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Governor: The St Patricks Day Nation of NewTexas

WA Delegate (non-executive): The St Patricks Day Nation of NewTexas (elected )

Founder: The St Patricks Day Nation of NewTexas

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Most Influential: 36th Most World Assembly Endorsements: 115th Most Nations: 310th+24
Largest Black Market: 796th Highest Economic Output: 822nd Highest Disposable Incomes: 1,301st Most Valuable International Artwork: 1,397th Highest Wealthy Incomes: 1,423rd Most Corrupt Governments: 1,757th Most Cultured: 1,787th Most Devout: 1,851st Most Avoided: 2,279th Fattest Citizens: 2,280th Most Beautiful Environments: 2,299th Highest Unexpected Death Rate: 2,303rd Smartest Citizens: 2,313th Highest Average Incomes: 2,349th Largest Manufacturing Sector: 2,373rd Most Advanced Defense Forces: 2,374th Largest Information Technology Sector: 2,447th Largest Arms Manufacturing Sector: 2,498th Most Scientifically Advanced: 2,519th Most Eco-Friendly Governments: 2,550th Largest Retail Industry: 2,552nd Largest Populations: 2,606th Rudest Citizens: 2,652nd Most Armed: 2,716th
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Howdy, Welcome y Bienvenidos to Texas - a proud member of the Non-Crappy Region Network™!

Texas, founded in 2002, is a large friendly region where freedom is considered one of its greatest resources. Texas is a proud region and home to many diverse nations. We are always welcoming new nations. Texas also has a Government, Constitution, Elections and many inter-regional Sporting Events. Come on down!


Submit diplomacy requests to the Secretary of State. No one-nation regions, no new regions, and no raiders or friends of raiders.
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    Texas Birthday List

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    The Texas Constitution

    BulletinPolicy by NewTexas . 1,730 reads.

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    The Texas Defense Forces FAQ

    BulletinPolicy by NewTexas . 448 reads.

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    The Texas Ambassador Corps FAQ

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Embassies: Wysteria, The Heartland, 10000 Islands, Antarctic Oasis, North Pacific, The Black Market, Kittens Sanctuary, Global Right Alliance, Spiritus, Renegade Islands Alliance, Nasicournia, The Exodus, Gay, Forest, Philosophy 115, the Rejected Realms, and 13 others.Valhalla, belgium, International Democratic Union, New Warsaw Pact, Liberty Alliance, India, Sonindia, Force, Philosophers, New Western Atlantic, Canada, Arkansas, and Alcris.

Tags: Commended, Defender, Featured, Large, Map, Multi-Species, National Sovereigntist, Offsite Forums, Regional Government, and World Assembly.

Regional Power: Very High

Texas contains 97 nations, the 310th most in the world.

Today's World Census Report

The Most Stationary in Texas

Long-term World Census surveillance revealed which nations have been resident in their current region for the longest time.

As a region, Texas is ranked 9,149th in the world for Most Stationary.

NationWA CategoryMotto
1.The St Patricks Day Nation of NewTexasCivil Rights Lovefest“Home of Big Blarney Tex!”
2.The Barnes-Free Conglomerate of Ewing Oil CoCompulsory Consumerist State“In J.R. We Trust”
3.The Galactic Empire of Gig em AggiesIron Fist Consumerists“Hullabaloo Caneck Caneck”
4.The District of SangchrisInoffensive Centrist Democracy“Ambassador for United States of America”
5.The Borderlands of MatagordaInoffensive Centrist Democracy“Almost a State in Western Texas”
6.The Theocracy of Darth BunnyPsychotic Dictatorship“If you don't know your rights, you don't have any!”
7.The Dominion of Darth ChocolateInoffensive Centrist Democracy“Rich and Creamy”
8.The Progressive Union of Seeker AlphaInoffensive Centrist Democracy“Honor is everything; dogma is absurd!”
9.The Empire of The Promethean FistsCompulsory Consumerist State“Ferrus Dominus”
10.The Natural Order of ItzomaMoralistic Democracy“You talkin to the wrong mf'ers if propriety is involved”
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Texas Regional Message Board

5 people have finished the Barkley Marathon this year, including the 1st woman who finished with a time of 59 hours, 58 minutes and 12 seconds.

Well there goes my final 4 with Grambling losing to Purdue. I had Grambling playing A&M in the Final 4 dang it

***** Texas Saturday Breakfast *****

Tacos, Delivered All Day and All Night! Are you ready for some Saturday Breakfast, still All-Fresh? Bring out the Drones! The NewTexas Happy Taco Stands, in conjunction with the NewTexas Incendiary Corporation, has approximately 1 trillion of the fastest, lightest drones you have ever seen. This fleet is specially designed to deliver tacos to every man, woman, child, whatever, in Texas, all 2,295,811,000,000 of you.

Today's special breakfast will Saturday Bacon & Egg & Potato Breakfast Tacos [COVID-19 Week CC Edition]! The commissary has been busy all night with the Head Smoker at The Big Tex Happy Taco Stands of NewTexas doing double-duty on the smoker and the cast-iron skillets both smoking and frying double-cut in-house Hickory-Smoked Pepper Bacon and sizzling up Lightly-Browned Skillet Potatoes just for you, Texas. He is a true master of smoke and skillet! These yum-yums are paired with organic, hand-picked, farm-fresh Texas Grade AA Eggs, scrambled to perfection, and all rolled up in a hot, homemade, Texas-sized flour tortilla. Peasy-Easy. Remember, a whole egg in every taco!®

Today's Special Salsa is Pico de Gallo - a Texas tradition! If you do not know what Pico is, well it is only five ingredients, ripe red Roma tomatoes, white onion, jalapeño, cilantro, lime, and salt. A sealed cup of Texas-made Longhorn Cheddar Jack cheese is also included in case you need a cheese fix. The taco is hermetically sealed in a Stay-Warm® pouch that is wrapped in the same ol' aluminum foil we are all so familiar with for our breakfast taco. We are trying to keep it real, peeps. For your beverage accompaniment, a packet of Sanka, Tang and a Lipton Tea bag will be included with every delivery as well as salt and pepper and a napkin. Yes, it is different, but it works and you do not even have to leave your residence. Woo! And, watch out for the drones! Start your day off the right way; munch out and go back to sleep. You know you want to!®

Stay Safe Texas. Stay Well. Hang in there!

***** Texas March Madness Update *****

After the first round of March Madness, Indian Empire leads the pack with 23 correct selections out of 32. Gig em Aggies holds the distinction for second-best selection skills with 20 correct picks. Bringing up the rear is NewTexas with 18 correct picks, however, when it comes to the highest potential finish, the tables turn with NewTexas leading the pack with a 105 potential finish, followed by Indian Empire with a potential score of 97, followed by Gig em Aggies who took a heavy hit with St. Mary's loss coming in with a potential 88 finish.

Of the 32 projected winners (based on seedings), 21 stepped up and did it, leaving 11 overjoyed underdogs advancing. There is truly some Madness brewing! Onto Round 2! Good luck rivals!

***** Texas Chat Reminder *****

The Texas Weekly Chat Session will be Saturday (TODAY) at High Noon Texas Time (CDT) ***Saturday***. And, if you can't be there right at Noon, that is Ok, Texas Chat usually runs 3, 4, or 5 hours with some Chats running as high as 7 or 8 hours.

The Texas Chat Site is here: http://texasregion.net/blab70/login.php

Please register with your nation name. This is an excellent opportunity for nations old and new to Texas to find out what is going on! We chat, debate, and talk about the weather, stuff we like, stuff we hate, random stuff, and more. But, it is never stuffy. Usually, it is about meeting your fellow Texans and discussing the latest and most interesting stuff in NationStates. But then again, sometimes NationStates does not even come up. It is wide-open chatting with peeps from around The World both IRL and NS. It is Texans, EuroTexans, WannabeTexans, ex-Texans, VirtualTexans, and plenty of Friends of Texans. We have it all and all are welcome.

We have added a new feature to Texas Chat, Texas Movie Chat! Chat with Texans while watching a movie. Fun stuff! So far we have watched Halloween, Shootout at the OK Corral, Red, and recently a few new Star Trek series episodes. Want to watch something together?

Texas Chat, 981 weeks and running! For the math-challenged, that is over 19½ years! Check it out! Good stuff!

Hey New Texas I looked at my bracket and the teams are all out of whack a lot of the teams are in the wrong spots causing me to have guessed wrong.

A last second three pointer saved us so we could fall 95-100 but what a game. I now lower my bracket into the ground and bury it 6 feet under.

My guess is that Max had a whole bunch of new banners made?

Forest and Texas News:

Howdy y'all!

I've got some news for everyone:

Current Texas Cabinet:

Governor / WA Delegate: NewTexas
Secretary of State: Trecdom2
Secretary of Defense: Indian Empire
Texas Representative Council members: Gig em Aggies, Issues Test Bed, United States of Woodward
Texas Banner Commissioner: Richard

Changes to the Texas Cabinet:

Talitha Macer Resigned as Texas Representative Council member :-(

Current Forest Cabinet:

Governor: Ruinenlust
WA Delegate / Successor: Verdant Haven
Forest Keeper: Zerphen
Deputy Forest Keeper: Garbelia
Foreign Affairs Minister: Jutsa
Culture and Events Minister: The Realizer
Cartographer: Roless
Forest Ranger: McClandia Doge 2
Wise Elder: Uan aa Boa
Successor: Ransium

Changes to the Forest Cabinet:

This is the Sixteenth Cabinet of Forest :-)
(The positions of Deputy Forest Keeper, Cartographer, Foreign Affairs Minister, Culture and Events Minister, Forest Ranger and Wise Elder were all appointed by our New Forest Keeper Zerphen!)

The Realizer's Trivia Nights:

The Forest Trivia competition has started!

So how does it work?

The questions will be released every Saturday

These questions will be in the style of the popular quiz show, Only Connect so that participants cannot simply google the answer.

The Realizer(Forest's Culture and Events Minister) shall post the dispatch with the questions in on the Forest RMB

From that point onwards everyone, residents of Forest or embassy regions, has One Week to answer the questions

Answers Must be submitted by Telegram to The Realizer.

Only Telegram submissions will be accepted.

Any answers posted on the Forest RMB will be suppressed, and could lead to further consequences/punishments as it would spoil the whole point of trivia and disrupt the thoughtful discussions occuring on the RMB.

Most importantly Have Fun!

For more information on results, prizes and a few helpful tips see this dispatch which should hopefully explain any questions you have...

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Forest Trivia Rules

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Trivia Rules

The questions will be released every Saturday

These questions will be in the style of the popular quiz show, Only Connect

I shall post the dispatch with the questions in on the RMB

From that point onwards everyone, residents of forest or embassy regions, has One Week to answer the questions

Answers Must be submitted by Telegram

Only Telegram submissions will be accepted. Any answers posted on the RMB will be suppressed.


Results

After the week has concluded, I shall release the answers to the previous week's questions in the same dispatch.

There will also be explanations as to how you could have reached the answers, in case anyone is interested

Alongside this, there shall be a two leaderboards compiled. One weekly leaderboard and one overall leaderboard.


Prizes!

The person who gets the most correct answers each week will receive an epic or another rarity card equal to 1.00 DV

At the end of each month, the person at the top of the overall leaderboard shall receive a legendary!

The person who is at the top of the overall leaderboard at the end of the term, shall receive a grand prize of 5 legendaries!


Helpful Tips

If you don't know the answer, just have a guess! There's no harm in having an educated guess, you might just be right!

Watch out for a word question! If the clues seem so random that you just can't find a connection, it could be that it's a word question! The words themselves could be the connection!

If you aren't sure about the answer to the question, when you're submitting them, try to explain your thinking to me! If your thinking is correct but you don't quite get the answer, you'll get half of a point. They all count in the long run!

Take your time! There's no rush... You have a week to answer the questions so you have plenty of time to think and trivialise!

And most importantly...

Have fun!

Read dispatch

And here are the all important questions for week one of the Forest Trivia!

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Forest Trivia Week One

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Question 1 -

What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues?

- Brezhnev

- Andropov

- Gorbachev

- Medvedev


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Question 2 -

What is the connection between these four seemingly random clues?

- Armourers

- Legends

- Headlights

- Kneeling


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Question 3 -

What would come 4th in this sequence?

- Laura

- Michelle

- Melania

- ?


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Question 4 -

What would come 4th in this sequence?

- Earth

- Wind

- Fire

- ?


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Question 5; DOUBLE POINTS! -

What would come 4th in this sequence?

- Skateboarding

- Speed Climbing

- Surfing

- ?


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Read dispatch

If you have any questions, feel free to ask The Realizer

Good luck everyone!

The Region That Has No Big Banks (TRTHNBB) and Forest agree to co-host Chess Arena!
(Bankless Forest Chess Arena)

We are very excited to announce, TRTHNBB and Forest have agreed to co-host the Chess Arena as previously mentioned back on March 13th. This collaboration brings the total number of regions participating to ten including; The Union of Democratic States, Sol Aeternalis, Colonia Apollonis, Democratic Socialist Assembly, Wintercrest, Aurora, RGBN and Alcris participating so far. If your region is interested in taking part please contact New United Common-lands or Jutsa!

The competition will take place on Saturday 27th April, and will be open to Nations across NS. There will be three trophies available with member regions competing for Best Scoring region, Best Average scoring region, and all nations competing for best scoring Individual Nation.

To sign up for the Chess, or for any further information please check out the dispatch here:

General

The Region That Has No Big Banks and Forest is excited to present our first inter-regional blitz chess competition, seeking to bring together chess players across NationStates to participate!

Who can participate?

The event is open to all member regions participating, and open to all NS chess players (with the exception of any problematic members regions/nations, at the discretion of the organisers)

We currently have eleven regions participating and counting! Contact New United Common-lands if you are interested to join!

Arena Link

Arena link - Linkhttps://lichess.org/tournament/Al7mV4et
Password - nobanks (lowercase)

Feel free to join in our Voice Chat and Text chat on TRTHNBB Discord whilst the event is ongoing! Linkhttps://discord.gg/gDJadzaHZQ

Date and time

The Arena will take place on Saturday 27th April starting at 9pm British Summer Time or 4pm Eastern Daylight Time, lasting 3 hours. Check LinkTRTHNBB discord for the time conversation!

Feel free to drop in for parts of the event you do not need to be avaliable the whole 3 hours

Trophies avaliable
1. Best Scoring Individual Nation - The nation who wins the Lichess competition
2. Best Scoring Member Region - Determined by combining the scores of nations within each member region, to see the overall winner
3. Best Average Scoring Member Region - Determined by the total region scores divided by number of nations from that respective member region participating (To help ensure fair opportunity for smaller regions)

Format

The format for the Arena is 5 mins + 0s increment (5+0) and hosted via lichess.

Contact

If you have any questions or would like your region to participate, please contact New United Common-lands

Read dispatch

Good luck everyone!

Max a.k.a. Yip Man a.k.a. Texas Jaguarundi
Texas' Ambassador to Forest

Howdy y'all!

Happy LLAP Day (Live Long and Prosper Day) to all Star Trek fans in this region. :-)

Max a.k.a. Yip Man a.k.a. Texas Jaguarundi
Texas' Ambassador to Forest

Texas Jaguarundi wrote:Howdy y'all!

Happy LLAP Day (Live Long and Prosper Day) to all Star Trek fans in this region. :-)

Max a.k.a. Yip Man a.k.a. Texas Jaguarundi
Texas' Ambassador to Forest

Unrelated to anything, but everytime I see your name I get excited that I could at some point see a Jaguarundi (assuming they come back...ever) if I ever go back to Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. I almost had study animals there but couldn't find any during my surveys a few years ago.

https://youtu.be/Xq3hEMUeBGQ?si=tCsI05FzDzAveMnv

It's Baseball season ya'll!

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