Your Nation's Fact of the Week

[Frokolia]

Accelerationism is more popular in Frokolia than fascism

[Norse Inuit Union]

We've had more than five civil wars.

[Sunrislands]

The Sunrislander football league system contains three levels of competition for association football. The system has a hierarchical format with promotion and relegation between the leagues. To be eligible to play in the Sunrislander football league system, each club must field a men’s and a women’s team. The system has existed in its current form since 1985, but there has been recent efforts to add a fourth level.

AAA League (level 1, 16 teams)
The bottom two teams are relegated.

AA League (level 2, 16 teams)
Top two teams are promoted. Bottom three teams are relegated.

A League (level 3, 24 teams split into two divisions)
Top team from each division promoted. The next four teams compete in play-offs, with the winner gaining the third promotion.

[Aikoland]

Emperor Auguste II was our nation's oldest monarch at the time of ascension, being 65 years old when he inherited the throne following the death of his mother, Queen Marie IV, in July 1799.

[The Hearthlands]

The Hearthlands is located in the arctic circle of our world, centred on our north pole. The name "Hearthlands" comes from the traditional form of governance and court society within our nation, that being courts located in large hearth-halls, where the trüfë (chieftess) invites courtiers and male concubines closer to the hearth's fire, where they can advise her on governance and best survive the long, harsh, dark winters.

[Independent Republic of Boldonia]

Even before independence, Boldonia had a proportionally higher rate of females to males in the armed forces than almost every state in the United States. After independence this number only increased, it is estimated that over 38% of personal in the IRBMF are female.

[Republica Federal de Catalunya]

The longest ruling ruler of my country was king James the Ist also know as the Conqueror. He ruled from 1213 to 1276.

[Borin]

Our entire population lives in giant underground cities

[Crimson Tree]

Our entire population lives in giant arcologies capable of sustaining millions of citizen's livelihoods for many generations.

[Mission Shoreline]

Due to the need for simplicity and a lack of materials, most buildings within Mission Shoreline rarely extend above one story, and only around eleven buildings in the area extend to three stories- that being the Last Luxury rest stop, the Red Earth casino, the Santa Maria de Guadalupe mission, and the ATC tower at SMG Independent Airfield.

[Auzkhia]

The names of the week in Auzkhian standard German:

Monday: Montag
Tueday: Dienstag
Wednesday: Merkurstag (Wodenstag, Mittwoch are used in some dialects
Thursday: Donnerstag
Friday: Freitag
Saturday: Saturnstag (Sonneabend is used in some dialects)
Sunday: Sonnstag

In our Latin based languages it follows the same format from in Franco-Gallic Latin (French)
Monday: Lundi
Tuesday: Mardi
Wednesday: Mercredi
Thursday: Jeudi
Friday: Vendredi
Saturday: Saturdi
Sunday: Soldi

Italian

Monday: Lunedì
Tuesday: Mardì
Wednesday: Mercoledì
Thursday: Giovedì
Friday: Venerdì
Saturday: Saturidì
Sunday: Soledì

In Transylvanian/Eastern Latin or Romanian the days are

Monday Luni.
Tuesday Marți.
Wednesday Miercuri.
Thursday Joi.
Friday Vineri.
Saturday: Sâturni
Sunday Solică

Other languages like Hungarian use a counting based system, with Monday being the start of the week, Tuesday being Second Day, Wednesday being third or middle of the week, Thursday fourth, Friday fifth, and Saturday sixth (though sometimes uses Kronö coming from Greek), but Sunday is Market Day.

(Meta: Since Christianity never existed in this universe, we never had used Sabbath and Lord's day ever as days of the week, they keep with our polytheistic roots)

[Polish Grand Republic]

During the 2nd Great War, Poland's head of state at the time, Ignacy Mościcki, volunteered as a marksman to fight against the invading Soviet forces due to the Polish Grand Republic's shortage of abled men because of the recent aftermath of the German-Polish War in 1938. He, along with several other politicians voluntarily drafted to compensate for the lack of army size against the numerical superiority of the USSR, meaning that most government officials in the Presidential Palace were absent during the onset of the invasion. Moreover, this was the time females were now be able to publicly encouraged and allowed to join the military, the first in Europe and probably the world.

After the fall of Warsaw, Ignacy Mościcki and his government fled to the United Kingdom. Photos of Mościcki and his sniper rifle with his uniform used in the 2nd Great War are now stored in the National Museum in Warsaw.

[Republica Federal de Catalunya]

The most common playing cards deck is the 48 card. + 2 jokers (seldom used) Catalan deck. Cards are organized in 4 decks: espases (Swords), bastos (Clubs,) copes (Cups ) and pros (Coins). Numbered 1 to 12. 1 As 10 is called sota I the J of French cards, 11 cavall (cavallier) and 12 king.
(Ace) is in most games the highest value card. Followed by the figures With exception as the 9 is the top card in the Manilla and Botifarra.
In some games as 7 1/2 8 and 9 of beach deck as discharged.
French cards are used for poker and blackjack or baccarat.

[Greater Angelus]

Owing to the extreme density of the population on a tiny island chain, many parts of pre-Revolutionary Angelus resembled the living conditions and crime rate of the much more well-known Kowloon Walled City in Hong Kong. Following the victory of the Volunteers over the Merexite dynasty and the end of the ensuring Nationalist Revolutionary-Socialist Republican civil war, the Angelan Government initiated a massive reconstruction and public works development effort, including extensive land reclamation in the surrounding Caspian Sea, which gradually saw huge leaps in improvements in the country's quality of life.

[Tmezestos]

No-one quite knows if the stories of fae are true. Legend has it that Tmezestos was founded with the provision of the fae - that the land was barren and desolate before they allowed the Cmostun people to live in the land, and that during the First Era, many Kings cavorted with fae, extending their lifespans and continuing to draw from their magic. They set up a somewhat convoluted form of succession that persists to this day, but which means that the Kingdom to which it first applied is now extinct. The contract they supposedly signed with the ancient hero Gos-Hwiscos states that if an ineligible (or "unworthy") person sits on the throne, the fae will return and cause great calamity to befall Tmezestos. But perhaps the fae are merely figments of the Tmezestian creation mythos. Or maybe that's just what a fae would want us to think...

[DiaperLand]

One single diaper bill (our nation's currency) can be exchanged for a real diaper at any bank. These real diapers are produced by the nation's mint and are of a quality construction and feature various patriotic designs. Many people collect these diapers like some people collect stamps or coins, framing them as artwork in their homes.

[Independent Republic of Boldonia]

"Norfolk" is an unofficial term used by the Boldonian Military to refer to the entire conglomerate of US Naval Shipyards. It is used very liberally, if a Boldonian ship is sent to any US port, which in includes everywhere from Portsmouth to Peral Harbor for repairs or one is being constructed the general term used by sailors is often along the lines of "sent to Norfolk for repairs" or "she was built by Norfolk."

[Gandoor]

The Gandoor Communist Party is traditionally considered to be the dominant political party in Gandoor, as they have, over the course of the 123 years that the modern Democratic Republic has existed, controlled the office of Prime Minister for a combined total of 94 years and have had the majority or plurality of seats in the Forum for a combined total of 86 years.

[Tmezestos]

Tmezestian (non-patrician) nobility employs a system of succession known as "Semi-Swiolaic" succession. This system is based on proximity of blood relation, though the particular iteration of it is based on the "Full Swiolaic" succession utilised by the Kings of Tmezestos, whereby there must be no dead relatives between a former holder of the title and the claimant.

[-Terrapacis-]

Between 1938 and 1942 (when our nation officially entered World War II), 27,000 Jewish refugees fleeing persecution from Nazi Germany and Nazi-occupied areas had entered Terrapacis.

[Greater Angelus]

The State Security Commission is a uniformed service consisting of the Departments of the Armed Forces, Intelligence and Special Operations, Close Protection, Cybersecurity, Coast Guard, Home Guard, National Police, and Customs Enforcement. The commission's Director-General leads a sprawling bureaucracy that simultaneously commands some degree of social reverence and is praised for its efficiency and effectiveness, as well as criticized heavily for unaccountability, corruption, and authoritarianism. The Department of Ethics, Inspections, and Audits performs internal control duties over the entirety of the commission's agencies.

[Hvernzan]

1/80 of Hvernzanian citizens suffer from a serious deformity due to horrible living conditions, pollution, and lack of health care under the pre-revolutionary regime.

[Astrifel]

Despite officially declaring itself a communist state, the nation of Astrifel follows a market socialist economy, where worker cooperatives taking the lead in industry.

[Norse Inuit Union]

We have a sport where two teams wack each other with wooden batons or clubs and the side that surrenders wins. We even have a old stadium that draws hundreds maybe thousands of people. In modern times people wear protection gear when playing this sport.

[DiaperLand]

Petty crimes such as littering, loitering and parking violations can either be settled with fines or voluntary corporal punishment. Each Saturday people can be seen being publicly spanked at local courthouses if they chose not to pay their fines. These events can bring in lots of curious spectators and tourists, especially when a celebrity or other notable person is being spanked.