What have you learnt after reading the AN’s factbooks? III

[Leskya]

New Kowloon Bay is a sports superhaven, with over 120 national and government-funded teams across 6 main categories. The most popular sports seem to be hockey and baseball.

[Aionios Rhomania]

They're Arabian... I honestly did not realize that, it's actually a big thing because I had a whole different idea about them.

[The Vault 87 Super Mutants]

Their aristocracy often enjoy a sport called Rópalo, which consists of trying to hit a ball stuffed with feathers into a marked hole. To the chagrin of the aristocrats, it is also enjoyed by many Scottish mercenaries.

[The Caleshan Valkyrie]

They’ve been trying to decrypt a bunch of Brotherhood of Steel computers to get additional info on making new prosthetics and such.

I’ll be honest, the only images what come to mind are Orks with their chompy bits and such.

[Sherechia]

Their society is sustainable despite the large population, mainly because they know how to do Fusion, unfortunately they won't tell us how to do fusion so were forced to use the more risky Nuclear Fission.

Also their batteries make Elon Musk jealous

[New Kowloon Bay]

The red of their flag represents socialism. bravery and probably not the blood of landlords.

[Redeemed Britannia]

Strangely enough, their army personnel can "graduate" into other branches of the military after a minimum two years of service... which sounds like a really stupid thing to do. Training a sailor must be easier than [i]re[i]training a land warfare specialist to forget everything he's learned the last 2 years.

[New Kowloon Bay]

They have a lot of medals, I believe to be over 30.

[Redeemed Britannia]

They have a lot of medals, I believe to be over 30.

Doubleposting is bad, m'kay?

/Stillme

[New Kowloon Bay]

Apologies.

/skip

[Technosocialist Republics]

Despite being set in 2021, the world of the Kingdom of Britannia is in some ways much more technologically advanced than reality, possessing widespread commercial fusion power plants (and even cold fusion, which I'm presuming means muon-catalysed fusion) and a manned presence throughout the inner solar system, which is certainly far in advance of extant technological achievements. However many other scientific and technological developments seem to be more on par with the real world, presenting an interesting array of schizotech.

[Waisnor]

UTSR is federation with a decentralized government. E-democracy is used in this country, aimed at driving civil engagement in politics.
Also, citizen councils are composed of mostly random people.

[New Kowloon Bay]

In 2007, there was once a 4 hour game of King-of-the-hill featuring more than 300 people on a snowdrift, which served as a mountain.

[Sherechia]

Their lower house is literally called "house of plebians." Someones gonna call it the house of plebs sooner or later. However, the contents of the lower house seem to not be just based on political parties but also based on profession.

[Waisnor]

Current leader of Sherechia, Inogo Estima, was seriously injured by the school bully. This injuries were so severe that he fell into a coma, where he met with a spirit of founder of Sherechia, Kai Tsofan, who gave him the 6th sense and told him to save Sherechia.

[Hatsunia]

The third seasons of "Doctor Who" (presumably the revived series . . . . remember to vote Saxon, everyone . . . .) and "Generator Rex" competed for airtime and ratings in Waisnor in April 2012.

[Gonswanza]

Bascially an AU Japan that embraced the break-neck speed of technological advances and innovation with a booming economy, rising to surpass South Korea and other SEA countries as a technological power house in all regards.

[Val Grazia]

Gonswanza's drone program was started in the 90s and is based upon technology recovered from shot-down Chinese drones. Their drone program initially consisted of a crude guided missile with wings and propellers. Eventually, they moved into surveillance drones. The usage of Chinese technology has greatly advanced the drone program to the point of near-total automation.

[Free Paris]

Val'Grazia has an nice conlang game going on. It uses word compounding to make new words or proper nouns, an example being the word "Lachtrik", made up of the words "Lacht" and "Rik". Prefixes seem to have an apostrophe (') when attached to a word, as in "Val'Grazia". Patronymics seem to be common in Grazic names, denoted by the conjunction "ze", essentially what would be the suffix "-son" in English, between the first name and the father's name. There also seems to be another conjunction "unz", basically just "of", attached before another word which together would then act as a surname; whether this is commonplace in all names or a nobiliary particle exclusive to aristocrats remains to be seen.

[Redeemed Britannia]

Though given they are an alternate universe it makes sense that things would not occur the same way as ours, their 19th century was, but for a number of small differences, somewhat like ours. For one thing, England sided with Russia during the Crimean War (which, what?), they fought alongside Prussia during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 (where there was, rather than a Napoleon III, a Third French Republic) both of which suggest that England simply did not profess Splendid Isolation or partake in the Great Game), and that France lost the Italian Independence War (which doesn't make sense since they historically fought in support of Piedmont and well, there is an Italy).

[Hatsunia]

Ireland went through a Protestant Reformation in 1526, then was invaded by England in 1529 to establish the Lordship of Ireland to convert them back to Catholicism. England became Protestant in 1545, so the Lordship was turned into a Kingdom in personal union with England.

After the establishment of Great Britain in 1660, it began to integrate Ireland in the 18th century, leading to the Anglo-Irish war of the 1730s, ending with a British victory and the complete merger of the British isles as the Kingdom of Britannia in 1740.

[Waisnor]

In comparison to Japan, Hatsunia had earlier and more successful democratic movements, was on the side of Allies in World War II and they put more investment in artificial intelligence.

[Technosocialist Republics]

Waisnor was a member-republic of USSR from 1939 until the collapse of the Union, from which point it become an independent state in Eastern Europe. Like many former Soviet states, they expereinced a tumultous few decades following indepedence, seeing a spike in neofascist political movements, but has ultimately remained a liberal democracy.

[Algebra and Geometry]

Technosocialist Republics is a pseudo-socialist state , set in a sort of alternate Universe. It is modelled on the USSR , or it's policies.

[Glengo Island]

I can learn math again, a useful skill.