Quotes of People in Your Nation Mk. VI

[Kamverka]

"You asked me, a month or so ago, when the snow was fresh upon the soil, white and clean, that I provide you a pretense for my actions. It is now February, and the snow still sits, though no longer white, but red, by your own blood. I traveled the longest way, through your men and your trickery, thinking of a reason the entire way, a pretense, as you put it. And now, here I am. And this is my pretense."

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-President Nella Ska'tan, shortly before gouging her predecessor's eyes out.

[Interstellar America]

"There are ninety-six states, there simply isn't enough room to add them all." - Francis Fitzgerald, Vexiloigst on the American Flag.

[Ashkera]

When the government bans Communism, Fascism, Anarcho-Capitalism, and Agonocracy simultaneously so edgy teenagers attempt to be all four simultaneously, resulting in a fifth ideology that is also banned.

When your weaponized anthrax factories are running under their production quotas, delaying your plot to assassinate your rival in the accounting division, so you have several of your imported child slave laborers publicly executed as an example to the others, those blasted layabouts.

When your entire office is laid off and you have to become a dogcatcher because the new rollout went live and now the government's network of internal prediction markets and event branching software has become a posthuman intelligence and subverted the government of the foreign city-state you were supposed to be a liaison to

[The World Liberation Army]

"Kalashnikovs for everyone!" - A fine example of the Army's ongoing commitment to arm the oppressed peoples of the world, usually via ex-Soviet equipment readily available on the Black Market.

"We are a brotherhood, a movement, a cause, an idea. You cannot kill an idea. This is why we persist, this is why we survived the fire of California, why we survive the armies of Pharaoh, why we even drove back Rome. You cannot kill us, we are within you, all of you who are downtrodden and abused, we call out to you to rejoin with the Higher Order, to rejoin with God the Almighty whatever His name and on a primal level, all peoples hear and obey." - Suleiman

[Even Less of Mackonia]

"Three people were arrested and hanged for gross indecency this week after making semi-pornographic fanfiction about the national representations of Mackonia and Ashkera."

-Newsreader.

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"Agonocracy is ultimately an attempt to redraw the Social-Contract from the utility-perspective of those with political power. The state is justified not in terms of how it benefits the people, but who it allows to use the people as a resource to their own private ends. So yes, if your first thought is "Why the fuck would you want a government of infighting tyrants who respect absolutely zero rights of the citizenry?" You are correct, problem is, you were never part of the equation, in the same way we can ask "Why on earth would you want a government where you are forced to obey the will of the majority and meaningless 'rights'?" In your sentence "you" means Joe Everyman, the citizen, the man on the street. In ours "you" means the ruler himself."

-Z.Maglos

[Interstellar America]

"The adaptability of the human gene continues to impress, I suppose." - Doctor Yuu Chan on the Forgotten, horridly mutated humans who live in Red Zones, as they barely qualify as human anymore the official government response is deaugmentation, whether they want it or not.

[Xekliv]

"Two knights, one of the Red Temple and one of the Green Temple, are stranded in a desert, surrounded by enemies. The Red Knight's armor is made from impenetrable steel, unbreakable by nature and able to withstand the most unstoppable force. The Green Knight's armor can filter water. Who lives?"

-- Ur-Savash, Monk

[Blakullar]

"I expected some strange things from this little odyssey, but I never expected to have to fight a bloody DRAGON!!!"

~ an undated entry into the diary of General Elena Trotskaya.

[The World Liberation Army]

"He approves of our undertakings. Our labors are for His Glory." - Khalid Abdul-Hamid

[Even Less of Mackonia]

"The Veil of Ignorance is based on the view that the best society is the one in which all of us would choose to live in without knowing our place in it. And because it is a statistical truth most people are talentless and mediocre - Social Democracy triumphs!

Yet, irony of ironies, no modern Liberal-Democracy actually does allow people to put this to the test. Show me the "opt-out" button of the modern state? Sure I can emigrate to other states, but that's like saying I can hear sermons from other Bishops and thus have freedom of conscience. Could I actually send a polite letter to Her Majesty declaring that, no hard feelings - but its time for secession? No. The Rawlsian State is East German at heart, it maintains it is the utopia which all people would consent to, yet dare not test this out. "

-Z.Maglos

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"The lure of Anarchism is not that its about freedom, or non-coercion, or non-hierarchial relationships, but because if done well, it could introduce natural selection to politics."

-Saepnir the Purple.

[Autem Galacticus Nexum]

"A unique aspect of Nexumian culture is its sheer capacity to take and reshape cultures into a threshold of obedience to the state. Take the Ritani, for example. Before the Nexumian invasion, they were a band of rather peaceful thassalocratic merchants and traders, all while with apatheticism for anything barely resembling an autocracy or state religion. Now, after the invasion of the Nexum, they maintain many of the prior cultural principles, with the exception of sympathy for the Nexumian autocracy and Fuharom. The Ritani, now constituting a large basis of the Nexumian economy and trading industry, are a perfect example of the Nexum's sheer power through state obedience and assimilation alone.

It would be utterly redundant for the Nexum to force a cultural, linguistic, and religious conversion on any species other than humanity itself. There is an inconceivable amount of stars in this mere galaxy alone, excluding satellite galaxies and nearby celestial bodies; how could the Nexum truly push its Rhazieyan-originating society upon the masses of all who inhabit these suns?"

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Sthaami, famous Utannic Nexologist

[Interstellar America]

"You know, I think they're avians."

"They're fuckin' lizards and who cares anyway, they're the goddamn enemy."

"Yeah, fair point, just sayin', know thy enemy and all." - Corporals Bryce Chamberlain and Brenden Clarke, United States Army, 2158

[Oroloo]

"... You'd think common decency is something even a God of Evil would know."

"Well, I mean, it didn't try to fuck 'em."

"IT KISSED HER."

"It could have been worse-"

"ON THE LIPS."

"William, calm-"

"I THINK IT USED TONGUE."

"Yes, it-"

"IT WAS POSSESING HER LITTLE BROTHER."

"HOLY SHIT YES. Fuck, the local analogue for fucking Satan is, apparently, a really unpleasant thing to hang out with. Who the fuck knew."

"But, like, fucking why?"

"Well, according to other accounts I read, the first thing this creature did was make the stars twinkle dim, kill all the flowers, and I wouldn't be surprised if it went on a murder spree to purge kittens from the planet."

"... Okay, I think I've read enough for today."

- William and Drogar Black, bickering across the cosmos.

[Bojikami]

"This is not peace, what we are is between wars."
-Unknown, 1947

"A proletarian who stands in opposition to his liberation is similar to a man who knowingly lets others sleep with his wife."
-Antonij Belinsky

[Even Less of Mackonia]

"Social-Darwinism. Such a funny word. A scary word, because what it should really be called is consistent Darwinism. Its scary because people think "Darwinism" and "natural selection" is something which only ever happens to the sound of the voice of David Attenborough. You say "natural selection" they think of Bambi getting her neck torn out by wolves and thus respond to ""Social-Darwinism" with well-intentioned, but entirely vacuous, objections like "Well, humans are more compassionate". You are. And that's precisely the problem. It is vacuous because changing selection pressures is just that, a change in selection pressure, it does not in any way change the fact of selection. What changes are the traits selected for depending on the people being selected. Now you're not a stupid creationist are you? Oh Dawkins forbid! You laughed at those creationists didn't you? Sure you did. Social-Humanism sustains itself by burning strawmen on fires of faux-scepticism to disguise its own benighted naiveties. You know how humans evolved right? They didn't just pop fully formed from air, it was all a matter of degrees, of gentle shades eloping from faint to night-like black. And you know this occurred through natural selection, and you know how natural selection works. One human-like ape gets a marginally useful mutation which brings him this much closer to "humanity", he has children, the mutation is useful, they prosper and in turn reproduce passing on the mutation so on and so forth. That's putting it crudely. And eventually we reach humanity. Now what on God's earth bar God makes you think that it would stop? Social-Darwinism, is the most dangerous truth which is out there. More dangerous than Egoism. More dangerous than nihilism. Nihilism just says progress don't real. Darwinism states all that progress, all that plenty, its real alright, and every last inch of it was forged in the blackest hells imaginable. That history for the majority of the population is a downward march to the depths of extermination and penury with "progress" Death the Executioner mounted on a white charger, sabre in hand ready to devour the weakest. And if we want to get to heaven, we better start rebuilding hell pretty quick. "

-Shavnur Thenoskal, Office of Eugenics.

[Estainia]

"I have never desired, nor do I harbor some hidden desire, to fly. Could I? Certainly, give me your unbaptised male child so I can render him down to fat."

"Jesus Christ you could've just said you don't like flying." - part of a conversation between Cornelius Andius and Roland Karling, 2001 AD

[Kamverka]

"With this amount of sheer profit, I could have funded an army and invaded a small nation. I mean, nothing's stopping me. Say, who wants to go on a trip?"

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-Arai Hol'in'as, Director of the global hit film Kazuo, who actually invaded a small island nation for a brief time before being repelled by GX-aligned troops

[Nouvelle Beusuandille]

"At some point I believe everyone has been a Socialist. It appeals to your idealism, your humanitarianism. The youths tend towards this sort of thinking, then you have bitter old people like me, who are the dreaded pragmatist, who realize one day you cannot actually have cake and ice cream with every meal. Mind you, I wish everyone could, but that's just plain silly." - Princess Anna Magali de Selene-Soler, formerly an ardent supporter of the Beusuan Socialist Movement and a startlingly 'old' 27 year old.

[Iakon (Ancient)]

"Step 1, build and perfect the environment around you."

"Step 2, destroy what wants to interrupt you."- First 2 steps of the Drone Commander Doctrine

[Victoriala II]

Moral Cruelty is an oxymoron

- ko

[Even Less of Mackonia]

"So long as agents are not equal it is not unreasonable to make claims such as that the maximisation of utility at any one point in the history of the species will always be lesser to that enjoyed in the future."

-Z.Maglos

[Victoriala II]

If you can, you can. You'll grow up anyway.

-Vah

[Autem Galacticus Nexum]

"The consecration of the Angel-Emperor was a divine revelation. No one shall defile him on an objective, for he shall defile them on a whim."

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Skru'za, lead Interpretation Psyker of the Court of the Angel-Emperor.

[Blakullar]

"The mental image that has infested my head as a result of what I have just seen can never again be unseen."

~ General Elena Trotskaya, after stumbling upon a mention of her on a meme chat room.

[Swindenland]

"Due to dark energy, we'll one day be trapped in our galaxy. Some will try to escape the ever accelerating expansion of the universe. But afterwards, they'll only figure out that We are so close and yet so far away" by Science minister Jean Claude Van Ramme.