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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
It depends. If the flag has specific symbols and iconography, like the current one does, then I think they should try to line up with the region in question. But if it's just colors or abstract symbols, I don't think you need to worry about it.
Percyton
How's about this one.
https://i.imgur.com/iTmQknX.png
Jaslandia, Percyton
Interesting. Is the central logo a Chymyrtist symbol? I like it, but only complaint is that it seems to look too much like the Israeli flag.
Percyton
I can see that, I'm kinda thinking of going with either green. or 2 colors for the top and bottom stripe
Percyton
Green could work. Maybe a darker green, but a light green could also work. I don't know, I'm not a vexillologist.
Percyton
Saffron and Blue: https://i.imgur.com/pZxl5M6.png
All Green: https://i.imgur.com/8tDgwWq.png
Jaslandia, Percyton
well, I don't know how it happened but my nation has been reclassified from "Left-Leaning College State" to "Inoffensive Centrist Democracy"
We began as a "Civil Rights Lovefest" and now here we are as a Centrist nation somehow... better get working at restoring all those civil rights and freedoms I unknowingly repressed
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
I unwittingly closed my borders when I rejected refugees in one of my other nations. My economy also got downgraded and unemployment increased. :(
Jaslandia, Czeko Russika
yeah, it's really hard to know how small decisions will effect the Nation on a large scale! Even when I think I'm making the right decision it sometimes ends up making things worse... damn politics :/
Nuremgard, Percyton
I chose the second one.
Percyton
I don't want your leaders dead at all! I very much prefer them alive!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Damn NS you mean!
Jaslandia, New Estaris, Percyton, Czeko Russika
That's one down, I'll work on the next tomorrow.
Thx for the help.
Jaslandia, Percyton
No problem!
Percyton
Welp, that's it I guess. I consider myself a Christian now.
#QuakerOats
Vista Major, Kalaron, Percyton, The Wyoming Peoples Front
I had to abolish labour laws in New Salvatore just to improve employment.
Jaslandia
*gasps*
New Estaris
Why?
New Estaris
I converted to Quakerism, am now affiliated with a Meeting House, and seek spiritual truth with the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
The Wyoming Peoples Front
[Insert Constidor trying too hard to be funny in order to gain undeserved attention and make his fellow nations lose what little respect they had for him]
Jaslandia, Mercunova
Top 10 Anime Plot Twists
jk
https://youtu.be/fVeAEwrL1Ts
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
New news dispatch! Jaslandia has a new Opposition Leader, and maybe soon a new Prime Minister?
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=914242
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32842942#p32842942
Nuremgard, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I have a good friend who is a Seward Brethren Quaker.
Percyton
BACH
BACH
BACH
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
While it would have been nice to have Mr. Kirkman as our ambassador, I'm sure he'll be a great leader for the Liberals and for the Opposition! Me and Thomas wish George Kirkman all the best!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Well #@!#. I was hoping that wouldn't happen anytime soon.
....
Just lost a finger and am in ICU. (I'm glad I still have my phone.)
Percyton
???
Sorry to hear that Bud, you OK? 0_0
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Oh my! That was unexpected! What happened? Are you alright?
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I'm fine. I'm a manager at a deli. I was working on training one of our workers on the meat slicer. It was fine unitl... one of his idiot friends decided to jump around the corner and push me in an attempt to surprise me. I don't know how he failed to see me working on the slicer despite the fact that I trained him 20 min prior. Needless to say...he jumped onto me..my hand slipped...and...I lost most of my fingertip. Like an inch of my finger is shredded and sliced. He is fired btw.
Jaslandia, Percyton
Oh my goodness... Well, I hope everything will turn out okay. No infection or anything else, I hope.
And good, I would have fired him too back in the day when I was a manager. I nearly fired someone for just constantly handling sandwiches and food without gloves, and I did get one guy fired because he kept coming into work high. Slicing the manager's finger, especially over something so inane and stupid, should get the boot at the absolute least.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Oh dear! Well, at least it wasn't your fault, and I'd say being fired is too generous a punishment for that idiot. I hope it's not too serious and you turn out okay!
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
The injury isn't that serious thank god. (I'm only in the ICU due to how bad the initial damage was and it was closer.) Needless to say... OWWWWWWW!!!!!!!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Well's that's good news.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Oh my! That sounds awful! But, at least you're okay now. Hopefully you can go home soon and relax!
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
https://i.imgur.com/5elbS97.png
Ethnic map o the Federation. Red lines = province borders.
Jaslandia, Percyton
Totally a good thing though if you ask me. At least when it comes to my main nation. Letting in the dirty inferior peoples would be a disaster to Reicher culture, dont you know?
Nuremgard
Where does Liberal fall on the political spectrum?
Jaslandia, Percyton
I didn't let in the refugees because the government is meant to put Salvatorians first.
Get well soon, pal. :)
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Percyton
New Salvatore exports coffee. Think of the tagline for that product.
Salvatorian coffee: the taste of fascism.
Jaslandia
Mmmmmm, it tastes like a political ideology.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Percyton
Not a very good one right now considering the country's employment rate.
Jaslandia
Christ! was it reattached or was it a complete loss? Also, will it regrow due to how little in total was lost?
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Economic planning done by AI is the way to go man. It made my employment jump from around 40% to nearly 90%.
Nuremgard
But after its nationalised, will my employment rate fall if I re-privatise?
Just lost a bit of the tip. (1 inch) I dunno what will happen.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Itll go back to what it was before. You can see on my main that I tried that once and it made my employment go back down to what it was before allowing an AI control over planning.
Hmm. I might make New Salvatore communist then lol
HAIL!
Sorry for not writing sooner, we can export some oil if you want to test it.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Somewhere between the American Democratic Party and the UK Labour Party.
Percyton
So right wing then.
Jaslandia, Talkative Friedensriech
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_i_IP8YPZo
Jaslandia, Percyton
Id appreciate if you guys could vote in the poll
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
More toward slightly left-of-center.
[spoiler=Today is November 8 and today are:]
Today is November 8 and today are:
- Cook Something Bold and Pungent Day
- Day of Baku Metro Employees (Azerbaijan)
- International Cleaning Woman Day
- International Day of Radiology
- Intersex Day of Remembrance
- Mundus patet (Roman Empire)
- National Aboriginal Veterans Day (Canada)
- National Cappuccino Day (United States)
- National Dunce Day (United States)
- National Harvey Wallbanger Day (United States)
- National Parents as Teachers Day (United States)
- National STEM/STEAM Day (United States)
- Pohnpei Constitution Day (Micronesia)
- Synaxis of the Archangel Michael and the other Bodiless Powers of Heaven (Eastern Orthodox Church)
- Tongue Twister Day
- World Gift Day
- World Radiography Day
- World Urbanism Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 960 Battle of Andrassos: Byzantines under Leo Phokas the Younger score a crushing victory over the Hamdanid Emir of Aleppo, Sayf al-Dawla.
- 1278 Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of the Trần dynasty, decides to pass the throne to his crown prince Trần Khâm and take up the post of Retired Emperor.
- 1519 Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with a great celebration.
- 1520 Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.
- 1576 Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation.
- 1602 The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford is opened to the public.
- 1605 Robert Catesby, ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, is killed.
- 1614 Japanese daimyō Dom Justo Takayama is exiled to the Philippines by shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu for being Christian.
- 1620 The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours.
- 1644 The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, is enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.
- 1745 Charles Edward Stuart invades England with an army of ~5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden.
- 1837 Mary Lyon founds Mount Holyoke Female Seminary, which later becomes Mount Holyoke College.
- 1861 American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US.
- 1889 Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
- 1892 The New Orleans general strike begins, uniting black and white American trade unionists in a successful four-day general strike action for the first time.
- 1895 While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
- 1901 Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
- 1917 The first Council of People's Commissars is formed, including Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin.
- 1923 Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government.
- 1933 Great Depression: New Deal: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed.
- 1936 Spanish Civil War: Francoist troops fail in their effort to capture Madrid, but begin the 3-year Siege of Madrid afterwards.
- 1937 The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
- 1939 Venlo Incident: Two British agents of SIS are captured by the Germans.
- 1939 In Munich, Adolf Hitler narrowly escapes the assassination attempt of Georg Elser while celebrating the 16th anniversary of the Beer Hall Putsch.
- 1940 Greco-Italian War: The Italian invasion of Greece fails as outnumbered Greek units repulse the Italians in the Battle of ElaiaKalamas.
- 1942 World War II: French Resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyist generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch in Algiers.
- 1950 Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
- 1957 Pan Am Flight 7 disappears between San Francisco and Honolulu. Wreckage and bodies are discovered a week later.
- 1957 Operation Grapple X, Round C1: The United Kingdom conducts its first successful hydrogen bomb test over Kiritimati in the Pacific.
- 1965 The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands.
- 1965 The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom, except in cases of high treason, "piracy with violence" (piracy with intent to kill or cause grievous bodily harm), arson in royal dockyards and espionage, as well as other capital offences under military law. The death penalty would be abolished in all cases in 1998.
- 1965 The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the Battle of Gang Toi.
- 1966 Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke becomes the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
- 1966 U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League.
- 1968 The Vienna Convention on Road Traffic is signed to facilitate international road traffic and to increase road safety by standardising the uniform traffic rules among the signatories.
- 1972 HBO launches its programming, with the broadcast of the 1971 movie Sometimes a Great Notion, starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda.
- 1973 The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million.
- 1977 Manolis Andronikos, a Greek archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
- 1987 Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded.
- 1994 Republican Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United States midterm elections, Republicans make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of congress (54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate, additionally). Thus bringing a close to four decades of Democratic domination.
- 1999 Bruce Miller is killed at his junkyard near Flint, Michigan. His wife Sharee Miller, who convinced her online lover Jerry Cassaday to kill him (before later killing himself) was convicted of the crime, in what became the world's first Internet murder.
- 2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441: The United Nations Security Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences".
- 2004 War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
- 2011 The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passes 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.
- 2013 Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the Visayas region of the Philippines; the storm left at least 6,340 people dead with over 1,000 still missing, and caused $2.86 billion (2013 USD) in damage.
- 2016 Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States defeating Hillary Clinton. She is the fifth presidential candidate in U.S. history to win the popular vote but lose the election.
- 2016 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces withdrawal of ₹500 and ₹1000 denomination banknotes effective midnight, making 86% of the currency in circulation invalid.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 30AD - Nerva, Roman emperor
- 1656 - Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician
- 1823 - Joseph Monier, French gardener, principal inventor of reinforced concrete
- 1836 - Milton Bradley, American businessman, founded the Milton Bradley Company
- 1847 - Bram Stoker, Anglo-Irish author and critic, created Count Dracula
- 1848 - Gottlob Frege, German mathematician and philosopher
- 1854 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist and academic
- 1884 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst
- 1900 - Margaret Mitchell, American journalist and author
- 1918 - Hermann Zapf, German typographer and calligrapher
- 1922 - Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon and academic
- 1923 - Jack Kilby, American physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1927 - Nguyen Khanh, Vietnamese general and politician, 4th President of the Republic of Vietnam
- 1927 - Patti Page, American singer and actress
- 1935 - Alain Delon, French-Swiss actor, producer, screenwriter
- 1961 - Micky Adams, English footballer and manager
- 1966 - Gordon Ramsay, British chef, restaurateur, and television host/personality
- 1986 - Aaron Swartz, American computer programmer and activist
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Quote of the day
Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased.
- John Steinbeck -
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Jaslandia, Vista Major, Yukona, Percyton
Diesel: That would be swell. I'll tell Tidmouth Harbour to expect your arrival.
That's a relief. Sounds like it could have been much worse.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Spanelsko
Steam day? How delightful! A day to celebrate steam power and steam engines!
Edward: No, Percy, it's STEAM Day. It stands for 'Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, and Math'. It's the same as 'STEM', but with art added in. It's about celebrating these crucial career fields that will push us into the future, with maybe with a little creative touch as well.
Percy: Oh. Well I guess that's pretty important too.
Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Hmmm. My Liberal is close to Australian Liberal or NZ National. In UK politics I think its Tory, but a bit more Centrist.
Jaslandia
https://youtu.be/vBfFDTPPlaM
I see. I never really understood why the conservative party of Australia is called the 'Liberal' Party, so I just keep Jaslandia's parties straightforward: Jaslandia's conservative party is the Conservative Party, the social liberal/slightly leftist party is the 'Liberal Party', the social democratic party is the Socialist Party, etc.
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Expect the first oil to arrive tomorrow, also the reason why we didnt write sooner is becuase the whole government and high command experimented a bit too much with vodka these past 2 days.......
(OOC reason)
I didnt have time :p
Jaslandia, Percyton
Small reports from both wars
RP war= The suicidal offensive continues and will end in few days, extreme casualties with minimal gains and unknown damage caused to the enemy.
3 way War of the Falange, National Bolsheviks and National Catholics= Great defeats to both enemies and Madrid is about to fall.
Same in Nuremgard. The Cons are the Cons. The Socialists are the Socialists etc.
Jaslandia, Percyton
That quote is quite poignant
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
How about the original ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-bgiiTxhzM
Jaslandia, Percyton
In Australia, I suppose it is because it advocates classical liberalism. Quite different from Social/modern Liberalism.
In Cesorion, it happens because I am a Conservative Liberal. That is classical Liberal, which shares some traits with conservatism
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
So basically you're socially liberal but economically conservative?
Jaslandia
Not bad, but I don't speak German. I do like this one, though:
https://youtu.be/cVikZ8Oe_XA
Wouldn't that basically be libertarianism?
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Not necessarily. Libertarianism is having as little government as possible. Conservatives advocate for small government which is different.
Jaslandia
Econmically Liberal, very liberal, and socially somewhat liberal
You say economically liberal, which means free market right? What would you call it with me then since I believe the state should play a role in the economy? I cant be an economic conservative as that's low taxes, low spending etc.
The word liberal has so many definitions in politics these days.
Jaslandia
Agree with both
Edit:though I would not exactly call it with you. We have discussed it already I think
>.>
I'm watching you bourgie
Nuremgard
https://youtu.be/wYm_Q5dIRlM?t=62
Axeldonia
Noted
Jaslandia, Axeldonia
Politics in the UK has been great right now. We are watching May's government unravel before our very eyes. Brexit is going disastrously, ministers plotting against May who has zilch authority, ministers resigning, the sexual harassment scandals engulfing Parliament (especially Tory MPs) and the tax scandal.
It's the perfect storm. I love seeing this arrogant old crone taken down a few pegs.
Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia, Yukona
http://i.imgur.com/cwtFdhv.png (Kzar)
http://i.imgur.com/CMh8Hvg.png (Kycci)
http://i.imgur.com/zFo8ele.png (Xiinjok)
Anyone here think I should change any of the Kzaric provinces flags?
Jaslandia, Percyton
I'm not keen on 2 and 3. You should change them.
Percyton
The third one could be changed, but other than that, looks fine to me.
Percyton
Well, the reason we call a process in which a nation frees up its markets economic liberalization because liberalism is an ideology that advocates free markets, limited government, and social equality.
When a nations government takes control of the economy, that is called nationalization. If you prefer nationalization, that makes you a state socialist. Theres not really a word for that other than saying socially liberal, economically state socialist.
Nuremgard, Yukona
To quote Johnathan Pie: Socialism Strikes Back
Nuremgard
I wouldn't even call many of Corbyn's policies socialist. They're sensible social democrat policies that are run of the mill in Europe. Even here in bonnie Scotland, the supposedly revolutionary Corbyn has failed to make any inroads because most of the policies he advocates have already been implemented up here by the SNP.
Axeldonia, Lex Caledonia
I think geography is irrelevant here. Most European countries are moderately sized or small. The reason why Corbyn is seen as so radical in England is because your political culture has been shifted so far to the right that uncontroversial policies that would be considered completely normal in most European leftist parties are seen as communist lunacy.
Axeldonia
Scandinavian countries are small with homogeneous culturally hard working people who have a history of collectivism with a vast amount of resources
Britain has resources too. Unfortunately for Westminster, most of them are located in a part of the UK with a sizable secessionist population. ;)
Axeldonia
Britain's tertiary economy is more than large enough to sustain any loss Scottish resources are to it.
Would still be a blow to the economy if Scotland left.
Axeldonia
England's GDP is 2 trillion, the UK's is 2.62 trillion, Scotland is 2.2 billion.
Where'd you get those figures from? Your arse? The Treasury wont reveal what Scotland pulls in financially for the UK. If they did, it would result in a surge for independence.
Anyway, I read a comment earlier that was bang on the money. May warned us before the election not to vote Labour as it would result in a "coalition of chaos led by terrorist sympathisers." But the commenter noted that the country voted Conservative and got...a coalition of chaos led by terrorist sympathisers!
Axeldonia
Why so offensive man, I got them off Wikipedia, there is no conspiracy theory that Scotland's economy is actually bigger - sure it'll have knock on effects but it wont by any size even take a quarter off the remaining UK's GDP - just saying.
Just Googled it. F*ck me, that's depressing. Even Iceland and Malta have bigger GDPs. Need out this Union, man.
I thought the Union wanted all the money Scotland has?
It does. Tax, oil, food and drink, not to mention a place to dump the nukes, the landmass that makes them Great Britain and thus a "great" power on the world stage.
But if leaving will make the GDP better how does that work?
Well.... we could do a "Steam Day" if you wish.
(Considering how the Great Russian Engine Classic failed due to bullcrap)
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
What do you mean? You'll need to clarify that.
You said your GDP was worse than you thought, we'll have to get out of the Union faster - how would that work? Leaving the UK is going to do a lot of damage to Scotland too, even if just in the short term.
Because if we left, we wouldn't need to pay for Trident, the House of Lords, Westminster, illegal wars, vanity projects for London and the South East, the monarchy (that one's debatable.) Furthermore, we'd be in total control of all our finances and resources. No more sending money to Westminster and getting pocket money back. We could also establish an oil fund.
Listening to Madonna right now. Feel very gay at the moment.
Penguania And Antarctica
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