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Finished my new (and permanent) national standard. (I'll find a use for the old one)

Jaslandia, Peoples Liberation Republic, Vista Major

Nothing to see here folks!

Heya guys! I'm on my way back from Italy!

Jaslandia, Andromitus, Magnatronia

Russkov Soviet wrote:Finished my new (and permanent) national standard. (I'll find a use for the old one)

Huh! both our countries have a horse dominant culture...

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia

South Hyder wrote:I don't know if you already had a place in mind, but we're doing a cool libertarian thing in the Pacific if you want to claim Cuba or something.

> Cool Libertarian Pacific Thing

>Come to Cuba

[spoiler=Today is July 29 and today are:]

Today is July 29 and today are:

- Constitution Day (Moldova)

- Feast of Lanterns

- International Tiger Day

- National Anthem Day (Romania)

- National Chicken Wing Day(United States)

- National Dance Day (United States)

- National Lasagna Day (United States)

- National Lipstick Day (United States)

- National Thai Language Day (Thailand)

- Ólavsøka or St. Olav's Day (Faroe Islands)

- Olsok (Faroe Islands, Finland, Norway)

- Territory Day (Wallis and Futuna)

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 587 BC – The Neo-Babylonian Empire sacks Jerusalem and destroys the First Temple.

- 238 – The Praetorian Guard storm the palace and capture Pupienus and Balbinus. They are dragged through the streets of Rome and executed. On the same day, Gordian III, age 13, is proclaimed emperor.

- 615 – Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12.

- 904 – Sack of Thessalonica: Saracen raiders under Leo of Tripoli sack Thessaloniki, the Byzantine Empire's second-largest city, after a short siege, and plunder it for a week.

- 923 – Battle of Firenzuola: Lombard forces under King Rudolph II and Adalbert I, margrave of Ivrea, defeat the dethroned Emperor Berengar I of Italy at Firenzuola (Tuscany).

- 1014 – Byzantine–Bulgarian wars: Battle of Kleidion: Byzantine emperor Basil II inflicts a decisive defeat on the Bulgarian army, and his subsequent treatment of 15,000 prisoners reportedly causes Tsar Samuil of Bulgaria to die of a heart attack less than three months later, on October 6.

- 1018 – Count Dirk III defeats an army sent by Emperor Henry II in the Battle of Vlaardingen.

- 1030 – Ladejarl-Fairhair succession wars: Battle of Stiklestad: King Olaf II fights and dies trying to regain his Norwegian throne from the Danes.

- 1148 – The Siege of Damascus ends in a decisive crusader defeat and leads to the disintegration of the Second Crusade.

- 1565 – The widowed Mary, Queen of Scots marries Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley, Duke of Albany, at Holyrood Palace, Edinburgh, Scotland.

- 1567 – James VI is crowned King of Scotland at Stirling.

- 1588 – Anglo-Spanish War: Battle of Gravelines: English naval forces under the command of Lord Charles Howard and Sir Francis Drake defeat the Spanish Armada off the coast of Gravelines, France.

- 1693 – War of the Grand Alliance: Battle of Landen: France wins a Pyrrhic victory over Allied forces in the Netherlands.

- 1775 – Founding of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's Corps: General George Washington appoints William Tudor as Judge Advocate of the Continental Army.

- 1836 – Inauguration of the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, France.

- 1848 – Irish Potato Famine: Tipperary Revolt: In Tipperary, Ireland, then in the United Kingdom, an unsuccessful nationalist revolt against British rule is put down by police.

- 1851 – Annibale de Gasparis discovers asteroid 15 Eunomia.

- 1858 – United States and Japan sign the Harris Treaty.

- 1864 – American Civil War: Confederate spy Belle Boyd is arrested by Union troops and detained at the Old Capitol Prison in Washington, D.C.

- 1899 – The First Hague Convention is signed.

- 1900 – In Italy, King Umberto I of Italy is assassinated by the anarchist Gaetano Bresci.

- 1907 – Sir Robert Baden-Powell sets up the Brownsea Island Scout camp in Poole Harbour on the south coast of England. The camp runs from August 1 to August 9, 1907, and is regarded as the foundation of the Scouting movement.

- 1914 – The Cape Cod Canal opened.

- 1920 – Construction of the Link River Dam begins as part of the Klamath Reclamation Project.

- 1921 – Adolf Hitler becomes leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party.

- 1932 – Great Depression: In Washington, D.C., troops disperse the last of the "Bonus Army" of World War I veterans.

- 1937 – Tōngzhōu Incident: In Tōngzhōu, China, the East Hopei Army attacks Japanese troops and civilians.

- 1945 – The BBC Light Programme radio station is launched for mainstream light entertainment and music.

- 1948 – Olympic Games: The Games of the XIV Olympiad: After a hiatus of 12 years caused by World War II, the first Summer Olympics to be held since the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, open in London.

- 1950 – Korean War: After four days, the No Gun Ri Massacre ends when the US Army 7th Cavalry Regiment is withdrawn.

- 1957 – The International Atomic Energy Agency is established.

- 1958 – U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower signs into law the National Aeronautics and Space Act, which creates the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

- 1959 – First United States Congress elections in Hawaii as a state of the Union.

- 1965 – Vietnam War: The first 4,000 101st Airborne Division paratroopers arrive in Vietnam, landing at Cam Ranh Bay.

- 1967 – Vietnam War: Off the coast of North Vietnam the USS Forrestal catches on fire in the worst U.S. naval disaster since World War II, killing 134.

- 1967 – During the fourth day of celebrating its 400th anniversary, the city of Caracas, Venezuela is shaken by an earthquake, leaving approximately 500 dead.

- 1973 – Greeks vote to abolish the monarchy, beginning the first period of the Metapolitefsi.

- 1973 – During the Dutch Grand Prix driver Roger Williamson was killed in the race, after a suspected tire failure caused the car to pitch into the barriers at high speed.

- 1976 – In New York City, David Berkowitz (a.k.a. the "Son of Sam") kills one person and seriously wounds another in the first of a series of attacks.

- 1980 – Iran adopts a new "holy" flag after the Islamic Revolution.

- 1981 – A worldwide television audience of over 700 million people watch the wedding of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London.

- 1987 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and President of France François Mitterrand sign the agreement to build a tunnel under the English Channel (Eurotunnel).

- 1987 – Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi and President of Sri Lanka J. R. Jayewardene sign the Indo-Sri Lanka Accord on ethnic issues.

- 1993 – The Supreme Court of Israel acquits alleged Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk of all charges and he is set free.

- 1996 – The child protection portion of the Communications Decency Act is struck down by a U.S. federal court as too broad.

- 2005 – Astronomers announce their discovery of the dwarf planet Eris.

- 2010 – An overloaded passenger ferry capsizes on the Kasai River in Bandundu Province, Democratic Republic of the Congo, resulting in at least 80 deaths.

- 2013 – Two passenger trains collide in the Swiss municipality of Granges-près-Marnand near Lausanne injuring 25 people.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1805 – Alexis de Tocqueville, French historian and philosopher

- 1883 – Benito Mussolini, Italian journalist and politician, 27th Prime Minister of Italy

- 1888 – Vladimir K. Zworykin, Russian-American engineer, invented the Iconoscope

- 1889 – Ernst Reuter, German politician, mayor of West Berlin from 1948 to 1953

- 1898 – Isidor Isaac Rabi, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize Laureate

- 1900 – Eyvind Johnson, Swedish novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize Laureate

- 1905 – Dag Hammarskjöld, Swedish economist and diplomat, 2nd Secretary-General of the United Nations, Nobel Prize Laureate

- 1925 – Mikis Theodorakis, Greek composer

- 1927 – Harry Mulisch, Dutch author, poet, and playwright

- 1935 – Peter Schreier, German tenor and conductor

- 1938 – Peter Jennings, Canadian-American journalist and author

- 1957 – Ulrich Tukur, German actor and musician

- 1974 – Josh Radnor, American actor, director, and screenwriter

- 1981 – Fernando Alonso, Spanish race car driver

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Quote of the day

The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer somebody else up.

- Mark Twain -

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, Yukona, Percyton, South Hyder, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth

Andromitus wrote:> Cool Libertarian Pacific Thing

>Come to Cuba

Them there Liberals are invading our control in the Pacific!

Andromitus

Vista Major wrote:*gasp*

CODING ERROR

CODING ERROR ON THE WFE

Huh. I checked, coding looks right so maybe the link just doesn't work anymore?

Margoe wrote:Huh! both our countries have a horse dominant culture...

Speaking of horses, eating horse meat is a-ok in Mesopotamia-Kurdistan. Just don't eat pork because people here see pigs as being filthy, even though they're actually one of nature's cleanest animals.

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- Feast of Lanterns

https://youtu.be/yD_IEqxp-e0

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- 615 – Pakal ascends the throne of Palenque at the age of 12.

https://youtu.be/B84RcosLqV0

Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Oelesa wrote:Huh. I checked, coding looks right so maybe the link just doesn't work anymore?

Nvm. I figured it out.

A mistake in my legislation url made the other urls get messed up.

Jaslandia, Vista Major

Andromitus wrote:> Cool Libertarian Pacific Thing

>Come to Cuba

I thought we were dropping preconceived notions about geographic areas, but I guess not...

sigh

Margoe wrote:Huh! both our countries have a horse dominant culture...

Yes they are....except my people ARE horses.

Well... we're made up of anthro-equines (furries) and humans.

Jaslandia, Percyton

Russkov Soviet wrote:Yes they are....except my people ARE horses.

Well... we're made up of anthro-equines (furries) and humans.

I know "furry" USA grevious insult in R.S but what about the term "chimaera"?

Friedensreich wrote:Them there Liberals are invading our control in the Pacific!

I've stood down everyone from Fasicsts to Imperialists to Totalitarians; a rag-tag group of capitalist Island nations whose combined GDP is but a fraction of my own are of no concern to us

Love you all OOC though 🙃😄

Percyton

Andromitus wrote:I know "furry" USA grevious insult in R.S but what about the term "chimaera"?

It's not as insulting anymore. (Like the term btw)

Jaslandia wrote:https://youtu.be/yD_IEqxp-e0

https://youtu.be/B84RcosLqV0

Always love your YT links :)

Jaslandia, Percyton

Andromitus wrote:I know "furry" USA grevious insult in R.S but what about the term "chimaera"?I've stood down everyone from Fasicsts to Imperialists to Totalitarians; a rag-tag group of capitalist Island nations whose combined GDP is but a fraction of my own are of no concern to us

Love you all OOC though 🙃😄

Love everyone OOC, but even your own economy is a fraction of mine and Yuk's combined economy.....

THE CONFEDERATE PARLIAMENT REMIDERS

A reminder for the region,

Discord Debate at 12:00 PM EST

Amendment to Clarify Changes During Voting(Amendment 002)

After Perland's debate, We will debate

The Mentorship Program Act (Parliament Bill #005)

Vista Major, The United Providences Of Perland

Oelesa wrote:Nvm. I figured it out.

A mistake in my legislation url made the other urls get messed up.

Good man.

Jaslandia, The United Providences Of Perland

I'll be doing a whopping update to my government page after I apply to colleges

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, The United Providences Of Perland

Greetings. I would like to inform you about my somewhat ambitious plan, which I will introduce in the Parliament after the election.

≠====>>https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=861331

Any fields that remain unfilled, will be filled when the bill is submitted to parliament!

Vista Major, Oelesa

Andromitus wrote:I know "furry" USA grevious insult in R.S but what about the term "chimaera"?I've stood down everyone from Fasicsts to Imperialists to Totalitarians; a rag-tag group of capitalist Island nations whose combined GDP is but a fraction of my own are of no concern to us

Love you all OOC though 🙃😄

Friedensreich wrote:Love everyone OOC, but even your own economy is a fraction of mine and Yuk's combined economy.....

That's cute.

Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica

How can 0.1% of my population die of suicide while in police custody if I banned torture?

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Cesorion wrote:Greetings. I would like to inform you about my somewhat ambitious plan, which I will introduce in the Parliament after the election.

≠====>>https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=861331

Any fields that remain unfilled, will be filled when the bill is submitted to parliament!

So now you know which party to vote for transparency.

C&LP

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Nuremgard wrote:How can 0.1% of my population die of suicide while in police custody if I banned torture?

Maybe it's not torture? Maybe those 0.1% just really hate talking to police?

Nuremgard, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:Maybe it's not torture? Maybe those 0.1% just really hate talking to police?

It's a weird quirk. I just wish not so many died in the wilderness. I refuse to destroy my country's environment, however.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Post self-deleted by Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth.

Nuremgard wrote:It's a weird quirk. I just wish not so many died in the wilderness. I refuse to destroy my country's environment, however.

5% of my population dies of scurvy because they insist on using all of the countries' imported citrus fruit as garnish for their gin cocktails rather than actually eating it.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Nuremgard wrote:It's a weird quirk. I just wish not so many died in the wilderness. I refuse to destroy my country's environment, however.

As someone who has a lot of their citizens die in the woods and commit suicide in police custody ( 7.2% and 1.1% respectively), I can relate to your struggles.

Continental Commonwealths wrote:5% of my population dies of scurvy because they insist on using all of the countries' imported citrus fruit as garnish for their gin cocktails rather than actually eating it.

That's one thing I don't have to deal with, thankfully. Maybe if your country wasn't such an anarchist/minarchist state, you could implement a government program telling people how to properly consume citrus fruit? Just a thought.

Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica

Continental Commonwealths wrote:5% of my population dies of scurvy because they insist on using all of the countries' imported citrus fruit as garnish for their gin cocktails rather than actually eating it.

Well NS gets one thing right. The general public is stupid.

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica

Continental Commonwealths https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_CffUwXhQE

Jaslandia

Jaslandia wrote:As someone who has a lot of their citizens die in the woods and commit suicide in police custody ( 7.2% and 1.1% respectively), I can relate to your struggles.

That's one thing I don't have to deal with, thankfully. Maybe if your country wasn't such an anarchist/minarchist state, you could implement a government program telling people how to properly consume citrus fruit? Just a thought.

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, eh?

Jaslandia

Nuremgard wrote:Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, eh?

Indeed. How true.

Jaslandia wrote:As someone who has a lot of their citizens die in the woods and commit suicide in police custody ( 7.2% and 1.1% respectively), I can relate to your struggles.

That's one thing I don't have to deal with, thankfully. Maybe if your country wasn't such an anarchist/minarchist state, you could implement a government program telling people how to properly consume citrus fruit? Just a thought.

As a nation that is constantly at war, more than a tenth of my population dies over seas.

Jaslandia

Friedensreich wrote:As a nation that is constantly at war, more than a tenth of my population dies over seas.

Yukona's very peaceful. It's either simple old age or being lost in our immense wilderness (being we are one of the most sparsely populated countries by people per sq/km in the world). There's also a small percentage of brown bear attacks, mainly due to our reluctance to meddle with nature - we see it simply as our own fault, we live in their territory, therefore it should not be approved or but should be expected.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Friedensreich wrote:As a nation that is constantly at war, more than a tenth of my population dies over seas.

Jaslandia does some occasional intervention overseas, hence why 0.8% of our population die in war.

Nuremgard

Jaslandia wrote:That's one thing I don't have to deal with, thankfully. Maybe if your country wasn't such an anarchist/minarchist state, you could implement a government program telling people how to properly consume citrus fruit? Just a thought.

Given how anti-government the population is, I wouldn't dare try to tell them how to drink their gin. I'm not sure Governors make it through the impeachment process alive in the Continental Commonwealths.

Jaslandia

Jaslandia wrote:Jaslandia does some occasional intervention overseas, hence why 0.8% of our population die in war.

Nuremgard's foreign policy is strictly peaceful and non-interventionist. Our armed forces are for self-defence only.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:Nuremgard's foreign policy is strictly peaceful and non-interventionist. Our armed forces are for self-defence only.

Which is why you're a valued member of HOPE!

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown, eh?

Uneasy is the smokebox that wears the crown, too.

Yukona wrote:Yukona's very peaceful. It's either simple old age or being lost in our immense wilderness (being we are one of the most sparsely populated countries by people per sq/km in the world). There's also a small percentage of brown bear attacks, mainly due to our reluctance to meddle with nature - we see it simply as our own fault, we live in their territory, therefore it should not be approved or but should be expected.

I can relate to that. Old age and getting lost in the wilderness are the top two causes of death in Percyton too. After that is 'Acts of God', which somehow kill nearly 12% of my population. My Driver told me 'Acts of God' refer to natural disasters like lightning and earthquakes, but I still don't know how so many people could die by those things, especially when Percyton doesn't even have a ton of those (We have landslides and lightning, but we aren't very prone to earthquakes or tsunamis). Are Percytonians just jinxed?

Nuremgard wrote:Nuremgard's foreign policy is strictly peaceful and non-interventionist. Our armed forces are for self-defence only.

Same for Percytonian. That's why we're one of the three founders of O-HOPE (which I believe you're also part of).

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Which is why you're a valued member of HOPE!

We only send our men and women abroad unless it's the last resort.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Given how anti-government the population is, I wouldn't dare try to tell them how to drink their gin. I'm not sure Governors make it through the impeachment process alive in the Continental Commonwealths.

Reverse psychology, perhaps? Tell the people to never eat citrus fruit and how it's terrible for their health, so the populace eats more fruit out of spite. Bam! Scurvy solved!

Percyton

Friedensreich wrote:As a nation that is constantly at war, more than a tenth of my population dies over seas.

Jaslandia wrote:Jaslandia does some occasional intervention overseas, hence why 0.8% of our population die in war.

Yukona wrote:Yukona's very peaceful. It's either simple old age or being lost in our immense wilderness (being we are one of the most sparsely populated countries by people per sq/km in the world). There's also a small percentage of brown bear attacks, mainly due to our reluctance to meddle with nature - we see it simply as our own fault, we live in their territory, therefore it should not be approved or but should be expected.

Nuremgard wrote:Nuremgard's foreign policy is strictly peaceful and non-interventionist. Our armed forces are for self-defence only.

Given a few recent conflicts of ours (due to the terror attacks I posted earlier) our current losses are roughly... (All losses as of today)

Russo-Sino Conflict {Caused by Chinese Nationalist attacks} : 23,000 dead / 194,000 wounded

Equestrian Civil War {Caused by political uprising}: 130,000 dead / 560,000 wounded

And

The Congo Conflict {Caused by rebel attacks}: 4,680 dead / 12,000 wounded

Our numbers are both civilian and military due to compulsory service. Our top brass already expects heavy losses and fighting even as we eventually move back into Russia.

Jaslandia, Percyton

Russkov Soviet wrote:Given a few recent conflicts of ours (due to the terror attacks I posted earlier) our current losses are roughly... (All losses as of today)

Russo-Sino Conflict {Caused by Chinese Nationalist attacks} : 23,000 dead / 194,000 wounded

Equestrian Civil War {Caused by political uprising}: 130,000 dead / 560,000 wounded

And

The Congo Conflict {Caused by rebel attacks}: 4,680 dead / 12,000 wounded

Our numbers are both civilian and military due to compulsory service. Our top brass already expects heavy losses and fighting even as we eventually move back into Russia.

Awful figures. We hope the conflicts end soon.

Jaslandia, Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:Awful figures. We hope the conflicts end soon.

The Russo-Sino Conflict is nearing the final stages, as we prepare for Operation: Typhoon. The assault on Beijing, the heart of the Chinese Dragon. As for the other two? One can only pray.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Jaslandia wrote:As someone who has a lot of their citizens die in the woods and commit suicide in police custody ( 7.2% and 1.1% respectively), I can relate to your struggles.

That's one thing I don't have to deal with, thankfully. Maybe if your country wasn't such an anarchist/minarchist state, you could implement a government program telling people how to properly consume citrus fruit? Just a thought.

8.1% lost in the wilderness.

14.5% in war, because according to NS, if you have a large army you have to be constantly fighting.

Jaslandia, Percyton

Nuremgard wrote:Nuremgard's foreign policy is strictly peaceful and non-interventionist. Our armed forces are for self-defence only.

Well, when you are the neighbor to an expanded form of Somalia mixed with Civil War-era Syria and with enough factions to make a Fallout game look tame in comparison, as well as having a single point being only 25 miles of strait, then those deaths are justified.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Peoples Liberation Republic, Tserra

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Well, when you are the neighbor to an expanded form of Somalia mixed with Civil War-era Syria and with enough factions to make a Fallout game look tame in comparison, as well as having a single point being only 25 miles of strait, then those deaths are justified.

^True

Jaslandia, Pirate Kingdoms

The Political Organization Act(Parliment Bill #004) is up for vote.

Onocarcass wrote:8.1% lost in the wilderness.

14.5% in war, because according to NS, if you have a large army you have to be constantly fighting.

41% lost to forced disappearance, 34% lost to cancer and capital punishment, and 11% to heart disease. I don't think we lost any to the wilderness or war tho

Jaslandia, Percyton

Also, I like the reference to MagnaDew Aendy XD! I'll think about joining when I get home in a couple hours.

Jaslandia, Andromitus, Percyton

Magnatronia wrote:41% lost to forced disappearance, 34% lost to cancer and capital punishment, and 11% to heart disease. I don't think we lost any to the wilderness or war tho

Unless an employee wanders into the radlands or whirlpools or simply gets mauled to death by mutants

Jaslandia, Magnatronia, Percyton

Pirate Kingdoms wrote:Unless an employee wanders into the radlands or whirlpools or simply gets mauled to death by mutants

Oh no, that's covered under "accidents" and "exposure", combined 3%

Jaslandia, Pirate Kingdoms, Percyton

People apparently die from gay space rock attacks in Axeldonia. I trusted you, Crystal Gems!

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Axeldonia wrote:People apparently die from gay space rock attacks in Axeldonia. I trusted you, Crystal Gems!

a) Welcome back!

b) wut?

Jaslandia, Axeldonia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Axeldonia wrote:People apparently die from gay space rock attacks in Axeldonia. I trusted you, Crystal Gems!

Pigeon attack here

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Magnatronia wrote:That's cute.

That gets me wondering, how powerful should your economy be? Most sensible nations refuse your services, banned from Panama, and you have frequent hurricanes and radiation storms

Friedensreich wrote:Love everyone OOC, but even your own economy is a fraction of mine and Yuk's combined economy.....

There are two of you and you both have almost double my population; I'd totally say I have triple your Annual GDP

Friedensreich

Continental Commonwealths wrote:a) Welcome back!

b) wut?

It's a reference to a show calmed Steven Universe.

Penguania And Antarctica

Andromitus wrote:That gets me wondering, how powerful should your economy be? Most sensible nations refuse your services, banned from Panama, and you have frequent hurricanes and radiation storms

Efficiency my friend, efficiency.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Andromitus wrote:That gets me wondering, how powerful should your economy be? Most sensible nations refuse your services, banned from Panama, and you have frequent hurricanes and radiation storms

I buy from him. Especially MagnaDew. Loooove MagnaDew! Looove it!

Penguania And Antarctica, Magnatronia

Andromitus wrote:There are two of you and you both have almost double my population; I'd totally say I have triple your Annual GDP

So you claim.... what's your GDP PPP?

Andromitus

Friedensreich wrote:So you claim.... what's your GDP PPP?

I don't know but it's obviously bigger then yours my dude; get rekt

Andromitus wrote:I don't know but it's obviously bigger then yours my dude; get rekt

Brrrrrruh. China stronk

Man, I suck at writing today. So awkward and clunky tbh

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland

Margoe wrote:I'll be doing a whopping update to my government page after I apply to colleges

In the same boat. Good luck

Jaslandia wrote:Maybe it's not torture? Maybe those 0.1% just really hate talking to police?

Then they rent about it on Twitter once they get bail.

Vista Major wrote:Then they rent about it on Twitter once they get bail.

Hard to rant on Twitter when you're dead, let alone getting bail. We are talking about 'suicide in police custody' after all.

Jaslandia wrote:Hard to rant on Twitter when you're dead, let alone getting bail. We are talking about 'suicide in police custody' after all.

I bet Theon Grayjoy could give us some insight

Vista Major wrote:I bet Theon Grayjoy could give us some insight

I'm tellin' ya man, it's not healthy to binge that show!

Vista Major

Please remember we are now in the period of time in which if someone would like to declare their candidacy for the upcoming election, they must telegram this account.

The Confederate Papers wrote:Please remember we are now in the period of time in which if someone would like to declare their candidacy for the upcoming election, they must telegram this account.

Again, I'm really confused as to why the current administration is not serving the July-August term that was originally supposed to be served. Why on Earth would we have a two week administration?!

Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Cesorion

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Again, I'm really confused as to why the current administration is not serving the July-August term that was originally supposed to be served. Why on Earth would we have a two week administration?!

Vista said something about this one being temporary...Anyway, who will handle the elections??

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Again, I'm really confused as to why the current administration is not serving the July-August term that was originally supposed to be served. Why on Earth would we have a two week administration?!

Wait what?w

Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Sulania wrote:Wait what?w

Yeap. Candidacy Period has began!

Yukona

Cesorion wrote:Yeap. Candidacy Period has began!

The current administration just started. We don't have an election for another month and 3 weeks.

Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Cesorion wrote:Yeap. Candidacy Period has began!

Elections are supposed to be in intervalls of 2 month. Either was in coma and missed two months or something is wrong. Who told you that elections are held ?

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Yukona

Cesorion wrote:Vista said something about this one being temporary...Anyway, who will handle the elections??

Tho I read the constitution. It states the following

ARTICLE 8 - ELECTION PROCEDURE

I. Democratic elections are eligible to be voted in by all registered citizens. Positions that are democratically elected are the Chancellor, the Cabinet, the Supreme Court Justices and the Speaker. Elections are to be held on the 1-4th of the month at the ending of an office's term. This election cycle shall not be amended in cases when an election has been delayed.

II. The Chancellor is responsible for recording the candidates for each position in the prelude to an election.

[...]

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Yukona, Freetownshire

South Hyder wrote:

I'm tellin' ya man, it's not healthy to binge that show!

I have a death wish, thank you

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

Tho I read the constitution. It states the following

ARTICLE 8 - ELECTION PROCEDURE

I. Democratic elections are eligible to be voted in by all registered citizens. Positions that are democratically elected are the Chancellor, the Cabinet, the Supreme Court Justices and the Speaker. Elections are to be held on the 1-4th of the month at the ending of an office's term. This election cycle shall not be amended in cases when an election has been delayed.

II. The Chancellor is responsible for recording the candidates for each position in the prelude to an election.

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You're not wrong

Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica

[spoiler=Today is July 30 and today are:]

Today is July 30 and today are:

- Día del Amigo (Paraguay)

- Father's Day (Dominican Republic)

- Feast of the Throne (Morocco)

- Independence Day (Vanuatu)

- International Day of Friendship

- Martyrs Day (South Sudan)

- National Cheesecake Day (United States)

- National Father-in-Law Day (United States)

- National Whistleblower Day (United States)

- Navy Day (Ukraine)

- Reek Sunday (Ireland)

- World Day against Trafficking in Persons

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 762 – Baghdad is founded.

- 1419 – First Defenestration of Prague: A crowd of radical Hussites kill seven members of the Prague city council.

- 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Guanaja in the Bay Islands off the coast of Honduras during his fourth voyage.

- 1609 – Beaver Wars: At Ticonderoga (now Crown Point, New York), Samuel de Champlain shoots and kills two Iroquois chiefs on behalf of his native allies.

- 1619 – In Jamestown, Virginia, the first representative assembly in the Americas, the House of Burgesses, convenes for the first time.

- 1626 – An earthquake in Naples, Italy, kills about 10,000 people.

- 1635 – Eighty Years' War: The Siege of Schenkenschans begins; Frederick Henry, Prince of Orange, begins the recapture of the strategically important fortress from the Spanish Army.

- 1656 – Swedish forces under the command of King Charles X Gustav defeat the forces of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth at the Battle of Warsaw.

- 1676 – Nathaniel Bacon issues the "Declaration of the People of Virginia", beginning Bacon's Rebellion against the rule of Governor William Berkeley.

- 1729 – Founding of Baltimore, Maryland.

- 1733 – The first Masonic Grand Lodge in the future United States is constituted in Massachusetts.

- 1756 – In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.

- 1811 – Father Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, leader of the Mexican insurgency, is executed by the Spanish in Chihuahua City, Mexico.

- 1825 – Malden Island is discovered by captain George Byron, 7th Baron Byron.

- 1859 – First ascent of Grand Combin, one of the highest summits in the Alps.

- 1863 – American Indian Wars: Representatives of the United States and tribal leaders including Chief Pocatello (of the Shoshone) sign the Treaty of Box Elder.

- 1864 – American Civil War: Battle of the Crater: Union forces attempt to break Confederate lines at Petersburg, Virginia by exploding a large bomb under their trenches.

- 1865 – The steamboat Brother Jonathan sinks off the coast of Crescent City, California, killing 225 passengers, the deadliest shipwreck on the Pacific Coast of the U.S. at the time.

- 1866 – Armed Confederate veterans in New Orleans riot against a meeting of Radical Republicans, killing 48 people and injuring another 100.

- 1871 – The Staten Island Ferry Westfield's boiler explodes, killing over 85 people.

- 1912 – Japan's Emperor Meiji dies and is succeeded by his son Yoshihito, who is now known as the Emperor Taishō.

- 1930 – In Montevideo, Uruguay wins the first FIFA World Cup.

- 1932 – Premiere of Walt Disney's Flowers and Trees, the first cartoon short to use Technicolor and the first Academy Award winning cartoon short.

- 1945 – World War II: Japanese submarine I-58 sinks the USS Indianapolis, killing 883 seamen. Most die during the following four days, until an aircraft notices the survivors.

- 1956 – A joint resolution of the U.S. Congress is signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, authorizing In God we trust as the U.S. national motto.

- 1962 – The Trans-Canada Highway, the longest national highway in the world, is officially opened.

- 1965 – U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the Social Security Act of 1965 into law, establishing Medicare and Medicaid.

- 1966 – England defeats West Germany to win the 1966 FIFA World Cup at Wembley Stadium after extra time.

- 1969 – Vietnam War: US President Richard Nixon makes an unscheduled visit to South Vietnam and meets with President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu and U.S. military commanders.

- 1971 – Apollo program: Apollo 15 Mission: David Scott and James Irwin on the Apollo Lunar Module Falcon land on the Moon with the first Lunar Rover.

- 1971 – An All Nippon Airways Boeing 727 and a Japanese Air Force F-86 collide over Morioka, Iwate, Japan killing 162.

- 1974 – Watergate scandal: U.S. President Richard Nixon releases subpoenaed White House recordings after being ordered to do so by the Supreme Court of the United States.

- 1975 – Jimmy Hoffa disappears from the parking lot of the Machus Red Fox restaurant in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, a suburb of Detroit, at about 2:30 p.m. He is never seen or heard from again.

- 1978 – The 730 (transport), Okinawa Prefecture changes its traffic on the right-hand side of the road to the left-hand side.

- 1980 – Vanuatu gains independence.

- 1980 – Israel's Knesset passes the Jerusalem Law

- 1981 – As many as 50,000 demonstrators, mostly women and children, took to the streets in Łódź to protest food ration shortages in Communist Poland.

- 2003 – In Mexico, the last 'old style' Volkswagen Beetle rolls off the assembly line.

- 2006 – The world's longest running music show Top of the Pops is broadcast for the last time on BBC Two. The show had aired for 42 years.

- 2012 – A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.

- 2012 – A power grid failure in Delhi leaves more than 300 million people without power in northern India.

- 2014 – One hundred and fifty people are trapped after a landslide in Maharashtra, India; 20 are killed.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1511 – Giorgio Vasari, Italian painter, historian, and architect

- 1751 – Maria Anna Mozart, Austrian pianist

- 1818 – Emily Brontë, English novelist and poet

- 1863 – Henry Ford, American engineer and businessman, founded the Ford Motor Company

- 1898 – Henry Moore, English sculptor and illustrator

- 1941 – Paul Anka, Canadian singer-songwriter and actor

- 1945 – Patrick Modiano, French novelist and screenwriter, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1947 – Arnold Schwarzenegger, Austrian-American bodybuilder, actor, and politician, 38th Governor of California

- 1947 – Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, French virologist and biologist, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1948 – Jean Reno, Moroccan-French actor

- 1958 – Daley Thompson, English decathlete and trainer

- 1964 – Jürgen Klinsmann, German footballer and manager

- 1970 – Christopher Nolan, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter

- 1974 – Hilary Swank, American actress and producer

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Quote of the day

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.

- Robert Frost -

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Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Vista Major, Andromitus, Oelesa, Kalaron, Percyton, Neo-Icelandic Commonwealth

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Again, I'm really confused as to why the current administration is not serving the July-August term that was originally supposed to be served. Why on Earth would we have a two week administration?!

This is something that should still be happening.

Lavan Tiri

PARLIAMENT REMINDER

Discord Debate at 12:00pm EST today. We will debate - Amendment to Clarify Changes During Voting(Amendment #002)

~Speaker Oelesa

P.S. If Vista manages to come, we will debate his bill as well.

Lavan Tiri, The United Providences Of Perland

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Again, I'm really confused as to why the current administration is not serving the July-August term that was originally supposed to be served. Why on Earth would we have a two week administration?!

I don't think Vis is right. He may have confusion due to the new constitution change and all that, but this tern is the usual length.

Lavan Tiri, Oelesa

Baxten wrote:I don't think Vis is right. He may have confusion due to the new constitution change and all that, but this tern is the usual length.

Hey! I sent you a map request a little bit ago?

Lavan Tiri, Oelesa

Margoe wrote:Hey! I sent you a map request a little bit ago?

I saw. Updating as we speak

Russkov Soviet, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Andromitus, Oelesa, Yukona, Percyton, Margoe

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:Elections are supposed to be in intervalls of 2 month. Either was in coma and missed two months or something is wrong. Who told you that elections are held ?

It was on Vista's TG I think, and it is stated in the Confederate Papers Factbook on the Election. However, I have no problem if we hold the elections in 1 month 3 weeks

Lavan Tiri, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Cesorion wrote:It was on Vista's TG I think, and it is stated in the Confederate Papers Factbook on the Election. However, I have no problem if we hold the elections in 1 month 3 weeks

Things weren't updated right as it seems. We are to finish out August and have an election on September 1-4th. So that way we can start to follow the constitution right.

Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion

Join discord soon if you want to debate.

Lavan Tiri, Kalaron, The United Providences Of Perland

Hey

Baxten wrote:I saw. Updating as we speak

Speaking of updates, Clemodecralia telegramed me awhile back asking if she could be in Russia as well. (#23a). I don't know how to forward telegrams, so you'll have to get in touch with her.

Lavan Tiri, Peoples Liberation Republic, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

The Bureau of Historical Information did something a little bit different. They put out a Factbook about education in Percyton. It's well worth a read; even I learned some new stuff!

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=percyton/detail=factbook/id=861685

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- 2012 – A train fire kills 32 passengers and injures 27 on the Tamil Nadu Express in Andhra Pradesh, India.

An express! How awful! I hope something like that never happen to Gordon and his express.

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica

sometimes I wonder if the last constitution really was that bad or if people just can't read or something I mean come on guys

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

The barber messed up my hair kms

Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica

Unfallious wrote:sometimes I wonder if the last constitution really was that bad or if people just can't read or something I mean come on guys

INB4 Third Constitution of the Confederacy of Free Nations [Tyranny of Kalaron Arms edition!] :P

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:

- 1756 – In Saint Petersburg, Bartolomeo Rastrelli presents the newly built Catherine Palace to Empress Elizabeth and her courtiers.

Nice! I hope to visit Catherine Palace one day. It's one of my favorite palaces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Palace

Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica

Baxten wrote:I saw. Updating as we speak

Thank you Baxten for the Map Update :D I know you may have a lot of stuff goin' on but its nice to see you back in action!

Unfallious wrote:sometimes I wonder if the last constitution really was that bad or if people just can't read or something I mean come on guys

#ThirdConstitution #TheShowMustGoOn!

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona, Percyton

Jaslandia wrote:Nice! I hope to visit Catherine Palace one day. It's one of my favorite palaces.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine_Palace

I've been there! It's very nice, quite a winter wonderland in the snow

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton

Added more to the PLR Economic Bastion City of Doma: https://www.nationstates.net/nation=peoples_liberation_republic/detail=factbook/id=860627

tell me what you think of Doma so far

Lavan Tiri, Oelesa, Percyton

Yukona wrote:I've been there! It's very nice, quite a winter wonderland in the snow

That's cool! I remember you mentioned a few days ago you visited Russia. Did you see any of the other St. Petersburg palaces, like the Winter Palace or Peterhof?

Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica

Jaslandia wrote:That's cool! I remember you mentioned a few days ago you visited Russia. Did you see any of the other St. Petersburg palaces, like the Winter Palace or Peterhof?

I was insatiably hung over for St. Petersburg so I was the most irritable and un-caring person in St. Petersburg whilst I was there :D. But I did go many places, I went to the Winter Palace of course - it was very interesting, and thankfully my basic knowledge of Russian allowed us to ask for directions when we got lost. I went to the Peter and Paul Fortress and played around on the frozen canal outside of it which was pretty cool, I think we drew a massive wang in the snow if I remember correclty. I went to the Smolny Church/Cathedral, which was cool because there was actually a small service in there whilst we visited. We also went to the Nevsky Prospekt, which was cool but I encountered a large ammount of anti-western sentiment from people, and I also got lost on my own this time so was kinda stranded in the middle of a Russian city without knowing where any of my friends were, with loads of shifty people looking at me, was pretty weird.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, Penguania And Antarctica

I've Updated my national animal, Æden Factbook, Overview Factbook, and Government Factbook! wooo!

Jaslandia, Lavan Tiri, The United Providences Of Perland, Percyton

Yukona wrote:I was insatiably hung over for St. Petersburg so I was the most irritable and un-caring person in St. Petersburg whilst I was there :D. But I did go many places, I went to the Winter Palace of course - it was very interesting, and thankfully my basic knowledge of Russian allowed us to ask for directions when we got lost. I went to the Peter and Paul Fortress and played around on the frozen canal outside of it which was pretty cool, I think we drew a massive wang in the snow if I remember correclty. I went to the Smolny Church/Cathedral, which was cool because there was actually a small service in there whilst we visited. We also went to the Nevsky Prospekt, which was cool but I encountered a large ammount of anti-western sentiment from people, and I also got lost on my own this time so was kinda stranded in the middle of a Russian city without knowing where any of my friends were, with loads of shifty people looking at me, was pretty weird.

Very interesting! I'd love to go to St. Petersburg one day and see those same kind of sights. Though hopefully I'll be sober and encounter less anti-Western sentiment while I'm there. Did you encounter similar anti-Western sentiment in other parts of Russia, or was it just Nevsky Prospekt?

Nuremgard, Lavan Tiri, Yukona

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