NationStates Jolt Archive

In Pablicosta, milions of people every year flood across the borders to visit the Chace Island fesitival.
Once a year for two weeks, Chace Island becomes heaven as top bands play and national tradition is shown. Parties from across the Globe, and from Space, come along and show the world what they are made of. Last year a total of 11.2 Million people visited the island during the fortnight, creating a flood of people. The highlight of the event is on the second Tuesday, when a giant vat of spagheti is cooked up and the Spagheti Maze Competition begins. Competitorsd must race through an obstacle course of inflatables, coated in spagheti before reaching a large swimming pool filled with spagheti and attempting to wrestle each other for 7 minutes. Then judges decide which competitor wins and they proceed to the next round
The winner is pronounced Spagheti Champion and is awarded PP£500 ($2500 Aprox.). Throughout the rest of the week there are other interactive games, aswell as bands from arround the world performing on the massive stage.

Religous sites and ruined buildings (from ages ago) mainly.
Most are pilgrims to Islam, Christianity and Judaism.

ooc- i did 5 because they are almost equal in the amount of people who visit
ic-My nation's 5 biggest tourist attractions are
1. The International Cheese festival -held annually in Cherry Ridge
2. St. Mary Magdalen Cathedral - is Archbishops Cathedral
3. Our Lady of the Miraculas Medal Church- has many Holy Relics
4. The Museum of Historical Artifacts and The Historical archives
5. The National Big Band Fesival

Cheese! 61 in the world!

Our main tourist attraction?
Military Parades and National pride rallies the biggest in the land!

We have quite a few things,

G'lastuunbrie Festival
Our lush rainforest's
Our pristine beaches

We don't have many tourists (the weather scares them all away) but we do have a few attractions for those who like to visit.

Our main one is the Multiculturalism Festival held in September of every year. People from different cultures all showcase their unique culture.

We have great campsites. We are very careful to maintain our trees and water for future generations. Peak tourist season for these are in the fall.

Come visit Temme--our future is wide open!

Our major attraction is the edutainment park at Sharewood where our world-renowned IT sector uses their latest subliminal advertising and suggestion software to indoctrinate our population and visiting customers that Dropshorts is a wonderful place to live and spend money.

We also have the Hole, the remains of an asteroid strike in the centre of our island. Whilst part of it is occupied by Lake Pinz, a beautiful crystal blue mountain lake, the size of the crater at around 75 miles across is breathtaking. The impact also yielded many of our metal deposits.

Our main attraction are the numerous, well funded government hospitals. Health tourism is our major way of earning foreign currency, our regional allies and others can send their well-off citizens to us for us to treat using our skills. We also have many poor foreigners sneak into our clinics for free treatment, but this is likely to be cracked down on by our recently expanded Health Police.

This organisation also has the role of ensuring fat people are publically humiliated and prevented from purchasing fattening foods.

In Shonar Bangla, our largest tourist attraction is the Sundarbans, which lie just south of the capital Shutanuti. Sundarbans is the world's largest river delta. It boasts an amazing variety of wildlife, ranging from ferocious Royal Bengal Tigers on the land, to the Indian Python on the trees, and the man-eating Gharials in the muddy waters. In the winter, we have a beautiful array of birds migrating from Russia, a bird-watcher's delight.
We arrange Sundarbans Safari packages very cheap, and we have several cabins within the Sundarbans. Stay in the cabins at your own risk. NO firearms allowed into the forest. Bring a knife or a club to fend for yourself.

People from around the world swarm Blurblakistan's capital, Nukibad, during the early spring. It is at this time at which the Matchstick Celebration Parade is held, lasting 4 hours, ending in the procession through the Matchstick Pavillion, a huge gazebo made up of 100 million matchsticks. It was built during the time of King Jingo the First, where it was commisioned as a gift to the people. 1,000 matchmakers fashioned the matches used in its construction. The parade concludes with a feast of Chirade Badesh, samosas stuffed with the mountain cheese, Gampange, and topped with maple sugar.

The Great Ruins along the river Eridani, of the ancient people who worshipped the gods which they beleive resided in the constellation Eridani. Also, the Capital Tower ZERO in the middle of the capital city, Sirius, which is 100 stories tall, and is a normal tower for the first 80 stories, but the top is a massive, genetically engineered tree. which has offices built onto the outside. It gets its water via pipes up through its roots, the water is nutrient dense, blah blah blah.

The People's Republic of Krasnovaria does not have a very large tourism industry. However, many students come to our country to study and admire our capital of Mestask, due to its unique urban planning and the prevelance of architecture in the what has been dubbed the "Socialist Realist Revival" style. Also, pilgrims enter our country to visit the shrine at Kafran. Here, one can view the Holy Shroud, said to have been the burial wrappings of Jesus. Unlike the fraudulent shroud in Turin, Italy, the Holy Shroud of Kafran is on continuous display to pilgrims.

the smaller citys. they pack the culture of paris and moscow combined in to a town of just 7,500 people!

tourists flock together to watch the national emu and people wrestling matches. A bird and a human. Destined rilvalry. :o

The Northern Desert has hundreds of anchient ruins dating back to 5000 B.C. which is a big draw for tourists. It is also the home for the annual Fire Dance race which starts in the Northern Desert, goes through the mountains and around Lake Tear, then finishes in the capital. Old Nod is believed and generaly considered to be the city of Nod settled by Cain hundreds of thousands of years ago. It is a huge draw for religious pilgrims and tourists.

Magnus Valerius and its colonies have a vast array of different landscapes, and since industry is often concentrated in large cities, many of these landscapes are untouched by pollution. In Magnus Valerius, the heart of the empire, the northern regions have tall, snow-capped mountains, serene pine-covered hills, valleys, and clean lakes. In the mid and southern regions of Magnus Valerius, the rivers, forests, and beaches are the main natural attraction; there is a large amount of redwood forests along the southern coast of King William's Sea (that justs into the midsection of Magnus Valerius).

Other than nature, Magnus Valerius has its cities. Each city has their distinct flair and culture, and their is plenty of ancient architecture abound in the major cities. The capital, Valerius Prime, houses several cathedrals (dedicated to orthodox and catholics) and three large synagogues as well. The Imperial Estate is also open to the public with its vasts gardens, private lake, and regal ballrooms.

In Valerius Prime, the Unification Day Festival is the greatest attraction. For a week, the city celebrates the unification of all of the Valerian Kingdoms into the Valerian Empire. 16 million people flood the streets for feasting, fasting, praying, dancing, musical performances, and shopping. Typically, a gift for each family member is bought for each day of the festival (which once represented seven gifts for the celebration of the seven saints of Valeria: Valerian, Yvonne, Oliver, Edward, Frances, Ioannis, and Livia). There has been talks in the Imperial Government of expanding the celebration to include several interesting games.

Callisdrun has several attractions for the tourist willing to endure the cold. There are many natural wonders such as the magnificent fjords, the enormous glaciers and the imposing inland range of mountains. The dozens of castles also seem to draw tourists. For the military inclined tourist, the age-old battlefields on the Plains of Sorrow should hold some interest. Some tourists also seem to be fascinated by the vampiric citizens, and sometimes try to get pictures with them, much to the poor vampires' annoyance. The Solstice celebrations generally draw well. After all, who can resist a wild 48 hour long party?

Our nations soul tourism magnet, is ironically a piece of the original water cooler that has been recently salvaged and put on display (after being skillfully replicated, of course) at our nations premier (read: only) museum.

Other wise we don't much care for tourists, they tend to have sticky hands.

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People used to stand on the ROK side of the DMZ and whisper about what lay beyond. This year there have been no tourists, though the Central Directorature anticipates a modest rise in the near future as the awe-inspired dare venture to the periphery of the Kurosite-Communist hermit that twice took-on the outside world and survived.


Then maybe the gymnasts, people might want to come see Drapoel schoolgirls and Kuro Student Defence League recruits doing improbably fancy and difficult acrobatics, nobody knows for sure. Certainly nobody knows whether the tourists will be allowed in, or whether they'd be allowed back out again.

i think the're mostly just curious how we can live without cars, guns, money, oil or beating each other over the head. or maybe it's just because they can stay for free and come and go whenever they like. maybe it's the sacred groves in the middle of 'cities' that look like oriental natural gardens or towns and villages that resemble wilderness itself. we get a lot of eco-tourists because our lack of paved roads and gas stations. but we also get a lot of visitors who like to ride in and on things they don't have to drive. i think people come for as many different reasons as there are people themselves. many mammelian species that are endangered elsewhere flourish in our abscence of clear cutting, strip mining and multilane vehicular roadways. people do occasionaly get scratched and bitten incautiously trying to get too close to them but all are warned they do so at their own risk and few injuries are serious or take long to heal. some come for our cooking, some for our bardic circles, some as students of the nalanuthu, to live simply or study meditation with the feel the earth in their hands. or to marvel at craftspersons and dreamshapers giving freely of their talents and blessings. perhapse it is the unhurried pace of life. or to watch silent solar powered robots picking apricots and coffee. many visitors come from lands where the air smells not half so sweet.

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