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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
You could say that about many countries though, including the US.
Absolutely. But they take the cake. Well, besides the countries I filled in with black
Axeldonia
Yesssssssss
Axeldonia
I hear ya.
Moldegaard
You need to take their histories into account though. India had been conquered and reconquered by numerous people and then did a stint under the Brits. The Hindu caste system also has a lot to answer for. And Pakistan was a state whose borders were drawn with no regard for religious or ethnic differences which had devastating consequences.
Moldegaard
That's very true.
Still don't like the result.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia
Nor me. I remember a question I answered in a political compass quiz. It asked, "are some cultures superior to others?" The first time I answered, I said no. The second time I did the quiz, I said yes.
Confederal States
Is it still possible to send in applications?
Jaslandia
It's difficult to find a balance between coming off selfish or racist and being very neutral when it comes to other cultures. But I wholeheartedly believe that nations with generally pro-homophobic, -sexist... views and anti-secularism etc. are worse than the ones that are socially progressive. It's just better for humans to be openminded. And it's not a matter of opinion but a fact that religion is a major cause of war, unhappiness, and slow technological progression. The happiest countries tend to be secular, while the unhappiest countries are super conservative and religious (that's why basically all of Africa is red on my map).
PS: I know, long, run-on sentences. It's my typing style.
Nuremgard, Axeldonia
AAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA; Your soul will remain your own Unfallious...this time
Jaslandia, Axeldonia
I usually group places like N Korea, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria in that group. The US has it's flaws, but that's to be expected in such a diverse nation.
Cesorion, Confederal States
Yeah sure, you can still post them on the thread over on the forums
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
This is why I am glad I live in Scotland, the most irreligious part of the UK. We still have issues with sectarianism though.
I wouldn't live in the US even if I was rich.
Lex Caledonia, Moldegaard
Do you have a higher resolution please????
All I know for certain is that having such a large mix of different peoples tends to do damage to a country for a bit.
Which for? Biome or regular?
Diversity can cause tension and worse. Just look at the ME for that. Or Europe for that matter.
Post self-deleted by Jaslandia.
Still don't get how France is ranked lower than places like North Korea, but agree to disagree. I visited Paris before, and while I didn't much like the city, there was certainly some good stuff there.
Your choice of Nepal and Madagascar kinda stands out, but other than that, I see your reasoning.
Moldegaard
Rugby is a powerful opiate of the people
I'm not a sports fan but Scots are good at rugby.
Axeldonia
Ah. I was trying to make the joke that the sectarianism in Scotland was around rugby rather than religion :P
Nuremgard
Unfortunately sectarianism is directly connected to football. And I live in the city which is home to the two biggest - and most sectarian - football clubs in the country.
Axeldonia
Ech, football. Rugby's way better.
Nuremgard, The Empire Of Handland, Lex Caledonia
Where shall I export Fascism first?!?!
Spanelsko
This guy gets it. We may disagree politically, but it seems we share many interests. I love rugby.
Axeldonia
Our house in the middle of the street
Jaslandia
Roger that. I'm on it
The Empire Of Handland
Our house is a very very very fine house, with two cats in the yard.
As long as I can remember I have hated France.
Any particular reason?
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Today os October 22 and today are:
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- Birth of Bahá'u'lláh (Baháí Faith)
- Caps Lock Day
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- Smart is Cool Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 4004 BC - The world was created at approximately six o'clock in the evening, according to the Ussher chronology.
- 362 The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
- 451 The Council of Chalcedon adopts the Chalcedonian Creed regarding the divine and human nature of Jesus Christ.
- 794 Emperor Kanmu relocates the Japanese capital to Heian-kyō (now Kyoto).
- 906 Ahmad ibn Kayghalagh leads a raid against the Byzantine Empire from Tarsus. He reaches the Halys River and takes 4,0005,000 captives.[1]
- 1383 The 138385 Crisis in Portugal: King Fernando dies without a male heir to the Portuguese throne, sparking a period of civil war and disorder.
- 1575 Foundation of Aguascalientes.
- 1633 Battle of Liaoluo Bay: The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
- 1707 Scilly naval disaster: Four British naval vessels run aground on the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. In response, the first Longitude Act is enacted in 1714.
- 1730 Construction of the Ladoga Canal is completed.
- 1746 The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
- 1777 American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
- 1784 Russia founds a colony on Kodiak Island, Alaska.
- 1790 Warriors of the Miami people under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
- 1797 André-Jacques Garnerin makes the first recorded parachute jump from one thousand meters (3,200 feet) above Paris.
- 1836 Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
- 1844 The Great Anticipation: Millerites, followers of William Miller, anticipate the end of the world in conjunction with the Second Advent of Christ. The following day became known as the Great Disappointment.
- 1859 Spain declares war on Morocco.
- 1866 A plebiscite ratifies the annexion of Veneto and Mantua to Italy, which had occurred three days before, on October 19.
- 1875 First telegraphic connection in Argentina.
- 1877 The Blantyre mining disaster in Scotland kills 207 miners.
- 1878 The first rugby match under floodlights takes place in Salford, between Broughton and Swinton.
- 1879 Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
- 1883 The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City opens with a performance of Gounod's Faust.
- 1884 The Royal Observatory in Britain is adopted as the prime meridian of longitude by the International Meridian Conference.
- 1895 In Paris an express train derails after overrunning the buffer stop, crossing almost 30 metres (100 ft) of concourse before crashing through a wall and falling 10 metres (33 ft) to the road below.
- 1907 Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
- 1910 Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
- 1923 The royalist LeonardopoulosGargalidis coup d'état attempt fails in Greece, discrediting the monarchy and paving the way for the establishment of the Second Hellenic Republic.
- 1927 Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including single-phase electric power.
- 1928 Phi Sigma Alpha fraternity is founded at the University of Puerto Rico, Río Piedras Campus.
- 1934 In East Liverpool, Ohio, Federal Bureau of Investigation agents shoot and kill notorious bank robber Pretty Boy Floyd.
- 1941 World War II: French resistance member Guy Môquet and 29 other hostages are executed by the Germans in retaliation for the death of a German officer.
- 1943 World War II: in the Second firestorm raid on Germany, the Royal Air Force conducts an air raid on the town of Kassel, killing 10,000 and rendering 150,000 homeless.
- 1946 Soviet Operation Osoaviakhim takes place, recruiting of thousands of military-related technical specialists from the Soviet occupation zone of post-World-War-II Germany for employment in the Soviet Union.
- 1947 Kashmir conflict starts, a territorial conflict primarily between India and Pakistan, having started just after the partition of India in 1947.
- 1957 Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
- 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval "quarantine" of the Communist nation.
- 1963 A BAC One-Eleven prototype airliner crashes in UK with the loss of all on board.
- 1964 Jean-Paul Sartre is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, but turns down the honor.
- 1964 Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official flag of Canada.
- 1966 The Supremes become the first all-female music group to attain a No. 1 selling album (The Supremes A' Go-Go).
- 1966 The Soviet Union launches Luna 12.
- 1968 Apollo program: Apollo 7 safely splashes down in the Atlantic Ocean after orbiting the Earth 163 times.
- 1972 Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.
- 1975 The Soviet unmanned space mission Venera 9 lands on Venus.
- 1976 Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs.
- 1978 Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II.
- 1981 The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) for its strike the previous August.
- 1983 Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
- 1999 Maurice Papon, an official in the Vichy France government during World War II, is jailed for crimes against humanity.
- 2001 Grand Theft Auto III was released, popularizing a genre of open-world, action-adventure video games as well as spurring controversy around violence in video games.
- 2005 Tropical Storm Alpha forms in the Atlantic Basin, making the 2005 Atlantic hurricane season the most active Atlantic hurricane season on record with 22 named storms.
- 2006 A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
- 2007 Raid on Anuradhapura Air Force Base is carried out by 21 Tamil Tiger commandos. All except one died in this attack. Eight Sri Lanka Air Force planes are destroyed and 10 damaged.
- 2008 India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
- 2013 The Australian Capital Territory becomes the first Australian jurisdiction to legalize same-sex marriage with the Marriage Equality (Same Sex) Act 2013
- 2014 Michael Zehaf-Bibeau attacks the Parliament of Canada in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, killing a soldier and injuring three other people.
- 2015 A teacher and a student are killed, and 2 students injured, in an attack at a high school in Trollhättan, Sweden.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1071 - William IX, Duke of Aquitaine
- 1689 - John V of Portugal
- 1811 - Franz Liszt, Hungarian pianist and composer
- 1844 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress and manager
- 1844 - Louis Riel, Canadian scholar and politician
- 1858 - Augusta Victoria of Schleswig-Holstein, German empress consort and queen consort of Prussia
- 1870 - Ivan Bunin, Russian author and poet, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1881 - Clinton Davisson, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1905 - Karl Guthe Jansky, American physicist and radio engineer, discovered radio waves emanating from the Milky Way
- 1913 - Robert Capa, Hungarian-American photographer and journalist
- 1917 - Joan Fontaine, Japanese-American actress and singer
- 1919 - Doris Lessing, British novelist, poet, playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1925 - Robert Rauschenberg, American painter and illustrator
- 1929 - Lev Yashin, Russian footballer
- 1938 - Christopher Lloyd, American actor
- 1943 - Catherine Deneuve, French actress and singer
- 1943 - Wolfgang Thierse, German politician, 11th President of the Bundestag
- 1949 - Arsène Wenger, French footballer and manager
- 1952 - Jeff Goldblum, American actor and producer
- 1973 - Ichiro Suzuki, Japanese baseball player
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Quote of the day
There is nothing permanent except change.
- Heraclitus -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=867432
I've added a new mercenary company, filled in a little of the military chart and finally made a brief overview.
Jaslandia, Lex Caledonia
Biome. Sorry for taking time to reply
Penguania And Antarctica
Angus Löwe is my husbando
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Looks like your mercenary companies are gonna face some competition from the mercenaries of Hertsia.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Just gimme permission and I'll gladly ship him with your characters
Oh? Where have you written about you fantasy nation?
Jaslandia, Lex Caledonia
Just the offsite forums for now; the Factbooks are in the work. The TL;DR of it is Hertsia is basically Switzerland, and so we have Swiss Guard-type mercenaries.
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/post/350/thread
Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia
Do Hertsian mercenaries accept SJW Squid-Shekels?
Jaslandia
As a man wearing a black suit and dark sunglasses passes your guards, they silently go rigid as their eyes roll to white. Boss, my team has this covered, he says in a droll monotone. Well try to keep you in the loop, of course, but nothing we tell you leaves this room... ever. Of course there are aliens, and yes, theres occasional collateral damage from random interactions, but were on it. You just make sure that funding doesnt drop from the Omnibus Farm Bill your predecessor set up, and well make sure nothing goes public. He pauses and strokes his chin thoughtfully. Is it still a privacy violation if you dont remember being probed? Have to think on that. He turns, taps the guards on the shoulders, and walks from the room as they dazedly recover their composure.
Hmm....... interesting to say at least.
Jaslandia
Currency conversion might be a hassle, but I think we can arrange something.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica
Yus
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I think it started due to France being the single most overrated country on Earth.
Hey, they helped you get independence from the Brits. You should love them.
Overrated doesn't necessarily mean bad. Something can be good, but maybe not as a good as other people say it is.
https://postimg.org/image/7j8ydb2h5/
Axeldonia
There's simply less for me to like about France, than any other country
So, does that mean you find comparatively more to like in places like North Korea and Sudan?
Yup, in terms of environment and animals
Different preferences I suppose, but when I think of North Korea, 'beautiful nature' isn't exactly my first thought.
You got it fam
That's because certain countries require a bit more research to get past the terrible government.
Also, speaking from experience, France can have beautiful environment too.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jardin_du_Luxembourg
I'm sure North Korea does have good environment in some areas, but some governments are just so effed up, they trump (no pun intended) all other concerns. North Korea could have the Fountain of Youth and the Gardens of Eden for all I care, and it would be still be sh*t.
North Korea still ranks like 2nd or 3rd worst for me anyways :p
Eh, it's something. As long as it's in the top 5.
I figured people would find me weird for not universally hating on African nations
Toot toot
Andromitus, Percyton
Doot doot
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Noot noot
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
It always has and will be Königsberg gdammit.
Jaslandia, The Empire Of Handland, Penguania And Antarctica, Tserra, Spanelsko
KÖNIGSBERG
Spanelsko
So since i asked before and got no response i will ask more directly, what are the CONCORD demands? or at least of the individual nations?
also Axel is it war or not? since Andy mentioned that you did send them help and you say that they are peacekeepers so WTF are they?!
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Spanelsko
Depends on the African nation in question. Places like Libya, Somalia, and South Sudan are pretty terrible. But other countries like Tunisia and Morocco are doing pretty good right now.
(prepare terrorist attack on the Axeldonian government......)
now that i think about it, does axeldonia even have an government to attack?!
*blows whistle* Peep peep!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Syndicalism boiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
dab on them terrorists
didn't think about this one did ya fascists
Confederal States
The imperial government is "cleaning up its act" in Greater Germany. This cut political apathy in half. Nice.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia
On Kalaron's part, we're interested in creating a much less abusive government on your part. We ain't fans of nations gassing their own people yo.
I didnt you got us this time, well civilians are still possible targets..... hahaha
Post self-deleted by Nuremgard.
I wanted to say that we dont gas our people, then i remembered that we actually use gas as a weapon on our people......
Well actually i had plans for possible IMA (Insurgent Military Alliance) more or less still a dictatorship but a military dictatorship with much more freedom and not being a complete di*ks to our people. With insurgent groups controlling some parts of the Iberian land. And even possibly accepting being a puppet of communist alliance (concord) for some time.
well first you have to somehow reach a country across the mediterannean that doesn't even have a public international airport, sooo
hmmm, it will take some time (probably a month or 5) but one day the few terrorists will reach the border and finish their job. Or they get lost and die......
Lavan Tiri
also a small update on the war (the start of IMA)
Lavan Tiri
Er... How exactly do they plan to journey from Iberia to Romania/Bulgaria in 1 to five months? If they travel on foot theyäll have to cross the alps, then the Balkan mountain chains. If you attemt a sea crossing you'll have to pass through both the naval blockade and the heavily patrolled bosphorus. All this to strike a target that has one major city and next to no mass-communication abilities for deploying peacekeepers and has therefore somehow declared a de jure war against you. I'd recommend saving them for the post-occupation insurgency (hint: almost no one is willing to fight to restore a fascist dictatorship).
Lavan Tiri
PLACEHOLDER
Remind me to help you build infrastructure after my Constitutional Convention and after the Iberian Provisional Government is in place
Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Axeldonia
as mentioned before, 100 of the special forces members are some time already outside of the nation, while they do lack intelligence and are incompetent and even i have no clue where they are (all of them are somewhere) means that depending on things it may take years, but one day maybe they manage not to fail me!
And yeah i know that insurgency would be better but you know, i dont think they have much chance to attack people in concord which is why i want to make at least someone suffer :p
Lavan Tiri
So what i am saying maybe that they do nothing for their entire life, get arrested by other nations, etc.
I only allow them to do anything if the nation they are in allows them to make things explode :p (if you want them to actually do something or get killed like idiots its up to you if they even ever get there)
one thing i can say for certain is that they are not in any concord nation so they are useless.
and they are only in europe/asia since we have no clue how to get to america.
They literally follow incompetence and stupidity like my entire army. So have fun with them if you ever want to use them
Lavan Tiri
whats the provisional government supposed to be?
Also i will return to make flag tomorrow (i use the IMA flag for now to see if i like it or not)
Lavan Tiri
I have never read that and it seems an awfully lot like a flimsy excuse to threaten people with terror attacks imo.
he attac
he protec
but most importantly
he threaten with terror
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Andromitus
The first plan I've come up with is this:
It will probably start out as a limited democracy under the occupation of the CDF, a stable currency will be implemented and the system will operate with a leading senate and leader put in place by the elected officials (Ergo, people elect Local Representatives who elect national Senators and the Leader) which will the transition into a full democracy. Obviously its going to be under the initial supervision and occupation by the CDF to ensure that another Regime doesn't rear its ugly head but the hope is that as the Democracy grows it will be met with an increasingly industrial and stable nation.
Now obviously thats the Concord plan and doesn't include filthy Andreallic meddling :P
Axeldonia
Lex Caledonia condemns these threats and in turn, Spanelsko. An attack against a fellow European Community member cannot be tolerated.
Eyyy, Axeldonia
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Percyton
Don't worry Andu
I am COIN by this point.
The Counter-Insurgency manuals are in my b l o o d
Andromitus
https://youtu.be/JG0Y29flReM
Jaslandia, Percyton
European Community? Percyton's in that too! We are in it, right Axel?
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Andromitus
Ye
I gotta get a summit going
Jaslandia, Lex Caledonia, Percyton
Where will the conference be held?
Jaslandia, Axeldonia
Dunno. As of now, probably Greznjev.
Jaslandia, Percyton
Is that a city in Axeldonia?
Jaslandia, Axeldonia
This episode of South Park about children dealing opioids in exchange for antique German statues has given me a rather dastardly idea....
Time for RP Mexico to become drug dealers!
Nuremgard
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAy_y5I-4JY
Nuremgard, Talkative Friedensriech
maybe it is, but thats just how i try to do things, not to mention as i said before nothing happens unless you want something to happen.
we didnt attack anyone, unless Axel decides my great incompetent terrorists manage to do something, which also depends if they ever get to Axeldonia (stupidity and incompetence rules in Iberia and its army)
Not to mention that threats from us can be taken as seriously as our leader (it cant be taken seriously)
It's the capital. Now that I think about it, it may be smarter to host it in Lex CaledoniaLex since your two nations are pretty close.
Jaslandia, Percyton
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