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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Well the kelpie was said to take the form of a beautiful woman. Perhaps the kelpie?
Minnesota Dakota
Sure. It is your choice.
Nuremgard
I'm going to call the queen Andromeda. It means "ruler of men." The tribes will be ethnically diverse with the southern islanders being much darker skinned and the northerners being lighter skinned (but still of a dark complexion.) The religion will be dualistic, focused on a primary Goddess and God, with all minor gods being incarnations or avatars of them.
As for a capital, Mount Amazon is slightly on the news. I'm going to try and figure something else out. Something feminine but warlike and powerful.
Minnesota Dakota
It sounds like a great combination.
Nuremgard
Thanks! And I already know now. The capital shall be Mount Morrigan. Morrigan was a triple aspect goddess who symbolised war, fate, sovereignty and guardianship of territory. Perfect name for the capital of a warlike matriarchal realm.
Minnesota Dakota
Somewhere in South America. Use it as a North Naboo Pact base.
Minnesota Dakota
I have to work on a paper that is due soon. I shall return tomorrow. Good Night.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major
Ok.
Good luck!
Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota
Just to comment -though I doubt you're thinking militarily here- it's a bad idea to limit any particular position as being for male or females (except maybe paratroopers or something) so it might be a better idea to have it be a ceremonial position while a meritocracy board gathered from all kinds of people with the requisite experience should suffice to keep your military kinda prepared.
Well the society is matriarchal. While there is a strong tradition of female warriors in the culture, the male is seen as naturally more aggressive and better suited for war. Whereas the female is seen as reasonable and empathetic so is best suited for leadership. In this way, the Dawnish military is typically organised in this way:
Females of nobility or senior tribeswomen take up the roles of generals and strategists with men being the soldiers. Although women are able to serve as front liners too alongside their male counterparts.
Minnesota Dakota
The ad I got before that video was about how to become a priest. Now I'm a little freaked out.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova
God is calling you, my child.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova
More like the YouTube algorithms are.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
How are you, Jas?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Pretty good. Just started my second semester of college, and that's going well. What about you?
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
Starting my second semester next week. Had a successful root canal yesterday.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
Well, at least that it was successful, though I imagine it was still uncomfortable.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Uncomfortable but painless.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
So, like, being sick for weeks sucks.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
I hope you get better.
Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=33262889#p33262889
Praise be to the YouTube algorithms.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
Hello friends. :D
How are you all doing?
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova
Good, how are you?
Penguania And Antarctica
Doing alright. I have weekend now. :D
Up to much?
Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota
I have to study for my first ever finals on Thursday and Friday of next week.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Oh okay. Well good luck for your finals. :)
Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota
Isn't very impractical when companies show you the 'tech of the future' (like autonomous driving cars or the apartment of the future) those things are always white? I mean if it would be white not just for show but in reality it would be very impractical. I magine on a rainy day you call an auto driving taxi and the floor inside of it is white. So you see all the dirt previous passengers carried in. You see every stain. And to be honest: humans are quite messy but like to have a clean looking environment. And that doesn't work with white shiny future tech.
Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota
----Ministry of Foreign Affairs----
---- Updated Embassy Factbook----
Expecting to release an embassy application this week. Also announcing the appointment of [nation=short+noflag]Minnesota Dakota[/nation] as Deputy of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
-- [nation=short+noflag]Oelesa[/nation]
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Cesorion
Thank you. And congratulations to MiDa
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Oelesa, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova
Hope you feel better soon!
You got a point there. Hopefully those are just test colors; hopefully the finished commercial versions will come in multiple colors beside white.
Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
I am honored to work with one of the founding members of such great region.
Thank you,
Midas
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica
Seems Germany gets a new Grand Coalition.
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Minnesota Dakota
If the Social Democrats don't cave
Penguania And Antarctica
But who cares?
**Official Statement from The Solla Ultima Office of Succession**
It is with great sadness that I must announce Today January 12, 2018 that our beloved emperor and father of this great nation has passed away due to cancer at the age of 67 and that all flags are to be Flown at half staff until the new emperor is elected and that a morning period of 1 week be observed by the general public the funeral is schedule for the 5th of February 2018
Signed,
Minister Albert Hatworth
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota
What?
[spoiler=Today is January 12 and today are:]
Today is January 12 and today are:
- Feast of Fabulous Wild Men Day
- Kiss a Ginger Day
- LeeJackson Day (Virginia, USA)
- Memorial Day (Turkmenistan)
- National Curried Chicken Day (United States)
- National Marzipan Day (United States)
- National Pharmacist Day (United States)
- National Youth Day (India)
- Prosecutor General's Day (Russia)
- Zanzibar Revolution Day (Tanzania)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 1528 Gustav I of Sweden is crowned king of Sweden, having already reigned since his election in June 1523.
- 1554 Bayinnaung, who would go on to assemble the largest empire in the history of Southeast Asia, is crowned King of Burma.
- 1616 The city of Belém, Brazil is founded on the Amazon River delta, by Portuguese captain Francisco Caldeira Castelo Branco.
- 1808 John Rennie's scheme to defend St Mary's Church, Reculver, founded in 669, from coastal erosion is abandoned in favour of demolition, despite the church being an exemplar of Anglo-Saxon architecture and sculpture.
- 1808 The organizational meeting leading to the creation of the Wernerian Natural History Society, a former Scottish learned society, is held in Edinburgh.
- 1848 The Palermo rising takes place in Sicily against the Bourbon Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
- 1866 The Royal Aeronautical Society is formed in London.
- 1872 Yohannes IV is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia in Axum, the first imperial coronation in that city in over 200 years.
- 1895 The National Trust is founded in the United Kingdom.
- 1908 A long-distance radio message is sent from the Eiffel Tower for the first time.
- 1911 The University of the Philippines College of Law is formally established; three future Philippine presidents are among the first enrollees.
- 1915 The United States House of Representatives rejects a proposal to require states to give women the right to vote.
- 1916 Both Oswald Boelcke and Max Immelmann, for achieving eight aerial victories each over Allied aircraft, receive the German Empire's highest military award, the Pour le Mérite as the first German aviators to earn it.
- 1921 Acting to restore confidence in baseball after the Black Sox Scandal, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis is elected as Major League Baseball's first commissioner.
- 1932 Hattie Caraway becomes the first woman elected to the United States Senate.
- 1942 World War II: United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt creates the National War Labor Board.
- 1945 World War II: The Red Army begins the VistulaOder Offensive.
- 1962 Vietnam War: Operation Chopper, the first American combat mission in the war, takes place.
- 1964 Rebels in Zanzibar begin a revolt known as the Zanzibar Revolution and proclaim a republic.
- 1966 Lyndon B. Johnson states that the United States should stay in South Vietnam until Communist aggression there is ended.
- 1967 Dr. James Bedford becomes the first person to be cryonically preserved with intent of future resuscitation.
- 1969 The New York Jets of the American Football League defeat the Baltimore Colts of the National Football League to win Super Bowl III in what is considered to be one of the greatest upsets in sports history.
- 1970 Biafra capitulates, ending the Nigerian Civil War.
- 1971 The Harrisburg Seven: Rev. Philip Berrigan and five other activists are indicted on charges of conspiring to kidnap Henry Kissinger and of plotting to blow up the heating tunnels of federal buildings in Washington, D.C.
- 1976 The United Nations Security Council votes 111 to allow the Palestine Liberation Organization to participate in a Security Council debate (without voting rights).
- 1986 Space Shuttle program: Congressman Bill Nelson lifts off from Kennedy Space Center aboard Columbia on mission STS-61-C as a Payload Specialist.
- 1990 A seven-day pogrom breaks out against the Armenian civilian population of Baku, Azerbaijan, during which Armenians were beaten, tortured, murdered, and expelled from the city.
- 1991 Persian Gulf War: An act of the U.S. Congress authorizes the use of American military force to drive Iraq out of Kuwait.
- 1998 Nineteen European nations agree to forbid human cloning.
- 2001 Downtown Disney opens to the public as part of the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim, California.
- 2004 The world's largest ocean liner, RMS Queen Mary 2, makes its maiden voyage.
- 2005 Deep Impact launches from Cape Canaveral on a Delta II rocket.
- 2006 A stampede during the Stoning of the Devil ritual on the last day at the Hajj in Mina, Saudi Arabia, kills at least 362 Muslim pilgrims.
- 2010 An earthquake in Haiti occurs, killing over 100,000 people and destroying much of the capital Port-au-Prince.
- 2012 Violent protests occur in Bucharest, Romania, as two-day-old demonstrations continue against President Traian Băsescu's economic austerity measures. Clashes are reported in numerous Romanian cities between protesters and law enforcement officers.
- 2015 Government raids kill 143 Boko Haram fighters in Kolofata, Cameroon.
- 2016 Ten people are killed and 15 wounded in a bombing near the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1628 Charles Perrault, French author and academic
- 1729 Edmund Burke, Irish philosopher, academic, and politician
- 1746 Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi, Swiss philosopher and educator
- 1822 Étienne Lenoir, Belgian engineer, designed the internal combustion engine
- 1856 John Singer Sargent, American painter and academic
- 1876 Jack London, American novelist and journalist
- 1893 Hermann Göring, German commander, pilot, and politician, Minister President of Prussia
- 1899 Paul Hermann Müller, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1907 Sergei Korolev, Russian colonel and engineer
- 1910 Luise Rainer, German-English actress
- 1916 P. W. Botha, South African politician, 8th Prime Minister of South Africa
- 1944 Joe Frazier, American boxer
- 1949 Haruki Murakami, Japanese author, translator, and academic
- 1949 Ottmar Hitzfeld, German footballer and manager
- 1964 Jeff Bezos, American computer scientist and businessman, founded Amazon.com
- 1993 Zayn Malik, English singer-songwriter
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Quote of the day
Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why.
- Bernard Baruch -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova
*Official Statement from the Premier's Office of the Equestrian Empire*
The Empire is saddened to hear about the passing of such a beloved ruler of one of our most esteemed allies. Flags across the ESSR will be flown at half staff during the next three days, and a state funeral will be held in Moscow. We wish his successor the best of luck and look forward to the continued cooperation between our nations.
Sincerely,
Premier A. D. Coltsov
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Solla Ultima
The United Kingdom of Jaslandia extends its heartfelt condolences to Solla Ultima on the loss of their Emperor. The Emperor was much-loved among his people, and we can only hope his successor is just as beloved and able.
- Prince Regent Jason
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica, Solla Ultima
Aren't the talks only preliminary?
Penguania And Antarctica
Who are the parties that will form it?
Penguania And Antarctica
Great Britain, Russia, Austria and Prussia.
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Mercunova
*Official Statement from the Office of the Konsul*
Empress Mara Sov is deeply saddened by his passing. The Imperial Family and the rest of the DIR will mourn his death the following week. A monument to Solla Ultima will be built in his honor. Flags in major cities will be flown at half staff. All businesses will be closed on Monday so that the public can attend memorials.
- Konsul Bail Organa
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Solla Ultima
There's this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guy, who knew this guys cousinnnn.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Cesorion
https://youtu.be/oIKfnN8mKc8
Oelesa
Who is the enemy?
Axeldonia
Amerikkka
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Minnesota Dakota
I would like to point out that my region is not on your embassy list, while some regions you do not currently hold embassies with are.
May I request that this be updated to recognize the ties between the UAS and the CoFN? Thank you.
Oelesa, Mercunova
Those are over. And it looks like they will start coalition talks soon. But first the parties need the of their members.
CDU/CSU and SPD
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Minnesota Dakota, Cesorion
My apologies. Seems the Factbook needs a larger update than I was previously aware of.
Jaslandia
Poor Don the con cant come to Britain now to grab the Queen's pussy.
Quite quiet today.
Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota
Indeed
Wut?
Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota
In light of Donald Trump's 'sh*thole' and other similar comments, I present to you an uncomfortably-prescient satire video.
https://youtu.be/4ZrRL7VY1NM
A little bit. Better than yesterday, though.
Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
[spoiler=Today is January 13 and today are:]
Today is January 13 and today are:
- Bhogi (Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu)
- Constitution Day (Mongolia)
- Democracy Day (Cape Verde)
- Korean-American Day (Korean-American community, United States)
- Liberation Day (Togo)
- Lohri (Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh)
- Make Your Dream Come True Day
- Malanka (Belarus, Russia, Ukraine)
- National Peach Melba Day (United States)
- National Rubber Ducky Day (United States)
- National Sticker Day (United States)
- National Vision Board Day (United States)
- New Year's Eve (Belarus, Macedonia, Montenegro, Russia, Serbia, Srpska, Ukraine)
- Public Radio Broadcasting Day
- Stephen Foster Memorial Day (United States)
- St. Knut's Day (Finland, Sweden)
- Uruka (Assam)
- Yennayer (Berbers)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0532 Nika riots in Constantinople.
- 1435 Sicut Dudum, forbidding the enslavement of the Guanche natives in Canary Islands by the Spanish, is promulgated by Pope Eugene IV.
- 1547 Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey is sentenced to death.
- 1607 The Bank of Genoa fails after announcement of national bankruptcy in Spain.
- 1793 Nicolas Jean Hugon de Bassville, representative of Revolutionary France, lynched by a mob in Rome
- 1797 French Revolutionary Wars: A naval battle between a French ship of the line and two British frigates off the coast of Brittany ends with the French vessel running aground, resulting in over 900 deaths.
- 1815 War of 1812: British troops capture Fort Peter in St. Marys, Georgia, the only battle of the war to take place in the state.
- 1822 The design of the Greek flag is adopted by the First National Assembly at Epidaurus.
- 1830 The Great Fire of New Orleans begins.
- 1833 United States President Andrew Jackson writes to Vice President Martin Van Buren expressing his opposition to South Carolina's defiance of federal authority in the Nullification Crisis.
- 1840 The steamship Lexington burns and sinks four miles off the coast of Long Island with the loss of 139 lives.
- 1842 Dr. William Brydon, an assistant surgeon in the British East India Company Army during the First Anglo-Afghan War, becomes famous for being the sole survivor of an army of 4,500 men and 12,000 camp followers when he reaches the safety of a garrison in Jalalabad, Afghanistan.
- 1847 The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the MexicanAmerican War in California.
- 1849 Establishment of the Colony of Vancouver Island.
- 1849 - Second Anglo-Sikh War Battle of Tooele: British forces retreat from the Sikhs.
- 1879 In Mozart Gardens Brooklyn Ada Anderson completed a great feat of pedestrianism - 2700 quarter miles in 2700 quarter hours, earning her $8000.
- 1888 The National Geographic Society is founded in Washington, D.C.
- 1893 The Independent Labour Party of the United Kingdom holds its first meeting.
- 1893 U.S. Marines land in Honolulu, Hawaii from the USS Boston to prevent the queen from abrogating the Bayonet Constitution.
- 1895 First Italo-Ethiopian War: the war's opening battle, the Battle of Coatit, occurs; it is an Italian victory.
- 1898 Émile Zola's J'accuse ! exposes the Dreyfus affair.
- 1908 The Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, Pennsylvania kills 171 people.
- 1910 The first public radio broadcast takes place; a live performance of the operas Cavalleria rusticana and Pagliacci are sent out over the airwaves from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York.
- 1915 The 6.7 Mw Avezzano earthquake shakes the Province of L'Aquila in Italy with a maximum Mercalli intensity of XI (Extreme), killing between 29,97832,610.
- 1935 A plebiscite in Saarland shows that 90.3% of those voting wish to join Nazi Germany.
- 1939 The Black Friday bush fires burn 20,000 square kilometers of land in Australia, claiming the lives of 71 people.
- 1942 Henry Ford patents a plastic automobile, which is 30% lighter than a regular car.
- 1942 World War II: First use of an aircraft ejection seat by a German test pilot in a Heinkel He 280 jet fighter.
- 1950 British submarine HMS Truculent collides with an oil tanker in the Thames Estuary, killing 64 men.
- 1950 - Finland forms diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.
- 1951 First Indochina War: The Battle of Vĩnh Yên begins.
- 1953 An article appears in Pravda accusing some of the most prestigious and prominent doctors, mostly Jews, in the Soviet Union of taking part in a vast plot to poison members of the top Soviet political and military leadership.
- 1958 The Moroccan Army of Liberation ambushes a Spanish patrol in the Battle of Edchera.
- 1963 Coup d'état in Togo results in the assassination of president Sylvanus Olympio.
- 1964 Anti-Muslim riots break out in Calcutta, resulting in 100 deaths.
- 1964 - In Manchester, New Hampshire, fourteen-year-old Pamela Mason is murdered. Edward Coolidge is tried and convicted of the crime, but the conviction is set aside by the landmark Fourth Amendment case Coolidge v. New Hampshire (1971).
- 1966 Robert C. Weaver becomes the first African American Cabinet member when he is appointed United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development.
- 1968 Johnny Cash performs live at Folsom State Prison.
- 1972 Prime Minister Kofi Abrefa Busia and President Edward Akufo-Addo of Ghana are ousted in a bloodless military coup by Colonel Ignatius Kutu Acheampong.
- 1974 Seraphim is elected Archbishop of Athens and All Greece.
- 1978 United States Food and Drug Administration requires all blood donations to be labeled "paid" or "volunteer" donors.
- 1982 Shortly after takeoff, Air Florida Flight 90, a Boeing 737 jet, crashes into Washington, D.C.'s 14th Street Bridge and falls into the Potomac River, killing 78 including four motorists.
- 1985 A passenger train plunges into a ravine in Ethiopia, killing 428 in the worst railroad disaster in Africa.
- 1986 A month-long violent struggle begins in Aden, South Yemen between supporters of Ali Nasir Muhammad and Abdul Fattah Ismail, resulting in thousands of casualties.
- 1988 Lee Teng-hui becomes the first native Taiwanese President of the Republic of China.
- 1990 Douglas Wilder becomes the first elected African American governor as he takes office in Richmond, Virginia.
- 1991 Soviet Union troops attack Lithuanian independence supporters in Vilnius, killing 14 people and wounding around 1000 others.
- 1993 Space Shuttle program: Endeavour heads for space for the third time as STS-54 launches from the Kennedy Space Center.
- 1998 Alfredo Ormando sets himself on fire in St. Peter's Square, protesting against homophobia.
- 2001 An earthquake hits El Salvador, killing more than 800.
- 2012 The passenger cruise ship Costa Concordia sinks off the coast of Italy due to the captain Francesco Schettino's negligence and irresponsibility. There are 32 confirmed deaths.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 05BC Emperor Guangwu of Han, ruler of China
- 101 Lucius Aelius, Roman adopted son of Hadrian
- 1864 Wilhelm Wien, German physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1924 Paul Feyerabend, Austrian-Swiss philosopher and academic
- 1927 Sydney Brenner, South African biologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1954 Trevor Rabin, South African-American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer
- 1960 Eric Betzig, American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1966 Patrick Dempsey, American actor
- 1969 Stephen Hendry, Scottish snooker player and journalist
- 1970 Marco Pantani, Italian cyclist
- 1977 Orlando Bloom, English actor and producer
- 1978 Nate Silver, American journalist and statistician, developed PECOTA
- 1979 Joko Winterscheidt, German actor and TV presenter
- 1990 Liam Hemsworth, Australian actor
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Quote of the day
Lord, make me an instrument of thy peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love.
- Francis of Assisi -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
What was yesterday??
Minnesota Dakota
His state visit to the UK has been canceled because he fears widespread protest from the British public.
Axeldonia, Minnesota Dakota, Cesorion
He should go. Let the Brits kill him.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia, Cesorion
It was quieter yesterday and the day before then.
Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
Oh really? I didn't notice that.
Jaslandia
At least that was my perception. I could be wrong.
Penguania And Antarctica
Anyway. How are you doing? :)
Jaslandia
Doing good. Have some chores and schoolwork to do today, but other than that, the usual. You?
Penguania And Antarctica
Doing good myself too. Played Prison Architect the whole day. That game is quite addictive. Time passes so quickly.
Jaslandia
Cool. I've heard of that game.
https://youtu.be/HqcLghafPXY?t=4m46s
Penguania And Antarctica
Yeah. I'm too merciful with the prisoners. I often run out of money.
Jaslandia
Since I accidentally canceled the policy of Autocracy in Tangshan, I've decided to roll with it and make it a one-party state.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Wouldn't NOT being an autocracy make it harder to be a one-party state?
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
True. Ever since I accidentally canceled the policy, practically every issue has been about elections and parliamentary politics. I've been taking the most corrupt decision each time. But I've not had an opportunity for a dictator to seize power yet.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Hopefully it'll come soon. I know there are at least a few issues where you can directly seize power, or at least assume some decision-making authority in a certain area.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I've brought back an old nation, the Dawn Isles and abandoned New Salvatore. Dawn will be an absolute monarchy ruled by a goddess-queen. It'll be a matriarchy, governed by warlike Amazonian women. But the various tribes of the islands will have local autonomy.
Jaslandia, Percyton
Sounds like an interesting nation. Hopefully it isn't too oppressive.
Nuremgard, Percyton
Don't criticise the monarchy and you are basically left alone. It's very socially liberal but there is some inequality between men and women obviously since the latter rule.
Alright. That doesn't sound TOO bad. Certainly could be a lot worse.
Nuremgard
Some political activists were recently executed for treason though. They protested the monarchy. But no country is perfect.
Jaslandia
Executed for political dissent isn't exactly the kind of thing you follow up with 'No country is perfect'. Normally you say stuff like that if the roads are too crowded, or the weather is too cold.
Nuremgard
But that's the thing! The weather is fabulous. The islands are tropical. Sunshine and heat all year round (with the occasional tropical storm.)
Jaslandia
New legislators take a week-long class entitled "Keeping Your Job: How to Avoid Offending Supreme General Longsun Zhao".
That's more like it. Still not an autocracy again though.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
*puffs into the RMB Rail Yard* A bit quiet recently. Anyway, hello everyone! Sorry I've been gone a little while. The Coaling Plant near Wellsworth got a big order, and Sir Topham Hatt sent me there to help Jose (a new engine from Spanelsko who works as the Coaling Plant shunter) fill the order. It was a lot of work, especially since the trucks at the Coaling Plant are particularly troublesome. Not only that, but I got really dirty at the Coaling Plant; I wanted to get a washdown and get cleaned up, but Driver said there wasn't enough time. Thankfully, though, we eventually found some time; as my Driver types this, I'm having a relaxing washdown. *Cleaner scrubs my nose with a spoge* He he, that tickles.
But enough about me. How are you all? Did I miss anything important?
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Spanelsko
Oh dear! How awful! A sad day for African railways. Nia is from Africa. I'll have to tell her about this next time I see her.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
Percy! Great to see you again! I've been good. As for what you missed, Fuhrmania (the person we thought had cancer)... well, she was probably faking it all for attention. But nothing new other than that.
Nia? As in, Nia from Big World, Big Adventures (BWBA)? So does that mean all this BWBA stuff is canon?
http://ttte.wikia.com/wiki/Big_World!_Big_Adventures!_(movie)
http://variety.com/2017/tv/features/thomas-the-tank-engine-mipcom-mattel-1202584356/
Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
Fuhrmania was lying? Nooo! Why do people do such mean things? I was really worried about her.
I can't really say, since it hasn't come out yet, and Mattel won't really tell us much about BWBA. All I can tell you is:
A: Thomas has traveled the world like in the special, but in real-life, it wasn't a continuous trip (which is what I assume BWBA will show); it was more like a bunch of smaller trips spread out over several years. We still need Thomas to work on Sodor, so he can't be away from the railway for too long at a time.
B: Nia and Rebecca are real, and they really do work on Sodor.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I don't know, Percy. I really don't know.
I see. And how have the engines reacted to the whole 'Edward and Henry leaving the Steam Team' news?
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
It varies. First off, it doesn't really change anything on the real Sodor, since the 'Steam Team' is just something that HiT (the company that owned our franchise before Mattel) made up. Regardless, some, like Gordon, Donald, and Douglas, are outraged, talking about how this is 'PC (political correctness) run amok' and whatnot. Edward and Henry themselves don't care that much; their viewpoint is that the TV series can do whatever it wants, but their roles on Sodor won't change, and they will continue to do their work and be Really Useful regardless of what the TV series does. Nia and Rebecca, who will be replacing Edward and Henry on the Steam Team, are flattered that they're becoming main characters in the TV series, but they also feel bad that Edward and Henry are being demoted in the TV series, and they (Nia and Rebecca) aren't sure if they deserve to take the place of such kind and well-known engines like Edward and Henry. Me personally, I disagree with Mattel's decision to remove Edward and Henry from the Steam Team, but I'm not outraged by it: the TV series has to adapt and change for a new generation, and this new version of the TV series could still be good despite Edward and Henry no longer being main characters. And even if it isn't good, at least there's always the real Sodor!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Very good points, Percy. I'm glad you're taking this in stride, and the same goes for Edward and Henry.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
"Seconds ago: Following new legislation in Jaslandia, no one over the age of 35 has the slightest clue what is going on."
And the award for 'Funniest Issue Result Text' goes to...
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
Hello, everyone!
I have some very good news to report: I have created a new recruitment telegram, and have found a program to automatically send them to nations across NationStates! However, this alone can only go but so far. Therefore, I am asking for donations: (LINK = https://www.nationstates.net/page=store) If you are in the giving mood, please buy some Stamps and gift them to Vista Major. These Stamps will allow me to send many more recruitment telegrams in the future. 1000 Stamps cost as little as $1.00, and I will definitely be buying some for myself in the future.
Your Stamp donations are greatly appreciated. Thank you so much for your continued support!
~VM
PS: I have also created a new Welcome telegram for our new members to look over when they first arrive here.
Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota
Guys I need your help. I'm trying to find a game I lately saw a video about. It's in first person. You play an engineer/technician who is send to and abandoned hydro facility/dam. You explore the facilty and have to solve little riddles to move on.
If anyone of you knows the name of the game I would be quite happy if you could share the name with me. :)
Vista Major
All government dispatches have been updated.
Jaslandia, Oelesa, Minnesota Dakota
INFRA?
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Could it maybe be INFRA?
Penguania And Antarctica
Hmm....aside from the INFRA example the above keep saying, I only know two games that use puzzles like that. One is a horror game, so I'll exclude it for now, the other is "The Turing Test" which sounds very similar to what you're suggesting. I hope you find the game you're searching for, and I highly recommend TTT.
Penguania And Antarctica
It's INFRA. Thank you so much for all your help. I was desperately searching for it but I couldn't remember the name and my google search wasn't very successful either.
So, thank you for you help. <3
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
No problem Peng :) its a great game!
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Hey all. I added a new feature to the Daily Information Post. Hope you all like it. :)
[spoiler=Today is January 14 and today are:]
Today is January 14 and today are:
- Azhyrnykhua (Abkhazia)
- Day of Defenders of the Motherland (Uzbekistan)
- Feast of the Ass (Medieval Christianity)
- Flag Day (Georgia)
- International Kite Day
- Magh Bihu (Assam)
- Maghe Sankranti (Nepal)
- Maghi (Punjab, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh)
- Makar Sankranti (India)
- National Dress Up Your Pet Day (United States)
- National Forest Conservation Day (Thailand)
- National Hot Pastrami Sandwich Day (United States)
- National Sunday Supper Day (United States)
- Organize Your Home Day
- Pongal (Sri Lanka)
- Ratification Day (United States)
- Revolution and Youth Day (Tunisia)
- Uttarayan (Uttarakhand, Gujarat and Rajasthan)
- Yennayer (Berbers)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 1301 Andrew III of Hungary dies, ending the Árpád dynasty in Hungary.
- 1343 Arnot of Pardubice becomes the last bishop of Prague and, subsequently, the first Archbishop of Prague.
- 1539 Spain annexes Cuba.
- 1639 The "Fundamental Orders", the first written constitution that created a government, is adopted in Connecticut.
- 1761 The Third Battle of Panipat is fought in India between the Afghans under Ahmad Shah Durrani and the Marathas.
- 1784 American Revolutionary War: Ratification Day, United States - Congress ratifies the Treaty of Paris with Great Britain.
- 1814 Treaty of Kiel: Frederick VI of Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden in return for Pomerania.
- 1822 Greek War of Independence: Acrocorinth is captured by Theodoros Kolokotronis and Demetrios Ypsilantis.
- 1858 Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt made by Felice Orsini and his accomplices in Paris.
- 1907 An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000 people.
- 1911 Roald Amundsen's South Pole expedition makes landfall on the eastern edge of the Ross Ice Shelf.
- 1939 Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica.
- 1943 World War II: Japan begins Operation Ke, the successful operation to evacuate its forces from Guadalcanal during the Guadalcanal Campaign.
- 1943 World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill begin the Casablanca Conference to discuss strategy and study the next phase of the war.
- 1943 World War II: Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel by airplane while in office when he travels from Miami to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill.
- 1950 The first prototype of the MiG-17 makes its maiden flight.
- 1952 NBC's long-running morning news program Today debuts, with host Dave Garroway.
- 1953 Josip Broz Tito is inaugurated as the first President of Yugoslavia.
- 1954 The Hudson Motor Car Company merges with Nash-Kelvinator Corporation forming the American Motors Corporation.
- 1957 Kripalu Maharaj was named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher) after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.
- 1960 The Reserve Bank of Australia, the country's central bank and banknote issuing authority, is established.
- 1967 Counterculture of the 1960s: The Human Be-In takes place in San Francisco, California's Golden Gate Park, launching the Summer of Love.
- 1967 - The New York Times reports that the U.S. Army is conducting secret germ warfare experiments.
- 1969 USS Enterprise fire: An accidental explosion aboard the USS Enterprise near Hawaii kills 27 people.
- 1972 Queen Margrethe II of Denmark ascends the throne, the first Queen of Denmark since 1412 and the first Danish monarch not named Frederick or Christian since 1513.
- 1973 Elvis Presley's concert Aloha from Hawaii is broadcast live via satellite, and sets the record as the most watched broadcast by an individual entertainer in television history.
- 1993 In Poland's worst peacetime maritime disaster, ferry MS Jan Heweliusz sinks off the coast of Rügen, drowning 55 passengers and crew; nine crew-members are saved.
- 2000 A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years in prison for the 1993 killing of more than 100 Bosnian Muslims.
- 2004 The national flag of the Republic of Georgia, the so-called "five cross flag", is restored to official use after a hiatus of some 500 years.
- 2010 Yemen declares an open war against the terrorist group al-Qaeda.
- 2011 Former president of Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali flees his country to Saudi Arabia after a series of street demonstrations against his regime and corrupt policies, asking for freedom, rights and democracy, considered as the anniversary of the Tunisian Revolution and the birth of the Arab Spring.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 83BC Mark Antony, Roman general and politician
- 1131 Valdemar I of Denmark
- 1683 Gottfried Silbermann, German instrument maker
- 1741 Benedict Arnold, American-British general
- 1800 Ludwig Ritter von Köchel, Austrian composer, botanist, and publisher
- 1863 Richard F. Outcault, American author and illustrator
- 1875 Albert Schweitzer, French-Gabonese physician and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1886 Hugh Lofting, English author and poet, created Doctor Dolittle
- 1892 Martin Niemöller, German pastor and theologian
- 1931 Caterina Valente, Italian singer, guitarist, dancer, and actress
- 1941 Faye Dunaway, American actress and producer
- 1944 Peter Fechter, German bricklayer, one of the first victims of the Berlin Wall
- 1946 Howard Carpendale, South African singer
- 1950 Rambhadracharya, Indian religious leader, scholar, and author
- 1963 Steven Soderbergh, American director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1969 Dave Grohl, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and drummer
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Quote of the day
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
- Theodore Dreiser -
Author Profession: Novelist
Nationality: American
Born: August 27, 1871
Died: December 28, 1945
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Jaslandia, Vista Major, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton
I think this holiday has... another meaning as well. PornHub, get on it!
Not bad, but it could be shortened. I'd do it more like this:
Art is the stored honey of the human soul, gathered on wings of misery and travail.
- Theodore Dreiser (American novelist; 1871-1945)
Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Mercunova, Percyton
*slap*
Don't you fall into degeneracy, too.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
Ironic, since the actual Feast of the Ass (and the related Feast of Fools) was at least somewhat degenerate, hence why it was condemned and eventually banned.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_the_Ass
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feast_of_Fools
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
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