Has the leader of YN done anything noteworthily eccentric?

[Grand Emilia]

Has the leader of your nation done anything noteworthily silly, eccentric or just plain out of the ordinary?
Nothing majorly life-changing, evil, or heroic. Just something that would make the folks reading the news wonder what drugs their leader is on.

For example,

"During the COVID-19 pandemic, Madam Eleanor White surprised the world when she announced that she would feature on Grand Emilian symphonic metal band Ave Karrina's second album, Blackened in Violet, a concept album about Torridon's War, a war that led to the formation of the Commonwealth. She would play guitar and vocals on much of the album, including the album's main single "Bloody Waters", of which all of the proceeds would go towards the nation's vaccine rollout. She later revealed in an interview that she had been close friends with the members of Ave Karrina since her days at university, as they attended Emborough St. Cainnech University together. In the album's liner notes, she is credited as 'Elly White.'"

[Neo Prutenia]

Quite a few of them have they share of unusual life choices and events.

The current Gemeinlaid—leader as you've put it—Friedrich Georg Erikassohn Hohenheimer is colloquially called the "six-string syndic", as he was an accomplished guitar and bass performer of some renown prior to getting into politics. On occasion he likes to play in public, often for charity or to promote arts and culture. He is especially fond of playing together with visiting dignitaries if they happen to also play an instrument. The band he started with—Kaumklang—still exists and although they are getting up there in age they still performs to this day, mostly on a local level, favouring a mix of punk, electronic, and synth styles and genres. The unusual part? Hohenheimer never stopped being a bandmember—he continued performing with the band when time and duty permitted. He kept this secret from the general public for over two decades by performing in drag and playing the electric keyboards. Yes, you can find pictures of the current leader of the Prut Meritocracy dressed as a woman playing a synthesizer in nightclubs, pubs, and similar establishments. He maintains that it was partially for security reasons, and partially to stay in touch with the people. He also claims that it was the best way to unwind and destress from the usual constant pressure and tension in the capital.

The current likely successor for the position of Gemeinlaid, Hauptlaid Korvin Keldeson Lauterbach is also known for some eccentric choices during his career, although most of them occurred in his thirties and early forties, well before he attained his current position and renown. He studied criminology but found academics not to his liking, which resulted in a generally predictable interest and career in law enforcement. Lauterbach managed to work on all levels within the justice system of the PM, having at various times been a police officer, a detective and investigator, a police captain, the police commissioner of Raavsted, etc. Somewhat to his misfortune his pre-politics career was during the nadir of relations between the public and police and at the cusp of the police reform. While he managed to push through that period not only with his career and wits intact but also as one of the recognised reformers and influencers, he did have to wrestle with police defunding for almost a decade. And during this financially inopportune period he had a side hussle to make money—he acted in adult films and related industries. At time he was also a male stripper, a nude model, and an exotic dancer. And he had quite the success, given his exceptional physique and good looks. To this day Lauterbach is the only Prut politician with actual and genuine 'fans', enjoying some popularity and fame with now mature women and the gay male community. His antics helped remove stigma from these professions and created enough goodwill to also encouraged homosexuals, women, and minority groups to become police officers themselves. Lauterbach claims that he's only embarrassed by the fact that he was far more good looking back then and regrets now not having the time to get back in shape. Yet still, it was an eccentric choice of handling budgetary deficits.

[Glevensium]

Grand Duke William Of Hanover dressed up as a “charver”* for a fancy dress party at the University of Bridgeplace.

*Chav.

[Tummylandia and Susistan]

Tummyfart65, the president of Tummylandia and Susistan is known for doing weird things. His most known act was when on April 1st, 2017. He declared that he was going to join the war on drugs on the side of drugs. He said that he will officially smuggle cocaine, weed and meth to the Asia-Pacific region and he will institute a "Reign of Drugs" for his term. After this he says it's a joke and anyone who doesn't understand that it's a joke will be thrown to the Azul river. That is merely one of the most insane stunts he has done from 2012 to the present day.

[Lemsrow]

Well, the most dumb thing he did was… let me pull the file up, might take a few minutes…

Ah, here we go.

File Z15, the “Black Hole Incident”.

Apparently he tried to nuke a black hole in hopes of closing it.

(We are a universal empire, so bear with me please.)

[Middle Zealand]

Everything he does is eccentric to mainstream nations.

He also did something eccentric for his nation’s royals: he went to school.

[United Eastern Vodia]

He's passed a law mandating that all buildings in United Eastern Vodian cities be built in the style of brutalism with any architect not building in this style having a heavy fine placed on them

[Veraguas]

Recently, Veraguan soldiers killed a major Marxist-Leninist guerrilla leader in battle, sawed off his head, and packed it in ice to bring to President Ubico to confirm that said individual was really dead (there had previously been many false reports of his death). The President, obviously pleased with this "gift," proceeded to use the head as a fútbol.

[The New Rio Grande]

Recently, Veraguan soldiers killed a major Marxist-Leninist guerrilla leader in battle, sawed off his head, and packed it in ice to bring to President Ubico to confirm that said individual was really dead (there had previously been many false reports of his death). The President, obviously pleased with this "gift," proceeded to use the head as a fútbol.

Pretty based if you ask me.

[New Eestiball]

New Eestiball switches locations every Wednesday, alternating between it’s normal spot and anywhere else on its planet, due to a mineral in the crust under it. One Wednesday, Juan Quentin de la Salsa Verde was campaigning in the spot directly over the mineral, and when the location switched, it somehow cloned him.

[Crimson Tree]

Where the f*ck do I begin with world-renowned mad scientist and research director of the largest multiversal research laboratory even the SCP Foundation would shit themselves upon seeing, Dr. Chisana Akagi MD?

Her entire existence for one is eccentric. She's a 4'0" tall jackalope humanoid with a fondness for the hardest alcohols almost antithetical to her fluffy exterior, whose psyche had long since shattered due to years of abuse and undiagnosed mental conditions. I think that on its own is 'noteworthily eccentric."

Oh, but it doesn't end there, oh no. Since she was a child, she was eccentric. Every time she ran from her abusive home she'd return to an abandoned scrapyard she claimed as her den. Intruders would have rotten vegetables and rusted scrap pelted at them by automated turrets that spouted lines from her favourite anime when alerted. Huge rube goldberg machines towered above her head, serving no real purpose. And don't touch the old tin labelled with a skull inside her bedroom in the den. The unstable quantum processor inside is still her greatest treasure to this day, and the slightest knock could potentially wipe a city out.

Even during her teenage years in the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology, she was eccentric. In the cybernetics lab she'd invent horrific metal monstrosities capable of tearing a man in half with its pinkie, or prosthetics built in with miniature howitzers. Nothing could stop her reign of terror even after she got her doctorate.

Years passed as she invented wild and wacky medical solutions only her giftedly broken mind could conceive at Red Keep Solutions. The only thing stopping her was the old research director... but when he died and left the company to her, Red Keep changed forever. FTL, multiversal communications, the Akagi Project which Crimson Tree was founded with - within two short years Red Keep Solutions had become a powerhouse of mindbending and dangerous technology. It remains one to this day.

So if you ask me "Has the leader of your nation done anything noteworthily eccentric?"
Yes. Yes she has.

- Jennifer W, Leader of the Crimson Tree Culture Committee

[Upper Tuchoim]

Yes. Upper Tuchoim's flag did not have an AK47 originally. In 1982, the First Tuchoimi Civil War ended after the signing of the Tuchoimi Armistice Agreement with Southern Tuchoims. The following year, the at-the-time President Rin An Bittiag added the AK47 to the flag, to "strike fear into our enemies". That was a particularly bloody year in Upper Tuchoim.

[Crimson Tree]

(i think i wrote too much)

[Grand Emilia]

(i think i wrote too much)

(Naaaah, it was a fun read!)

[New Eestiball]

(i think i wrote too much)

(It was hilarious and thus not too long)

[Veraguas]

Recently, Veraguan soldiers killed a major Marxist-Leninist guerrilla leader in battle, sawed off his head, and packed it in ice to bring to President Ubico to confirm that said individual was really dead (there had previously been many false reports of his death). The President, obviously pleased with this "gift," proceeded to use the head as a fútbol.

Pretty based if you ask me.

"It seems our nations share a common mentality. Perhaps an alliance is an order. We share your total revulsion for Marxism-Leninism. Tens of thousands of Veraguans, men, women, and children alike, young and old, rich and poor, have been abducted, tortured, killed, or otherwise victimized by communist bandits since 1989. We welcome friendship with anyone who will assist us in extirpating this cancer from our homeland."

Lic. Arturo Quintana Araujo
Minister of Foreign Relations

[New Eestiball]

Pretty based if you ask me.

"It seems our nations share a common mentality. Perhaps an alliance is an order. We share your total revulsion for Marxism-Leninism. Tens of thousands of Veraguans, men, women, and children alike, young and old, rich and poor, have been abducted, tortured, killed, or otherwise victimized by communist bandits since 1989. We welcome friendship with anyone who will assist us in extirpating this cancer from our homeland."

Lic. Arturo Quintana Araujo
Minister of Foreign Relations

Not sure if this belongs in this forum. Roleplay perhaps?

[Nomayuki]

Ajimoto Ikuzu and his friends put on Winnie the Pooh costumes and went to battle with Chinese soldiers during the invasion of Manchuria. They then went to Beijing with bulletproof armor under the costumes and then proceeded to take selfies with Chinese soldiers, who they then brought back to Nomayuki as Prisoners of War. Before they left, Ajimoto Ikuzu himself went to the Zhongnanhai while Xi Jinping was sleeping and then put another Winnie the Pooh costume on him. He then took a selfie with Xi and then went back to Nomayuki. He then posted the photo to social media and put it on screen billboards all over Nomayuki, from the M11 passing through St. Petersburg to Times Square in NYC.

[Washington-Columbia]

President Alex in the 1990s got really drunk at a party and while trying to go to brush his teeth, grabbed onto the sink and managed to pull it off, and then lobbed himself off a balcony into a pool, with the sink in his hands.

[Aerlanica]

Jonathan Blinds, in the Cape Of Good Hope RP has done a lot.

Notable examples include:
- Needed to call foreign nations while any long-range communication in the country was shut down, so he jumped in a plane, flew just outside their airspace, and radioed the fighters that were sent to intercept him to call their leader. This was during a time of heightened tensions, and he could have been shot down at any given moment.

- Passed a bill giving some rights to sentient and highly intelligent wolves.

- [REDACTED]

- Pranked the leader of an intergalactic empire into sending half his navy into blackholes and neutron stars.

- Got infuriated that the show trial to sentence him to life imprisonment after he was captured by wasn't executed properly, criticised everyones acting, and called for a reshoot.

- Criticised the leader of an escoteric eldritch cult about the architecture of his base, while also swindling the eldritch entity out of the city he controlled with a treaty (in which he asked for ten potatoes to randomly appear on the desks of various leaders for reasons unknown)

This is because Jonathan survived a particularly nasty chemical weapon attack during the Aerlanican Civil War and that sorta screwed over his brain so he's a bit off his rocker, as any sane individual wouldn't do half the stuff he's done.

[Incelistan The Dearest]

ElliotLover canonically changed his surname to Rodger in order to fell closer to Elliot and hornyposted about him on the forums he modded daily.

Double-S canonically owns an Adolf Hitler themed mattress.

[Kivoas]

Former President Fidel Valdez Ramos took part of multiple Cartel Plaza raids along the Kivoas Federal State Police Special Tactical Unit, The Kivoas Marine Commandos and B-1 unit. Multiple News leaks said, when they arrested one of the Cartel Bosses, He shoved his GR6 AR in his face and pulled the trigger (but he ran out of ammo) which made the suspect crap himself and plead for his life. This event introduced psychological warfare into the police force, which scared most people who decided to join the Cartels or take part of any criminal acts. It's even said, he picks two suspect's, take them about 15 or 30 feet into the air, in thier C-130KH. Hangs them out of the side of the paradoor and toys with them to get information out of them, then throws them out of the plane still in handcuffs.

[Henren]

Current Caretaker of Henren Henry J got really high one night where he made a video mumbling about why all the other countries couldn’t get along, and called for all war to end.

[DiaperLand]

Our leader, General Andrew Wetmore, is usually a very proper military man. But during the Carnival Park Music Festival he made a surprise appearance on stage with DJ Ricky Jacks, a super popular rap artist in our country. He came on stage in his proper military attire as the crowd went into a stunned silence, watching the leader take to the mic as if he were about to give a proper speech. But to everyone's shock he recited the first lines to DJ Ricky's hit single "Dad Likes To Party" before stripping down to his diaper and headbanging to the music, causing the crowd to go absolutely nuts. Animated gifs of the event have now become a popular meme in our country.

[Huffmania]

There’s a lot of things eccentric about mr Schneide. Huffmania was a nightmare before, but Klaus is making it straight up Orwellian. That new bill he signed to brainwash Huffmania’s soldiers is some horrifying shit. I mean seriously this dude’s a fucking psy-this telegram has been interrupted by the huffmanian ministry of information. We assure all listeners that the statements made in this broadcast are false. Thank you for understanding, have a very good day