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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Welcome to the CFN, Audiastan!
Hello and welcome ! I am Peng. Current Minister of Interior.
Make yourself at home and enjoy your stay. =)
Jaslandia
24 hours left my bois
We will experience either an april ruse, or impending doom.
Wow, thank you. It's been like ages that someone has stood up for me.
Yukona
What's it like?
Yukona
Andromitus has tasted the blood of war before, and we have the scar of atomic fire in our past. We survived it then, and in the ashes of this burned world, we will arise a new, an Grand Phoenix, soaring into a brave new world. O Brave New World! O Brave New World!
(holy sh!t I know what my ideologies symbol is now! thx brah!)
Np, i've loved it here and thats all thanks to you :)
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
REGIONAL SONG OF THE DAY
Day 31: Oasis - "Don't Look Back in Anger" (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r8OipmKFDeM)
Thank you for reading, papa bless
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
And so has the cross and davids star. On multiple occasions. With hundreds of warheads each time. Without any notice. Yet every time after we rebuilt, and became stronger, but now that we have a notice, all citizens of any nation (excluding Solla Ultima) are welcome to take refugee in The Cross and David's Star's many underground nuclear shelters!
your people must be so horribly mutated and scarred from that lol
How many people survive after each nuclear holocaust? And the government has maintained continuity this whole time? Thats amazing
Penguania And Antarctica
Not after I'm done with him
Penguania And Antarctica
Go on....?
Read my lips
World
Domination
u in?
Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica
Are's didn't :P, our old government, during a civil war, nuked two major cities, and in the ensuing 15 post-war year's of pure anarchy, called the Aeons Scar, a man by the name of Septus Tharson. In said ensuing years of pain and torment, Septus was chosen by the few remaining members of the Ædenist Ideology to become their "Wayfinder", sort of like a non-holy prophet, for serious lack of a better term.
Our nation didn't survive, a new one was thrust forth from the ash; but NS doesn't allow us to change our names so... :3
Penguania And Antarctica
***A man by the name of Septus Tharson rose to the new challenge of rebuilding a nation.
He was our first Wayfinder, and the only one to ever recieve a secondary title, Wayfinder Septus Tharson the Engineer
Hey, your nation and my own are similar in one way at least? I like to imagine (cause I'm too lazy to write factbooks with lore and stuff) that it was Dr. Wily and Dr. Light that helped transform early Magnatronia from a sun-baked wasteland resembling the American Wild West into the industrialized urban society that it is today. Well, it's not actually a society, since this is all fictional. But you know what I mean.
The one primary difference is that yours embarked on the path of blood
Penguania And Antarctica
Aha but you forget that we're the ones with the superiority complex larger than our universe ;) that was your first mistake!
Hello, my peoples! How are we all today?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Hello, Sul! I'm good. How are you?
Penguania And Antarctica
Really we all low-key are.
I remember calculating out the amount of enriched nuclear materiel that Perl dropped into the sea of our map in one of their "Nukes fired....nukes harmlessly disarm and smash into ocean!" RPs they had.
96K pounds my dude.
https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=23275403
I'm doing good, Luv.
Little tired, but happy.
Penguania And Antarctica
I think I'm doing okay today. Just got back from work, was a nice day.
Anything interesting happen with you?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Nothing much. I had an interview for a college scholarship today, and I think that went pretty well.
Penguania And Antarctica
How much?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Actually, I just had an idea and wanted to know if you'd be super against it.
I'm thinking of naming the small-arms I produce after smaller cat breeds -the larger weapon systems get named after large cats, like the "Lynx" and the "Caracal"- to keep the style.
I'd try to avoid names like the "Tabby" of course.
Don't know yet, but they told me I will be receiving something.
Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
PERL!
s'long as their serious i'm fine
I think it'll either start with "Felis" or "Attica"
Sounds fanciful enough
Penguania And Antarctica
What do you mean by that?
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
It truly feels nice and weird at the same time. I feel recognized once again after spending hours and hours of my life just to make other people feel better. I can't do anything about the hating of a few, all I can do is "by work and effort" better for the community, the region and its people.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Oelesa
I'm intrigued
I may sometimes disagree with you about NationStates, but you are a very good guy everywhere else. You found us ESU'ers a good place to call our new home. I'm glad The Land Of Golden Blobfish left Concordis and joined this region because this is a great region. I honestly feel more at home her than in the ESU. I also feel like there's more way to interact with each other and truly feel like we have a real community. Ya done found us a fantasic region Lat.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
Hello people. Wish you all an awesome Friday. :)
[spoiler=Today is March 31 and today are:]
Today is March 31 and today are
- Cesar Chavez Day (multiple US states)
- Day of Genocide of Azerbaijanis (Azerbaijan)
- Eiffel Tower Day
- Freedom Day (Malta)
- International Transgender Day of Visibility
- King Nangklao Memorial Day (Thailand)
- Micronesia Culture Day (Micronesia)
- National Bunsen Burner Day (United States)
- National Clams on the Half Shell Day (United States)
- National Crayon Day (United States)
- National Prom Day (United States)
- National She's Funny That Way (United States)
- National Tater Day (United States)
- Oranges and Lemons Day
- Thomas Mundy Peterson Day (New Jersey, United States)
- Transfer Day (US Virgin Islands)
- World Backup Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 307 After divorcing his wife Minervina, Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of the retired Roman Emperor Maximian.
- 627 Battle of the Trench: Muhammad undergoes a 14-day siege at Medina (Saudi Arabia) by Meccan forces under Abu Sufyan.
- 1146 Bernard of Clairvaux preaches his famous sermon in a field at Vézelay, urging the necessity of a Second Crusade. Louis VII is present, and joins the Crusade.
- 1492 Queen Isabella of Castille issues the Alhambra Decree, ordering her 150,000 Jewish and Muslim subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
- 1561 The city of San Cristóbal, Táchira is founded.
- 1717 A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provokes the Bangorian Controversy.
- 1774 American Revolutionary War: The Kingdom of Great Britain orders the port of Boston, Massachusetts closed pursuant to the Boston Port Act.
- 1822 The massacre of the population of the Greek island of Chios by soldiers of the Ottoman Empire following an attempted rebellion, depicted by the French artist Eugène Delacroix.
- 1854 Commodore Matthew Perry signs the Convention of Kanagawa with the Tokugawa Shogunate, opening the ports of Shimoda and Hakodate to American trade.
- 1885 The United Kingdom establishes the Bechuanaland Protectorate.
- 1889 The Eiffel Tower is officially opened.
- 1899 Malolos, capital of the First Philippine Republic, is captured by American forces.
- 1906 The Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States (later the National Collegiate Athletic Association) is established to set rules for college sports in the United States.
- 1909 Serbia accepts Austrian control over Bosnia and Herzegovina.
- 1913 The Vienna Concert Society rioted during a performance of modernist music by Arnold Schoenberg, Alban Berg, Alexander von Zemlinsky, and Anton von Webern, causing a premature end to the concert due to violence; this concert became known as the Skandalkonzert.
- 1917 The United States takes possession of the Danish West Indies after paying $25 million to Denmark, and renames the territory the United States Virgin Islands.
- 1918 Massacre of ethnic Azerbaijanis is committed by allied armed groups of Armenian Revolutionary Federation and Bolsheviks. Nearly 12,000 Azerbaijani Muslims are killed.
- 1918 Daylight saving time goes into effect in the United States for the first time.
- 1921 The Royal Australian Air Force is formed.
- 1930 The Motion Picture Production Code is instituted, imposing strict guidelines on the treatment of sex, crime, religion and violence in film, in the U.S., for the next thirty-eight years.
- 1931 An earthquake destroys Managua, Nicaragua, killing 2,000.
- 1931 TWA Flight 599 crashes near Bazaar, Kansas, killing eight, including University of Notre Dame head football coach Knute Rockne.
- 1933 The Civilian Conservation Corps is established with the mission of relieving rampant unemployment in the United States.
- 1942 World War II: Japanese forces invade Christmas Island, then a British possession.
- 1945 World War II: A defecting German pilot delivers a Messerschmitt Me 262A-1, the world's first operational jet-powered fighter aircraft, to the Americans, the first to fall into Allied hands.
- 1949 The Dominion of Newfoundland joins the Canadian Confederation and becomes the 10th Province of Canada.
- 1951 Remington Rand delivers the first UNIVAC I computer to the United States Census Bureau.
- 1957 Elections to the Territorial Assembly of the French colony Upper Volta are held. After the elections PDU and MDV form a government.
- 1958 In the Canadian federal election, the Progressive Conservatives, led by John Diefenbaker, win the largest percentage of seats in Canadian history, with 208 seats of 265.
- 1959 The 14th Dalai Lama, crosses the border into India and is granted political asylum.
- 1964 A coup d'état in Brazil establishes a military government, under the aegis of general Castelo Branco.
- 1966 The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first space probe to enter orbit around the Moon.
- 1970 Explorer 1 re-enters the Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
- 1979 The last British soldier leaves the Maltese islands; Malta declares its Freedom Day (Jum il-Helsien).
- 1980 The Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific Railroad operates its final train after being ordered to liquidate its assets because of bankruptcy and debts owed to creditors.
- 1985 The first WrestleMania, the biggest wrestling event from the WWE (then the WWF), takes place in Madison Square Garden in New York City.
- 1990 Approximately 200,000 protesters take to the streets of London to protest against the newly introduced Poll Tax.
- 1991 Georgian independence referendum, 1991: Nearly 99 percent of the voters support the country's independence from the Soviet Union.
- 1992 The USS Missouri, the last active United States Navy battleship, is decommissioned in Long Beach, California.
- 1998 Netscape releases Mozilla source code under an open source license.
- 2004 Iraq War in Anbar Province: In Fallujah, Iraq, four American private military contractors working for Blackwater USA, are killed after being ambushed.
- 2016 Occupy movement known as Nuit debout begins in France, spreading within days to Belgium, Germany, and Spain.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1596 René Descartes, French mathematician and philosopher
- 1685 Johann Sebastian Bach, German organist and composer
- 1732 Joseph Haydn, Austrian pianist and composer
- 1747 Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German pianist and composer
- 1878 Jack Johnson, American boxer
- 1890 William Lawrence Bragg, Australian-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1906 Sin-Itiro Tomonaga, Japanese physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1914 Octavio Paz, Mexican poet and diplomat, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1915 Shoichi Yokoi, Japanese sergeant, one of the last Japanese holdouts
- 1927 Cesar Chavez, American labor union leader and activist
- 1934 Richard Chamberlain, American actor
- 1939 Volker Schlöndorff, German director and producer
- 1943 Christopher Walken, American actor
- 1948 Al Gore, American soldier and politician, 45th Vice President of the United States and Nobel Prize laureate
- 1955 Angus Young, Scottish-Australian guitarist and songwriter
- 1971 Ewan McGregor, Scottish actor
- 1972 Alejandro Amenábar, Chilean-Spanish director and screenwriter
- 1972 Evan Williams, American businessman, co-founded Twitter and Pyra Labs
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Quote of the day
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
- Aldous Huxley -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Vista Major, Kalaron, Yukona, Percyton
About 3 to 5 mil each time, and thank you, we don't know how we actually survived them.
Some of them are yes, but we treat them as legends.
The TCDS-81K3 "TrackCycle" is now available for critique.
https://wvk12-my.sharepoint.com/personal/ecsteve1_stu_k12_wv_us/_layouts/15/guestaccess.aspx?docid=0308a43a45afb4f538052524be43abc38&authkey=ARpOjQgEcw98ZvK0ro2-tN8
Welcome back Walterstien
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Personally, I would rather die instantly in an nuclear blast than have to fight for survival in a post-nuclear hellscape.
Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica
Same
Also, love the name
Authoritaristan, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Allows Black Friday. Most of my industries suffer.
#NSLogic
Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica
Well, first, there's no reason for it to eject it's pilot.
A parachute needs at least a roundabout of five hundred feet, so you're really just finetuning how lethal that fall is.
Furthermore, you seem to be overestimating the accuracy of such a tool.
You're asking a soldier without armour besides his PPE to drive straight into the LOS of an enemy group, to eject at ~20-25 feet and to hope that every enemy soldier dies...because any survivors will either beat him to death, torture him, or use him as a prisoner of war.
Let me ask you something...would you do what you just said an average soldier would do.
Lastly, it's tracked and is thus much more mechanically complicated than a wheeled vehicle, as well as more costly.
Thank you!
I'm looking to get into the RP aspect more and be more involved in the Region. Currently deployed in Iraq so lots of free time
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Don't forget to check the House of Delegates.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica
Post self-deleted by Aghrabia.
I have always tried my best to give to the ESU'ers the best. As I have tried all my best to give to COFN'ers the best as well.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Yukona
[B]REGIONAL SONG OF THE DAY
Day 32:[/B] "Weird" Al Yankovic - "Amish Paradise" (link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lOfZLb33uCg)
Thank you for reading, papa bless
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
Great! So we have two major RP's currently going on, although your going to need to make an account on our offsite Forums;
Confederacy General
http://s15.zetaboards.com/COFN/topic/10110176/9/#new
En Mass RP, here, you can outline actions going on within your nation, and who those actions can affect. We all recently just came out of a World Conference, although none-the-wiser. Due to its nature, you can easily join in as one of the many nations that didn't attend the conference. Although I suggest you read up a little on some of the nations involved, so you understand different ties between all of us!
Serpents of Æden
http://s15.zetaboards.com/COFN/topic/10139937/2/#new
This is a personal RP centering around a unique terrorist group known as Vipers. Originating within Andromitus, a possible splinter group, nicknamed "Era Two". After several Terrorist attacks within Andromitus, Magnatronia, and Aghrabia, a multitude of nations have hopped on board to fully eradicate this local-turned-global menace. (Read it's OOC to learn how to play it)
Were also planning a potential WWII style RP, or a modern-day World War on future dates!
Audiastan, Magnatronia
Tell me my dudes, do the pictures look too big and better or worse with the boxes around them: https://www.nationstates.net/nation=yukona/detail=factbook/id=694394
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica
What i mean by ejecting is forcing the pilot off of the craft by pushing him back,
And it's meant to be a surprise attack to increase chances of success.
i get that the pilot's running a risk and is meant to be either as an ambush or last resort.
Frankly, yes, hell, i'd stay on the craft if it meant contributing to the cause.
Yeah, but which would work better in different environments? Wide tracks, or thin wheels?
Pictures look good with the boxes and are decently sized. The factbook in general looks good.
Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
"My TrackCycle also has a a jet engine to make a helicopter and tricycle all in one. To defend itself, it uses a suppressed dual wield minigun that fires nuclear bombs. The TrackCycle itelf is made of titanium and diamond since those are the strongest materials in nature. They are also cheap. Exactly half a gram of diamond is only 80$, meaning my nation can buy a football field of diamonds for only 800$." ~TCaDS
Andromitus
So he'll break bones and get beaten to death/captured by the remnants of the other force?
A key part of an ambush is the element of suprise, T.
You aren't closing to one hundred feet of an isolated unit without someone hearing, a mile if they have forward observation and five if they have air support.
With no insult meant to you, that's bluster until proven otherwise.
Everyone does it, bluster that is, but until proven in the fire of combat all of this "I would!" is pointless when one is faced with the multitudes of soldiers who aren't needlessly focused on throwing their life away, or so indoctrinated as to do it without need.
Tires, really.
Tracks are useful for a few areas, but there are alternatives for wheeled vehicles that keep them from really hindering operations.
Take Humvees, for example, if the argument of "Tracks are better" took hold, wouldn't they clearly also be so equipped? Or is it more likely that any military would prefer to simply put chains on tires in the snow and reap the simplicity of a nice wheeled system.
"Hey, look at me! I'm a balding corporate @sshole who doesn't give two and a half sh!ts about the well-being of my citizen/slaves! What's that? Some terrorists got in? Well imma dock your pay and make you work overtime despite the fact that you had no way to prevent them from getting in, just because i want to! Here, lemme get drunk, make an idiot of myself, then try to attack another leader, potentially causing a world-ending war, that'll make me look like I know what I'm doing!" ~Magnatronia
Jaslandia, Andromitus
what about mud or sand? Thin tires aren't gonna do jacksh!t if put in those situations where surface area is a must.
For one, people drive on beaches all the time.
For a second, larger tires are entirely possible.
For a third, they can dismount and drag their vehicle out of the patch (it'll be a patch) if they can also go and blow up on it....it'd actually be a lot easier since it's not tracks and all.
Just as with yesterday, the system that works in one very specific circumstance but is flawed in many others will fail.
I again direct you to the humvee.
http://www.military-vehicle-photos.com/picture/number7972.asp
You were saying?
Hey, Dr. Wily has a full head of hair. Get it right. XD
Authoritaristan, Jaslandia
"16% of our national budget goes to our leader''s private waterpark." ~Authoritaristan
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia
I like you already!
Authoritaristan, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
So I'm going to assume you missed where it said "Test Humvee"
Have you given thought to the fact that both Switzerland and Poland operate Humvees and other wheeled vehicles?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oshkosh_M-ATV
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMZ_Dzik
They also made test models of MBTs equipped with 140mm main guns, didn't make it any less ridiculous past the cold war.
Again, I direct you to my points.
Pleased to meet you :)
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia, Percyton
Fellow totalitarian dictator?
Authoritaristan, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
more like a full sidehead of hair. XD
You know, if Max is planning to spring these nukes as an April Fools day joke, he could at least have the decency to not do it in the next hour.
My soaps are on dude.
Jaslandia, Percyton
Yes, but he prefers "the Eternal & Most Glorious Shah, Siddig ibn al Shir, President and Supreme General for Life."
He mostly just enjoys his opulent palaces while the poor starve in the streets. Or while political opponents are tortured.
As long as the west needs his oil, the Shah will fly in fresh caviar daily. For the tigers in the private zoo.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia
Welp, good luck surviving the nuclear wasteland! If you need me, ill be in my bunker!
Jaslandia
What does this mean? I Googled sidehead and all the results are about Microsoft Word
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia
Prepare for invasion
Eh, I'll be designing the FAS (The Felis, I've decided) so I'll be doing what I love anyhow.
I've got a business proposal for you. I'll shoot you a telegram later. Do you plan on staying in the CFN for a while? If so, are you gonna be active in the role plays?
Authoritaristan, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Two dictators and a theocrat walk into a bar...
Fµck now theres two of them -_- Just gonna let you know that there are no corporations within Andromitus, we have systems in place so you can't flood our markets and fossil fuels are banned within the Heartland.
Yo J.C, are they banned in Gaida as well?
Authoritaristan, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia
Post self-deleted by Andromitus.
Posted boi's
http://s15.zetaboards.com/COFN/topic/10110176/9/#new
I tried to implement some Andreallic slang in my writing, I'm trying a new style of storytelling so if it reads a bit differently now you know why
[serious] what sort of systems? Do you just outright ban imports?
Also, is all private enterprise banned, or just the corporate form?
Magnatronia
One-minute till destruction everyone. Goodbye and good luck.
WELCOME TO ALLOUT NUCLEAR WAR!!!!
JOIN US
JOIN THE RED REVOLUTION
https://www.nationstates.net/page=faction/fid=22
Jaslandia
Done!
War
War never changes...
Yes it does. All the time. Thats why we are using missiles. And not rocks.
Jaslandia
Remember comrades, shields may be used to defend your fellow socialists. Use them!
Quit napping and start bombing! FOR THE CONFEDERACY!!!!
This isnt a very fun minigame
what does sidehead mean? is it a sex thing?
Who cares? Bomb the everloving sh!t outta people!
Pass. I do stuff for the lulz only. This is not lulz enough.
The side of yo head!!
Excellent choice. Love Weird Al.
https://youtu.be/N9qYF9DZPdw
Percyton
Looks like the nuclear attack has begun. I've evacuated everyone into either underground bunkers, or to safe places on the Mainland. I'm going to try to keep everyone calm (even though I'm still really scared myself), while Diesel 10 will protect Sodor from the nukes. Wish us luck!
Jaslandia
Hi! :)
Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
ayy im in the faction
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Now that is a name I haven't heard in a loooong time.
How are ya Vid?
Penguania And Antarctica
kek I am practically the tank of the faction
I got 5 shields B)
Penguania And Antarctica
Hello, dude. I am Peng. Current Minister of Interior.
Make yourself at home and enjoy your stay. :)
Yukona
Hey there! Im Andy, Minister of Justice, ^^^ what he said :P
Penguania And Antarctica
Hello. I'm Aldwood. the current nuclear powerhouse of this faction: https://www.nationstates.net/page=faction/fid=22
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
http://i.imgur.com/BViDDA9.gif
I just needed to test out nukes real quick, I canceled the strike.
Aldwood Mind canceling your strike?
Penguania And Antarctica
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Written by Refuge Isle.