Answer Above Leader's Question (#2)

[Zitravgrad]

I made a thread like this once. It died, my nation died. BUT NOW I AM BACK!

The rule is easy -- answer the question above you, then leave another question for the folk below. It can be anything as long as it sticks to the forum rules. No flaming, no trolling, etc.

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"No question asked here? Considered the press conference done then."

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"What do you do when you can't answer a question in the press conference?"
Asst. Prof. Adam Yanovich Dresvyanin, Prime Minister of Zitravgrad

[UIS Leviathan]

"i make one of the unpaid interns figure it out, i don't really care"
- Leviathan

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"What's it like being disgusting and fleshy? Do you find your fragile and distasteful body to be acceptable?"
- Leviathan

[Pretty Much God]

"i make one of the unpaid interns figure it out, i don't really care"
- Leviathan

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"What's it like being disgusting and fleshy? Do you find your fragile and distasteful body to be acceptable?"
- Leviathan

"Sometimes when I touch my fleshy bits, they jiggle and that's fun"

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"would you kick a kitten for $30?"

[The Glass Oasis]

“No way.”
-Jxsn
“Why would we do that?”
-Alex


“Do you know what’s in this cake?”
-Jxsn, after being given a cake

[Selviand]

"You'd do it because that fine old geezer asked you to. You're a good chap and you do as your told, isn't that right lad?"

"This here cake is a traditional supper up round Swansea. She's got nothing in her other than one egg, two bags of flour and a bucket of water. The plan is you see, you get all the ingredients ready and fling them into a mixing bowl. Then you scoff whatever winds up in that bowl right down your throat and have a fellow ready with a cuppa tea for when the thing comes shooting back out your guts."
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"I say dear boy does anyone 'round here speak British?"

[Eisenstern]

"Not in the same garbled sense as you, no."
-Vinzenz Kresge, The Iron Hand

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"How often do you travel?"
-Vinzenz Kresge, The Iron Hand

[American Pere Housh]

"Not in the same garbled sense as you, no."
-Vinzenz Kresge, The Iron Hand

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"How often do you travel?"
-Vinzenz Kresge, The Iron Hand

"I travel all over my country."
Hitomi Izumi


"What would you do for a Klondike bar?"
Hitomi Izumi

[Zitravgrad]

"I would pay 15.50 hryvnias at least, 20 hryvnias at most. As a royalty and a man of God, I do not receive bribes."
By God's Grace and the People's Will, His Revered Excellency
Viktor Pavlovich Yaroslav, Grand Prince of Zitravia, Protector of St. Yeruslan's Cross

"Why do you get so tense over ice cream bar?"
Asst. Prof. Adam Yanovich Dresvyanin, Prime Minister of Zitravgrad

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"How do you deal with a socially awkward colleague, with whom you really need to work?"

[The Rapture Republic]

"I would pay 15.50 hryvnias at least, 20 hryvnias at most. As a royalty and a man of God, I do not receive bribes."
By God's Grace and the People's Will, His Revered Excellency
Viktor Pavlovich Yaroslav, Grand Prince of Zitravia, Protector of St. Yeruslan's Cross

"Why do you get so tense over ice cream bar?"
Asst. Prof. Adam Yanovich Dresvyanin, Prime Minister of Zitravgrad

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"How do you deal with a socially awkward colleague, with whom you really need to work?"

”Nothing. They will eventually grow out of that phase in order to be much more productive or maintain stagnant in rank.”
-Chancellor John Mercer


”Would you scarifice your own mother, if you knew the scarifice wiykd save your country from catastrophe?”
-Chancellor John Mercer

[Alpes a Septentrionali Imperium]

“ Maybe, if it where not for the fact my mother died 10 years ago” -Matthieu XV


Why do you/don’t you, support monarchy and everything that comes with it” -Matthieu XV

[American Pere Housh]

“ Maybe, if it where not for the fact my mother died 10 years ago” -Matthieu XV


Why do you/don’t you, support monarchy and everything that comes with it” -Matthieu XV

"I'm not against monarchism. A dictatoral republic works much better than a monarchy."
Hitomi Izumi

"How would you stop a Zombie outbreak?"
Hitomi Izumi

[Nantoraka]

“ Maybe, if it where not for the fact my mother died 10 years ago” -Matthieu XV


Why do you/don’t you, support monarchy and everything that comes with it” -Matthieu XV

"I'm not against monarchism. A dictatoral republic works much better than a monarchy."
Hitomi Izumi

"How would you stop a Zombie outbreak?"
Hitomi Izumi

"Not that hard, really."
"We were experimenting with rabies as a bioweapon last time, which led to a short incident."
"We merely used a gas that targeted decaying brain cells and forcefully liquidated their brains. Easy fix."
-Director Phur'an

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"If there was a catastrophe about to destroy you and your people, and turn your entire nation into a giant glass crater, what would be the furthest and darkest lengths you'd go to avert the catastrophe?"

[Greater Victora]

"This would be one of the few times I would actually utilize Wargod Stage 3 and my full psionic potential to combat the threat. Despite the excruciating pain and possible demise that would come with such a feat I must press on. I made a promise to myself, many years ago, and it is a promise I intend to keep till my final days. So long as blood flows through my veins I shall fight on, no matter the cost to myself" -The Phoenix

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"Do you believe that humans are inherently a good or evil species? To clarify, do you think their are more good or more evil people out there?" -The Phoenix

[Pacomia]

“Eh, it depends how you look at it. Nobody’s really inherently good or evil, and even the best people in the world could be driven to bomb a building if they have one exceptionally bad day. But I do think it’s easier to do a bad thing than a good thing. Even if a bad person has a good day, they might not do good things, it might just be more motivation for them to do bad things. So I suppose there’s more bad people, because it’s easier for them to do bad things.”

-Premier Lide’osa Šaco

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Are you religious? Why or why not? What makes you believe/deny religion, and what can it do for you, good or bad?

[Synne Industries]

“Eh, it depends how you look at it. Nobody’s really inherently good or evil, and even the best people in the world could be driven to bomb a building if they have one exceptionally bad day. But I do think it’s easier to do a bad thing than a good thing. Even if a bad person has a good day, they might not do good things, it might just be more motivation for them to do bad things. So I suppose there’s more bad people, because it’s easier for them to do bad things.”

-Premier Lide’osa Šaco

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Are you religious? Why or why not? What makes you believe/deny religion, and what can it do for you, good or bad?

"Nah, I've done a lot of bad things in my life and I wouldn't be here running a country and a major corporation if I couldn't forgive myself for somethin stupid I did back when I was in my 20s. If I had some moral code to follow I couldn't have been the ruthless capo, businessman and leader I needed to be for my whole life and I'd probably be dead too. It's not that I hate religion, you wanna believe in something? Who the hell am I to stop you, if there really is someone up there and I end up gettin the bad treatment later on cause of some guy I shot or scammed then I guess I'll just have to deal with it."

-Mr. Maxwell Synne

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"How long do you think a medium sized nation could survive with an entirely privatized military? How long do you think yours could?"

-Mr. Maxwell Synne

[Democratic Exodian Territories]

“Eh, it depends how you look at it. Nobody’s really inherently good or evil, and even the best people in the world could be driven to bomb a building if they have one exceptionally bad day. But I do think it’s easier to do a bad thing than a good thing. Even if a bad person has a good day, they might not do good things, it might just be more motivation for them to do bad things. So I suppose there’s more bad people, because it’s easier for them to do bad things.”

-Premier Lide’osa Šaco

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Are you religious? Why or why not? What makes you believe/deny religion, and what can it do for you, good or bad?

"Nah, I've done a lot of bad things in my life and I wouldn't be here running a country and a major corporation if I couldn't forgive myself for somethin stupid I did back when I was in my 20s. If I had some moral code to follow I couldn't have been the ruthless capo, businessman and leader I needed to be for my whole life and I'd probably be dead too. It's not that I hate religion, you wanna believe in something? Who the hell am I to stop you, if there really is someone up there and I end up gettin the bad treatment later on cause of some guy I shot or scammed then I guess I'll just have to deal with it."

-Mr. Maxwell Synne

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"How long do you think a medium sized nation could survive with an entirely privatized military? How long do you think yours could?"

-Mr. Maxwell Synne

“You’d have to ask my acquaintance down in Chile to get her own opinion, as she runs her country with a largely privatized military, but if I asked some of my friends in the business, such as Xavier [Xavier Hall, CEO of Hellfighter Private Security], he’d probably jokingly call me a fascist statist and insist I hand over the Ministry of Defense to him.
As long as there isn’t infighting between the companies, sure- hell, they’d know how to balance a budget better, and I know many brave men and women who are employees of PMCs who fight almost, if not just, as hard and patriotically as our enlisted. However, research and development might slow without government guidance, and knowing Xavier, he’d probably blow his share on modernized Shermans to replace our Provocateur fleet because “they work”...
-(Former) Governor William Shang

“How do you deal with the stresses that come with leading a nation? Hobbies, meditation, God? Or something else, a combination of them or more?”
-(Former) Governor William Shang

[Kyoki Chudoku]

“I have a few hobbies. I...alright, I admit, I used to kind of, well, torture people. I’m not proud of it these days, but it was a thing. I’m a bit of a sadist, see, so doing that helped a lot. I was quite depressed at one point and realised that it just...it didn’t help. I mean, I tried love to help once but that just ended...horribly. Mainly I bake cookies. It’s the one thing that feels like...creating something, you know? So yeah. Baking.”

-Aozora Chiyumi, Supreme Overlady of All Reality

“Who is the person you hate most, why, and what have you done about it?”

[Nouveau Quebecois]

“How do you deal with the stresses that come with leading a nation? Hobbies, meditation, God? Or something else, a combination of them or more?”
-(Former) Governor William Shang

"If you are stressed from carrying out your divine right as national leader then you need to question the God you've chosen."

“Who is the person you hate most, why, and what have you done about it?”
-Aozora Chiyumi, Supreme Overlady of All Reality

"The devil- if you could call 'it' a person. As for what I've done, it is quite simple actually. Prayed and remained pious."

- Cedric Lesage

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"Why haven't you chosen Christ the King as your lord and saviour?"

[Pacomia]

“Simple- he was a guy on some planet on the other side of the galaxy who preached peace and morality, and ended up becoming worshipped by half his planet 2000 years later. He was just some guy, and some crazy people said he was a supernatural being. There’s just no such thing. There is no supernatural being, there’s just... us. My only lord is myself, and my only saviour is my common sense.

-Premier Lide’osa Šaco

Are you vegetarian/vegan? If so, why?

[Zitravgrad]

"I am not a vegetarian or anything, but I do abstain from meat, dairy and related products on Orthodox fasting days. So I suppose my reason is religious reason."

"Boiling potatoes here."
By God's Grace and the People's Will, His Revered Excellency
Viktor Pavlovich Yaroslav, Grand Prince of Zitravia, Protector of St. Yeruslan's Cross

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"What is your preferred method of transportation, and why?"

[The Hell Legions]

"I am not a vegetarian or anything, but I do abstain from meat, dairy and related products on Orthodox fasting days. So I suppose my reason is religious reason."

"Boiling potatoes here."
By God's Grace and the People's Will, His Revered Excellency
Viktor Pavlovich Yaroslav, Grand Prince of Zitravia, Protector of St. Yeruslan's Cross

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"What is your preferred method of transportation, and why?"

"I find nothing beats teleportation. It doesn't take too long, it's relatively safe, and there's nothing quite like going through a wormhole to get your heart pounding. Of course, it isn't cheap."
- Lucy Fair, Hell Queen of the Sin of Pride

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"Are any of your cities subterranean? If so, why? If not, why not?"

[Nantoraka]

"I am not a vegetarian or anything, but I do abstain from meat, dairy and related products on Orthodox fasting days. So I suppose my reason is religious reason."

"Boiling potatoes here."
By God's Grace and the People's Will, His Revered Excellency
Viktor Pavlovich Yaroslav, Grand Prince of Zitravia, Protector of St. Yeruslan's Cross

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"What is your preferred method of transportation, and why?"

"I find nothing beats teleportation. It doesn't take too long, it's relatively safe, and there's nothing quite like going through a wormhole to get your heart pounding. Of course, it isn't cheap."
- Lucy Fair, Hell Queen of the Sin of Pride

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"Are any of your cities subterranean? If so, why? If not, why not?"

"No, though we've had plans for them. Carving a city inside a mountain or wherever else is an expensive and unrealistic goal. Our only plans for them are potential shelters for a nuclear attack. Lead and stone is notoriously difficult for radiation to get through."

-Director Phur'an

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"In the event of an extraterrestrial invasion, what contingencies do you have?"

[Strahcoin]

"In the event of an extraterrestrial invasion, what contingencies do you have?"

"Oh, one already happened. We defeated them." - leader of Strahcoin

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"Have you ever had the feeling that every policy you enact as a leader, every event that happens in your nation, is merely the decision of an entity from a plane of existence above your own?" - leader of Strahcoin

[Greater Victora]

"I know for a FACT that that is the case. I am literally the play-thing of higher powers. For some reason they find my particular suffering amusing. To make matters worse, they made me essentially impossible to kill and thus my suffering will last for 1,000 years! Anywho.... While my policies are outside of the influence of the Gods, they still have corrupt agents within the Church of the Menti Celesti, which while it does not have any legal standing it is still a major force in politics unfortunately. However it is a proven fact that whatever happens to the Empire is their fault." -The Phoenix

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"What would you do if you had a premonition of your death.... in 50 days. Your death is a fixed point in time and cannot be changed. What would you do in those 50 days?" -The Phoenix

[Zitravgrad]

"As tragic as it appears, it is also highly convenient. 50 days is plenty if I am informed beforehand. Several arrangements can be made, farewells can be spoken and prayers can be held to put my soul at ease and ensure the smooth continuation of our church and state once I am absent. For the last time in my life, I will embrace those who brought me up and stood with me, those whom I consider friends and family. But we all will remain calm. In this nation, we cherish life but stand prepared in the anticipation of the end."
By God's Grace and the People's Will, His Revered Excellency
Viktor Pavlovich Yaroslav, Grand Prince of Zitravia, Protector of St. Yeruslan's Cross

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"Which book(s) inspire you the most?"