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Region: Refugia
What?
It was the AN out of context. I read in the factbook a message what was exactly like a mod warning. My unaware aah didn't know this so i chucked it in without quotes
Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire
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Chacapoya, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Monkely
Dwarf or elf?
Delta Vega Iv, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Tuluni, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Silliy, Ban Oldern, Letheguard
idk but I think there are probably more elves here?
if its like a prsonal choice thing tho imma have to go dwarves because they literally drink rocks and eat uranium
Melenavenia, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Tuluni, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire
Official press releases from the Elvhen Republic state that dwarves are wonderful people and, we'd say, the best :itisso:
Chacapoya, Melenavenia, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od
I know I'm supposed to pick between the two, buuuuuuuut
Dwelves are a cross breed species of Dwarves and Elves in DnD, who(As last I checked) share the worst traits of both species.
I've heard them described as humans.
Melenavenia, Araine, Portmanteau, Tuluni, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od
I've always found dwarves cooler than elves, but elves can be cool too.
Melenavenia, Araine, Portmanteau, Jazur, Tuluni, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od
Dwarves :D
Melenavenia, Araine, Portmanteau, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od
Both are cool but I prefer elves.
Melenavenia, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, Tuluni, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od
Elves are pompous pricks
A dozen flavours to match and mix
Melenavenia, Jazur, Tuluni, Ban Oldern, Sinzalia, Deg0Od
mean :c
Melenavenia, Portmanteau, Duneraven, Jazur, Tuluni, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Silliy, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od
Elves! Dwarves are just short people. So uncreative. But Elves? They are pompous people. So creative :O
Melenavenia, Portmanteau, Jazur, Tuluni, Uwuguaya, Pantumaca, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od
Not creative? Dwarven crafts are famous for being excellent quality! Solidarity with the workers.
Melenavenia, Araine, Portmanteau, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Ban Oldern, Sinzalia, Deg0Od
ROCK AND STONE
Melenavenia, Portmanteau, Tuluni, Dutchformosa, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od
dwelf.
I'm the worst of both :3
Delta Vega Iv, Melenavenia, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, Tuluni, Uwuguaya, Dutchformosa, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od
Elf, but they're too busy hyperfixating on something stupid to learn magic <3
Melenavenia, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Silliy, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od
ok, but imagine: dwarves, but they're too busy hyperfixating on something stupid to learn how to mine
but why stop there? aarakocra too busy hyperfixating to learn how to fly. leonins too busy hyperfixating to roar. kobolds that are too busy hyperfixating to care about dragons. dragons who are too busy hyperfixating to steal gold to sit on or learn how to breathe fire. kenkus who hyperfixate on getting circular stones out of square holes so hard that they forget they can only say words they've heard before and start fluently speaking in every language at once.
that was the tumblrest thing I have ever written anyway moving on
dwelves are obviously as opposed to erves, which take the ""best"" of ""both"", turn out terrible, and decay within 10^-23 seconds into a Z boson, a strange B meson, and a tauon-antitauon pair.
(nobody will find this funny but me im sure but im posting it here anyway. if you dont like it sorry my brain short curcuited again)
Portmanteau, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Deg0Od
whatever i need to understand to get this joke, i want to learn about it
Delta Vega Iv, Tuluni, Uwuguaya, Dutchformosa, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od
youtube binging-level understanding of quantum mechanics
Delta Vega Iv, Portmanteau, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Deg0Od
cool, i wanted to learn about that anyway
Tuluni, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od
ive never considered this! beautiful
(i get the joke :>)
The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od
Dunedain. They are like elves, only more human.
Melenavenia, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Silliy, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od
Elfs. I like their obsession with the moon and sun, I like bright stones and jewellery made of silver, I like books and magic, and I want lembas bread now. Also, forests. Love the woods.
Melenavenia, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Silliy, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od
I thought the Dúnedain were just human? I know they have a small amount of distant elvish blood but not enough for them to be considered anything other than long-lived men.
Delta Vega Iv, Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od
Youtube binging is basically a level of knowledge now.
I have a Lecture Video Understanding of Making New Elements and Cloning
Portmanteau, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Ban Oldern, Sinzalia, Deg0Od
Hello everyone! Im new here, looking forward for a great time!
Refuge Isle, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Pantumaca, Sinzalia, Deg0Od, Monkely
Post self-deleted by Trassval Emeritus.
levels of knowledge:
level 0: no knowledge
level 1: trivia/fun facts
level 2: basic understanding
level 3: binging lecture videos
level 4: wikipedia deep dive
level 5: university-level knowledge
level 6: expert
level 7: their holy intelligenceness [insert name], guardian of the field, sleeping aid to anyone who's not intimately interested in their topic of knowledge, grand ruler of Alexandria.
Delta Vega Iv, Narwhal, Refuge Isle, Portmanteau, Aephony, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Deg0Od, Trassval Emeritus
On a more serious note, classical fantasy themes for each race make me more partial to elves. Elves are generally more focused around preservation of nature and deindustrialisation. Dwarves are usually themed around heavy industrial and capitalistic/commerce themes.
And while I'm all here for the solidarity of the working class (miners and metalworkers being the primary dwarven professions), I'm a farm kid at heart and dearly miss living outside urban environments, with kilometres upon kilometres of nature on all sides. So I'll always be on team elf.
Chacapoya, Narwhal, Refuge Isle, Melenavenia, Araine, Imsalia, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Duneraven, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od, Trassval Emeritus
All that fall beneath the wheels of industry serve as fuel for the gears of progress.
Keep the fires in foundries burning, churn up the ground, rend it deep.
etc.
(Very capitalist)
The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od
Welcome to the region! Its always awesome to meet new friends. Youve already gotten a welcome telegram that gives some basics for the region, but here are some quick tips to get started.
Check out your telegram preferences and select Block All for Recruitment. That way youll stop getting all those spam telegrams youve been seeing from other regions.
If you havent already, please consider signing up for the World Assembly! If you do, youll become a Member State in a week, which will get you access to all sorts of perks like getting a spot on our regional map and also extra snacks. Youll also be able to endorse and collect endorsements from other people in the region through our regional tool Tart, found at https://tart.calref.ca/
Finally, if you have any other questions, come check out our Discord server ( https://discord.gg/Rt6uGMsNpr ), where there are a lot of friendly people who will help you find all of the fun things to do on NationStates.
If you have any questions or need help, feel free to ask!
Chacapoya, Refuge Isle, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od, Izzalia, Trassval Emeritus, Oakgall
After almost 5 years I finally got my braces off. Now I'm not the "🤓" anymore
Chacapoya, Narwhal, Refuge Isle, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od, Trassval Emeritus, Oakgall
congrats! Nothing more annoying than that dude coming over " WhAT aRe THoSe TrAin TraCKs yOu gOt oN yoUR TeETh"
Refuge Isle, Araine, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od
I, too, want lembas bread. Now
Refuge Isle, Araine, Tiralta, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Deg0Od, Oakgall
HI do you want a MAP UPDATE?! I want a map update, so we've done a map update. Today, we were met with great surprises, thrilling twists, and at least two of the top ten anime betrayals. What are they? Keep reading to find out (the number 13 will shock you!)
Added to the map this time:
Waywards Edge (Waywardia)
Floreznia, joining the Refugi revolution!
Letheguard, foreshadowing the Particles acceleration!
Waywardia and The Frost People had sent applications with unique cultures (Waywardi and Greco-Sami, respectively) before the culture change went through, and through long and strenuous thought we decided it was only fair to let them through. But they were the last to do it! So no more new cultures will be added unless at least two nations are adhering to it (an ancestral home and one adhesive).
Speaking of interesting cultural movements, Izzalia has adopted the Particles culture, and we're suddenly very nervous as to what this rising power could be planning!
Finally, as we lay our weary to rest, we must send the following home to their just desserts:
After being CTE'd for over 30 days, Moulk2, Erie-Arcadia Of Wombats, Yondoria, and Zabruhmoment Of Vehemesht have been given the long sleepy-time cake and floated out to sea.
Soltop, Tidelia, and Tordinia have all left the region, and were subsequently removed from the map as well.
Finally, we have some movement and news on the Zone front, and I don't mean Microsoft Gaming Zone. We finally got some people to write in and give updates on their treaties and alliances, and anyone who didn't write to me has been summarily removed from the map. Don't worry, you can still be re-added by sending me a telegram with an updated dispatch and information on the treaty! We're doing this because a lot of the dispatches clearly hadn't been touched or considered since they were first made, and had long-dead nations or people who were no longer part of the community on them. The map file itself has been updated, and I'll do a full update of the treaty dispatch this weekend.
Do you want to be included on this incredible map? Do you long to be written about in a fever-dream state by me, someone of no consequence in this life or the next? Check out the map dispatch linked here, and if you are eligible (a Refugi member state), send the application found in the dispatch! Until next time, we'll hope there is a next time!
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=sylh_alanor/detail=factbook/id=1287372
The Star Enpire, Narwhal, Refuge Isle, Araine, Portmanteau, Pangeodrea, Jazur, Tuluni, Ullrani, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Deg0Od, Izzalia, Monkely, Oakgall
Is there a place where the cultures are described? I saw the list, but not what they are. (I am coming back to NationStates after many, many years, so essentially a complete noob.)
Portmanteau, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca, Ban Oldern, The Starr Of Betelgeuse, Deg0Od
Not that I know of, at least not a central location. "Refugi" seems to be a catch-all, Leonean is effectively Viking, and I can only assume that Potato is an Irish-Slavic-Incan hybrid culture that worships some divine entity who interacts with humans via the governor of Idaho
Araine, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Pantumaca, The Starr Of Betelgeuse, Deg0Od, Oakgall
As a Potato, I can say that the Esteberian version worships no strange god. We skip the in between and worship potatoes.
Would you like a Potato?
Araine, Portmanteau, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od, Oakgall
Refugia feels like a melting pot of all cultures
Chacapoya, Portmanteau, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern, The Starr Of Betelgeuse, Deg0Od, Trassval Emeritus
I don't know that a lot of the cultures necessarily have real-life equivalents. Refugi are just Refugi. We chill and wiggle and commit anti-capitalist petty crimes.
Delta Vega Iv, Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Portmanteau, Duneraven, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Pantumaca, Ban Oldern, Deg0Od, Trassval Emeritus, Oakgall
My nation's culture is French-inspired.
The Star Enpire, Chacapoya, Araine, Portmanteau, Jazur, Tuluni, Deg0Od
Ive written EXTENSIVELY on Chacapoya culture and history. Theres a decent amount in our discord, and Im working on compiling it all into a larger text.
Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, The Starr Of Betelgeuse, Deg0Od, Oakgall
gonna absolutely kill my economy but it's worth it to keep my environmental friendliness up
(edit: my economy is unscathed but I no longer rely on uranium for power and my space program has gone on hiatus)
Delta Vega Iv, Chacapoya, Araine, Portmanteau, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Oakgall
i didn't know moulk cte'd :(
they will live forever in refugia history for their contributions to the Fruit Wars
Delta Vega Iv, Chacapoya, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, Tuluni, Dutchformosa, Pantumaca, Ban Oldern
hello
Dutchformosa, Ban Oldern, Oakgall
hello
Czotskia
They'll be back I'm sure, Moulk2 is like a potato on the wind, forever moving yet bringing a welcome warmth when they smack you in the face in an act of war.
Delta Vega Iv, Chacapoya, Araine, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern
I have the greatest sleep listening to a 6 hour documentary about the fall of Constantinople
Tiralta, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Silliy, Sinzalia
I lived in Idaho for 15 years and was never a fan of either governor. I'm hoping Potato will repudiate that divine emissary!
Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire
Next question: how do you adopt a culture? I can't find anything about that anywhere.
Tuluni
Yeah both those issues I quoted gave options to ditch the nukes so I did. No word on what was actually done with them though so maybe they were given to the nations that asked for them, who knows.
I can take my people back now, hopefully all 3.6 billion dont want to stay permanently in Estebere, that would be awkward.
Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire
You just include it on your map application. It's not a nationstates thing, it's sort of an rp thing that the map allows for, so we thought it would be fun to have people share culture ideas with each other
Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Oakgall
Which one would y'all say is better statistically; Scandinavian Liberal Paradise or Left-Wing Utopia? Just wanting to know so I can push my nation towards one that better aligns with it's ideals.
depends broski
Chacapoya, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
I don't think I've heard anyone unironically say broski since the early 2010's
Chacapoya, Araine, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Silliy
welp, i only barely knew how to speak back then... im an '07 child ;-;
Chacapoya, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Pantumaca, Sinzalia
More Left-Wing Utopias! Join the revolution!
Tiralta, Bejeweled Potatoes, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Lanassia, Pantumaca, Monkely
Dangerously approaching the time when our members are younger than our community.
Chacapoya, Araine, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Pantumaca, Oakgall
hehe
not me being an innoffensive centrist democracy or whatever
Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire
Post self-deleted by Dutchformosa.
I know Im still younger than quite a few people here but I certainly feel old now
Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa
y'all're old
succesfully endorsed every WA nation in Refugia with a personal message too:)
Chacapoya, Araine, Imsalia, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca, Ban Oldern
'07 kids rise up, we need to go to high school
I feel old now damn
Anybody remember the Wii
Like a plain old Wii?
Wii Sports Resort Golf was great
Araine, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Silliy, Ban Oldern
You mean Wii Sports Golf not Wii Sports Resort?
Wii Sports Resort Swordplay >>
Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern
I gotta come clean.... I still have one...
but you gotta admmit, no fatter chill than playing with the fam or friends. Honestly, its much better than any modern games.
Araine, Imsalia, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca, Ban Oldern
I used to have one, it was my first console. My dad somehow managed to get one the first week they were released and then when my parents divorced I ended up with it.
I would still have it if it hadnt been stolen.
I borrowed a friends unused wii u to play twilight princess again back in 2021. That game is great. Wish I still had the wii though, Im just lucky I happened to know maybe the only person in existence who owned a wii u.
Araine, Tiralta, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern, Tea Loving Britches
same, i got it as a christmas present when i was quite little.
Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern, Trassval Emeritus
I had a Wii u, I thought it was way better than the Wii lol
Chacapoya, Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern
My wife collects consoles and sometimes you can still get a Wii U at second hand games places or on ebay or something. It might not be a dream forever!
Chacapoya, Araine, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern
I loved the Wii! Wii sports was so much fun and the terrible background music is iconic lol. My family also had the first (2001) Xbox and we'd play shrek superslam on it.
Tiralta, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern
Never had a Wii, but the moment I saw one IN THE GOSH DARN RETRO SECTION I felt old.
Imsalia, Tiralta, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern
Im as old as the iPhone 1 :3
St Leone, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern, Oakgall
hell yeah, the best Mario Kart ever
ig it had some other stuff but I mainly just played mario kart
Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire
i never actually finished my super paper mario playthrough on my old wii
i think i still have it somewhere in the basement, might get it out sometime
I'm just a little older than the World Wide Web.
Jazur, The Blue Fire, Oakgall
Left-wing utopias, because their political freedom stat is higher than Scandinavian liberal paradises'.
The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Oakgall
I'm older than trees
Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Oakgall
Y'all are making me feel decrepit. I remember a computer science major friend telling me all about this super cool new invention, the hyperlink. And sending emails from a mainframe in the basement of the CS department building, only to other university accounts.
I'm older than dirt.
Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa
oh wow
i can't believe you were a shark this whole time and didn't tell us
i feel betrayed
Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Oakgall
Well not all all trees. But some of them. Like that one outside right now.
Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Oakgall
That must have been so fun to be around for at the beginning!
Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa
F-750.
Tiralta, Tuluni
is this like a spinoff of the Consider trilogy?
Melenavenia, Araine, Tuluni
We should only consider the horrors of the F-750. Let us pray we never meet it in battle.
Melenavenia, Araine, Tuluni, The Blue Fire
the plane, the cargo truck, the motorcycle, or the *checks notes* pseudo-discovery of the Ϝ particle
Melenavenia, Araine, Tiralta, Tuluni, The Blue Fire
Or there's my dad, currently 88 years old, who worked with magnetic tape reels.
Don't get me started on the 8-track player in our car....
Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Tiralta, Jazur, Tuluni, The Blue Fire
The homicide truck, yes.
Araine, Tiralta, Tuluni, The Blue Fire
ohh ok makes sense
Melenavenia, Araine, Tuluni, The Blue Fire
F-250
Melenavenia, Tuluni
Hey everyone, a small little insignificant tiny uninteresting it's okay if you don't like it map update. Nobody added or subtracted or multiplied or divided this time, fortunately I don't do maths because I can't. Anyway, we thought all you Refugi could have a little extra maps as a treat, so you might notice a new section on the map update labelled "Other Maps". In this section, you'll find a Biome map, showing the various biomes as generated within the map data, as well as an Elevation map, showing relative heights.
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=sylh_alanor/detail=factbook/id=1287372
Furthermore, I've gone through and updated the Treaties dispatch, clearing out all the treaties that didn't contact me with updates, and updating the member lists/descriptions on the ones that did. RNA, SEDA, TAATAATAATATATATATATTATAA, and WESLR are no longer represented on the map as they didn't meet some of the requirements (mostly having 0 or 1 nation from the original treaty left on the map), while the Triquetra Concordat and Magna Sylvae Societas have been added! If anyone else has a dispatch and information to supply, check out the dispatch below and let me know. I'll try to keep this one updated, and maybe we'll be able to snazz it up a bit in the future.
Thanks :D
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1831650
The Star Enpire, Refuge Isle, Melenavenia, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Jazur, Tuluni, The Merinos, The Blue Fire, Dutchformosa, Izzalia, Letheguard
Post by The El Timothys suppressed by Sylh Alanor.
Support Tottenham Hotspur!!!
Chinquaq
Why am I such a baby oml
Silliy
Oh that's cool!
Delta Vega Iv, The Blue Fire
Bonjour.
Ravi de vous rencontrer.
Je suis nouveau.
Sylh Alanor, Jazur, Dutchformosa, Ban Oldern, Oakgall
Bonjour, bienvenue a Refugia et Nationstates ! Nous somme une communauté anglophone, désolée. Parles-vous anglais ?
Jazur, Melun, Oakgall
Anyone got any tips? I'm new to NS
Silliy, Oakgall
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