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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
Ah.
So how are the Pirate Kingdoms?
al-Qarn, remember? (Eritrea, Djibouti, and Somalia)
Anyways, we're about to hold a referendum tomorrow on modifying the structure of government and finally fixing up some of the more ambiguous parts of the Federal Government: https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32559485&sid=be8f949193b4359128dd8269b79e7fe4#p32559485
There is also talk that candidates may be coming from the military, but not much has come out of it
Jaslandia
I imagine your elections and referendums to be chaotic and corrupt. After all, your country is full of pirates and your political freedoms are widely abused.
Jaslandia
Not my fault, the kyute boys were calling >:^^^))))
No but really not my fault unless y'all were against free stuff I guess :P
And, of course, as a meme.
H a the damage is already done andu.
now
each year
more and more of your children will grow up thinking traps aren't gay
"BECAUSE THE TRUTH IS. THERE IS NO PLOT.
NOTHING IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING EVER. JUST A LOT OF BULLSH!T LIKE THIS. WITH CAKES AND CARDS FLYING EVERY WHICH WAY. AND YOU ARE JUST SITTING THERE.
FROWNING AT IT."
-Caliborn
Alrighty, we'll say 750 MBT-90s as well :D
I'm afraid that Kalaron would hard-reject that IC. Like, they'd drop it like it's hot style.
"So don't change the dizzle, turn it up a little
I got a living room full of fine dime brizzles
Waiting on the Pizzle, the Dizzle and the Shizzle
G's to the bizzack, now ladies here we gizzo
When the pimp's in the crib ma
Drop it like it's hot
Drop it like it's hot
Drop it like it's hot..."
-English Romantic poet, John Keats
...
I am willing to link you to each to let you see how you compare, but that information, naturally, should really remain OOC with absolutely no impact on the IC.
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Jaslandia
My first thought was economic shock therapy, to be honest.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shock_therapy_(economics)
Mike Pence and Steve Bannon are both associated with the top level of the Trump administration.
https://68.media.tumblr.com/dc5adb738aaa5dc4c3955d827557e803/tumblr_mg8o67kcjY1ri9w71o1_400.gif
Go home Kal; you're drunk.
Pirates aren't even relevant (most of them got killed when Int. sent some ships to stop attacks), the Free State (pre-2019 Federal Government) finally captured Isabelle Askar (the leader of the junta that was known as the National Salvation Tribunal, she lost control when she tried to get al-Qarn to become part of the PLR, then led the NST-Unionists in a civil war until PLR collapsed (i.e. left the region) and finally surrendered) due to be put on trial for war crimes, and the next stage of the war is against the Republic of Somaliland in the Northwest Corridor (the Puntland State joined the Free State and is organizing a pincer move along with the Southern Army (the NST-Transition, a former moderate group in the original NST, they contributed to pointing out that the PLR committed war crimes by bombing civilian villages aligned to the NST) in the east)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Fun fact: Mike Pence looks a lot like Cotton Hill :p
https://i.imgur.com/oPBjnbx.jpg
Jaslandia
Your nation sounds very unstable!
Jaslandia
Actually, with the NST fractured, we're becoming more stable than before: the CDB managed to overthrow Isaias Afwerki in Medri Bahri (Eritrea; just as much of a dictator here as he is in real life) and are introducing a democratic government, Puntland (Djibouti) has been purged of agents from the Ardayga Islaamka Maleeshiyaadka (think Buddhist ISIL in the best of terms) and by extension a large source of corruption, and the arrival of the Southern Army may, in fact, bring in a much stronger Somaliland (Somalia regional government, just as broken, if not more so, here as in real life). Also, the elections are the first to be held in 8 years ( the last one followed the 2012 constitutional referendum, with an election being held almost immediately afterwards), and we've become part of the African Ædenist Branch with Tserra, so some more stability there, adding with the Free State having joined the Phoenix Concord.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Andromitus, Kalaron
Well Nuremgard supports the Kingdoms' democratisation and we also hope corruption decreases.
Jaslandia, Kalaron, Pirate Kingdoms
Trump administration officials resembling fictional characters seems to be a pattern. For example, AG Jeff Sessions resembles both the Keebler elf and Dobby from the Harry Potter movies.
https://media0ch-a.akamaihd.net/16/66/67d36a839f908fc410282d96afc0bdd2.jpg
https://media0ch-a.akamaihd.net/19/83/7f317d1013e229dc884f13964064b995.jpg
Nuremgard
"I slept and saw God's forge in frost. Its hearth was quelled, and as it cooled so swooned the verdancy it kept above. In slumber it grew a thick winter skin, white as bedsheets. In their folds the waker dreamt, her breath as steam, her touch as hot as iron, forgotten in the fire.
Oh, that this too too solid flesh would melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew!"
-Acclaimed actor and sleeping prophet, Charles Dutton
I was more than half way through editing another quotation for posting and then I started reading over the actual lines themselves.
It was too inane...even for me.
Jaslandia
Sure. I'll take a link
Valyria is an empire but should its monarch be an empress or a queen? Which sounds better?
Jaslandia
News from Sulania
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32620240#p32620240
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major
Holy sh!t. So many unstable states in this region.
Jaslandia, The Wyoming Peoples Front
In general, I think 'Empress' sounds cooler, but it all depends on the context (how powerful the monarch is, how powerful Valyria is, whether or not the monarch has delusions of grandeur, etc.).
Nuremgard
http://cdn.ebaumsworld.com/mediaFiles/picture/2362229/85391139.gif
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-FF3YYFzuWyc/WH5Q4bo6RII/AAAAAAAACMU/zf3NL5VmQXsj2daaSAGan98x9NG9vsp4gCK4B/s1600/8a6813e28358.gif
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Valyria is an empire which stretches across many nations and peoples on a continent. The monarch is Daenerys Targaryen, Breaker of Chains, Mother of Dragons etc. And she is powerful but she is still competing with the Forum.
Jaslandia
Oi, I'm not unstable.
Jeez, Nurem. You sound like my ex. :P
Vista... Are you supporting Communism?
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major
Dude, you just had to put down a coup. That's the epitome of unstable. :P
Jaslandia, Vista Major
Put down a coup that killed the President.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
http://iiwiki.com/wiki/F-35/86
http://iiwiki.com/wiki/KAH-223
http://iiwiki.com/wiki/FSB-107
Favorite quote I've seen tonight?
"Everybody out of the god damn way. You got a hat full of bomb, a fist full of penis, and a head full of empty. "
Do you want me to beat your Ex?
I will
<<<<<333333
Vista Major
First off, no.
Second off, none of them have ever called me unstable.
Jaslandia, Kalaron
Put down a coup that killed the President, exactly. Unstable.
Jaslandia, Vista Major
Don't judge me.
Jaslandia
Understatement
Sulania is darn near a failed state
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Still more stable than an African state :p (the fact that they managed to actually fight back is one of them)
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Ooh, bitchy.
Vista Major
Valyria: You know what Africa needs? Some stabilising colonialism.
Jaslandia, Tserra
F*CK
THAT
SH*T
LOOK AT WHAT PLR TRIED TO DO
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Not quite, hunty
But close
Yeah but PLR doesn't have dragons.
Jaslandia
We have Kalaronian stealth bombers, military-esque Islamists, and literal psychopaths with flamethrowers and flame-spewing firetrucks with mortars: try to bring some dragons now :p
Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Kalaron
We have dragons AND magic. :P
Jaslandia
Bombed civilians then argued semantics???
:P
Good, if they did I would have had to destroy them <<<333
Jaslandia, Pirate Kingdoms
Not good when you get shot with an incendiary explosive .50 caliber bullet to the head (Raufoss Mk 211)
Jaslandia
Jeez
Vista Major, Percyton
Who pissed in your mouth today :p
Vista Major
Sounds like an Empress to me!
Nuremgard
If you made that joke a couple weeks ago, I would have actually mentioned a guy
But, either way, neither he nor anyone else pissed in my mouth
You can imagine my disappointment
This is hardly the first time Sulania had an uprising
Need we mention East and West Sulania again?
(finally, a reason to use the edit function, gg)
Jaslandia
That was different! It was a rebellion against the Communists!
It's official, I'm off my rocker, lol.
I did a storefront post with some men's fashions and apparently the people living in the WPF all dress like 70s cowboys and pimps, lol
Jaslandia, Percyton
Mine is stable, just crime riddled.
Nuremgard, Jaslandia
Wango ze Tango mofos!
Russkov Soviet, Percyton
Khan! You came! Welcome.
Percyton
Word up brosephus
Andromitus, Percyton
I think I am getting Nevada and Idaho so you and I could maybe do some fun stuff in the west.
Jaslandia, King Khan And The Shrines
Welcome to the region, King Khan and the Shrines! I'm Percy, King of Percyton and the #6 green engine on the Island of Sodor. I hope you like it here!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, King Khan And The Shrines
What about the bear republic? Who rules californ-eye-aye?
Thanks much little blue dude!
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Ahh...King Khan and the Shrines have graced this region with their presence. Welcome brother..to the Confederacy of Free Nations! My name is Aleksander Dimitri Coltsov. I am the current Premier of the Equestrian Empire and Supreme Ruler of Russia. How may this war horse be of service? *neighs*
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, King Khan And The Shrines
Looks like the devout tribes of The Jadentopian Order are in charge of Cali
Happy trails my main man, I could use like some baklava and a chilled vodka and some baluga caviar and a few thousand AKs to black market off to gangs in the western US of A.
Other than that, I'm totally solid my man.
Russkov Soviet, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Have you like met the head cochondo or is he like an absent Abner?
Haven't talked to him/her
Green actually, but you're welcome.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica
I was supposed to come on September 23rd, but I procrastinated and it now is October 3rd.
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Constidor? Is that really you? It's been a while.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Why would anyone but the real Constidor take up the role? Have there been some knockoff Constidors in this region?
Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Wait a minute, it all makes sense now.
None that I'm aware of, but I just wanted to make sure I was thinking of the right person.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Nuova Constidor
Vas?
Percyton
What has happened while I was gone?
Penguania And Antarctica
Hello, Nuova Constidor! I don't remember if we formally met the last time. I'm Percy, King of Percyton and the #6 green engine on the Island of Sodor.
What do you mean?
Penguania And Antarctica
I certainly remember seeing you before, so the introduction isn't needed. I have actually been a part of this community for about two years.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=421225&p=32621116#p32621116
Referendum time and some words on what went down in Sulania
The Wyoming Peoples Front
I was wondering the same thing
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Had a total brain fart today in my tutorial. I made a point and my tutor asked me which left winger would disagree with me. I misheard him as saying right wing and I said Friedrich Hayek, much to the amusement of the class. I quickly corrected myself.
Axeldonia, Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Percyton, Cesorion
Lel, yeah, I hate it when I mishear things. It's worse when someone is in a super-loud place but won't raise their voice.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
Best Speaker Mercy.
Penguania And Antarctica, Mercunova, Yukona, Percyton
I am quite soft spoken yet remarkably good at public speaking so long as I have a microphone
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Confederal States
You're Jadentopia. I thought I recognized you in some way
Second best issue
The Issue
A recent opinion survey carried out by the Leader Fan Club has suggested that you are the most beloved and accomplished head of state in the history of Spanelsko. Theyre suggesting that to celebrate this good news, a brand new public holiday would put the hoi polloi in even greater admiration of your glorious leadership.
Patriots Day! exclaims Louis McCloud, an excitable junior civil servant who carries a picture of you in his wallet, and is always trying to get you to notice him. The national anthem would be played all day long on TV and radio. Thered be carnivals in the streets showcasing our traditional clothes, dance, music and food. It will be fun for the kids too, as they can decorate their bicycles in the national colours of Spanelsko and win prizes for the best decorations. And looking over the festivities, a sixty-foot tall portrait of you, our most beloved leader! ( a bit of a stalin way)
A celebration isnt a bad idea, but youre looking at it from the wrong perspective, offers Army General and author of the book Why Leader Is Our Greatest Strategic Asset, Sabina Sparkle. An Armed Forces Day is what we need. Can you picture it now? A million armed men and women marching in perfect unison through the streets of Spanelsko City, eyes right as they turn heads to salute you. Then, battalions of our newest armoured vehicles, followed by the best part: our biggest missiles on trailers. What a sight to behold! And all the civilians can be forced to be spectators; they wouldnt dare oppose that considering all the guns on show! (totally nazi)
Diego Harris, the top undertaker in Spanelsko, has the final say. I havent had a day off for twenty-five years. I dont need a day off, and all these work-shy layabouts shouldnt have one either. Leader, we dont need another public holiday. In fact, we dont need any public holidays. Get rid of them all; it will be good for the economy. (great slave)
As i see building fourth reich isnt hard at all......
Nuremgard
I chose the Armed Forces day option in my militaristic nation.
Russkov Soviet
Oh no, not National Bolshevism.
Spanelsko
Do you have problem with our ways comrade?
Yes. You are fascists in every way but in your nostalgic view of the Soviet Union.
Friedensreich
And? Oh i see you are a ´´free land´´ (bourgeoisie fascist)
The Issue
After a recent survey discovered that nearly 40% of all citizens in Spanelsko are single, there has been an increasingly loud call for the legalisation of prostitution.
WTF?
What?
You are enemy of Marx!
Of course I am. I am an anarcho-communist.
Not so fast now! interjects daring entrepreneur, Sven Meier. Why dont we just have the prostitution industry run by the government? By letting the government regulate prostitution, Spanelsko can force any patrons to undergo tests for diseases, make prostitutes have regular medical check-ups and pay a portion of their earnings to the government. Of course wed still have to put more policemen on the streets to keep illegal brothels from popping up and make sure the hospitals are equipped to handle the extra workload, but you can always raise taxes to account for that.
Government run prostitution, i know that my nation is fu-cked up but still, this is a genius thing!
Nuova Constidor
Still bourgeoisie in my eyes.....
Why?
Not communist/socialist= bourgeoisie.
So did I xP
Nuremgard
Anarcho-communists are quite obviously communists. Is this how fascists are trying to convert leftists to their vile ideology these days? How sad.
I am not a fascist! (meanwhile looking at painting of Adolf)
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Why does that painting have white stains on it?
Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
I swear i dont know...... (how the fu-ck has he seen that?)
Russkov Soviet, Nuremgard, Penguania And Antarctica
Heya! I'm Andy, MoJ, Mentor, and Moderator here in the CoFN, if you have any questions, feel free to pop up to me :D
Hey Const, how've you been?
If an AnCom is bourgeoisie, then I'm a Primitivist ( ͡°ω ͡°)
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton, Spanelsko
Hmmm, i always knew you were an ape but now i have been proven correct.
Penguania And Antarctica
[spoiler=Today is October 4 and today are:]
Today is October 4 and today are:
- Beginning of World Space Week
- Chuseok (South Korea)
- Cinnamon Roll Day (Sweden)
- Day of Peace and Reconciliation (Mozambique)
- Feast of St Francis of Assisi (some Christian communities)
- Improve Your Office Day
- Independence Day (Lesotho)
- Mid-Autumn Festival (China, Taiwan)
- National Golf Lovers Day (United States)
- National Pumpkin Seed Day (United States)
- National Taco Day (United States)
- National Vodka Day (United States)
- National Walk to School Day (United States)
- Ship in A Bottle Day
- World Animal Day
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[spoiler=This day in history:]
This day in history:
- AD 23 Rebels capture and sack the Chinese capital Chang'an during a peasant rebellion. They kill and decapitate the emperor, Wang Mang, two days later.
- 610 Heraclius arrives by ship from Africa at Constantinople, overthrows Byzantine Emperor Phocas and becomes Emperor.
- 1227 Assassination of Caliph al-Adil.
- 1302 A peace treaty between the Byzantine Empire and the Republic of Venice ends the ByzantineVenetian War (12961302).
- 1363 End of the Battle of Lake Poyang; the Chinese rebel forces of Zhu Yuanzhang defeat that of his rival, Chen Youliang, in one of the largest naval battles in history.
- 1511 Formation of the Holy League of Ferdinand II of Aragon, the Papal States and the Republic of Venice against France.
- 1535 The first complete English-language Bible (the Coverdale Bible) is printed, with translations by William Tyndale and Myles Coverdale.
- 1582 Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian calendar. In Italy, Poland, Portugal, and Spain, October 4 of this year is followed directly by October 15.
- 1597 The first Guale uprising begins against the Spanish missions in Georgia.
- 1636 The Swedish Army defeats the armies of Saxony and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Wittstock.
- 1693 Piedmontese troops are defeated by the French.
- 1777 Battle of Germantown: Troops under George Washington are repelled by British troops under Sir William Howe.
- 1795 Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence by suppressing armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the National Convention.
- 1824 Mexico adopts a new constitution and becomes a federal republic.
- 1830 The Provisional Government of Belgium secedes from the United Kingdom of the Netherlands.
- 1853 The Ottoman Empire declares war on the Russian Empire.
- 1876 Texas A&M University opens as the Agricultural and Mechanical College of Texas, becoming the first public institution of higher education in Texas.
- 1883 First run of the Orient Express.
- 1883 First meeting of the Boys' Brigade in Glasgow, Scotland.
- 1895 The first U.S. Open Men's Golf Championship administered by the United States Golf Association is played at the Newport Country Club in Newport, Rhode Island.
- 1904 IFK Göteborg was founded in Café Olivedal in Gothenburg, Sweden.
- 1917 World War I: The Battle of Broodseinde is fought between the British and German armies in Flanders.
- 1918 An explosion kills more than 100 and destroys the T.A. Gillespie Company Shell Loading Plant in Sayreville, New Jersey.
- 1927 Gutzon Borglum begins sculpting Mount Rushmore.
- 1936 The British Union of Fascists and various anti-fascist organizations violently clash in the Battle of Cable Street.
- 1941 Norman Rockwell's Willie Gillis character debuts on the cover of The Saturday Evening Post.
- 1957 Space Race: Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth.
- 1958 The current constitution of France is adopted.
- 1960 Eastern Air Lines Flight 375, a Lockheed L-188 Electra, crashes after a bird strike on takeoff from Boston's Logan International Airport, killing 62 people (out of 72 onboard).
- 1963 Hurricane Flora kills 6,000 in Cuba and Haiti.
- 1965 Pope Paul VI arrives in New York City, the first Pope to visit the Americas.
- 1966 Basutoland becomes independent from the United Kingdom and is renamed Lesotho.
- 1967 Omar Ali Saifuddien III of Brunei abdicates in favour of his son, Hassanal Bolkiah.
- 1983 Richard Noble sets a new land speed record of 633.468 miles per hour (1,019.468 km/h), driving Thrust2 at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada.
- 1985 The Free Software Foundation is founded in Massachusetts, United States.
- 1991 The Protocol on Environmental Protection to the Antarctic Treaty is opened for signature.
- 1992 The Rome General Peace Accords ends a 16-year civil war in Mozambique.
- 1992 El Al Flight 1862: An El Al Boeing 747-258F crashes into two apartment buildings in Amsterdam, killing 43 including 39 on the ground.
- 1993 Russian Constitutional Crisis: In Moscow, tanks bombard the White House, a government building that housed the Russian parliament, while demonstrators against President Boris Yeltsin rally outside.
- 1997 The second largest cash robbery in U.S. history occurs at the Charlotte, North Carolina office of Loomis, Fargo and Company. A Federal Bureau of Investigation investigation eventually results in 24 convictions and the recovery of approximately 95% of the $17.3 million stolen cash.
- 2001 Siberia Airlines Flight 1812: A Sibir Airlines Tupolev Tu-154 crashes into the Black Sea after being struck by an errant Ukrainian S-200 missile. Seventy-eight people are killed.
- 2003 Maxim restaurant suicide bombing in Haifa, Israel: Twenty-one Israelis, Jews and Arabs, are killed, and 51 others wounded.
- 2004 SpaceShipOne wins Ansari X Prize for private spaceflight, by being the first private craft to fly into space.
- 2006 Wikileaks is launched by Julian Assange.
- 2010 The Ajka plant accident in western Hungary releases about a million cubic metres (35 million cubic feet) of liquid alumina sludge. Nine people are killed and 122 injured, and the Marcal and Danube rivers are severely contaminated.
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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]
Famous Birthdays:
- 1289 Louis X of France
- 1379 Henry III of Castile
- 1515 Lucas Cranach the Younger, German painter
- 1550 Charles IX of Sweden
- 1822 Rutherford B. Hayes, American general, lawyer, and politician, 19th President of the United States
- 1892 Engelbert Dollfuß, Austrian soldier and politician, 14th Federal Chancellor of Austria
- 1895 Buster Keaton, American film actor, director, and producer
- 1916 Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1918 Fukui Ken'ichi, Japanese chemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1923 Charlton Heston, American actor, director and gun rights activist
- 1938 Kurt Wüthrich, Swiss chemist and biophysicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1941 Anne Rice, American author
- 1946 Chuck Hagel, American sergeant and politician, 24th United States Secretary of Defense
- 1946 Susan Sarandon, American actress and activist
- 1956 Christoph Waltz, Austrian-German actor
- 1973 Abyss, American wrestler
- 1988 Derrick Rose, American basketball player
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Quote of the day
Hope is patience with the lamp lit.
- Tertullian -
Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.
Andromitus, Mercunova, Percyton
Small report, INBWU will be building a monument for our founding fathers, in Barcelona, New Leon, Lisbon, and dictatorial islands.
Founding fathers = Adolf and Stalin. (no i am not a nazi!)
Nya? Andu is not Ape, Andu is hairless kitten with Gigantism. Nya.
Penguania And Antarctica, Cesorion, Spanelsko
Nya
A single Nya without context could be taken as a challenge. Rainbow Space Cat Founder would warn mortal of the tone of his Nya's, lest Rainbow Space Cat Founder were to leave the cosmic milkshake, and eat him like Tuna and skittles sandwich. Nya!
Russkov Soviet, Andromitus, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
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