Ariddia
28-07-2007, 16:20
OOC: This thread is for anyone to write about migrants to and from your country; expatriates from your country, as well as foreign settlers in your country.
It implies writing about people to and from other players’ nations, of course, so if any player disagrees with any mention of his/her nation, just say so.
Ariddia and migrants: portraits
Pareesa Rahmati
Born: Persepolis (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Persepolis), Parthia (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Parthia)
Now lives: Rêvane (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/R%C3%Aavane), Ariddia (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ariddia)
Job: reporter
Pareesa Rahmati grew up in her native Parthia and did well at school, eventually becoming a reporter for Parthian News Network (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Parthian_News_Network), a news channel which broadcasts internationally and promotes explicitly patriotic, right-wing beliefs. Rahmati herself embraced the government line at first, then gradually began to question it as her work gave her access to other views, and to reports on oppression within her home country.
She developed communist sympathies, and found herself unable to continue propagating her government's propaganda. She defected first to Pacitalia then eventually to Ariddia. Once there, she trained briefly as a nurse, before obtaining work for PINA (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Public_International_News_Ariddia), as a newsreader then as a reporter. This makes her arguably the best known reporter to have defected from one international news channel to another.
She specialises in reporting on foreign conflicts and crises, as well as humanitarian issues. She often accompanies the Ariddian Red Star (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ariddian_Red_Star) in its humanitarian work abroad, and, in addition to news coverage, provides assistance thanks to her training as a nurse. She writes articles for in-depth analyses of wars and humanitarian issues on PINA's website.
Rahmati remains a Zoroastrian, the religion she was brought up in. She speaks Persian, English, a little Pacitalian and a little French.
John Riverside
Born: Bangkok (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Bangkok), Zwangzug (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Zwangzug)
Now lives: Cité-Belle (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Cit%C3%A9-Belle), Ariddia (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ariddia)
Job: university lecturer
John Riverside first came to Ariddia as a student, stayed for one year to complete his degree (in biology) at the University of Cité-Belle 2, then returned home. He visited Ariddia again for a holiday several years later, then moved in permanently, with his wife and daughter, when he successfully applied for a position at the Third World Open University (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Third_World_Open_University), where he now teaches sustainable agriculture to students from a variety of Third World countries.
I Chi-Gon
Born: Sokojito Dosi, Unified Capitalizt States (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Commerce_Heights)
Now lives: Valeton, Ariddia (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ariddia)
Job: music teacher
I Chi-Gon (이 치곤) was born and raised in the UCS. He became a business adviser, more because he found he was good at it than anything else, and eventually travelled to capitalist West Ariddia on a paid trip to teach business management strategies from his native country to medium-sized local firms. On a curiosity holiday trip over to Ariddia, he was struck by the latter’s entirely different way of life, which appealed to him as more relaxed, less stressful, more secure. He settled in a small town as an efficiency consultant for local State-owned companies, then eventually switched to being a private music teacher. He also teaches Korean. He has brought his parents over from the UCS, has married an Ariddian, and has one son.
Cassie Lee
Born: Ewehl, Ariddia (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ariddia)
Now lives: Combienbar (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Combienbar), Errinundera (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Errinundera)
Job: firefighter, football player
Although she is an expatriate, Cassandra Katrijn “Twinkle” Lee (이 갓시) is currently the main goalkeeper of Ariddia’s national football team. Her maternal grandmother is an Uhuh-Ropean baroness, and a distant relative of King Seth I of Uhuh-Ropa. Consequently, Lee is 128th in the line of succession for the Uhuh-Ropean throne; hence her nickname “Princess”.
She studied psychology at the Southern University in Wavecrest, earning a Master's degree, and initially worked as an air hostess for Ariddian Airlines. Lee attracted the attention of the Ariddian Football Association when she was seen playing for the football team of her university. The AFA were so impressed that she was rapidly offered the position of third goalkeeper on the national team. At just 1m61, she is undoubtedly one of the shortest national team goalkeepers in the world.
When she first appeared in the media, Lee instantly got the nation’s attention, and many took a liking to this short, bubbly, highly skilled air hostess-cum-football player who also happened to be a foreign royal. Her good looks probably helped, too, combined with a charming personality; a poll has rated her the “cutest woman in Ariddia”.
Her nickname, “Twinkle”, derives in part from that personality, and in part from the glitter she sometimes wears. She has stated that she has a liking for “chocolate, literature, anything pink, and Korean classical music”.
In terms of religious adherence, Lee has described herself as an “agnostic Ropatopianist (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ropatopianism)”. Her grandmother is a practising Zootist (a branch of Ropatopianism), and Lee herself celebrates the summer solstice, the main religious festival of Zootism.
A year before the beginning of the World Cup 32 qualifying stages, at the age of 18, Lee accepted an invitation, through the ubhashinim scholarship, to train and study at the prestigious Errinundrian Football Academy at Ellery Camp. It was her first taste of life in Errinundera. She also fell in love with an Errinundrian, bilnadvi, who visited Ariddia when the PDSRA hosted World Cup 34. The couple eventually settled in Errinundera. Lee left her job as an airline hostess, began training to become a firefighter, and applied for Errinundrian nationality. At the age of 34, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter named elenalee.
Father Innocent of Ariddia
Born: in the outer suburbs of New Hope (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/New_Hope), Ariddia (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ariddia)
Now lives: in the Archregimancy (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/the_Archregimancy)
Job: Orthodox monk
Fr. Innocent of Ariddia was born Aew Oj, and is an Indigenous Ariddian (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Wymgani). Unlike most Ariddians (and especially most Indigenous Ariddians), Oj is a Christian, as well as a skilled football player, and was recruited by the Monastic Football Association of the Archregimancy. Oj became Fr. Innocent, an Eastern Orthodox monk, and lives in the Archregimancy where he competes in the Monastic League, playing for St. Catherine's. He also plays as an attacker on the Archregimancy's national football team. Fr. Innocent is the team's only Pacific Islander player, and indeed its only black player.
Jacques Lequart
Born: Portevert, Ariddia (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ariddia)
Now lives: Nemnenait (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Nemnenait), Sel Appa (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Sel_Appa)
Job: Ariddian cultural centre manager
Lequart was originally sent to Sel Appa to set up an Ariddian cultural centre in Nemnenait, as per the Ariddian Secretariat for External Affairs’ standard policy on expanding foreigners’ understanding and appreciation of Ariddian culture(s), lifestyles and values (there are State-backed cultural centres in most of the nations Ariddia considers important). Taking a liking to the Sel Appan way of life, he chose to remain there and apply for citizenship, while remaining committed to his national origins at the same time. He still manages the cultural centre, and considers himself “fully binational and bicultural”. He has a fascination for Sel Appan history, reading many books on the topic. He remains unmarried, but has a Sel Appan girlfriend.
He regularly visits arixpat.org (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Arixpat.org), the website for Ariddian expatriates. He is also, probably, one of the few people outside Ariddia who has a good grasp of Lank Jan (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Lank_Jan), an Indigenous Ariddian pidgin language derived from French.
Alice Jadoua
Born: Pen-y-Bydd, Bettia (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Bettia)
Now lives: Pen-y-Bydd, Bettia (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Bettia)
Job: works in family restaurant
Alice Jadoua is a second-generation Ariddian-Bettian, the daughter of Ariddian immigrants. She is an Indigenous Ariddian (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Wymgani) of mixed ethnicity. She was born and raised in the mountainous region in the north of Bettia, and has visited Ariddia several times. She recently married a native-born Bettian. They have no children as yet.
She works in her parents’ restaurant, which is a ‘typical Ariddian restaurant’ with strong Bettian culinary influences. She considers herself Bettian first and foremost, but has an interest in her parents’ country of origin, and naturally supports the Ariddian national football teal (except against Bettia). She speaks English and Arabic, has taught herself Wymgani (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Wymgani_%28language%29), but does not speak French. She occasionally logs on to arixpat.org (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Arixpat.org) – her only way of getting in touch with Ariddians, since there is no established Ariddian community in Pen-y-Bydd.
It implies writing about people to and from other players’ nations, of course, so if any player disagrees with any mention of his/her nation, just say so.
Ariddia and migrants: portraits
Pareesa Rahmati
Born: Persepolis (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Persepolis), Parthia (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Parthia)
Now lives: Rêvane (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/R%C3%Aavane), Ariddia (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ariddia)
Job: reporter
Pareesa Rahmati grew up in her native Parthia and did well at school, eventually becoming a reporter for Parthian News Network (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Parthian_News_Network), a news channel which broadcasts internationally and promotes explicitly patriotic, right-wing beliefs. Rahmati herself embraced the government line at first, then gradually began to question it as her work gave her access to other views, and to reports on oppression within her home country.
She developed communist sympathies, and found herself unable to continue propagating her government's propaganda. She defected first to Pacitalia then eventually to Ariddia. Once there, she trained briefly as a nurse, before obtaining work for PINA (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Public_International_News_Ariddia), as a newsreader then as a reporter. This makes her arguably the best known reporter to have defected from one international news channel to another.
She specialises in reporting on foreign conflicts and crises, as well as humanitarian issues. She often accompanies the Ariddian Red Star (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ariddian_Red_Star) in its humanitarian work abroad, and, in addition to news coverage, provides assistance thanks to her training as a nurse. She writes articles for in-depth analyses of wars and humanitarian issues on PINA's website.
Rahmati remains a Zoroastrian, the religion she was brought up in. She speaks Persian, English, a little Pacitalian and a little French.
John Riverside
Born: Bangkok (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Bangkok), Zwangzug (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Zwangzug)
Now lives: Cité-Belle (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Cit%C3%A9-Belle), Ariddia (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ariddia)
Job: university lecturer
John Riverside first came to Ariddia as a student, stayed for one year to complete his degree (in biology) at the University of Cité-Belle 2, then returned home. He visited Ariddia again for a holiday several years later, then moved in permanently, with his wife and daughter, when he successfully applied for a position at the Third World Open University (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Third_World_Open_University), where he now teaches sustainable agriculture to students from a variety of Third World countries.
I Chi-Gon
Born: Sokojito Dosi, Unified Capitalizt States (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Commerce_Heights)
Now lives: Valeton, Ariddia (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ariddia)
Job: music teacher
I Chi-Gon (이 치곤) was born and raised in the UCS. He became a business adviser, more because he found he was good at it than anything else, and eventually travelled to capitalist West Ariddia on a paid trip to teach business management strategies from his native country to medium-sized local firms. On a curiosity holiday trip over to Ariddia, he was struck by the latter’s entirely different way of life, which appealed to him as more relaxed, less stressful, more secure. He settled in a small town as an efficiency consultant for local State-owned companies, then eventually switched to being a private music teacher. He also teaches Korean. He has brought his parents over from the UCS, has married an Ariddian, and has one son.
Cassie Lee
Born: Ewehl, Ariddia (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ariddia)
Now lives: Combienbar (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Combienbar), Errinundera (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Errinundera)
Job: firefighter, football player
Although she is an expatriate, Cassandra Katrijn “Twinkle” Lee (이 갓시) is currently the main goalkeeper of Ariddia’s national football team. Her maternal grandmother is an Uhuh-Ropean baroness, and a distant relative of King Seth I of Uhuh-Ropa. Consequently, Lee is 128th in the line of succession for the Uhuh-Ropean throne; hence her nickname “Princess”.
She studied psychology at the Southern University in Wavecrest, earning a Master's degree, and initially worked as an air hostess for Ariddian Airlines. Lee attracted the attention of the Ariddian Football Association when she was seen playing for the football team of her university. The AFA were so impressed that she was rapidly offered the position of third goalkeeper on the national team. At just 1m61, she is undoubtedly one of the shortest national team goalkeepers in the world.
When she first appeared in the media, Lee instantly got the nation’s attention, and many took a liking to this short, bubbly, highly skilled air hostess-cum-football player who also happened to be a foreign royal. Her good looks probably helped, too, combined with a charming personality; a poll has rated her the “cutest woman in Ariddia”.
Her nickname, “Twinkle”, derives in part from that personality, and in part from the glitter she sometimes wears. She has stated that she has a liking for “chocolate, literature, anything pink, and Korean classical music”.
In terms of religious adherence, Lee has described herself as an “agnostic Ropatopianist (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ropatopianism)”. Her grandmother is a practising Zootist (a branch of Ropatopianism), and Lee herself celebrates the summer solstice, the main religious festival of Zootism.
A year before the beginning of the World Cup 32 qualifying stages, at the age of 18, Lee accepted an invitation, through the ubhashinim scholarship, to train and study at the prestigious Errinundrian Football Academy at Ellery Camp. It was her first taste of life in Errinundera. She also fell in love with an Errinundrian, bilnadvi, who visited Ariddia when the PDSRA hosted World Cup 34. The couple eventually settled in Errinundera. Lee left her job as an airline hostess, began training to become a firefighter, and applied for Errinundrian nationality. At the age of 34, she gave birth to her first child, a daughter named elenalee.
Father Innocent of Ariddia
Born: in the outer suburbs of New Hope (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/New_Hope), Ariddia (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ariddia)
Now lives: in the Archregimancy (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/the_Archregimancy)
Job: Orthodox monk
Fr. Innocent of Ariddia was born Aew Oj, and is an Indigenous Ariddian (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Wymgani). Unlike most Ariddians (and especially most Indigenous Ariddians), Oj is a Christian, as well as a skilled football player, and was recruited by the Monastic Football Association of the Archregimancy. Oj became Fr. Innocent, an Eastern Orthodox monk, and lives in the Archregimancy where he competes in the Monastic League, playing for St. Catherine's. He also plays as an attacker on the Archregimancy's national football team. Fr. Innocent is the team's only Pacific Islander player, and indeed its only black player.
Jacques Lequart
Born: Portevert, Ariddia (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Ariddia)
Now lives: Nemnenait (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Nemnenait), Sel Appa (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Sel_Appa)
Job: Ariddian cultural centre manager
Lequart was originally sent to Sel Appa to set up an Ariddian cultural centre in Nemnenait, as per the Ariddian Secretariat for External Affairs’ standard policy on expanding foreigners’ understanding and appreciation of Ariddian culture(s), lifestyles and values (there are State-backed cultural centres in most of the nations Ariddia considers important). Taking a liking to the Sel Appan way of life, he chose to remain there and apply for citizenship, while remaining committed to his national origins at the same time. He still manages the cultural centre, and considers himself “fully binational and bicultural”. He has a fascination for Sel Appan history, reading many books on the topic. He remains unmarried, but has a Sel Appan girlfriend.
He regularly visits arixpat.org (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Arixpat.org), the website for Ariddian expatriates. He is also, probably, one of the few people outside Ariddia who has a good grasp of Lank Jan (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Lank_Jan), an Indigenous Ariddian pidgin language derived from French.
Alice Jadoua
Born: Pen-y-Bydd, Bettia (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Bettia)
Now lives: Pen-y-Bydd, Bettia (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Bettia)
Job: works in family restaurant
Alice Jadoua is a second-generation Ariddian-Bettian, the daughter of Ariddian immigrants. She is an Indigenous Ariddian (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Wymgani) of mixed ethnicity. She was born and raised in the mountainous region in the north of Bettia, and has visited Ariddia several times. She recently married a native-born Bettian. They have no children as yet.
She works in her parents’ restaurant, which is a ‘typical Ariddian restaurant’ with strong Bettian culinary influences. She considers herself Bettian first and foremost, but has an interest in her parents’ country of origin, and naturally supports the Ariddian national football teal (except against Bettia). She speaks English and Arabic, has taught herself Wymgani (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Wymgani_%28language%29), but does not speak French. She occasionally logs on to arixpat.org (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Arixpat.org) – her only way of getting in touch with Ariddians, since there is no established Ariddian community in Pen-y-Bydd.