NationStates Jolt Archive

Today (August 9th, 2007 Gregorian) corresponds in the Kawaiian calendars (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Kawaiian_Calendars) to Bachan 5 of the 1189th Moon of the Water Dog, the 1st Day of Lazy Heat. The 1st day of Lazy Heat is a holiday in the Eternal Kawaii called "Lazy Day", where the normally very industrious Kawaiians take the day off and go for a picnic. Goofing off is the rule of the day: anyone seen working is made fun of, and Kawaiians often celebrate by holding contests to see who can be the laziest.

So, are there other significant national holidays being celebrated around now?

BL's holidays:

1 January - New Year's Day - Festivius ab Annus
14 February - St. Valentine's Day - Giorne dal Santo Valentino
2 May - British Londinium Day - Jubilaeus a'Londinium Britannica
25 May - Towel Day - Giorne a'Toailles
21 June - Summer Solstice - Solstite Sagma
19 September - Talk Like A Pirate Day - Giorne a'Ablataya Comme Corsaires
11 November - Armistice Day - Giorne a'Armistitium
31 December - New Year's Eve - Giorne a'Exspira ab Annus

Our most important holiday is Kastalicus, whoch falls roughly on November 30th. It celebrates the founding of Kastalic, the first city in Kirav.

We have numerous other holidays throughout the year celebrating astrnomoical events, wars, and harvests.

The next national holiday to be celebrated in Reloria will be on September 15th, and it is a fairly standard harvest festival. Elsewhere, there is a national holiday on the first day of each new season, and also on their independence day.

Altanar celebrates the following national holidays:

Election Day (January 1): Since voting is compulsory in Altanar, the government makes up for it by giving everyone a paid day off to do it.

Unification Day (January 14): the official date of unification of Altanar back in 1871. Typically a big patriotic celebration, but also a day of protest for government opponents and separatists.

Festival Week (first week of March): Originally a religious holiday, Festival Week is now a secular holiday where everyone in the country (except essential personnel) takes a weeklong holiday to do whatever they wish. It is celebrated with huge celebrations, parades, parties and special events. The Festival Week in Nalioka is especially renowned as being a fun (and raucous) event.

Military Day (May 17): a holiday honoring Altanar's military.

International Day (August 15): a newly created holiday to celebrate Altanar's emergence onto the international stage and the many cultures that have become part of the nation as a result. People typically hold parties and big celebrations where they sample food, cinema, literature and music from other countries.

The King's Birthday (varies with ruler, currently September 10): A holiday to pay homage to the nation's ruler, this day is typically celebrated with big parties throughout the country where people honor the King and royal family, with the centerpiece being the King's Birthday Celebration at the Aerie, the nation's royal palace in the capital, Ael Khalas. Invites to the King's party are highly sought items, and are usually reserved for politically or socially high-ranking Altanari and foreign dignitaries. Another popular protest day for separatists and government opponents.

The Queen's Birthday (varies with ruler, currently December 29): Similar to the King's Birthday celebrations, except for the lady of the house.

Qazox's National Holidays are:


February 28- Treaty Day
March 10- Signa Day
April 1- Qazian New Year (old style)
May 17- Consitution Day
May 24- International Day
June 19- Territory Day
July 2- Founding Day
July 31st to August 6th- Hoofaran Week
Third Wednesday in September- Election Day
October 20- Stonewall Day (Lorax City)/Freedom Day (rest of Country)
November 9- Neal Temblador Day (Pika City only)
December 25th-January 1st- Christmas Week


For more Info: Please see: http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/National_Holidays_in_Qazox

New Year's Day -- January 1 usually celebrated by nursing hangovers

Valentine's Day -- February 14 celebrated by either buying romantic gifts for your significant other or by ridiculing couples, if one is not in a relationship

April Fool's Day -- April 1 a day of jokes, tricks, and laughing at politicians

May Day -- May 1 the closest thing to a patriotic holiday in Maineiacs, you're supposed to celebrate the importance of the worker, but most people just hang out at the beach.

Hockey finals week -- mid-June. everything else comes to a standstill.

Halloween -- October 31 parties, kids trick-or-treating, etc. Major religious observance for Wiccans

Thanksgiving -- last Thursday in November a time of families getting together and stuffing themselves silly

Christmas -- December 25 largely a secular celebration of family and gifts

New Year's Eve -- December 31 a night to get reeeeaaaalllyyy drunk.

Each religious group, of course, has its observances (Yom Kippur, Ramadan, Samhain, etc.) and people are usually excused from work or school if the day requires it. Many also celebrate Festivus in late December (Festivus Pole, Airing of Grievances, etc.)

1 January - New Years' Day
2nd Monday in February - Civic Holiday (i.e., it just seemed like a good place to bung in a day off for everyone)
Typically in March/April - Good Friday and Easter Monday
1 May - Labour Day
4th Monday in May - Victory Day
1 July - Federation Day
1st Monday in August - Civic Holiday
18 September - Constitution Day
2nd Monday in October - Thanksgiving
11 November - Remembrance Day
24-26 December - Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, Boxing Day

Provincial Holidays:
1 March - St. David's Day (Noua Cymru)
17 March - St. Patrick's Day (all except Noua Cymru, Lupinissa, Beaulac and Roites)
14 July - Bastille Day (Beaulac)
25 October - Revolution Day (Etnier)

The August civic holiday is known as Simcoe Day in Noua Cymru, Aboriginal Heritage Day in Conroy and Konoha, Natal Day in Haligonia, and Discovery Day in Kewatin.

The February civic holiday is known as Family Day in Conroy.

In addition to these public holidays employment law requires everyone to be given a minimum of five weeks paid vacation leave per year.

Holidays in Uiri:

two to three weeks anywhere from December 20th to January 9th - Weeks around Christmas, New Year's and Epiphany.

Week from Shrove Monday to the Friday after Ash Wednesday

March/April 1st (whichever doesn't have Easter and only every five years) - Election Day

Maundy Thursday to Easter Monday

May 1st - May Day

June 1st - Fools' Day

July 8th - Freedom Day

August 1st - Romance Day (like Valentine's Day only in August)

3rd Monday in September - Thanksgiving

October 31st and November 1st - Hallow's Eve and All Saints' Day

:mp5:Introducing the el presidenta of mesotarian,

the rolling of the fat people: throwing fat people down a hill to be executed

the national beer hunt: any illegal contraband (beer) will be shot dead on site

target practice day: showing off our firepower to our neighbors :mp5:

independence day: celebrating the creation of this nation with fireworks

militry day: where my entire army marches

ANY CITIZEN NOT PARTICIPATING IN THESE HOLODAYS WILL BE SUBJECT TO:

death by firing squad

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To quote from the wiki (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Daistallia_2104#Faesaln):

Faesaln

Faesaln (meaning fruitfulness) is a unique festival in Daistallia. It draws on the Swiss Catholic traditions. Like most Catholic Carnival celebrations, it begins a week before the beginning of Lent. In urban centers, there are street parades featuring drum, pipe, and accordian bands accompanied the display of weaponry, martial arts displays, dancing and fancy-dress revelry. Many people take part under the auspices of thr several hundred Kaeriks (organizational groups and musical bands).

On Sunday night before Ash Wednesday, celebrants begin the celebrations with a spectacular bonfire, which lasts until after midnight. The bonfire is followed by a parade of illuminated lanterns through the city centre.Around noon the following day, masked parades are held throught the city with much music, dancing and jollity, followed in the evening by more localized performances by smaller local Kaeriks.

Most participants take their costumes very seriously and many people spend weeks in advance making huge, cartoonish papier-mâché heads and sewing lavish jester-like costumes. Comericial masks, half-masks, and face paint are considered taboo.

In rural areas, revelers go from house to house begging to obtain the ingredients for a communal meal. This is known as the The Faesaln Run. The riders wear costumes conceal ing their identity, which often parody authority figures, while consumeing large amounts of alcohol in their festive quest. As they ride from one household to the next, the riders engage in rowdy celebration. By mid to late afternoon, the riders return to their base town and parade down the main street on the way to the location where the evening meal will be prepared.

Many people recite satirical poems directed at local bigwigs, in the city’s taverns and restaurants during the evenings. There are also comical oompah concerts, played on old and dented brass instruments by local bands.

Traditional sweets are often served, including: Faesalnkuki, a light, thin round cake covered in icing sugar, and Faesalnfae, a kind of caraway-seed pretzel, and Faemaro a cake made from the flour of new rice steamed with melted sugar.

Weasn

This event takes place during the two weeks prior to the first Sunday in October. A special darker and stronger, in both taste and alcohol, beer is brewed for the occasion,. It is served in a large tankards. Local breweries are serve this special seasonal beer in large beer tents along with large quantities of food, most of it traditional hearty fare such as sausage, barbequed chicken, barbequed lish, ad the like.

Daezaen

Daezaen is celebrated during late December. It is the greatest religious festival in Daistallia. During this festival, family members who live apart from their families often come home to celebrate the festival. On the first day of the festival people sow seeds in a tiny vessel filled with clay and water. On the second day of the festival, youngsters take "blessings" in the form of sweets and other food items and clothes from their family elders. Government offices, schools and other offices are usually closed during the festival.

Badha Ghalae

Badha Ghalae: This festival falls in the month of December. Families having lost their members or relatives during the previous year spend all night meditating or praying at their local Buddhist temple. At sunrise, they have a ritual bath, then walk through the graveyard, scattering grain along the path.

The following is a list of specific holidays observed within the Socialist Confederation of Ontarium (That is to say, New years, halloween etc. is not included on the list).

Republican Day, April 5- Celebrating the foundation of the People's Republic under Centralspeaker Gifkins and the end of the first civil-war. Celebrated with excessive amounts of alcohol.

Hugging Day, January 7- The Ontarii equivalent to Valentines Day, but using your arms instead of those cheap little cards.

Kras'vaan, First full moon of autumn- Old celebration dating back to the times before there was even an Ontarii state, usually celebrated with excessive amounts of alcohol.

Bloody Seventh, February Seventh- Marks the assasination of Centralspeaker Gifkins, the return of the monaarchists and the beginning of the second civil-war.

Rememberance Day, November 17- Holiday created in rememberance and recognition to all Ontarii soldiers killed, serving and served throughout history.

Confederation Day, April 27- Marks the end of the second civil war and the reformation of the People's Republic into the Socialist Confederation. Celebrated with excessive amounts of alcohol and a day off the next morning to recover from a hangover.

Krevau, September 1- Another old holiday celebrated by games, dancing and yes, excessive amounts of alcohol.

We don't have holidays per se, and certainly nothing state-sanctioned.
However, happy hour does last from January 1st to December 31st in most taverns. Good deal, eh?