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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
A living example of the failures of capitalism
Axeldonia
Excellent news! Well done, Yukona!
Jaslandia, Percyton, United Continental States, Moldegaard
BUT IM STILL NOT SURE IF I SHOULD DIFER UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH WHY ARE CHOICES SO DIFFICULT HELP ME PLEASE
Percyton
I say go for it.
Yukona, Percyton
I'll be around in so far as I'll be in Canada. No where near Toronto, but I live one province over from Alberta and may be in Edmonton by 2019- it's one of the cities I'm looking at for the next stage of my life.
Yukona, Percyton
Hello dear friends of the Confederacy of Free Nations, I'm Relfa from the Union of Democratic States and I will work as ambassador here in your incredible region. I'm looking forward to strengthen relations with you guys!!!!!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion, Moldegaard
Bear? The BR Class 35 Hymek diesel? I didn't know he was active in the CFN too! And what happened to him? I just saw him a day ago at Knapford and he seemed fine.
Bear: That's a different Bear, Percy. I'm fine, and I'm not involved in the CFN. They do seem like a fine group, though.
Percy: That's a relief! I guess it can be a bit confusing with all the bears in the world. Bear, the other Bear, polar bear, grizzly bear, brown bear, black bear, Bear Grylls, the Chicago Bears --
Bear: I think you've made your point, Percy.
Percy: Oh, sorry!
Durham? Congrats, Unf! I know a few Sudrian kids (well, they're not kids anymore) who went to Durham, and they've told me good things about Durham. Although personally, I'm still partial to the University of Tidmouth, and the University of Cumbria (which is the closest Mainland university to Percyton).
Hello, Relfa! I'm Percy, King of Percyton and the #6 green engine on the Island of Sodor. We look forward to working with you and your region!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Relfa
Why Hello there, I'm Andy, MoJ, Mentor and CGRP Moderator and I look forward to working alongside you in the near future!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Relfa
Hello Comrade! I am Premier Aleksander Dimitri Coltsov, the suave stallion in charge of the Equestrian Empire. We equines look forward to working with you and strengthening our regional brotherhood! Slava!
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Relfa
I am not so sure. From what I heard, all options of that monster-issue lead to that economy...
Fracking protests are taking place in the West of Moldegaard. Read about it here:
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225
Jaslandia, Yukona, Percyton
Nice ro meet you. I am the Minister of Foreign Affairs. You can contact me for enerything you want!
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Relfa
[Url=https://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_confederate_papers/detail=factbook/id=872199]Made it!!!! Check it out![/url]
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
What is this about?
Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=Today is August 20 and today are:]
Today is August 20 and today are:
- 21st Birthday of [nation=short]Penguania_and_Antarctica[/nation]
- Akshay Urja Day (India)
- Chef's Appreciation Day
- Feast of Asmá (Bahá'í Faith)
- God's Preeminence Day
- Lemonade Day
- National Chocolate Pecan Pie Day (United States)
- National Radio Day (United States)
- Restoration of Independence Day (Estonia)
- Revolution of the King and People (Morocco)
- Saint Stephen's Day (Hungary)
- World Mosquito Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- AD 14 Agrippa Postumus, adopted son of the late Roman emperor Augustus, is executed by his guards while in exile under mysterious circumstances.
- 636 Battle of Yarmouk: Arab forces led by Khalid ibn al-Walid take control of the Levant away from the Byzantine Empire, marking the first great wave of Muslim conquests and the rapid advance of Islam outside Arabia.
- 917 Battle of Acheloos: Tsar Simeon I of Bulgaria decisively defeats a Byzantine army.
- 1000 The foundation of the Hungarian state by Saint Stephen, celebrated as a National Day in Hungary.
- 1083 Canonization of the first King of Hungary, Saint Stephen and his son Saint Emeric.
- 1308 Pope Clement V pardons Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, absolving him of charges of heresy.
- 1391 Konrad von Wallenrode becomes the 24th Grand Master of the Teutonic Order.
- 1467 The Second Battle of Olmedo takes places as part of a succession conflict between Henry IV of Castile and his half-brother Alfonso, Prince of Asturias.
- 1519 Philosopher and general Wang Yangming defeats Zhu Chenhao, ending the Prince of Ning rebellion against the reign of the Ming dynasty's Zhengde Emperor.
- 1672 Former Grand Pensionary Johan de Witt and his brother Cornelis are brutally murdered by an angry mob in The Hague.
- 1707 The first Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida.
- 1710 War of the Spanish Succession: A multinational army led by the Austrian commander Guido Starhemberg defeats the Spanish-Bourbon army commanded by Alexandre Maître, Marquis de Bay in the Battle of Saragossa.
- 1775 The Spanish establish the Presidio San Augustin del Tucson in the town that became Tucson, Arizona.
- 1794 Battle of Fallen Timbers: American troops force a confederacy of Shawnee, Mingo, Delaware, Wyandot, Miami, Ottawa, Chippewa, and Potawatomi warriors into a disorganized retreat.
- 1852 Steamboat Atlantic sank on Lake Erie after a collision, with the loss of at least 150 lives.
- 1858 Charles Darwin first publishes his theory of evolution through natural selection in The Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London, alongside Alfred Russel Wallace's same theory.
- 1866 President Andrew Johnson formally declares the American Civil War over.
- 1882 Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture debuts in Moscow, Russia.
- 1910 The Great Fire of 1910 (also commonly referred to as the "Big Blowup" or the "Big Burn") occurs in northeast Washington, northern Idaho (the panhandle), and western Montana, burning approximately 3 million acres (12,000 km2).
- 1914 World War I: Brussels is captured during the German invasion of Belgium.
- 1920 The first commercial radio station, 8MK (now WWJ), begins operations in Detroit.
- 1926 Japan's public broadcasting company, Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai (NHK) is established.
- 1938 Lou Gehrig hits his 23rd career grand slam, a record that stood for 75 years until it was broken by Alex Rodriguez.
- 1940 In Mexico City, Mexico exiled Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky is fatally wounded with an ice axe by Ramón Mercader. He dies the next day.
- 1940 World War II: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill makes the fourth of his famous wartime speeches, containing the line "Never was so much owed by so many to so few".
- 1944 World War II: 168 captured allied airmen, including Phil Lamason, accused by the Gestapo of being "terror fliers", arrive at Buchenwald concentration camp.
- 1944 World War II: The Battle of Romania begins with a major Soviet Union offensive.
- 1950 Korean War: United Nations repel an offensive by North Korean divisions attempting to cross the Nakdong River and assault the city of Taegu.
- 1955 Battle of Philippeville: In Morocco, a force of Berbers from the Atlas Mountains region of Algeria raid two rural settlements and kill 77 French nationals.
- 1960 Senegal breaks from the Mali Federation, declaring its independence.
- 1962 The NS Savannah, the world's first nuclear-powered civilian ship, embarks on its maiden voyage.
- 1968 Soviet Union-dominated Warsaw Pact troops invade Czechoslovakia, crushing the Prague Spring.
- 1975 Viking program: NASA launches the Viking 1 planetary probe toward Mars.
- 1977 Voyager program: NASA launches the Voyager 2 spacecraft.
- 1986 In Edmond, Oklahoma, U.S. Postal employee Patrick Sherrill guns down 14 of his co-workers and then commits suicide.
- 1988 "Black Saturday" of the Yellowstone fire in Yellowstone National Park
- 1988 IranIraq War: A ceasefire is agreed after almost eight years of war.
- 1988 The Troubles: Eight British soldiers are killed and 28 wounded when their bus is hit by an IRA roadside bomb in Ballygawley, County Tyrone.
- 1989 The pleasure boat Marchioness sinks on the River Thames following a collision. Fifty-one people are killed.
- 1991 Dissolution of the Soviet Union, August Coup: More than 100,000 people rally outside the Soviet Union's parliament building protesting the coup aiming to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev.
- 1991 Estonia, annexed by the Soviet Union in 1940, issues a decision on the re-establishment of independence on the basis of historical continuity of its pre-World War II statehood.
- 1993 After rounds of secret negotiations in Norway, the Oslo Accords are signed, followed by a public ceremony in Washington, D.C. the following month.
- 1995 The Firozabad rail disaster claimed 358 lives in Firozabad, India.
- 1997 Souhane massacre in Algeria; over 60 people are killed and 15 kidnapped.
- 1998 The Supreme Court of Canada rules that Quebec cannot legally secede from Canada without the federal government's approval.
- 1998 U.S. embassy bombings: The United States launches cruise missile attacks against alleged al-Qaeda camps in Afghanistan and a suspected chemical weapons plant in Sudan in retaliation for the August 7 bombings of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania.
- 2002 A group of Iraqis opposed to the regime of Saddam Hussein take over the Iraqi Embassy in Berlin, Germany for five hours before releasing their hostages and surrendering.
- 2006 Sri Lankan Civil War: Sri Lankan Tamil politician and former MP S. Sivamaharajah is shot dead at his home in Tellippalai.
- 2007 China Airlines Flight 120 caught fire and exploded after landing at Naha Airport in Okinawa, Japan.
- 2008 Spanair Flight 5022, from Madrid, Spain to Gran Canaria, skids off the runway and crashes at Barajas Airport. Of the 172 people on board, 146 die immediately, and eight more later die of injuries sustained in the crash.
- 2012 A prison riot in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas, kills at least 20 people.
- 2014 Seventy-two people are killed in Japan's Hiroshima Prefecture by a series of landslides caused by a month's worth of rain that fell in one day.
- 2016 54 people are killed when a suicide bomber detonates himself at a Kurdish wedding party in Gaziantep, Turkey.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1779 Jöns Jacob Berzelius, Swedish chemist and academic
- 1833 Benjamin Harrison, American general, lawyer, and politician, 23rd President of the United States
- 1890 H. P. Lovecraft, American short story writer, editor, novelist
- 1901 Salvatore Quasimodo, Italian novelist and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1923 Jim Reeves, American singer-songwriter
- 1935 Ron Paul, American captain, physician, and politician
- 1936 Hideki Shirakawa, Japanese chemist, engineer, and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1941 Slobodan Miloević, Serbian lawyer and politician, 1st President of Serbia
- 1942 Isaac Hayes, American singer-songwriter, pianist, producer, and actor
- 1944 Rajiv Gandhi, Indian lawyer and politician, 6th Prime Minister of India
- 1948 Robert Plant, English singer-songwriter
- 1958 David O. Russell, American director and screenwriter
- 1970 Fred Durst, American singer-songwriter
- 1974 Amy Adams, American actress and singer
- 1983 Andrew Garfield, American-English actor
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Quote of the day
It's practically impossible to look at a penguin and feel angry.
- Joe Moore -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Kalaron, Percyton, United Continental States, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
HAPPY BIRTHDAY RAGGLE FRAGGLE!!!!!!!! :D :D :D :D :D :D: D: D:D: D:D :D: D:D :D :D:
Jaslandia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
It's a list of Embassy Regions ...
I subsidised travel for the elderly so they could live abroad in their twilight years.
Following new legislation in Nuremgard, in distant lands the nation is known as a lovely place that was even better in the good old days.
"Back in my day when the Tsar was in charge we had none of this voting malarky! His Maj just did what was best for the country and we were better off for it! No political correctness back then!" *sighs nostalgically*
Jaslandia, Percyton, United Continental States
Stuff like that are very good for the RNF......
I think that's tomorrow bossman
Tse is right, my birthday is today.
Kalaron, Percyton
I thought you said it was tomorrow?
HAPPY BIRTHDAY PENG ❤
Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Did I?
Yukona
Oh I just read back.....Oh dear - you said "it's my birthday you know" and I thought you said "tomorrow" -_-, I even responded with "I'll make sure to wish you one tomorrow" I'm such an ass, Tserra sorry bud
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
No problem. No harm done. :)
Yukona, Percyton
RNF?
Post self-deleted by Cesorion.
Regional Newsfeed
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225
Nuremgard, Percyton
Oh, that's cool.
Yukona, Percyton, Cesorion
Thank you!
Another newsworthy item for Nuremgard is that it had its own Watergate scandal recently.
You know how many arcticles you could make for something like Watergate. Put it in the RNF for everyone to see....!
Nuremgard, Percyton, Moldegaard
If I can get over my LBS (Lazy Bastard Syndrome) I will!
Jaslandia, Lex Caledonia, Percyton, Cesorion, United Continental States, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth, Moldegaard, Nebelsbad
I like that the map was updated, though is it possible to get a full resolution image?
Russkov Soviet, Yukona
Btw I am still on the map despite requesting twice to be removed from it. I don't want to take up space that another nation who RPs could have.
Yukona
Happy birthday, Peng! <3
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
It's his bday?
Happy birthday to you, Peng!
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
http://lifehacker.com/how-to-overcome-your-own-laziness-1676371259
Did it. Hahahaha!...
Nuremgard, Percyton
Oh mein Gott!
Zum Geburtstag viel Glück!
Penguania And Antarctica
I get lazy because I get too used to sleeping in and not doing anything over the summer months.
Percyton, United Continental States
Preaching to the choir
Nuremgard
Same af.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
I start university in 3 weeks time. I need to get back into the habit of getting up early.
Percyton, Cesorion
School here starts September 11. I still have some time
Nuremgard, Percyton
That's the day I start uni.
Percyton
High school for me. What will you study? I go to an art school.
Nuremgard, Percyton
Politics and International Relations.
Percyton, Moldegaard
Just do enough LSD so you never ever go to sleep again
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Oh waw, you're practicing with NationStates eh!
Nuremgard, Percyton, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
You think I need LSD to stay awake all night? ;)
Mate, with all the practice I've been getting with this game, I could run the UK no bother. Then again, considering the calibre of our political "elite", a bunch of cucumbers could run the country better.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth, Moldegaard
People, I don't want to nag or something, but don't hold back to write some news articles in the regional newsfeed. I'm saying this because I'm posting article after article and it's a bit awkward to have no-one else's in-between them, and I adore writing them! It hasn't been linked at the top yet, but I think that's coming soon. Here's the link https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton, Cesorion
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32370202#p32370202 I have posted the PLR's first News Post. Check it out
Nuremgard, The Empire Of Handland, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, United Continental States, Moldegaard
> "The First National African Union"
> Grand President Theodore Samson
> President is White
> Soldiers are White
> Everyone is White
Sorry, just something funny I noticed and wanted to say.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Peoples Liberation Republic, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Yukona, United Continental States
Oh. OK..
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I start Uni tomorrow. :D
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Posed a couple of news stories.
Good luck!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion
Happy birthday, [nation=short]Penguania and Antarctica[/nation]!
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Cesorion
Well if you actually go through this factbook: https://www.nationstates.net/nation=peoples_liberation_republic/detail=factbook/id=855462
You would see that the administration is quite mixed and diverse but thank you
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
With your permission, prominent Conservative Scholar of my nation, George Huntman, PhD, OM, CCE, will comment on it. Socialist Philosopher Edward Clarkson PhD, OM, CE will reply, supporting Krupnik.
Nuremgard
That would be fun. And it's Krupin lol
Very cool
Nuremgard
Apologies for the briefness of them.
Thanks for all the birthday wishes. They are all appreciated. <3
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Andromitus, Kalaron, Percyton, United Continental States
Oooooh, two black guys in an African Union. I'm a so sorry.
Dude, I'm joshing ya. Don't take life so seriously.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Peoples Liberation Republic, Andromitus, Kalaron, United Continental States
My new nation is a black nation.
Penguania And Antarctica
I'm trying to work out the history for mine. I recently moved to Japan, and I'm thinking of either writing in a mixed society of Sulanians that have European and Japanese ancestry (With a colonization history, as Sulania was European in the past incarnations, with a resolution similar to Australia but more integrated) or just scrapping old Sulania and just having a Japanese society.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
You should make it a mix. That could be cool. Would contrast real Japanese society which is quite homogeneous.
Jaslandia
wat are you racist?
Nuremgard
Totes. :P
Actually the Dawnish are very welcoming. Tourism is their main industry.
Yukona
You write how, what and whenever you want! I'm just hoping more people use the feed, because I find it to be a very fun initiative. It's simple roleplaying without the hassle of player interaction.
Nuremgard
If anything else noteworthy happens, I'll post. I have 3 other nations so might post as them on there now and again too.
Moldegaard
nah i know you were kidding and so was I...that was the whole point of my response of saying "Oh we are very diverse. See! We have three black people, and four women"
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Ok then. Will do
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Tokens. :P
Jaslandia, Peoples Liberation Republic, Andromitus
I think [nation=short]Peoples_Liberation_Republic[/nation] has a really nice map that I would definitely support being used
Peoples Liberation Republic
I need help with an issue. When a politician changes party, should they be forced to resign and seek re-election as an MP of the new party or be allowed to keep their seat?
Where can you see the proposals?
Oh no I just remember him having a map of the world that was really clear, bright, in-focus and all around better than ours
Oh!
If you're going for political freedom, I'd say allow them. But I'm never sure with these NationStates effects
Nuremgard
I forced them to resign.
Any bad effects?
Political freedom, corruption and ideological radicality all decreased slightly.
Moldegaard
Here is the map Andromitus: https://orig05.deviantart.net/8978/f/2015/073/c/2/victoria_2_blank_world_map_by_mapsnstuff-d8logyw.png
Andromitus
Are all of those countries? Dayum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeimE8Wz6e4
Andromitus
they are rather regions/provinces/states within countries. So like if you look at the United States. You can see the outline of the States but then you can see the different districts within the States. The same for Germany, France, Russia, etc. It breaks everything down into districts, provinces, etc. You can make out the actual sizes of the countries or if you dont want to be a full country, this grants massive flexibility to morph how you want your country to look
Andromitus, United Continental States, Moldegaard
Did my first post on our regional news page
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32370596#p32370596
Nuremgard, Yukona, Percyton, Moldegaard
Ah yes, that was my second thought. That's pretty neat!
Peoples Liberation Republic
I remember how we had an actual decent expansion system too in the ESU.
exactly. those were the days
When you were general and I was minister of Justice. Good times. Good times.
Peoples Liberation Republic
To be fully correct:
5 time Minister of Defense,
3 time General of the Army
2 time Generalissimus of the ESU Armed Forces
Minister of Foreign Affairs
2 time Premier of the ESU
The Empire Of Handland
I believe I was Minister of Interior once and Minister of Justice twice. Although I resigned in the middle of the second term.
Peoples Liberation Republic
Ah yes, the good old ESU days.
Revolucion
The Empire Of Handland, Peoples Liberation Republic
you resigned because of the whole Lat thing
SIEG AXELDONIA
GLORY TO THE TRUE STATE
REMEBER THE APRIL 4TH UPRISING
SIEG TO THE NEW STATE
Well, I resigned because of him and the one guy who d*mn near started a civil war on the RMB because I refused to issue a warrant for your arrest and he tried to do it himself.
Peoples Liberation Republic
SIEG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You bet your asses I'm ready to bust out that flag once again
The Empire Of Handland, Peoples Liberation Republic
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