retconning that out, Perikuresuan-French Crisis, which started over who would own L'Hexagone Island after WW2, 1967 Cantaloa riots, where Communist sympathisers started large scale riots, terrorist attacks and assassinations, Needles in fruits
4. uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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[Laka Strolistandiler]

1) How did you come to be as an Eastern Orthodox Christian? That’s a rarity meeting one at forums like these and I’m really interested in hearing your story
2) To which patriarchate (idk how it should be translated to English hope you won’t get the wrong idea) of the Orthodox Church do you belong to?
3) What are your general opinions on the RPC- UPC (Russian and Ukrainian churches) division crisis?

[Las Palmeras]

1) You ok? That new Asuka flag seems...out of character.
2) How did NatSoc beliefs become prevalent in LS?
3) What's the hardest part of writing your nation?

[Laka Strolistandiler]

1) You ok? That new Asuka flag seems...out of character.
2) How did NatSoc beliefs become prevalent in LS?
3) What's the hardest part of writing your nation?

1) As bad as usual, nothing got neither better neither worse. I just found this funny Asuka pic lying around and decided to use it as an OOC flag for a while
2) Nazi aren’t actually this big of a political power in Laka. They’ve enjoyed limited success during 1920’s, albeit in an altered form from German ones, but have had faded into third places after WW2 had ended. The Waffen SS exist, sure, but they’re as far away from an actual Nazism as it gets (also I’m in the process of rewriting them into a non-nazi Order because I’m tired of people thinking that LS is a neo-nazi heaven or something with Lavinia being mini-Hitler).
3) The unpublished factbooks. Some of them got discarded because they were so “bad” that they’ve violated the PG-13 rules. How bad? Take Station 12 or Kraven and have it written by me at my worst moments- this bad.
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[Feyrisshire]

1) You ok? That new Asuka flag seems...out of character.
2) How did NatSoc beliefs become prevalent in LS?
3) What's the hardest part of writing your nation?

Hiya Las Palmeras! Long time no see! I'm gonna ask you a question!

1. wat was ur inspiration why did you pick catgirl?

1. Why does it need that even the Nekos of Las Palmeras are connected with Japan in some way and there are lots of Nekos in Japan? Ngl but I thought that the deconstruction of the Neko as Japanese (or as NOT Japanese) is interesting.

2. I feel so bad at realizing that Las Palmeras is not Caribbean, but was it inspired by the geography and ethnography by the Guanches of the Canary Islands? With all RL cultures I just find that to be the closest match.

3. How true were all of the theories in the "A Mysterious Origin" section in What's New Pussycat?. Some of them contradict with each other so they can't be all true so were they written from a biased third-person POV like my Overview Factbook? I like the faux-historical and archeological tone in these ngl.

4. On a more easier question, what's the deal with your last message in your region being 6 years old? it kinda gives me a feeling of loneliness and my gosh, you're so old!

[Dyrrhonian Isles]

1) You ok? That new Asuka flag seems...out of character.
2) How did NatSoc beliefs become prevalent in LS?
3) What's the hardest part of writing your nation?

Hiya Las Palmeras! Long time no see! I'm gonna ask you a question!

1. wat was ur inspiration why did you pick catgirl?

1. Why does it need that even the Nekos of Las Palmeras are connected with Japan in some way and there are lots of Nekos in Japan? Ngl but I thought that the deconstruction of the Neko as Japanese (or as NOT Japanese) is interesting.

2. I feel so bad at realizing that Las Palmeras is not Caribbean, but was it inspired by the geography and ethnography by the Guanches of the Canary Islands? With all RL cultures I just find that to be the closest match.

3. How true were all of the theories in the "A Mysterious Origin" section in What's New Pussycat?. Some of them contradict with each other so they can't be all true so were they written from a biased third-person POV like my Overview Factbook? I like the faux-historical and archeological tone in these ngl.

4. On a more easier question, what's the deal with your last message in your region being 6 years old? it kinda gives me a feeling of loneliness and my gosh, you're so old!

What's the worst accident you ever had?

[Kingdom of Lechia]

Does YN represent your views (fully or partly)?

[Snowish Republic]

Here comes a generic question.
What gave you the idea to make your nation?

[Aikoland]

Here comes a generic question.
What gave you the idea to make your nation?

Here's another generic question:
Did you come up with your nation concept (being in Northern Europe) first and then came up with the Snowish Republic name or did you come up with the name first and then decided to place it in Northern Europe because 'well a country called Snowish needs to be in a place that gets cold'?

[Snowish Republic]

Here comes a generic question.
What gave you the idea to make your nation?

Here's another generic question:
Did you come up with your nation concept (being in Northern Europe) first and then came up with the Snowish Republic name or did you come up with the name first and then decided to place it in Northern Europe because 'well a country called Snowish needs to be in a place that gets cold'?

to be honest with you? i don't remember
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[Foehn Paramilitary Regions]

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I think I do have quite a few questions:
1. Wouldn't there be quite a few Hispano-French wars during the 16th-17th Centuries that would be fought on Aikolandais territory, given their strategic potential? They're not that far away from either side, and they could allow for planning for naval invasions (and if we know good old Felipe II here... yeah.)...
2. Actually, going even further back, how did they manage to stay untouched by Aragón's Thirteenth Century shenanigans? Surely, there would, at the very least, be some attempts at gaining control over at least one of the islands of the Aikolandais archipelago along the way to Sardinia, wouldn't there be?
3. Why wouldn't there be some... say, Aragonese/Catalan elements within Aikolandais culture? After all, it's not that far away from the old Crown's domain, is it?

[Libertas in Lumine Christi]

This is a bit generic, but I'm genuinely curious, what was the inspiration behind your country and its history?

[Teffland]

Ninja'd

@Foehn Paramilitary Regions
1. How much inspiration did you take from the Command and Conquer series?(Can remember the core of the story, but not the details)

2. What does your flag mean?

/skipme for the game now.

[Synne Industries]

AAN:
1. Was the wave of human combustion throughout the communist leadership structure a one-time thing happening completely by chance or is there something I'm missing?
2. Have there been any conspiracy theories related to the aforementioned communist flame wave?
3. Did the incident lead to increased precautions as to the potential of such an event occurring again?

ninja'd

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