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By semillama on Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 05:36 pm:

    Spider gets many kudos for this.

    I have my own, and it is viewable by going here.

By kazoo on Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 05:38 pm:

By moonit on Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 07:34 pm:

    Ha, love your currency.

    mine

By wisper on Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 08:33 pm:

    how many nate's for a dollar?

By trace on Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 09:18 pm:

By Nate on Thursday, February 27, 2003 - 11:09 pm:

    hey moonit, your australian flag has funny red stars.

    teehee.

By Spider on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 08:11 am:

    Can someone explain this to me.....once you choose a side on an issue, you don't do anything, right?

    I mean, I had to decide which side I fell on regarding the cloning debate. So I picked one, clicked "accept" and then I got a screen saying:

    --------------
    "This is the position your government is preparing to adopt."

    "The government has indicated its intention to follow the recommendations of Option 2."

    "To follow one of the recommendations above, simply click on the link."
    ----------------

    Yet...there's no link for the issue I picked...it's just in bold print. I picked it yesterday, so shouldn't it have taken into effect by now?

    *whimper*

    I'm so dumb.


    Oh, yeah: this is my poor fledgling nation. I've added you all to my dossier. We should create our own region and move there together!

By Spider on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 08:14 am:

    Hee hee, Moonit, we're almost the same, except you've got a Uranium Mining industry dominating your private sector, and I've got Furniture Restoration.

By Nate on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 08:34 am:

    i created a region called "The Lower". i am the only one there.

    me nation.

    then we can all endorse spider to be our UN delegate.

By Spider on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 09:06 am:

    Heh, first I have to figure out how to play. :)

By semillama on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 09:25 am:

    trace, you need to post your nation again - use the URL at the bottom of your page.

By Spider on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 09:41 am:

    So, ain't nobody gonna answer my question?

By kazoo on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 10:25 am:

    Spider, the legislation that I passed yesterday got incorporated into the description with the info. on currency and national animal. The one for today is pending...that's all. It sounds like you did everything I did.

    Viva la Vyvyanland

By Spider on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 10:34 am:

    OK, good!

By patrick on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 12:23 pm:

By vyvyan on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 12:32 pm:

    when I click on your link it brings me to vyvyanland

By patrick on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 12:48 pm:

By Spider on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 01:12 pm:

    Did you use babelfish to get your motto?

By patrick on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 01:17 pm:

    of course.

    is it inaccurate or something?

By Spider on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 01:18 pm:

    Hee, check out this UN resolution:

    Resolution 245A Proper Grammar
    A resolution to increase democratic freedoms.

    Description: Too long have UN Proposals been filled with improper grammar. One can scarcely move between two pages of proposals without seeing some sort of grammar or spelling error. People need to realize that "your" and "you're" are NOT the same word. People also need to realize that "to" and "too" are also not the same word, and that the "Vaticant" does not exist. Any country that files a proposal with such language shall henceforth be banned from proposals until such time as they understand the English language and can properly convey their ideas.

    Votes For: 8597

    Votes Against: 6885

By Platypus on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 01:23 pm:

By semillama on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 01:45 pm:

    hmm. Platypus - that link goes staight to your personal, editable page - you might want to ask MArk to disable the link you posted or delete it, else an unscruplous soul could screw around with your nation.

By patrick on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 01:53 pm:

    we could mount some sort of CIA-like operation in Platy's land and create some sort of coup sem.

By Spider on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 01:59 pm:

    So, are we going to all join Nate's The Lower Region? I'm moving...

By vyvyan on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 02:03 pm:

    sounds good to me

By patrick on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 02:08 pm:

    i have moved to nates Lower Region.


    spider, you never answered me, was there an inaccuracy with babel's portaguese?

By Spider on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 02:13 pm:

    Sorry, I didn't see your post. I was just curious about that "destiny" at the end. :)

By Spider on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 02:16 pm:

    According to this site, the translation is "destino."

By semillama on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 02:18 pm:

    Maybe he was referring to Destiny's Child.

By patrick on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 02:29 pm:

    maybe it has something to do with the usage.

    i dunno. online translators are not known for their accuracy.

By wisper on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 06:24 pm:

    "we're almost the same, except you've got a Uranium Mining industry dominating your private sector, and I've got Furniture Restoration. "


    well, you know, Uranium Mining and Furniture Restoration are so similar.....



    how many nate's for a dollar?!

By patrick on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 07:14 pm:

    if you translate something in babel, and then try adn translate it back, it comes out completely fucking hilarious.


    i will enjoy being the nationstate that no one has any idea what the fuck im talking about.

By vyvyan on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 07:21 pm:

    from the latest issue: Plus the donor takes home a few hundred semillamas in compensation.


    Imagine what the world would be like with a few hundred semillamas...more slack indeed.


    *sigh*


    I will keep the gushing to myself.


    thank you.

By dave. on Friday, February 28, 2003 - 09:51 pm:

By Platypus on Saturday, March 1, 2003 - 02:43 pm:

    sweet, sem. I'm going to experience an internal coup?

By patrick on Monday, March 3, 2003 - 12:03 pm:

    "Pescadores e mulheres's children are widely acknowledged as the most foul-mouthed in the region."

    i love my land.

By Spider on Monday, March 3, 2003 - 12:36 pm:

    Aw, dave.

    Join our region!

By eri on Monday, March 3, 2003 - 01:43 pm:

    I have finally created a country and I don't know how to post the link damn it. I am so computer stupid.

By patrick on Monday, March 3, 2003 - 01:59 pm:

    if you scroll to the bottom of your nation home page is says
    wanna link your nation to your friends" and it has a link, that you highlight, cut and paste.

By eri on Monday, March 3, 2003 - 04:07 pm:

By semillama on Tuesday, March 4, 2003 - 01:31 pm:

    Hey, there's a UN resolution we can vote on! Check it out. Especially you spider - as our UN Delegate, you should be voting!

By trace on Tuesday, March 4, 2003 - 01:47 pm:

By Spider on Tuesday, March 4, 2003 - 02:01 pm:

    I voted!

    *grumble* I've got racist TV shows in my country now....goddamn moron populace. I leave them to govern themselves, and look what they do.

By Nate on Tuesday, March 4, 2003 - 02:25 pm:

    i'm full of naked folk.

By Spider on Tuesday, March 4, 2003 - 02:35 pm:

    My houses might be full of naked folk. I said that people could do whatever they want as long as they kept it indoors.

By patrick on Tuesday, March 4, 2003 - 02:48 pm:

    let me unleash some of our foul mouthed youth your way spider.

By Spider on Tuesday, March 4, 2003 - 03:03 pm:

    I wish our countries could interact more. Mass emigrations, wars, sanctions...that sort of thing.

By semillama on Tuesday, March 4, 2003 - 05:03 pm:

    Yes, that would be cool.

    Thanks for reposting that trace. I laugh like hell when i compare yours to Patricks, and I hope you and he do too.

By eri on Tuesday, March 4, 2003 - 05:41 pm:

    I was curious as to how I ended up in the UN Category~liberal democratic socialists~and thought that was kinda funny. Mine is pretty different from Spunky's too.

By patrick on Tuesday, March 4, 2003 - 05:48 pm:

    fuck the UN.


By semillama on Tuesday, March 4, 2003 - 06:24 pm:

    This thing just puts a hilarious spin on all the political back-and-forth here.

By wisper on Tuesday, March 4, 2003 - 06:33 pm:

    i'd love to play with you guys, but the names "Funkistan", and "Funksylvania" were already taken.
    :(

    bastards.

By patrick on Tuesday, March 4, 2003 - 06:53 pm:

    how about Funkolivia Funkaruagua

By trace on Tuesday, March 4, 2003 - 09:22 pm:

    I like semi's the best so far

    I think it is safe to say that Patrick and I are political polar oposites

By eri on Tuesday, March 4, 2003 - 09:58 pm:

    Patrick and Spunky political opposites? Who would've thought.

By semillama on Wednesday, March 5, 2003 - 11:49 am:

    Who is the Disputed region of SOrabji?

By eri on Wednesday, March 5, 2003 - 03:06 pm:

    I noticed that everyone seems to be in Nate's lower region and I am still in the Pacific, wondering how to change that one.

By patrick on Wednesday, March 5, 2003 - 03:07 pm:

    heh.

    eri wants to get into nates lower region.

By eri on Wednesday, March 5, 2003 - 03:10 pm:

    I knew that was coming!

By patrick on Wednesday, March 5, 2003 - 03:13 pm:

    heh. eri wants to get into nates lower region because she knows its coming.



By eri on Wednesday, March 5, 2003 - 03:32 pm:

    I have now joined y'all in nates lower region!

By semillama on Wednesday, March 5, 2003 - 03:46 pm:

    It's where we all belong.

    It's like "Mr. Loux's Neighborhood."

By Spider on Wednesday, March 5, 2003 - 04:04 pm:

    Nate, how do you pronounce your last name?

By Nate on Wednesday, March 5, 2003 - 05:15 pm:

    the way it is spelled.

By wisper on Wednesday, March 5, 2003 - 06:23 pm:

    Loo-ox?
    Loo-ooks?
    Loo-eks?
    Lewis?
    Loozer?
    Elouxy?

By Nate on Wednesday, March 5, 2003 - 06:43 pm:

    one syllable.

By wisper on Wednesday, March 5, 2003 - 06:45 pm:

    cock?

    :)


By wisper on Wednesday, March 5, 2003 - 06:57 pm:

    funk yeah!

    "Civil Rights: Excessive"

    that's all i needed to hear.

By Nate on Wednesday, March 5, 2003 - 09:19 pm:

    holy crap that kicks ass.

By Spider on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 07:43 am:

    Does it rhyme with Proulx?

By semillama on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 09:30 am:

    That does kick ass - I've never seen "excessive" civil rights before.

By semillama on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 09:37 am:

    from my latest issue:

    "We remain critically short of blood plasma and various organs," says Semillamia One hospital administrator Max Chicago. "Especially hearts. A good heart is hard to find. But if we were allowed to pay for donations, we'd get more of them and could save more lives. Plus the donor takes home a few hundred nates in compensation."

By eri on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 10:04 am:

    I got that one a couple of days ago. Hehehe.

    My latest is that "two wheels good, four wheels bad" and activist group is riding bikes on the main roads slowing down traffic on rush hour as a protest to all drivers.

By Nate on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 11:01 am:

    i dont' know how to pronounce Proulx.

By eri on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 11:35 am:

    OK, mine says "United Nations Activity" No endorsements. WTF does that mean?

By semillama on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 11:55 am:

    that means no one has endorsed you yet.

By patrick on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 12:11 pm:

    fuck the UN eri.


    we dont need no stinkin UN.


By Spider on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 12:36 pm:

    Yes, you do, you foul-mouthed heathen.



    Proulx rhymes with true.

By Nate on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 12:45 pm:

    oh hell no.

    we're not french.

    lukes.

By kazoo on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 12:47 pm:

    I'm French.

By eri on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 12:55 pm:

    I looked up what the endorsements are. Cool. Thanks Sem! The UN Delegate gets an extra vote for every endorsement they have so that you can get more votes for your region.

By semillama on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 01:00 pm:

    so everyone should endorse spider.

    Plus, there are some mysterious new nations in the region, have you noticed?

By Spider on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 01:03 pm:

    Yessss....who are these people? Do we know them? Do they know us? Did they just happen upon the Lower region and decide to join us based on our quality?


    Thanks, Nate.

By Spider on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 01:07 pm:

    Heh, my nation eats its national animal, the sun bear, for dinner.

By patrick on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 01:09 pm:

    lets form a coalition of the 'willing to get on their knees'

By eri on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 01:40 pm:

    "The Federation of Selfabsorbed Dumbasses". I would like to know who that one is!

By semillama on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 03:24 pm:

    There's a chance those are subgenii.

    I'm known in the Church of the Subgenius as Doktor Semillama, and those guys are into NationStates as well. ALthough I thought they were forming their own little region. I know one of them asked me to join, but I would probably just make up another nation to do that.

By Spider on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 03:43 pm:

    I made up another nation (The Fiefdom of the Fingers) to play in the spirit of a character from my beloved Song of Ice and Fire saga. He's a very, very sneaky man who loves money, so I try to make choices based on what he would do....and my nation is flourishing. A Capitalist Paradise, it's been labelled.


By eri on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 04:12 pm:

    I created another nation, too. I based it on the people right here in my neighborhood. I got a good view of how they think on Friday and use that kind of thinking to make the decisions. I didn't put it in a different region, though.

By eri on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 06:16 pm:

    Hey Spunk what happened? Did you agree with Patrick on something and decided fuck the UN or what?

By wisper on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 06:30 pm:

    funk the UN, i say.

    funk em' to hell.

By Rowlf on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 08:10 pm:

By eri on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 08:27 pm:

    A psychotic dictatorship. How was it I saw that one? I am usually so off on these things!

By kazoo on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 08:44 pm:

    Rowlf,

    Holy Shit! I love your currency and animal. I used to say that my bestfriend was Statler to my Waldorf and the world is our muppet show...GET OF THE STAGE YA BUM!!!

    Sweet!

By Antigone on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 09:25 pm:

By eri on Thursday, March 6, 2003 - 09:50 pm:

    I am going to go on vacation in Satan's Severed Head! hehe. I've got kids, I'll be able to bring plenty of bags of shit!

By semillama on Friday, March 7, 2003 - 09:14 am:

    I bet you farm your trout.

By Nate on Friday, March 7, 2003 - 12:00 pm:

    i don't think 'farm' is the right word for it.

By Antigone on Friday, March 7, 2003 - 12:16 pm:

    Bring your children, bring your shit. Both in brown paper bags, preferably.

By Rowlf on Friday, March 7, 2003 - 05:06 pm:

    Is anyone else getting a shitload of telegrams?

By semillama on Monday, March 10, 2003 - 01:31 pm:

    Some dumbass wants me to join NATO. I ignored him.

By eri on Monday, March 10, 2003 - 01:37 pm:

    I am getting repeats of the same issues. Since it didn't go through right the first time (like someone had changed it or something) then I put it in the way I wanted the second time. Now it reads "Euthanasia is illegal." next sentence. "Euthanasia is legal." Damned if it makes any sense to me!

By semillama on Monday, March 10, 2003 - 03:21 pm:

    It does cycle the same issues through. THe dude who put it up says taht it is limited in what it can do. I'm hoping that someone volunteers to upgrade it for him ( he says he doesn't plan to, and if he did, he would charge money, so the hell with that).

By Spider on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 03:42 pm:

    So.....what should we say in our world factbook / fact worldbook / book worldfact entry?

    I put "Social activist Chastity Falopian is outraged." up there as a dummy entry because I like her name. But that's no good.

    Suggestions?

By Spider on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 03:47 pm:

    Oh, I see Disappointment has left us....

By eri on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 05:20 pm:

    When it comes to world factbook things I am clueless what should be in it. Sorry I can't be more help.

By trace on Tuesday, March 11, 2003 - 08:19 pm:

    The Lower is a collection of the entire specture of the global theater.

By eri on Wednesday, March 26, 2003 - 10:01 pm:

    "In a bid to provide a new revenue stream for Barbies Margaritaville's Beef-Based Agriculture industry, it has been suggested that drunken strippers could be added to the menu."

    I just had to share this issue. It was fucking hillarious.

    "I agree that something needs to be done about drunken stripper over-population," says random passer-by Sue-Ann Winters, "but eating them? That's kind of gross. Let's just shoot the ones we have to and shovel their bodies into ditches like normal."


    I dunno, though. I know lots of guys who wouldn't mind eating drunken strippers!!!

By Nate on Friday, February 22, 2008 - 10:14 am:

    my nation is gone. how am i supposed to be nostalgic when my nation is gone.

By sarah on Friday, February 22, 2008 - 11:13 am:


    things have gone horribly wrong.


    i think perhaps the last time our nation was a nation was well before i was born.



By Nate on Friday, February 22, 2008 - 12:07 pm:

    i'm sure you say that to all the boys.

By Spider on Friday, February 22, 2008 - 07:24 pm:

    Patrick is gone, lost somewhere in Nate's Lower Region.

By Nate on Friday, February 22, 2008 - 09:00 pm:

    he can't see the forest for the tree.

By heather on Saturday, February 23, 2008 - 01:43 am:

    i bet it's a girl tree

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