National Holidays

[Charellia]

What are your nations major national holidays?

In Charellia we celebrate Federation Day on May 12. On this day people gather in parks and town squares and celebrate our nations founding. The largest of these celebrations is in the Federation Gardens of Union City.

[Sanctus Pacis]

Sanctus Pacians are big on Halloween, which is October 31 of course.

[Hatsunia]

The most popular holiday is Foundation Day (August 31). There's lots of celebration, music, and fireworks. Also, there's March 9, because "3-9" can be read as "mi-ku". It also happens to be the date of our constitution's ratification.

[Greater Amerigo]

Remembrance: A national day of mourning and silence to remember several events in Amerigo's history, chiefly the destruction of November City in a nuclear separatist attack.

Amerigo Day: National day of celebration for the day that the current Greater Amerigonian government was formed.

Science Day: Unofficially was formed in 2023 by public schools and universities to be a day devoted to the sciences. By 2026 the federal government, in an effort to raise awareness in the sciences, had mandated that all public and private schools make the day one devoted to science, either through field trips to science-related areas (like the sponsored trips to the Space Reclamation Mission facilities throughout Amerigo) or a day devoted to hearing scientists and engineers speak and present at schools. Many scientists and engineers provide this service for free every year.

Winter Holiday: The blanket-holiday provided over the course of the winter. Mandated by the government.

Launch Day: Commemorates the launch of the first and last components of the Krase Scientific Station, the major space station in orbit.

[Baz Mat]

January 19th: Fathers + Mothers day.

Febuary 26th: Baz League's (soccer) grand final day.

March 23rd: Baz Mat day, were all the people in the mental institutions get a day out in the open. they just wear a shirt sleeve over their heads and off they go.

April 2nd: Grand Valley Speedway 12 hour( Baz Mat's National Speedway/Racetrack ). Everyone is forced to watch at least 6 hours of the race.

September 11th: 9/11 day, remembering the fallen of september 11 attacks and also our war heros.

September 19th: Aris Triumph's B'day. The national Baz league champions.

October 7th: Bathurst day, everyone in the country is forced to watch the annual bathurst 1000

November 27th: The country's creators Birthday celebration.

December 20th - January 2nd: Xmas/New Year holday break.

[Cameroi]

the four primal points of the year, the solstices and equinoxes, and the first days of every solar "month".
i put month in quotes, because the even subdivisions of our year, are not based on the periodicity nor aspects of our moons.

[Teddy Bear Republic]

Our national holidays are either state based (eg National Day, Flag Day) or culturally significant (eg, Laltofian cultural holidays, such as the Laltofian New Year).

[Olwe]

Organized according to the Olwean (pagan) calendar:

October 31: Samhain (Halloween)/New Year's Eve
November 1: New Year's Day
December 21: Winter Solstice/Yule (Hanukkah also starts somewhere around here, but not being Jewish OOCly I don't recall if it has a fixed start date)
December 25: Christmas, for the Christian minority (about 11% of the total population) who would celebrate it
February 14: Free Love Day (an anti-Valentine's Day celebration of non-monogamous living)
March 17: St. Patrick's Day, which is a major holiday due to our huge Irish population
March 21: Vernal Equinox
June 21: Summer Solstice
August 4: Founder's Day (a celebration of the founding of Olwe)
September 21: Autumnal Equinox
September 22: Alliance Day (a celebration of the alliance between Olwe and Dekerin Domains, The Vorindun and Macureus, which later grew to include other nations)
October 13: Remembrance Day (a day to remember fallen soldiers; moved to coincide with the anniversary of the Nicksyllvanian storming of Lehman Beach, during which more than 10,000 Olwean and allied soldiers were killed)

[Central Lothian]

Bex used Copy and Paste!

Our holidays:

New Year's Day - January 1*
Good Friday - Varies
Easter Monday - Varies
May Bank Holiday - First Monday in May
Spring Bank Holiday - Last Monday in May
Summer Bank Holiday - First Monday in August
Foundation Day - September 8*
St Andrew's Day - November 30*
Christmas Day - December 25*
Boxing Day - December 26**

* - If any of these fall on a Saturday or Sunday, the following Monday is the Bank Holiday.
** - If this falls on a Saturday, the Monday is the Bank Holiday; if it falls on a Sunday, then the Tuesday is also a Bank Holiday (since the Monday will be Christmas Day's Bank Holiday).

It's super effective!

[Estainia]

...Lots.

All of our holidays are religious holidays, and our religion looks for excuses to throw a party; which is usually a holiday.

About half the year is a holiday once you combine it all.

[Vloskovia]

Revolution Day, February 16: The date of the beginning of Vloskovia's Socialist Revolution.
Vloskovian Victory Day, July 13: The date of the signing of the Adyaysberg Treaty, which marked the end of the Vloskovian Civil War and the official beginning of the Vloskovian People's Republic.
International Workers' Day, May 1: See here.

[Thama]

Yuletide - December 21st - January 6th, Basically Christmas without all that religious bullshit. Starts on the Winter Solstice or the day before and ends on Orsell Day.

Halloween - Obviously October 31st. We use cacti alongside pumpkins for Jack o' Lanterns because we just have sooooo much cacti growing everywhere.

Bison Day - April 29th, the day the Arotinitee Empire was founded in 800-something. Ends with fireworks and stuff. Basically our 4th of July.

Orsell Day - January 6th, the end of Yuletide, The day Jay Orsell saw the mountains of Thama in the desert in 1811 or something.

Burning Day - February 28th, Anniversary of the Balatan Slaughter when the members of the fascist group, The Great League of Aral, slaughtered thousands of people in the city of Balatan and were then captured, brutally tortured and burned alive by the public. It usually consists of a parade which ends whith a show in which a huge straw statue of the League's leader is ripped to shreds and burned on a huge bonfire.

Trinity Day - July 20th, A holiday honoring the soldiers of the TAF, TAN and TCA. Big Ass Military Parade. Awesome stuff like rockets, gun shows, Aerobatic shows, Titans running around, being able to go inside a Titan, TCA space fighters flying around, you know, stuff like that.

Phoenix Day - March 14th - Not Related to Pi day at all. Another parade. Things relating to a Phoenix, the Phoenix is Thama's symbol. Well, The Phoenix and the Bison are. But this is Phoenix day. Swifter Wharf's Parade includes painting a Phoenix on a carrier and attaching huge wings. The carrier then flies around above Xanad Park.

[Ourdria]

On August 16 we celebrate Liberty Day the anniversary of the Ourdrian Revolution by rescinding the bans on loud music, colourful clothing, public drinking, public singing and public gatherings of more than five people for the day.

On January 13 we celebrate Utopia Day which marks the end of the Ourdrian Civil War. This is a solemn day on which people are required to stay home and watch the annual ceremonies on television.

[Zitru]

January
January 1 - New Year's Day
January 2 - Unification Day
January 6 - Kindervoreend (Dragoaist)
January 7 - Kinderdag (Dragoaist)
January 18 - Foundation Day
January 24 - Belly Laugh Day
January 27 - Holocaust Memorial Day

February
February 2 - Groundhog Day
February 3 - Day of the Flames (Dragoaist)
February 12 - Mardi Gras Carnival
February 14 - Saint Valentine's Day
February 18 - President's Day & Kavlaik's Birthday
February 21 - Shrove Tuesday (Christian)
February 22 - Ash Wednesday (Christian)

March
March 4 - Republic Day
March 10 - Daylight Saving Day (Start)
March 17 - Saint Patrick's Day
March 20 - Vernal Equinox
March 29 - Good Friday
March 31 - Easter Sunday

April
April 1 - April Fools Day & Easter Monday
April 22 - Earth Day

May
May 4 - Saint Nyron's Day
May 5 - Cinco de Mayo
May 12 - Mother's Day
May 18 - Armed Forces Day
May 19 - Pentecost / Whit Sunday
May 20 - Pentecost Monday
May 27 - Memorial Day

June
June 14 - Flag Day
June 16 - Father's Day

July
July 4 - Independence Day
July 19 - Daarken (Dragoaist)
July 28 - Parents' Day

August
August 13 - All Dragons Day (Dragoaist)

September
September 2 - Labor Day
September 8 - Grandparents' Day
September 11 - Patriot Day
September 16 - Stepfamily Day
September 17 - Citizenship Day
September 22 - Autumnal Equinox
September 27 - Native Reds Day

October
October 14 - Redfield Day
October 16 - Boss's Day
October 19 - Sweetest Day
October 31 - Halloween

November
November 3 - Daylight Saving (End)
November 5 - Bonfire Night
November 11 - Veterans Day
November 27 - Saint Dako's Day
November 28 - Thanksgiving Day
November 29 - Black Friday

December
December 2 - Cyber Monday
December 7 - Varkudia Remembrance Day
December 21 - Winter Solstice
December 25 - Christmas Day / Astermas Day (Christian / Dragoaist)
December 26 - Boxing Day / Saint Stephen's Day
December 31 - New Year's Eve

[Saurisisia]

Western Holidays:

January 1st: New Year's Day
February 14th: Valentine's Day
March 17th: St. Patrick's Day
Sunday after Good Friday: Easter
Second Sunday in May: Mother's Day
Third Sunday in June: Father's Day
Fourth Thursday of November: Thanksgiving
December 31: New Year's Eve

Unique Holidays:

April 20th: Anti-Nazi Day
April 22nd: Anti-Communist Day
June 6: Memorial Day
June 23: Dinosaur Day
July 4th: Revolutionary Day
September 1: Work Day
September 11th: Patriot Day
October 10th: Equine Appreciation Day
October 25th: Dragon Day
October 31st: Black Dragon Night
November 11: Veteran's Day
December 25: Giving Day

[Auzkhia]

Holidays in Auzkhia
1 January – New Year's Day
6 January – Epiphany
2 March - The Emperor's birthday
Easter Monday* changes every year
1 May - Bending Arts Day
Ascension Day* – (Christi Himmelfahrt) 39 days after Easter Sunday
Whit Sunday* – (Pfingsten) Pentecost Descent of the Holy Ghost upon the Apostles, 49 days after the Resurrection of Christ
Corpus Christi* – First Holy Eucharist Last Supper. Thursday after Trinity Sunday (60 days after Easter Sunday)
15 August – Assumption of Mary
20 August - Stephen I Day (Hungary only)
26 October - Neutrality day
1 November – All Saints' Day
8 December – Feast of the Immaculate Conception, retail stores are allowed to open for Christmas shopping
25 December – Christmas Day
26 December – Boxing Day (AKA St Stephen's Feast)
31 December - Silvester (New years eve)

[Western Arab Empire]

Eid Ul Fitr and Eid Ul Adha are the most important in our nation

[San Leggera]

Federal Holidays
-January 1 - New Year's Day
-Third Monday in February - Presidents' Day
-Last Monday in May - Memorial Day
-July 4 - Fourth of July (Not called Independence Day here, for we have our own later in the year)
-First Monday in September - Labo(u)r Day
-September 29 - Independence Day (By coincidence, today is the 20th anniversary of San Leggera's independence!)
-Second Monday in October - Columbus Day
-November 11 - Veterans' Day
-Fourth Thursday in November - Thanksgiving Day
-December 25 - Christmas Day

We also celebrate a number of other occasions (Halloween, etc.), though they are not regarded as holidays.

[Anollasia]

Jan. 1: New Year Day
Feb. 19: Valentine's Day
Apr. 8-9: Easter
Apr. 23: National Children's Day
May 1: Labour Day
May 19: National Youth and Sports Day
July-August: Ramadan
Late August: Eid al fitr
Sept. 10: Anollasia Day
Early December: Muhharam
Dec. 25-26: Christmas

And some more!

[Sedikal]

January 26. Independence day

June 18. Festival of the Źrûkdiñkiyÿiå

These are the two major modern day holidays in Sedikal.

[Lymantatia]

January 1: New Year's Day
First week of January: Winter Break
February 14: Valentine's Day
April 8-9: Easter Day
April 25: Independance Day
First week of May: Spring Break
July 2: Founder's Day
December 25: Christmas

[Dagnia]

Dagnia has no mandatory holidays, except for government workers. This is our independence day in early spring.

[Mandicoria]

National Day: Celebrates our entire nation, and the day it was created. Celebrated on the 10th of September.

Christmas: Celebrates peace and goodwill among our civilians, based off the old world holiday of Christmas. Celebrated on the 17th of December

Rememberance Day: Remembering those who died during the Grand World War. Celebrated on the 15th of January

Halloween: A rather Cultural Holiday, not recognized as a national holiday, but the market takes advantage of it. Celebrated on the 31st of October

[Obozoland]

All days except December 25th: Obozo Day
December 25th: Hanukwanidanmas, so nobody feels excluded.

[Republic of La Boca]

Our holidays are celebrated according to Julian Calendar or calendars according to each one religious beliefs
January 1: Gregorian New Year
January 7: Christmas
January 14: Julian New Year
January 21: Theophany
January-February: Chinese New Year
March 1: Speech Day.
March 21-22: Autumn Solstice/Nowrooz
April 1: Easter
April 2: Veteran's Day (due to Argentinian past)
April (varies) Deepavali
May 1: International Labor Day
June 21: Winter Equinox
July 1/2: Patriotic Day
August 8: Prime Minister's Birthday
August 20-21: Liberation Day
September 21: Spring Solstice
September 24: Remembrance Day
September (varies): Rosh ha Shaná
September: (varies): Yom Kippur
November 18: Constitution Day
December 8: Day of the Inmaculate conception of Mary (also called Day of Theotokos)
December 21: Summer Solstice
December 26: Boxing Day