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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Sure is. It sure is.
What annoyed me about the report was that they kept mentioning the police officer who had been killed and how our thoughts were with the officers and their families. Well what about the families of the civilians? And that MP in Parliament didn't even give the civilians a mention but mentioned the police.
I don't know about that. Nitpicking at what was said and what wasn't said is - I think - foolish at this time. Hindsight is 20/20, there was a lot going on and there's been trillions of reports going out. Clearly he didn't have the best idea of what was going on and conflicting reports don't help when you're in the (at the time) most locked down place in Britain.
Lavan Tiri
True. I wonder if they'll catch the other one.
Lavan Tiri
There's another?
Lavan Tiri
Yeah there were 2 attackers and one of them is still on the loose.
Lavan Tiri, Yukona
Savages:
; It's the only way I can describe them
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri
Hope the police get the other fvcker.
He deserves a little smashing beforehand.
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri
Needs to be kept alive though in case he's part of a larger cell.
Lavan Tiri, Yukona
Who said it was deadly smashing?
By all means, find it out; get the others too.
Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri
Donald: I see.
Douglas: Hullo there, fowk of Andromitus!
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
REGIONAL SONG OF THE DAY
Day 22: Blur - "Parklife" (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSuHrTfcikU)
Thank you for reading, papa bless
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Andromitus, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
To everyone who applied for an executive position:
[I]No later than Sunday evening, you will receive a telegram from me detailing your new job(s) and assignments. If you do not receive a telegram, you may assume that you did not receive a position. You may contact me for a possible appeal. Thank you all for applying.
If anyone has any questions or concerns, regardless of whether or not they got a position, telegram me ASAP.[/I]
~VM
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Just saw La La Land. Anyone else?
Vista Major
Nah, didn't really appeal to me.
Aldaur, Yukona
Hey all, how are you today?
Vista Major, Magnatronia
Great! I just opted to brainwash my employees by adding sedatives to the water. Now they praise their god, me, every other hour of the day.
Aghrabia
Thank god someone responded.
I'm going legit stir-crazy right now, so much so that I can't even complain about sedatives not making your people worship you.
I can't tell if your better or worse then INGSOC (1984)
The Royal Republic Of Kumania
Shhhhhh
Awww thanks!
Posted on Confederacy General, and I'm waiting for someone to post on the Viper RP
Just gonna expand a bit on why only WA nations should be on the map.
[spoiler] The issue of puppetry has been a pretty big one throughout the different regions we've made, and the simple fact is that the only real, reliable, method of protection comes from WA. Latrovia's method of forum-based IP scanning is either legitimately terrifying or completely ineffectual, possibly both at the same time.
If Lat's little scanner works off of searching the Email IP, then it simply won't work. It will pull up the IP of the email server, probably based in California or Oregon.
If it pulls the actual IP, then it's terrifying as it's handing your approximate location to a person or persons across the internet, and depending on if Lat could even delegate that ability, he'll be a constant facet of that method.
Depending on it's capabilities too, it could be tricked far easier than WA, being vulnerable to the same alleged weakness of WA...proxy servers.
The other suggested method is actually worse, requiring that you merely....be active.
Anyone with an understanding of time will see the issue here. Activity across three puppets would hardly be difficult, and that person would gain three votes for the ten minutes they spent....humorously, otherwise honest people might fake multiple citizens in the belief that they were balancing the system.
As one can see, while WA might be vulnerable, there is only far weaker alternatives to it...this was a discussion on the map though, and here's my reasoning for why WA should be a prerequisite within reason -Sodor, for example, is hardly an active or large place, and as such it's fine in my mind for them to remain- for a placement on the map.
The issue isn't in incredibly small islands cropping up, it's in them cropping up and taking real, large spots and possibly joining certain alliances. This simply increases the power of those nations and radically unbalances the RP without us knowing if it's even a different person to the alliance founder.
WA allows for us to have a reasonable trust in that the people of an Alliance are all different people and while there are certain issues in RP I'd like to address soon, it's good that we at least have this knocked off. [/spoiler]
Ludania, The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Baxten, Aghrabia, Vista Major, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Pirate Kingdoms, Yukona, Magnatronia, Percyton
[spoiler=Today is March 23 and today are:]
Today is March 23 and today are:
- Day of Hungarian-Polish Friendship (Hungary, Poland)
- Day of the Sea (Bolivia)
- Ministry of Environment and Natural Resources Day (Azerbaijan)
- National Chia Day (United States)
- National Chip and Dip Day (United States)
- National Melba Toast Day (United States)
- National Near Miss Day (United States)
- National Puppy Day (United States)
- OK Day
- Pakistan Day (Pakistan)
- Promised Messiah Day (Ahmadiyya)
- World Meteorological Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 1400 The Trần dynasty of Vietnam is deposed, after one hundred and seventy-five years of rule, by Hồ Quý Ly, a court official.
- 1540 Waltham Abbey is surrendered to King Henry VIII of England; the last religious community to be closed during the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
- 1568 The Peace of Longjumeau is signed, ending the second phase of the French Wars of Religion.
- 1708 James Francis Edward Stuart lands at the Firth of Forth.
- 1775 American Revolutionary War: Patrick Henry delivers his speech "Give me liberty, or give me death!" at St. John's Episcopal Church, Richmond, Virginia.
- 1801 Tsar Paul I of Russia is struck with a sword, then strangled, and finally trampled to death inside his bedroom at St. Michael's Castle.
- 1806 After traveling through the Louisiana Purchase and reaching the Pacific Ocean, explorers Lewis and Clark and their "Corps of Discovery" begin their arduous journey home.
- 1821 Greek War of Independence: Battle and fall of city of Kalamata.
- 1848 The ship John Wickliffe arrives at Port Chalmers carrying the first Scottish settlers for Dunedin, New Zealand. Otago province is founded.
- 1857 Elisha Otis's first elevator is installed at 488 Broadway New York City.
- 1862 The First Battle of Kernstown, Virginia, marks the start of Stonewall Jackson's Valley Campaign. Although a Confederate defeat, the engagement distracts Federal efforts to capture Richmond.
- 1868 The University of California is founded in Oakland, California when the Organic Act is signed into law.
- 1879 War of the Pacific: The Battle of Topáter, the first battle of the war is fought between Chile and the joint forces of Bolivia and Peru.
- 1885 Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Phu Lam Tao near Hưng Hóa, northern Vietnam.
- 1888 In England, The Football League, the world's oldest professional association football league, meets for the first time.
- 1889 The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad in Qadian, British India.
- 1901 Emilio Aguinaldo, only President of the First Philippine Republic, was captured at Palanan, Isabela by the forces of General Frederick Funston.
- 1905 Eleftherios Venizelos calls for Crete's union with Greece, and begins what is to be known as the Theriso revolt.
- 1909 Theodore Roosevelt leaves New York for a post-presidency safari in Africa. The trip is sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution and National Geographic Society.
- 1918 First World War: On the third day of the German Spring Offensive, the 10th Battalion of the Royal West Kent Regiment is annihilated with many of the men becoming prisoners of war
- 1919 In Milan, Italy, Benito Mussolini founds his Fascist political movement.
- 1931 Bhagat Singh, Shivaram Rajguru and Sukhdev Thapar are hanged for the killing of a deputy superintendent of police during the Indian struggle for independence.
- 1933 The Reichstag passes the Enabling Act of 1933, making Adolf Hitler dictator of Germany.
- 1935 Signing of the Constitution of the Commonwealth of the Philippines.
- 1939 The Hungarian air force attacks the headquarters of the Slovak air force in Spiská Nová Ves, killing 13 people and beginning the SlovakHungarian War.
- 1940 The Lahore Resolution (Qarardad-e-Pakistan or Qarardad-e-Lahore) is put forward at the Annual General Convention of the All-India Muslim League.
- 1956 Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic in the world. (Republic Day in Pakistan)
- 1965 NASA launches Gemini 3, the United States' first two-man space flight (crew: Gus Grissom and John Young).
- 1977 The first of The Nixon Interviews (12 will be recorded over four weeks) are videotaped with British journalist David Frost interviewing former United States President Richard Nixon about the Watergate scandal and the Nixon tapes.
- 1978 The first UNIFIL troops arrived in Lebanon for peacekeeping mission along the Blue Line.
- 1980 Archbishop Óscar Romero of El Salvador gives his famous speech appealing to men of the El Salvadoran armed forces to stop killing the Salvadorans.
- 1982 Guatemala's government, headed by Fernando Romeo Lucas García is overthrown in a military coup by right-wing General Efraín Ríos Montt.
- 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative: President Ronald Reagan makes his initial proposal to develop technology to intercept enemy missiles.
- 1991 The Revolutionary United Front, with support from the special forces of Charles Taylor's National Patriotic Front of Liberia, invades Sierra Leone in an attempt to overthrow Joseph Saidu Momoh, sparking a gruesome 11-year Sierra Leone Civil War.
- 1994 At an election rally in Tijuana, Mexican presidential candidate Luis Donaldo Colosio is assassinated by Mario Aburto Martínez.
- 1994 A United States Air Force (USAF) F-16 aircraft collides with a USAF C-130 at Pope Air Force Base and then crashes, killing 24 United States Army soldiers on the ground. This later became known as the Green Ramp disaster.
- 1994 Aeroflot Flight 593 crashed into the Kuznetsk Alatau mountain, Kemerovo Oblast, Russia, killing 75.
- 1996 Taiwan holds its first direct elections and chooses Lee Teng-hui as President.
- 1999 Gunmen assassinate Paraguay's Vice President Luis María Argaña.
- 2001 The Russian Mir space station is disposed of, breaking up in the atmosphere before falling into the southern Pacific Ocean near Fiji.
- 2003 Battle of Nasiriyah, first major conflict during the invasion of Iraq.
- 2009 FedEx Express Flight 80: A McDonnell Douglas MD-11 flying from Guangzhou, China crashes at Tokyo's Narita International Airport, killing both the captain and the co-pilot.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1749 Pierre-Simon Laplace, French mathematician and astronomer
- 1754 Jurij Vega, Slovene mathematician, physicist and artillery officer
- 1858 Ludwig Quidde, German activist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1881 Hermann Staudinger, German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1882 Emmy Noether, Jewish German-American mathematician, physicist and academic
- 1887 Juan Gris, Spanish painter and sculptor
- 1900 Erich Fromm, German psychologist and sociologist
- 1907 Daniel Bovet, Swiss-Italian pharmacologist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1910 Akira Kurosawa, Japanese director, producer and screenwriter
- 1912 Wernher von Braun, German-American physicist and engineer
- 1924 Bette Nesmith Graham, American inventor, invented Liquid Paper
- 1929 Roger Bannister, English runner, neurologist and academic
- 1937 Robert Gallo, American physician and academic
- 1942 Michael Haneke, Austrian director, producer and screenwriter
- 1956 José Manuel Barroso, Portuguese academic and politician, 115th Prime Minister of Portugal
- 1968 Damon Albarn, English singer-songwriter, producer and actor
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Quote of the day
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
- Vince Lombari -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Vista Major, Percyton
That moment your serious writing gets six likes but no one ever laughs at your puns.
:0(
No one's down with the clown.
Jaslandia, Aghrabia
Post something on any rp
Now
I refuse you jackboot ninnynanny.
Aghrabia
What did u call me
A jackboot ninnynanny.
I thought that was obvious :P
U wanna fite boi
Aghrabia
Ach, both of you are totty-headed twiddlepoops
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Andromitus
Bish
I made a flag for the flag contest, I sent it to Oelesa.
Vista Major, Oelesa
http://i67.tinypic.com/2uduwdu.png
this is it
Vista Major, Oelesa, Percyton
https://www.nationstates.net/page=poll/p=85957
I like how I called myself "the Chancellor"
#nostagia #cfnforeverz
Oelesa
Post self-deleted by Aghrabia.
REGIONAL SONG OF THE DAY
Day 26: Edward Elgar - "Salut d'amour, Op.12" (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXLOF-z5Zlk)
Thank you for reading, papa bless
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
I don't think Sodor feels 'incredibly small' when you're on it, but still, thank you for recognizing us. I was just about to ask if Percyton would have to give up its map spot under this proposed policy.
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica
sad that I didn't get speaker of the house; surely I'll win the flag contest, right
Andromitus, Oelesa, Percyton
Surely
Orcala
my flag is pretty dank
Alright, just gonna post a very tiny bit more about, with a focus on RP.
[Spoiler]I've seen some....lets call it...pushback to the idea of restraining the number of troops that a nation may hold for an RP. Furthermore, this has extended even into the realm of naval warfare and the numbers of ships a nation may hold.
To be honest, this wouldn't be a problem if we had the best RPers on the whole planet -not to critize the skill of most of our RPers, I'm just pointing out what would be a requirement- because we would never experience the same issues we do nowadays.
An RP is much like a book written by multiple people; it has many authors and follows certain rules.
Indeed, the reason we have rules is very similar to why authors have rules. A rule provides an intelligent convention through which a story can be written, this isn't to say that you may not break such a rule but that you must be skilled enough to do it well.
Clearly there's a massive difference between the writing of a five-year-old and that of "Ulysses", yet both undeniably violate the rules of writing, and it is in this difference that we see the clear cut difference between those who should violate the rules and those who shouldn't. The "Master" knows and skillfully works around rules that are there to improve the works of the "novice".
In the same way, an RP is protected from super-massive militaries, or metagamers that divulge the whole plot into one-line responses followed by pseudo-tactics or from the infamous "All the nukes disarm before impacting, everyone's saved :D " through having rules of it's own.
Furthermore, on the whole subject of invasions...just get it cleared with the nation that will be invaded, please.
I can't stress how stupid this whole issue would be if it happened now considering the massive backlash that occured earlier against Bax originally for invading without talking to Flynn.
Back to the original matter though, troop and ship limits:
This is needed to prevent the Lolarmies and Lolnavies that would rise up out of the oh-so-human lack of knowledge on a proper composition that doesn't massively overpower you, or create what I've come to call "America-itius" wherein every nation creates a super-power military that would devastate RL navies on an order of magnitude.
...I don't know what else to say? [/spoiler]
Baxten, Aghrabia, Andromitus
I don't think there is much else to say on the matter; none of us, myself included, are experts at storytelling, and as long as it's just and implemented properly, I'll agree with it.
Everyone who received an executive job has now been notified of their positions and assignments.
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
I agree pretty hard here.
A rule has to be just and fair, and that's part of why I made those two comments as it was in the interests of keeping our RP's fair in terms of upper-military-power (Admittedly, I also was annoyed with the fact that Lat's only response to my exact points two days ago were to call me a white knight and to state that the Government needs to commandeer the map from Baxten for some reason?) and in protecting RPs from Meta-gaming.
Aghrabia
I agree with what you said. Lat's been saying the government should take control of the map since he was President. He said he'd appoint me to do it, but nothing ever really changed. So I don't know what he'd have in plan now (maybe he'd take control, idk), but map changes and cartographer changes can only happen through voting so, unless Lat or anyone else is voted to be cartographer, there shouldn't be any problems.
Ugh, yeah no.
No government control, please.
I view the map with the same vision as the Discord; it's a public utility controlled privately and with a focus on providing legal service.
Will you suddenly remove two thirds of the map because you don't like them? No, of course not.
Will I suddenly lose my mind and go so whacko as to suddenly begin arbitrarily removong people from Discord over an argument? No, of course not.
Frankly, a government cartographer is a waste of a space considering that -as you said- people could just vote for a new map made and maintained by someone else.
Baxten, Aghrabia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Maurician
*future map of the Magnatronian empire
Aghrabia, Andromitus, Oelesa, Yukona
Taking props from my past maggy?
Magnatronia
I urge all to check my latest tweet.
Hello people. I am very sorry for the lateness of this post and apologize for any inconvenience this caused.
[spoiler=Today is March 24 and today are:]
Today is March 24 and today are:
- Commonwealth Covenant Day (Northern Mariana Islands)
- Day of Remembrance for Truth and Justice (Argentina)
- International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims
- National Cheesesteak Day (United States)
- National Chocolate Covered Raisin Day (United States)
- National Tree Planting Day (Uganda)
- Student Day (Scientology)
- World Tuberculosis Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 1401 Turco-Mongol emperor Timur sacks Damascus.
- 1603 James VI of Scotland becomes James I of England and Ireland, upon the death of Elizabeth I.
- 1603 Tokugawa Ieyasu is granted the title of shogun from Emperor Go-Yōzei, and establishes the Tokugawa shogunate in Edo, Japan.
- 1663 The Province of Carolina is granted by charter to eight Lords Proprietor in reward for their assistance in restoring Charles II of England to the throne.
- 1720 Count Frederick of Hesse-Kassel is elected King of Sweden by the Riksdag of the Estates, after his consort Ulrika Eleonora abdicated the throne on 29 February
- 1721 Johann Sebastian Bach dedicated six concertos to Margrave Christian Ludwig of Brandenburg-Schwedt, now commonly called the Brandenburg Concertos, BWV 10461051.
- 1731 Naturalization of Hieronimus de Salis Parliamentary Act is passed.
- 1765 Great Britain passes the Quartering Act, which requires the Thirteen Colonies to house British troops.
- 1829 The Parliament of the United Kingdom passes the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, allowing Catholics to serve in Parliament.
- 1832 In Hiram, Ohio, a group of men beat and tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith.
- 1837 Canada gives African Canadian men the right to vote.
- 1854 Slavery is abolished in Venezuela.
- 1860 Sakuradamon Incident: Assassination of Japanese Chief Minister (Tairō) Ii Naosuke.
- 1869 The last of Titokowaru's forces surrendered to the New Zealand government, ending his uprising.
- 1878 The British frigate HMS Eurydice sinks, killing more than 300.
- 1882 Robert Koch announces the discovery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the bacterium responsible for tuberculosis.
- 1885 Sino-French War: Chinese victory in the Battle of Bang Bo on the TonkinGuangxi border.
- 1896 A. S. Popov makes the first radio signal transmission in history.
- 1900 Mayor of New York City Robert Anderson Van Wyck breaks ground for a new underground "Rapid Transit Railroad" that would link Manhattan and Brooklyn.
- 1907 The first issue of the Georgian Bolshevik newspaper Dro is published.
- 1921 The 1921 Women's Olympiad begins in Monte Carlo, first international women's sports event
- 1927 Nanking Incident: Foreign warships bombard Nanjing, China, in defense of the foreign citizens within the city.
- 1934 United States Congress passes the TydingsMcDuffie Act, allowing the Philippines to become a self-governing commonwealth.
- 1944 Ardeatine massacre: German troops murder 335 Italian civilians in Rome.
- 1944 World War II: In an event later dramatized in the movie The Great Escape, 76 Allied prisoners of war begin breaking out of the German camp Stalag Luft III.
- 1946 A British Cabinet Mission arrives in India to discuss and plan for the transfer of power from the British Raj to Indian leadership.
- 1958 Rock 'n' roll teen idol Elvis Presley is drafted in the U.S. Army.
- 1961 Quebec Board of the French Language is established.
- 1965 Images from the Ranger 9 lunar probe are broadcast live on network television.
- 1973 Kenyan athlete Kip Keino defeats Jim Ryun at the first-ever professional track meet in Los Angeles.
- 1976 In Argentina, the armed forces overthrow the constitutional government of President Isabel Perón and start a 7-year dictatorial period self-styled the National Reorganization Process.
- 1980 El Salvadorian Archbishop Óscar Romero is assassinated while celebrating Mass in San Salvador.
- 1986 The Loscoe gas explosion leads to new UK laws on landfill gas migration and gas protection on landfill sites.
- 1989 In Prince William Sound in Alaska, the Exxon Valdez spills 240,000 barrels (38,000 m3) of crude oil after running aground.
- 1993 Discovery of Comet ShoemakerLevy 9.
- 1998 Mitchell Johnson and Andrew Golden, aged 11 and 13 respectively, fire upon teachers and students at Westside Middle School in Jonesboro, Arkansas; five people are killed and ten are wounded.
- 1998 A tornado sweeps through Dantan in India, killing 250 people and injuring 3,000 others.
- 1998 First computer-assisted Bone Segment Navigation, performed at the University of Regensburg, Germany
- 1999 Kosovo war: NATO began attacks on Yugoslavia without United Nations Security Council (UNSC) approval , marking the first time NATO has attacked a sovereign country.
- 1999 A lorry carrying margarine and flour catches fire inside the Mont Blanc Tunnel. The resulting inferno kills 38 people.
- 2003 The Arab League votes 211 in favor of a resolution demanding the immediate and unconditional removal of U.S. and British soldiers from Iraq.
- 2008 Bhutan officially becomes a democracy, with its first ever general election.
- 2015 Germanwings Flight 9525 crashes in the French Alps in an apparent pilot mass murder-suicide, killing all 150 people on board.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1494 Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist and scholar
- 1693 John Harrison, English carpenter and clock-maker, invented the Marine chronometer
- 1733 Joseph Priestley, English theologian, philosopher, chemist, physicist
- 1820 Fanny Crosby, American poet and composer
- 1874 Harry Houdini, Hungarian-Jewish American magician and actor
- 1884 Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1897 Wilhelm Reich, Austrian-American psychotherapist and academic
- 1903 Adolf Butenandt, German biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1909 Clyde Barrow, American criminal
- 1911 Joseph Barbera, American animator, director, and producer, co-founded Hanna-Barbera
- 1921 Vasily Smyslov, Russian chess player
- 1926 Dario Fo, Italian playwright, actor, director, and composer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1927 Martin Walser, German author and playwright
- 1930 Steve McQueen, American actor and producer
- 1951 Tommy Hilfiger, American fashion designer, founded the Tommy Hilfiger Corporation
- 1956 Steve Ballmer, American businessman
- 1960 Nena, German singer-songwriter and actress
- 1961 Yanis Varoufakis, Greek economist and politician, Greek Minister of Finance
- 1973 Jim Parsons, American actor
- 1974 Alyson Hannigan, American actress
- 1976 Peyton Manning, American football player and entrepreneur
- 1990 Keisha Castle-Hughes, Australian-New Zealand actress
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Quote of the day
Try to be like the turtle at ease in your own shell.
- Bill Copeland -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Vista Major, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton
Link?
Yukona
A bit of a long-winded name. Couldn't they have shortened it? Imagine wishing someone a 'Happy International Day for the Right to the Truth Concerning Gross Human Rights Violations and for the Dignity of Victims!'
Nuremgard, Aghrabia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia
Lol why not just post it?
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
You don't just post Tweets
That's the Donald's job
Penguania And Antarctica
https://twitter.com/thesirmida
Here you go.
Aghrabia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
I've been appointed two roles in government for this region now
I'm officially a politician
Aghrabia, Andromitus, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Minnesota Dakota, Yukona, Percyton
Kinda weird that there's an emoticon there. I don't tend to see official state twitters post that when death is a bit of a serious thing.
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Yea, the emoticon does kinda take away from the post
Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica
not if Kumania has anything to say about it
Prince George's school was "announced."
Well I went to a primary school called St. Joseph's. Why isn't that news? Oh, aye, because I didn't fall out of a "royal" vagina.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica
Welcome to the club lol :p
Penguania And Antarctica
REGIONAL SONG OF THE DAY
Day 27: Pink Floyd - "Another Brick in the Wall Pt.2" (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HrxX9TBj2zY)
Thank you for reading, papa bless
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Seeing no new flags coming in, the voting process begins a few hours earlier. Please go vote for a flag or to keep the current one.
Penguania And Antarctica, Orcala
In Prince George's defense, I worry this may be a pattern where every bit of news about him is reported and widely covered in the media. George is only a kid, and he didn't ask to be put in the public spotlight, but because of the family he was born into, almost everything about him will be considered newsworthy. He'll have no privacy, and he won't have the chance to learn and make mistakes out of the public eye. I feel sorry for George.
Aghrabia
No need to defend him. I wasn't accusing him of anything or berating him. Of course every detail of his life will be reported by the media. He's royal. That's just how it is. I wouldn't feel too sorry for him, Jas. He's going to live a life of unimaginable wealth and privilege. I'm sure that'll make up for a bit of annoyance with the paparazzi.
Jaslandia, Aghrabia
And I was still going to make one... Oh well, I'll probably just vote to keep the current one.
Penguania And Antarctica
I wouldn't consider constant media attention to be "a bit of annoyance", but maybe that's just me.
I'd say it was a price worth paying.
When the flag proposals are so bad you're in favour of keeping the one you've spent the last several months complaining about endlessly.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Baxten, Aghrabia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Same, none of the flags at vote are particularly appeasing, from relish-mustard-ketchup to the "Big C" -yeah, totally no super rude words that start with C, right?- to .Jpeg (but really though, it's nice to see a new member get involved so good on you) the best really is the one we already have.
At least it's visually appeasing >.>
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica
Seriously though
we've got banana republic, the 'I don't like people who are into vexillology' and the 'I tried really hard in mspaint'
Like come on. The current flag is bad, it doesn't fit the theme of the region, it's ugly, it doesn't mean anything, the colour scheme doesn't match. Seriously, I could go on for forever about it, but the proposed ones are far far worse.
Like call it quits and just use the fvcking tea flag already.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
While I personally dislike all three, I'm willing to state that the last at least shows effort, more than I expect from most people.
I personally rather like the current flag -I admit, I may be biased as it was made by Tim- since it carries a geometric pattern and has some nice dark colours. Furthermore, I'm opposed to the use of the Teaflag for the same reasons as before, it's excellent for a chat-region, but we simply aren't one.
Jaslandia, Aghrabia
I wish you people would give- n and admit that we pretty much are and always have been. The government aspect of this region is not the main aspect, the community is and tea time is an integral part of that and the only element of this region to have persisted since the beginning. Tea time is the unifying factor for this community and the tea flag holds more legitimacy than any other flag we've ever had. I'll defend this point relentlessly because this stupid notion of 'oh it's not professional to have a teapot' is actually ridiculous when we examine the wider context of the fact that we're all pretending to run a government on an online nation simulator.
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica
I agree with Kal on why the tea flag isn't the best. At the same time, I still think it's our best and nicest-looking option (including both our current flag and the flags that are up for vote). It's also a nice tribute to CFN history and traditions.
Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica
I wonder who made this Tea Flag everyone is talking about ?
I want to say Unf, but I'm not 100% sure.
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
No, I can 100% assure you it wasn't Unf.
Jaslandia, Yukona
it was Peng
Jaslandia, Yukona
Oh. Sorry, Peng.
Penguania And Antarctica
No problem. No reason to be sorry. :)
Jaslandia, Yukona
For Christ sake people. How much time do you all need to make a flag. Whats the point in a flag contest if we just keep the dis favorable current flag?
I'll extend the flag contest for another day ending at midnight tomorrow.
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Respectfully, while the Government simulation isn't the main force of the Region, it is clearly just as important as the chat aspect, or need I remind you of how twice we've evacuated our Regions due to a Tyrant?
Simply put if the simulation aspect did not at least bear some weight, we would still be in the CFN unless Silver well and truly CTE'd for an extended length of time.
I never mentioned that it was unprofessional, merely that it isn't a proper fit for the region in my eyes since the flag stresses a custom that we do neither reliably nor excessively. I would state that the number of political debates and arguments outnumber the Tea-Times if anything.
As for Tea-Time being unifying factor of our region...we'll simply have to agree to disagree. I don't feel that blowback on Ru came about due to Merc's responses to the occasional tea-time, but from his rights as a citizen...something inherently related to government.
Thanks for your mercy, my lord.
Ludania, Jaslandia, Aghrabia
Ah, drat.
I meant the unifying force.
Yes it holds weight, but it's coincidental that the most active participators in the region are also simultaneously active in government so when that avenue is shut off obviously they're going to leave and as they're the vocal minority they're going to convince everyone to leave with them. The vast majority of people in CFN were content to stay there until they were told to leave because they simply didn't care about government and most of them still don't. Look at the legislature, the focal point of governance. When was the last bill? Oh that's right, 25 days ago.
The fact of the matter is, even if we don't do it reliably (why would we want to do it excessively?) we still do it and it's still a tradition, one of the only we have. It makes sense to put that on the flag, more so than any other designs that have come up. If you want to go ahead and draft a flag based around debate and discussion that doesn't come off as generic then go right ahead. I'm attached to the tea flag because it's the best, not because I'm sentimental for it. I didn't design it, and I much prefer the communist version of it.
As for your last point, I've got no idea what you're talking about, to be honest. The blowback on Ruclax wasn't caused by tea time ergo we shouldn't have the tea flag?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I disagree with you on the importance of government and of Tea-Time, hence I am listed occurrences wherein Tea-Time was not the unifying force you suggested in your original post.
Ruclax attempted to massively overstep his bounds as founder, ejecting Merc and making it clear that he would be dissolving the primary government of Montaris. The aftermath was that people who weren't active politically -Tserra, Jaslandia and Lavan Tiri are all names that come to mind- listed their grievance and left, clearly not the result of a small subsection being outraged, but rather that most were moved to an uproar.
I don't believe that TT had a hand in that response in any way non-tangentially.
Furthermore, my point on debate was meant to point out that, though Tea-Time is perhaps an important part of our regional culture -though I personally don't feel the same as you- it is no more prevalent or iconic than those debates and I would sooner align our region on the political side due to their rate of occurrence.
I would argue that legitimately all comments pertaining to which flag is the best is highly if not totally subjective due to the fact that it cannot be proven with fact -Vexology is a lottle silly- and is based on opinion, whether you drew it or not is immaterial to that.
Again, I am not stating that we never do TT, or that it isn't important. I merely prefer a flag that isn't in reference to a very occasional/somewhat rare tradition, has a pleasant look to it and is mildly symbolic to our region.
Lavan Tiri
Then design one, because right now the tea flag is the closest we've got to the requirements you listed.
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica
I am neither a designer, nor do I believe the argument of "If you think X, then do it better" is anymore applicable here than in a YT or NSG comment.
This started because I voiced dissent on the idea that the Tea-flag was truly the best flag to represent the Region, and I respectfully maintain my opinion without the need to submit a flag, as my criticism remains valid regardless.
If the others choose to embrace the Tea-flag, then I will accept their choice.
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Flag contest got pushed back? lolrip
Maybe it's because once they saw my flag they just said oh well :^)
Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica
butterflies > teapots
vote for ORCALA'S FLAG
Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica
Hello hello.
If you recall, I was ejected from this region without a trial by Vista Major. However, every nation in this region is automatically a resident. Residents have legal protection and cannot be ejected without a trial. Therefore, my ejection was illegal. So, I'm back, and I encourage the MoJ to commerce an action against Vista for breaking the law.
Oh, right. You need to be a citizen for that. Otherwise you can be ejected for just about any sensical reason.
Yukona
Vote for my flag in the flag contest and I'll be your attorney, free of charge :^)
flaggot prostitution ftw
Um... no. The laws state
1. Everyone is automatically a resident
2. Residents get legal protection
I was here. I was a resident. I should have had a trial.
Vote whore...
Aghrabia, Orcala
That is a pretty big accusation you our making there.
Yukona
Um... no. Its just a statement of the law and facts.
lolrip
You can request a trial in the CFN offsite forums, but personally, I don't think your chances of winning are that great.
Even then why would you want to come back? Most people will support him rather than you in this situation making a trial a waste of time.
Aghrabia, Oelesa
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