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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
My sister is in Slytherin too.
What is your Patronus?
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica
I can't remember if the site had you choose or create your own. In my persona..it's a Pegasus.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Me too!
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Very cool. Mine is a dolphin. And my Ilvermorny house is Pukwudgie.
Yay! We're a pair pf Puffs together! :P
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
To those Potterheads who see me as an evil, unruly villian...I may be a dirty, no-good Slytherin..but my heart is pure. (One example of a good deed: During a Quidditch match, I took a bludger to the face to protect a rather weak looking Hufflepuff chaser.)
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Nobody decided to tell him I'm from there as well? No one was like oh Yuk is southern English where's he from again oh yeah wasn't it Somerset...Nobody?
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I used to play Quidditch really well...until I took a bludger to the face.
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica
Nobody said, honey. But now we know. And knowing is half the battle.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
I'm the Team Captian. (Chaser)
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I don't play Quidditch.
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica
Because you took a bludger to the face?
Nah..but still...I only joined cause Malfoy wouldn't shut up about it.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I'd be down to be on it if it meant elections weren't run by candidates and incumbents.
Jaslandia, Yukona
Racenclaw House is best House
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Oh that wee blonde pointed face git. What's he like eh?
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica
And according to the group I'm in..
* Hogwarts Quidditch Cup*
STARTS
TONIGHT
(We play Ravenclaw, while Hufflepuff plays Gryffindor)
Penguania And Antarctica
Everyone wants to be in Ravenclaw.
Penguania And Antarctica
Good thing I'm one of them :P
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
You don't wanna know... "I'm a purebred this...my father that..Harry Potter this...and wah wah wah". Shoot me.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I guess you're not a blood purist then?
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica
We should have a regional poll to see who is in what house.... it'd be interesting to see what other people get.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Yukona
I, myself, am a pureblood... But my friend is a..how you say..a "Mudblood". I'm just not into the whole Pureblood Master Race thing... (I'm a 5th year...I'm have other priorities)
Nuremgard
https://youtu.be/pele5vptVgc
Haven't read Harry Potter (yet), but I took the quiz, and apparently I'm a Ravenclaw.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Mudblood? Triggered.
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica
Exactly what a person who would want to rig the election would say...hmmm...
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Friedensreich, Penguania And Antarctica
Fried: The only way I can lose...is if they cheat.
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Nerds
Aghrabia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
Yeah... I utterly REGRET being in Slytherin at times. Especially since..not only is my best friend in Gryffindor, but also the love of my life... (Curse you Sorting Hat....CURSE YOU) {Mom was a Ravenclaw, and Dad was a Gryffindor}
Nuremgard, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
My country Valyria knows all about obsessions with blood purity.
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica
There is absolutely nothing I hate more than running an election. And I am liable to screw up this ranked choice nonsense, but as someone who has declared himself a permanent non-candidate, I would do it. If I must.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Everyone is, mostly for being on here in the first place :p
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Aghrabia
You mean the superior house?
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia
True.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Sure....But not this year. Our "world" as it were... has a different outlook.
House Cup Standings
1) Slytherin {920 Points}
2) Hufflepuff {905 Points}
3) Ravenclaw {875 Points}
4) Gryffindor {840 Points}
There's still the Month of July to go...
Final results are set in stone August 2nd.
Good thing I have no interest in running for anything and am here only for RP purposes, ya putz :P
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
So we have 3 citizens that have offered to be impartial members of this election commission. What else is needed?
Penguania And Antarctica
I personally have a few god ideas for a law to establish a comittee, DM me if you want to work together.
We gotta get one of those started...
Jaslandia
Now that vista is having problems IC, the IWA might do some politicking there..... ;)
Jaslandia, Andromitus, The United Providences Of Perland
"The Monarchy has died"
*Internally* Yes!
*Externally* Oh no, so sorry to hear that! *soft voice* Yes!
Jaslandia, Friedensreich, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
I'm waiting to start it though. Since Vista is busy with this election shabang, I don't want to start an RP until he's not busy with a full plate.
Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Your consideration is noted
Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
I'm nothing if not an angel when I'm planning some dastardly politicking schemes :P
But really though, just TG me when you think we can talk about setting up an RP
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
*checks schedule*
How about March 20th next year?
Penguania And Antarctica
Proudly
INCEST
While I'm on topic of taboos, I need to ask Nurem, have you ever met a Begbie before?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUZyNLZZjMs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Fhia3kEMI
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Trainspotting is a good movie but the sequel is better.
Pirate Kingdoms
I ended up getting into an Irvine Welsh binge: I pretty much thank him for allowing me to understand Edinburgh Scots and not to mess with anyone from there or Leith in particular
Nuremgard
Edinburghers are pansies. Glaswegians are the hard nuts of Scotland. ;)
Pirate Kingdoms
True, well then, at least knowing to avoid anyone like Begbie or Sick Boy
Nuremgard
I had a bit of a crush on Renton and Sick Boy for a time. Still good looking guys now.
Pirate Kingdoms
Amen, though with Renton, the Worst Toilet in Scotland scene still makes me gag and I can't look at Sick Boy without imagining little Dawn crawling over him and twisting her head
Nuremgard
No workie. Thas mi mama's birtday!
Vista Major
They're all terrible people except Spud lol
Speaking of Scotland, I like the idea of ruling it as a liberal, democratic republic. My ideal independent Scotland. However, I also like the idea of Scotland on NS being a democratic nation with a constitutional monarchy in which the Lord Chancellor (PM) and King share power. In this version of Scotland, the Union never happened so the Stuarts remained the ruling dynasty of Scotland.
Thoughts?
Pirate Kingdoms
Spud and Tommy, though Tommy does act kinda dickish before the heroin comes in.
As for running an NS Scotland, I could probably suggest a "Crowned Republic" route: have two forms of government in existence, one being the King of Scotland being a semi-ceremonial elective monarch with some guaranteed powers that they alone can hold, but still remains ceremonial and the election has to be from the Stuarts or one of the houses loyal to the King and State. The Lord Chancellor can be elected from the people or by the assembly (legislature) if one exists as a popular body. As for the republican government, the system establishes a ceremonial junior head of state that exists at the discretion of the King. The Lord Chancellor appeals to the citizenry for governance and negotiation of grievances with the King, along with the election of mid-level government officials and territorial governors.
If that isn't desired, probably just run Saor Scotland as an interim government attempting to recover from the lack of the monarchy.
Nuremgard
Interesting proposals. As you know, I'm very fickle with nations and plan to abandon two of them (Ruhmia, an absolute monarchy and Farahan, a democratic, constitutional monarchy.) After these two CTE, I will have 2 monarchies and 2 republics. Nuremgard is a liberal, democratic constitutional monarchy with a ceremonial tsar (he does hold reserve powers.) Valyria is an elitist democracy in which only landowners can vote but is politically and civilly free. Tangshan is a repressive republic both civilly and politically.
I like balance so I feel like I want Saor Scotland to be at least authoritarian in some sense. Since I already have 2 liberal, democratic nations, I was thinking maybe Scotland could be an absolutist Stuart monarchy? It would have high civil rights but low political freedoms.
Pirate Kingdoms
If planning to engage in a more authoritarian state with monarchic principles, you could probably balance Saor Scotland to act like this: the people can vote only if they publish reports detailing their ownership of property, economic status, and ultimately make a public declaration in support of the King. The Assembly shouldn't be elected but rather assembled by the royal houses, who should delegate at least one member to represent them. The Lord Chancellor should be selected by them at the King's pleasure, with a deputy official selected from the older members of the Assembly. The King should delegate power at the first level with Governors selected for various provinces, with a provincial chancellor chosen to represent the government and grant mayors for representing the cities and counties at the second level.
Nuremgard
I have named the monarch as James XI. I followed the Jacobite line of succession but it becomes lost to history after Bonnie Prince Charlie's children. His son died without issue but for the sake of it, I'm just going to assume his son had children who carried on the royal line, leading up to the current eleventh James.
Pirate Kingdoms
The Four Tops literally copied a song by Frank Sinatra and changed a couple of the lyrics in the concert 😂
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
#Shookedeth
Than, Monday then
The United Providences Of Perland
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Andromitus, Yukona
Man Vista, your really being given a run for your money, I hope you win ❤
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
#VoteGraffen4Kanzler
Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
Always watching Friedensreich...always watching
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
I like to think that since this may be my third term, third time's the charm, no?
Andromitus
#TermLimits
#NoMoreFDR
#8YearsIsEnough
Post self-deleted by Friedensreich.
I miss FDR ://
Jaslandia
Best government program ever: the Works Progress Administration.
Created 8.5 million paid jobs and stemmed the tide of unemployment brought by the Great Depression. Bring the WPA back!
Jaslandia, Andromitus
I'm Ravenclaw.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica
Well, maybe don't bring it back right now. We could have used a WPA in 2008, when unemployment was about 8%. But now unemployment is more like 5%, which is just the right amount. Create any more jobs, and unemployment might be too low.
Actually, by the time I get to be the age to be eligible to run for the Senate (about 10-11 years down the road), the effects of structural unemployment brought about by technological advancements in automation will be starting to be felt by the citizenry. In about 10 years, the idea that machines can and will replace human labor will not be a far off down the road theory that can be disregarded like it is today.
If I wanted to have an easy vote winning platform, just like politicians have in the past, I can call for the resuscitation of the WPA for government handled employment in public works and criticize the private sector for causing unemployment in low skill jobs such as transportation and retail by replacing human workers with self driving cars and self-checkout machines, respectively.
Not to mention, the legality of such an organization was never brought into question, and the idea of government employment is less taboo than it was during the 30's and 40's.
Fair enough. The only problem I could foresee is that this new WPA would still have to compete with the robots for projects, and there would be a lot of pressure for the new WPA to adopt robot labor (which would of course defeat the whole purpose). After all, these low-skill manual jobs in construction and such will likely be automated fairly early on, and so some would oppose the new WPA project on the grounds that it's inefficient compared to robot labor.
Friedensreich
Whens elections?
Penguania And Antarctica
Oh nvm
Penguania And Antarctica
That is true. But in 10 years, can we really expect machinery that is capable of replacing construction, forestry, and surveying/groundskeeping crews?
It's not like there is no need for infrastructure repair and development. In fact, the roads in Indiana are in dire need for repair for example. It got so bad that my 5th grade teacher taught us civic engagement in politics by having us write letters to then governor Mitch Daniels about repairing the roads.
Plus, in 10 years we can finally find out how Finland's trials with the UBI worked out. Like, if giving money out for no reason to everyone is going to make people lazy and unproductive, or help boost productivity. If the WPA idea doesn't work, throwing in support for the establishment of a UBI in the US could also be a good vote magnet, especially for working class people.
Jaslandia
Good day.
Andromitus, Yukona
Feels like a low tun out right now.
Get out and vote, check your telegrams, takes about a minute. So if you have nothing else to do, there ya go.
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Today is quite boring. But I voted :)
Yukona
Great, do more of Peng which is more love and more voting.
vote :)
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
oh, and sign up on the forums. That takes a little longer but if you're bored, please do.
[nation=short]Vista Major[/nation] I don't like the colors, just putting that out there.
Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
In Saor Scotland, the Reformation never happened so the country is mostly Catholic but irreligious. Oh, and no Orange Order marches are allowed. :)
Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=Today is July 2 and today are:]
Today is July 2 and today are:
- Alexanderson Day (Sweden)
- Build A Scarecrow Day
- Flag Day (Curaçao)
- I Forgot Day
- National Anisette Day (United States)
- Navy Day (Ukraine)
- Palio di Provenzano (Siena, Italy)
- Police Day (Azerbaijan)
- World UFO Day
- Youth Day (Singapore)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 437 Emperor Valentinian III begins his reign over the Western Roman Empire. His mother Galla Placidia ends her regency, but continues to exercise political influence at the court in Rome.
- 626 Li Shimin, the future Emperor Taizong of Tang, ambushes and kills his rival brothers Li Yuanji and Li Jiancheng in the Xuanwu Gate Incident.
- 706 In China, Emperor Zhongzong of Tang inters the bodies of relatives in the Qianling Mausoleum, located on Mount Liang outside Chang'an.
- 866 Battle of Brissarthe: The Franks led by Robert the Strong are defeated by a joint Breton-Viking army.
- 963 The imperial army proclaims Nikephoros II Phokas Emperor of the Romans on the plains outside Cappadocian Caesarea.
- 1298 The Battle of Göllheim is fought between Albert I of Habsburg and Adolf of Nassau-Weilburg.
- 1494 The Treaty of Tordesillas is ratified by Spain.
- 1504 Bogdan III the One-Eyed becomes Voivode of Moldavia.
- 1555 Ottoman Admiral Turgut Reis sacks the Italian city of Paola.
- 1561 Menas, emperor of Ethiopia, defeats a revolt in Emfraz.
- 1582 Battle of Yamazaki: Toyotomi Hideyoshi defeats Akechi Mitsuhide.
- 1613 The first English expedition (from Virginia) against Acadia led by Samuel Argall takes place.
- 1644 English Civil War: Battle of Marston Moor.
- 1645 Battle of Alford: Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
- 1698 Thomas Savery patents the first steam engine.
- 1776 The Continental Congress adopts a resolution severing ties with the Kingdom of Great Britain although the wording of the formal Declaration of Independence is not approved until July 4.
- 1816 The French frigate Méduse struck the Bank of Arguin and 151 people on board had to be evacuated on an improvised raft, a case immortalised by Géricault's painting The Raft of the Medusa.
- 1822 Thirty-five slaves are hanged in South Carolina, including Denmark Vesey, after being accused of organizing a slave rebellion.
- 1823 Bahia Independence Day: The end of Portuguese rule in Brazil, with the final defeat of the Portuguese crown loyalists in the province of Bahia.
- 1839 Twenty miles off the coast of Cuba, 53 rebelling African slaves led by Joseph Cinqué take over the slave ship Amistad.
- 1853 The Russian Army crossed the Pruth river into the Danubian Principalities, Moldavia and Wallachiaproviding the spark that set off the Crimean War.
- 1871 Victor Emmanuel II of Italy enters Rome after having conquered it from the Papal States.
- 1881 Charles J. Guiteau shoots and fatally wounds U.S. President James Garfield (who would die of complications from his wounds on September 19).
- 1890 The U.S. Congress passes the Sherman Antitrust Act.
- 1897 British-Italian engineer Guglielmo Marconi obtains a patent for radio in London.
- 1900 The first Zeppelin flight takes place on Lake Constance near Friedrichshafen, Germany.
- 1900 Jean Sibelius' Finlandia receives its première performance in Helsinki with the Helsinki Philharmonic Society conducted by Robert Kajanus.
- 1921 World War I: U.S. President Warren G. Harding signs the KnoxPorter Resolution formally ending the war between the United States and Imperial Germany.
- 1934 The Night of the Long Knives ends with the death of Ernst Röhm.
- 1937 Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan are last heard from over the Pacific Ocean while attempting to make the first equatorial round-the-world flight.
- 1940 Indian independence leader Subhas Chandra Bose is arrested and detained in Calcutta.
- 1962 The first Wal-Mart store opens for business in Rogers, Arkansas.
- 1964 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Civil Rights Act of 1964 meant to prohibit segregation in public places.
- 1966 The French military explodes a nuclear test bomb code-named Aldébaran in Moruroa, their first nuclear test in the Pacific.
- 1976 Fall of the Republic of Vietnam; Communist North Vietnam declares their union to form the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.
- 1986 Rodrigo Rojas and Carmen Gloria Quintana are burnt alive during a street demonstration against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet in Chile.
- 2000 Vicente Fox Quesada is elected the first President of México from an opposition party, the Partido Acción Nacional, after more than 70 years of continuous rule by the Partido Revolucionario Institucional.
- 2001 The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
- 2002 Steve Fossett becomes the first person to fly solo around the world nonstop in a balloon.
- 2005 The Live 8 benefit concerts takes place in the G8 states and in South Africa. More than 1,000 musicians perform and are broadcast on 182 television networks and 2,000 radio networks.
- 2008 Íngrid Betancourt, a member of the Chamber of Representatives of Colombia, is released from captivity after being held for six and a half years by FARC.
- 2010 The South Kivu tank truck explosion in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills at least 230 people.
- 2013 The International Astronomical Union names Pluto's fourth and fifth moons, Kerberos and Styx.
- 2013 A magnitude 6.1 earthquake strikes Aceh, Indonesia, killing at least 42 people and injuring 420 others.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1489 Thomas Cranmer, English archbishop, theologian, and saint
- 1714 Christoph Willibald Gluck, German composer
- 1724 Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, German poet and author
- 1862 William Henry Bragg, English physicist, chemist, and mathematician, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1877 Hermann Hesse, German-born Swiss poet, novelist, and painter, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1904 René Lacoste, French tennis player and businessman, created the polo shirt
- 1906 Hans Bethe, German-American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1922 Pierre Cardin, Italian-French fashion designer
- 1923 Wisława Szymborska, Polish poet and translator, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1925 Medgar Evers, American soldier and activist
- 1925 Patrice Lumumba, Congolese politician, 1st Prime Minister of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- 1946 Richard Axel, American neuroscientist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1986 Lindsay Lohan, American actress and singer
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Quote of the day
We are not makers of history. We are made by history.
- Marin Luther King, Jr. -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Percyton
What's the Orange Order?
Penguania And Antarctica
It's a Protestant fraternity that hates Catholics and conducts yearly marches in Britain and Ireland to celebrate the victory of William of Orange over James VII at the Battle of the Boyne.
Baxten, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Gross.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
http://s2.quickmeme.com/img/2a/2aa54eb0ca484afa4cae73f468d3e1175790f53df34bb2976a022e068aa1ea4f.jpg
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Got it in a nutshell, Peng.
Jaslandia, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica
A fellow Ravenclaw!
Good Morning!
Oh god now its brown and white! My eyes!
Vista Major, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Estrinia
Does anybody know how to find out to which Hogwarts house I belong ?
Because I'm not a Harry Potter fan and therefore don't know but still would like to participate in the poll. :)
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Yukona
Penguania And Antarctica
*Ilvermorny
The NA school is Ilvermorny
Gryffindor in the house!
Dweebs may not apply.
Nuremgard
Seems I am a Hufflepuff.
Don't know if that's good or bad.
Nuremgard
Blech!
We Puffs get a lot of sctick from the other houses but we hardworking, loyal and good finders. And we are JK Rowlings favourite house.
In the final battle against Voldemort, Hufflepuffs were the second biggest group of students to stay and fight. The biggest of course were the Gryffindors.
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Post self-deleted by The Cross And Davids Star.
Members of Hufflepuff are known for their kindness, patience, and tolerance, which fits you to a tee, so that is a good thing.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
What's with the Harry Potter poll?
Penguania And Antarctica
Vote Perland for Minister of Interior! My plans and values; https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=847523
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Penguania And Antarctica
Wow, I'm genuinely getting confused as to whether I already made a comment on the RMB or not.
It may be overwhleming shame at being a hufflepuff that's confusing me though :p
This is nothing like me at all gosh.
Now excuse me while I go slothfully betray my friends...I just hope my terrible sense of direction can find them.
Now you're really testing my -admittedly small- patience buckaroo.
Don't make me fight you with a small child while making fun of how you're a mudblood. :P
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
Horned Serpent
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland
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