Favorite line from AN's Factbooks II

[Azania-]

"Unity shall not divide us!"
- Paula Gredenzin, New Cuxhaven National Hall, 2014

The way this is written makes it seem like there's an actual person named Unity actively sowing disunity among the people.

[Meadowfields]

Sebebubijwasekgogobontharile Moroka

That is...a horrendously long first name; it looks like nonsense at first sight.

[Redershein]

"Rise, Workers!" is their national anthem.

[The Finntopian Empire]

He currently owns a grey 2014 Hyundai Sonata in the Elite trim.

[Continental Free States]

We use a base 11 system, instead of the standard base 10 system. This does affect measurement size. We have another number, it's [symbol], it's also a punctuation mark. It often goes at the end of a sentence to mean a mix between a full stop/period and an exclamation mark. We count up by doing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, [symbol].

Two unrelated things: 1- using a gun symbol for "punctuation" and as "number" is just fucking amazing, kudos for that. 2- zero is also part of the base 10 system.

Had to spoiler the symbols because it kept giving me an SQL error

[The Finntopian Empire]

We use a base 11 system, instead of the standard base 10 system. This does affect measurement size. We have another number, it's [symbol], it's also a punctuation mark. It often goes at the end of a sentence to mean a mix between a full stop/period and an exclamation mark. We count up by doing 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, [symbol].

Two unrelated things: 1- using a gun symbol for "punctuation" and as "number" is just fucking amazing, kudos for that. 2- zero is also part of the base 10 system.

Had to spoiler the symbols because it kept giving me an SQL error

Thank you very much, I will fix that right away! /skipme

[Yohaulticetlia]

The American Empire (English: Americanish Riche) or, to the displeasure of everyone else living on the continents bearing its name, America, is a country primarily located in North America.

I loved this whole factbook and this is a great opening line.

[DeMoNiC sAtAn]

First contact with the civilization of the algedians has since precipitated the introduction of humanity to a variety of other sentient life-forms around the Milky Way, either remotely via quarkography technology (which allows instantaneous encoded communication across immense distances) or directly via human explorers who have managed to either travel on human-built wave-motion vessels or hitch rides on galactic vessels to visit distant stars.

I got nothing but at least I was intrigued

[Awqnia]

"Murder is fine" -Former Motto
why do i find that funny?

[Meadowfields]

The Games will be held on December 1st 2022 and will end on New Years Eve 2022.
The Games will be Cross-country skiing, figure skating, ice hockey, Nordic combined, ski jumping, and speed skating.

Interesting, for an entire month?

[The Finntopian Empire]

Raw beef rolled up and filled with small leafy green vegetables and a savory cream.

scuzi mou

[Eurokom]

Our navy is made of old, fancy boats, which look cool but have never had to fight

I'm sure no one will ever try and take advantage of that.

[Continental Free States]

Under the guidance of the Party, Europe has reached the precipice of communism, held back only by the continued existence of external threats that necessitate the maintenance of the state apparatus and its myriad devices.

Ah yes, the good old 'I will give back the emergency powers when the emergency ends'

[Eurokom]

Under the guidance of the Party, Europe has reached the precipice of communism, held back only by the continued existence of external threats that necessitate the maintenance of the state apparatus and its myriad devices.

Ah yes, the good old 'I will give back the emergency powers when the emergency ends'

Well, by state apparatus they mostly mean military and intelligence services to prevent the capitalist powers from simply rolling over them.

/skip

[The Finntopian Empire]

Under the guidance of the Party, Europe has reached the precipice of communism, held back only by the continued existence of external threats that necessitate the maintenance of the state apparatus and its myriad devices.

Ah yes, the good old 'I will give back the emergency powers when the emergency ends'

Province of New Mexico (NM)

Capital: Santa Fe
Largest city: Phoenix
Population: 9,265,000
Land area: 235,581
Governor:
President:
Senate Representation: 6

They made breaking bad real place !!11!!21!!

[Meadowfields]

Alzheimer's disease was a chronic neurodegenerative disease that started slowly and gradually worsened…" "Measles was a contagious infectious disease caused by the…" "Huntington's disease was an inherited disorder that resulted in the deaths of…" "Tuberculosis was an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria…" "Misery was an involuntary state of mental distress common to humans of all eras and circumstances. Its eradication marked the beginning of the banishment of the existential horrors from the human condition." We are rather clever little machines. If you throw in enough food and leave us a while eventually you get language, the printing press, moon landings, instant mash potato, and Debbie Does Dallas. This is thanks to a nifty piece of hardware called "brain". It weighs about 5% of your body but takes in 20% of your calories. There is a problem. The software keeps getting updated every few years thanks to culture, but the hardware is the same as it was back when we were savages. Upgrades to the human CPU take about a few hundred thousand years even for small bug fixes because evolution is slow. But these restrictions might all be about to change in our lifetime and here's why. Quick version: Ray Kurzweil. He's a smart guy. He's invented lots of stuff you've probably used yourself and has written a bunch of books. Now, he thinks human technology is getting better exponentially. That means it's not getting better year by year, it's doubling at how much better it's getting as it goes on. If it keeps up at this rate he thinks, this century, we're going to get to a thing called the singularity. It's a word borrowed from physics and it means that there will be a point when technology is improving so fast that you can't imagine what the near future will look like. Before we get deeper into this, let's admit that if there's one thing we're worse at than not murdering each other it's predicting the future. If you told a victorian that in about 100 years we'd all have this communications thing in our pockets that gives you access to all human knowledge they might've said “Flaming tallywags, what do you use it for?” And if you're going to answer honestly, you'll say cats. In other words, we always expect utopia is coming and what we usually get is smarter ways to do stupid stuff we've always been doing.

There's more...but...what the fuck?

[The Finntopian Empire]

Alzheimer's disease was a chronic neurodegenerative disease that started slowly and gradually worsened…" "Measles was a contagious infectious disease caused by the…" "Huntington's disease was an inherited disorder that resulted in the deaths of…" "Tuberculosis was an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteria…" "Misery was an involuntary state of mental distress common to humans of all eras and circumstances. Its eradication marked the beginning of the banishment of the existential horrors from the human condition." We are rather clever little machines. If you throw in enough food and leave us a while eventually you get language, the printing press, moon landings, instant mash potato, and Debbie Does Dallas. This is thanks to a nifty piece of hardware called "brain". It weighs about 5% of your body but takes in 20% of your calories. There is a problem. The software keeps getting updated every few years thanks to culture, but the hardware is the same as it was back when we were savages. Upgrades to the human CPU take about a few hundred thousand years even for small bug fixes because evolution is slow. But these restrictions might all be about to change in our lifetime and here's why. Quick version: Ray Kurzweil. He's a smart guy. He's invented lots of stuff you've probably used yourself and has written a bunch of books. Now, he thinks human technology is getting better exponentially. That means it's not getting better year by year, it's doubling at how much better it's getting as it goes on. If it keeps up at this rate he thinks, this century, we're going to get to a thing called the singularity. It's a word borrowed from physics and it means that there will be a point when technology is improving so fast that you can't imagine what the near future will look like. Before we get deeper into this, let's admit that if there's one thing we're worse at than not murdering each other it's predicting the future. If you told a victorian that in about 100 years we'd all have this communications thing in our pockets that gives you access to all human knowledge they might've said “Flaming tallywags, what do you use it for?” And if you're going to answer honestly, you'll say cats. In other words, we always expect utopia is coming and what we usually get is smarter ways to do stupid stuff we've always been doing.

There's more...but...what the fuck?

In... a good way? /skip

[DeMoNiC sAtAn]

Meadowfields

Rise, Workers! is the national anthem of Meadowfields.

and then they state the composer and have the music. Except the really funny part is they put the composer's name on there twice: once where it should be (top right) and once where the instrument goes (top left). So basically, we have no clue whether this song is composed for a treble clef concert key instrument (so flute, oboe, violin, could be more) or something in a different key (clarinets, saxs, etc). Its kinda a funny thing that a non musician wouldn't notice. The piece does look cool though (:

[Caligulas Legion]

In a war, the Guineapigians would be on the Demonic Satanian's side, and the Demonic Satanians would provide the Guineapigians with timber and crops.

This is very much one of those statements that would only ever make sense of NationStates.

[Eurokom]

slavery and crucifixion, and the Empire that did it best: the Roman Empire.

In fairness, that is true.

[The Finntopian Empire]

The world remains divided, bifurcated between the emancipated peoples and the disparate empires of vilest reaction.

I like your funny words magic man

[Teffland]

We use ɣ instead of v because it's easier to write and looks nicer

Supported.

yeah, the confusion between u and v, when you write it.
Your nation does many things slightly different in funny ways, weekdays,month names, number systems based on 11. Some of them make sense.

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Never have I seen that much written about climate change.

[Continental Free States]

January 1st. [...] People cherish children, listen to them and do what they wish. [...] Traditional fireworks is forbidden in Teffland.

What grim dystopia is this

[Perikuresu]

The American Empire (English: Americanish Riche) or, to the displeasure of everyone else living on the continents bearing its name, America

Omg so true

[The Finntopian Empire]

We use ɣ instead of v because it's easier to write and looks nicer

Supported.

yeah, the confusion between u and v, when you write it.
Your nation does many things slightly different in funny ways, weekdays, month names, number systems based on 11. Some of them make sense.

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Never have I seen that much written about climate change.

Im trying to shorten the writing and cut out the pretentious crap. The new v kinda looks like y but we don't use y anyway. /skipme