NationStates Jolt Archive

What the hell is a Bigtopian?

Somebody from Bigtopia.

Uhhh, wheres that? >.<

I'm pretty sure it was intended as a generic NPC nation(thought someone might have gone and actually made it as a nation.)

The Bigtopians are ironically short people from an imaginary island named Liliputia in the story "Gulliver's Travels." I don't remember who wrote it off of the top of my head. They fought a great war with the Liliputians, because one race broke their eggs on the big end(BIGtopians) and the other broke their eggs on the little end.(LILputians) They are treated as a generic, oppressed minority race by issues written by Max Berry.

The Bigtopians are ironically short people from an imaginary island named Liliputia in the story "Gulliver's Travels." I don't remember who wrote it off of the top of my head. They fought a great war with the Liliputians, because one race broke their eggs on the big end(BIGtopians) and the other broke their eggs on the little end.(LILputians)
Few corrections/additions: The writer is Jonathan Swift, and they are called the "Big-Enders" in the book. Their opponents are not named by Swift (or at least I could not find it quickly in the book), but in the commentary to the version I have they are called Little-Endians.

The Big-Enders are originally from the land of Lilliput, but they fled to Blefuscu (competing kingdom) because the King of Lilliput once cut his finger by eating and egg from the big end. There, probably through intrigue, they incited Blefuscu to make war on Lilliput.

Few corrections/additions: The writer is Jonathan Swift, and they are called the "Big-Enders" in the book. Their opponents are not named by Swift (or at least I could not find it quickly in the book), but in the commentary to the version I have they are called Little-Endians.

The Big-Enders are originally from the land of Lilliput, but they fled to Blefuscu (competing kingdom) because the King of Lilliput once cut his finger by eating and egg from the big end. There, probably through intrigue, they incited Blefuscu to make war on Lilliput.


LOL this sounds like the "serious" RPers out there! :D It is unintentionally funny yes? If No then you are a greatly evil mind. <bows>

There's also a region called Bigtopia but it's a lot smaller than I remember.

Bigtopia (http://www.nationstates.net/97161/page=display_region/region=bigtopia)

LOL this sounds like the "serious" RPers out there! :D It is unintentionally funny yes? If No then you are a greatly evil mind. <bows>
Thank you but this is undeserved! This is a short summary of what Swift wrote in the book, and according to the comments in the back of the book, Swift intended it as a parody of religious quarrels and hairsplitting. So yes, it was intended to be funny.

... and ... just totally by accident I happen to be reading the book right now.

yes...this game is intended as a parody hence all of its "mistakes" or "faults" in the programming. It clearly was not meant to be taken seriously and yet...people really do get in a huff about the simplist things. I don't think they know...or at least they have forgotten how funny the entire premise really is. Nice summary. I found the section on "scientific experimentation" while he was in the floating city particularly hilarous.

Again direct parallels to the Current RPers general trends at the insane and fanciful.

I found the section on "scientific experimentation" while he was in the floating city particularly hilarous.

And did you know that according to some historical researchers, those experiments are not made up by Swift, but that he describes experiments that were actually done in Swift's days? :eek:

According to yet another footnote in the book, Swift only satirized them (if that is an English word)...