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by Blakullar » Sat Apr 02, 2016 3:15 pm
by Ashkera » Sat Apr 02, 2016 4:31 pm
by Singaporean Transhumans » Sat Apr 02, 2016 5:46 pm
by United Massachusetts » Sat Apr 02, 2016 6:12 pm
by Bereia » Sat Apr 02, 2016 6:40 pm
Blakullar wrote:"There is no better a hand to guide the inherently-evil Mankind away from the allure of evil than that of the State."
~ General Elena Trotskaya.
by Euro Asian Republics » Sat Apr 02, 2016 7:19 pm
by Hetrica » Sat Apr 02, 2016 8:05 pm
Join the Order of the Southern North Today!
Headline News: The Great General is now dead. DEFCON lowered to 1. Hetrican Bioweapon used by Unnamedland on Sjmick. Quarantine zone initiated. Admiral Major to take control. Military forces patrol the streets. Cans of Coka Calo are actually healthy says bribed doctor.
by Gigaverse » Sat Apr 02, 2016 8:24 pm
Art-person(?). Japan liker. tired-ish.
Student inlinguistics???. On-and-off writer.
MAKE CAKE NOT stupidshiticanmakefunof.born in, raised in and emigrated from vietbongistan lolol
Operating this polity based on preferences and narrative purposes
clowning incident | clowning incident | bottom text
can produce noises in (in order of grasp) vietbongistani, oldspeak
and bonjourois (learning weebspeak and hitlerian at uni)
by The Gamindustrian Union » Sun Apr 03, 2016 2:35 am
by Greater Mackonia » Sun Apr 03, 2016 3:08 am
by Blakullar » Sun Apr 03, 2016 4:51 am
Bereia wrote:Blakullar wrote:"There is no better a hand to guide the inherently-evil Mankind away from the allure of evil than that of the State."
~ General Elena Trotskaya.
"You mean the bureaucratic apparatus designed, manned, and operated by evil Mankind? Unless, of course, you have it in your head that politicians are cut of a finer cloth than everybody else."
-- Julissa Hickman, Citizen.
by Singaporean Transhumans » Sun Apr 03, 2016 5:01 am
by Oneesans Unitatem » Sun Apr 03, 2016 9:26 am
Don't forget your coat. It's cold outside. | Bullet train network to connect all of Terrania within 3 months, isn't that great? | Nation's dogs killed by neighboring nation again. I really hate them. | You should go to University like your father. I think you could pull it off. | I'm still working on that fungus-resistant corn at work, so just hold on with less corn a little longer, okay?
by Fatatatutti » Sun Apr 03, 2016 12:06 pm
Bereia wrote:"Capitalism naturally pushes the self-interest of each individual to improve the situation of the whole, often without demanding sacrifices of any kind."
-- Dr. Karston Bell, Economist.
by Greater Mackonia » Sun Apr 03, 2016 1:11 pm
by Las Palmeras » Sun Apr 03, 2016 1:33 pm
by Acheronis » Sun Apr 03, 2016 2:30 pm
Dominion Central News Network|Supreme Stratigos Artemis has been elected temporary Supreme Chancellor, Lord-Stratigos Frey is promoted to temporary Supreme Stratigos.
by Ashkera » Sun Apr 03, 2016 4:34 pm
Greater Mackonia wrote:"Two causes alone exist for the suspension of self-interest in man, folly or weakness."
-Tseila Kathangi
by Estainia » Sun Apr 03, 2016 9:15 pm
by Xekliv » Sun Apr 03, 2016 10:21 pm
European Socialist Republic wrote:"When Xeklivians laugh, the rest of the universe cries."
-Popular quote from a European sci-fi show.
by Ashkera » Sun Apr 03, 2016 10:44 pm
"Rather than the Mackonian strategy of 'bailout imperialism', the Ashkeran government relies on something called 'Development Wave'. A set of tariffs is issued by the GX countries on foreign imports according to how poor the labor and environmental conditions are. Generally, this isn't enough to completely eliminate the advantage of outsourcing, but it does go a long way. This money is put into the GX Development Fund pool, and is issued to underdeveloped countries joining GX. It is spent under supervision on joint projects between local companies and Ashkeran companies on things like water treatment plants, schools, hospitals, power plants, and the like. Meanwhile, thousands of advisors swoop in to install GX institutions, accompanied by military police from the wealthier GX nations to put an end to any ethnic conflicts and criminal organizations. GX nations don't have to pay the tariffs to trade with other GX nations, so companies begin to outsource there as well while the country rapidly stabilizes.
It's essentially a bribe to give up a large chunk of your sovereignty and join the GX superstate - which, taken together, would be one of the larger nations in the world. Every five or ten years or so, new nations are added, using incoming funding from earlier nations. The amount of competition from cheap labor is kept balanced by its low rate of introduction, helping to keep the various non-democratic or limited-democratic regimes in power back home while still benefitting from heavy investment in developing countries, industrialization, and outsourcing.
Perhaps the most dramatic recent example is the Military State of Morda, where the Ashkeran military was deployed against the Islamic State of Morda. Rather than aiming for a kill, they used a combination of drones, less-than-lethal chemical weapons, LTL small arms, and other measures to take literally thousands of members of ISM alive. The men were shipped to the newly-constructed island fortress prison UltraMax One. After that, they brokered a deal with the Communists to the south. All Cruze Telemat had to do was let someone else run his country."
- foreign analyst
"It's a lot less powerful as an image of martyrdom when the footage is of you looking baked out of your mind, stumbling into the back of a truck with a bunch of crying men who are also stumbling, some of whom are puking. Absolutely, they deserve death. We have no intention of giving it to them. We will break this edgy little rebellion of theirs and reduce them to the lowly criminals they are, worthy of admiration by no one."
- judge, from beneath mask, regarding Islamic State of Morda
"Like something out of one of those Hollywood science fiction movies..."
- rural resident, describing the ISM capture operation
"I'm pleased you've decided to reach out to me, Mr. Telemat. We can have several thousand tons of rice heading on a boat to your nation by midnight tomorrow, if that would help. Why don't you arrange a meeting with our foreign ministry..."
- unknown, phone call, 2013
by Greater Mackonia » Mon Apr 04, 2016 2:20 am
by Blakullar » Mon Apr 04, 2016 5:07 am
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