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

[Wip3d Out]

The AN's map suggests that it is located in Nevada's Clark County (AKA, that place where Vegas is), and is otherwise completely surrounded by an ocean of fruit water.

(If this is supposed to be referencing something, sorry to tell you, I simply don't get it)

[Grahamina]

That our world will always be ruled by the aerospace industry. We are a part of our technology, and our comfort serves its resplendency.

[Incel Argentina]

Apparently in their lore the patagonian aboriginal peoples dared to go even further and reached Antartica.

[East Plate]

Apparently, they established a scoring system from 1 to 10 based on "Sexual Market Value" (which I assume is an indication of how attractive someone is?) and actually banned women from dating any men with a higher SMV. They also have ministries with really complicated acronyms as names (with "Ministerio Nacional Contra la Hypergamia y el Cornudismo" being my favorite), banned lesbianism, and for some reason, they also banned women from using public toilets.

The Argentine Dating Regulation Agency also regulates any romantic/sexual relationship between men and women, but ignores relations between men as that would be "too authoritarian." This agency also seems to sell women to men.

Such a lovely nation...

[Gepanzerberg]

That homosexuality in East Plate is considered a "social crime" (it is supposed to be set during the 1870s), but not technically a crime in legal circles, which I thought was interesting and that it was mentioned at all, showing the depth of the nation's factbooks. Really awesome worldbuilding.

[Classroom 3-B]

I learned that patriotic Gepanzerbergers apparently believe that foreigners have inferior dental hygiene, if I'm correctly understanding the reference to "'other countries', that have yet to see the light of a dentist's office". Clean teeth must have a lot of cultural importance in Gepanzerberg for them to consider not going to a dentist to be a kind of epithet.

[Gepanzerberg]

Politicians get their own theme songs in Classroom 3-B. Metal.

[Makko Oko]

Gepanzerberg sees all other nations as inferior if they don't submit to their leader, using the light red on the nation's flag to symbolize as such. Additionally, the black line on the nation's flag symbolizes "enlightenment that you can only get from the nation".

[Continental Free States]

AN seems to be identical to the real life US except for the fact that they have an Emperor as head of state and they have 11 provinces instead of 50 states

(You could have at least read the factbook a bit more lmao)

AN: As far as I'm aware, Makko Oko does not have any Orders to be awarded as most countries do, and instead it only awards three medals. The Medal Of Emperor's Recognition, the most recent of these medals, was only established in July 2022, and thus it has yet to be awarded to anyone.

[The Finntopian Empire]

The ancestors to modern Amerindians became the first humans to settle North America, coming there via the Bering Land Bridge 12,000 years ago.

[The Astellian Kingdom]

They like to mash together the names of the months for some reason. Like March and April being mashed together with February. May and August get a 'j' added to them to mash them with June and July.

[Waisnor]

One of the biggest factors of technological and military advancement of Astellia is the work of Sieglinde Ironworks, which provides Astellia with many technological breakthroughs, including magitek research.

[Continental Free States]

There is a yearly tradition to play a massive, city-wide game of King of the Hill. The first one happened in Smorgon, involved 300 people, and took 4 hours. The largest one happened in Grodno, the national capital, in 2016 and involved 800 people.

[The Finntopian Empire]

They're one of the more intresting alt histories for the US, split up much differently.

[Lunisolar]

After reading AN's factbooks, I finally understand the term "wall-of-text"

[Continental Free States]

There's a law that criminalizes breastfeeding in public. Of the 400 elected advisors, 300 voted in favor. Of the 10 nobles, none of them opposed.

[Insulamia]

They have communism but are also a monarchy and grant noble titles. Oh, and I also learned how to build a time machine.

The United States of America American Empire (U.S.A. or USA Americanish Riche), commonly known as the United States (U.S. or US) or America, is a transcontinental country primarily located in North America. It consists of 50 states 11 provinces, a federal district, five major unincorporated territories, and nine some minor outlying islands. It is the third-largest country by both land and total area. The United States American Empire shares land borders with Canada Vesperia to the north and with Mexico New Spain to the south as well as maritime borders with the Bahamas British Sayle Islands, Cuba, and Russia, among others. It has a population of over 3310 million, and is the third most populous country in the world.

Jesus, a lot has changed about the country since I last read the factbooks. And I'm just scratching the surface, I'm sure there's plenty more differences I haven't seen and plenty still to come. Glad to see that retcon is going well.

[The Finntopian Empire]

After reading AN's factbooks, I finally understand the term "wall-of-text"

Space users:
Wall of texters:
/Skipme

[Emneshire]

Vehicle license plates from the province of Aubert are blue with yellow text and lining and feature a fleur-de-lis left of the heading text. They also include a footing text stating that Aubert is "the first province" (la première province); this doesn't refer to any hierarchy among Insulamia's founding provinces, but rather to Aubert's status as the first European colony on the island.

[Scytharum]

Emneshire is a self-governing Crown Dependency of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, sat about 1 km on average(over a relatively small channel) from the British mainland. Its economy is currently dominated by agriculture, oil and gas, tourism, and finance services. It is composed of the main island of Emnia as well as some surrounding islands. It was never colonized by the Romans, unlike Britannia.

[Pan-Pacific Unity]

Scytharum declared independence from Britain shortly after the United States, triggering a much larger "War of the Americas". British forces were subsequently stretched much more thinly, and the Americans were able to advance north into what is now Canada but were eventually forced to pull back after a decisive British victory at Halifax. As a result, America and Scytharum both secured their independence from the British, who then shifted focus to India and Africa, the latter of which would eventually give rise to the Draka.

[Hiyoko]

The People's Republic of China has lost its mandate on heaven and from its ashes arises the Greater Chinese Union, which aims at establishing a authentic form of Chinese government. Rather than relying on ideas of governance from the blasted west.

[The Caleshan Valkyrie]

Though their government is an absolute monarchy in paper, the monarchy is actually little more than a figurehead while a council of psychic warrior-generals known as the 'Valkyrie Council' handles all day-to-day leadership functions.

Also... heh. Militaristic Valkyries... seems like somebody I know.

[Incel Argentina]

Apparently they are a de facto constitutional monarchy led by a secretive council protected by wizard-like warriors and their economy is greatly based on oil.

They managed to be isolationist despite their large size, later deciding to go full mongol and start invading people. They worship the Sun and have a proper democracy where the people can kick out a leader easily if they screw up too much.

[The Caleshan Valkyrie]

Apparently they are a de facto constitutional monarchy led by a secretive council protected by wizard-like warriors and their economy is greatly based on oil.

They managed to be isolationist despite their large size, later deciding to go full mongol and start invading people. They worship the Sun and have a proper democracy where the people can kick out a leader easily if they screw up too much.

With some emphasis on the 'kick out'.

/skip