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Penguania And Antarctica wrote:What?

You're old! Joking. But I did think you were more towards 17ish.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Andromitus wrote:I had the very poor idea of looking that up... ... Not my smartest decision :/

Oh. I feel like a right asshat. I didn't think that was a real thing, and I was just referring to the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Which, had I actually watched, I may have known wasn't about a disease completely based in fiction.

My bad.

Jaslandia, Kalaron

The United Providences Of Perland wrote:You're old! Joking. But I did think you were more towards 17ish.

I am closer to thirty than I am to twenty.

Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Oh. I feel like a right asshat. I didn't think that was a real thing, and I was just referring to the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button. Which, had I actually watched, I may have known wasn't about a disease completely based in fiction.

My bad.

Andromitus wrote:I had the very poor idea of looking that up... ... Not my smartest decision :/

^These responses are wayy better than mine when I looked it up.

Jaslandia, The Union Of Yuktobanian Republics

Friedensreich wrote:I'd rather have something that keeps some sort of semblance of world peace and order than nothing at all.

The UN barely does their job. And I mean it in the worst way possible. They have all the time in the world to condemn Israel but can't do jack about the rights of women and gays in the other Middle Eastern countries, and this is just about the Middle East. The rest of the world has butt loads of problems too.

The Vidnoye, United Continental States

Burning Tree wrote:The UN barely does their job. And I mean it in the worst way possible. They have all the time in the world to condemn Israel but can't do jack about the rights of women and gays in the other Middle Eastern countries, and this is just about the Middle East. The rest of the world has butt loads of problems too.

You're right, we should have condemned Israel's illegal settlements years ago. It took us so long to realize that stealing land from Palestine in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank was wrong. Drat, who'da thunk it?

Nuremgard, The United Providences Of Perland

Friedensreich wrote:^These responses are wayy better than mine when I looked it up.

Should I be scared? What was your reaction??

Jaslandia, The Union Of Yuktobanian Republics

Andromitus wrote:Should I be scared? What was your reaction??

I laughed my ass off. Let's put it that way.

Jaslandia

The United Providences Of Perland wrote:You're old! Joking. But I did think you were more towards 17ish.

Man, I wish I was 17ish again.

Jaslandia, The United Providences Of Perland

Minnesota Dakota wrote:I do not have too much land. And the Dakotas are almost completely empty.

I didn't say you had too much, I just accidentally gave that plot more land than I meant to. It's no fault of yours. Also, you could request a boost in population if you just had that area; I really wouldn't mind.

Flynnvakia wrote:Hi I exist

No worries, I know. Since the Reich and ITF is no more, I don't want to see your demise anymore. We can be friends now :)

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

Kalaron wrote:Never said you didn't, I said -and am saying- that it's far more polite to ask them first, rather than immediately going to the person in power and stating that person "X" should be removed.

Thanks you two :D

TBH, didn't expect to be sick on my birthday, but I sure as hell feel better than on wensday.

Happy birthday, dude.

Jaslandia, Kalaron, Penguania And Antarctica

Baxten wrote:No worries, I know. Since the Reich and ITF is no more, I don't want to see your demise anymore. We can be friends now :)

I KNEWZ IT

Jaslandia, Minnesota Dakota

Baxten wrote:No worries, I know. Since the Reich and ITF is no more, I don't want to see your demise anymore. We can be friends now :)

The royal family can take asylum in Nuremgard if they like.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Vista Major wrote:I KNEWZ IT

Vista...everyone knew that. I wasn't trying to keep it that secretive

Nuremgard wrote:The royal family can take asylum in Nuremgard if they like.

I'm sure the Kaiser and his advisers will head your way. We'll see if they can make it past Baxtonian Airspace

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

Baxten wrote:Vista...everyone knew that. I wasn't trying to keep it that secretive

I'm sure the Kaiser and his advisers will head your way. We'll see if they can make it past Baxtonian Airspace

Nuremgard, Westeros or Valyria. Your choice really.

Jaslandia

Baxten wrote:Vista...everyone knew that. I wasn't trying to keep it that secretive

I'm sure the Kaiser and his advisers will head your way. We'll see if they can make it past Baxtonian Airspace

Wait, who is ruling your country now? Or is it in a state of chaos?

Jaslandia

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Wait, who is ruling your country now? Or is it in a state of chaos?

Dirty republicans are in charge of it right now apparently.

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Friedensreich wrote:You're right, we should have condemned Israel's illegal settlements years ago. It took us so long to realize that stealing land from Palestine in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank was wrong. Drat, who'da thunk it?

Illegal? I doubt it. You can't blame the people if they want to take back their land, even when their government warns them against doing so.

Baxten wrote:Also, you could request a boost in population if you just had that area; I really wouldn't mind.

Oh really? ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Burning Tree wrote:Illegal? I doubt it. You can't blame the people if they want to take back their land, even when their government warns them against doing so.

The West Bank is not Israeli land, so yes, it is illegal.

Jaslandia, Kalaron

Friedensreich wrote:The West Bank is not Israeli land, so yes, it is illegal.

I don't know much about the conflict but I'd say from what I know of it, I'm in favour of a 2-state solution.

Jaslandia, Kalaron

Baxten wrote:Vista...everyone knew that. I wasn't trying to keep it that secretive

That gives me more reason to shout

Burning Tree wrote:Illegal? I doubt it. You can't blame the people if they want to take back their land, even when their government warns them against doing so.

So the government instead sets up illegal security points up around these people, allocating land and houses from the Palestinians to these Colonists while recognizing the blatant illegality of such an action? While also understanding that it's gonna place more of the populace -both within those outposts and inside the nation proper- in danger due to a higher turn over rate on Hamas's radicalisation efforts since you're literally taking land from people who've lived there for generations.

I'll blame both sides to my heart's content, tbh, since Israel is a bully to the Palestinians with a justification of "some of them bit me that one time" and Palestine is headed by a bunch of arses who use Israel's bullying to get common people to practically leap to their death. The leadership in both nations are honestly parasites leeching off each other, and that is a horrifying thing.

Nuremgard wrote:Happy birthday, dude.

Thanks Nur :D

Nuremgard, Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, United Continental States

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Nuremgard wrote:I don't know much about the conflict but I'd say from what I know of it, I'm in favour of a 2-state solution.

Personally, I'd prefer a secular Palestine (talking about the PLO who has no religious context for their reasoning, not Hamas in the Gaza Strip) over an excessively Zionist Israel.

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Wait, who is ruling your country now? Or is it in a state of chaos?

Libertarians

Vista Major, United Continental States

Baxten wrote:Libertarians

...

*thinking about war*

Baxten, United Continental States

Post self-deleted by Baxten.

Vista Major wrote:...

*thinking about war*

These Libertarians do have some left leanings though, such as single-payer healthcare, a dedication to diplomacy, a more isolationist and neutral policy when it comes to conflict, and liberty, respect, and freedom to all. So my personal RL views.

Vista Major, United Continental States

Baxten wrote:These Libertarians do have some left leanings though, such as single-payer healthcare, a dedication to diplomacy, a more isolationist and neutral policy when it comes to conflict, and liberty, respect, and freedom to all. So my personal RL views.

...

*calms*

Jaslandia, Baxten, United Continental States

People should post in the RPs we have going

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Yukona

Baxten wrote:These Libertarians do have some left leanings though, such as single-payer healthcare, a dedication to diplomacy, a more isolationist and neutral policy when it comes to conflict, and liberty, respect, and freedom to all. So my personal RL views.

progress....-ish

Vista Major

The Empire Of Handland wrote:People should post in the RPs we have going

Hmm, that's not a terrible idea

Jaslandia, The Empire Of Handland

Baxten wrote:These Libertarians do have some left leanings though, such as single-payer healthcare, a dedication to diplomacy, a more isolationist and neutral policy when it comes to conflict, and liberty, respect, and freedom to all. So my personal RL views.

so basically libertarian socialists or democratic socialists

Vista Major, Yukona

The Royal Republic Of Kumania wrote:so basically libertarian socialists or democratic socialists

Nah. They're barely SocDems.

Vista Major

The Royal Republic Of Kumania wrote:so basically libertarian socialists or democratic socialists

Friedensreich wrote:Nah. They're barely SocDems.

Libertarian socialist wouldn't be too terrible a category.

Vista Major wrote:Hmm, that's not a terrible idea

I keep forgetting that the OSF exists. For RPs in the future that I start, can I use the RMB or something?

Vista Major

Friedensreich wrote:I keep forgetting that the OSF exists. For RPs in the future that I start, can I use the RMB or something?

You could, if you're okay with casual conversation mixing into it.

I would honestly wouldn't be opposed to bringing back NSF RPs, though it doesn't matter too much to me

Vista Major wrote:Libertarian socialist wouldn't be too terrible a category.

I guess it depends on what you define as libertarian. I define libertarian as a way to describe a state with a small central government, which I can't really comprehend with a centrally planned socialist economy. You can't really have a small central government with a planned economy in my opinion.

Vista Major wrote:You could, if you're okay with casual conversation mixing into it.

I would honestly wouldn't be opposed to bringing back NSF RPs, though it doesn't matter too much to me

It happened all the time in TNI. I got used to using the RMB for RP's tbh.

The Union Of Yuktobanian Republics

Friedensreich wrote:I guess it depends on what you define as libertarian. I define libertarian as a way to describe a state with a small central government, which I can't really comprehend with a centrally planned socialist economy. You can't really have a small central government with a planned economy in my opinion.

I feel like it could be a mixed economy. Like obviously if it was a fully socialist economy, the government would be big. But it is possible to only have some things socialized while keeping the rest of things for the free market. So thus the only fat added to the government would be the small socialist things. Like basically just think of it as a smaller dose of socialism, but enough to still consider it to have some socialized stuff.

The Royal Republic Of Kumania wrote:I feel like it could be a mixed economy. Like obviously if it was a fully socialist economy, the government would be big. But it is possible to only have some things socialized while keeping the rest of things for the free market. So thus the only fat added to the government would be the small socialist things. Like basically just think of it as a smaller dose of socialism, but enough to still consider it to have some socialized stuff.

I dunno. Would it be right to call someone socialist- or, at least partially- if they have some socialist elements, like social healthcare, government/collective ownership of the economy, etc.? Would a mixed economy be able to be considered socialist? Because if so, then Libertarian Socialism may be possible.

The Empire Of Handland wrote:People should post in the RPs we have going

Friedensreich wrote:Nah. They're barely SocDems.

I would but...Dr. Sung has 84 different jobs that she juggles before lunch :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty8zaBS4Bjg

Here's a wicked mash-up mixtape of some Beatles tracks...from a parallel universe.

Merlinton, Jaslandia, The Empire Of Handland, Aghrabia

Friedensreich wrote:It happened all the time in TNI. I got used to using the RMB for RP's tbh.

ITs what i Perfer TBH

The Royal Republic Of Kumania wrote:so basically libertarian socialists or democratic socialists

First one, and barely. I love the free market, but I do believe that services like those I stated should be government ran.

Vista Major

Baxten wrote:First one, and barely. I love the free market, but I do believe that services like those I stated should be government ran.

Don't get me wrong, I can be capitalist sometimes. There is no denying that a lot of technological progress in the past three centuries had been achieved because of capitalism. However, socialism has been able to transform places from feudal trashcans to industrial powerhouses in a quarter of a century or less (such as the Soviet Union, ignoring some of the methods that had been used to achieve such progress). Both can create progress, but both have also been able to create travesty as well. Neither is anywhere near okay when left alone. The two need each other to create a balance that keeps each in check.

I'm not sure if I'm a democratic socialist or a libertarian socialist or if the two are practically the same. I've identified as both since I became fiscally leftist, more frequently a democratic socialist recently since that's a term many are familiar with. Basically I favor socializing the necessary services like the stuff we already have like police and military and others while also adding healthcare and education to the list of things that are socialized. I also support regulations to keep Wall Street and the 1% in check, y'know adding some socialism to counteract capitalism gone wrong. I'm socially liberal and support a responsible non-corrupt government that isn't up in our faces all the time and respects the will of the people who put them in power.

Maybe perhaps I am a libertarian socialist, as I'm not completely in support of full-on socialism. And perhaps democratic socialism is just y'know the utopian dream of having a fully socialist economy that is able to stay that way because the people like it and vote to keep it that way who knows. And communism is just another type of socialism under the umbrella of socialist ideologies. Like socialism isn't a single ideology but a group of similar ideologies in which the people/government control the wealth instead of a few elites idk. But anyways like I don't really care about the government getting involved in prices for stuff like homes and other stuff. Having the minimum wage be a living wage is a nice idea, but the only way to do that without causing inflation or job losses is to have a maximum wage.

Thing is, after being a manager at my Whataburger for the past x amount of time, I've grown to believe that a lot of people in fast food don't deserve to be making anywhere near what they're currently making. Don't get me wrong there are a lot of people in minimum wage jobs that work their arses off everyday, but then there's also a lot of people in the same industry who are fehking lazy idiots who don't know how to do anything right and it's baffling how any of them have a job in the first place. I'm not worth only an extra $1.50 an hour more than the laziest person at my store. I don't wanna sound cocky or anything, but honestly I got promotion because I worked harder than anyone else. You can ask my GM those words came straight from his mouth. Of course tho at my store, only the people that wanna be there work full time. So maybe have minimum wage be a living wage only for full time and perhaps forget about part time because maybe we have a situation like my store where if you work hard you will get more hours to work idk.

I've realized I've kinda rambled on but idk it's an interesting topic to think about imo.

Baxten, Vista Major, Iloiada

The Royal Republic Of Kumania wrote:Don't get me wrong, I can be capitalist sometimes. There is no denying that a lot of technological progress in the past three centuries had been achieved because of capitalism. However, socialism has been able to transform places from feudal trashcans to industrial powerhouses in a quarter of a century or less (such as the Soviet Union, ignoring some of the methods that had been used to achieve such progress). Both can create progress, but both have also been able to create travesty as well. Neither is anywhere near okay when left alone. The two need each other to create a balance that keeps each in check.

I'm not sure if I'm a democratic socialist or a libertarian socialist or if the two are practically the same. I've identified as both since I became fiscally leftist, more frequently a democratic socialist recently since that's a term many are familiar with. Basically I favor socializing the necessary services like the stuff we already have like police and military and others while also adding healthcare and education to the list of things that are socialized. I also support regulations to keep Wall Street and the 1% in check, y'know adding some socialism to counteract capitalism gone wrong. I'm socially liberal and support a responsible non-corrupt government that isn't up in our faces all the time and respects the will of the people who put them in power.

Maybe perhaps I am a libertarian socialist, as I'm not completely in support of full-on socialism. And perhaps democratic socialism is just y'know the utopian dream of having a fully socialist economy that is able to stay that way because the people like it and vote to keep it that way who knows. And communism is just another type of socialism under the umbrella of socialist ideologies. Like socialism isn't a single ideology but a group of similar ideologies in which the people/government control the wealth instead of a few elites idk. But anyways like I don't really care about the government getting involved in prices for stuff like homes and other stuff. Having the minimum wage be a living wage is a nice idea, but the only way to do that without causing inflation or job losses is to have a maximum wage.

Thing is, after being a manager at my Whataburger for the past x amount of time, I've grown to believe that a lot of people in fast food don't deserve to be making anywhere near what they're currently making. Don't get me wrong there are a lot of people in minimum wage jobs that work their arses off everyday, but then there's also a lot of people in the same industry who are fehking lazy idiots who don't know how to do anything right and it's baffling how any of them have a job in the first place. I'm not worth only an extra $1.50 an hour more than the laziest person at my store. I don't wanna sound cocky or anything, but honestly I got promotion because I worked harder than anyone else. You can ask my GM those words came straight from his mouth. Of course tho at my store, only the people that wanna be there work full time. So maybe have minimum wage be a living wage only for full time and perhaps forget about part time because maybe we have a situation like my store where if you work hard you will get more hours to work idk.

I've realized I've kinda rambled on but idk it's an interesting topic to think about imo.

You would seem much more a liberal socialist to me

Yukona

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Do I have to do this?

Jaslandia, Vista Major

Minnesota Dakota wrote:Do I have to do this?

Preferably, for my recordkeeping

Minnesota Dakota, Yukona

[spoiler=Today is May 27 and today are:]

Today is May 27 and today are:

- Armed Forces Day (Nicaragua)

- Beginning of Ramadan (Islam)

- Children's Day (Nigeria)

- International Jazz Day

- Jefferson Davis Birthday

- Julia Pierpont Day

- Mother's Day (Bolivia)

- National Cellophane Tape Day (United States)

- National Grape Popsicle Day (United States)

- Navy Day (Japan)

- Slavery Abolition Day (Guadeloupe, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin)

- Sun Screen Day

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[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 927 – Death of Simeon I the Great, the first Bulgarian to be recognized as Emperor.

- 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.

- 1153 – Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.

- 1199 – John is crowned King of England.

- 1644 – Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.

- 1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.

- 1798 – The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.

- 1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.

- 1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.

- 1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.

- 1863 – American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.

- 1874 – The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.

- 1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.

- 1896 – The F4-strength 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 US dollars).

- 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.

- 1907 – Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco.

- 1917 – Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.

- 1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.

- 1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.

- 1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.

- 1933 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.

- 1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"

- 1933 – The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago.

- 1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).

- 1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.

- 1940 – World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.

- 1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".

- 1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.

- 1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.

- 1960 – In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.

- 1962 – The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.

- 1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.

- 1967 – Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.

- 1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.

- 1971 – The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.

- 1971 – Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.

- 1975 – Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.

- 1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.

- 1996 – First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.

- 1997 – The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.

- 1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.

- 2001 – Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.

- 2006 – The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.

- 2016 – Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1794 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist

- 1884 – Max Brod, Czech journalist, author, and composer

- 1894 – Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author

- 1897 – John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1907 – Rachel Carson, American biologist, environmentalist, and author

- 1911 – Vincent Price, American actor

- 1922 – Christopher Lee, English actor and singer

- 1923 – Henry Kissinger, German-American political scientist and politician, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1934 – Harlan Ellison, American author and screenwriter

- 1967 – Kai Pflaume, German television presenter and game show host

- 1971 – Paul Bettany, English actor

- 1975 – Jamie Oliver, English chef and author

- 1990 – Chris Colfer, American actor and singer

- 1990 – Jonas Hector, German football/soccer player

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Quote of the day

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

- Joseph Campbell -

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Jaslandia, Aghrabia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Minnesota Dakota, Percyton

Penguania And Antarctica wrote:[spoiler=Today is May 27 and today are:]

Today is May 27 and today are:

- Armed Forces Day (Nicaragua)

- Beginning of Ramadan (Islam)

- Children's Day (Nigeria)

- International Jazz Day

- Jefferson Davis Birthday

- Julia Pierpont Day

- Mother's Day (Bolivia)

- National Cellophane Tape Day (United States)

- National Grape Popsicle Day (United States)

- Navy Day (Japan)

- Slavery Abolition Day (Guadeloupe, Saint Barthélemy, Saint Martin)

- Sun Screen Day

[/spoiler]

[spoiler=This day in history:]

This day in history:

- 927 – Death of Simeon I the Great, the first Bulgarian to be recognized as Emperor.

- 1120 – Richard III of Capua is anointed as Prince two weeks before his untimely death.

- 1153 – Malcolm IV becomes King of Scotland.

- 1199 – John is crowned King of England.

- 1644 – Manchu regent Dorgon defeats rebel leader Li Zicheng of the Shun dynasty at the Battle of Shanhai Pass, allowing the Manchus to enter and conquer the capital city of Beijing.

- 1703 – Tsar Peter the Great founds the city of Saint Petersburg.

- 1798 – The Battle of Oulart Hill takes place in Wexford, Ireland.

- 1799 – War of the Second Coalition: Austrian forces defeat the French at Winterthur, Switzerland.

- 1813 – War of 1812: In Canada, American forces capture Fort George.

- 1860 – Giuseppe Garibaldi begins his attack on Palermo, Sicily, as part of the Italian unification.

- 1863 – American Civil War: First Assault on the Confederate works at the Siege of Port Hudson.

- 1874 – The first group of Dorsland trekkers under the leadership of Gert Alberts leaves Pretoria.

- 1883 – Alexander III is crowned Tsar of Russia.

- 1896 – The F4-strength 1896 St. Louis–East St. Louis tornado hits in St. Louis, Missouri, and East St. Louis, Illinois, killing at least 255 people and causing $2.9 billion in damage (1997 US dollars).

- 1905 – Russo-Japanese War: The Battle of Tsushima begins.

- 1907 – Bubonic plague breaks out in San Francisco.

- 1917 – Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law, the first comprehensive codification of Catholic canon law in the legal history of the Catholic Church.

- 1919 – The NC-4 aircraft arrives in Lisbon after completing the first transatlantic flight.

- 1927 – The Ford Motor Company ceases manufacture of the Ford Model T and begins to retool plants to make the Ford Model A.

- 1930 – The 1,046 feet (319 m) Chrysler Building in New York City, the tallest man-made structure at the time, opens to the public.

- 1933 – New Deal: The U.S. Federal Securities Act is signed into law requiring the registration of securities with the Federal Trade Commission.

- 1933 – The Walt Disney Company releases the cartoon Three Little Pigs, with its hit song "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?"

- 1933 – The Century of Progress World's Fair opens in Chicago.

- 1935 – New Deal: The Supreme Court of the United States declares the National Industrial Recovery Act to be unconstitutional in A.L.A. Schechter Poultry Corp. v. United States, (295 U.S. 495).

- 1937 – In California, the Golden Gate Bridge opens to pedestrian traffic, creating a vital link between San Francisco and Marin County, California.

- 1940 – World War II: In the Le Paradis massacre, 99 soldiers from a Royal Norfolk Regiment unit are shot after surrendering to German troops; two survive.

- 1941 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt proclaims an "unlimited national emergency".

- 1941 – World War II: The German battleship Bismarck is sunk in the North Atlantic killing almost 2,100 men.

- 1942 – World War II: In Operation Anthropoid, Reinhard Heydrich is fatally wounded in Prague; he dies of his injuries eight days later.

- 1960 – In Turkey, a military coup removes President Celâl Bayar and the rest of the democratic government from office.

- 1962 – The Centralia mine fire is ignited in the town's landfill above a coal mine.

- 1965 – Vietnam War: American warships begin the first bombardment of National Liberation Front targets within South Vietnam.

- 1967 – Australians vote in favor of a constitutional referendum granting the Australian government the power to make laws to benefit Indigenous Australians and to count them in the national census.

- 1967 – The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John F. Kennedy is launched by Jacqueline Kennedy and her daughter Caroline.

- 1971 – The Dahlerau train disaster, the worst railway accident in West Germany, kills 46 people and injures 25 near Wuppertal.

- 1971 – Pakistani forces massacre over 200 civilians, mostly Bengali Hindus, in the Bagbati massacre.

- 1975 – Dibbles Bridge coach crash near Grassington, in North Yorkshire, England, kills 33 – the highest ever death toll in a road accident in the United Kingdom.

- 1980 – The Gwangju Massacre: Airborne and army troops of South Korea retake the city of Gwangju from civil militias, killing at least 207 and possibly many more.

- 1996 – First Chechen War: the Russian President Boris Yeltsin meets with Chechnyan rebels for the first time and negotiates a cease-fire.

- 1997 – The 1997 Central Texas tornado outbreak occurs, spawning multiple tornadoes in Central Texas, including the F5 that killed 27 in Jarrell.

- 1998 – Oklahoma City bombing: Michael Fortier is sentenced to 12 years in prison and fined $200,000 for failing to warn authorities about the terrorist plot.

- 2001 – Members of the Islamist separatist group Abu Sayyaf seize twenty hostages from an affluent island resort on Palawan in the Philippines; the hostage crisis would not be resolved until June 2002.

- 2006 – The 6.4 Mw Yogyakarta earthquake shakes central Java with an MSK intensity of VIII (Damaging), leaving more than 5,700 dead and 37,000 injured.

- 2016 – Barack Obama is the first president of United States to visit Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park and meet Hibakusha.

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[spoiler=Famous Birthdays:]

Famous Birthdays:

- 1794 – Cornelius Vanderbilt, American businessman and philanthropist

- 1884 – Max Brod, Czech journalist, author, and composer

- 1894 – Louis-Ferdinand Céline, French physician and author

- 1897 – John Cockcroft, English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1907 – Rachel Carson, American biologist, environmentalist, and author

- 1911 – Vincent Price, American actor

- 1922 – Christopher Lee, English actor and singer

- 1923 – Henry Kissinger, German-American political scientist and politician, 56th United States Secretary of State, Nobel Prize laureate

- 1934 – Harlan Ellison, American author and screenwriter

- 1967 – Kai Pflaume, German television presenter and game show host

- 1971 – Paul Bettany, English actor

- 1975 – Jamie Oliver, English chef and author

- 1990 – Chris Colfer, American actor and singer

- 1990 – Jonas Hector, German football/soccer player

[/spoiler]

Quote of the day

The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure you seek.

- Joseph Campbell -

Note: Penguania_And_Antarctica assumes no responsibility or guarantee for correctness of any given information. Any recourse to courts of law is excluded.

SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNSCREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEN

Aghrabia, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Percyton

Vista Major wrote:All nations seeking diplomatic relations with Vista Major must complete this application:

https://goo.gl/forms/b9vWUifk7GGpy53u1

Thank you everyone who has completed the form thus far. I am still accepting submissions, and I will get to every applicant as soon as I can review their submissions.

I would like to announce my entrance into the North Naboo Pact in an effort to spread the values of equality, justice, and democracy. I thank Co-President [nation=short]Vista Major[/nation] for allowing me in.

The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona

I was just reading back through the RMB and it was on the topic of [nation=short]Magnatronia[/nation]'s potential exapansion of his plot at the expense of GNA. I dunno if that got resolved since I stopped reading because I'm lazy :^) but we absolutely should be prepared to kick inactive nations off the map in order to preserve the enjoyment and (most importantly) consistency of the overall RP canon. Mag moving would change the lores of all of the big RPers in the Americas and shift the balance of power dramatically in a way that should never happen unless it's through RP. Likewise, by just removing GNA and expanding Mags plot we preserve the canon in that area and improve Mag's enjoyment and all it costs us is a guy who hasn't ever RPed, isn't active in the region and probably doesn't care.

Of course, we shouldn't make a habit of doing this all the time, but we should put active RPing nations first over inactive non-RPing nations on issues of the map in all circumstances.

Merlinton, The Royal Republic Of Kumania, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona, Magnatronia

Just finished a very rough, very incomplete overview of the government. If you want to read, cool. If not, that's OK. Critiques not based on ideology are accepted.

[spoiler]1. Government Setup

The United Provinces is a Parliamentary Democracy ran by the Stadtholder and the Baxtonian Diet. This means that people pick parties to gain a majority in the Parliament, and they make up the government and appoint the Stadtholder, while the minority parties make up the opposition.

2. Economy

The federal government is kept small, spending only about 26% of the GDP, or 378.3 billion dollars, on government expenditures. Spending is sent to the military, which is kept small, healthcare, which is universal for all, welfare, which is restricted to the disabled, elderly and others unable to work, the environment, such as protecting wildlife and national parks, transportation, and paying off national debt. A small amount of funding is also spent on a national police force that replaces all local departments.

Public services, such as fire protection, infrastructure, etc. are ran by local governments. While the government has pensions for its employees, private businesses deal with pensions of their employees as well as employee benefits such as daycare, vacation, maternity and paternity leave, etc. (while it is not forced by law, doing the above is almost necessary to gain a substantial amount of employees and grow as a business in Baxten).

The government makes its income on income taxes, debt repayments, and trade. Income taxes are low, ranging between 1% to 12.1%. Provincial taxes are kept low, as well, with the maximum being in Holland at 19.6%. Baxten, due to its low income taxes and extreme secrecy of banks, is a prime site for offshore banking, which provides another form of taxation for the federal government. Debt repayments can come from other countries or citizens. The government of Baxten is known to be more than willing to give out loans at a reasonable interest, providing for a decent stream of income to the federal government. The Baxtonian government believes in advocating free trade to all nations around the world, and as such, have next to no tariffs, especially for allies. This makes trading with Baxten more appealing, and allows for more income to come in than would with tariffs and quotas imposed.

3. Transparency

The government is made to be as transparent as possible. It is easy to access the intricacies of the budget, bills currently on the floor, salaries of all ministers, and instant access to all government documents and proceedings.

On the other hand, the privacy of citizens is held to the highest standards. Citizens are allowed to keep all information on themselves private, unless it is necessary to know for the safety of others.[/spoiler]

The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Continental Commonwealths, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona, Percyton, United Continental States

Friedensreich wrote:The West Bank is not Israeli land, so yes, it is illegal.

Given that they actually gave it back after they took it during the 6 day war... Yes.

Burning Tree wrote:Given that they actually gave it back after they took it during the 6 day war... Yes.

It was given back to Palestine after the war (UN Res 242), so it is once again Palestinian land. So, the fact that Israel is trying to resettle and force out Palestinians in the West Bank makes the action illegal.

Unfallious wrote:I was just reading back through the RMB and it was on the topic of [nation=short]Magnatronia[/nation]'s potential exapansion of his plot at the expense of GNA. I dunno if that got resolved since I stopped reading because I'm lazy :^) but we absolutely should be prepared to kick inactive nations off the map in order to preserve the enjoyment and (most importantly) consistency of the overall RP canon. Mag moving would change the lores of all of the big RPers in the Americas and shift the balance of power dramatically in a way that should never happen unless it's through RP. Likewise, by just removing GNA and expanding Mags plot we preserve the canon in that area and improve Mag's enjoyment and all it costs us is a guy who hasn't ever RPed, isn't active in the region and probably doesn't care.

Of course, we shouldn't make a habit of doing this all the time, but we should put active RPing nations first over inactive non-RPing nations on issues of the map in all circumstances.

Finally, some common sense

The Royal Republic Of Kumania

Baxten wrote:Just finished a very rough, very incomplete overview of the government. If you want to read, cool. If not, that's OK. Critiques not based on ideology are accepted.

[spoiler]1. Government Setup

The United Provinces is a Parliamentary Democracy ran by the Stadtholder and the Baxtonian Diet. This means that people pick parties to gain a majority in the Parliament, and they make up the government and appoint the Stadtholder, while the minority parties make up the opposition.

2. Economy

The federal government is kept small, spending only about 26% of the GDP, or 378.3 billion dollars, on government expenditures. Spending is sent to the military, which is kept small, healthcare, which is universal for all, welfare, which is restricted to the disabled, elderly and others unable to work, the environment, such as protecting wildlife and national parks, transportation, and paying off national debt. A small amount of funding is also spent on a national police force that replaces all local departments.

Public services, such as fire protection, infrastructure, etc. are ran by local governments. While the government has pensions for its employees, private businesses deal with pensions of their employees as well as employee benefits such as daycare, vacation, maternity and paternity leave, etc. (while it is not forced by law, doing the above is almost necessary to gain a substantial amount of employees and grow as a business in Baxten).

The government makes its income on income taxes, debt repayments, and trade. Income taxes are low, ranging between 1% to 12.1%. Provincial taxes are kept low, as well, with the maximum being in Holland at 19.6%. Baxten, due to its low income taxes and extreme secrecy of banks, is a prime site for offshore banking, which provides another form of taxation for the federal government. Debt repayments can come from other countries or citizens. The government of Baxten is known to be more than willing to give out loans at a reasonable interest, providing for a decent stream of income to the federal government. The Baxtonian government believes in advocating free trade to all nations around the world, and as such, have next to no tariffs, especially for allies. This makes trading with Baxten more appealing, and allows for more income to come in than would with tariffs and quotas imposed.

3. Transparency

The government is made to be as transparent as possible. It is easy to access the intricacies of the budget, bills currently on the floor, salaries of all ministers, and instant access to all government documents and proceedings.

On the other hand, the privacy of citizens is held to the highest standards. Citizens are allowed to keep all information on themselves private, unless it is necessary to know for the safety of others.[/spoiler]

Just a little thing about the economics....

How'd you earn your national debt? Did you run a trade deficit (which, in the words of my international business professor: "Trade deficits don't matter")? Did you borrow from foreign banks or investors? What made you spend more than you had in your treasury?

Burning Tree wrote:Given that they actually gave it back after they took it during the 6 day war... Yes.

So what would happen if I went to Normandy and set up shop there illegally?

We gave the land back to France, after all, after Vichy France stopped being a thing. What if I went to Western Germany and told them "We beat you in a war, this land is mine."

The argument of "Took it in war that one time" really gives nothing like ownership, since giving land back that you just got makes it rather unlikely that any of your citizens really have it "lived in" so to speak.

Baxten wrote:Just finished a very rough, very incomplete overview of the government. If you want to read, cool. If not, that's OK. Critiques not based on ideology are accepted.

[spoiler]1. Government Setup

The United Provinces is a Parliamentary Democracy ran by the Stadtholder and the Baxtonian Diet. This means that people pick parties to gain a majority in the Parliament, and they make up the government and appoint the Stadtholder, while the minority parties make up the opposition.

2. Economy

The federal government is kept small, spending only about 26% of the GDP, or 378.3 billion dollars, on government expenditures. Spending is sent to the military, which is kept small, healthcare, which is universal for all, welfare, which is restricted to the disabled, elderly and others unable to work, the environment, such as protecting wildlife and national parks, transportation, and paying off national debt. A small amount of funding is also spent on a national police force that replaces all local departments.

Public services, such as fire protection, infrastructure, etc. are ran by local governments. While the government has pensions for its employees, private businesses deal with pensions of their employees as well as employee benefits such as daycare, vacation, maternity and paternity leave, etc. (while it is not forced by law, doing the above is almost necessary to gain a substantial amount of employees and grow as a business in Baxten).

The government makes its income on income taxes, debt repayments, and trade. Income taxes are low, ranging between 1% to 12.1%. Provincial taxes are kept low, as well, with the maximum being in Holland at 19.6%. Baxten, due to its low income taxes and extreme secrecy of banks, is a prime site for offshore banking, which provides another form of taxation for the federal government. Debt repayments can come from other countries or citizens. The government of Baxten is known to be more than willing to give out loans at a reasonable interest, providing for a decent stream of income to the federal government. The Baxtonian government believes in advocating free trade to all nations around the world, and as such, have next to no tariffs, especially for allies. This makes trading with Baxten more appealing, and allows for more income to come in than would with tariffs and quotas imposed.

3. Transparency

The government is made to be as transparent as possible. It is easy to access the intricacies of the budget, bills currently on the floor, salaries of all ministers, and instant access to all government documents and proceedings.

On the other hand, the privacy of citizens is held to the highest standards. Citizens are allowed to keep all information on themselves private, unless it is necessary to know for the safety of others.[/spoiler]

God bless you and your use of a spoiler

Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland, Yukona

Unfallious wrote:/snip
Just wondering where we might be on your revisions to your draft constitution. If you want help, you can transfer it to a Google doc and allow for suggested revisions.

Kalaron wrote:So the government instead sets up illegal security points up around these people, allocating land and houses from the Palestinians to these Colonists while recognizing the blatant illegality of such an action? While also understanding that it's gonna place more of the populace -both within those outposts and inside the nation proper- in danger due to a higher turn over rate on Hamas's radicalisation efforts since you're literally taking land from people who've lived there for generations.

I'll blame both sides to my heart's content, tbh, since Israel is a bully to the Palestinians with a justification of "some of them bit me that one time" and Palestine is headed by a bunch of arses who use Israel's bullying to get common people to practically leap to their death. The leadership in both nations are honestly parasites leeching off each other, and that is a horrifying thing.

Thanks Nur :D

If by generations you mean at most 3, then yes. Because at the end of the day, the point remains the same: The Jewish people are the indigenous people of the country we today call Israel. Yes, the Palestinians deserve to live on the land too, not because they're indigenous or because they have any legitimate claim to it, but because when the Jewish people took back their land they were there. Now, I do agree that these settlements are to a large extent illegal, but the Israeli government kept telling its people "Don't go there, don't go there.". In order to better understand the situation as to why people are settling the land there in the first place, you have to go back and look at the 6 day war. The 6 day war occurred in 1967 when Israel was attacked by its neighbors, Israel defended itself and took a large amount of land (Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank and some other land) that was surrounding it. Knowing that the land they took would provoke the surrounding nations even more, Israel gave it back, but by the time it gave it all back, settlers were moving onto the West Bank contrary to the governments instruction. On the other hand we have this "In order to find Israel’s settlements to be a violation of international law, first, Israel must be considered an occupier of foreign territory. Yet, Israel’s legal claim to the territory in question was recognized by the international community on several occasions. First, the land on both sides of the river Jordan were recognized as part of the Jewish National Home by the 1920 San Remo Conference. This was endorsed by the League of Nations (predecessor to the United Nations) in the 1922 League of Nations Mandate to Britain, and affirmed by article 80 of the United Nations charter in 1945. When Israel’s leaders declared sovereignty in all territory relinquished by England on May 15, 1948 (including the territory that anti-Israel people call the “West Bank”) it was recognized as the State of Israel by the General Assembly and Security Council by May 1949.". Now, all of our bickering won't lead us anywhere because there is enough fuel on both sides to burn down everything, so I propose we drop the entire subject all together.

United Continental States

Continental Commonwealths wrote:Just wondering where we might be on your revisions to your draft constitution. If you want help, you can transfer it to a Google doc and allow for suggested revisions.

oh wow, sh!t yeah. Sorry, I entirely forgot what with the run-up to exams and such. I have a week off right now I'll get to it and have something by the end of the weekend hopefully

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

It's official. I'm not doing RP anymore.

Friedensreich wrote:Just a little thing about the economics....

How'd you earn your national debt? Did you run a trade deficit (which, in the words of my international business professor: "Trade deficits don't matter")? Did you borrow from foreign banks or investors? What made you spend more than you had in your treasury?

I haven't quite got that fleshed out yet. This is all a rough draft, but more than likely it'd be a trade deficit thing.

Aghrabia wrote:It's official. I'm not doing RP anymore.

Aww, why?

Jaslandia, Penguania And Antarctica

Andromitus wrote:Aww, why?

Because it doesn't interest me anymore. I haven't posted in yonks. I'm doing NS forum RPs instead.

Here are some reasons.

Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica

Burning Tree wrote:[spoiler]If by generations you mean at most 3, then yes.

Because at the end of the day, the point remains the same: The Jewish people are the indigenous people of the country we today call Israel. Yes, the Palestinians deserve to live on the land too, not because they're indigenous or because they have any legitimate claim to it, but because when the Jewish people took back their land they were there.

Now, I do agree that these settlements are to a large extent illegal, but the Israeli government kept telling its people "Don't go there, don't go there.".

In order to better understand the situation as to why people are settling the land there in the first place, you have to go back and look at the 6 day war. The 6 day war occurred in 1967 when Israel was attacked by its neighbors, Israel defended itself and took a large amount of land (Sinai Peninsula, the West Bank and some other land) that was surrounding it. Knowing that the land they took would provoke the surrounding nations even more, Israel gave it back, but by the time it gave it all back, settlers were moving onto the West Bank contrary to the governments instruction. On the other hand we have this "In order to find Israel’s settlements to be a violation of international law, first, Israel must be considered an occupier of foreign territory. Yet, Israel’s legal claim to the territory in question was recognized by the international community on several occasions.

First, the land on both sides of the river Jordan were recognized as part of the Jewish National Home by the 1920 San Remo Conference. This was endorsed by the League of Nations (predecessor to the United Nations) in the 1922 League of Nations Mandate to Britain, and affirmed by article 80 of the United Nations charter in 1945.

When Israel’s leaders declared sovereignty in all territory relinquished by England on May 15, 1948 (including the territory that anti-Israel people call the “West Bank”) it was recognized as the State of Israel by the General Assembly and Security Council by May 1949.".

Now, all of our bickering won't lead us anywhere because there is enough fuel on both sides to burn down everything, so I propose we drop the entire subject all together.[/spoiler]

[spoiler]<StartRant> I'll be frank with you; Israel does not deserve to be in Palestine, or the Levant in general. Their actions thus far have proven that they're nothing more than bullies that use that pathos-loaded Zionist garbage ideology to further their geopolitical goals. Britain performed a morally wrong and extremely undemocratic act by simply giving Palestine to Zionists with no input from the Palestinians living there. Don't think I don't have a bone to pick with Britain for starting this entire contentious topic.

But bugger it all! The Israel lobby is immensely influential in the US. They'll fùck me sideways if I ever want to even have an inkling of pro-Palestinian opinions in the government. So I'll have to button my lips shut, or else they'll fly around accusations of me being a Nazi, a Hamas sympathizer, all that wonderful garbage, on the campaign trail. So, in the interest of having a living, I've got to be pro-Israel. How wonderful! I've got to silence my opinion in the supposedly "freest country in the world"!</EndRant>

The Six Day War did not start with Israel being attacked. A search on Wikipedia says that Israel attacked Egypt first, after Nasser closed the straits of Tiran to Israeli vessels and moved to defend itself after Israel declared that an act of war. [Side note: can we take note of how quick Israel is to start wars?] So, no, Israel was not defending itself. It attacked first with no reason to do so.

The conclusion of the Six Day War is summarized in UN Security Council Resolution 242:

"(i) Withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict;

(ii) Termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgment of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every State in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force."

Israel did not give back the West Bank, Golan Heights, and the Gaga Strip out of the goodness of its heart. It was commanded to by the UN Security Council. The aforementioned regions, as of May 27th, 2017, are in Palestinian hands. No member of the international community sees the claims in the West Bank during the Six Day War as legitimate. Look above to the international community's mandate for evidence. [/spoiler]

Aghrabia wrote:Because it doesn't interest me anymore. I haven't posted in yonks. I'm doing NS forum RPs instead.

Here are some reasons.

Those reasons are?

The North Naboo Pact [I]officially welcomes The United Providences Of Perland and Baxten into the alliance. We wish them both the best within our organization.[/I]

The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, United Continental States

Vista Major wrote:The North Naboo Pact [I]officially welcomes The United Providences Of Perland and Baxten into the alliance. We wish them both the best within our organization.[/I]

Oh my god we're becoming relevant

Merlinton, The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Vista Major, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, The United Providences Of Perland

Baxten wrote:Oh my god we're becoming relevant

It's blessed grace

Penguania And Antarctica

Baxten wrote:I haven't quite got that fleshed out yet. This is all a rough draft, but more than likely it'd be a trade deficit thing.

I was going to say, owing debts to foreign investors and banks could be a whole new aspect of foreign relations that haven't really been seen in the region.

Jaslandia, Vista Major

Post self-deleted by Baxten.

Vista Major wrote:The North Naboo Pact [I]officially welcomes The United Providences Of Perland and Baxten into the alliance. We wish them both the best within our organization.[/I]

Can I get more information about some of the tenets of this group? The factbook only explains so much.

Vista Major, Penguania And Antarctica

Friedensreich wrote:I was going to say, owing debts to foreign investors and banks could be a whole new aspect of foreign relations that haven't really been seen in the region.

If I had one wish for anything, it'd be to give this region a function economic system for RP. I've tried, but it's difficult and complex to implement a functioning economic system. Also, some of us ([nation=shortnoflag]Unfallious[/nation]) have said no to RPs with economics in it, no questions asked

Jaslandia, Friedensreich

Baxten wrote:If I had one wish for anything, it'd be to give this region a function economic system for RP. I've tried, but it's difficult and complex to implement a functioning economic system. Also, some of us ([nation=shortnoflag]Unfallious[/nation]) have said no to RPs with economics in it, no questions asked

It makes no sense to me how someone is going to RP a nation and avoid the economics that come with it. We don't have to go as far as establish a fully functioning stock exchange with every minute detail possible, but at least some system of economics should be necessary. Otherwise it's all just diplomacy and war.

Jaslandia, Baxten

hey fellas <3

Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica

Friedensreich wrote:It makes no sense to me how someone is going to RP a nation and avoid the economics that come with it. We don't have to go as far as establish a fully functioning stock exchange with every minute detail possible, but at least some system of economics should be necessary. Otherwise it's all just diplomacy and war.

This guy gets it

Jaslandia, Friedensreich

Great, now I'm done a couple of allies. Welp, might as well become a hermit state.

Merlinton, The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Aghrabia, The Vidnoye, Friedensreich

Magnatronia wrote:Great, now I'm done a couple of allies. Welp, might as well become a hermit state.

Prepare to get invaded :P

The Royal Republic Of Kumania

The Conservative Party of Canada is choosing its new leader today, and it looks like it's gonna be my man Mad Max! Supported this guy since he was the severe underdog, so this feels good! Plus, he's anout as libertarian as a Canadian politician can be.

Oelesa, Penguania And Antarctica, Yukona

Continental Commonwealths wrote:The Conservative Party of Canada is choosing its new leader today, and it looks like it's gonna be my man Mad Max! Supported this guy since he was the severe underdog, so this feels good! Plus, he's anout as libertarian as a Canadian politician can be.

Yuck, yuck, yuck. Dirty Cons.

Aghrabia, Friedensreich, Penguania And Antarctica

Friedensreich wrote:Can I get more information about some of the tenets of this group? The factbook only explains so much.

Peace, justice, democracy

Anti-imperialism

Social justice and human rights

Defense and humanitarian aid to allies

Anyone wanna be a Baxtonian vassal. You get, like, free weed and stuff.

Nuremgard, The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia, Andromitus, Penguania And Antarctica, United Continental States

Baxten wrote:Anyone wanna be a Baxtonian vassal. You get, like, free weed and stuff.

Serious note, though, if anyone would be interested in helping me create the Baxtonian Commonwealth (former colonies and nations in my sphere), that'd be cool. And yes, the free weed is still applicable

Jaslandia, Vista Major, United Continental States

Baxten wrote:Anyone wanna be a Baxtonian vassal. You get, like, free weed and stuff.

And submit to a dirty, republican Stadtholder? *spits*

The Royal Republic Of Kumania, Jaslandia

Nuremgard wrote:And submit to a dirty, republican Stadtholder? *spits*

Hey, we have democracy now.

Of course the one time I want Nurem to be democratic, he views my government as illegitimate lol.

Nuremgard, Jaslandia

Baxten wrote:Hey, we have democracy now.

Of course the one time I want Nurem to be democratic, he views my government as illegitimate lol.

I jest. As long as the new government has the support of the people: hard cheese for the royals.

Jaslandia

Baxten wrote:Serious note, though, if anyone would be interested in helping me create the Baxtonian Commonwealth (former colonies and nations in my sphere), that'd be cool. And yes, the free weed is still applicable

Commonwealth sounds like a good idea

Penguania And Antarctica

Vista Major wrote:Commonwealth sounds like a good idea

YOU could join it, saying you were once Baxtonian territory.

Vista Major

Baxten wrote:YOU could join it, saying you were once Baxtonian territory.

I like the concept but I have no nations that could be a former Baxtonian colony or dominion.

Nuremgard wrote:I like the concept but I have no nations that could be a former Baxtonian colony or dominion.

It's fine. You could be an honorary member of the Commonwealth, if you want.

Baxten wrote:It's fine. You could be an honorary member of the Commonwealth, if you want.

That's cool. Would showcase Nuremgard and Baxten's friendship and alliance.

Nuremgard wrote:That's cool. Would showcase Nuremgard and Baxten's friendship and alliance.

Exactly

Baxten wrote:Exactly

We also allow all recreational drugs.

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