Join my region and let's run those untrue into devastation
NationStates | The Unknown Forests of Mghialrgroseth

I will never betray my fascist brothers. Down with liberal democracy!

The Fascist Union apparently encourages it's members to set up "raider nations" to conduct military operations. To preserve your main nation, I guess. All fear the military prowess of The Federation of The Luxurious Beard of Odin's combat wing, The Armed Republic of The Stench. The Luxurious Beard of Odin über alles!

NationStates | The Armed Republic of The Stench

Link is probably broken because I changed it. Aight:


Your regions ain't got **** on the Lamarian Alliance of Swagiania.

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TARTS? :laughing:
(It's fun being the Batlord in this thread, making fun of his efforts for once. Oh, I could get used to this!)

Join the matriarchy, motherlovers NationStates | The Matriarchy of Yoniphallia

You could always start your own actual micronation with a bit of imagination and effort.

Welcome to Liberland, the tiny patch of woodland claiming to be the world's newest country - Telegraph

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_micronations

Your dad jokes are indeed scathing. The Gestapo would surely love to hear more.

Sorry it would be a gas I know but I'm not jew there yet. I'm Goering to have to decline your invitation, so there'll be fuehrer there than you would want. Just concentrate on the final solution, otherwise you're just a Bormann....

Stop telling dad jokes. Make a nation and join my region, goddammit.

Sorry, couldn't possibly crowbar it into my very busy schedule. Making fun of you guys is taking up enough of my valuable time as it is...

NationStates | The Constitutional Monarchy of Wilceria

I started with the most inoffensive government I could think of, and now I'm manipulating its gradual descent into a dictatorship.

Yo, check your telegram pile.

Check yours.

Checker yourser.

Looks like Grimfrost is in the top 10% of the world for happiest citizens

I originally started my fascist nation for the amusement factor, but in trying to conform my nation's policies to fascism I've had to do some casual research when deciding issues, and it's actually been an interesting learning experience.

For instance, I had little to no understanding of how fascist economic policies actually functioned, so I've really had to look up internet articles every time an economic policy issue pops up. It's pretty interesting to learn that many of America and Europe's democratic socialist economic policies have actually been as influenced by Italian fascism as actual socialism.

Whereas socialism dictates complete government control of the private sector, there was more of an incestuous partnership between the two in fascism, which apparently was an influence on FDR's New Deal. Basically, private companies were allowed to remain private, and their profits remained in private hands, but they were dictated to an extent by different government committees that partnered with each specific industry in order to direct the economy as a whole to the state's ultimate goals.

Obviously this led to corruption, and many government and business leaders would transfer between the two sectors (apparently many retired Italian generals served on company boards, just like many government officials in America end up in the business sector and vice versa). And if a business lost profits, the loss would be subsidized by the state, so that "profits were private, but losses were public".

For a time this worked fantastically, which is why so many leaders in Democratic countries looked to Italy for inspiration when creating more interventionist economic policies, but eventually ended up in disaster -- I guess when Mussolini became unable to adapt to shifting economic conditions.

A lot of modern, democratic socialist economic policies actually seem to reflect old fascist ideals more than they do legitimate socialist ones, the main difference being that Western democracies generally don't engage in centralized economic planning. The banking bailout at the beginning of the American recession being a prime example, along with the quasi-oligarchical relationship between big business and politicians.

I don't pretend to draw any conclusions about all this, as I'm only just educating myself on the subject, but it's definitely interesting. At the very least, I find it funny that fiscal conservatives don't try to make more comparisons between modern liberalism and fascism, rather than socialism. I guess they're either not aware of the seeming parallels, or they just don't think the public would get the comparisons, and just roll their eyes at trying to make Barrack Obama and Hillary Clinton look like Hitler.

^ I'm absolutely loving it for similar reasons. I decided when I began my nation that I would approach and decide where to take each issue the same way I would (and tend to) form casual opinions about the same issues in the real world.

I'm very quickly seeing the complexity of issues I didn't have a lot of experience with or education about before. It's a very clever and well written game. I'm learning a lot.

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I... is this wrong?

Bissheeesss, my economy is now "basket case". Aaaww yeah.

I feel uber-rebellious, hanging out and being allied with a bunch of Norwegian teenagers who are probably all commies and black metal vocalists.

**** it, I'm in.

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=idi_i_smotri

Also our animal is the Flyin Spider

Good name, <3 Luis Bunel.

Thnx :)

What does Idi I smotri mean?

lol nice motto btw

It's a film by Elem Klimov, translating to "Come and See".

I just though it sounded cool. Plus, really good movie.

United we stand :ar_15s:

For the last week, my country has been involved in an international incident after invading "Brasilistan" -- in our defense, our citizens were being kidnapped for some purpose I have forgotten. It turns out, so long as you have justification, the international community really will just sit back and grumble while you bomb a neighboring country's civilian centers into the stone age and then occupy them.


My only regret is that there was no option for genocide. I mean, good ol' fashioned genocide. I want lebensraum, not a piece of rock that glows at night.

****, my economy is in the ****ter and the only hope I have of fixing it at the moment is to sell weapons to a tyrant.

Don't worry, I'll give you a good price on them. Just cause I like you.

Having a couple of problems with my country. Namely, conservation and religion.

The "Blood and Soil" policies of Nazi Germany were all about ruralism and the environment, to venerate their ancestors, which works for The Luxurious Beard of Odin, as we're all about that, but balancing that with industry and the economy is a bitch, and I've generally chosen economy over the environment, so I need to fix that.

And since my country is strictly pagan, and is attempting to eradicate Christianity, it's a problem, since there aren't, or at least I haven't received, any issues giving me the option to promote paganism (at least none that wouldn't have supported new agey, hippy movements). Most religious issues seem to be centered around Christianity, which I of course rule against, and this has led to my country being unintentionally atheist for the most part. This will not do.

I've generally looked to Fascist Italy and Nazi Germany when deciding issues, but they aren't much help when it comes to religion. There weren't any policies or rhetoric in Italy about rejuvenating the old Roman religion, and the influence of the Catholic Church in that country meant that Mussolini had to cooperate with the Pope, even though he was an atheist. Not helpful.

And while the Nazis may have had some pagan leanings, this was almost entirely by individual members, like Himmler, involved in neopagan secret societies. Hitler actually outlawed such organizations, as he was worried that they might undermine the government, and was himself never involved in any of them. He may or may not have been an atheist, but his actual religious beliefs seem to be unclear. His relationship with Christianity seems to have been one of political pragmatism: he tried to Nazify the churches, but in general let them be, so long as they didn't involve themselves in politics. He definitely didn't support neopaganism though. So, still not helpful.

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It should be like this in every civilized country.

Leading causes of death in Grimfrost

Old age: 80.8 %
Lost in wilderness: 16.4%
Acts of God: 1.4%
Basilisk attack: 1.4%

[insert atheism joke here]

You know, it just occurred to me that I have absolutely no idea whether or not the fascist region my nation is located in is satirical or not. I'm too lazy to participate with the rest of my Nazi neighbors, so I have no idea one way or the other, but I technically can't be sure that they aren't some straight up Stormfront mother****ers. I don't know how to feel about this.

I used to play this... long ago... This is the only trace of my utopian island society :D I remember being proud of managing to keep an "excellent" economy with everything else being "very good" or better.

• Former nation AquaLibria
  Founded: Wed Nov 26 2008
  Ceased to exist: Wed Jul 6 2011
  Population: 947 million

I assume a lot changed since 2011 ?

Well, I don't know how many changes they made when you were playing (I first started around '03-'04) but in the decade since I stopped playing they've added about a million new issues -- after about a month you pretty much used them all up back in the day -- and now you can actually look at all the stats of your country (economy, environment, civil rights, etc). They also didn't have capital cities, leader names, or national religions either.

The regions seem to have become more sophisticated. My current one has all sorts of resources to educate you on fascism, along with its own forum and anthem on Youtube.

Well, as it turns out I could reanimate my old country
NationStates | The Free Land of AquaLibria
Though it seems I've been playing it wrong - everybody wants to make their country as funny, unique or shocking as possible where I just wanted a country I'd like to live in.
I have to say I'm somewhat impressed with how well it's been going despite all the compromises I had to make. Or silly answers I had to give because there were no sensible options to choose ;)

If your country's so great, then why is the average income in mine 30,000 more than yours? Sonned.