Your Nation's Fact of the Week

[Blodrike]

Birth is almost always fatal for female vampires. Coupled with their extremely long lifespans, this explains the high rate of homosexuality.

[-The Japanese Democratic Republic-]

The Government of the Japanese Democratic Republic does not recognize the Government of Japan, we consider the entirety of the Japanese archipelago to be our sovereign territory and we consider the 39 prefectures governed by Japan to be 'prefectures under imperialist occupation'.

[Silver Commonwealth]

Ministry of Education

Fact time!

''In 1948, Israel won the Arab-Israeli War just like in OTL, and established itself as an independent state. The decolonization of Middle East and Africa was underway, and some mandates had already got their independence. However, the decolonization was stopped after Father America's declaration of war in the 1950s, few years after taking over in a coup, and proclaiming the Free American Empire. After the slow downfall of Allied troops in Europe, the amount of people who made aliyah increased, due of the Father America's antisemitic views (Father America was reported to hold anti-Catholic and supremacist altitudes too). Not only that, but Russian Empire's Immortal Tsar's (Title of the Empire's leader, which in fact was more like republican dictatorship) army was approaching too, and their Party's views too were no better than Father America's. After the Great Nuke War and the Treaty of Disputed Zone, however, most of the Middle Eastern and African nations were screwed - all superpowers had advanced in zone's territory even before the nuke exchange, but now it became a free for all battleground. RNGOC mostly operated in Southwest and Central Asia, as its attempts to establish a foothold in Arabian peninsula mostly failed. Russian Empire's armies, however, ravaged the Middle East for natural resources, and even took parts of North African coast. As countries fell like flies, citizens and army of them decided to continue fighting through asymmetric warfare instead, as trying to face three superstates in a conventional war is nigh impossible. Israel was one of the last countries to fall to the superstates, actually, and held out way longer than the neighboring Arab countries and their militaries. However, the future for all of them was bleak, as none of the superstates treated them like full civilians, sometimes - even worse than proles.''

''In the 1980s, when reformist period started, the antisemitism within Party's ranks started to slowly decline, due of the change of the leadership&generations, along with the shift to a more negative view on axis powers. The members surviving communities in FAE got a lot more rights within the party and society, and idea of aliyah was once again put on the table. In early 2000s, SC tried to reach a some sort of agreement in this issue with Russian Empire and RNGOC - the other two superpowers of its world. However, the talks failed, and aliyah had to wait, as Disputed Zone still continued to be a wartorn, hostile place. Only after the two superstate collapse, more progress could be made. In 2040s, SC's military command contacted the communities and groups within middle east, which had endured the missiles and soldiers constantly stomping over the lands and destroying whatever order had been during the few respite moments. In 2050, the Afrikaner forces entered Jerusalem, and raised the SC's banner in the city. After that, the various local groups too put their flags near the banner, and in following months, the territory of what would be the Levant region of Middle Eastern Commonwealth, would be consolidated.''

''At last, aliyah became a possibility again, and a permanent government could be established in the region. A significant portion of those who settled were either militarists, or specialists at various fields, thus contributing to rebuilding the region's infrastructure. However, it has received some opposition of the Arabs in the region. (Levant's administration within the MEC consists from Israel, Lebanon, parts of Syria, and most of Jordan) Still, the MEC can't take any direct military solution to the issue, as Levant has progressed in terms of rebuilding the industry and army a lot more rapider than most of Arab countries, and it has more modern equipment, and means to create its own firearms. So, any attempt of direct military attack would end bad for Arab nations. Not only that, but in SC's UCN rules, any total conflicts between regions are prohibited, and in case of breaking it, the UCN nations are supposed to aid the defender against the aggressor. Also, SC's Israel's army has received decent supply and diplomatic support from SC's Megastates - the most important player in SC's politics. On this issue, Tom is strictly in favor of his pan-human doctrine, insisting, that ''every nationality deserves a homeland, with no exceptions''.''

''At the same time, SC's Megastates and European Commonwealth have started the project of settling the Romani people in Northern India (parts of Rajasthan, Haryana, and Punjab) in an attempt to create a ''homeland'' for Romani people, including the related Dom and Lom people. However, it is more likely that SC is not doing that out of actually following the Tomist principle of ''every nation a homeland'', but rather that the various European governors simply want to get them out of sight (similarly to what Megastates did to a large amount of Asian-Americans after the Scramble for the World - deported them to various Asia's regions (After taking DNA samples to get the info to which group they were the closest to) in order ''to help out in reconstruction efforts of their genetic homelands'', according to the Party's words. However, conflicts between them and the locals aren't that uncommon, and a lot of them feel as if they wouldn't be wanted there). Indian Commonwealth too accepted the plan begrudgingly, and it caused a lot of discussions in Indian Commonwealth's parliament between regional governors about the capital's location, the size of the Romani army, etc. While citing the immense official and societal discrimination of Romani people both under former Russian Empire and FAE as the main reason for the operation's neccesity, European Federation's President-Governor Kayden also ignored the Romani traditions and culture in the decision, especially the nomadic ones.''

[Pernacyvokya]

In Pernacyvokya, Valentine Traditions are Relatively Similar to The ones of the West,
However, Valentines Day is also Considered A Lucky day for a Baby to be Born on, Other Dates Similar to this Include:

September 5th (Constitutional Independence Day)
June 21st (Summer Solstice)
March 2nd (Mother's Day)
November 26th (Children's Day)
May 10th (Monmoltoushec, Saint Parton of Pernacyvokya's Day)

[Fatatatutti]

Valentines Day is also Considered A Lucky day for a Baby to be Born on

In Fatatatutti, November 21 is considered a lucky day to be born on - because the baby was conceived on Valentine's Day.

[Andocara]

The somewhat popular TV show The Adventures of Bob & Sam was aired on Disney Channel (Andocara) from June 2013 till August 2019. Nonetheless, the storyline took place from the years 2005-2007, according to the show’s creator Andrew Makentier in a recent interview. This explains why the cars in the show look no newer than mid 2000’s model cars, and why no one in the show is ever seen with a smart phone or iPad. Also the show was somewhat rejected by many people born in 2010 or later because it didn’t really relate to them, which was why the show had to end in 2019. Still what made it fun was the exciting adventures the main characters would go on.

[Ard al Islam]

The Afghanistan area has been invaded many times in recorded history, but no invader has been able to control all of its regions at the same time, and at some point faced rebellion.

[Estado Novo Portugues]

There are no (legitimate) single parents in the Holy Catholic State, because divorce and extramarital sex are illegal. So the few that exist are treated with extreme hostility by the government and society.

[Zhouran]

With the 1970s seeing the birth of Zhouran's nuclear navy, the ZPA Navy is a nuclear navy that focuses strongly on expeditionary warfare and sheer firepower to decimate any enemy fleets it encounters. The ZPA Navy is not only the largest navy in terms of warship numbers and total tonnage, but also in terms of number of nuclear-powered maritime vessels, thus making it a massive user of nuclear marine propulsion. The ZPA has a wide diverse array of nuclear military vessels in service including the Type 1968 Hongjing-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, Type 1984 Yansunrong-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, Type 2000 Lieren-class nuclear-powered attack submarine, Type 1977 Shengli-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, Type 1996 Taifeng-class nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, Type 2004 Laixinsun-class nuclear-powered guided-missile destroyer and Type 2007 Wuketiaoti-class nuclear-powered guided-missile destroyer. The usage of nuclear marine propulsion contributes to the ZPA Navy's capability of using expeditionary warfare and sheer firepower to decimate any enemy fleets it encounters, and while most of the ZPA Navy's nuclear vessels are submarines with the majority of destroyers still conventionally-powered, this hasn't stopped them from being referred to as a 'nuclear navy'.

[Alzatia]

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[North German Realm]

In military terms, the North German Bundeswehr can only be compared with the Russian Royal Armed Forces and His Majesty's Armed Forces (Britain):

In term of Navy, it is only slightly inferior to the Royal Navy yet completely and totally outranks the Russian Navy in every capacity
In term of Air Force, it is as powerful as the Royal Air Force and again outranks then Russian Air Force in every capacity
In term of Army it has a numerical inferiority to both, but what it lacks in numbers it more than makes up for in training, in which it is superior to both British and Russian Armies.

Other countries -even Japan and the US which are also members of the 'Big Five' are not really in the same league as North Germany, Britain, and Russia.

[Zhouran]

From June 21 to August 17 of 1997, a small group of retired military officers from the ZPA Ground Force, Air Force, and Navy along with researchers and analysts from the National Institute of Military Science in Ouyang conducted a highly-rigorous, meticulously-detailed, extremely-technical simulated research regarding on how many nations could the Zhouranese People's Army invade simultaneously. The research itself had no official backing and was done mainly to kill time and fulfill some curiosities. After several weeks of simulation, research and analyzing, the results actually surprised the group.

Taking into account the fact that Zhouran has the world's highest percentage of adults willing to fight for their nation, the world's largest military firepower, and the world's most hyper-advanced weaponry (all in both the 1990s and the present), as well as adding a large amount of highly-complex mathematics and computer calculations along with intensive puzzle-solving and probability thinking, the group concluded that the battle-hardened well-experienced ZPA not only can secure the entire Pacific Ocean, but even successfully invade Alaska & the US West Coast, Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula & Chukotka Autonomous Okrug, Japan, the Philippines, Taiwan, and China's southeastern coast simultaneously in a span of a year-and-a-half, and even with nuclear weapons added, the simulation still showed Zhouran could still pull off multiple invasions while also inflicting devastating nuclear firestorms.

From March 19 to April 14 of 2017, the same group came together almost twenty years later in order to re-evaluate the research simulation and take into account the recent weapons of today. Looking at the recent results, not only can the ZPA still pull off the simultaneous invasions like in the first simulation, but the latest cutting-edge weapons used by the ZPA means the time frame of such invasions are cut down to only a span of approximately 12-to-14 months.

The entire detail on the first simulation is on a controversial research paper titled The Kangyuli Military VS The World: An Introspective Analytical Simulated Research On The Zhouranese People's Army Against The Entire World, which was published by the National Institute of Military Science on October 4, 1997. Meanwhile, the re-evaluated second simulation is on the research paper titled Looking Back At The Kangyuli Military VS The World & How The Continued Growth of 21st Century Digital Technology Continues To Outpace Competitors, published by the National Institute of Military Science on May 6, 2017. When the first simulation was published in 1997, many of the dove elements of both the political-moderate and political-hardline decried the research paper for being warmongering and fueling fire, however the hawk elements on the other hand praised it for its extremely-detailed highly-technical analytics and highly in-depth rigorous research. Many military officers in the ZPA have described both the first and second simulations as pieces of radical extremism and the two research papers themselves are said to be points of contention among the military with one side seeing them as guidelines for an international genocidal conflict and another seeing them as lessons to learn by in preparation for a potential world war.

It is widely rumored that Senior Marshal Kang Makesi (current Chairman of the People's Defense Council since 2027) has copies of both research papers and that he had read every single pages of each paper several times back in the early 2020s. However, Kang Makesi stated numerous times that he doesn't own copies of the papers and that he doesn't have enough free time to read numerous text-filled pages. There's also rumors that the current political-hardline establishment are keeping the research papers away from The Kangmukeli as they fear that the A.I collective hivemind will use the military knowledge to not only start a war against numerous nations but even against all of humanity and leading to the collapse of human civilization under the heels of robots. Thus any military research papers such as The Kangyuli Military VS The World: An Introspective Analytical Simulated Research On The Zhouranese People's Army Against The Entire World and Looking Back At The Kangyuli Military VS The World & How The Continued Growth of 21st Century Digital Technology Continues To Outpace Competitors are always kept far back from the A.I collective hivemind.

It is also said that various political-superhardline group have also read the papers while the 33rd Strategic Battle Group uses the paper and add the addition of anomalous elements such as [DATA EXPUNGED] in the understand of offensive-based supernatural warfare against enemy nations especially those who also weaponizes anomalies for [REDACTED].

[Caleonia]

Caleon does not use clocks because it is permanently stuck in a time warp that is controlled by the Professor.

[Legolannd]

Legolannd is largest country in the Lego Islands.

[Frisia Magna]

There are no Lèse-majesté laws in Frisia. You can say anything you want about a monarch... but you run the risk of said monarch taking that as an insult and challenge you to a duel to the death.

[The Grey Isles]

In The Holy Seat and Godly Empire of The Grey Isles,

it is mandatory for children in schools to learn the basics of Cyberwarfare.

[Imperial Joseon]

In Imperial Joseon, wounded veterans can only get prosthetics if they agree to become walking billboards for the arms industry.

[Republica Federal de Catalunya]

One of the most important misteries around Montserrat mountain, and conspiracy teories, is the "UFO" crash in el Bruc Municipality, not far from Òdena AB March 11th 1983. The site of the crash was quickly secured to by military personel and the "alien" body recovered. The conspiracy teories rose, but also the Air Force tried to undercover the accident too.

The fact is the "UFO" was a soviet recce MiG25R that flew with algerian markings. Those recce flights over the Western Mediterranian were common in the late 70s and 80s in spite of Republic of Catalonia AF F-16s and Mirage 5s interceptation attemps.

[Voxija]

At this present time, there are no books banned in Voxija, either by the government, libraries, schools, institutions, or anywhere really. There used to be books banned in Voxija, most importantly Hergé's controversial album Tintin in Voxija, but those books have been unbanned.

[Great Aletia]

The government of the Aletian Empire is based upon a table of ranks, which ranks all government personnel from lowest to highest, from the most junior clerk to the highest minister. The lowest rank is Trainee Secretary, which is 59th, while the highest is Lord Protector, which is 1st. It is important to note that the table of ranks only applies to the civil service. The Imperial Family, security services, and armed forces are independent organisations which use their own ranking structures. Additionally, higher ranks do not necessarily possess greater authority than lower ranks. The power which a rank grants to its bearer varies according to department and role. A minister, for example, cannot order a civil servant, no matter their rank, to to do anything if they work in a different department.

[Zhouran]

Unlike most countries that use the Left–Right Political Spectrum, Zhouran on the other hand uses its own Moderate–Hardline Political Spectrum instead, created in early 1903 and used within the context of Zhouranese politics ever since. On the spectrum there are two sides: the political-moderate and the political-hardline. Within the moderate–hardline axis are: the populism/majority–specialism/minority dimension for socio-economic issues; the rationalism–skepticism dimension for socio-political issues; the active/assertive–passive/submissive dimension for economic and/or political action; the dynamic–restraint dimension for government control on socio-economics; and the authority–liberty dimension for government control on socio-politics.

[Minroz]

Celestial Empire or Tianchao is an old name used to refer to Minroz, from a literary and poetic translation of a Minrozian word, Chinese: 天朝; pinyin: Tiāncháo, one of many names for Minroz.

[Pernacyvokya]

Back in 2012 In Pernacyvokya, A Controversial Decision that the Government Made during Reforms was to Ban Smoking for Everybody Except Tourists/Non-Nationals, which are only able to Buy Cigarettes/E-cigarettes at the Age of 25. This took the Global Stage by Storm, as Pernacyvokya 40 Years ago in 1972 was Considered a Significant Importer of Cigarettes. Cigarette Health Restrictions In Pernacyvokya begun Around the Mid-Late 90s, and Thanks to the Help of A Largely Funded Campaign By the Ministry of Healthcare, A Majority vote was passed and Cigarettes were finally banned.

[Conservative Christian American States]

Homosexuality is punishable by death or hard labor.

[North German Realm]

Voicing support for the Confederacy is a crime in the United States of America, punishable by prison and permanent disenfranchisement. Confederate supporters seldom manage to get a job -any job at all- once they're out of prison, and are not recipients of American Welfare, Healthcare or any protective laws.