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Bruh i just allowed dr*gs to be put in soda and my pizza industry went up by 900%
Chong qing, Neurodiversity, Uwuguaya, and Cooee
gotta have spiked soda with pizza...
Chong qing and Uwuguaya
potheads:
Chong qing and Uwuguaya
And here I was joking(in my head) Estebere would be added to the end and that part could be pronounced AIR-a(And then there would be more letters)
Haha nice! We got that here in Furraria, too! :D
Edit: We allow Euthanasia within limits to be exact, mostly the option when undergoing severe health problems that would make life miserable for the person.
Cheesy Tots, Typica, and Avatar Webby
"saltwater humpback Crow"
That's not how Crows work
Cheesy Tots, Chong qing, and Cooee
welcome to space, just be wary of the giant meteors.
Cheesy Tots, Typica, Avatar Webby, Tiralta, and 2 othersChong qing, and Furraria
I accidentally abolished my space program the other day so I think I’m defenseless in the coming war with the giant space rocks.
Cheesy Tots, Typica, Tiralta, and Chong qing
Good day all! I am pleased to share with you the results of the Factbook Writing Competition's voting!
All hail the Golden Plume, its beauty and grace is imparted to those who wish to share their creative works!
- Factbook Writing Competition
Refugi,
Are your creative juices being stifled by the oppressive forces of an unjust universe? Do you have a literary song in your heart that can only be accompanied by 48,000 characters of pseudo html decorators? Excellent news, the barriers of space and time are bending to accommodate the holy union of these two things.
Introducing our first ever factbook writing competition, sneakily called the Factbook Writing Competition. Now through the end of the month, come up with your best ideas for a factbook, something brand new and not written before, but which showcases something that you or your nation cares about. The writing must be original to you, but it can be on any topic you desire. Your nation, your leader, nearby planets, magic systems, and animal, abstract concepts, absolutely anything you like.
Just find something cool that you care about, turn it into a presentation that is equally cool and cared about, then present it to the world!
Any Member State who submits a factbook is allowed a eurovision-like vote, where they can vote for other factbooks that have been submitted (excluding their own). When all entries are received, we will run a vote among all entrants of the best factbook.
Some notes on this:
All entrants will receive the Golden Plume event badge
, which will be available on our forum and Dot's upcoming profile feature.The top three voted factbooks will be pinned to the region page for one month.
The highest voted factbook author will get our Discord's main NationStates channel, #ground-floor, renamed after them for one month. eg. #feu-de-glace-hall.
- Where Do I Even Start?
A good question. A lot of people can see the blank area of a dispatch box as being the gateway to the abyss beyond which no waking eye can see. So, if you're having trouble getting started, here are a couple ideas that you're free to pull from:
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Grandpa Ant
Ant at the Refuge Film Festival in 2014
Species | Oecophylla Smaragdina Sapiens |
Born | Last Seed 28, 3E433 |
Nationality | Welsh |
Religion | Order of the Zyqxuwuy |
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Grandpa Ant is a sentient insect that lives within the confines of the Calamity Refuge News system. He has been writing for the CRN editorial board since 2010. His writings have been characterised as "astute" by critics, but often feature information that is common sense or speaks to the level of Ant's senility. Grandpa Ant is inspired by a character of the same name from the 2003 video game
Ant War, by Anarchy Enterprises. Grandpa Ant is of Welsh descent.
Like many other traditional cartoon renditions of characters, Grandpa Ant is displayed wearing the same cloths everyday. Ant's beard, hat, and glasses distinguish him from the rest of his race, as they are unable to grow/obtain such items. Observer of this characteristic note that weaver ants, which Grandpa Ant claims his heritage, are also unable to communicate using English through audio or visual means. However, several residents of the Bronx district of New York City are reported to have spoken with other weaver ants. Psychiatric specialists are currently investigating the validity of these claims.
Ant also carries a 7 iron class golf club that he reports using for every shot in the game. Like Ant himself, the club is an older version of the present day model. Despite its reoccurring appearances, Ant has not been seen using it in the practice of a traditional game of golf and it may be used as make-shift farming equipment.
Grandpa Ant typically presents himself in an amiable manner, aiming to appear as a friend among friends to anyone who would encounter him, whether human, animal, or inanimate object. In times of stress and tension, he will begin speaking at random of topics of no substance whatsoever until the conflict is diffused or the belligerents lose interest and depart from his immediate surroundings.
Grandpa Ant, fourth from left, attending university in the prime of his life.
Grandpa Ant's origins are mysterious and unknowable. He entered this plane of existence long before humanity came into an alert state. Experts estimate this to have occurred sometime before the 1970s. Paying his way though university with appearances in various 8-bit computer games, Grandpa Ant graduated during the Upper Triassic epoch with a master's degree in quantum physics. Following his graduation, he was hired by Ant Farm, LLC as a consultant and made 1.6 million dollars.
In 2010, he made an campaign for US President. Unfortunately, a general election was not scheduled for 2010 and the campaign was suspended.
Following his bid for the presidency, Ant became a philosopher due to his limited abilities and lack of capacity to accomplish anything of substance. In 2010, he took a job with the Calamity Refuge News to write a small opinion column to discuss the goings on of life and the frailties of man.
In January of 2014, Grandpa Ant revealed that he was once a human male, but was magically transformed into a small ant by a witch after an encounter with her son. This transformation retroactively changed his timeline, family relationships, and religious denomination. However, no attempts have been made, either by Ant or concerned bloodmagic scientists, to reverse this situation, for no objections have been made to how things currently are.
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The National Flag, featuring the Hylian Loach, known for frolicking in the nation's lush forests
Capital | Tslonia |
Official Language | Ancient Hylian |
Demonym | Lurean |
Government Style | Tribunal |
Power | Siv |
Judiciary | Almighty Legal Page |
Population | 25 |
Currency | Rupee |
Religion | Hylia, Three Golden Goddesses |
The Sinking Lure (TSL; officially The Serene Republic of The Sinking Lure) is a small, archipelagic nation in the northern Sea of Subculture. Situated between the much larger nations of Zeldafront and ZRPG, The Sinking Lure (TSL) consists of ten islands: three major provincial islands, six territorial islands, and one loosely-connected protectorate. The country's capital, Tslonia (se'loʊːniə; suh-low-nee-a), is located along the southeastern coast of Lanayru Island, and is also the country's largest city. Each province has a regional capital, and each territory has a village or small town that is capable of interfacing with the larger country around it.
The Sinking Lure is notable for its simple architectural style and relative lack of modern technologies. Outside of the major population centres, most Lureans live as farmers, raising crops and wildlife among the idyllic environments the archipelago boasts. The population is peaceful, almost pacifistic, in nature and generally uninterested in the happenings of the world outside of their own borders. As such, the islands have become unofficial nature sanctuaries, with a majority of the forests, lakes, and rivers untouched by the pollution of modern life.
The Separation War consisted of the two major powers within the country coming to a disagreement over policy, and the Wisdom of the time leaving the Citadel and retreating to Nohansen. After eighteen months, the major population centres were simultaneously destroyed and a majority of the population was killed. It is assumed to be the work of high-level forbidden magic, but very few people were left to fight back or investigate the aftermath. During the ensuing chaos, the Courage of the time left the country to work as a politician within the nearby Empire of ZRPG, leaving Power alone with the handful of survivors to find a way to rebuild. Currently, the borders are closed and news from inside the archipelago is almost unheard of in the wider internet.
The Sinking Lure Archipelago map overview, featuring the capital, Tslonia.
Lanayru, the largest of the islands, is the seat of power in The Sinking Lure. The capital city hosts 75% of the country's population, including representatives from the other islands, and is centred around the Citadel, where the Tribunal is housed. The rest of the province consists of prairie in the southwest, which becomes gradually more hilly in the centre of the country, and eventually peaks into the island's lone mountain. The regional capital for Lanayru is Nohansen, a small city among the hills of the northeastern portion of the island.
Eldin is much more mountainous, and is centred around a dormant volcano. The soil is rich, and the few areas where the terrain allows for it are dotted with farmland, while the regional capital, Dunohi, is situated at the lone pass between the northern and southern portions of the country.
Faron, the final province, is a rich and verdant forest. Massive redwood and sequoia trees dot the landscape, and most of the country's wood products come from the lively forestry business on this island. Practicing sustainable woodcutting practices, the people of Faron Province ensure that the forest will remain essentially untouched, while new trees are able to cycle through their own lifespans. The regional capital, Fygores, is a small, shady village along the northwestern coastline, across from Tslonia, and exists mostly as a trading port with the rest of the country.
Ordonia, the protectorate, has a majority of the country's farmland, and is the furthest island to the south, the only one within the temperate zone. Its regional capital is Ordon Village, a trading port on the northern tip of the island.
The territories, Twili, Aris, Peak, Terminae, Naydrae, and Dinraal, dot the spaces around and between the major provinces. Peak, Dinraal, and Naydrae are mountainous and are used primarily for mining metals. Aris is only barely large enough to be classified as an island, but is growing due to the active volcano on the island. It currently has no soil and cannot support crops or life. Twili has a small fishing outpost, being the most removed territory, and is the source of a majority of deep-water seafood in The Sinking Lure. Terminae is overgrown with jungle, and has been abandoned since the original outpost on the island was overrun by predatory wildlife and several dozen Lureans were killed.
The Sinking Lure is traditionally ruled by a Tribunal of mages, one from each province, and a small legislative branch of representatives from each island to petition for local needs. Like all powerful mages in TSL, the Tribunal go by pseudonyms to protect their true names, and operate within various seats. The representative of Eldin inhabits the seat of Power, while the representative of Lanayru holds the seat of Wisdom and the representative of Faron holds the seat of Courage. Each mage ostensibly has equal standing and power within the realm, though traditionally Power and Wisdom have traded off who guides the direction of the group's mandates.
Currently, there is only one remaining member of the Tribunal, Siv (Seat of Power), who held the seat during The Separation War and ensuing destruction. Judicial decisions go through local magistrates, with a high court existing within Tslonia, based off of the Almighty Legal Page, a document that coincided with the founding document of the country, What Have We Learned.
You are also free to discard these examples and come up with your own unique style of factbook. You can take inspiration from older examples, such as Ponderosa's factbook, with an overflowing level of information, or recount some kind of narrative event like UwUsberg's bread referendum. Remember, you can pick any topic that you want to submit to the competition, as long as its substantive content is your own work.
Note: To avoid puppet-flooding, you must be a Member State to submit an entry to the competition.
When you are ready to submit a factbook for the competition, post a link to it in the RMB and tag me, Refuge Isle, so that I will clearly see your entry.
You have from now until December 3rd to submit an entry. At the cut-off, I will message all the entrants for their votes, allowing until all votes are received or five days have passed, and then I will post the table of results.
- Competition Entrants
The following entries were received to this event, and are as follows in the order they were received:
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All participants are entitled to a ranked vote, where each rank corresponds to one point. You may not vote for yourself. Since there are seven entrants, the highest ranked dispatch in a vote will receive six points, and the second will receive five points, and so on. All entrants receive a golden plume badge, the highest three scoring submissions will be pinned to the region page for a month, and the highest overall will have our primary NationStates channel named after their nation for a month's time.
To turn in a vote, simply send a message, either in the RMB or through a telegram to me, which contains an understandable vote. For example:
But you can use any format you can think up as long as I can understand your actual vote. Voting will end after five days, or when all votes are received. After voting ends, a table of votes will be revealed, along with the winning dispatches they yield.
Happy voting!
In the chart to the left, factbook authors are on the side and voters are on the top. Entrants receive a point for submitting, but cannot give themselves additional points.
The votes correspond to the following final scores:
#1 Tiralta, with 37 points
#2 Catiania, with 34 points
#3 Antimai, with 33 points
#4 Feu de Glace, with 30 points
#5 A Million Dreams, with 28 points
#6 Waywards Edge, with 21 points
#7 Fiverdom, with 13 points
I am pleased to announce that this means that Tiralta is the winner of the event, and #ground-floor will henceforth be known as #tiralta-hall. At least for the next month.
The top three dispatches will be pinned to the region's page for a month, and all participants will be given the writing competition badge, forumside and whenever I end up getting the profile command made. Congrats to the winners, and I'm eternally grateful for everyone's participation. I hope you've had a good time, no matter the result.
Hooray writing!
Cheesy Tots, Typica, Araine, Junitaki-cho, and 5 othersLiphia, Tiralta, Jazur, Antimai, and Chong qing
You too, huh?
Cheesy Tots and Chong qing
Yeah, I didn’t read it closely enough and thought it would just scale back some funding and redirect it somewhere else, not cancel the whole thing.
Cheesy Tots and Chong qing
It,s my birthday
Cheesy Tots, Araine, Junitaki-cho, Liphia, and 7 othersImperve, Remnants of the pacific, Tiralta, Rejakhta, Chong qing, Neurodiversity, and Almander
Happy birthday!
Araine and Remnants of the pacific
Happy birthday to you!
I abolished mine on accident the other day too. I seriously didn't expect it, and it also reclassified me. Presumably because it absolutely demolished my economic freedom.
Cheesy Tots, Tiralta, and Uwuguaya
so with the new season 3 cards can u still get season 1 cards from packs?
Cheesy Tots and Tiralta
W
I have several anti asteroid railguns, should be fine if they come near again
Happy birthday!!
Cheers to you!
Happy Birthday!
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