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Region: The Confederacy of Free Nations
The New Constitution could solve that
Post self-deleted by Kalaron.
Jaslandia
Yeah, and introduce a thousand new problems too.
Unfortunately. If we had one, there is a good chance I would have officially written The Cross and Davids Star up. Me and Jas will speak to the new MoJ about it immediately.
Jaslandia
But still, she's the reason why I always have my nukes at the ready, doubt they be able to stop her though.
I mean, strictly speaking, you'll need to reintroduce the law, actually.
The constitution doesn't allow for that to just be made, if we're following our current interpretation.
Jaslandia
Was about to say
I would argue that. Mine is detailed and covers about everything that we need
And Humph's was modular to ensure that things would be mostly fine.
We're still issues.
We're having fun.
Penguania And Antarctica, Percyton
I understand that. And I believe the MoJ should be the one to create the new Constabulary law, so he can craft the program as he sees fit.
Jaslandia
Which is it?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2GXD7Lwzh4
This was fun.
I still remember listening to this for a whole two hours after recording it.
Here's hoping it passes then.
Jaslandia, Vista Major
Both I guess.
Speaking of, I say it's about time we incorporate a nuclear proliferation treaty, or at least have a roll of the nukes everyone has. PS If you're some super small insignificant country you won't have nukes. Not everyone has nukes, and I think the Co-Ops will be deciding who gets what. Of course, this rule would only apply to regional RPs; you can have exo-suits in your private one if you want.
Vista Major
Tariffs are adopted in a mercantile society in an attempt to protect domestic jobs and product. I see them as an effective method of punishing corporations who move operations overseas who would exploit our people and economy in a free trade society. Free trade with poor nations is a disaster for industrialized nations such as the US, as corporations can move jobs overseas to these poor countries and pay workers over there cents a day and then freely sell their product back home. Without a tariff, there is no punishment for what in my opinion is a violation of decency. If trade wars are necessary to help our economy flourish, then so be it. While I have strong socialist views, I am aware that competition is always good to progress society so I'm fine with a little friendly competition.
Globalization is a plague in my opinion. We should have avoided all thoughts about it after the Great Depression, and even more now after the Great Recession. Globalization has made every nation that participates practically economically dependent on one another in some way or another. I'd like to see the world united someday as one people, but I feel like economic unity should wait until later in the future. There's too many dangerous variables that could cause another crisis in a globalized world that is not singularly united.
There is absolutely no reason why the United States needs to participate in globalization, other than world influence, of which I am opposed because attaining influence is purely silly and stupid and a wise nation would not seek to impose itself over others in places of which it knows very little about beforehand. The conflicts the United States are involved with today are a complete result of its illogical attempts at spreading its influence in the past. The United States can function totally fine these days as an isolationist nation. It does not really need to engage in so much foreign trade and globalization. I do not ignore the benefits of trade when trade can bring about progression in science and technology. However, there is no need for the United States to be trading for clothing or food etc from abroad when it has the capability of producing such items at home.
I had briefly had a thought about what if say Apple stopped producing its iPhones in China and had them constructed here. While it is true that the price would go up and potentially cause inflation, it is possible that laws could be imposed on the Apple corporate executives to not try to steal all the riches from the workers who actually put in the hard labor to create the product. Maximum wage is something I have floated inside my head more frequently lately. I currently see maximum wage as one of few options at allowing for the raise of the minimum wage up to a living wage without causing inflation or unemployment.
This is all simply a theory. We could either try this or one of the other options in an attempt to put an end to the weakening of the middle class. Too many hard workers such as myself who currently cannot afford college are being wasted working in low-wage places like fast food. I've worked hard and gotten myself a promotion, but I know I do not want to continue working in that profession five years from now. My personal preference is to either make college tuition-free or bring back the factory jobs.
Vista Major
A proliferation treaty? No thanks ill pass
*applause*
*much applause*
Maybe
Good days
#BANBOMBSNOW
Is it just me or does anyone else think he copy pasted this?
But can my private RP company have both if I can prove that I understand how to make them?
It actually makes me hurt to remember.
Vista Major
Post self-deleted by The Cross And Davids Star.
I think I can help you with that.
Post self-deleted by The Cross And Davids Star.
No thank you, I prefer to actually make this stuff for me to examine and all that.
http://iiwiki.com/wiki/XM-182_KPS
http://iiwiki.com/wiki/F-35/86
http://iiwiki.com/wiki/Ganan-131
It hurts to hear my voice
Oh, you can have them. Really, I'm trying to ICly say that people need to calm it with the nukes; I doubt anyone except the big superpowers have over 100 nukes; it's like the real world.
Now, alrighty, but I will design them and give them all around as gifts that people have to pay for.
You're basically trying to take us back the the 1930s. Those time have long passed, and don't think we'll ever go back to a time of self-sufficiency and isolationism like we had before; globalization in the abstract has provided immense benefits in terms of efficiency, technological advances, productivity, communication, supply chains, etc. Rather than pining for a world that isn't going to happen and would leave many people worse off, you would be better off trying to improve globalization and how it could be improved to help more people and harm fewer people. We can't turn back the clock, and trying to do so is a waste, if you ask me.
We Kumanians are highly scientifically advanced. In addition to starships, we also possess the technology to eradicate radiation, even after a couple nuclear weapons have been detonated. So basically the only damage resulting from nuclear weapons would be the blast. And for a short time the radiation would poison those near it who have no protection against it. But when Kumanian military scientists descend on the scene with this remarkable technology, all remaining radiation ceases to pose any threat. However, while Kumania is a rather peaceful and globally isolationist nation, we will not share this technology with the world as it is a critical tool in asserting Kumanian victory in nuclear warfare. We don't want to resort to warfare of any kind, but it is important to try to maintain some advantage when diplomacy fails, which is why Kumania possesses nuclear weapons and starships.
You kidding? With all of the uranium I bought off of solla ultima, I can make one heck of a nuclear arsenal!
I'll take that as a compliment I guess lol
It takes more than Uranium to make a thermonuclear weapon bro.
Whatever!
Btw,i wasn't just talking about thermonukes either.
I mean, you might as well just be talking Dirty bombs then.
Like, go Thermo or go home seriously.
Tserra
Basically
Tserra
I will admit there has been some benefits of globalization. But in my opinion, especially now, the harms must not be overlooked. Globalization's biggest crime has seen millions of working class people in industrialized nations lose their jobs overseas. And these many of these people are extremely bitter. And this extreme bitterness in about 50,000 people across Wisconsin, Michigan, and Pennsylvania is why a meme like Donald Trump will be sworn in as the 45th POTUS in 12 days.
Jaslandia
:: Eats french toast crunch. ::
Penguania And Antarctica
I'm talking radaition guns, or handheld weapons just spewing out radiation
Y'all (I say y'all because it's more than just you) can't spawn nukes out of oblivion. You have to build those things, which takes a crazy amount of time and fines. Something goes wrong and there's a big radioactive explosion in your plant and it spreads throughout your country.
Tserra
That's just not modern tech. Unless of course it's a horrid prototype that spreads radiation to the user.
My nations already a nuclear wasteland, so I use what I got.
That's what NBC suits are for.
That won't be useful.
Also, we already have radiation weaponry in the form of heat rays, I'm just amping it up
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/NBC_suit
Of course there have been harms to globalization; my point is that it would be more productive to refine and improve globalization, rather than go back to isolationism and throw the baby out with the bath water.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_bomb
If your gun is super useful, you get to sit there for twenty days waiting for tumors to develop.
Sweet jesus, you mean Microwave radiation.
That suit is gonna broil a dude alive, then.
Ars can take less than 24 hours to form
I mean for the main regional RPs. You're free to do whatever with you, Solla, and Per
This is a good site for anyone wanting to know more on nuclear weapons, especially how they're made:
http://www.nuclearterror.org/faq.html
And how difficult it really is:
https://www.google.com/amp/amp.livescience.com/5752-hard-nuclear-weapons.html?client=safari
Tserra
Indeed we must fix globalization if we must have it. I like Bernie Sanders idea of only pursuing trade agreements that truly benefit all Americans and not only the top 1% as many of the problems of globalization have been caused by such trade agreements that have only benefited the extremely wealthy while leaving the rest of us behind.
Jaslandia
K, but here's the thing...
You need to wait for the soldier to die first.
Have you considered the development of an RP-Approved MASER weapon system?
I know I have *Smiles and Winks deviously*
Just has to put them out of the fight.
Thank you conviently timed rmb post!
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It won't though.
Like, you actually have to wound them to the point that they won't get up, which won't happen so long as you don't hit them for about half a minute (have fun with those other soldiers who you can't shoot at) and further more that system will weigh enough to require it be mounted on a car, so....
Hell, Microwave radiation isn't even radioactive.
I can understand that. Though, the devil is in the details, and I'm not an economist nor a diplomat; the best I can do is hope the people who are experts can negotiate fair and equitable deals that improve the lives of all Americans, while also not turning the clock too far back on globalization.
That is true, radiation such as near ultraviolet, visible light, infrared, and microwave, are all examples of non-ionizing radiation
Well, fvck me then.
Ow, from back when we could joke about kicking each other and everyone was happy.
Also from back when Vista was a fool.
And more than that, back from when me and Vista had less of a friendship than me and Valt.
^
Post self-deleted by Baxten.
Map claims updated. Still plenty of areas available. Take one while they last (and there's like a hundred; they'll last for a while)
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Percyton
Also added populations; they're relevant for the lore/geopolitics stuff in the future.
Jaslandia, Continental Commonwealths, Percyton
Link?
And I wanna claim New England. Or the American Southwest
Post self-deleted by Baxten.
Its on the WFE. I need a telegram specifying which one you want, or at least a preference.
Post self-deleted by Andromitus.
granted, at a high enough frequency, non-ionizing rays CAN harm people, but in that case, you might as well just build a LaW System [Laser Weapons System]
Hello delicious friends. I am putting this here, because I do not want to take up inbox space over a matter so trivial.
The Judiciary is always willing to arbitrate. If you have a disagreement, argument...etc. with someone, and all involved wish for someone to arbitrate. That is fine. By all means send me a message, I am sure we could work something out.
However, to the parties whom shall not be named, the Judiciary is not interested in hearing court cases over what happens in an RP. No. You cannot sue another citizen because they were mean to you in an RP. As well we will hear no criminal cases for the aforementioned.
In summation, this Judiciary is only interested in legitimate arbitration's, and court cases.
Thank you,
- Tserra, acting in official capacity as Chief Justice
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona, Percyton
>delicious in reference to people
>use of the possessive "arbitration" instead of the plural form
American intelligence at its finest
Is it in any way possible for my nation's population to be increased to 55-65 million? I'm aware that the current population totals are most likely based off of the irl population totals, but for the sake of this being an alternate timeline/universe, I'd see it fitting for some difference from the real.
For example, while Halifax, Nova Scotia irl may only have a couple hundred thousand (if even) residents, in Kumanian rp the population has been a couple million as being Kumania City, the capital city of my nation, has seen many people move to that area over the years since it is the core of power and society in Kumania. Also, the current population numbers wouldn't account for Kumanian citizens currently living on its lunar colony (which after four years could be between 200,000 and 400,000, enough for one or two seats in the Royal Parliament). I had my nation's population being 55 million in 2016, with it continuing to grow, so by 2020, unless a catastrophe occurred that killed half my population, I feel like my population should at least be nearing or surpassed 65 million.
I originally chose the 55 million because at the time the stat for my population on NationStates was 5.5 billion and now that number is 7.5 billion. Of course eastern Canada would be too small an area to comfortably be home to probably more than 100 million people, so I chose to make it around 10% of the NationStates stat.
The following map shall help visualize my argument: http://i.imgur.com/8WG02Gt.png
As you can see, in 2016, rather than being divided into the common six provinces, Kumania had been divided into 15 provinces with these provincial borders sometimes being extremely different than those of the current irl provinces. Kumania also did not control all of eastern Canada. I now control all of eastern Canada by being given all of Quebec. The population distribution in Kumania is fairly similar to that of irl Canada, but there is more than irl in the Maritime provinces and western Ontario.
Also, the current irl highly populated areas of southern Ontario and Quebec are even more populated in Kumanian rp. The Kumanian province of Ontario alone in Kumanian 2016 accounted for 10 million citizens, with over half of them living in Toronto. The Kumanian provinces of Erie, Ontario, and Quebec practically form a megalopolis just as DC, Philly, NYC, and Boston form a megalopolis. Also this doesn't even account for the addition of northern Quebec to my territory, which probably only would maybe add 200-400 thousand people, but still is growth. Sure my nation was involved in a civil war in 2016, but it had calmed down and basically become a minor insurgency by fascist guerrillas in northern Kumania. Unless these insurgents somehow stole nuclear weapons and detonated them in the major population centers of southern Kumania, I doubt there would be any possible explanation for half of my nation's population to disappear.
This is just a suggestion.
Percyton
Just because of the amount of dedication and time you put in to convince me, I'll up your pop.
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Vista Major, Percyton
Ban them at an OOC level otherwise all RPs come down to a Cold War-esque staredown which is refreshing in the short term but not fun when it's every RP.
RPs just aren't fun when everyone has weapons of mass destruction.
Jaslandia, Baxten, Vista Major
Also, first goal in the RP world: Destroy the Mongolian enclave in my territory
Vista Major
My populations the exact population of what Yukonas territory would be in real life, if you need it just pull it straight from the factbook!
For anyone who is waiting for it:
DIP later today.
Sorry.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Senatus Popolusque Mercunovus, Percyton
[nation=short]bearlong[/nation] [nation=short]aldwood[/nation]
Geopolitical lore incoming tonight. I think you guys'll like it.
Jaslandia, Vista Major, Percyton
:P
Also, you guys know what's worst about having a nostalgia kick?
Searching the oldest discord makes you transverse it from newest to oldest, so you get to slide belly first through the terrible just to get to the good stuff.
Ill do that then
Unf, that's not an enclave; that's just some water (Lake Baikal). But I'll change the color of Mongolia to fix the confusion
The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Yukona
Imma take israel if you don't mind DEUS VULT!
Already taken. Find another place
Mother Theresa!
India?
Post self-deleted by The Cross And Davids Star.
You do realize you can only claim one number, yes?
Post self-deleted by The Cross And Davids Star.
Ill just take 27
However, Solla claimed 54, so I think you can narrow it down quite easily.
I know that, ill just take 27, iran
Alright, sounds good. Don't know how you'd know that since I posted it 2 seconds ago, but OK
I'm with him irl
Oh, I see.
Here's hoping you can back it up with development :P
Don't worry, I got the funds
I'm so surprised that no one claimed Iran despite it having most of the worlds oil.
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