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Region: Refugia
we are all gay but i am not a furry, sorry :(
Chacapoya, Typica, Melenavenia, Tiralta, Bejeweled Potatoes, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern
I'm not gay, but I am a furry.
Chacapoya, Typica, Melenavenia, Tiralta, Jazur, Weirtopia, The Blue Fire, Tay-Mania
I am both gay and a furry
Typica, Melenavenia, Tiralta, Bejeweled Potatoes, Jazur, Weirtopia, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern, Sinzalia
we must complete the set
where ist thou, non-gay* non-furry?
*(technically, non-gay encapsulates way more than straight people [straight but also bi, pan, ace] and so I didn't use "straight" there)
Typica, Melenavenia, Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire
I identify as bi but I have jokingly referred to myself as partially gay and half gay before.
So if you dont include that, I guess that would be me?
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire
oh you won
Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Staarland
Trying to get into the discord server- link isn't working- quite odd
*casually shoots you in the knee with another arrow before running off into the distance and giggling maniacally*
Tiralta, Sempera, The Blue Fire, Boxiia
Hahah. Yeet.
Banned for RRS 2 violation. Probably all of them. Don't come back.
Tiralta
Regardless of the current success or failure of the at-vote RRS proposal, I intend to submit another thesis for consideration on the 26[sup]th[/sup]. This is a current copy of the draft text:
If there are any questions, comments, or concerns before I do so, please let me know.
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1961424
Chacapoya, Typica, Melenavenia, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Tageszentia
that would be me (hello)
if you were trying to find a straight non-furry though, you would have to skip me
edit: also, i'm no expert in old english, but i think it might be "where art thou"
Tiralta, Morrigan, Pantumaca, Ban Oldern
My dictionary tells me that it would be "hwær eart þū", but you guys probably mean Middle English.
The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
Blahaj
Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Pompier-Pyromane, Ardela
Just got reclassed from Left Wing Utopia ti Civil Rights Lovefest. I think I'm disappointed?
Typica
Hello folkens, I've revived the card bank. If anyone is working on a Refugia collection (either S2 or S3) please let me know and I'll keep you in mind while sorting through the cards I've got. I'm planning to go through and get rid of as many cards as possible next weekend, so send me a telegram if you'd like to be included in that.
If you're not a Member State, the highest value card I'll send is 0.05 (the usual junk price for uncommon cards), if you're a Member State endorsing our delegate Typica then you can receive any card.
Chacapoya, Detjavikstan, Typica, Melenavenia, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Jazur, Morrigan, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern
*in pain from being shot in the knee*
The Blue Fire, Voinarx
I don't quite know how all the card stuff really works but I do be collecting those dudes
Typica, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
There were more furries in here than I thought, I thought I was the only one. x3
Chacapoya, Melenavenia, Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern
Me too lmao
Same with lgbtq+ people :3
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, Morrigan, Weirtopia, Sempera, The Blue Fire
What is a furry???
Tiralta
This is one of the gayest regions I've ever seen tbh :D
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Liphia, Tiralta, Bejeweled Potatoes, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Pompier-Pyromane, Sinzalia, Ardela
We all got hit with the gay telegram and went "ah yes, that one"
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Jazur, Morrigan, The Blue Fire, Staarland, Sinzalia
We're headed into the final part of the Adventure Poll series!
https://www.nationstates.net/region=refugia#poll
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Morrigan, The Blue Fire
A furry is a person who has an interest in anthropomorphic animals.
Typica, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire, Sinzalia
Same. :3
Tiralta, Morrigan, The Blue Fire, Sinzalia
Oh yeah I got super bored again and compiled this list of all the besttestt nations in the region: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1960230
Chacapoya, Typica, Liphia, Tiralta, Bejeweled Potatoes, Jazur, Morrigan, Estebere, The Blue Fire, Tageszentia, Ardela
Oh, ok, thx for explaining
Tiralta, Jazur
Addy And Arielle is back! :D
(at least back in Refugia with this nation.)
Typica, Tiralta, Jazur, Estebere
Tthatt's pretttty cool! Tthanks Pac!
Chacapoya, The Blue Fire
I love science!!
Chacapoya, Tiralta, Daymo
Darn, just one T in this nation...
Maybe when I make my alt it'll be Estetbere to make up for that.
Oh, I wasn't counting the pretitle for it, since it seemed like nobody was paying much attention to that. Also sorry that I changed it, forgot that I didn't change the otter to rabbit
Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire
[nation=long]Estebere[/nation]
by my count that's 3 2
Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire
it's fine
Alright, I know I'm not supposed to side with my spies, but....
...drama....
Tiralta, The Blue Fire
Apologies for my extremely long hiatus! I've had a lot on my plate since the last Mattachine Free Press post and was running a bit low on inspiration, but I was considering writing a special issue to celebrate the holidays (Not all of it would be holiday themed, some regular stories will be interspersed).
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, The Merinos, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern
Anyone interested can like this specific message and/or shoot me a telegram!
Chacapoya, Araine, Tiralta, Jazur, The Merinos, Estebere, Boxiia, Ban Oldern, Sinzalia
Election Update:
In the Councillor of Cartography election, round 1 in counting saw the following results:
St Leone: 10
Ban Oldern: 5
New Atlantic: 4
All of New Atlantic's voters' second preference was St. Leone, making St. Leone the winner, 14 - 5.
This concludes the Regional Council Elections for November 2023, and the incoming Regional Council will be:
Chacapoya - Councillor of Foreign Affairs
Tiralta - Re-elected Councillor of Culture
Morrigan - Councillor of Operations
Sylh Alanor - Councillor of World Assembly Affairs
St Leone - Councillor of Cartography
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, St Leone, Tiralta, Jazur, Xianland, The Blue Fire
GG St Leone! Have fun as Councillor!
Chacapoya, Typica, St Leone, Tiralta, Jazur, The Blue Fire
Referendum Notice:
A referendum regarding modification of the Refugia Revised Statutes has been submitted, entitled Thesis 2: Coherency In Our Text, authored by Refuge Isle and seconded by Chacapoya. 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/60
Voting ends in one week, on Sunday December 3[sup]rd[/sup] at 13:00 Pacific Time.
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Tiralta, Ban Oldern
Post self-deleted by Ban Oldern.
The impossible question: Most influential IRL nation in history?
Delta Vega Iv, Chacapoya, Araine, Tiralta, Izordinia, Uwuguaya, Aseanindia
Thank you!! :D
Chacapoya, Typica, Tiralta, Jazur, Ban Oldern
Macedon.
[spoiler=wall of text prevention]
In its uniting of the Middle East, it spread Greek extensively as a lingua franca, merged cultures, and allowed for more trade in the region. The defeat of the Persians by the Macedons likely saved Greek culture from partial extinction. The collapse of Alexanders empire after his death created the Seleucids and Ptolemaics, who were two of the most influential kingdoms of their time.
Macedons control of the Greek city-states and the fighting that took place to hopefully keep it that way allowed the Romans to take over Greece and expand eastward potentially much earlier than they would have otherwise, and their alliances with the Carthaginians and the Seleucids prompted a lot of conflict. Without Macedon, the Romans may never have been nearly as exposed to Greek culture, and may have stayed mainly Etruscan in culture.
The Ptolemaics maintained Alexandria, a hub of knowledge and trade, and their Hellenistic influence and language is one of the main reasons we know much of the things we know about Ancient Egypt today; without the Rosetta Stone, a Ptolemaic artifact, we would not know much of anything about Egyptian hieroglyphs, at least not until much later than in our timeline.
The Seleucids possibly influenced the Maurya Empire, the first state to unify the Indian subcontinent (except for the Tamil Kings) The Seleucids, when they shrank and collapsed, gave way to the Parthians, who themselves gave way to the Sassanians, all three of them empires that continued to controls a large amount of Middle Eastern territory. The Sassanians in particular were the main enemies of the Byzantine Empire after Romes division and collapse, and were very influential in the weakening of the Byzantines, which paved the way for the foundation of the Ottoman Empire.
This Sassanid-Byzantine antagonism weakened both sides, and allowed the Rashidun Caliphate to conquer the Middle East. (Quite frankly, Islam may not have even existed had it not been for Alexanders empire, at least not in its current form; while Arabia surely would have developed significant trade without Alexanders empire, the Greek lingua franca would not exist to spread the Abrahamic religions as far as they went.) The Rashidun Caliphate then gave way to the Umayyads, and without the Umayyads, Islam would not have spread nearly as far as it did.
As mentioned earlier parenthetically, the Abrahamic religions owe a great ton of their expansion to Macedon, especially Christianity. The lingua franca in the Middle East and Greece helped Christianity spread in the east, while Roman roads helped it spread further into Europe. Rome was influenced to expand and thus build its roads by the accomplishments of Alexander and Macedon as a whole, so theres also that. Judaism deals with the same struggles, just significantly less so because the same things that caused Christianity to spread like fire in a timber mill didnt really effect Judaism all that much.
As mentioned earlier, the Romans would not have expanded like they did had it not been for a heavy deal of inspiration from Alexander the Great. While theres a pretty good chance they would have taken over Carthage anyway, its unlikely they would have gone much further. With that, the Celts remain one of the largest forces in Europe, likely repelling settlement from Germanic tribes, and the Germanic tribes themselves dont have nearly as much of an impact on the rest of Europe. The Silk Road is also never established, at least in its modern form, and as such China stays isolated from the rest of the world for much, much longer if Macedon does not exist.
Without Macedon, our world is radically different than it is in our timeline. Lets go to around 0 AD, in this new timeline. The Achaemenids likely conquer Greece, albeit after a long series of wars. Celts dominate Western Europe and Slavs will come to dominate Eastern Europe, with a good assortment of Germanic kingdoms in the center of the continent. Europe as a whole still has a variety of polytheistic beliefs and no single main religion. Carthaginians are the dominant power in the western Mediterranean, at least until a possible war between the Etruscans and themselves may kick them out of Sicily, although its unlikely. China and the Sinosphere it maintains continues to not have much knowledge of the lands into Central Asia and beyond. India is still pretty isolated due to the mountainous terrain.
Past that, who knows what happens, but there wont be a lot of colonial empires, and as such states that originated as colonies never form. Theres also a much smaller spice trade, so the empires that do form will need another justification for existence.[/spoiler]
Pls read the spoiler, it took me 3 hrs to research for and write
Melenavenia, Araine, Liphia, Tiralta, Jazur, Morrigan, Estebere, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca, Aseanindia, Pompier-Pyromane, Sinzalia
Great Kyrgyzstan, of course. Just think of all the influential Kyrgyzstanis throughout history.
Melenavenia, Tiralta, Sinzalia
I forgot about nation states entirely but now that Im back it feels good
Detjavikstan, Typica, Tiralta, Morrigan, Xianland, The Blue Fire, Silliy, Aseanindia
Heya
Just reminding yall that I exist :]
[sup]dear god help me, C.AI is ruining my sleep schedule.[/sup]
Delta Vega Iv, Detjavikstan, Typica, Tiralta, Morrigan, The Blue Fire
The micronation I have set up under the kitchen sink.
Delta Vega Iv, Detjavikstan, Typica, Melenavenia, Araine, St Leone, The Blue Fire, Silliy, Pompier-Pyromane, Ardela
I read the spoiler friend, don't worry. I didn't expect someone to put so much effort into answering my question and I really appreciate it. What you wrote is very interesting and I appreciate it.
Typica, Araine, Tiralta, Morrigan, Uwuguaya, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern, Vijaynagar India
We could do is make an improvised version of our cultures in refugia of individual nations and respect our v
I guess the Indian civilizations and chinese one
Also possible the caliphates cuz they invaded and converted them
Also in recent history it may be the USA
Typica, Melenavenia, The Blue Fire
i kinda want to say the roman empire because it basically invented the flavor of imperialism and colonialism the way we still have to endure these days
Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Melenavenia, Tiralta, Morrigan, The Blue Fire, Ethierys
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Bismarck-Tirpitz, Typica, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
Hm... well, in a way I'd have to say Mesopotamia. While in terms of achievements they're nothing much, you could say that, as basically the first nation, they were the groundwork every other civilization to come began at, which has to be something. Also, I'd guesstimate that they were the nation with the single highest percentage of the entire population of the Earth.
Typica, Melenavenia, Tiralta, Izordinia, The Blue Fire, Ardela
philippines number 1!!!🔥🔥🔥🇵🇭🇵🇭🇵🇭
Talvezout, Detjavikstan, Typica, Melenavenia, Aephony, Tiralta, Izordinia, Sempera, The Blue Fire
If you go by the terms of wealthy, power, and influence in the world, then historically and modernly speaking it would have to be the United States, I would throw Egypt in there as well since it was one of the worlds great civilizations
Delta Vega Iv, Izordinia
my trout fishing industry is incredibly high, despite the fact that i have never subsidized it and i've always picked environment over fishing.
that said, anyone want some fish?
Delta Vega Iv, Detjavikstan, Typica, Araine, Tiralta, Izordinia, Daymo, Pompier-Pyromane
This may affect the trout population
Delta Vega Iv, Tiralta, Izordinia, Sempera, The Blue Fire, Daymo
As far as I can tell there was never a Mesopotamian nation, but instead civilizations that came to dominate the region at various times in history.
Delta Vega Iv, Typica, Tiralta, Izordinia, Jazur, The Blue Fire
Yea, you are right and maybe, just maybe the British Empire, the Romans, the US, or the ancient ones in China, India, and/or Arabia
Melenavenia, The Blue Fire
hi
Melenavenia, Survivors Win, Tiralta, Izordinia, Weirtopia, The Blue Fire
Howdy! 🤠
Typica, Tiralta, Izordinia, The Blue Fire, Clevelia
Howdy partnrr
Melenavenia, Tiralta, Izordinia
The ancient Israelite nation. While small and seemingly insignificant, it gave mankind the Old Testament, which begot the NT & Kuran in turn. Judaism, Christianity & Islam account together for a large part of the culture and heritage of mankind, I'd say.
Melenavenia, Survivors Win, Sempera, The Blue Fire
Howdy y'all! One time, when I was younger, I went to Space Camp and me and all of my roommates were all from different regions in the country. However, when I said y'all to them for the first time, they all stared at me like I had spontaneously grown an extra head! Turns out I was the only one from these parts. Anyways, I also had hard water where I lived, which in case you didn't know is water with minerals in it that, in my case at least, left white stains on a lot of things. None of them had ever experienced hard water before, so when I got home I sent them a picture. I used a liquid measuring cup in that picture that had white stains all the way up it to a certain line because I ate instant oatmeal for breakfast every day at the time and would fill that cup to the same line every morning. They all thought it was cool. That was probably TMI, but I wanted to share!
Chacapoya, Typica, Refuge Isle, Sylh Alanor, Junitaki-Cho, Tiralta, Izordinia, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca, Tageszentia
It's too bad you can't pin RMB messages
Chacapoya, Typica, Junitaki-Cho, St Leone, Tiralta, Izordinia, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
I just read this in a Southern accent
Tiralta, Izordinia, Pantumaca
well hello there
Tiralta, Izordinia, The Blue Fire, Silliy, Tageszentia
hello young man :]
Izordinia
Post self-deleted by Izordinia.
Wassup
hi im C L E V E L I A
The Blue Fire
also i accidentally made boy cheerleading illegal help
Detjavikstan, Melenavenia, The Blue Fire, Silliy, Pantumaca
sounds like a skill issue on your behalf ngl
Typica, Melenavenia
quite the opposite of what it should be, which is to say, a requirement
Detjavikstan, Melenavenia, The Blue Fire
i was meant to encourage it but clicked the wrong button 😭
Typica, Melenavenia, The Blue Fire, Time Inc
👀
If you go into your settings you can require confirmation before passing legislation.
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Junitaki-Cho, Tiralta, Izordinia, The Blue Fire
oh thanks
Chacapoya, Typica, Melenavenia
a crime against humanity
Typica, Melenavenia, Portmanteau, The Blue Fire
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Referendum Notice:
Thesis 1: Peace In Our Time was passed 23-1
https://vote.calref.ca/results/59
Chacapoya, Typica, Araine, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
Ok, I didnt know that, thx, even tho I wasnt involved at first/I didnt ask the question
Melenavenia
Lol. I actually don't have much of a southern accent. I just say ya'll and that's pretty much the beginning and end of it. It is so much fun to read things in different accents though!
The Blue Fire
That last poll was extremely divided! Here's the latest one!
https://www.nationstates.net/region=refugia#poll
Typica, Araine, Portmanteau, The Blue Fire, Silliy, Tageszentia
i just got a season one pack with an epic
none of them looked cool though so i junked three and am selling the other two
Chacapoya, Typica, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Pantumaca
Oooh, I just stuck a bid on the epic, thanks!
Chacapoya, Typica, The Blue Fire
Hi
Portmanteau, Tiralta, Tageszentia
Its official, more people die from getting lost in the wilderness in my nation than die from old age.
Im still choosing to believe theyre not actually dying, theyve just decided to disappear and form a secret society of forest people because at this point thats millions of people getting lost out there lol.
Chacapoya, Bismarck-Tirpitz, Typica, Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire
Hihi!
we should make a map treaty for nations who have quite significant amounts of their population die because of "lost in the wilderness" according to NS data (with "quite significant" being like 25% and up)
Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Izordinia, Morrigan, The Blue Fire, Silliy, Pantumaca, Carcat
I laughed at that
Portmanteau, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Ban Oldern
Its the leading cause of death in my nation with 48.1% of people wandering off and dying (actually committing tax evasion), with an additional 4.7% allegedly getting eaten by beavers (but theyre probably also joining the forest people to commit tax evasion), for a grand total of 52.8% of deaths being listed as having a nature related cause.
That is quite significant indeed, I would say. If 25% is enough to meet that threshold then I really flew past it.
Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Morrigan, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca, Ban Oldern
I'd definitely join. Maybe we could even bring in diplomats to deal with the secret countries in the forests.
In fact, maybe we could map more than our forests; we could also map the seas and underground too!
Araine, Portmanteau, Tiralta, Izordinia, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca, Pompier-Pyromane
just don't do anything or confess and you get to meet portec aself!!!!!!!! real!!!!!!!!
What should we call it, though?
The Blue Fire
Tiralta, Tageszentia
HENRY KISSINGER IS DEAD
Dutchformosa, Tageszentia, Tayova, Pompier-Pyromane
i would 100% join this
edit: as a side note, does anyone know what exactly causes the "suicide while in police custody" death cause?
Portmanteau, Pantumaca
Sup everybody!
The Blue Fire, Silliy, Tageszentia
i have absolutely no idea what it is in-game but everybody knowa authoritarianism is the root of all problems
edit: knows*
Delta Vega Iv, Tiralta, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
I think it's related to the Law Enforcement stat?
Also 50.7% of Tiraltans go off to live in the forest and evade tax :D
Delta Vega Iv, Araine, Portmanteau, The Blue Fire, Pantumaca
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