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For a long time, I've wanted to put my nation tangibly on the NS map, with real neighbors and such, rather than just the Cali Gulf to the south and "Here Be Dragons" to the north. I've been kicking around the idea of an RP region, something along the lines of The SLAGlands' Emerald Heights, for quite awhile, but never did it until now because I was reluctant to leave my region. Well, now that most of my regionmates have lapsed into inactivity, I'm finally getting around to putting together such a region. I'm looking for ten or twenty modern-tech nations, various government types and affiliations, with good, experienced RPers behind them.

Here's what I've got so far:

Geography and Climate:

For starters, a rudimentary map of Copiosa Scotia:
http://www.geocities.com/pfl_terrell/scotia2adv.gif
(If the link doesn't work, copy-paste the URL.)

Copiosa Scotia has four basic climate and vegetation zones: dry, temperate grassland in much of the eastern two-thirds of the country; alpine forest in the northwestern and eastern mountains; Mediterranean along most of the Cali Gulf coast; and some cold/temperate rainforest on the northwest coast.

Of course, the rest of the region, depending on how far north and south it extends, could contain any number of other landscapes and climates.

History:

Copiosa Scotia's history goes back to the early 1700s, when explorer James Carrick founded Askland Point Colony on the west coast. Between then and now is a big blank I haven't really filled in yet. Prior to the colony's founding, Copiosa Scotia had no indigenous human inhabitants, a mystery that will be investigated in a future RP. Other than that, there's plenty of room for you to fit in your own history, and I'll revise my own if it causes any irreconciliable problems.

That's all I've got for now. If anyone needs more information, please don't hesitate to ask.

I'm not modern tech but i'll join if its okay, and i think I'm a good RPer, I've never been called a godmodder.

I'm not modern tech but i'll join if its okay, and i think I'm a good RPer, I've never been called a godmodder.

In any other situation, I'd love to have you, but I'm afraid sharing a border with a nation that exists at a different time than mine would just cause too many headaches.

I'm not modern tech but i'll join if its okay, and i think I'm a good RPer, I've never been called a godmodder.

In any other situation, I'd love to have you, but I'm afraid sharing a border with a nation that exists at a different time than mine would just cause too many headaches.

Understood.

I'm very interested, and while we are in the same alliance (UNAOTO/UnAPS), I don't think we have very good relations though... Anywho, a profile:

Time Period: ~2010ish, "late modern" tech (2003-2008) in military
Governmental Type: Federal Republic with elected president and military administration (but my plan now is to kick the military leader out of the political seat sometimes soon)

Geography: http://members.lycos.co.uk/omz123/omzmap.jpg (Copy-paste URL)

Omzian Nation mainly features three basic climate vegetation zones: Temperate grassland at the southeast, a combination of cold desert and tropical grassland at southwest, and a combination of alpine forest and mountains along the northern areas. Elevation isn't too big except in the northeast.

History:

Omzian Nation, as a part of another empire, has its history extended before the birth of Christ -- in the "Eastropian Empire". However, as the empire grew and changed, a group of freedom fighters and revolutionaries struggled for Omzian independence in the end of 19th century, and in the early 20th century, Omzian nation was granted freedom as the empire fell. Now, the government is made up of various different provinces and "special administrative" zones. The president, a former socialist party member, is working to revive Omzian nation from the socialist administration in the past, and as of right now a military administration attachment is overlooking the government in an agreement (although as said, they are going to step down and eventually, someone is going to make then step down)

About the geography however -- I would be interested if I share a border with others. Too tired of living as an island.

Sounds good to me, Omz. I wasn't aware that you had made the crossover to UnAPS, as I don't think I've seen you on the boards.

Does the Omzian Nation occupy the full territory of the old empire, or just a portion?

I'm not modern tech but i'll join if its okay, and i think I'm a good RPer, I've never been called a godmodder.

In any other situation, I'd love to have you, but I'm afraid sharing a border with a nation that exists at a different time than mine would just cause too many headaches.

Understood.

What tech do you use? You're welcome to join The New Galaxy regardless of tech-level.

Sounds good to me, Omz. I wasn't aware that you had made the crossover to UnAPS, as I don't think I've seen you on the boards.
Looking forward to it. I did make the transaction, and did post a few posts under "Omz222".

Does the Omzian Nation occupy the full territory of the old empire, or just a portion?
Only a part of it. Let's assume the other parts of the empire are in smoke :P

Would it be alright if I sent my puppet 'Japann' (which I sometimes RP, has circa 500 posts) into the region?

I might be interested in this, as my nation's been quite unsettled, jumping from real-world-based region to region and not really fitting in. Unsurprisingly Al Khals is an Arab-dominated nation and has existed as if in the Middle East thus far with large oil export contracts and such established, so it'd need a largely hot desert climate and no objections to me claiming massive oil reserves.

Of course with less than a hundred posts to Al Khals it's really up to you whether you trust me not to run around messing things up, but if you're interested this: http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=104458&highlight= is pretty much Al Khals' central thread, displaying my way of going about RP thus far.

Just for the fun of it, this: http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=119784&highlight= is the latest news coming out of Al Khals.

Well, colour me interested.

Oh! I knew that there was something else I wished to add. Al Khals is supposed to have been populated thousands of years ago by a people known only as The Canal Builders. Local legend equates this civilisation to Atlantis and Rama, and speculates that it was destroyed in what is now said by some students of "alternate history" to have been a global nuclear war prosecuted by Atlantis against any number of other forgotten empires, Rama and the Canal Builders amongst them.

Of course whether or not there was a nuclear war thousands of years ago would only be a matter for idle curiosity, and the theory wouldn't have to ever be proved true, but the point is that Al Khals would need to have been populated before Copiosa Scotia was settled, and then re-populated by Arabic sailors some time in the last few hundred years.

I've taken too much of your time already, but I'm sure I've plenty more where that came from should Al Khals end up in this proposed new region!

_Taiwan: I think I can probably approve Japann, as I know for a fact that it's RPed as a truly separate nation and not just some vassal state of _Taiwan. What's the current political/military situation in Japann?

Al Khals: I'm very impressed by the amount of work you've put into developing your nation. I think you'll fit in nicely. Copiosa Scotia, a libertarian ultra-capitalist state, could even have been one of the "foreign influences" competing for Al Khali oil.

Well, I'm actually to this site, but I'm an experienced rper..I've been rping for the past 8 1/2 years. I'm just wanting to try it out to see what it's like on here with the "modern tech".



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_Taiwan: I think I can probably approve Japann, as I know for a fact that it's RPed as a truly separate nation and not just some vassal state of _Taiwan. What's the current political/military situation in Japann?

Al Khals: I'm very impressed by the amount of work you've put into developing your nation. I think you'll fit in nicely. Copiosa Scotia, a libertarian ultra-capitalist state, could even have been one of the "foreign influences" competing for Al Khali oil.

OOC: Japann is in a financial tailspin and recovering from the Sino-Japannese War II, in addition to a 20 yr depression.

Well, I'm not well-known or that experienced, but you might remember me anyways. At least I remember you supporting me when Russian Forces launched that invasion against me, and you also supported me when I joined UNAOTO :)

I've been a bit inactive in that alliance (and in NS as a whole) for a while though, since I turned my nation future tech and actually lost the address of UNAOTO's board :P And I guess that alliance doesn't exist any longer anyways.

Well, I've got a puppet with about 1.3 billion citizens that I've never really used, and I'm planning to start using it as my modern tech nation (completely apart from Kekkosmaa), and once I develop some story for it I could also move it to that region you're planning. If I'm accepted, of course. But I'm interested.

I'm not modern tech but i'll join if its okay, and i think I'm a good RPer, I've never been called a godmodder.

In any other situation, I'd love to have you, but I'm afraid sharing a border with a nation that exists at a different time than mine would just cause too many headaches.

Understood.

What tech do you use? You're welcome to join The New Galaxy regardless of tech-level.

well I'm just bearly bordering near future tech but I'm considered future tech.

I'm not modern tech but i'll join if its okay, and i think I'm a good RPer, I've never been called a godmodder.

In any other situation, I'd love to have you, but I'm afraid sharing a border with a nation that exists at a different time than mine would just cause too many headaches.

Understood.

What tech do you use? You're welcome to join The New Galaxy regardless of tech-level.

well I'm just bearly bordering near future tech but I'm considered future tech.

Well, I'm not well-known or that experienced, but you might remember me anyways. At least I remember you supporting me when Russian Forces launched that invasion against me, and you also supported me when I joined UNAOTO :)

I've been a bit inactive in that alliance (and in NS as a whole) for a while though, since I turned my nation future tech and actually lost the address of UNAOTO's board :P And I guess that alliance doesn't exist any longer anyways.

Well, I've got a puppet with about 1.3 billion citizens that I've never really used, and I'm planning to start using it as my modern tech nation (completely apart from Kekkosmaa), and once I develop some story for it I could also move it to that region you're planning. If I'm accepted, of course. But I'm interested.

Yeah, I remember you. Any puppet of yours would probably be welcome in the region.

Bump. I won't be able to check this thread again until Saturday, but don't let that stop you from posting. If those of you who haven't posted maps yet could please do so, I'd be much obliged.

Hm, as yet I haven't a map of Al Khals, but a vague impression of the geography exists in my head. I'm hoping to share a large land mass with others (ideally with more than one bordering nation) rather than retreating to an island alone, as the military is already organised without a navy and with the Coast Guard receiving relatively low priority (so we do need a small coasline). Generally I've pictured Al Khals as -geographically- similar in many ways to Kuwait, though a little larger.

I can easily enough draw up a map, but it'd be best, I think, to figure out a few neighbours and such, first.

I think we could divide it into two main landmasses: one for countries with an unusual or mysterious history, one for countries without. So far, the first would include myself and Al Khals, the second Omz222 and probably Japann.

Japann's map is...Japan's?

Preferably keep it an island though.

Japann's map is...Japan's?

Preferably keep it an island though.

Right. Don't know how I forgot that. :oops:

OOC: I ain't movin' my old ass from my chair, much less moving an entire nation across the globe. Anywho, TG me if ya want to do an RP. I'm a modern-tech nation with strict realisum rules and lots of RP expeirence.