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Soyouso
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Posts: 1526
Founded: May 14, 2015
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You Know You Are From YN When...

Postby Soyouso » Mon Apr 10, 2017 1:25 pm

List things that are either stereotypes of your people or extremely common that other nations think of when thinking of your citizen's lives.

You Know You Are From Soyouso When...
•You can do a perfect Sieg Heil.
•You have said "Oh Sieg Hell No!" during a serious conversation.
•The first thing you learned how to cook was steak.
•Your buy your kids guns on their birthday.
•You have been attacked by a moose or a bear.
•You were once attacked by carnivorous mermaids.
•You are in a blood sacrificing cult.
•You are vodkaholic and will threaten someone just to get a sip.
•You are a fascist and borderline worship Soyouso.
•You're basicaly a yandere.
•You curse like a sailor
•You manage to look adorable while stabbing people to death.
•You feel urges to be incredibly fabulous.
•You say "Heil Soyo" in your sleep.
•You have fantasies about Adolf Hitler.
•You have a porn stash
•You're gay and fit the flamboyant stereotype unintentionally.
•You didn't know homophobia and transphobia existed.
•You don't have a criminal record and you know the law book front to back.
•You hate communists.
•You are an adult but you still watch Care Bears
•You have watched the entirety of Happy Tree Friends
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Lardingo
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Posts: 138
Founded: Mar 03, 2017
Ex-Nation

Postby Lardingo » Mon Apr 10, 2017 2:04 pm

You know when you are from Lardingo when....
-You shoot down the drone that flies over your house
-Your uncle shows off his cannon at family gatherings.
-You hold a submachine gun while informing a stranger that you support gay marriage
-You throw a fit when the government tries to put surveillance cameras in public areas.
-You attend a pro-life rallies and smoke marijuana.
-You can't take a beach day because the water is choked with garbage.
-You know someone who has been bitten by a shark.
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Sleet Clans
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Posts: 1376
Founded: May 01, 2016
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Postby Sleet Clans » Mon Apr 10, 2017 2:27 pm

You know you are from Sleetavia when...
*You wear Clans marks on your face or all over your body
*You insist on carrying a weapon nearly all the time
*You have a sword on your mantelpiece in your house
*You have a Sleetavian flag in your possession
*You're a naval nut and love ships
*You're always trying to think around quantum physics
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United Confederacy of Sleetavia

"Ushije e Vuani"

MT/PMT, willing to switch it up depending on RP

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Skyhooked
Senator
 
Posts: 4107
Founded: Mar 18, 2016
Ex-Nation

Postby Skyhooked » Mon Apr 10, 2017 2:30 pm

You know when you are from Skyhooked when....

- You are addicted to at least four things.
- You are totally drunk, so you can barely stay on foot, but for some reason keep balance and can shoot straight.
- Your significant other thinks, that polygamy is totally fine.
- A bottle of moonshine is your favorite medicine for most diseases.
- You think, that wild animals, even foxes and wolves are delicious too.
- You possess more firepower than soldiers in most countries.
- You can curse like a sailor and be polite at the same time.
- The night is spent by you either with videogames or party, but rarely in bed.
- You just can't get rid of the itch in your trigger finger, when visit conservative countries.
- Your diet and reckless lifestyle made you somewhat resistant to many poisons.
- You are somewhat nocturnal and won't mind if you lack sleep.
- At the same time you drink, smoke hemp, gamble and work. Without any loss of efficiency.
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Skyhooked is MT/PMT with a few FT elements. Military is factbook only. NS stats are mostly non canon.
If you wanna know more about this haven of sin: https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=418281&start=1

Our country offers: Alcohol, guns, cigars, weed, gambling, beaches and tons of souvenirs. And our current special: PL-74 Plasma rifle 25% discount!

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Skyhooked is at war with Octavia, still holding agaisnt endless hordes of robots, vampires and traitors of humanity!/Global Defense Council was formed to help Earth hold agaisnt invasion./Luckily, we survived long enough and forces of Mandate of Humanity have arrived. (https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=484352)

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Deutsch Mitteleuropa
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Posts: 324
Founded: Dec 27, 2016
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Postby Deutsch Mitteleuropa » Mon Apr 10, 2017 2:45 pm

You know you are from Mitteleuropa when...

- You un-ironically wear a uniform from the 19th century
- You are capable of thinking straight after three one-liter glasses of beer
- You smoke cigars and pipes a lot (sometimes with very questionable plants inside), but get very uncomfortable around cigarettes
- You are completely free of all prejudice but still refer to all groups by their derogatory names
- You disagree with what vegans say so much that you don't even really want to defend their right to say it
- You have your own personal armory with the potential to wipe a medium-sized village off the map
- Your car drinks more booze than you do
- You street race legally
- You will happily chant "Gott mit uns" even if irreligious
- You voluntarily joined the Army at the age of 16, even though by that time you knew more about physics than anyone in 1920
- You own a Zweihänder
- You in normal life are more hammy than Darth Sidious in SW: Episode III
- You don't have anything resembling a sleep schedule whatsoever
- You wear a short-range stabbing weapon as your hat
- Your mere existence triggers foreigners
I do not use NS Stats.
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The Berliner News: Mitteleuropa grants limited sovereignty to its regions based on nationality | Yet another constitution | The Kaiser still hasn't grown hair on his face. What a wuss!

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Ventalia
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Posts: 663
Founded: Jul 19, 2014
Civil Rights Lovefest

Postby Ventalia » Mon Apr 10, 2017 3:03 pm

You know you're from Ventalia when...
-You suspect a perfectly normal baguette is in fact too short or narrow.
-You are irrationally bothered when there are only TWO types of brie or camembert at the store.
-You light a cigarette mid conversation and then light a second because you forgot you're already puffing on the first.
-Dinner isn't dinner without some grape-based alcohol.
-You huff, shake your head, and glare at people who misbehave publicly but otherwise don't do a damn thing about it.
-Only you are the perfect driver. Everybody else is a moron. Never-mind all the dings and scratches on your car - those just add character.
-You make various affirmative but slightly unhappy sounds to show agreement or acknowledgement in a conversation that is lasting too long.
-A coffee isn't a coffee if it was ordered as "coffee."
-The creeping uncertainty of existence makes itself especially obvious on beautiful days.
-You think everybody everywhere is trying too hard.
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Devilishly handsome Spaniards & French folk qui parlent français.
This nation represents my views taken a step too far. NS states are a general guideline for direction.
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Jovian Socialist Republic
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Posts: 221
Founded: Feb 11, 2016
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Postby Jovian Socialist Republic » Mon Apr 10, 2017 3:12 pm

You know you are from Jove when...

  • When you tell people you know 5 languages (Qolravit, Klesbic, Jovian, English, Russian), they stand in shock and disbelief.
  • When you tell people you like mustard, they also stand in shock and disbelief.
  • You give people the finger when they cut you off on the road, but they yell back "sorry" instead of flipping you back.
  • When you were bored in 4th grade history class, you started doodling quadratic equations in your notebook.
  • Tourists commonly speak English with you, but they have trouble understanding the slang and ask "do you actually speak English".
  • You eat roasted crickets daily.
  • Your car is hydrogen-powered, your house is hydrogen-powered, the town you live in is powered by nuclear energy, and the name of the city nearby is unpronounceable to non-Jovian speakers.
  • Your name is mispronounced all the time when you leave the country. "How do you pronounce Natzhkaphx? Is it 'nats-ha-kap-hux'?" "Haha, no, it's actually pronounced 'NATZH-kaf'."
Don't understand me? Here's all about our language


♃ JOVIANAN WAZLEK ♃
H́ovêen Ŕepoblaq
Jovian Republic
Джовиазкая Республика


Pro: Capitalism, Libertarian Socialism, Science, Education, Bernie Sanders, USA, EU, LGBTQ+
Anti: Stalinism, Fascism, Religious Intolerance, Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump

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Subservience
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Posts: 4
Founded: Apr 03, 2017
Ex-Nation

Postby Subservience » Mon Apr 10, 2017 4:17 pm

You know you are from Subservience when...
-You have an inferiority complex and feel like you have to be under someone at all times.
-You are either a stereotypical French maid or a stereotypical English butler.
-You work part time as an assassin.
-You are one hell of a servant.
-Either Alfred from Batman or Sebastian from Black Butler is your idol.
-You only call loved ones by their first name unless given permission. Everyone else gets "Mr. Bradlet", "Mrs. Jimima", "Mr. Tuckitts"
-You are always on time and carry a pocket watch with you even though iPhones exist.
-You will kill for a good cup of tea.
-You take your hygiene so seriously you always wear gloves
-You would kill someone for insulting bowties.
-You tend to fall in love with your boss at work.
-You have a monocle and you treasure the monocle like your own child.
-Even if you are male you have a very feminime scream.
Rogue nation of assassins, maids and butlers for hire, a nation of submissive people with a need to serve a master.
Tea, sir?

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Anagonia
Senator
 
Posts: 3822
Founded: Dec 18, 2003
Democratic Socialists

Postby Anagonia » Mon Apr 10, 2017 4:37 pm

You know you're from Anagonia when...
-You stare at a Battleship and utter the phrase, "That makes perfect sense in this modern era".
-You visit the gun range every weekend to practice your hunting skills.
-Your state police is the Military Police, and they're pretty cool about stuff except that one time that you beat them at a street race on an unlimited speed road - now THAT was embarressing!.
-Your local state governments have more solidity than the actual national government does.
-You actually enjoy the taste of biscuits in buttermilk.
-You accidently stumbled upon a military training exercise while hiking and somehow managed to subdue to the soldiers until their company commander arrives to apologize for the intrusion.
-You served in the military at a young age due to compulsary military service.
-You live your personal life accordingly in a very libertarian fashion, and take offense to anyone that acts differently, but you're mature enough to understand it's their life and they can live it how they want.
-You despise liberalism - I mean, extremely despise it. The very mention of it starts an Alex Jones breakdown.
-Social Justice Warriors are the butt of every joke, mainly because it's hilarious to assume someones personal life is restricted by the government - yeah right!.
-You're gay and everyones okay with it, and it's not even a national issue because that's your personal life so whatever.
-Social Justice Warriors are the butt of every joke, partially because it's hilarious to assume someone has the right to enforce their moral values on someone else.
-You live according to the traditional moral values of the reigning religious authority, and don't find this contradictory at all.
-The point of worship for your religious authority actually has a manifested physical entity to worship. Not that you insult other religions, because who does that?
-Some guy screamed you were an Imperialist Pig. You found it funny. Also he was an immigrant. You found him repulsive and a degenerate to society and existance.
-You're just discovering what social media is and are presently having an Alex Jones breakdown.
-You're having an Alex Jones breakdown, but only because someone threw a cigeratte butt down on the grass within a national park. You are now planning to seek revenge on this affront to the national beauty of the nation.
-You dress and live in similar 1950's era to the US.
-You're extremely racist to illegal immigrants - mainly because you have a gun and can enforce border laws because that's illegal to cross onto my lawn get off it now!.
-You fought the law - and won. How you won is still a mystery because the law had a tank, two helicopters, and several hundred men. However you managed to round up the entire neighborhood and practically started a rebellion.
-You tried to start a rebellion, but after the government backed down you got bored and went back to fishing.
-Some guy in your neighborhood stood up for their rights, so you grabbed your gun and stood up for your right to stand there. You don't even remember why you were there. It was fun, though. Everyone had a beer, even the Military Police.
-You were just doing your job as a Military Policeman to take in a guy who "accidently" punched a known liberal in the face. You thought it was funny and an easy pull in until the entire neighborhood stood up. Now you're having a beer with the man you were supposed to arrest. He's a pretty cool guy actually.
-You look at a submarine and think it'd be cool to mix two different era's into one. What, that isn't acceptable? Who the hell are you to-.
-You look at a tank and think it'd be cool with more cannons.
-Your neighbors truck has a machine gun on it.
-Your neighbor has a odd fetish at staring at your machine gun atop your truck. Seriously, it's getting creepy...
-Feminism is a joke because that one time you told your wife to make you a sandwich, she punched you in the face and made you make her a sandwich.
-You fear the opposite sex more than you do your own.
-Some guy decided to beat on his wife/spouse/lover/same-sex partner. He looked pretty good before the beatings he took from the neighbors.
-You decided to beat your wife/spouse/lover/same-sex partner because they didn't make you a sandwich. Your partner decided to inform the neighbors. You're not only in the hospital for a very long time, but also under threat of legal action should you return to said neighborhood.
-Your spouse/lover/same-sex partner/husband decided to beat on you. Feeling very vulnerable and weak, you informed your neighbor like a good citizen. Your neighbor formed a posse and defended your rights appropriately. You are now recovering and bunking with said neighbor until you feel comfortable to live alone again.
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Founded: September 14th, 0 AUR
Capital: Liberty, State of Liberty, CSA
President: Mileethus Canisilus
Population: 430.5 Million Anagonians
GDP: D$34.1 Trillion
The Confederate States of Anagonia (MT/PMT)
An autonomous unity; A Confederate Republic whole.
Left-leaning Libertarianism - Human/Non-Human Society
Current Canon Year: 108 AUR (2034 AD)
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Pampersburg
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Posts: 73
Founded: Sep 28, 2016
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Postby Pampersburg » Mon Apr 10, 2017 5:00 pm

You know you're from Pampersburg when...

• There's no such thing as dressing "appropriately" for your age.
• Holding hands with your friends in public isn't weird, but shaking the hand of someone you just met really creeps you out.
• Things that offend you are always met by a raised eyebrow and a disapproving groan.
• You refuse to rent in a neighborhood without at least one adult playground.
• Having to work on Halloween is far more depressing than during any other holiday.
• Your first job was selling "homemade" candy to gullible tourists.
• You learned to how to swim before you could walk.
• You may never have been properly potty trained.
• You have a family member who is or was a "famous" pirate, and they totally are the best there ever was.
• Screaming "plunder" in a crowded public space is as catastrophic as screaming "fire".
• When outsiders accuse you of being childish you respond by silently giving them a thumbs up, and they never realize how offended they actually should be.
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✩ King Jarvis of Pampersburg ✩
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Voimare
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Posts: 8
Founded: May 14, 2016
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You know you are from Voimare when......

Postby Voimare » Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:08 am

You know you are from Voimare when...

- You are fluent in three languages
- You know how to read, write, and translate texts from at least one of the country's dead languages
- You don't know how to drive any vehicle. Like, at all
- You think that there's no such thing as bad weather, only bad clothes
- The idea of money scares you
- You can have a conversation with anybody
- You were encouraged to talk to strangers as a child
- You get asked if you're a robot while in other countries
- You have never tasted meat- other than fish and insects
- You've also never tasted coffee or anything deep-fried
- Your parents had you when they were thirty
- 'A short walk' means 'a five hour hike'
- You think people who litter are the scum of the earth
- You can't bring yourself to tell the whitest of lies
- You didn't know that cigarettes existed
- You wash your hands incessantly
- Literally all dairy products are considered 'children's food'- except ice cream
- You have never been in an argument
- Electrical lighting scares you
- You wake up at 5:00 am on weekends- and go to bed at 7:00 pm
- You go on a mushroom trip once a month
- Your arms are covered in doodles
- You can greet every librarian in the country by first name
- You're writing a book
- You're pursuing your third university degree for fun
- Cod-liver oil is non-negotiable
- You have impeccable posture
- You drink more green tea than water
- A three hour movie is too short
- Gossip travels faster than light in your family
- You were forced to learn how to paint, draw, sculpt, dance, sew, sing, and play two instruments from an early age
- You know enough about the human body to be a doctor
- Half your friends are AI
- You lost your virginity to a robot
- You learned quadratics at the age of 8
- You can type with ease on three different keyboard layouts
- You read three books a week
- You don't do small talk
- You go to the public baths once a week to socialize
- You are always on time
- You quote centuries-old texts in everyday conversation
- Efficiency is your middle name
- You hate clutter. In fact, you're borderline OCD
- You don't really get the concept of 'dating'
- You think an automated, labourless economy is normal
- You get angry at any perceived injustice
- You have a personal blog and an art blog... and some other sort of blog
- You think that the words 'private' and 'enterprise' should never be in the same sentence
- You've had sex with your own gender and the opposite gender, regardless of your sexual orientation
- If you're a woman, you go to beaches topless
- You are used to a thousand different variations of the same food
- You've been to countless live performances
- You think that any journey over two hours is incredibly long
- You are an organized pack-rat
- You have a big aquarium or snail garden somewhere in your house
- Your parents are obsessed with plants
- You have an edible flower solarium built into your house
- You randomly break out into song/dance
- You made your own clothes
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UKCS
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Posts: 838
Founded: Oct 04, 2016
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Postby UKCS » Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:19 am

You know you are a Soviet if;
You have a hammer and sickle pillowcase.
You have secret fantasies involving Stalin.
You Read, then burn, then regret burning, 1984.
You burn bibles for fuel.
You have at least 15 LGBT people in your street alone.
You wrestle with Siberian tigers.
You are so confused as to your nations politics, that you might accidentally say "sieg heil" then get swamped by a horde of angry politicians.
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I am female. Refer to me as a female, please. Call me Megan.
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Any semblance of the old nation(s) no longer exists. This new nation is approximately 260 years after the last update to the former incarnation of this account. It was physically painful to delete all those factbooks....

Authoritarian socialist, British, and damned proud of it. The SNP are traitors, don't be fooled.

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The Rossinite Empire
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Posts: 74
Founded: Feb 17, 2015
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Postby The Rossinite Empire » Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:27 am

You Know You Are From the Rossinite Empire When...
Everyone has either an English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Australian, Kiwi, Indian or South African accents or all together
There's a fish and chip shop at every corner. Don't forget tea shops, chemists and cheese shops!
Everyone has nostalgia for the Queen, the Royal Family and the British Commonwealth
The national virtues of dominion, autonomy and association are held to a t!
One must choose between a cowboy hat or a bowler hat on a day out.
Pro: Capitalism, NAFTA, Israel, National Sovereignty, Libertarianism, Brexit, Euroscepticism, Patriotism, Low Taxation, Property Rights, Neo-liberalism, Non-Interventionism, Fiscal, Cultural Conservatism & Libertarianism, Civil Libertarianism, Conservative Party of Canada & UK, UKIP, Libertarian Party USA, CANZUK, Unionism, Monarchism, Protestantism, Laissez-Faire Economics, Minarchism
Anti: Socialism, Antifa, BDS, BLM, Left-wing politics, United Nations, Globalism, Green Politics, Identity Politics, European Union, Kyoto Protocol, High Taxation, Liberal Party of Canada, New Democratic Party of Canada, Democratic Party USA, Labour Party UK, Republicanism, Communism, Fascism
Neutral: Donald Trump, Republican Party USA

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UKCS
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Posts: 838
Founded: Oct 04, 2016
Ex-Nation

Postby UKCS » Tue Apr 11, 2017 1:31 am

The Rossinite Empire wrote:You Know You Are From the Rossinite Empire When...
Everyone has either an English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, Australian, Kiwi, Indian or South African accents or all together
There's a fish and chip shop at every corner. Don't forget tea shops, chemists and cheese shops!
Everyone has nostalgia for the Queen, the Royal Family and the British Commonwealth
The national virtues of dominion, autonomy and association are held to a t!
One must choose between a cowboy hat or a bowler hat on a day out.

I just had a little bit of a Brit meltdown.
The good kind. Then again, I am British.
I am female. Refer to me as a female, please. Call me Megan.
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Any semblance of the old nation(s) no longer exists. This new nation is approximately 260 years after the last update to the former incarnation of this account. It was physically painful to delete all those factbooks....

Authoritarian socialist, British, and damned proud of it. The SNP are traitors, don't be fooled.

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Alizeria
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Posts: 1434
Founded: Jan 03, 2009
Ex-Nation

Postby Alizeria » Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:40 am

If you're Alizerian...

  • You're not a republican. You adored John IX and though you may or may not disapprove of Nikolas II and his shenanigans, you certainly couldn't imagine having a President instead.
  • You are familiar with all the Cornellian and Auroran pop culture references relevant to your age group. Most of TV and movies you watch, and the music you listen to tends to come from particularly Adiron and New Edom.
  • You're also familiar with much-revered Alizerian television comedies such as Who Killed the King?, Leaky Homes, The Bishop of Lamb Street and I Married a Sheep and you consider Alizerian comedy to be superior to that of any other nation.
  • If you're over a certain age you might be a bit stuffy about all these foreign television shows, and refuse to watch anything but ATV.
  • You're not at all interested in baseball, basketball or American football. If you're male you know everything there is to know about real football, which you would never dream of calling soccer, and probably about rugby union too. If you're upper class you may be partial to cricket or golf.
  • You consider yourself fortunate to get five weeks vacation in a year, though you understand the government are thinking of dropping it down to four weeks

The land of emerald fields and grey skies...

  • You probably believe in God and attend church semi-regularly. However you prefer to keep your faith to yourself and think that nations like New Edom take religion far too seriously.
  • You think of all takeaways and fast foods as being cheap, even though in reality they're usually quite expensive
  • You own a telephone and a TV. Your place is heated in the winter and has its own bathroom. You do your laundry in a machine. You don't kill your own food. You don't have a dirt floor. You eat at a table (or around the TV), sitting on chairs.
  • You refer to the smallest room as the 'toilet'. You understand a reference to the "bathroom", but would use that for the (possibly separate) room where you take a bath. You usually use the euphemism "Emptying the tank" to refer to what you are going to do in the toilet.
  • You don't consider insects, dogs, cats, monkeys, sheep, or guinea pigs to be food. In fact it is very possible you are a strict vegetarian. If you do eat meat it is probably either beef, pork, chicken or fish. While you know Alizeria exports lamb meat overseas, the idea of eating lamb yourself makes your stomach churn.
  • It seems natural to you that the telephone system, railways, airlines, and power companies are government run or run by government enterprises although you are probably in favour of privatisation and market deregulation, especially if you live in Krostuk and you can see that things are changing.
  • You expect, as a matter of course, that the phones will work. Getting a new phone is routine.
  • The train system in Alizeria is excellent but it doesn't stop you complaining about it. You most likely commute by train, maybe by bus.
  • If you're upper middle class or live in a rural area you own a car, and you drive on the left like in all civilised nations.

For King, Church and Country...

  • Voting is compulsory in general elections, though luckily not in local elections, which is good because local elections tend to be confusing to anyone who doesn't have a PhD in political science.
  • You consider a two-party system natural. You consider voting for a third party to be "wasting your vote" and would only do it as an act of protest against the two major parties. While there have been calls to adopt proportional representation, you don't see any reason why the voting system should be changed.
  • You are either a "Tory" (Conservative) or a "Whig" (Liberal). "Liberal" in Alizeria means centre-right, not centre-left, while most Conservatives are also socialists.
  • You probably don't think that the House of Nobles and House of Clergy do anything and would like to see them abolished.
  • You might be a socialist but you don't call yourself one. You're yet to hear any coherent argument against capitalism, and communism is pretty much unthinkable.
  • You think most problems could be solved if only people would put aside their prejudices and work together.
  • You take a strong court system for granted, even if you don't use it. You know that if you went into business and had problems with a customer, partner, or supplier, you could take them to court.
  • You may have learned a bit of Latin or German in school, but everyone speaks English nowadays so why learn a foreign language?
  • You think that an income tax of 67% is ridiculously high and you are looking forward to promised income tax cuts and the implementation of sales tax. Of course you don't want taxes cut too much, lest you lose essential government services.
  • School is free and compulsory through high school (although you may have gone to Private School), university is heavily subsidised but still expensive. You may not have gone to university - it's not considered absolutely necessary as long as you have some other route into employment.
  • Mustard comes in jars. Shaving cream comes in cans. Milk comes in glass bottles delivered to your door, or in cardboard cartons.
  • The decimal point is a dot. Certainly not a comma.
  • A billion is a thousand times a million.

Brave Little Alizeria...

  • The date comes first: 9/12/1868 (and you know what happened on that date)
  • You are immensely proud of the way that your tiny island country stood up to Tiberius Gallus in the 1860s. You always attend memorial services on Independence Day and although you are usually reserved, with a stiff upper lip, Independence Day can sometimes evoke strong emotions.
  • Despite this, you actually consider St. Jeff's Day on July 22nd to be Alizeria's national day, and you revel in the parades and the excuse to go out drinking heavily.
  • You seriously expect to be able to transact business, or deal with the government, without paying bribes.
  • You expect marriages to be made for love, not arranged by third parties. Getting married in a church is a requirement, even if you're not religious or Christian. You have a best man and a maid or matron of honour at the wedding-- a friend or a sibling. And, naturally, a man gets only one wife at a time.
  • If a man has sex with another man, he's homosexual. As long as he keeps it private he should be okay.
  • Once introduced to them you call everyone by their first name, from the Prime Minister down. The exceptions to this are clergy and nobility, although you're not sure that the latter even exist anymore.
  • If you're a woman, you are very modest with your dress. The most risqué thing you would consider doing would be going barefoot at the beach. The idea of sunbathing topless is absolutely absurd.
  • If you're a man, a sense of sartorial elegance is as essential as a sense of humour. Usually you will carry a top hat and cane or umbrella, at the bare minimum you will wear a blazer or tweed jacket.
  • If a politician has been cheating on his wife, you'd expect him to resign immediately.
  • You can use your ATM card to make electronic purchases at stores and even withdraw money from their cash registers. Therefore you carry only a small amount of cash and use credit cards only for major purchases or for ordering things over the Internet.
  • A company can mostly fire who it wants, as long as there is good grounds for doing so.
  • Labour Day is usually held in April, although no one is entirely sure why.

Four seasons in one day...

  • You always carry an umbrella with you, regardless of the weather. You know how quickly the weather can change in Alizeria and you don't want to be caught unprepared.
  • You like your bacon soft, assuming you eat meat at all
  • You have a strong belief in the Alizerian film industry, and think that all Alizerian artists - from authors to musicians - would probably do a lot better if the government supported the arts more.
  • Privatisation of the public health service is absolutely unthinkable. You can count on excellent medical treatment in an emergency, but you vaguely expect a wait of decades for anything non-urgent. You might have private health insurance to get around this. You think of the health service as run-down and shambolic, yet you know you're not going to die of any Third World disease. Dying at 65 would be a tragedy.
  • You went over some Alizerian history at school, and very little from anywhere else.
  • You hear about the military only when the wings fall off their planes, or the army fail to shoot a wild dog. You don't expect the military to fight wars, much less run for office, though you may support Alizerian involvement in peacekeeping missions.
  • Most Alizerian celebrities are either authors or comedians, though you may also be aware of lofty historical figures such as the Duke of Everton or Walter Ellis-Ashby.
  • Alizeria was an outpost of the Cornellian Empire until 1868. While it was never directly conquered, it was also never completely independent until 1868.
  • You're overwhelmed by the sudden variety of options in everything you buy. A few years ago, before the market was deregulated, there weren't many options and everything was overpriced.
  • You usually use the metric system, except when measuring height in which case you use the imperial system. If you're over 40 you probably use the imperial system.
  • Chat shows are one step below being full-scale freak shows given the kinds of people who appear on them. You only watch them when international celebrities appear on them.

We're not all sheep, you know...

  • You are not a farmer. Farming is a very prominent industry, though. There are advertisements for sheep drenches on prime time TV, and politicians blame recessions on the weather. You probably know someone with either a full-scale farm or a small paddock with a horse and some sheep.
  • You don't read comic books, but you do enjoy the satirical cartoon strips in your local newspaper.
  • You are just as likely to have a pet sheep as you are to have a dog or a cat
  • While a sense of humour is considered absolutely essential in Alizeria, you find sheep jokes to be clichéd and offensive
  • You strongly distrust all foreigners and you still haven't forgiven the rest of Cornellia for what happened to Alizeria in the 1860s. You believe that foreigners bring nothing but war, crime, poverty and disease with them.
  • You don't consider yourself racist, but you certainly don't want to see any black people or Muslims in Alizeria
  • You may be uncomfortable with Alizeria getting too close to the government of New Edom due to the political instability there or because you're worried your job might be outsourced, however you like the people and almost certainly know someone from New Edom. You do wish they would cover up though.
  • Every time you meet someone from Adiron you complain about how they are "overpaid, over-sexed and over here". You consider them to be arrogant, abrasive and rude although you are grateful to have Adiron as something of an ally.
  • Ossorians are considered humourless, pompous and unfriendly but they are Alizeria's oldest ally and so you give credit where credit is due.
  • You consider Gylias to be a nation of spineless liberal cowards. When someone makes fun of Alizeria you immediately quip "At least we have some backbone, unlike Gylias." You usually holiday there if you can afford it.
  • You would be hard-pressed to name every nation in the region, much less every capital or leader. The only foreign leaders you can name are Tara Silven, Queen Mara and "some guy called Touchstone".
  • If you're middle-class you will visit Gylias or Ceti. If you're more adventurous you might go to Belisaria or Archeron. But most of the time you'll spend your summer holidaying on the west coast, usually in Kingsbay.
  • You consider the Volkswagen Beetle to be a medium sized car.
  • The police are definitely not armed. Even the army usually carry swords rather than guns.
  • If a woman is plumper than average, it doesn't improve her looks.
  • The biggest meal of the day is in the evening.
  • The nationality people most often make jokes about is Gylias or sometimes Rouka-Sol. (You have nothing against Rouka-Sol, other than that it sounds exotic and you know absolutely nothing about it.)
  • There might be parts of the city you want to avoid at night, depending on the city.

Well it's hardly Palatine Palace...

  • You feel that your kind of people aren't being listened to enough in Krostuk.
  • You wouldn't expect both inflation and unemployment to be very high (over 10%) at the same time.
  • If you're older you can probably remember when Alizeria had full employment and the highest standard of living in the region. Things have really gone down since then.
  • You don't care very much what family someone comes from, unless you or they are nobility.
  • The normal thing, when a couple dies, is for their estate to be divided equally between their children.
  • You think of opera and ballet as rather elite entertainments. It's not likely that you're a regular theatre-goer either although you probably do turn out to see the comedies from time to time.
  • Christmas is in the summer. Unless you're Jewish, you put up a tree, spend it with family and give presents. You'll usually have a Christmas barbecue, drink too much, and spend the afternoon lying on the beach semi-comatose.
  • If you're older you'll remember when the Church of Alizeria was a very powerful force. Today its influence has waned considerably.
  • You've left a message at the beep.
  • Taxis are only used by stuffy and pompous middle aged men who work for the Civil Service, and seem to be driven by 12 year old kids.
  • You think the Welfare State is a necessary part of civilised society. You are very proud of Alizeria's human rights record and of the fact that it's one of the oldest democracies in the region.
  • You'll need a Master's degree to be a doctor or a teacher
  • Lawyers spend their time either cheating people out of their life savings or defending criminal scumbags, but they have to do it while wearing ridiculous wigs and gowns.
  • You'll apologise if you're a few minutes late for an appointment, and being an hour late is inexcusable.
  • When talking to someone, you get uncomfortable if they approach closer than a metre and prefer people to be two metres away to be on the safe side. You value your personal space a lot, and the idea of touching is just unthinkable.
  • The only things you expect to bargain for are used cars, houses, and things sold at garage sales.
  • The only times when it's acceptable to show up at someone's place without prior arrangement are when you've had a car accident or if there has been some sort of emergency.
  • When negotiating, you generally say what you think and get straight to the point, but you will try to water down the unpleasant bits with a few jokes.
  • If you have an appointment with someone, you expect to have that person all to yourself and the business shouldn't take more than an hour or so.
IIwiki | Hansard | Foreign Affairs | Q&A
Late Roman Empire wrote:Draconians often joke that they double-inspect imports of Alizerian lamb for signs of coupling.

New Edom wrote:Did you hear about that Alizerian who said he’d eat some sheep’s balls on a bet? He won the bet, but damn did that sheep kick him.

Hittanryan wrote:What do you call a guy with his hand up a sheep's ass? An Alizerian mechanic.

Schottia wrote:While Belisaria is burning Schottia is watching football and Alizeria is teaching sheep to drive.

Shalum wrote:Alizeria, the one place where it's acceptable to be a lady by day, and a freak in the hay.

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Jolasko
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Posts: 77
Founded: Jun 05, 2015
Ex-Nation

Postby Jolasko » Tue Apr 11, 2017 2:49 am

You know you're Jolaskan when...
- You get nervous when the internet goes below 30Mbps
- You have a bottle of wine in your house, no matter the occasion or time
- You get irrationally angry when seeing an advert (Ads are banned on public TV channels and in public spaces)
- You get tense when somebody sits next to you on public transport
- You'd rather go to the pub for a nice chat than go clubbing on a Friday night
- The idea of billionaires in a society where people are starving is almost incomprehensible
- You complain about the existence of the Communist Central Committee, when it doesn't do anything
- You get angry at others who are late, but are too socially anxious/polite to say anything about it
- You get frustrated when abroad and you can't control lights/heating from your phone

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Agenca
Spokesperson
 
Posts: 167
Founded: Nov 17, 2015
Left-Leaning College State

Postby Agenca » Tue Apr 11, 2017 8:20 am

You know you are from Agenca when:
You are a socialist
You believe in democracy
You are anti-Conservative
You like subsidized things
You think bombing Benois is a good idea
"Don't blame me if something goes wrong"
Current Year:2093
Economic Left/Right: -8.13
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.77

Second American Civil War (2068-2076)
Agenca-Sino Conflict (2086)
National Language:English
Founded: March 15, 2077
Capitol:Ithaca, New York
Largest City:New York City, New York
Current Year:2093

offices:https://www.nationstates.net/nation=agenca/detail=factbook/id=804293

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Vice Aesthetic
Political Columnist
 
Posts: 3
Founded: Apr 12, 2017
Ex-Nation

Postby Vice Aesthetic » Wed Apr 12, 2017 5:23 pm

You know it came from Vice Aesthetic when ...

- You are a beautiful Social-Aesthetic
- You feel the vapor, breathe the vapor
- You criticize capitalism and its consumerist and accelerationist ideal
- You love anime from the 80's and 90's
- You wear/use clothes and technology from the 80's and 90's
- You prefer a Walkmen than some new Iphone
- You know the difference between vaporwave, future funk, dreamwave, trapwave, hip hop wave, simpson wave and vhs pop.
- You know it's all in your head ... #420
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A nation in which it advocates less consumerism and less accelerationism based on the rescue of the aesthetics of the 1980s and 1990s.
It is much more than V A P O R W A V E music, it is a social, economic, and political lifestyle with anti-capitalist and satirical bias.

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Yzhubjoe
Lobbyist
 
Posts: 13
Founded: Apr 06, 2017
Ex-Nation

Postby Yzhubjoe » Wed Apr 12, 2017 11:02 pm

You know you're from Yžubjö when:
  • Literally your entire wardrobe is made from the pelts of some woodland creatures or the skin of a whale.
  • You've brought a framed portrait of the Empress to a casino for luck.
  • You have enough rum and mead in your basement to kill an elephant. Or twenty elephants. Or Twenty thousand.
  • You've had to yell at a family for starting to build a camp in your yard.
  • Your church has a massive mural of the Empress covering a significant portion of the interior/exterior.
  • inversely, you've never actually seen a church.
  • The homes in your neighbourhood are: four normal homes, a tree, an igloo, a smattering of yurts, and a whale skeleton with leather on and in it.
  • You were yelled at by an archer in a government building.
  • You spent your paycheck getting a smartphone, only to realise you live in the 3/4 of the nation without cell towers.
  • inversely, you've never heard of a smart phone.
  • Your home:
  1. fell into a river during a strong windstorm.
  2. exploded while dear ol' Granny was practising her aim.
  3. is a tree. Not a tree house, just a tree.
  4. requires mountain climbing equipment to reach your driveway
  5. is at least 50km from the nearest paved road
  6. is buried in snow in the "summer"
Autonyms: (noun) ja Yžubjö, (adjective)ja Yžubjö, (plural) ja Yžubjözi, (nation) Yžubjö
An absolute theocratic monarchy, lead by Empress Zagusam. Pretty much everyone is a tribal of some kind. Exists in PT and MT mainly.
HAIL ERIS! HAIL TO DISCORD! IF THE BUDDHISTS ARE OUR BROTHERS, THEN WHY CAN'T WE EAT THEM?

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Noradvia
Bureaucrat
 
Posts: 47
Founded: Jul 23, 2016
Ex-Nation

Postby Noradvia » Thu Apr 13, 2017 2:36 am

You know you are Noradvian when...

...you met your significant other in a foxhole during basic training.
...you are in a bad mood so you drink a can of beer on the train to work.
...every weekend you either get drunk or go hunting ...or both.
...you wake up at night because you heard your neighbor shoot himself.
...you are the worlds happiest person during summer but get severe winter depression.

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Nortainland
Diplomat
 
Posts: 1000
Founded: Jun 06, 2015
Iron Fist Consumerists

Postby Nortainland » Thu Apr 13, 2017 8:17 am

One knows one is from Great Nortend when...

- one wears hats all the time outside
- one goes to church every weekend and recites the Angelus thrice a day
- one has no idea how to use a computer or mobile phone
- one thinks having a television is really fancy
- one gets up at 6 am every morning to the sound of bells
- one prefers to write letters than use a telephone because it's cheaper
- one sees horses on the road to be more normal than motor cars
- one is surprised that other countries don't use steam locomotives any more
- one addresses every person who is not a good friend or family with Mr, Master, Mrs, Miss or another formal style and has never heard or used 'Ms'
- one is either a Drough or a Scode, both of which are conservative parties.
- one finds imperial measurements easier than metric
- one is baffled why one would want a decimal currency
- one is horrified if a lady enters a church unhatted
- one if living in a town expects milk to be delivered in glass bottles to one's doorstep, letters through one's door and coal through the hatch.

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Fatatatutti
Postmaster-General
 
Posts: 10966
Founded: Jun 02, 2006
Ex-Nation

Postby Fatatatutti » Thu Apr 13, 2017 9:40 am

You know you're from Fatatatutti when...

- you get up in the morning to find a tank parked in your driveway and the crew is cooking bacon on the manifold.
- you can't tell the street from the parking lot.
- every strip-mall contains at least one Bunsmaster bakery.
- there's a Tim Hortons on every corner but it only has one corner.
- the police direct traffic around sleeping ducks.
- in a movie theater the entire audience yells, "Alphonse!" every time a duck appears on the screen.
- you can still vote in the Presidential election even though it was over two years ago.
- most of the TV shows and movies are about ducks and fish - and they're live action.

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Aldina
Diplomat
 
Posts: 508
Founded: Mar 01, 2016
Ex-Nation

Postby Aldina » Thu Apr 13, 2017 2:22 pm

- Your idea of formal dress includes medals and shoulder boards.
- Your child's school book satchel is made from an old Imperial Army breadbag.
- Your shop's front window is blown out by a bomb, and you just sweep up the broken glass and put up a sign reading "More Open Than Usual".
- You met your future girlfriend when she nearly broke your jaw during close-combat training.
- You know how to make bootleg wine in a literal boot. (The foot sweat adds flavor.)
- You have those gas identification posters hanging up in the factory in which you work.
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A slightly retrofuturistic (circa 1980) nation in a Strangereal-esque constructed setting.
All game-generated statistics and policies will be summarily ignored in favor of a good story.
Any posts from prior to late 2022 are to be considered outdated information. (The Imperial Federation no longer exists.)

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Nanakai
Spokesperson
 
Posts: 177
Founded: Feb 22, 2017
Ex-Nation

Postby Nanakai » Thu Apr 13, 2017 4:35 pm

Hey, the sequel of the old thread - nice ^^

You know you're from Nanakaʻi when ...

- you'll never understand why other countries even restrict alcohol, tobacco, marijuana etc. - especially because these things are part of your everyday life.
- you got a gun to shoot terrorists in case of an attempted attack - if you even notice there are some in the islands.
- you know everyone you meet in the streets. If not, they're tourists.
- you're fluent at three languages at least.
- you are surprised that other climate zones have different seasons.
- you say your ancestors were "doing a good job doing dumb things"
- your ethnicity is a minority in your nation
- you answer every second question "I don't care."
A strange island nation with a lot of water surrounding.

What there's to know about this nation - and Why you should come here.

We also have an Embassy Program.

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Blackstone
Bureaucrat
 
Posts: 42
Founded: Mar 01, 2017
Ex-Nation

Postby Blackstone » Thu Apr 13, 2017 6:48 pm

You know you're from Blackstone when

-The phrase "Armored Train Blitzkrieg" is the end all solution to any problem
-You keep reminding your friends with German, France, and Italian ancestry how much they sucked at starting, fighting, and winning wars.
-Literally everyone stops and stares at the passing trains
-You see at least six light machine guns a day on the backs of civilians
-The army has a motorcycle cavalry unit that is equipped with lever action shotguns
-You're confused when a you see a diesel locomotive from a foreign country
-You have to explain to the environmentalists that the steam engine leading the train is electrically fired, not coal fired
-The Emperor himself has two lever action shotguns on him at all times.
-You realize the only reason that we haven't conquered Switzerland yet, even though we surround them, is because they could probably beat us
-The officers in the army have a cut down lever action sniper rifle as a sidearm
-The army still uses lever actions in general
-Air travel is frowned upon
-The army's light machine gun is an up scaled version of a submachine gun (Don't worry, it fires 7.62 NATO rounds)
-Guns akimbo is a viable strategy
-We built a flying train for the hell of it, and are starting to apply the technology to all armored trains
-We still use armored trains
-We love trains to the point of obsession
Home of the self proclaimed best railways on Nationstates.

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