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Region: Refugia
Member States can set up treaties for whatever they like. We also have TATATATAAATATA for member states whose name starts with T and ends with A.
Typica, Araine, Jazur, Morrigan, The Blue Fire, Ansgar, Penocamptt
[spoiler=Re: The Rabbit thing]
OOC: Sorry if this is a bit late, I was getting my vaccinations done
What if we brought together all the rabbits together to discuss defense plans, but not allow any rabbits larger than you? Or... actually, how large are you exactly? Bigger or smaller than a wolf? Also, couldn't you have you predator friends protect us from the polar bears? Or at least help with the impossible meat thing.
Ha, the otters certainly wouldn't kill you; surely you're bigger than them. I've seen that some otters do attack rabbits, search it up. Anyways, who should make the machine thing?
...You have made sure that your predator friends won't attack us, right?[/spoiler]
Typica, Melenavenia, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern
[spoiler=Rabbit stuff]
I'm curious about all the new flora I've been missing out on down south. As a very large fluffy rabbit I can access resources that others are unable to, so while I have to eat a lot I can also eat a lot more things more easily.
Predators don't care about what their prey feels, so I understand the fear.
Well, if there is a possibility of there being infiltrators in our ranks it should remain behind closed doors amongst trusted individuals. Though even those we trust could spill the beans if they were caught by a smart predator willing to let them live for information in the expectation that a larger meal awaits them in the future.
I'm not befriending them. It's like chatting with a stranger. They can't hurt me easily and even though they're technically my enemy I [I]could[/I] get hurt if I try to attack them instead. So we talk. It is a strange dynamic, admittedly.
I may be large but I'm not invincible so I think I should be involved. After all, I'm pretty sure I would be a valuable asset in the case of a polar bear attack. I'm about 4 feet (1.2 meters) at the shoulders. And like I said to TPN, it's more of a weird casual stranger thing. Also, I think most predators would still prefer real meat even if it'd be better to go with impossible meat, I mean take a look at humans. I can't control their actions any more than they can control mine.
A few have tried to mess with me. They have learned their lesson. What machine are you talking about?[/spoiler]
Typica, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern
Just gonna let y'all know Her Erminess knows exactly what type of animals y'all are and she's telling me all of them so
look just both of you cut it out or you guys might end up not being rabbits anymore cuz she's about done with y'all's stuff
Delta Vega Iv, Jazur, The Blue Fire
Hi CalRef! Working on some Christmas presents today :3 How's everyone doing?
Chacapoya, Typica, Melenavenia, Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire
Good. We're currently arguing about the identity of some self-proclaimed rabbits.
Since you are a rabbit (I hope), would you maybe be able to weigh in?
Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Melenavenia, Jazur, The Blue Fire
Morrigan is a guinea pig and incredibly offended by this. :P
Delta Vega Iv, Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire
oh
alr then
sorry
Typica, Jazur, Morrigan, The Blue Fire
misgendered but it's species instead
call that mistaxonomised
Chacapoya, Typica, Melenavenia, Araine, Tiralta, Morrigan, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
I committed the first mistaxonomy and am incredibly regretful
Typica, Melenavenia, Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, Morrigan, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
The Tttttttreattttty
Typica, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
Notttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt enough Ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt's. Itttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttt should be called Tttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttthe Ttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttreatttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttttty
darn that was hard to say
my tounge is numb now :(
Typica, The Pacific Northwest, The Blue Fire, Penocamptt
Dalta Vaga Far, ruled by Tiny Niece, the evil twin of Tiny Nephew (ruler of Delta Vega IV)!
Typica, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire
Well, if we do end up having to fight our alt-right opposites, at least you know who you're fighting.
Delta Vega Iv, Jazur, The Blue Fire
this whole exchange made me audibly laugh. thank you guys people living beings for that. having a rough day and this made it better :)
Typica, Tiralta, Morrigan
sorry for the rough day, hope tomorrow's better for you
Typica, The Blue Fire
I went to Manchester to see some comedy and had a nice time!
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Jazur, Morrigan, The Blue Fire
1) I love how people have taken our map and made their own maps with it.
2) If I am to be elected I vow to update the map at least once a month, update the treaties map, and I may also have some plans on unifying the two maps into one, but I want to know how people feel about that first.
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
Im good! Currently taking my lunch break at work (even though its 5pm.) How are you?
Chacapoya, Typica, Tiralta, Morrigan
I hope things ease for you soon!!
That sounds great!! I should go see some comedy, it sounds like a fun time, you have inspired me :P
I'm good!! Working on some Christmas presents! And yessss lunch is nebulous and you should eat it at work whenever would be most inconvenient to capitalism.
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
Sorry New Atlantic and St Leone, it appears as though I accidentally ended the council seat we're all running for.
Your activity or lack thereof is irrelevant to my adversity to the statute. I voted against it at the time, was not consulted, and did not consent to the map management being taken over by another party.
Yes, but I [I]am[/I] responsible for turning the format of the map into a debatable subject. There's probably a decent chance my election bid is in whole or in majority the reason it recently came to your mind.
My intention was to become more active during the upcoming term when Sylh Alanor said that she would be returning to activity during the upcoming term. I have since and so far created three RRS proposals of which this is the third to address issues that I feel the region has (I suspect that I will yet propose more). I intended to campaign for SR 28's repeal as soon as it was passed, but I thought that a term with zero input on my part would best illustrate that it was a poor idea.
I'm pretty sure I'm being intensively mixtaxonomized by multiple individuals just because of my unusual appearance.
Typica, Araine, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
only pretty sure?
Melenavenia, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Martial Law Nation
We cant be too careful though, not when potentially being eaten is on the table
Typica, Melenavenia, Jazur, The Blue Fire
Completely sure.
I'm clearly a rabbit... 🙄
Typica, Jazur, The Blue Fire
TalvezOUT 💜
Tiralta
Wait did I miss something?
What happened?
You can follow the conversation from the original comment here. You can also find the proposed RRS changes eliminating the Councillor of Cartography position on the forum.
Araine, St Leone, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
ahhh ok, thankuu ^^
Typica
Well if it were clear I wouldnt have suspected otherwise. Perhaps if you were smaller and had longer ears and hind feet it would be more obvious?
Chacapoya, Melenavenia, The Blue Fire
I can't change those things... it is what it is.
Typica, The Blue Fire
Does anyone have a way to see previous iterations of the maps? I'm adding a bunch of since-removed nations to my drawn map and I have no way to see where their borders were as it is.
i turned into a machine gun trying to say this
you won
The Blue Fire, Boxiia
....guys why am i in the top five for ideological radicality..?
Penocamptt
Got it, slightly shorter than a polar bear, so you should be somewhere at the back after us average sized rabbits set up our traps as a last line of defense, and no counting on the predators or impossible meat. Actually, if they won't intentionally eat impossible meat, maybe we could incorporate it into our traps. Along with that, do you think that predators have preferences when it comes to the taste of the meat, some kind of trait that we could amplify to make them prefer impossible meat?
Y'know that hair counting machine for the fluffiness thing? That machine.
Melenavenia, The Blue Fire
Under the previous operation structure, I stored all current and past versions of the map on our server:
https://calref.ca/post/ns/map/
Typica, Junitaki-Cho, The Blue Fire
Awesome! tysm
(if this sounds insincere at all pls dont be mad this took me way too long to write)
Typica, Jazur, The Blue Fire
Referendum Notice:
A referendum regarding modification of the Refugia Revised Statutes has been submitted, entitled Thesis 1: Peace In Our Time, authored by Refuge Isle and seconded by Tiralta. Having met all requirements, a vote is triggered at this time and all Member States are entitled to vote on its integration into Refugia's system of law.
You can view the text of the measure here.
Vote today: https://vote.calref.ca/vote/59
Voting ends in one week, on Wednesday November 29[sup]th[/sup] at 10:30 Pacific Time.
Typica, Sylh Alanor, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire
I mean if a predator is hungry enough, of course they'd eat impossible meat. And meat preference usually changes from species to species.
Oh, why can't we just use a ruler or something?
Typica, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern
And you know this how, exactly?
Melenavenia
Experience y'know. Surviving. Get to know your enemy.
Typica, The Blue Fire
So about that whole "getting to know you enemy" thing...
Polar bears are [I]rough[/I] with each other as cubs and usually stick it out alone as adults, save for raising cubs. So the fact that you say you are friendly with several tells me you're either lying to our faces or you have infiltrated a family. If you have, well done, because it should be impossible. Plus, even if you did, somehow, you would surely end up being at least injured by a polar bear cub during a playfight.
Seems like something you would need to know if you were ever even [I]trying[/I] to pretend to be a polar bear, right? So my best guess is that you are neither a rabbit nor a bear but instead a human wearing a polar bear suit with slightly elongated ears.
If I had to guess, probably the smell. Get some bacon grease or something and drizzle it over the top of the meat to give it a meaty smell.
Melenavenia, The Blue Fire
Gasp
Humans occasionally eat rabbits too! The horror!
But why would a human pretending to be a rabbit to infiltrate society for easy prey wear a polar bear costume instead of a rabbit costume?
Melenavenia, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
"How much rain is rain outside in the rain?" [sup]-Me, but I don't know.[/sup]
Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire
My guess is probably he's embezzled it from a high school somewhere and most schools tend not to have passive mascots (except the University of Maryland with their turtles.)
Fursuits are expensive so why spend a ton of money on a fursuit when you can get a relatively cheaper mascot costume and just stretch some stuff.
Melenavenia, Jazur, The Blue Fire
You've partially figured me out. I am just a furry who's initial joke was misinterpreted.
Typica, Araine, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern
So... do you [I]want[/I] to be a rabbit or not?
[/I]
hey wait a minute
Estebere, are you actually a rabbit?
Typica, Melenavenia, Jazur, The Blue Fire
Yes, of course I am
Just a wererabbit though, blame the stoat
I'm not sure there is anyone out there who'd be willing to measure that much fur on a rabbit
Typica, Melenavenia, Jazur, Morrigan, The Blue Fire
No.
But my fursona is so cute uwu owo
Typica, Araine, Tiralta, Jazur
fun fact: polar bear skin is black
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, Morrigan, Aseanindia
Though 'They' look white because of reflection of light
Tiralta, Tuluni, Morrigan
Yeah their fur is actually transparent! (i think)
Tiralta, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Aseanindia
For those who like Shorts Wars, they're starting Season 2.
The ending is in our hands.
For those with national animals, why did you choose your national animal?
For me, it was a desire to replicate European heraldic charges with an animal that has different members of its species typically represented in heraldry. Since I wanted Melenavenia to be a very cold nation it was only natural that I chose the polar bear. There are plenty of examples of bears on heraldic charges, but those are typically brown bears if they aren't just ambigious or fantastical bear species.
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire
My national animal was the red fox for a couple of years but one day I decided that it would be nice to change things up, so I made it my favorite bird species (the northern flicker).
Chacapoya, Typica, Melenavenia, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Boxiia
I chose the komodo dragon simply because it's my favorite animal.
Typica, Melenavenia, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
Hallas are beautiful, majestic creatures that the Elvhen have cared for for millennia. It was a natural choice :itisso:
Chacapoya, Typica, Melenavenia, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire
I originally had Phoenix Park Bears, based off a joke on Irish twitter. Then I realised my bears were flying through my lush skies cause NS caught on to "Phoenix" first, and I decided flying cats would be cool. The "greater" is just cause I thought it sounded better.
Chacapoya, Typica, Melenavenia, Araine, Portmanteau, Jazur, The Blue Fire
When you have beings of destruction that already despise the entire country because it can trace its lineage directly back to the people who burned them in their original, human forms at the stake and can burn down entire countries with a flick of their tails, you kinda need to appease them.
Chacapoya, Typica, Melenavenia, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Izordinia, The Blue Fire
fire (obviously)
and fishing is an important part of culture
Typica, Melenavenia, Portmanteau, Tiralta
Can I Transfer my Member-State Status to my Main Account: [Nation]Istastioner[/Nation] ?
Jazur
If you resign on this account and join WA on Istastioner, you'll become a Member State on Istastioner in seven days
Typica, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
IGUANAS ARE REALLY COOL AND ALSO DUMB so yeah i liek them
Typica, Melenavenia, Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
oh well its been long since I typed here..
noticed we passed 1000 pages :)
Typica, Araine, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern, Pompier-Pyromane, Sinzalia
I chose the Phantom Jellyfish, I wanted my nation to hold it's Waters in reverence so I thought it only natural to make it's animal a sea creature. The Phantom jellyfish was a unique and beautiful choice in my opinion.
Typica, Melenavenia, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Sinzalia
(OOC) I wanted to use flits! Critters I came up with and loved the idea of working into my lore and also my economy!
(IC) They were here first!
Typica, Melenavenia, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
Yea
THEDAY
🤩🎸💖🎻🧞🪈🍁🦚🎷🎷🎷🎷🎷🛸🪩🪇📟🎺🩻🧿🪘🗯️🥁🎼🎹🏳️🌈🇰🇿
Chacapoya, Typica, Sylh Alanor, Melenavenia, Araine, Survivors Win, Portmanteau, Izordinia, Jazur, Morrigan, The Blue Fire, Ansgar, Hasunosora
Regional Anthem suggestion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulkOmhLP7xo
Chacapoya, Typica, Sylh Alanor, Melenavenia, Tiralta, Izordinia, Jazur, Ban Oldern, Pompier-Pyromane
#THEDAY
Sylh Alanor, Melenavenia, Araine, Survivors Win, Tiralta, Izordinia, Tuluni, The Blue Fire
May THEDAY be a grand day to all of you!
Also happy Thanksgivings if you celebrate that.
Chacapoya, Typica, Melenavenia, Araine, Survivors Win, Tiralta, Istastioner, Izordinia, Tuluni, The Blue Fire
Happy Thanksgiving
Typica, Melenavenia, Survivors Win, Tiralta, Izordinia, Tuluni
Sounds good to me.
If this is going to be in a new thesis, may I suggest "The Song of our Birds" (or "The Symbols of our Lands" if multiple new Refugi symbols go in the same thesis)
Melenavenia, Izordinia
I pictured a beefy jock with a fade haircut and grey pants gamboling in a plump meadow and the whole scene just felt lovely~
Melenavenia, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
Fun fact: statistically, according to Survivors Win, on average, 2.3% of people win; that's about 2 people out of 87 people win.
On the other side of things, 30 out of every 87 are disqualified, 35.5 out of every 87 lose due to outside forces, and 19.5 are kicked out by another player
Survivors Win, Tiralta, Izordinia, The Blue Fire
Happy thanksgiving
Typica, Survivors Win, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
To answer the question, the region used to have a lot of beavers before the fur traders got here and one is featured on Oregons (one of the states I combined) flag, and is its state animal.
I also considered a more fantastical route instead, with Bigfoot as my national animal, but decided to go with the more realistic version.
The beavers only became sapient and violent after the nation was inexplicably teleported to Refugia. The appearance of vampires and werewolves and other supernatural beings also happened around this time. Im beginning to think Refugia is just such a magical place that it caused my nation to spontaneously develop supernatural stuff. Hollywood deciding it was already present was just foreshadowing.
Typica, Melenavenia, Araine, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Aseanindia
omg we're gay
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Tiralta, Sempera, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Pantumaca, Sinzalia
if leading a nation wasn't hard enough then joining a school competition is. it's tomorrow i actually am so scared
Typica
THEGAY
Typica, Melenavenia, Araine
celebrate THEDAY THEGAY[/I]
Typica, Melenavenia, Araine
Well mine is tiger cuz its the national animal of India and my nation is India inspired and also I like tigers a bit
Melenavenia, Araine, Tiralta
Are you a furry, by any chance
Typica, Melenavenia, Tiralta, Weirtopia
we be gay!!!!!!
Typica, Melenavenia, Araine, Tiralta
Shall we don our gay apparel ?
Chacapoya, Melenavenia, Araine, Tiralta, Tuluni, Pompier-Pyromane
Rainbows line not only what I own, but what I do, who I am, and we will take over!!!!!
Typica, Melenavenia, Tiralta, Sinzalia
Indeed, we shall! And for the halls, shall we deck them with rainbows as well?
Typica, Melenavenia, Tiralta
maybe unrelated but it was such a nice game :^)
I love the new flag! Whoever made that has talent
Typica, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Pompier-Pyromane
hi i'm new what's the trans agenda here ?
The Blue Fire
-w-
Typica, Araine, Tiralta, Weirtopia, The Blue Fire
You've already received an automated telegram from me, but let me in my human person form welcome you to our region~
Refugia is part of a larger community, Calamity Refuge. If you want to hang out with us, check out our Discord server: https://discord.gg/Rt6uGMsNpr. In the meantime, feel free to hang out with us in Refugia, there's lots to do on NationStates. Become a Member State by joining the World Assembly and hanging around for a week. Youll be able to get a spot on one of the fine maps of Refugia at the top of the page, as well as vote on regional matters and run for Council positions.
Once you've signed up for the World Assembly, you can endorse other nations and build your regional influence. This is easy with our custom tool, Tart.Calref: https://tart.calref.ca/
If theres anything else youre interested in learning about our region or NationStates, feel free to ask!
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Pompier-Pyromane, Sinzalia, Icelets, The Constitutional Monarchy Of Indoletho
You know those nights where you fall asleep and you're happily unconscious for a full 7-9 hours and then when you wake up you feel well rested? That's what I'm aiming for.
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, St Leone, Morrigan, Sempera, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca, Pompier-Pyromane, Sinzalia
When will there be an another Entorting event?
Chacapoya, Tiralta
Sterludi ejected for an RRS 2(d) violation.
Melenavenia, Araine, Tiralta, Morrigan, The Blue Fire
Were having talks about it!
Tiralta, Istastioner
Furry? What's a that?
Tiralta
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