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What (country, book etc) inspired your NS nation?

Korean is my "me" nation. In other words, if I had my own country, it would be something like this. Some of my puppet nations are inspired by countries (Shiian=Nazi Germany, Caesura=Communist Russia, Huoy=Loosly on China), others just have their own individual goals (Loi-Jow=religion, Rijaldi=Business, Chekka=Civil Rights).

What (country, book etc) inspired your NS nation?

My nation has been inspired by Fransisco Franco.

I being Chinese named my country after the Chinese communist party headquaters.

I was making stuff up as I go along and kind of still am, so my nation wasn't inspired by anything in paticular besides my views.

Fire in the Valley.
the history of silicon valley

(this is the book Pirates of silicon valley is based on, although Pirates is based on like two chapters of the book, I recommend you read it, )

Pretty much anything evil. :p

The all controlling, incredibly corrupt and totally liberal stance of the WRP.
Basically, they could stop you doing anything, would take bribes to change some things but will let you do anything as long as you do it while accepting them as undisputed leaders.
They're mentioned in a story called The History of Vorlon.

The United States Marine Corps.

I was making stuff up as I go along and kind of still am, so my nation wasn't inspired by anything in paticular besides my views.
If you've seen any of the Alien movies, Weyland-Yutai is a major corporation. The spelling is slightly different but I still thought the closeness was amusing. :)

Nothing really inspiried mine at all.

America, of course!

Vikings and Vampires, mostly. The name Callisdrun is a combination of Callisdrin and Drun, Callisdrun's largest two cities, their names shamelessly stolen from Terry Goodking's Sword of Truth book series (ironically, Callisdrun goes quite against Goodkinds ideas about economics). Several other names are stolen from this book series. Several names are stolen from RL as well.

Callisdrun is basically a manifestation of my dream land. Basically a combination of a democratic socialist scandinavian land (geography modelled after Norway, complete with fjords) and a dark fantasy goth land with vampires and such.

Sevaris I didn't know your inspiration was Franco. Learn something new every day.

My inspirations were my own political views, Conservativism and Libertarianism, and a few countries, America, Australia, and a bit of Canada and Britain.

My main nation, Corinan, is based off how I would rule a nation if I got the chance, what I view as a fair, uncorrupt goverment. Stuffythings, on the other hand, is what I would do if I had my way completely, without having to worry about international reprisal. Basically, a benevolent dictatorship, where my word is law, but I allow people to do whatever they want in their personal lives.

the short answer is my experiences in both this life and in
previous ones.

as for litterary inspirations they run the gamut from
baha'u'llah to tolkin, with brief stops at kalil gibran,
lao tsu, and even robert hienline.

i grew up witnessing nature and tecnology nestled down
peacefully side by side and creativity no contradiction
until time and time again aggressiveness, austentation
and the circular illogic of little green pieces of paper
came along and thoroughly screwed up all three.

i cannot believe that reason and balance are not possible
when i have seen them work and work well.
and so my desire is and remains the inovating of sustainable
infrastructure in a post petrolium, post monitary and post
warring states context.

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

Primary inspirations would be South Africa of the 70s and 80s and Isreal of current day. My nation is also heavily influenced by what i feel the US will be like some time in the future if smart choices are made.

A nation from a video game I played.

Do I need to explain? :)

Well, my country is inspired by the freedom-loving peoples who desire to live in peace, sans govt corruption

My back yard.

Seriously.

Me, my brother, and Chilan Kahn were in my back yard doing nothing at all, when we just sort of started goofing around and claiming parts of the back yard as our territories. It was sorta meant to be kinda like Rise Of Nations, a PC RTS game. Nation States fans would probably like it. Anyway my territory was this huge mud patch-our yard is on a slight hill and the rain was draining to that one spot. I had already come up with the name Westerney a while before, but I decided they were a people who wandered throughout a completely mud covered island in the middle of nowhere, and that they were absolutely insane.

The name is the "world" my childhood friends claimed I lived in. At the time, I have very little use for this real world. Then one day I became mean and cynical ... probably about the same time I started taking a pay check and paying taxes. ;)

Sultanate of Brunei would be a primary influence. But the nation was meant to be a cross between the religious tolerance and pluralism of Saudi Arabia and the concern for democratic and human rights of Equatorial Guinea.

The way the government and military work are inspired mainly by the Alliance of Independent Systems from the space sim "Frontier: First Encounters". The major difference is that the AIS was formed in the 31st century and encompasses several star systems, while Serpania only uses late 20th century technology and encompasses a few tropical islands.

Well, I sort of did a "whats best for you" style, but are now working on a civil rights increase. Oh, the the name is inspired by me, Jonathan. I dunno, Jono just sounds better.

My nation was mostly inspired by my own little fictional nation I had made and usually used in Civilization III mods I made. It is based mostly on my last name and my own little egotistic ideals. Also I want a country ruled by me, the way it should be... I guess other nations that helped inspire it would be the Empire from Star Wars and the Imperium of Man from Warhammer 40,000.

Mine is based on Bosnia Hercegovina, and some of my ideas of how feudalism and socialism have certain wierd points in common.
Things like collective labour, cults of personality, everyone below the level of nobility being about the same, there ideally being rules for the obility and royalty too in both systems. One inspiration was the anarcho-syndacalist manor in Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
I used to have assorted puppet nations but I let them all die because they were too time consuming. it's just easier to go with one nation, one regional off-site message board and basically ignore what's going on outside t he region. The region I'm in is like what would happen if the people rulng in the Balkans had been something other than biggoted power-mad rapacious control freeks. So all the tradition and color minus the blood and cruelty. pretty cool huh?
I find that I've made friends in the region too, that part is fun.

Hmmmmm lets see what inspired my nation... that's actually a long list (That's I've chopped down to the core parts for ease) so here goes.

WH40K, I mean the universe and books from the black library particularly Storm of Iron and the Eisenhorn Series with some things added from Gaunts Ghosts.

The name, leaders, and overall inspiration comes from the Bazil Broketail Series by Christopher Rowley, these are still my favorite fantasy books although should Storm of Iron be followed up on and turn into a series that may change. I'd have to say that a lot of my inspiration comes from Rowley and the evil empire he created.

Nextly, Alternity, it's an excellent game setting and is where I get most of my tech. It's no longer published which is a damned shame but nothing to be done for it.

Of course I've added my own flavour and written stories in this setting I've created so a lot of inspiration is my own.

Finally, I'd have to say I draw on a series that I don't know the name of... one of the books was The Wilding, and since I can't be bothered to dig though 400 + novels right now and Amazon annoys me I won't bother looking things up. I think a lot of the current ideals and even some tech comes from this series as I restructure my nation to be more like The Holding.

My nation started out as a satire of all the assorted "Whateverstans" , but as I developed my nation and created charcters for roleplay, it took on a life of its own and ended up completely different from the original satire-physcotic dictatorship it began as. Pretty much everything now is made up from scratch. But I would have to say that the single largest inspiration (apart from "Whateverstan", that is) would be the TV show "The West Wing", which gave me an insight as to how a large nation might be run.

My nation's name and politics are an outgrowth of my love for cars and the freedom they represent, as well as my desire for a utopia nation.

A nation from a video game I played.

And What game would that be there then now yet.

Tolkien and the beautiful language of elves is what mainly inspired me the most. Take for instance, my nation's name, Eldanor. It means 'Elf-land'. My national animal is also in elvish, the silroch, which is 'white horse'.

Too many sources to count.

The society is kind of based on ancient greece, a general tendency to split up, freedoms are considered everything, the individual is all... Constant arguments, the occasional internal conflict, arrogance towards anyone else.

Names are usually taken from German, English, French, Japanese, occasionally Chinese/ Russian.

Of course, there are also cultural influences from those nations (Especially Japan).

The people themselves... Physically a mixture of Ghost in the Shell/ Gunnm & Babylon 5, that is, psionic cyborgs. Sounds wanky, is wanky (Hence, RPed at 10% NS stat population). Though generally with less cybernetics/ more psionic stuff (much more...) than the original sources.

Technology... Mediocre Spacedy capabilities... Based a little bit on Babylon 5, mainly own ideas/ help from other players.

And of course, this is its current incarnation, since it did start out as what I would want to live in... But that changed quite a bit.

And then there are hordes of puppetnations... Sentient virii... Plasmabeings on the Sun... A Lexx nation... A Shadow nation... Something Snow Crash inspired... A Phoenician nation... Some complete insanities... etc..

Well, "Pointless apathy" was so named because it's a test nation - what happens if you dismiss every single issue? So far it's been a fairly solid argument in favour of laissez faire economics....

"Little Filthmuck" is just my evil side - the name of course comes from the Goon Show.

"The Holy Palatinate" is my serious attempt at governing, so I tried to give it a serious name. A Palatinate is the lands of a Prince; the most famous Palatinate was the Rhineland in the Holy Roman Empire, which inspired the name.

And What game would that be there then now yet.

Suikoden II since not many people know about it. Do I need to say anything more?

Sevaris I didn't know your inspiration was Franco. Learn something new every day.

My inspirations were my own political views, Conservativism and Libertarianism, and a few countries, America, Australia, and a bit of Canada and Britain.
Same here on Libertarianism and Conservatism. American model type country.

Mine is basically how I would run a country. If there's any inspiration, it's my casting of how I would run the U.S.

Mine is basically how I would run a country if I was accountable to no one and nothing bad would happen to me personally no matter what I did. At heart I guess I'm a mean-spirited, bitter, greedy man.

Government Culture: Based on my personal views, though influenced by Robert Lafollette’s concept of a more transparent government for the people. The welfare and more socialist systems of my nation are based on extremely severe adaptations of Scandinavian welfare practices.

Technology / Research Culture: The Ixian race from the Dune series, minus the backstabbing political intrigue and staggering social inequality. I've tried my best to make this nation a beacon of scientific achievement and technological advancement in the NS Modern / Ultra Modern Tech world.

Language: Outside of English, standard Schultarian has been with me for nearly 8 years now. The grammar and syntax of the language is still predominantly my invention with little heed to standard language conventions.

A concept that came up in a "Last on to post here wins" thread, the gophers that are constantly attacking my lawn, and the twisted workings of my imagination.

Italia/Iraq

Fate/Stay Night, a Japanese-language "visual novel" for computer.

The harsh, unrelenting regime of Auman was borne in the fires of war. There was no real inspiration for the nation, aside from the Zone of the Enders game where I gladly stole and modified the name. A Stalinist regime that holds the military in the highest regard...This nation is 100% unique to my tastes, though it in no way mirrors my own personal beliefs.

Serconea is strongly based on Eastern Europe, especially Slovenia and the Czech Republic. There's also some elements of South Korea in there.

New Vinnland (and its puppet states): a secular, fiscally conservative, socially liberal technocracy.

Culturally, a sort of Las Vegas meets Amsterdam. ;)

Well, there is a famous Tabletop/ Fantasy Roleplay System called Warhammer. In the Warhammer world there is a Empire inspired by medieval Germany called Rheinland.
Rheikland is a mixture between the old Gemran Empire and a modern democracy.

Of my three nations:

The Holy Word: Pre reformation Church of Om from Terry Pratchett

Kalimon: Pratchett again, this time Ankh-Morpok

Superior Firepower: Mad Max


None of these affected the names directly, more the ways I do the issues.

I really don't have a influence for Chilan Kahn. I just sorta said "hey... I wannamake a mongol kingdom where everyone hates each other, and theres some freako communist like leader who loaths anyone ruling it." And the name? Dunno. Just sorta thought Mongol=Kahn, and Chilan sounds like... um.... chili? I think? anywhom, no real inspiration.

Kryozerkia - I need a name for my nation... this sounds cool!
Kutou-koku - the name of a wickedly cool country in Fushigi Yuugi
Farflorin - I had wanted to call it Florin like the enemy nation of Guilder in The Princess Bride but it was already taken, so this was the next choice
Soviet Republikans - I wanted a right-wing capitalist nation, so this seemed right

(this doesn't include all my puppets)

We are of the snakes.

Although the Spanish destroyed the official records, the Aztecs formed two sides during the civil war: that of the eagle, and that of the snake. Both are found on the flag of Mexico. The eagles won that civil war.

They eventually branched off and became the ANL, the Aztec National League.

We are of the snakes.

We migrated away and have since risen up again. We are faithful to our original traditions and reject the new philosophies of government.

We are the Aztec Lands.

Despite the name, my nation isn't based around penguins, it draws origins from many things, namely the Imperium from Warhammer 40k, the Dark Elves from Warhammer Fantasy, and various sci-fi anime such as Robotech and Gundam (UC and CE timelines). However I draw inspiration from much more.

Let's see...my nation's inspiration was basically my dorky thoughts of creating a kingdom belonging to those usual mystical/fantasy worlds from RPGs (role-playing games). The name, was just something fancy I tried to come up with. :rolleyes:

Marimaia started as a China/North Korea hybrid, but then various anime inspirations were introduced and it became an ultra-liberal dictatorship which didn't really do much of anything except sit back and let the country grow. It's now being restructured to look more like an anime hybrid of Imperial Japan/Fascist Italy.

The influence for the creation of the Order was quite..unusual. First, it started out as a joke-I was in a group of people who had been playing the Half-Life Mod Natural Selection since it's release. We saw this, and wandered on here, just to screw around....Unfortunately, when the novelty wore off, they all left, and I had thouroughly addicted myself.

Originally, I had built the Order around the idea behind Natural Selection-a bunch of Soldiers stuck fighting against a malignant alien bacterium..however, they somehow ended up stuck back in time, crashed on Earth with this Bacterium. Then throw in a little bit of Babylon 5 (Morden, anyone?) just to make things more amusing (and to explain away my stupid attack on Ineptia..you know, that one that lit the powder keg that was the Amerigan War? Ironically enough, I'm now a member in good standing of the Heartland, the region Ineptia founded)

Eventually, Pieces of Ringoverse (Aldenata-tech) were put in, a couple more B5 touches, some Freespace, and a dash of a couple Honorverse ideas. And at the heart of it all, the story of Kaerion's Kestrels, a merc band I've been writing fiction about for years. (Inspired in part by Homeworld and Star Wars, with some touches from the book Armor.)

...Yeah. That was longer than I intended.

My influence is... me. Mattikistan is how a country run by yours truly would be. Its history is fictional, its location doesn't exist and its culture is fictional. Mattikistan is just... me. Even has my name...

Ghargonia was going to just be my evil nation -- though that was before I discovered that you actually do have sci-fi RPs here.
So then I decided to just base it on the civilisation where I got its name. The Ghargant Imperium. I conjured them up in a story I wrote once. The mighty, tyranical Ghargant Imperium stretched for 11,000 light years. It was over 1.2 million years old, and made up of two 'humanoid dinosaur'-type species; the dominant Ghargonians, and the subordinate slaves, the Gerash.
1.2 million years is a long time for any empire to exist though, and some people wanted a change of leadership. These rebels had an intricate plan; they used their sympathisers in the military to gain control of the Venerator -- the Ghargant flagship. They intended to attack the 'Palace of the Ghargon' from orbit. According to law, anyone who can kill the Ghargon, the ruler of the Imperium, is deemed strong enough to assume his place.
But they were betrayed; a massive fleet awaited them. As advanced as the Venerator was, the older battleships drove them away. They chased them relentlessly until they were clear of Imperium space, and they were lost.
The rebels decided to put themselves into stasis and travel to the other side of the galaxy to find a safe planet to settle on. They ultimately found Earth, 50,000 lightyears away from the Imperium. They encountered primitive humans there, who, driven by fear of what must have been 'demons', attempted to kill them. (Which is where Ghargonia gets its distrust of humans from.)
Anyway, they remained on Earth for 2,000 years, building up a sizeable civilisation. Their only driving force, the one thing that kept them going, was the intent to complete what their ancestors started and take command of the Imperium. And when they finally had enough strength to make an attempt, they were rather disappointed. They travelled right through Ghargonian space without trouble, unusual in itself. They reached Ghargonia Prime, and landed, still without even seeing a hint of activity. The planet-wide city that once stood now lay in ruins. Everything had been destroyed, and it had apparently happened a long time ago.
They wandered around the ruins for a while until they found the Palace of the Ghargon, relatively intact (compared to everything else anyway), where a frail old Ghargonian sat in torn royal robes. He was the last survivor of their race, or so he had thought, and he described the destruction of the Imperium to them – a combination of civil war, and an unbelievably powerful alien race. Everything was gone. In disbelief, half of the rebels committed suicide on the spot, their entire reason for existing now gone. The other half began to go to every single planet the Imperium had once held, trying to find something that was intact. They died of old age trying to search every planet in a 5,000-odd lightyear radius.

ANYWAY. That's simmering it all down quite substantially. And it's probably going off-topic a little. Ghargonia is (or was) too small to really hold anything like an Imperium. So I've given my nation the part of the rebels who settled on Earth for 2,000 years. The main difference is, I don't think I'll make them all commit suicide :p.

Inspired mostly by my own political views, my nation is a mixture of Marxism, Libralism and the ideals of the Paris Commune, hence the French.

Inspired by me - No book/movie/game involved.

Vampyre Knights: a race of vampyres in me novel (or what i loosely call 'novel')
Xavier: Professor Charles Xavier....and the Xerxes part...well i dunno it had one more 'x' then the other word?

Mine is basically how I would run a country if I was accountable to no one and nothing bad would happen to me personally no matter what I did. At heart I guess I'm a mean-spirited, bitter, greedy man
That's what I have done. It's all based on mood. I originally started feeling benevolent, and my choices on issues reflected that. Now I am feeling like a mean, bitter bitch and my choices reflect that. I should have named my nation "Caprice"!

I think it also depends on your choice of region. I recently moved after my resolution passed to a space-based region, so I am sure my priorities will change. I would never have even thought up the whole greenhouse gas thing if my nation was in space.

Wackelli is a name that my girlfriend uses on some sites and so the decisions i make are based on how i think she might answer them.
The Yi Ta (my other nation) is based on how i want to run the country, if you want an influence it would be the works of machiavelli

My nation was inspired by the basic rights and attributes that were originally intended for the United States and all democracies. Somewhere along the line, bureacracy and "social welfare" got in the way.

So, I cracked open a nutshell and created a nation that would adhere to the principles of liberty at the same time adhering to the principles of the government's role as a protector of the people.

My government is currently trying to end crime without crushing personal and political freedoms. Rights of Man is also dedicated to federal "outstepping," or the definite aversion to involvement in matters that do not require government attention. No government should be concerned whether or not people choose to dig up their backyard looking for oil. However, if citizens terrorize other citizens by bombing cheese factories to fight for cow civil rights, I step in and say no to violent protest.

Inspired? Certainly. Successful? We'll see about that.

Recent issues have repeated themselves and Poltical Freedom appears to be on the decline, but, then again, so are taxes.

No nation has really done the whole laissez-faire democracy for more than a few decades. I was wondering how that would go. Read "Globalization and Its Discontents" and thought, well, maybe if these guys had a few more years and a higher tolerance for mass starvation...

"Frisbeeterianism", n.:
The belief that, upon death, one's soul goes straight up and lands on the roof, where it remains permanently and irretrievably stuck.

Seemed like a sound basis upon which to found a nation.

I was experimenting with several socio-political situations. These are the nations that resulted, in no particular order.

Christus Victor was meant to be a Catholic kingdom (possibly a Crusader kingdom, hence the name, although I haven't had occasion for a Crusade), on the model of the best of Catholic European rulers from the Middle Ages onward, especially the best of the Austrian Habsburgs. To a large extent, but not totally, it reflects my personal beliefs.

My real "me" nation is Micketania--the name is from an imaginary country I had as a child. (Mike="Mickey", Micketania=Mickey's country). The best of moderate progressivism in the midwestern US, plus a bit of the democratization of post-communist Eastern Europe, especially Poland and Slovakia the lands of my ancestors.

New Avignon has gone through changes. I began it as the "dark side" of Micketania and Christus Victor; a totally corrupt, undemocratic state ruled by a medieval-style antipope. Avignon was the seat of the papacy, and later of antipopes, during a period often called the "Babylonian Capitivity of the Church" in the 1300's. After a while, I gave up the "antipope" part and just went for the "corrupt" part. Lately, I briefly had a Castro-style Communist takeover and then a civil war between the Communists and the rightist "Catholic Restoration Commandos" who ultimately won a la Franco in Spain. Right now a military junta, likewise new puppet West New Avignon; probably be moving toward democracy but not sure.

Anarcho-Libertaria has also gone through changes. As the name indicates, it began as a total anarchist/libertarian society, as little government as possible
and total individual freedom. I am now running it according to the principles of the Libertarian National Socialist Green Party, an interesting mix of ideas that can be found at www.nazi.org.

Waffen-SS Ostland, obviously is a Nazi nation. "Ostland" was the Nazi-occupied area of Belarus, Ukraine, and European Russia.

Tribes of Zion is a Rastafarian commune. I listened to a lot of reggae from college days onward. The name refers to the Rastafarian belief in the African peoples as the true Israel and Ethiopia as the true Zion.

Dragistan ("land of drag" ie. dressing up as the opposite sex) is my ultra-liberal
"queer nation", sort of like San Francisco/Berkeley. It was breifly taken over by Gay Nazis but is back on its leftward course.

My nation is loosed based on a StarCraft campaign I thought of, but didn't make. I can't remember the details any more.

Well...... *gasp* USA!

Pissed off right-wing jews tired of Anti-semitism and suicide bombing seizing an island in the South Pacific. How's that for inspiration? :sniper: ;)

'Cause I want my ferrets to take over the world!
They do seem to be smarter and more moral than most politicians. Just my wishful thinking to be as happy as my pets.
(I haven't quite figured out how the RPG works, plus that elusive thing called time)

nas the greatest rapper to live, grew up in queensbridge projects

I have always felt a certain admiration for the Nomadic peoples of the world, in the east it seems they have reguardless of culture or ethnicity a great many similarities, The bedouins have interested me imparticular(though my first love is the Mongols, and the Nomads in Northern China)
I also have a deep respect for what Islam should stand for in a warrior(Islam has some the first truly modern and civilized rules of war). So I decided to make a nation that in the Tradiotion Sulieman the Law Giver accpeted all religious faiths(though Islam is the Official) giving all the right to practice.
A nation that promotes trade, and a nation that dealt with matters of Military and most state in the ways of Mohammud and the First Caliph Abu Bakr .

My nation, Tribal Ecology is my ideal of a nation. Civil and political liberties for all but always with respect for the liberties of others. As long as you don't mess with others, you're free to do whatever you want, even marry your poodle. (as long as the poodle wants to marry you. if you can't prove it, tough luck).

The environment and equality is above every corporation's desire to make money. It is illegal to make money at the expense of others or the environment. Outsourcing is forbidden, etc etc.

Srpska Kosovo developed out of my respect for Serb culture and my disagreement with US and Western European policy in the Balkans. It basically revolves around the idea that Kosovo became independent and large numbers of Serbs migrated into the region. Srpska Kosovo is a Federal Republic based loosely on Serbia and Montenegro that is ruled by a coalition government led by the Socialists. In my version of history, Srpska Kosovo is relatively peaceful, but reflects Serbian Orthodox culture with a large Albanian Muslim minority. I guess it really boils down to my idealism and hopes for a peaceful Balkans that preserves rather than destroys the different cultures there.

"Frisbeeterianism", n.:
The belief that, upon death, one's soul goes straight up and lands on the roof, where it remains permanently and irretrievably stuck.

Seemed like a sound basis upon which to found a nation.

ROFL! I love that book! (and the whole series)

As for Powerhungry Chipmunks, I just got bored playing with more serious names. And besides, when a chipmunk looks at you don't you too think that it's pondering, "Can I poop on that person's head?"

The Principia Discordia.

Five tons of Flax,
Davis

i may have replied to this thread before and if so what i
said then is still valid and true. primarily though
carlemnaria is based upon the kinds of worlds on which i've
lived in previous lives.

more so then on anything about the one that mundanely
surrounds you or me today.

there are of course things i have read which may in several
ways parallel those worlds. among these if i cited such as
was has been the tendency in this thread, would of course
be r.a.lafferty's world of the camaroi, well combine that
with yv88, design with nature, architecture without
architects, and more speculative fiction stories then i can
begin to remember let alone name, stanly schmitz' universe
in which he set his stories of telzey amberdon for example.

sustainable alternative infrastructure has always appealed
to and fascinated me. armed conflict does not.

the oil in your world will run out, that much ought to be
obvious, what may not be as much so is that money as such,
will become in time as obsolete as a measure of wealth as
it in turn made land ownership and that replaced skill at
the hunt. what i expect to see money it is the ability
to use tecnology creatively but sustainably.

tecnology is not the measure of civilization but tecnology
and civilization will outlive it's dependence on combustion
and fuels for combustion and the forms it will take and
the diversity of ways in which this can and will be
achieved fascinate, inspire and motivate myself, my 'art'
and all aspects of my life.

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

The State Of It is based on Saddam Hussein's Iraq and other nations that have similar political structures, with exaggerations here and there. I've not really Rp'ed yet, but basically, the rule of the land is that if you don't have a moustache like that of the leader, President Ihava Nicemoustache-eh, it is punishable by death because you a traitor.

It's basiclly just an experiment of mine to see what it's like to run a nation in a stalinist way.

Ecopoeia: from ecopoesis, the poetry of nature. It started off as a semi-pragmatic representation of my political beliefs but has evolved into a more idealistic version (thanks in part to other NS players/contributors who have influenced me). Along the way, I shamelessly pilfered characters and ideas from Kim Stanley Robinson's Mars trilogy; however, I've been moving away from this source in recent times in an attempt to forge a more personal identity for the nation.

'Cloud-Water' is a Daoist term, essentially meaning 'cannot be defined'. It's appropriate as Ecopoeians politics and philosophy (and, indeed, my own) are hard to pin down.

Nothing spectacular inspired my region.
I am very unhappy with the recent politics in my home country Germany. So I wanted to make it better. I first wanted to call it something with Germania (in fact, I still want to ;) ), but everything I could think of was taken already. So I thought of Germany's most important river: the Rhine.
And voilà - Deutsch-Rheinland was born. :)

The name, well, is a collection of nonsensical words to make the acronym be something silly. (ph34r the D.U.C.K.Y.!!) City names are mostly small towns I have encountered in my life, or named after Mexican restaurants I occasionally patronize. Governance has been based upon the political philosophies of myself and the other evangelical Christians that I know, which is quite a bit different than the stereotype presented by the media.

Well I was singing the song Roses and I saw the picture of an Island that shows when you are registering. I said, "Hm, The Island of Rose, catchy" boom, I named it.

As for my policies, I've always wanted to run it like a Socialist nation, though I'm Libertarian in real life. Anyway, it started stereotypically as a Russian nation, but since I was running out of ideas for Russian names, I said it was European. I also wanted to have a non-serious nation to point out the irony of politics, I think it's worked so far. Eh, things might be different though since I'm marrying off my leader...

Bleh, I'm a guy by the way.

Honestly, I came upon NationStates when I was reading HALO: The Fall of Reach. A planet in the book was called Sigma Octanus, but I didn't have the book with me when I created my nation, so the 'v' was in there by mistake. I created a Sigma Octanus, but by that time I was already fairly recognized from Operation: Righteous Smackdown. I was doomed to use my mispelled name for all eternity.

My country is my ideal land. thats it. only my briliant ideas could have spawned a country so great.

For its early history, a messed up version of Scottish history (based on my practically non-existent knowledge thereof), then British history (same as before) for more recent events. Strangely, the name reads Dutch to me, but what do I know...

hitler's germany stalins russia

When I made Sarcodina, I was taking AP Biology. So...Sarcodina is a phylum (part of classification system of living things) of the kingdom protista. The most well known member of sarcodina is the amoeba (which is my nation animal...though in fact it is not an animal but a protist). My foreign minister I believe was name Henry Protista too. Now looking back at the decision it seems sort of odd but pretending to rule a country is kind of odd in itself.

The stupid loggin screen.

For things going on in my nation, my inspiration mostly comes from Soviet Russia as well, though mixes of American politics are also stirred in, and I have a seperatist group in the style of South American freedom fighter types fighting a quiet war in one province - sort of like a cold Chechnya situation. A recurring theme was also the power-struggle between the government and the overbearing corporation (Turvic Corp.), which was inspired by cyberpunk literature where corporations run everything - Turvic being like a mix of Microsoft, Ford, Coca-Cola and every other monopolistic company out there.

Anyway, Soviet Russia was my original inspiration for Kelonia (sort of obvious, as all my people have Russian-esque names), though I made my dictator more benevolent and generous than he was originally going to be. I've also got elements of the political concept of 'devolved power' where rules are mostly enforced by individual states rather than a centralised government in there as well.

Basically Kelonia is a juggling-act mix of everything I've found interesting in around 6 years spent reading up on and getting involved in politics.

Some sort of hybrid between America, Bali, and Soviet Russia. oO

-- Nova

I'll refer to terrorist organizations...
The old IRA and the 1940' Ezel in Israel are the inspiration of the DSRO's doctrine, but unlike those, the DSRO is world-spreaded, like Al-Queda.

(Now this is the player of Ness Ziona, my RL friend, writing)
Ness Ziona is some sort of a Canada, with an Israel-kinda military and security means.

Design, style and architecture is mainly inspired Imperial Germany, Nazi Germany and 50s America. People's views etc. are majorly inspired by ancient nordic countries(mainly in general additude not really in culture) and imperial Japan(without conservatism on some issues). Intresting combination isn't it ? Goverment isn't pretty much based on anything. Basically it's capitalistic ultra-liberal dictatorship. Another quite intresting combination. Torsgism as a religion is totally my own creation, though Book of Torsg is largely inspired by "lost civilization" type legends.

Probably an odd combination of North Korea and Iran (military service and religion) Tony Blair and Stalin (for their love of plans and planning), and Globalsoft (from the We Will Rock You musical [based on the Songs of Queen) for the corporations bit.

You can say that my inspiration for Bariloche is my own political ideal. Mmmh... though one, I've got no idea of where I got my political ideas; I just have them :)

It's a free civil society, combined with the closest thing you can get to true Democracy in politics and true Communism in Economy. I haven't finished molding it yet, when I finish it should be a Left-wing Utopia, right now is a Civil Rights Lovefest.

For the pseudo-geographical part, I was inspired by the most beautiful part of my country (just in case you don't know where Bariloche is, it's Argentina, grab a map), I have been there only two times (a couple of weeks each) but some day I will live there; that's one of the few long term goals I have set for my life.

I have to admit it's pretty much the same as Bariloche - TilEnca is a place of political ideals. Laws are not couched in wolly and vague terms, and as such can not be co-opted to allow the opression of people later on. And while this does sound like a fascist paradise, it's really not.

Plus I created a world to set stories in, and this is that.

Lerai is a country in the world of Grun. Joe(LowerGeldor) and I both write in this world and wanted to try out two of our countries in this game. Lerai is the country from where most of the magic users come from and it advanced in the ways of magic. Lower Geldor is very much rural.

http://grun.topcites.com has more info if you are interested.

Inspirations for my main nation (Argyres) and various puppets-

Argyres - My mother's maiden name, Greek side of my family

Iasonia - Greek version of my name (Jason = Iason)

UC Berkeley - I go to Berkeley, and made a nation to make fun of the school/students

Nova Argyres - Because I'm just that damn creative ;)

I based my nation on what I think British politicians would do if they spent all their time stoned. Yay for commen sense!

THe Empire of the Most Holy Sandwich is based on a loose amagamation of Warhammer 40k, Monty Python, Blondie, and a few other things which have been mangled into a rather odd fusion.

The place is ruled by a Ecclesiarch, and a council of Cardinals. Various Ministers handle day to day affairs.
The entire country worships a rather vague concept called the True Sandwich, and this belief is enforced by the Inquisition and a group called the Chedder Marines.

Basicly, I've got the rough idea outlined, and I'm making the details up as I go.