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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Are you saying that hereditary monarchy is not the most effective form of government? Are you saying that having your national leaders selected through an accident of birth is a bad idea? If that's what you're saying then you'd be right.
F*cking nice one!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Tangshan is an Epic card! Shazria is Common.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Me is an epic card. I'm amazed. I thought I would be of low value.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Spanelsko
Rare bois represent!
Ludania, Nuremgard
Perhaps you should liberalise your people's civil rights?
Ludania
Their what???
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
This is why you're a psychotic dictatorship. :P
Ludania, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
That aint mine mate, mine are Great Britain and Her Subjects and English Commonwealth
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Figured out your new primary nation yet?
Penguania And Antarctica
Unfallious I got your card. I thought you would be more of value than just 'uncommon'.
I think he meant their civil UNrights
Ludania, Penguania And Antarctica
Well they're forced to adhere to the state religion, aren't allowed to get divorced or have extramarital affairs. They're not allowed to pierce their bodies, have their organs harvested without their consent.
They also don't have a free press or the right to protest. As a bleeding heart liberal democratic country, I think all of the above should change.
I see what you mean, they are lacking in slavery and child labour. Don't worry i will help them.
Ludania, Nuremgard
We have subjects not citizens ;)
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko
Shazria has subjects too. :)
Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko
Just moved a puppet of mine here and now I have the most efficient economy in the region as well as the second to worst lol
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Love the flag of your new country.
Ludania, Penguania And Antarctica
Thanks! Hopefully it's the irl future lol
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Turned into a commie have you? lol
Now or never comrade
Nuremgard
Yukona has been enslaved, finally!
now i just need peng and nurem for my collection....
Penguania And Antarctica
Fellow Citizens,
After deep personal reflection, I have had to make some serious considerations as to my future.
A week ago, I had a dream, and in that dream I was called to change my life for the simpler, and the better.
I feel very strongly that the dream I had was telling me to abandon everything that I have now and follow a life of llama herding on a quiet Western Pennsylvania farm.
I therefore announce here and now that I shall resign the office of Chancellor, effective at noon Eastern tomorrow. I will still be around but in a lesser capacity for awhile. I wish all the best for the region and its citizens.
Solemnly,
☿ Merc
Chancellor
PS~APRIL FOOLS!!! I'm not going anywhere! I really honestly can't stand llamas, so you're all stuck with me for a little while yet! Happy April Fool's Day, Happy Easter, Happy Passover and Happy whatever else to those who celebrate something today.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Continental Commonwealths, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
sh!t boys, leaked GoT footage
https://youtu.be/QAT2wX8tyIE
Penguania And Antarctica
Had me until 0:46 when I saw Ned Stark wearing a denim jacket.
Penguania And Antarctica
Nop still deciding
Penguania And Antarctica
*whispers* Middle Eastern nation so you can be Shazria's buddy/rival (delete as appropriate.)
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Had me right up until Jon Snow was playing tennis
Penguania And Antarctica
How could he play tennis? He knows nothing.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Call me a heretic but I've never seen GoT.
Nuremgard, Gualimole
You are a heretic. :P
Penguania And Antarctica
To the stake with me?
Nuremgard
To the Wall.
And I thought, because of theme, you would burn me. I try to imagine archers instead of riflemen as firing squad.
I didn't mean that kind of wall. I mean the Wall in Game of Thrones. Criminals get sent there instead of being executed.
And what happens at that "Wall" ?
Depends on the role you're assigned. Stewards clean the place, make and serve food etc. Rangers venture out beyond the Wall to fight Wildlings and monsters. Builders build things.
Penguania And Antarctica
Ministry of Justice Information
Kalaron is hereby declared constable of the Confederacy of Free Nations. The Constable officer role shall be given to him as soon as possible.
-Peng-
Minister of Justice
Jaslandia, Vista Major
That doesn't sound like a punishment tbh.
Nuremgard
Oh, my mistake. Must have gotten it mixed up with English Commonwealth.
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
I've got James The Red Engine cards two times. Anyone want to have it?
James The Red Engine
Of course I need my own card, so I'll take it!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
All my cards are for sale tbh. I'm after my card (and a few of my allies as well) so none of these matter all that much!
Penguania And Antarctica
I'm saving the cards of fellow CoFN members if they want to claim them, but other than that, all of my cards are for sale as well.
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica
A bunch of guys living with one another after being brought together for living lives of societal sin?
What do you think happens at the Wall?
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
As Ygritte said, "the crows nest together."
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Sex, drugs and rock'n roll
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Sold you the card that depicts a really good looking and splendid red coated engine. :D
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, James The Red Engine
[spoiler=Today is April 1 and today are:]
Today is April 1 and today are:
- A Drop of Water - A grain of Gold (Turkmenistan)
- April Fools' Day
- Arbor Day (Tanzania)
- Boomer Bonus Days
- Civil Service Day (Thailand)
- Cyprus National Day (Cyprus)
- Easter Sunday (Christianity)
- Edible Book Day
- Fossil Fools Day
- Fun at Work Day
- Hazarat Ali's Birthday (India)
- International Tatting Day
- Investiture Ceremony of the Captains Regent San Marino)
- Islamic Republic Day (Iran)
- Kha b-Nisan, the Assyrian New Year (Assyrian people)
- Library Snap Shot Day
- Myles Day
- National Atheist Day (United States)
- National Civil Service Day (Thailand)
- National Fun Day (United States)
- National One Cent Day (United States)
- National Sourdough Bread Day (United States)
- Odisha Day (Odisha, India)
- Plum Pudding Day
- Poetry & The Creative Mind Day
- Reading is Funny Day
- St. Stupid Day
- U.S. Air Force Academy Day
- Veneralia (Ancient Rome)
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[spoiler=April is observed as:]
April is observed as:
- Alcohol Awareness Month
- Arab American Heritage Month
- Brussels Sprouts and Cabbage Month
- Cancer Control Month
- Car Care Month
- Celebrate Diversity Month
- Cesarean Awareness Month
- Community Service Month
- Community Spirit Days
- Confederate History Month
- Counseling Awareness Month
- Couple Appreciation Month
- Cranberries and Gooseberries Month
- Deaf History Month (March 13 - April 15)
- D.E.A.R Drop Everything and Read Month
- Defeat Diabetes Month
- Emotional Overeating Awareness Month
- Fair Housing Month
- Financial Literacy Month
- Fresh Florida Tomato Month
- Genocide and Human Rights Awareness Month
- Global Astronomy Month
- Global Child Nutrition Month
- Grange Month
- Holy Humor Month
- Informed Woman Month
- International Amateur Radio Month
- International Customer Loyalty Month
- International Guitar Month
- International Twit Award Month
- Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) Awareness Month
- Jazz Appreciation Month
- Keep America Beautiful Month
- Library Snapshot Month
- Listening Awareness Month
- Mathematics Education Month
- Month of the Military Child
- Month of the Young Child
- Multicultural Communication Month
- National African-American Women's Fitness Month
- National Anxiety Month
- National Autism Awareness Month
- National BLT Sandwich Month
- National Canine Fitness Month
- National Cannabis Awareness Month
- National Card and Letter Writing Month
- National Child Abuse Prevention Month
- National Decorating Month
- National Distracted Driving Awareness Month
- National Donate Life Month
- National Facial Protection Month
- National Financial Capability Month
- National Florida Tomato Month
- National Food Month
- National Fresh Celery Month
- National Frog Month
- National Garden Month
- National Garlic Month
- National Greyhound Adoption Month
- National Grilled Cheese Month
- National Heartworm Awareness Month
- National Humor Month
- National Internship Awareness Month
- National Inventors Month
- National Kite Month
- National Knuckles Down Month
- National Landscape Architecture Month
- National Minority Health Month
- National Multiple Birth Awareness Month
- National Occupational Therapy Month
- National Parkinson's Awareness Month
- National Pecan Month
- National Pest Management Month
- National Pet First Aid Awareness Month
- National Poetry Month
- National Rebuilding Month
- National Safe Digging Month
- National Sarcoidosis Awareness Month
- National Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month
- National Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STD)'s Education and Awareness Month
- National Sjogren's Syndrome Awareness Month
- National Soft Pretzel Month
- National Soy Foods Month
- National STD Awareness Month
- National Welding Month
- National Youth Sports Safety Month
- Occupational Therapy Month
- Parliamentary Law Month
- Pharmacists War on Diabetes Month
- Physical Wellness Month
- Prevention of Lyme Disease in Dogs Month
- Prevention of Animal Cruelty Month
- Records and Information Management Month
- Rosacea Awareness Month
- School Library Media Month
- Scottish-American Heritage Month
- Sexual Assault Awareness Month of Action
- Sports Eye Safety Awareness Month
- STI Awareness Month (Sexually Transmitted Infections)
- Straw Hat Month
- Stress Awareness Month
- Testicular Cancer Awareness Month
- Tomatillo and Asian Pear Month
- Women's Eye Health and Safety Month
- Workplace Conflict Awareness Month
- World Habitat Awareness Month
- Worldwide Bereaved Spouses Awareness Month
Note: All month observances with "National" are observances of the United States of America.
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 0286 Emperor Diocletian elevates his general Maximian to co-emperor with the rank of Augustus and gives him control over the Western regions of the Roman Empire.
- 0325 Crown Prince Jin Chengdi, age 4, succeeds his father Jin Mingdi as emperor of the Eastern Jin dynasty.
- 0457 Majorian is acclaimed emperor by the Roman army.
- 0527 Byzantine Emperor Justin I names his nephew Justinian I as co-ruler and successor to the throne.
- 0528 The daughter of Emperor Xiaoming of Northern Wei was made the "Emperor" as a male heir of the late emperor by Empress Dowager Hu, deposed and replaced by Yuan Zhao the next day; she was the first female monarch in the History of China, but not widely recognised.
- 1293 Robert Winchelsey leaves England for Rome, to be consecrated as Archbishop of Canterbury.
- 1318 Berwick-upon-Tweed is captured by Scotland from England.
- 1340 Niels Ebbesen kills Gerhard III, Count of Holstein-Rendsburg in his bedroom, ending the 1332-1340 interregnum in Denmark.
- 1545 Potosí is founded after the discovery of huge silver deposits in the area.
- 1572 In the Eighty Years' War, the Watergeuzen capture Brielle from the Seventeen Provinces, gaining the first foothold on land for what would become the Dutch Republic.
- 1625 A combined Spanish and Portuguese fleet of 52 ships commences the recapture of Bahia from the Dutch during the DutchPortuguese War.
- 1789 In New York City, the United States House of Representatives holds its first quorum and elects Frederick Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania as its first Speaker.
- 1826 Samuel Morey received a patent for a compressionless "Gas or Vapor Engine."
- 1833 The Convention of 1833, a political gathering of settlers in Mexican Texas to help draft a series of petitions to the Mexican government, begins in San Felipe de Austin
- 1854 Charles Dickens' novel Hard Times begins serialisation in his magazine Household Words.
- 1865 American Civil War: Union troops led by Philip Sheridan decisively defeat Confederate troops led by George Pickett, cutting the Army of Northern Virginia's last supply line.
- 1867 Singapore becomes a British crown colony.
- 1871 The first stage of the Brill Tramway opens.
- 1873 The White Star steamer RMS Atlantic sinks off Nova Scotia, killing 547 in one of the worst marine disasters of the 19th century.
- 1887 Mumbai Fire Brigade is established.
- 1889 The University of Northern Colorado was established, as the Colorado State Normal School.
- 1891 The Wrigley Company is founded in Chicago, Illinois.
- 1893 The rank of Chief Petty Officer in the United States Navy is established.
- 1895 The Indian Army is established.
- 1908 The Territorial Force (renamed Territorial Army in 1920) is formed as a volunteer reserve component of the British Army.
- 1918 The Royal Air Force is created by the merger of the Royal Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service.
- 1924 Adolf Hitler is sentenced to five years imprisonment for his participation in the "Beer Hall Putsch" but spends only nine months in jail.
- 1924 The Royal Canadian Air Force is formed.
- 1933 The recently elected Nazis under Julius Streicher organize a one-day boycott of all Jewish-owned businesses in Germany, ushering in a series of anti-Semitic acts.
- 1935 India's central banking institution, The Reserve Bank of India is formed.
- 1936 Odisha becomes a state in India.
- 1937 Aden becomes a British crown colony.
- 1937 Spanish Civil War: Jaén, Spain is bombed by German fascist forces, supporting Francoist Nationalists.
- 1937 Royal New Zealand Air Force is Formed as an independent Air Force.
- 1939 Spanish Civil War: Generalísimo Francisco Franco of the Spanish State announces the end of the Spanish Civil War, when the last of the Republican forces surrender.
- 1941 Fântâna Albă massacre: Between 200 and 2,000 Romanian civilians are killed by Soviet Border Troops.
- 1941 A military coup in Iraq overthrows the regime of 'Abd al-Ilah and installs Rashid Ali al-Gaylani as Prime Minister.
- 1944 Navigation errors lead to an accidental American bombing of the Swiss city of Schaffhausen.
- 1945 World War II: The Tenth United States Army attacks the Thirty-Second Japanese Army on Okinawa.
- 1946 The 8.6 Mw Aleutian Islands earthquake shakes the Aleutian Islands with a maximum Mercalli intensity of VI (Strong). A destructive tsunami reaches the Hawaiian Islands resulting in dozens of deaths, mostly in Hilo, Hawaii.
- 1946 Formation of the Malayan Union.
- 1947 Paul becomes king of Greece, on the death of his childless elder brother, George II.
- 1947 The only mutiny in the history of the Royal New Zealand Navy begins.
- 1948 Communist forces respond to the introduction of the Deutsche Mark by attempting to force the western powers to withdraw from Berlin.
- 1948 Faroe Islands gain autonomy from Denmark.
- 1948 United Nations Security Council Resolution 43 and 44 are adopted in response to growing violence in Mandatory Palestine.
- 1949 Chinese Civil War: The Chinese Communist Party holds unsuccessful peace talks with the Nationalist Party in Beijing, after three years of fighting.
- 1949 The Government of Canada repeals Japanese-Canadian internment after seven years.
- 1954 United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower authorizes the creation of the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado.
- 1955 The EOKA rebellion against the British Empire begins in Cyprus, with the goal of obtaining the desired unification ("enosis") with Greece.
- 1959 Iakovos is enthroned as Greek Orthodox Archbishop of America.
- 1960 The TIROS-1 satellite transmits the first television picture from space.
- 1970 President Richard Nixon signs the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act into law, requiring the Surgeon General's warnings on tobacco products and banning cigarette advertising on television and radio in the United States, effective 1 January 1971.
- 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War: The Pakistan Army massacre over 1,000 people in Keraniganj Upazila, Bangladesh.
- 1973 Project Tiger, a tiger conservation project, is launched in the Jim Corbett National Park, India.
- 1974 The Local Government Act 1972 of England and Wales comes into effect.
- 1976 Apple Inc. is formed by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in Cupertino, California, USA.
- 1978 The Philippine College of Commerce, through a presidential decree, becomes the Polytechnic University of the Philippines.
- 1979 Iran becomes an Islamic republic by a 99% vote, officially overthrowing the Shah.
- 1986 Communist Party of Nepal (Mashal) cadres attack a number of police stations in Kathmandu, seeking to incite a popular rebellion.
- 1989 Margaret Thatcher's new local government tax, the Community Charge (commonly known as the "poll tax"), is introduced in Scotland.
- 1997 Comet HaleBopp is seen passing at perihelion.[1]
- 1999 Nunavut is established as a Canadian territory carved out of the eastern part of the Northwest Territories.
- 2001 An EP-3E United States Navy surveillance aircraft collides with a Chinese People's Liberation Army Shenyang J-8 fighter jet. The Navy crew makes an emergency landing in Hainan, China and is detained.
- 2001 Former President of Federal Republic of Yugoslavia Slobodan Miloević surrenders to police special forces, to be tried on war crimes charges.
- 2001 Same-sex marriage becomes legal in the Netherlands, the first contemporary country to allow it.
- 2004 Google announces Gmail to the public.
- 2011 After protests against the burning of the Quran turn violent, a mob attacks a United Nations compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Afghanistan, resulting in the deaths of thirteen people, including eight foreign workers.
- 2016 Nagorno-Karabakh clashes: The Four Day War or April War, began along the Nagorno-Karabakh line of contact on April 1.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1578 William Harvey, English physician and academic
- 1776 Sophie Germain, French mathematician, physicist, and philosopher
- 1815 Otto von Bismarck, German lawyer and politician, 1st Chancellor of the German Empire
- 1865 Richard Adolf Zsigmondy, Austrian-German chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1873 Sergei Rachmaninoff, Russian pianist, composer, and conductor
- 1875 Edgar Wallace, English journalist, author, and playwright
- 1885 Wallace Beery, American actor
- 1885 Clementine Churchill, English wife of Winston Churchill
- 1898 William James Sidis, American mathematician, anthropologist, and historian
- 1915 O. W. Fischer, Austrian-Swiss actor and director
- 1917 Sydney Newman, Canadian screenwriter and producer, co-created Doctor Who
- 1919 Joseph Murray, American surgeon and soldier, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1929 Milan Kundera, Czech-born novelist, poet, and playwright
- 1932 Debbie Reynolds, American actress, singer, and dancer
- 1933 Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Algerian-French physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1940 Wangari Maathai, Kenyan environmentalist and politician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1961 Susan Boyle, Scottish singer
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Quote of the day
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
- William Shakespeare (English Dramatist, 1564-1616) -
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, Lex Caledonia, James The Red Engine
Thank you very much, Peng! I will enjoy this card.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
A GoT battle scene set to a Queen song is precisely what I want from the world right now.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Queen Daenerys riding on her dragon, burning her enemies to "Don't Stop Me Now"
Jaslandia, Vista Major
You get me.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
I hope she wins the throne in the end. I'm a Targaryen loyalist through and through.
*wrinkles nose*
And who do you support, traitor?
I'll have Melisandre or I'll have democracy. They are, like, legit overdue for either of those things.
Religious zealots never make good rulers.
Vista Major
This, pretty much this. Even religious zealots who may or may not have actually learned their lesson.
Vista Major
Besides, she killed a kid so she can go to the lowest of the seven hells.
Vista Major
Not only killed a kid. Burned the kid alive. Really got a mention that, because it wasn't like she quickly killed her or anything, full on burned her to death.
Vista Major
No one said she had to be a good leader. I just admire her. You can't doubt that she has conviction. Has she done questionable things? Without question. But at least the blood on her hands is decidedly holy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZWV5LLQmpY
That's why I cant comprehend why so many people love Stannis. He'd make a horrible king. He wouldn't even be a true leader. All he does is take her word as gospel despite her being proved repeatedly wrong.
She has convictions? Yeah, as do religious zealots. And she has blood on her hands for a holy cause? Well if that's good, why aren't you advocating to be ruled by the Islamic State?
You admire a child-murderer. I really want that to sink in. She literally burned a child to death, turned a decent man (Stannis) into one of the worst mindless zealots in the show, among burning however many more people to death and sentencing them to die in a war to achieve Stannis' claim to the throne, even when it was hopeless.
Nuremgard
Wait, religion fanaticism isnt an appropriate basis for good governance?
Huh.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Mercunova
Because I seriously question the holiness of Daesh and others.
You paint her in such an inflattering light. At least she genuinely believed that what she was doing was right. Most of the others were coerced or knowingly went against their own best judgement, for better or for worse. She, all things considered, really stuck to her guns. Though maybe she should have gotten some modifications on those guns, I grant you.
Well maybe because burning children on giant pyres alive is quite an unflattering thing to do.
Jaslandia, Mercunova
I haven't seen a lot in this world in the way of more enlightening ways to sacrifice.
Team Targaryen all the way.
How are we all today? :)
Jaslandia
Not bad. You?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Yes, nothing screams sacrifice for the greater good than a girl who has had to live away from society her entire life being burned alive on a pyre, while screaming out for her parents to save her, as they just look at her because they're too brainwashed to actually realize this isn't helping anything. Maybe if Melisandre showed at least a little bit of compassion for the girl, but she didn't, and instead did it as if it was just another ritual. Generally people who can just kill kids with a straight face in one of the most gruesome ways possible are not people I want as my leader.
It's generally a disqualifying characteristic, right up there with Holocaust supporter, ISIS affiliate, and Charles Manson.
Man, you guys are really obsessed with GoT to be pissed over human sacrifice
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Yukona
I'm dispassionate, because I'm on neither side. I support a different group entirely.
We're obsessed because the fate of the Seven Kingdoms is on the line!
Who?
All Hail Jon of House Stark, the King in the North!
Nuremgard
No. He is Lord Stark and he must bend the knee to his rightful liege Daenerys, First of Her Name, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar and the First Men, Lord of the Seven Kingdoms and Protector of the Realm.
He will not bend the knee. He is the true heir of the Seven Kingdoms, his claim to the throne is right and true, and he should claim it from Daenerys the Conqueror
Dear God, just destroy every nation and put some orcs in or something
Jaslandia
She has fought her entire life for the crown. She deserves it more than Jon.
Jon Stark is the true son of Rheagon, the true heir to the Iron Throne, and by Fire and Ice, he will claim it from Cersei the Usurper and Daenerys the Conqueror.
Tho it seems like he's more interested in more intimate acts with Daeny than violent ones.
He doesn't deserve it more just because he has a penis.
How about a compromise? Dany can rule and Jon can be her consort. He's not interesting in ruling anyway.
You haven't seen my CK2 playthroughs, Agnatic-Cognatic all the way.
Compromise made.
Done. We both get what we want then.
I'm alright. Stuffed with food and I regret it. :(
What did you have for dinner?
Penguania And Antarctica
I'm doing alright, y'know, getting my nerd on. Watching a documentary. Working till midnight.
Penguania And Antarctica
Raclette.
But it wasn't just dinner.
Lunch I had roasted bunny served with red cabbage and potatoes. Short after that we had coffee and cake. And then dinner.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
I'm sorry to hear that you have to work on Easter. :(
I mean, it bummed out my family, but it's just like any ordinary day to me.
That's sad in my opinion.
Oh?
Penguania And Antarctica
Penguania And Antarctica, I'm willing to buy the Chernarus card off you
Penguania And Antarctica
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/money/2012/05/18/news/economy/unused_vacation_days/chart-paid-vacation.top.gif
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I'm surprised the UK has the most paid days.
Penguania And Antarctica
This proves that the UK is a commulist country.
Penguania And Antarctica
Dirty socialists.
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