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I don't know if this has been done before, but I want to hear where people got their NS names from.

I've used Hemingsoft for years, ever since High School (freshmen year) when some kid said I would vie Bill Gates for computer OS. He said mine would be called Hemingsoft, based on my last name.

My only criteria were that it sounded like it could be a country, it started with "L" and had an "ae" in it.

'Czardas' came from one of my titles as Supreme Ruler of the Multiverse. Actually, it was named after one of my 9 dogs, but don't tell anyone or I'll...I'll... I won't give you any cookies!

My favourite band is Rammstein. I don't know why I added "burg" onto it.

'Czardas' came from one of my titles as Supreme Ruler of the Multiverse. Actually, it was named after one of my 9 dogs, but don't tell anyone or I'll...I'll... I won't give you any cookies!

The multiverse, a bizarre bit'o knwledge for an NSer to know about (besides myself). Or do you just know about it by name?

Meh, I sat there pondering and came up with "Kanabia", which sounded like a country.

No, It has no relevance to "Can of Beer" or "Cannabis", surprisingly :p

I'm evil toe. I stubbed my toe, so I used the name.

i like heavy metal. when i made this nation it was the only thing i liked.
i tried a bunch of metal-related names but this was the only one not taken.

xXx the movie... not porno... the one with Vin Deisel

No, It has no relevance to "Can of Beer" or "Cannabis", surprisingly :p
i think there's gotta be a subconcious link there ;)

i like heavy metal. when i made this nation it was the only thing i liked.
i tried a bunch of metal-related names but this was the only one not taken.
boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

Transoceana = "Across the Ocean"... because the name 'British North America' wasn't available.

Combination of the witches names from The Wizard of Oz.

Transoceana = "Across the Ocean"... because the name 'British North America' wasn't available.

Is British North America kinda like Cananda or something?

boooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
rrrrrrrrrrrring?

yeah i know ;)


and there's nothing wrong with heavy metal, young man :rolleyes:

"To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee; one clover, and a bee, and revery." -- Emily Dickinson

http://www.wizards.com/magic/autocard.asp?name=Karakas

i think there's gotta be a subconcious link there ;)

Hahaha, probably. I didn't notice until I had them pointed out to me, though. :p

A card game

My name on here has relevence to my City Journals on Simtropolis (http://www.simtropolis.com/)

It was going to be Newtonia, but that was already taken, so I just added the Sim- prefix. :rolleyes:

Muwahahahaha...wouldnt you all like to know...

I tell my kids I am the meanest mom ever - you know - when I tell them NO about something - it would only fit that my psychotic dictatorship would be named after my motus operandi!

Muwahahahaha...wouldnt you all like to know...

Let me guess, damning the Russian space program???

Let me guess, damning the Russian space program???

Actually..no...

Muwahahahaha...wouldnt you all like to know...

A Russian friend of yours that had a bizarre accident?

Fist to keyboard, add vowels to suit.

Ta da....

Is British North America kinda like Cananda or something?


It's a name that was sometimes applied collectively to ALL of the British colonies in North America, not just the ones that federated to become Canada but also originally the ones that rebelled succesfully in the 1770s as well...

I came up with mine in a fit of unimagination, as it fit my sense of humour. Plus "the Jingoistic States of Compulsive Depression" seems to fit together nicely.

Had I realised that forums (that I might occasionally post on) were involved, I'd've chosen something more becoming my advanced years. Rather than sounding like an over-angst'd teenager...

I wrote this ages ago. It's not written brilliantly, but I banged it up quickly at the time so everytime this thread came up I could copy+paste. Here it is:

Back in the day, (a few years ago actually) me and my best mate were N64 wh0res and one of the games we played was wcw/nwo revenge, a pro-wrestling game. One day I decided to re-name on of the made up characters. Being a southpark fan then too, I named him 'FiveassedmonkeymanVII' with the 'manVII' being added on in a spur of the moment thing. About a month later, I was discussing with this said friend what I should use for my yahoo msger ID (I just started using that again even though no one I know is ever on) and he suggested I use the fiveassed name, so I did, 'Fiveassedmonkeyman7' became my Yahoo ID. A few months later, I started playing the online game 'Planetarion' (sometime during Round 3 for people who know when that was) and stuck with the name for my planets ruler name. Using IRC became an important part of playing this game, and I was forced to shorten my name to 'Monkeyman7' for IRC. Sometime during the round, my birthday happened and some of my friends gave me an orange 'pimp' tshirt which I wore constantly. When round 4 of Planetarion started, I adjusted my ruler name slightly on the back of this tshirt to 'Fiveassedmonkeypimp7' or 'Monkeypimp' for IRC. When I started up on NS, I ran with it.

I wrote this ages ago. It's not written brilliantly, but I banged it up quickly at the time so everytime this thread came up I could copy+paste. Here it is:

Back in the day, (a few years ago actually) me and my best mate were N64 wh0res and one of the games we played was wcw/nwo revenge, a pro-wrestling game. One day I decided to re-name on of the made up characters. Being a southpark fan then too, I named him 'FiveassedmonkeymanVII' with the 'manVII' being added on in a spur of the moment thing. About a month later, I was discussing with this said friend what I should use for my yahoo msger ID (I just started using that again even though no one I know is ever on) and he suggested I use the fiveassed name, so I did, 'Fiveassedmonkeyman7' became my Yahoo ID. A few months later, I started playing the online game 'Planetarion' (sometime during Round 3 for people who know when that was) and stuck with the name for my planets ruler name. Using IRC became an important part of playing this game, and I was forced to shorten my name to 'Monkeyman7' for IRC. Sometime during the round, my birthday happened and some of my friends gave me an orange 'pimp' tshirt which I wore constantly. When round 4 of Planetarion started, I adjusted my ruler name slightly on the back of this tshirt to 'Fiveassedmonkeypimp7' or 'Monkeypimp' for IRC. When I started up on NS, I ran with it.

:D I have lost count how many times I have read that exact story, sir.

Muwahahahaha...wouldnt you all like to know...I would be interested in discovering how someone could think of neutering something that resembles a large metallic turnip...

:D I have lost count how many times I have read that exact story, sir.

Lucky I had the foresight that this would be a common topic then :)

Lucky I had the foresight that this would be a common topic then :)

My story is easy enough to recount without needing to copy-paste the story. :)

well i'm a lotr fan and love fairies so i just went with it and was amazed i didnt think of something really dumb sounding - i almost named it trooping fairies after a quote from the movie " the magical legend of the leprechauns" ( yes i'm a fantasy nut! )

http://www.fass.se

I had a copy of the Swedish Pharmaceutical Catalogue in front of me when I signed up. The catalogue's name is "FASS" (= "FArmaceutiska Specialiteter i Sverige").

Tada.

I don't know if this has been done before, but I want to hear where people got their NS names from.

The decision involved a lack of imagination, a certain pastry-based meal and a removed vowel.

http://www.fass.se

I had a copy of the Swedish Pharmaceutical Catalogue in front of me when I signed up. The catalogue's name is "FASS" (= "FArmaceutiska Specialiteter i Sverige").

Tada.Dang. I actually thought you took the German word for "sic 'em!"

I don't know if this has been done before, but I want to hear where people got their NS names from.
I thought, and still do, it was a cool name.

I have always liked moles, and when I signed up I added a country sounded suffix... land..


Hence, Moleland.

Fist to keyboard, add vowels to suit.

Ta da....
My name has very similar origins, but because I was at a school computer, I couldn't just smash my fist into the keyboard, I just punched a bunch of random letters...

I got my name from liking English Humour. Wow. Was that informative?

well, i once made a language, and yupaenu is just the name of the country i live in adapted to the language i made. yes, it's phonological constraints are rather restricting.

My name jammed into and elvish (or is it elven or elfish) name generator minus the punctuation

Mine comes from the game Europa Universalis II. Your reputation in the game varies according to how much conquering and treaty-breaking you've done. At the top is "Honorable", meaning you've been a complete pansy. "Dishonorable Scum" means you've been a bad, bad boy. :D

Though it is possible to be worse. The two lowest reputations are the descriptively named "Worse than Dishonorable Scum", and "Hated throughout the entire world". Ah, something to strive towards...

:p

I thought it sounded kind of Egyptian.
*shrugs*

I watched the film “El Cid” just before I created my nation. That was taken so I added in “the hero”. Sadly my brother had left the caps lock on.

Having just moved away from Toronto to a much smaller community, and being terribly uncreative, I decided that Torontonia sounded much better that Ruralia, unfortuneately, Torontonia was taken, so I added "s" to the end of it, you'd be suprised at how this works when it comes to registering on things.

I really have no idea. It just came to me, but I wanted something that sounded Latin. It seems there is no such word which is a shame. Any suggestions where it came from would be usefull.

in one of the RW RPs i run (home grown D20) there are only 18 corporate entities left in the world. In terms of Power they are:
1. Armacor (Abbriviated name for the General Armaments Corporation of South Africa)
2. CHS Citibanking Corp (a Merger between Bank of China, HSBC and Citigroup)
3. G20 Collective (the remaining 20 countries in the world)
4. Space Station Oberon (all that was the Armacor empire in orbit and above, before the civil war)

and a whole load of others... about 6 have made it to NS so far, including the 4 listed above, only 1 remains now ;-)

Mine's just my last name with a national-sounding ending attached to it. I use myself as my nation's president in roleplays.

I just came up with it randomly.

My nation is named after my wife (awww), and in an impressive show of unoriginality, I just happen to share my name with the president.

My nation is called "Catalunya i Llenguadoc". They're two names of two nations. I live in Barcelona (Catalunya) (European Union). The name of Catalunya was occupated and I add Catalunya's Neighbors country, Llenguadoc.

Catalunya was divided between Spain and France but we have a different culture, history, people and language.

We celebrated an Olympic games in 1992 too.

We speak Catalan ( French and Spanish too).

It's not original but that's all.

Well... I originally chose this name to rip on the Kahanist movement (Jewish Fascists who believe in expelling Arabs from the Palestinian territories. For information about Kahanism from a Kahanist viewpoint, I suggest http://www.kahane.org, http://www.masada2000.org, http://jdl.org.il, and http://www.jtf.org.) I had the idea that since both Israel and the Arabs were having trouble with these extremists, and Kahanists were claiming that if the West Bank and Gaza were made part of a Palestinian state (or in KahanistSpeak, an "Arab Muslim Nazi PLO terrorist state,") Israel would be cut in two, that that sounded like a good idea. In other words, I thought that Israel could give the West Bank and Gaza to the Palestinians (KahanistSpeak: "Palesimians"), cut off the southern tip of what we now call the Terrorist State of Israel, most of which is the inhospitable Negev Desert, relocate the Kahanists and other fascists there, rename it "Kahanistan" or something cool like that, and wash their hands of that extremist trash once and for all. If the Kahanists did something crazy, like attack the Palestinians, the US couldn't shield them in the UNSC like they do with the Terrorist State of Israel without losing what little credibility they have in the international community, and the Palestinians could defend themselves more effectively if it was just poorly armed and ill-trained Jewish extremists and not ordinary Israelis / IOF they were fighting against.

I kind of strayed from the point, I guess, but... eh.

Named after Kurt Vonnegut's book, which I never read though.

I don't know if this has been done before, but I want to hear where people got their NS names from.

I've used Hemingsoft for years, ever since High School (freshmen year) when some kid said I would vie Bill Gates for computer OS. He said mine would be called Hemingsoft, based on my last name.

Frangland = France + England

Mine is just a usual alias I use on the internet.
It is part of lyrics from a Kill Hannah song. Nothing special.

It's the irish for hell.neamh(the irish for heaven)was taken

my name doesnt mean anything. i was originally going to name it Jalacia, which means nothing as well, but typed a t instead of a c. oh well

My nation name is just my first name. How boring.....

Just got back after a year in France and loved it, so France + cool-sounding ending = Franxia.

Charlen comes from a story I wrote in high school about a world war between the super powers over the last remaining oil and food reserves. Charlen was the mythical utopia where there's more than enough food for everyone in the world, and in the end when a truce is made a territory with the last oil deposits is set aside to evenly distribute the oil to all nations while no nation has more control over it than another, and that area was named Charlen after the mythical utopia.

and in case anyone's wondering, it's pronounced Sharlin =P

I'll let you guess.

I just thought for about 30 seconds, couldn't think of anything so i just picked picked a name out of the air, didn't dislike it,voila, same with my currency.Talk about a post filler!

My nation is called "Catalunya i Llenguadoc". They're two names of two nations. I live in Barcelona (Catalunya) (European Union). The name of Catalunya was occupated and I add Catalunya's Neighbors country, Llenguadoc.


només volia dir: què guay ^_^ i a més a més, 'visca catalunya lliure' ^_^

perquè vas escollir 'llengadoc,' i no 'occitania'? l'occità es parla mes enllà de lengadòc (bé, suposo que depèn de si hi inclous el gascó etc. com a 'occità' o no hehe).

Lack of imagination. I basically jacked France's motto. >.>

I honestly don't know...

The name I wanted was already taken. That really pis*ed me off.

I suppose it just came to me. I wanted Little Italy but that was also taken, so I became Little India and my region New Italy - it should have been the other way round, but, c'est la vie.

My friends always tell me that I'm insane, which I counter by claiming the world is insane. When it came time for my nation to be named, I remembered those conversations and the Free Land of Sane Outcasts was born.

Over the years in middle school, I mispronounced several words and said otherwise stupid things while with my friends, and they, of course, took note and loved to tease me about them. One of them compiled all of them into a single phrase, which was "The 10 cubic ton angry dirt surfed the wavs! See it adjacent to Belarus if you're omnipotent." So technically, "Adjacent to Belarus" is pronounced A-jah-cent to Bel-air-us, with the stresses on the first syllable of adjacent and the second of Belarus. :)

I attempted to log into my nation that had been inactive for a couple of months and couldn't so I decided to make a new one. I tried Marcania, but it was already taken. After trying a few other names that were reserved, I got frustrated, picked up the book Celtic Myth & Magick by Edain McCoy that was sitting next to my computer and skimmed through its list of Celtic Godesses and Heroines. I came across "Grainne Ni Malley", a pirate queen. The book suggested that calling on her is supposed to aid you in serving your country and I figured that it was appropriate enough for NS.

'Czardas' came from one of my titles as Supreme Ruler of the Multiverse. Actually, it was named after one of my 9 dogs, but don't tell anyone or I'll...I'll... I won't give you any cookies!

I ALWAYS highlight when I read!:p

OH! I forgot to explain why I picked my name! I was sitting in German class with a friend and we were looking at a picture of cake on a persons dress and I started to think "cake on me:headbang: " and when I started going faster I came up with Kaykami!

I play Warhammer (tabletop miniatures wargame - toy soldiers basically). One of the armies is called the Bretonnians, from the land of Bretonnia. They're sort of Arthurian knights with a French veneer. Anyway, I have a Bret army and some of my mates began calling them Briantonnians ( chop off the 'Bret' replace it with my name)... Sad, but true.

first..

My only criteria were that it sounded like it could be a country, it started with "L" and had an "ae" in it
laerod does NOT sound like a country. not ingerman, either.

The multiverse, a bizarre bit'o knwledge for an NSer to know about. Hemingsoft
there is no such thing as bizarre knowledge for an NSer.

http://www.fass.se
i find it disturbing to click onto a website where FASS kinda captions the picture of a young asian-looking girl.

<not answering the OQ>
damn you!i have been wondering about your name for some time, and it is you who won't give an explanation?

secondly..

my name's a rather nerdish creation, and it is only by an accident that this became my "forum nation".

i actually started playing NS while still in highschool, later forgot about that nation, and only remembered NS when doing a projecty thingy at uni. and for that project, i created a new nation, naming it SoWiBi (SoWi is uni abbreviation for my course of study (sozialwissenschaften=social sciences), and Bi is what goes on my town's license plates (Bielefeld)). so yeah.

Ruloah=a planet I created, out in the galactic halo, orbiting the star Ruhn, home of the Warriors of the First Circle, trained by Rulan, First of the Inner Council, to defend the galaxy against the Four Sides of Darkness, also known as the Dark Lords of The Outer Darkness.

gropney=my currency, from a story I made up to tell my youngest brother when I was trying to put him to sleep, about a village whose name was the same as its currency, which always made for some confusion...

too much time on my hands as an insane teenager...:eek:

Grand Duchy, like the Grand Duchy of Fenwick, annoying and clever.

Glorious Bob, that's me.

Simple.

Over the years in middle school, I mispronounced several words and said otherwise stupid things while with my friends, and they, of course, took note and loved to tease me about them. One of them compiled all of them into a single phrase, which was "The 10 cubic ton angry dirt surfed the wavs! See it adjacent to Belarus if you're omnipotent." So technically, "Adjacent to Belarus" is pronounced A-jah-cent to Bel-air-us, with the stresses on the first syllable of adjacent and the second of Belarus. :)
Heh, I like that.



As for me, I couldn't think of anything and finally just picked something to go with my nation title of "The Nomadic Peoples of...". Thought I was being funny :rolleyes: .
Had I known then that I would ever post on this forum I might have made a wiser choice. That one long word is about the worst forum name ever.

Took it from a fictional kingdom in a novel for I really liked the name (even if the book was average).

does 4 months constitute a grave dig? I'd say so.


I guess it's better than someone starting another one of these threads :p

It wouldnt accept Lord Fenix so i gave myself a promotion...

AND THERE'S NO-ONE WHO CAN TAKE IT FROM ME !!!

O.O

>.>

<.<

Get back all of you !

i find it disturbing to click onto a website where FASS kinda captions the picture of a young asian-looking girl.

Oh, hush. She's a cute little girl, at least.

i actually started playing NS while still in highschool, later forgot about that nation, and only remembered NS when doing a projecty thingy at uni. and for that project, i created a new nation, naming it SoWiBi (SoWi is uni abbreviation for my course of study (sozialwissenschaften=social sciences), and Bi is what goes on my town's license plates (Bielefeld)). so yeah.

You thought too much about this.

Wildwolfden well I like the wolf the animal, I have a MSN Group called Wolfden and wild as it did not let me have just Wolfden

I just jammed letters together and stuck an "-ia" on the end and this is how it came out. I was originally going to take the name of a store or something and turn it backwards but most of them came out so dumb I just went with this.

i actually started playing NS while still in highschool, later forgot about that nation, and only remembered NS when doing a projecty thingy at uni. and for that project, i created a new nation, naming it SoWiBi (SoWi is uni abbreviation for my course of study (sozialwissenschaften=social sciences), and Bi is what goes on my town's license plates (Bielefeld)). so yeah.

Bielefeld, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld-Verschw%C3%B6rung) eh. So you are one of them? Now where is my tinfoil hat...

How did I come up with my nation's name? I guess that's obvious. Lazy is in "Lazy (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lazy)" and Otakus as in "Otaku (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otaku)"

'Czardas' came from one of my titles as Supreme Ruler of the Multiverse. Actually, it was named after one of my 9 dogs, but don't tell anyone or I'll...I'll... I won't give you any cookies!

That's what he said: (something like 3rd post) but did anybody notice the secret white message (now grey) that he posted with it? I dunno, just I have a habit of highlighting messages as I read them.

My nation's name just came to me, although I think it was based on Armenia. I just had to put an 'ia' at the end of it, as it's used by several actual countries (eg India, Mongolia, Latvia, Estonia etc.) I wanted it to be a peaceful nation but I hadn't even noticed the link to 'arms' in the title! I also wanted it to be a bit mysterious, hence 'ar' (our) 'mistri' (mystery).

Eruantalon is Ian (my name) in J.R.R. Tolkien's Sindarin language (a branch of Elvish). w00t for nerdiness!

My nation name is just my first name. How boring.....
That is certainly not a boring first name!

I ALWAYS highlight when I read!:p

Me too, apparently!:D

Aaron: My name
Ia: Typical ending for a coutnry name.

As for my leaders name: Baron Aaron

My English and L2L teacher last year, gave me it for a teambuilding exersise, i use it for everything.:p

Turquoise Days is a novella by Alastair Reynolds (http://members.tripod.com/~voxish/sf_novels.html)

Bielefeld, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bielefeld-Verschw%C3%B6rung) eh. So you are one of them? Now where is my tinfoil hat...

too late, dear. we have analyzed your posting patterns, we know where you live, and we will have you "visit" here shortly.
(for god's fucking sake, why does this haunt me even on an international forum? why?)

anyway, yes, i am one of them, and as a fellow german, you could as well ahve gathered that from my location. which part of this warped country do you grace?

You thought too much about this.
oh, hush yourself. you're not the person to tell me that.

I thought that since this was a political game, that I'd think of some of the people who've influenced me politically. Noam Chomsky was already taken. I think ultimately I like this one better, though.

too late, dear. we have analyzed your posting patterns, we know where you live, and we will have you "visit" here shortly.
(for god's fucking sake, why does this haunt me even on an international forum? why?)

anyway, yes, i am one of them, and as a fellow german, you could as well ahve gathered that from my location. which part of this warped country do you grace?



Actually this is the first time I met someone who claims to be from Bielefeld online, so I just couldn't resist. Must be pretty annoying to hear that joke again and again, I guess.

I'm from Erlangen in beautiful Franconia.

mine is my actual first name

I got the inspiration for mine from the name "Saudi Arabia." I had never cared about Saudi Arabia itself, but when I read that it's actually named after some guy called Saud, I've wanted to put my name on a country ever since.

So when I found this game, it was easy enough to make that a somewhat-reality. Deserts aren't appealing to me, and I'm not an Arab, either, so I got rid of the "Arabia" part and replaced it with "America."

So: Ferg (first part of my last name) + i + America.

I founded the Nation during that last glitch (something about the hard drive filling up)...and when I could get on again, the [NS] appeared in front of my forum name. But it's not part of the actual nation name.

Although I originally jusy made up 'Safalra', I've since retconned it to be the Ek (http://www.safalra.com/special/nationstates/ek/) for 'the taste of sea mist' (from the Cornish saworalaw).

oh, hush yourself. you're not the person to tell me that.

Am, too! I didn't think at all.

Must be pretty annoying to hear that joke again and again, I guess.

annoying does not even begin to cover it. just don't mention it again.

and "beautiful franconia"? my ass. ain't i glad i only see you type and don't hear you speak, now. and don't worry about harsh comments from me, after all, born i am as "wir sind die niedersachsen, stur, steif, und krumm gewachsen".

Am, too! I didn't think at all.
exactly. who am i to be told what to do and what not to do by someone who doesn't think?

<----

Draw your own conclusions.

Larina is the name I use for everything, I just added the -ville

Well, I usually use the name Lightman on the internet, but that didn't really sound like a nation, so I made it Quaon.

[Refers to Von Witzleben's name...]
damn you!i have been wondering about your name for some time, and it is you who won't give an explanation?
Von Witzleben: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_von_Witzleben
Come on, don't you know the heros of July 20th? (If that is what von Witzleben had in mind when he chose his name...)

(...) and Bi is what goes on my town's license plates (Bielefeld)). (...)
Oh my, oh my! I knew that there was something suspect and fishy about you. Now I know. *already wears tinfoil head*

(...) Bielefeld, eh. So you are one of them? Now where is my tinfoil hat...
(...)
*hands out spare tinfoil head to Lazy Otakus* Be careful with her! Dark powers are at work here!

annoying does not even begin to cover it. just don't mention it again.
He doesn't have to - I will more than gladly substitute for him :D

(...) and don't worry about harsh comments from me, after all, born i am as "wir sind die niedersachsen, stur, steif, und krumm gewachsen".
I take pride in being from Lower Saxony. And we are neither "stur, steif und krumm gewachsen" nor "klein, krumm und moosbewachsen", nor "strohdumm und moosbewachsen"!
Shame on you - but then again, what'd I expect from someone who claims to be from "Bielefeld". http://www.realitynet.nl/images/er/funstuff/turbonoface.gif

Back to the topic!
My nation's name "German Nightmare" has an 11 year history. My US soccer coach in highschool started to call me that when he wanted me to get on the field.
Soon the whole team referred to me me as "the German nightmare" to awe the opposite teams.
What I lacked in skillz I made up in bravado and readiness to make sacrifices and take one for the team. Aah, good times! Besides, nothing beats talking shit about their moms to someone who doesn't speak German but knows exactly what you're talking about :D
Anyway, they all expected me to be the soccer god (coming from Germany and all) - little did they know that my expertise ranged only form backyard amateur over street soccer semipro to television and stadium pro :p

There, that's the story. Now I'm the German Nightmare, forever and ever.

exactly. who am i to be told what to do and what not to do by someone who doesn't think?

You lose at this game, as you obviously don't know the rules.

The rules being I am right and you are wrong. As always.

Kirisubo is the name of one of the Japanese characters in 'Shogun', the epic novel by James Clavell.

It's like perovskia, except it isn't.

Von Witzleben: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erwin_von_Witzleben
Come on, don't you know the heros of July 20th? (If that is what von Witzleben had in mind when he chose his name...)
dude, i know my heroes! what i wanted to know is whether v.W. did, too.

He doesn't have to - I will more than gladly substitute for him :D
i told you once, i'll tell you again: you are a damn nightmare. and i hope this time nobody steps in to seperate us.

I take pride in being from Lower Saxony.
pride is so yesterday. but glad i am, too. until now, that i learned i share that with you.

You lose at this game, as you obviously don't know the rules.
just why does it always feel like i win when i lose?
The rules being I am right and you are wrong. As always.
Oroa dig inte, jag kan det utantill. Säg till mig när du är klar. oh damn i hope this is at least bordering on correct

just why does it always feel like i win when i lose?

Because the winner takes it all.

Oroa dig inte, jag kan det utantill. Säg till mig när du är klar. oh damn i hope this is at least bordering on correct

Åh, oroa dig inte för det, du.

quoting ABBA in regular conversation is punishable by forcibly having to buy tickets to every Mamma Mia show on earth.

Because the winner takes it all.
don't savage like that. leave me my tea, my chocolate and my internet.and my crappy swedish translators.

Åh, oroa dig inte för det, du.
Prognoserna inger bekymmer. Jag anfäktas av tvivel. gotta love producing random idioms.

quoting ABBA in regular conversation is punishable by forcibly having to buy tickets to every Mamma Mia show on earth.


You’re a teaser, you turn ’em on. But I made up my mind, it must come to an end. We just have to face it this time, no more carefree laughter in this thread.

p.s. and i get to get mamma mia tickets?!

You’re a teaser, you turn ’em on. But I made up my mind, it must come to an end. We just have to face it this time, no more carefree laughter in this thread.

p.s. and i get to get mamma mia tickets?!I turn *who* on?
and no - that particular torture is reserved for the offender only - Fass, in this case.

Ballklampania came from something on the Daily show. They were making fun of some country and were like, "Yeah, the small European nation of Ballklampia would never do that!" When I registered my country, I tried that, but it was already taken so I changed the suffix.

-Ballklampania

I turn *who* on?
and no - that particular torture is reserved for the offender only - Fass, in this case.

this is truly delightful, though i do feel slightly offended myself now. which beam has blinded you?

Ballklampania came from something on the Daily show. They were making fun of some country and were like, "Yeah, the small European nation of Ballklampia would never do that!" When I registered my country, I tried that, but it was already taken so I changed the suffix.

goes to show that more NSers watch tDS. i like NS.

p.s. you might want to reduce your sig just a little, 8 lines is supposed to be the limit.

quoting ABBA in regular conversation is punishable by forcibly having to buy tickets to every Mamma Mia show on earth.
(Right now I'm) feeling stupid, feeling small. And I see myself as a concealed attraction.
I'm probably one of the youngest, if not THE youngest, kids to actually WILLINGLY go to a Björn Again concert. I wanted to watch that scene.

So... I won't lay all my love on this post, because I see every (other post) a potential threat...

Anyway, I created my nation last year, when I had what you might call a trivial occupation (school), and my explanation of the name is that: it was lunchtime, and I didn't have much time or space for witty name creation. So, I thought: that I pride myself on being random, and like the word and the flexibility of it (for example answering the question "Why was ABBA successful in the late 70s with "Because they randomly succeeded") and tried to use something like Random Land or Random Nation, but that was used, so I used the fact that I live in the UK to give Kingdom. (Which is a total misnomer because RK has never had a king.) Two for the price of one!

I retcon it ICly to being this: There was something in the air that night when RK was founded, and the name originated from a joking response from one of the settlers to the question "What should we call this fine nation" The settler responded lazily, "Uhh... random kingdom?" and the name stuck.

Ah well... If I created my nation now I would call it Arasia. (Based on a character of a story I wrote earlier this year for school (It sucked in every possible way, and reeked of a 13 year old with problems, which is what I actually am) with a suffix, and because it sounds like that cool band Erasure.
Who released an EP of ABBA covers called ABBA-esque.

And I feel I'm cracking up because my nation's name sucks...

And now... to start a new trend of quotation: cheesy 80s pop songs.
So... now you've got my number, and the alias that I've been living under.

which beam has blinded you?
Super Trouper. But I won't feel blue, like I always do, 'cause somewhere in the crowd there's you.

I challenge you to source all of the ABBA quotes in my post, plus the cheesy 80s quote near the end.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/MrMisanthrope/trashcat.jpg

Go Figure.

don't savage like that. leave me my tea, my chocolate and my internet.and my crappy swedish translators.

You started it.

Prognoserna inger bekymmer. Jag anfäktas av tvivel. gotta love producing random idioms.

Ok, den där är bara rappakalja.

@ random:
a) that blinded comment was directed more at kreitz..even though i refuse to bold, i rather assume you have not been?
b) "challenge" is different in the days of google.
c) 13, eh? well, enough time to have listened to the right music and read the right books, as i see.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y180/MrMisanthrope/trashcat.jpg

Go Figure.
What? Don't you want me baby? (Sorry, that stretched the cheesy 80s thing)

@ random:
a) that blinded comment was directed more at kreitz..even though i refuse to bold, i rather assume you have not been?
b) "challenge" is different in the days of google.
c) 13, eh? well, enough time to have listened to the right music and read the right books, as i see.
A) What?
B) Whatwhat?
C) Whatwhatwhatwhat?

You started it.
how could i forget about the you-are-never-to-blame part of the rules. please, teach me.

Ok, den där är bara rappakalja.
well, lär ut ett knep, then. you crack me up for good. rappakalja, my ass. i will use that a lot from now on. and is there truly such a word as "sjuksköterskeelev"?!

how could i forget about the you-are-never-to-blame part of the rules. please, teach me.

I have nothing to teach you that you do not already know. And you know that.

well, lär ut ett knep, then. you crack me up for good. rappakalja, my ass. i will use that a lot from now on. and is there truly such a word as "sjuksköterskeelev"?!

Knep och knåp är inte min grej. And yes, there is such a word indeed. It means "nurse student/pupil," i.e. someone training to become a nurse.

Guys, stop spiralling into a flame war.

Anyway, back to the point of the thread, I'm Catlandatopia. I was going to be Catland, since I have 6 cats living with me, but that had already been taken. So, I added the "atopia" to make it sound nationish, and voila, my name. Yeah....boring, I know.

~Cat

I have nothing to teach you that you do not already know. And you know that. And yes, there is such a word indeed. It means "nurse student/pupil," i.e. someone training to become a nurse.

there is a lot more you can teach me than i'll ever be able to learn. besides that, modesty does not suit you.

and i have worn myself out quite some with that rappakalja; you leave and find me empty.


@random: that is cute. you are not referring to fass and me, right? the day i'll flame fass is the day i'll burn.

@cat: kudos on the cats. they are the best. next to turtles, elks, and squirrels.

@random: that is cute. you are not referring to fass and me, right? the day i'll flame fass is the day i'll burn.

And don't you forget it.

@random: that is cute. you are not referring to fass and me, right? the day i'll flame fass is the day i'll burn.
I was.

I watched the film “El Cid” just before I created my nation. That was taken so I added in “the hero”. Sadly my brother had left the caps lock on.
I thought you had an obsession with the actual Spanish hero...

I basically came up with this name around the time we went into Iraq. Get it?

i heard about this place from friends who were more into politics then me
so i figured i had to have a name to take the piss out of that.
so i decided it would be "insert witty and political statment here"
but that didn't fit
so i became Insert witty comment"
i didn't like the capitalisation
so i decide to start a new one
i sat there trying to think and my fingers started to typ "I Like Oranges"
that was deleted, so i became "I Still Like Oranges" which was also deleted :(
so i upped it again and got the name i have now

The multiverse, a bizarre bit'o knwledge for an NSer to know about (besides myself). Or do you just know about it by name?


Doesn't everyone know about multiverse? Basics I mean, the mathematics get a bit complex.

Look here for the answer of where I got my name.

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Oh my, oh my! I knew that there was something suspect and fishy about you. Now I know. *already wears tinfoil head*


*hands out spare tinfoil head to Lazy Otakus* Be careful with her! Dark powers are at work here!


I think we were overreacting. It seems like there really is a Bielefeld. Those two nice guys visited me yesterday and showed me a map, where you can clearly see the city of Bielefeld.

It's right in the center:

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/8557/bielefeld4ux.gif

I don't think we need those tinfoil hats anymore.

Wildwolfden well I like the wolf the animal, I have a MSN Group called Wolfden and wild as it did not let me have just Wolfden

Well it is pretty simple.
I started 2 nations roughly at the same time:
Evil little girls and Cute little girls
CLG was meant to become a terrible dictatorship, representing everything I hate (see the irony of the name)
and ELG was just the opposite of that, my personal utopia

It's an anagram of my surname...



Fools, where do you think I got it from?

I think we were overreacting.
about bielefeld? yeah. about them suspicious dark powers? maybe nightmare is just a little moreon the inside there..

It seems like there really is a Bielefeld. ..I don't think we need those tinfoil hats anymore.
w00t! who says you can't make converts over the internet/NS General now?
and: careful with that naïvety.

It's an anagram of my surname..
i guess i qualify as fool..i wondered about it, let's say it that way.

yes, it most definately has, been done before, but it's still and eternaly fun.

cameroi, or camaroi, i don't remember for sure how he speld it, the name anyway, comes from the writings of rafiel alloisius lafferty, eternaly blessed be his undying spirit.

=^^=
.../\...

yes, it most definately has, been done before, but it's still and eternaly fun.

cameroi, or camaroi, i don't remember for sure how he speld it, the name anyway, comes from the writings of rafiel alloisius lafferty, eternaly blessed be his undying spirit.

=^^=
.../\...

I think we were overreacting. It seems like there really is a Bielefeld. Those two nice guys visited me yesterday and showed me a map, where you can clearly see the city of Bielefeld.

It's right in the center:

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/8557/bielefeld4ux.gif

I don't think we need those tinfoil hats anymore.
You mean you didn't torch your place and fled while you still had the chance? Hasn't Fletcher taught you anything? Don't tell me they also showed you a map of Southern Lower Saxony and gave you a pendulum - because that would only mean that I'd have to leave a.s.a.p.!!!
*jumps up and down*
*looses tinfoil head*
Huh? Oh yeah: By the way, the longer I stare at the map, the more clearly I can see Bielefeld. It really is amazing :D

Tis irish for hell.
The irish for heaven was reserved.

My Family name is Harle i added an is to say it is mine(In reference to the country) and i added Burg because it is/or was intended to be a City state.

I had no idea that populations grew so big when i made my country.
So so what if a nearly 3Billion Population lives in a place only twice the size of Singapore?:p

Just a name I made up for my province when I played Utopia. I didn't feel like making up a new one for nationstates.

My Family name is Harle i added an is to say it is mine(In reference to the country) and i added Burg because it is/or was intended to be a City state.

I had no idea that populations grew so big when i made my country.
So so what if a nearly 3Billion Population lives in a place only twice the size of Singapore?:p
It just means that your people are experts in building highrises with superfast elevators - or they are really small ;)

Well, I usually use and alias with OSU and a bunch of numbers, but that doesn't sound like a country. So I thought about other online games I played, and my favorite, BushLeague Baseball came to mind. We have little groups (teams) of people on it that have their own name and forum. I'm on a team called The Axis. So there is The Ohio State Axis.

Note: I am in no way affliated with the Axis of WWII...seeing as I am partly Jewish...



bushleague.mlb.com
Make sure you put http:// (www. does not work) in front of it, but I have to leave that out to make it invisible.
I'm osu871316@mlb3 if you sign up

I think mercenaries are cool so..
I was going to become The armed republic of mercenaries
But mercenaries was already taken so in my infinite wisdom, I decided to replace the first e with a 3. Never knew there were even forums, much less I would use them, if so i would have created a much more original name like
Nation of Fortune's.

I think mercenaries are cool so..
I was going to become The armed republic of mercenaries
But mercenaries was already taken so in my infinite wisdom, I decided to replace the first e with a 3. Never knew there were even forums, much less I would use them, if so i would have created a much more original name like
Nation of Fortune's.
So why don't you then?

I mashed two races in separate fantasy novels to create Avarhierrim. though someone thought I was scandanavian because of ny nation name.

So why don't you then?
well by saying Nation of Fortune, i was refering to the actual guy Nation of Fortune. I am mad he has a more clever mercenary name than me. And I dont want to have to start over from scratch.

Well, I couldn't think of a name so I just typed in the first French word that popped into my head, which happened to be l'argent. Take out the apposrophe and you have Largent.

I'm a Guns N' Roses fanatic.

Nothing interesting. 'Kaz' is an annoying but frequently used diminutive of my first name. 'Caper' is a frivolous escapade, which is what I expected a nation simulation game to be.

I'll give a cookie to whoever can get what mine refers to.

(proper spelling was already reserved, so mine has an extra letter)

'Kilobug' comes from a joke between a friend and I, when I was about 15 and learning programming as a hobby. I used it to open my first Internet connection, and then it lasted...

Kilobugya is just a countryish transformation of Kilobug, which doesn't sound like a country name.

There was a big thing at my high school about abortion. In defiance of the pro-life Catholic school generic expectancy thing, I made Fetus Murder.

It was funnier back then.

I'll give a cookie to whoever can get what mine refers to.

(proper spelling was already reserved, so mine has an extra letter)

The Ugly American.

The Ugly American.
*hands cookie*

not particularly an obscure reference, I was just in the mood for being difficult.

*shrug*

of course, if you google my name, then it turns out to show up on alot of Somali websites

I couldn't think of anything so I got my name from a song called Iron, Steel, Metal by Wizzard

The origins of my country's name is the result of a personal running gag that all started with the Nali War Cow (http://www.planetunreal.com/identitycrisis/skins/ut/skinpacks/rt/pack2/rt-memecow-ingame.jpg) from Unreal Tournament. Somehow, I identified with the idea and started off running around under the name of "CowPie". As time went on, the cow pie idea kept surfacing, just because it sounded inocuous, but just wrong. The term "pasture pastry" I had first heard in a story by Utah Phillips. (http://www.utahphillips.org/stuff/mooseturdpie.mp3)

Oh, if anyone's interested, here's the flag (http://www.nationstates.net/images/flags/uploads/pasturepastry.jpg) for The Eternal Fields of PasturePastry.

Everyone has called me Smunkee since highschool. Most people still do, other than my kid's friends who call me Ms.<my first name> and my kids who call me mom and my husband who calls me darling.

Mine comes from my old Diablo II sorceress who I had named Zarathoft. How I thought of that has slipped my memory....