Odd things about your nation

[Kostemetsia]

What's odd about your nation?

Mine:
The people
They're nice, ordinary people who'll turn into jihadi ueberidealists if you take away ... even hint at taking away ... any part of their society. Oh yeah, and the executive general secretary is an amoral, unethical twenty-eight-year-old who still gets to be an awesome guy with a sense of right and wrong through his ideals ... still, he does split hawt interracial couples up.

The economy
Hell, where MT nations have places like Boeing for defence contractors, we have software companies. For example, the security protocols on the Kostemetsian government networks are integrated into the uebermensch intelligence AVG 800 X, since simple security protocols don't suffice anymore. No, I'm not kidding, our security coordinator daemon evolved from AVG Anti-Virus ... although there is that nifty avast! feature with the "Virus database has been updated" and all.

Oh yeah, and our armoured troopers' cyberarmour, the XCS-2A8, is officially the Microsoft-NRA Experimental Combat System version two, block A, variant eight.

The society
Everyone is amoral in the sense that they don't believe in morals, preferring to instead stick to ideals and to do what they think is right without the interference of a pesky moral code that might forbid them from doing the right thing.

Oh, and everyone is bisexual. Everyone, no exceptions.

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What have you got to air that tends to differ from the norm?

[Solar Communes]

The People
The majority of the population is composed by Gayniggers from Outer Space(in fact there is something called GNASC), and there is virtually no way to separate ethnic groups between them. There are three distinct types of human subspecies, adapted for zero-g, Earhtlike g and High g respectively, where each have their own peculiar cultural developments related to their environment. The most popular enhancements involve sexual endurance, sexual organs size and sensibility and bizarre tentacle-like penises. To get their lazy asses off, the best way is to send a fleet painted with swastikas at their door. They hate Nazis with a passion.

The Economy
It's a free market socialism which primary economical activities since post-scarcity(in the meaning the rest is too abundant for people to care about) are prostitution, entertainment and research.

The Society
Some have permanently abandoned reality to immerse themselves in simulated realities and their massively multiplayer games or orgies with tentacles and things that prove rule 36. Others have a strange attraction to a nearly infinite string of memes that trace from the dawn of the Information Age to the present. There is an organization named Patriotic Nigras that grief furries in simulated worlds. There is a widely spread belief that what matters is the perception of the individual, and that there is no "solid", true reality.

[Zerstorendar]

This should be in general.

The People
The Zerstorendarian populace is so obsessed with manliness, hugeness and general physical dominance that it borders on a racial personality disorder. The men are men, the women are men, the children are men. The Rendari have a concept of what is "Huge" that revolves around the stereotype of the average Zerstorendarian war hero: exceedingly brave, completely convinced of his own physical superiority to anything ever, loutish, sporting a very large and incredibly well-built physique shaped more by extremely hard work than the Zerstorendarian physical enhancements (which do not immediately grant improved physical capacity but rather the *potential* for more) and so excessively stubborn as to be completely and utterly illogical whenever his life ethic is even remotely challenged.

The Economy
Zerstorendar views the concept of business entrepreneurs and anybody who experiences great financial success without serving the nation in a military or suitably manly occupation as loathsome. As such, businesses are not private enterprises but entirely government controlled so that taking advantage of the system and becoming a pandered pansy is almost impossible. This also means that the entire economy revolves around the military, meaning that military personnel are the ones calling the shots. "GIVE ME BIGGER GUNS OR I'LL RIP YOUR FUCKING TEETH OUT" is a legitimate economic policy, and anybody who has made a lot of money in Zerstorendar through pure business enterprise in an unmanly fashion is derided as a "rich fuck".

The Society
Stubborness, well-defined sense of Rendari morals and ethics, and manliness. That's about it.

I'M HUGE. PREMARITAL SEX IS FOR FAGGOTS. YOU DISAGREE? DENYDENYDENYDENY /weightlifting, join Army

[Univaria]

Univaria's social climate is the ultimate bastion of "who gives a fuck" in terms of the rights of others. Any action that does not result in the harm of others or their property is legal - this includes drug taking, public sex and all kinds of hedonistic behaviour that you'd usually think quite atrocious. Despite this, Univarians themselves are not as indulgent as their social freedoms imply - they are content to behave modestly out of respect in most cases and are simply happy to have the freedoms they do.

The role of gender in Univaria is nil. The terms "manly" and "effeminate" make sense to them, but only through the perspective of other cultures, although by our standards the entire Univarian culture takes a somewhat more feminine bias. Since there are no gender roles, sexist and sexually criminal behaviour is less prominent than in other cultures, although the social freedoms that Univarians enjoy may make visitors seem somewhat vulnerable in many ways.

Musically and artistically, Univaria favours the complex, even though it respects and enjoys the simplistic. As such, musical and visual skills that other cultures might consider exceptional are not uncommon within Univaria. Such arts are considered the purest form of expression, beyond even speech, body language and physical action - it is even rumoured that Univaria has a technical, musical language of a kind, although no hard data exists to confirm it.

[The Mindset]

The modern incarnation of the Mindsetti are very different from the old Mindsetti, so I'll provide a list of quirks for both.

Historial Mindsetti:

Ate their dead - the elimination of disease means this is not unhygenic, and it's considered an efficient and appropriate means of disposing of the body. Typically, the funeral buffet is a buffet of the deceased.

Regularly backed up their memory to a secure online store - in the event of bodily death, they'd be downloaded into a clone.

Saw no need for medical care - their boosted immune systems (augmented by wetwired implants and compulsory eugenics) prevented disease, while any physical trauma that the body is incapable of recovering from naturally simply caused them to bodily die and be restored into a clone.

Regularly swapped bodies - their memories would be downloaded into a female if male, and vice versa.

Certain people would become multiples - have several bodies linked by a single network and controlled individually, but retaining a single personhood.

Rarely experienced strong emotion - most Mindsetti are sociopaths.

Modern Mindsetti:

Have no fixed corporeal form - exist entirely within an artifical contruct similar to the Matrix. Download into bodies when required.

As digital entities, the concept of gender is rendered neuter.

No longer reproduce.

Consider scientific advancement paramount - disregard all consequences. Have been known to supernova a sun orbited by sentient life just to see how they'd react.

Have little interest in meatbag affairs.

[Sskiss]

Aside from looking like something out of a H.P Lovecraft novel, the Sskiss, for one have no concept of the word "nation". Rather, the Sskiss see themselves as a racial entity. Other "odd" things are;

1. No mental/phycological concept of "male or "female". The sexes are biological only.
2. The sexual act is largely hardwired and is dominated by various pheromones.
3. Society is hierarchial and is essentually a holdover, or rather, an extention of the ancient "pecking order" when the Sskiss were originally pack hunters.
4. Sskiss will eat their own dead, but this is not something that is done on a regular basis - most corpses are consumed by various other predatory/scavenging lifeforms that inhabite Sskiss enclaves.
5. Although not particularly cruel, Sskiss as a whole lack compassion....After all, a compassionate carnivore would starve to death....
6. Sexual discrimination has never existed. The Sskiss never had any concept of "womans" rights.
7. Technologically and culturally pragmatic/minimalist.
8. The Sskiss had no concept of the word "murder" until they encountered humanity and similar races. The Sskiss soon created a word for it however, which roughly translated means, "killing/not eating"
9. The Sskiss never possessed a writen launguage.
10. Sskiss mental/communication possesses are like "thought bursts".
11. Loyal to their race as a whole. Strong social cohesiveness and cooperation between individuals.
12. Logical and instinct at constant "war" with each other.
13. Socially incompatable with other species. Well duh!
14. A hungry Sskiss - or worse, a starving one, is to be avoided at all costs.
15. Post scarsity economy. With the Sskiss only two things must be earned. The first is life, the second, the right to breed.
16. Overpopulation was never a particularly big problem with the Sskiss - The death rate would simply increase when overpopulation occured and would then level out again.
17. Highly territorial - see 16 above...

[Central Facehuggeria]

Aside from looking like something out of a H.P Lovecraft novel,

Nonsense. There's not a tentacle or example of non-euclidian architecture anywhere unless you've massively changed your nation when I wasn't looking.

The Sskiss look more like something out of Jurassic Park. :
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[Telros]

The People

The populace is one that is a ticking time bomb, one that has been under a lot of pressure and could go off any time. The recent civil war that had the Western and Eastern Nations battling each other had cost many lives and left many scars. As such the Westerners hate the Eastern people and vice versa. They are only united by the threat of military intervention, promised directly by the government, and the fact that the more imminent threat of extermination by alien races is the greater threat. Due to their constant flow of data through news networks, despite attempted governmental lockdowns on information, the citizens have seen all the alien nations out there and how far behind Colonial tech is. This had installed a rapidly accelerating sense of xenophobia, only it is against strangers. Anyone whom they don't know or trust is suspect and it would not be uncommon for tourists to go missing in some of cities on Terra. Currently, only the Godulans are trusted implicitly, while the ESUS alliance is somewhat trusted, with nations such as Chronosia and Mekanta keeping it from being more.


The Economy

Much like before, it is a free market system that encourages competition to make things better and faster and the competition of prices help keeps the economy strong. However, it needs more markets in order to expand and keep the current prosperity going, so plans for expansion and possible conquests are being drawn up.


The Society

Telrosians are incredibly mistrustful people, whom rarely give out their loyalties but once achieved, they are nigh unbreakable. If their trust is betrayed, it is also nearly impossible to regain. They are hardworkers, but are quick to anger and to lay blame, usually on the doors of alien tourists and the Easterners and Westerners, depending on which is speaking at the moment. Due to the large panic and the measures being taken by the government, voted in by the masses, the government has taken large strides towards a dictatorial system, with only the last bastion remaining being the Constitution,but rumors of a major Amendment bill are flying about it is possible that democracy, as it is known in the Colonies, will fall.

[Sskiss]

Nonsense. There's not a tentacle or example of non-euclidian architecture anywhere unless you've massively changed your nation when I wasn't looking.

Not all of Lovecrafts creatures and entities were tentacled. Many in fact were not and he does mention several other forms in his writings. Besides the Sskiss (and their architecture) fit the bill rather nicely of "an ancient eldrich race from eons past" and would not have any trouble fitting in a lovecraft-like scenerio.

The Sskiss look more like something out of Jurassic Park. :
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On a purely physical level yes, but that film is a little too commercialized (not to mention inaccurate) for my tastes. My standards in film and literature are simply to high and besides, I do have a reputation to uphold.