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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Yeah, that's another part.
Really advanced programs like tanks are one a country for a reason. So it's really just wise to only have said one or at most two for your nation that you sell.
Beyond that and you're claiming above your belt.
Here we go: https://www.nationstates.net/region=the_confederacy_general
Maybe you should price these in ISC, more countries would be able to purchase them...
Vista Major, Cesorion
Not a lot, they just used diplomacy and didn't invade someone. I did my EPQ on Finland during WWII so I'm pretty clued up.
Nuremgard
Nice. How you doing anyway?
Yeaaah not bad, just waiting for results day which could go either way to be honest. Working in the day, doing a bit of wood work and what not, and just hanging out with friends at night - mostly going to the pub. Girl I like cancelled on me today which was a bit of a bummer but that's the way she goes - yourself?
Nuremgard
Good luck with your results. Sorry to hear about the girl canceling on you, buddy. I'm okay. My flat is having a new ventilation system and shower installed so need to redecorate again after it's all done...yay. Starting uni in September so need to get my student card soon. Also need to apply for my council tax exemption.
By the way, sorry to be a bother, but I changed Tangshan back to a republic.
Yukona
Ah I was going to do all the flags tomorrow as I'm off work, will you stay at home for Uni? Didn't you say it's nearby? Personally I'm quite happy I'm leaving in a roundabout way
Nuremgard
I'm staying at home yeah. Student accommodation is extortionate. Besides, I don't want to share the space with noisy, messy students when I'm trying to study. I like my own space. Although with the constant renovations going on in my flats plus diabolically noisy neighbours, I doubt I'll be getting much quiet at home either.
Yukona
Yeah it is expensive but I'm looking forward to uni life and hanging with people/my own place.
Nuremgard
I'm nervous about going to uni. Hope I can make friends there.
Yukona
http://thecoffincofn.boards.net/thread/32/light-night-ic?page=1&scrollTo=308
I didn't think I should make an extra portion for Andy's message to the rebels, so just assume I responded back to his too.
My roommate's a nerd. So that's nice.
United Continental States
That reminds me, do your rebels hate me?
He was actually protesting Trump, or that's what I heard on Sky News
Post self-deleted by Magnatronia.
Assume they're reluctant to accept your aid, but they're willing.
Doesn't matter who he was protesting. Anyone who drives through a crowd of people is a psychopath. He should be charged with terrorism.
Kalaron
Well, only if we know the motive %100. If this was terrorism then sure, but there is a reason why we have the police and I trust them to do their job
Why is it only terrorism when a brown person knocks people over with a car?
Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
From the limited information we have, it looks like the guy who drove the car had more right-leaning and pro-Nazi views.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/13/us/james-alex-fields-charlottesville-driver-.html
Yukona, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
Dude, I'm not saying that it isn't terrorism, I am just saying that I trust the police and he shouldn't be charged with anything until the police knows all the details.
Interesting. I really don't know a lot about this but I saw an interview with his mum and it contradicts this article..But Nurem is right, it doesn't really matter who he supports or not, this was an ugly crime
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
I'm trying to turn Scotland into an absolute monarchy. Since I cannot ban elections right now, I got an issue which has allowed me to restrict voting to members of MENSA.
Restricting voting rights = one step close to stamping them out altogether!
Jaslandia, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
[nation=short]Kalaron[/nation]
I think your "logic" is hilariously flawed, and I think it's funny how you're so quick to try claiming I'm helping CROSS when I have explained at unnecessary lengths numerous times in the past why I don't like alliances.
Peoples Liberation Republic
That's fine, I feel the very same way about yours.
INB4 Lend-Lease wasn't indirectly supporting the Allies against the Axis. Also INB4 Alt-Hist Lend-Lease is somehow different because "we only supported Britain this time guys!"
Quite frankly, I direct you to my last point and will continue to direct you to it until properly refuted with more than tautology.
Okay what have I come back to
Vista Major, Yukona
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Yukona, South Hyder
And I'll refer you to the definition of "argument from ignorance", for you bring up little more than conspiracy theories that contradict basically everything about me, and whose premise is based entirely on little more than assumption.
Your muffin analogy is flawed at its core; you base the assumption that somehow CROSS' goals are 100% (see; exact same) as PLR's and vice versa, when there has been literally no indication that such is true.
Emphasis placed on the following two words: "no" and "proof". If you're going to make conspiracy theories, at least back them up with evidence, yeah?
Magnatronia
I'm not going to escalate the insults, and instead just respond to your assertions.
To be quite frank, while I have been theorizing on what could possibly happen, I really do have to point you to your very post today where you literally just provided PLR's troops with weapons. I would also like to point to your continuing trend of attaining closer relations with his nation.
https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=26756752
https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=26524903
https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=26572715
https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=26491018
https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=26521043
(While I acknowledge that these messages also contain your insistence on the "Capitalists" and that your nation might object to their use on potentially socialist nations, I also must acknowledge what you've very much stressed, that y'all are big fans of politicking)
While I freely admit that the events I'm talking about have yet to transpire in any way, shape or form and that I doubt they really will, it's not as large a leap of logic as you wish to state it is to think that you might continue to seek to support the relations you've built with PLR in the event, say, of a war that involves more than just Somalia. And with regard to what remains as an assumption...that is what most predictions are in part, especially on NS where nations are so very fickle. Were it that I could instead simply prove every prediction before it had a chance to happen than I would be a much richer man.
As for PLR's goals being exactly the same as CROSS's, simply put he doesn't actually need that. His nation does not need to have exactly the same goals but rather similar ones. If I must truly diversify my simplest analogies to include every possible consideration then clearly you can understand that it stops being a simple analogy.
Furthermore, you seem to selectively define which assumptions are rational and which are "conspiracy theories" based less on consistent thought and more on your agenda. That assuming you would continue to build up the support you already have in PLR is classified as a conspiracy theory while the thought that PLR would have goals so radically different from the rest of CROSS on such a frequency that it should only be logical to assume he would do nothing to support his close allies in war....well, it's frankly ridiculous.
All of this said, you were true in one regard at the very least. It is all an assumption of events yet to pass and I can no more prove it than you disprove it. As such, I really see no further reason to discuss this.
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Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Good point. Will do!
I could blow up the Twin Towers and my mum would still say I'm a special boy and she never knew I was capable of this evil and that I've always been kind and sensitive.
Would you mind responding to what I said to you?
It's the fact that I spend a bit much on defense (around 25%), but I think that I can stop claiming stuff here. For now, at least.
Thank you. While I will awknowledge that generally higher defense spending is an important part of developing main battle tanks, I'm sure we can all agree that the implications in terms of industry alone are a sight more massive than anything else, and for both that reason and for fairness to others, I would request that you restrain yourself to one tank, or at most two.
Whatever, but she said that he was against Trump. Maybe she is right, maybe wrong, doesn't really matter. I saw the full video though and it appears like the protesters surrounding the car were holding some sort of bats, so maybe this guy just panicked. I know I would.
Well, based on the Dispatch linked in the Confederacy General, tha armed forces usually make around 1.2% of the population, right? So that would make my armed forces at around 10-15 million. I will try to have a limited army and instead of MBTs perhaps trade software. How does this sound?
If you saw the whole video you'd see him going past multiple turn offs and then the tyres screaching as he slams into the crowd from afar.
Trading software sounds fine so long as it's kept MT :D
I'll see about getting that a proper rules dispatch up as pretty soon me and the other mods will be codifying what we have. As for right now, we do have rules, they just aren't centrally written down.
https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=26279535
Cesorion
Nice. I'll give it a try. :D
Russkov Soviet, Vista Major, Kalaron, Percyton
Anyone here play Hearts of Iron 4?
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
[spoiler=Today is August 14 and today are:]
Today is August 14 and today are:
- Anniversary Day (Tristan da Cunha)
- Commemoration of Wadi al-Dahab (Morocco)
- Day of the Defenders of the Fatherland (Abkhazia)
- Engineer's Day (Dominican Republic)
- Falklands Day (Falkland Islands)
- Heroes' Day (Zimbabwe)
- Independence Day (Pakistan)
- Janmashtami (Hinduism)
- Lotu (Samoa)
- National Creamsicle Day (United States)
- National V-J Day (United States)
- Pramuka Day (Indonesia)
- Social Security Day
- Victory Day (Rhode Island, USA)
- Vigil of Assumption Day (Holy See/Vatican City)
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- 29 BC Octavian holds the second of three consecutive triumphs in Rome to celebrate the victory over the Dalmatian tribes.
- 1040 King Duncan I is killed in battle against his first cousin and rival Macbeth. The latter succeeds him as King of Scotland.
- 1183 Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures and flee to western Japan to escape pursuit by the Minamoto clan (traditional Japanese date: Twenty-fifth Day of the Seventh Month of the Second Year of Juei).
- 1288 Count Adolf VIII of Berg grants town privileges to Düsseldorf, the village on the banks of the Düssel.
- 1352 War of the Breton Succession: Anglo-Bretons defeat the French in the Battle of Mauron.
- 1370 Charles IV, Holy Roman Emperor, grants city privileges to Carlsbad which is subsequently named after him.
- 1385 Portuguese Crisis of 138385: Battle of Aljubarrota: Portuguese forces commanded by King John I and his general Nuno Álvares Pereira defeat the Castilian army of King John I.
- 1480 Battle of Otranto: Ottoman troops behead 800 Christians for refusing to convert to Islam; they are later honored in the Church.
- 1592 The first sighting of the Falkland Islands by John Davis - Falklands Day
- 1598 Nine Years' War: Battle of the Yellow Ford: Irish forces under Hugh O'Neill, Earl of Tyrone, defeats an English expeditionary force under Henry Bagenal.
- 1720 The Spanish military Villasur expedition is wiped out by Pawnee and Otoe warriors near present-day Columbus, Nebraska.
- 1814 A cease fire agreement, called the Convention of Moss, ended the SwedishNorwegian War.
- 1816 The United Kingdom formally annexes the Tristan da Cunha archipelago, administering the islands from the Cape Colony in South Africa.
- 1842 American Indian Wars: Second Seminole War ends, with the Seminoles forced from Florida to Oklahoma.
- 1848 Oregon Territory is organized by act of Congress.
- 1880 Construction of Cologne Cathedral, the most famous landmark in Cologne, Germany, is completed.
- 1885 Japan's first patent is issued to the inventor of a rust-proof paint.
- 1888 An audio recording of English composer Arthur Sullivan's "The Lost Chord", one of the first recordings of music ever made, is played during a press conference introducing Thomas Edison's phonograph in London, England.
- 1893 France becomes the first country to introduce motor vehicle registration.
- 1900 The Eight-Nation Alliance occupies Beijing, China, in a campaign to end the bloody Boxer Rebellion in China.
- 1901 The first claimed powered flight, by Gustave Whitehead in his Number 21.
- 1911 United States Senate leaders agree to rotate the office of President pro tempore of the Senate among leading candidates to fill the vacancy left by William P. Frye's death.
- 1912 U.S. Marines invade Nicaragua to support the U.S.-backed government installed there after José Santos Zelaya had resigned three years earlier.
- 1914 World War I: Start of the Battle of Lorraine, an unsuccessful French offensive designed to recover the lost province of Moselle from Germany.
- 1916 Romania declares war on Austria-Hungary.
- 1921 Tannu Uriankhai, later Tuvan People's Republic is established as a completely independent country (which is supported by Soviet Russia).
- 1933 Loggers cause a forest fire in the Coast Range of Oregon, later known as the first forest fire of the Tillamook Burn; it is not fully extinguished until September 5, after destroying 240,000 acres (970 km2).
- 1935 Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Social Security Act, creating a government pension system for the retired.
- 1936 Rainey Bethea is hanged in Owensboro, Kentucky in the last known public execution in the United States.
- 1937 The beginning of air-to-air combat of the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II in general, when six Japanese bombers are shot down by Chinese fighters while raiding Chinese air bases.
- 1941 World War II: Winston Churchill and Franklin D. Roosevelt sign the Atlantic Charter of war stating postwar aims.
- 1945 Japan accepts the Allied terms of surrender in World War II and the Emperor records the Imperial Rescript on Surrender (August 15 in Japan Standard Time).
- 1945 The Viet Minh launches August Revolution amid the political confusion and power vacuum engulfing Vietnam.
- 1947 Pakistan gains Independence from the British Empire and joins the Commonwealth of Nations.
- 1959 Founding and first official meeting of the American Football League.
- 1967 UK Marine Broadcasting Offences Act declares participation in offshore pirate radio illegal.
- 1969 Operation Banner: British troops are deployed in Northern Ireland.
- 1971 Bahrain declares independence as the State of Bahrain.
- 1972 An Ilyushin Il-62 airliner crashes near Königs Wusterhausen, East Germany, due to an in-flight fire, killing 156.
- 1973 The Pakistan Constitution of 1973 comes into effect.
- 1975 The Rocky Horror Picture Show, the longest-running release in film history, opens in London.
- 1980 Lech Wałęsa leads strikes at the Gdańsk, Poland shipyards.
- 1994 Ilich Ramírez Sánchez, also known as "Carlos the Jackal", is captured.
- 1996 Greek Cypriot refugee Solomos Solomou is murdered by Turkish forces while trying to climb a flagpole in order to remove a Turkish flag from its mast in the United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus.
- 2003 A widescale power blackout affects the northeast United States and Canada.
- 2005 Helios Airways Flight 522, en route from Larnaca, Cyprus to Prague, Czech Republic via Athens, crashes in the hills near Grammatiko, Greece, killing 121 passengers and crew.
- 2006 Sixty-one schoolgirls killed in Chencholai bombing by Sri Lankan Air Force air strike.
- 2007 The Kahtaniya bombings kills at least 334 people.
- 2013 Egypt declares a state of emergency as security forces kill hundreds of demonstrators supporting former president Mohamed Morsi.
- 2015 The US Embassy in Havana, Cuba re-opens after 54 years of being closed when CubaUnited States relations were broken off.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1688 Frederick William I of Prussia
- 1777 Hans Christian Ørsted, Danish physicist and chemist
- 1867 John Galsworthy, English novelist and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1926 René Goscinny, French author and illustrator
- 1933 Richard R. Ernst, Swiss chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1945 Wim Wenders, German director, producer, and screenwriter
- 1945 Steve Martin, American actor, comedian, musician, producer, and screenwriter
- 1953 James Horner, American composer and conductor
- 1959 Magic Johnson, American basketball player and coach
- 1960 Sarah Brightman, English singer-songwriter and actress
- 1963 Emmanuelle Béart, French actress
- 1966 Halle Berry, American model, actress, and producer, Miss World United States 1986
- 1983 Mila Kunis, Ukrainian-born American actress
- 1987 Tim Tebow, American football and baseball player, television personality and sportscaster
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Quote of the day
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
- Ann Landers -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Percyton, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
I do every now and then. [nation=short]Yukona[/nation] plays it too.
Lex Caledonia, Yukona, Percyton, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth
I just got into it after playing a bunch of EU4, really enjoying it so far.
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
hey, calm down
Jaslandia
Following new legislation in Nuremgard, snap elections are called whenever there's a chance to increase Prime Minister Katja Krupin's majority.
Sounds like Theresa May.
Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia, Cesorion
Katja's going to be losing a lot of majorities then :L
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
Hope not lol she's in charge of a socialist government.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Lex Caledonia
Post self-deleted by Andromitus.
Is that you acting as a citizen or are you constable-ing?
Jaslandia, Kalaron
NO YOU CALM DOWN
South Hyder
I do
Constable. This citizen was becoming unruly, so I decided to step in before things got hairy. You're welcome.
EVERYBODY BE COOL
Penguania And Antarctica
Although a Tory, I cannot say I like that idiot (May).
Nuremgard
OH GOD ITS ALL GOING WRONG
Penguania And Antarctica
You're British? And by the way that's not a good thing to admit to Nurem as, as much as he dislikes oppression he tends to view Tories as "not people" :^]
Nuremgard
ARRGHHHHH GOTTA GET A GRIP
Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona
No, I'm not British, I just agree with Conservatives on many issues.
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=axeldonia/detail=factbook/id=869425
what have I done
Percyton
Why do you have CMYK on one of your flags
CMYK?
I see.
The first flag. It has a CMYK block. Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow. The K means black, but not always.
Oh! It's not that, it's actually a reference. I'll leave it up to you to figure it out, if you care.
During the Tory leadership election, I was willing to give May the benefit of the doubt. I thought she would at least be competent. I did not know then how she'd made such a pig's ear of her tenure as Home Secretary. She is the worst PM the UK has ever had. I never thought I could hate someone more than Cameron but when the Tories scrape the bottom of the barrel, they somehow manage to scrape deeper.
Hello. I'm the region's resident dour Scottish nationalist. Pleased to meet you.
Jaslandia
Tories are the kind of people who, when they arrive at hell's gates, Satan says, "sh!t, not more of them. Tell them I'm not in."
May is indeed one of the worst PMs.
Although I do not exactly agree with your statements, Freedom of speech is held dear. And I don't think Satan treats the that way, if Satan treats them at all. I suppose your support SNP, right?
Jaslandia, Yukona
Aye, I'm an SNP man all the way. At least until/if we get independence.
Right.. Check out the politics of my country (Greece) and give me an opinion.
I don't know much about Greek politics. All I know is the Golden Dawn are rather unsavoury.
Cesorion
Here, we call them Chimpanzees
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Greece
Check out!⬆⬆⬆⬆⬆⬆⬆
Nuremgard
Chimpanzees could be used to describe all politicians really.
Then again, that's insulting to chimps. They're intelligent.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Cesorion
Good point!
Nuremgard
A coup in a neighbouring nation gave Scotland's king the opportunity to declare himself supreme ruler. It is now an absolute monarchy.
Jaslandia, Andromitus
What about Katja??
Katja is fine. She rules Nuremgard, not Scotland. I have 5 nations.
Jaslandia
Ahh. OK then. What about Europarl? Who do you support?
What is Europarl?
European Parliament
I have never voted in any EU Parliament elections. Don't know much about the parties in it.
SNP sides with Greens-European Free Alliance. I support EPP
Fair enough. You're pro-EU then?
Die-hard Pro-EU
Nuremgard, Lex Caledonia
Awesome. I voted to leave the EU but I regret it. I am now passionately pro-EU and hope Scotland re-joins if we become independent.
Jaslandia
Ahh. I see. And if you were in Greece you would vote ( https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_parties_in_Greece )?
Maybe Coalition of the Radical Left or Panhellenic Socialist Movement.
Wel. As a Greek, I can say that P.S.M. is acceptable, but no C.R.L. They destroyed everything, they lied about everything.
Nuremgard
I imagine if you lived in Scotland you'd vote for the Conservatives.
Cesorion
Anthony Eden might be pleased to hear that.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Eden
Nuremgard, Percyton
Yeahh. And here, New Democracy
Do you have an opinion on Scottish independence?
It is too complicated and I'm not Scottish. But there is room for improvement, that's for sure!
Nuremgard
There always is.
What the Greeks need to do is kick the Turk out of Constantinople, take back the righteous lands and establish Byzantium and embrace the Megali Idea.
Cesorion
Make sure to still vote in Parliament.
Isn't Istanbul where Constantinople used to be? Might be a bit of trouble there lol. Although if anything gets rid of that Erdogan twat, I support it.
Jaslandia
Constantinople is, sadly, Istanbul. When the Turkish invaded, raped and pillaged the place they made sure to erase every last bit of Greek culture - not to mention in other areas of the country.
We will get along very well, I think...
Nuremgard
Hmm. I still think the Middle East would have been better off if the Ottoman Empire endured.
Peoples Liberation Republic
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