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Am I the only one a little disturbed by the fact that over half of the members posted are willing to join someone who has "ruthless genocidal warmonger" in his title and go to war?

Yeah, the order of the day is nuclear infrastructure development with nuclear weapons shortly after. The only way to keep the larger alliances at bay is to embrace risk theory and not make too many waves.

Though, membership in the FYTO would give me some security that I need while I build up my version of South Korea.

Zixinus wrote:Am I the only one a little disturbed by the fact that over half of the members posted are willing to join someone who has "ruthless genocidal warmonger" in his title and go to war?

You haven't seen the other "SDNet goes [somewhere] RAR!" threads, have you?

This is actually pretty normal, sadly enough.

Zixinus wrote:Am I the only one a little disturbed by the fact that over half of the members posted are willing to join someone who has "ruthless genocidal warmonger" in his title and go to war?

No, you're not the only one. Surprised, no. Disturbed, yes.


I'll take the half-million people and specialize in exporting metal. Steel, Aluminum, Gold; you name it, we can work it. Shipping it might not be too hard: create a honeycomb structure that's less dense than water, form it in a roughly hydrodynamic shape, and tow it out to sea.

This, I expect, will be quite useful to the shipbuilding industry that will be needed by The PeZookian Alliance.


Sidenote: How hard would it be to trigger a series of quakes to create pinpoint tsunamis? I know they wouldn't take out fleets in open water, but if you hit some of Shep's docks with a ten-story-high wall of water, you might take out some of his fleet with the docks. Plus that would kick him out of the shipbuilding race temporarily.

Bonus points for inland structures.

Meh with my little nation I proabaly would come groveling to the Senator's nations to ally with them and join them as a protectorate. I also would possibly have my people well educated and happy be feeding them and buying good goods from the other nations. I also would encourage Atheism in my nation, although they have freedom of speach and religion.

I would be the benovelent type of leader; helping out my people and maybe have a bit of a tourist industry as well.

My very first act would be to hide, by producing a massive tarpaulin to cover the islands and a vast speaker system projecting the sound of waves. To avoid being flattened, might be worth joining up with PeZook and friends in the Medium Nations Alliance.

After that, I would perhaps consider knocking up a few universities, preferably specialist ones, maybe do some serious landscaping, that sort of thing. Make it an attractive place not to be bombed.

I modestly propose to the states of Vanas and WesFox13 to align with the Republic of Shroomania in mutually beneficial trade agreements and defense treaties, to aid and protect all the peoples of our nations and to better our good countries with an economic, social military and cultural exchange.

I'll form a constitutional monarchy with me as the monarch with several executive powers; the day-to-day operations shall be handled by the Parliament (a single house only!) and by the Cabinet. Other nobility will be kept in minimum and while they MAY inherit the title, the land and the property, they cannot inherit any real power - they must work for it, as everyone else. I might even discard the idea of nobility all together.

This way ensures that while I retain actual power and influence, people with (hopefully) better qualifications than me keep my miniscule country running.

At the same time I'll encourage the Parliament to seek and form strong relations with more powerful nations as a defense against the obviously hostile lunatic realms (ShepLandia, I'm looking at you...) with dreams of conquest and mass annihilation undreamed by the Romans themselves. I'll encourage nuclear energy and strong military and fiscally responsible politics and strategies while also ensuring the freedom of press, the freedom of religion, etc. And I'll use my veto rather liberally when needed to protect those basic freedoms. As a precaution I'll also maintain the Commander-In-Chief's authority and keep it tied to the Crown.

It is rather obvious that I shall not be a major power by any stretch of the imagination - unless I become a major diplomatic and perhaps economic power. Those shall be my kingdom's chief concerns.

Thus, in the Year of Our Lord 2008 the Kingdom of Tiriola has been born under the rulership of His Majesty King Tiriol the First - may his reign be long, prosperous, and wise.

I am going to join up with FYTO just to avoid nuclear destruction, as well as gearing my modest economy with big state sponcered development plans towards estblishment of an advanced areospace industry. For what it looks like, there shall be plenty of customers.

As well, the Kingdom of Zoria shall work to establish economic client states from of the local minor states in the local Zorian Commonwealth for economic and security reasons.

Zor

CaptainChewbacca wrote:FYTO (Pronounced Fee-toe) is not something to be triffled with.

Count the Nation of New Albion in on this one!

Edit: It scares me how many people on this board would turn into Bush if given the chance...

50-1,000 posts (or having a negative custom title) -Dutchy
-An island between 7,500 Square KM
-250,000 people at a first world level
-A military of 1,000-2,500 personel (depending on US) and a basic fleet of a couple of Patrol boats and choppers for naval policing. You can de-militerize if so you desire, as is the case with every one of these nations.
-Able to meet local demands for basic foodstuffs, as well as having a single industry/resource export of note, GDP $6,250,000,000 USD per year

I would be quickly destroyed without the support of a stronger nation, so I would probably ally with whatever the largest alliance is. Though with my military, they'd probably just assimilate me.

Triolia, Zoria, and the Vortex Empire, Shroomania shall aid you! Shroomania stands by your plight and is in solidarity with your peoples!

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Triolia, Zoria, and the Vortex Empire, Shroomania shall aid you! Shroomania stands by your plight and is in solidarity with your peoples!

As God Emperor of the Vortex Empire, I humbly accept this offer. We'll be unstoppable!

RogueIce wrote:

Zixinus wrote:Am I the only one a little disturbed by the fact that over half of the members posted are willing to join someone who has "ruthless genocidal warmonger" in his title and go to war?

You haven't seen the other "SDNet goes [somewhere] RAR!" threads, have you?

This is actually pretty normal, sadly enough.

Normally it's more people on random acts of violence. It's remarkably restrained so far.

Oh, the OBN for reference:
members 58
CVN1
SSN 20
SSK 510
DD 550
FF 1784
jets 8490
pop 858.5 million
mil 10 million
GDP $21.5 trillion

Aerial refueling is still possible, even without tankers, so long as you have the right jets. As such, I'll be wanting a bunch of F-22s and F-35s, all with probe refueling equipment (which might take some work for the F-22s). Oh, and lastly, I'll be joining the FYTO.

The country of Tír na nÓg formally joins FYTO and offers Mr Coffee his full support in what ever endevours, on the agreement that Zor is not a member and we commence making Zors and Deaths countries glow in the dark by what ever means necessary.

I would imagine in this situation most of the Senate would band together to enforce some minimal international order, since what we would have collectively is global situation which is much too nice to allow rogue lunatics to ruin.

Shroom Man 777 wrote:Triolia, Zoria, and the Vortex Empire, Shroomania shall aid you! Shroomania stands by your plight and is in solidarity with your peoples!

I, Tiriol the First, the King of Tiriola and High Protector of the people of Tiriola, gladly and respectfully accept this offer of mutual co-operation and protection. May our alliance and friendship be long and beneficent to us all.

Since I forgot to mention... I'd rather have first world -citizens. Keeping borders open for those who wish to seek better life is a viable option, of course, although the limited land area is a hindrance.

RedImperator wrote:I would imagine in this situation most of the Senate would band together to enforce some minimal international order, since what we would have collectively is global situation which is much too nice to allow rogue lunatics to ruin.

There's enough overlap in the major usergroups that I can see them all allying to enforce order and nuke Shep.

Oh, thank God there's someone who's actually sane in here.

While the Medium Nations Coalition is pretty small right now, I think we may seek to pursue an alliance with the Mess and trade natural resources for defensive weapons (mines, truck-mounted ASMs, SAMs) - then we can commence infrastructure development and commit our workforce and raw materials to the space exploration program.

The Mess is on par with the US ; If they commit seriously to scientific endeavours, we may yet see wonders of untold brilliance rising in this world full of raving lunatics.

I heartily support the research of a better, more advanced method of hiding my nation. Also, spaceflight.

In terms of actual internal political structures, I feel a Grand Duchy would be nice. I like the sound of it, plus there's less of those annoying 'elections'. Sure, we'll run up a parliament, but hey. It's nice to stick an oar, or indeed, rudder into the process.
Incidentally, the government of the Hidden Duchy of Vanaheim finds Shroomania's offer more than a little suspicious. We would rather remain in the Medium Nations Coalition to avoid having our men thrown onto the frontlines or under rail lines.

Vanas wrote:I heartily support the research of a better, more advanced method of hiding my nation. Also, spaceflight.

In terms of actual internal political structures, I feel a Grand Duchy would be nice. I like the sound of it, plus there's less of those annoying 'elections'. Sure, we'll run up a parliament, but hey. It's nice to stick an oar, or indeed, rudder into the process.
Incidentally, the government of the Hidden Duchy of Vanaheim finds Shroomania's offer more than a little suspicious. We would rather remain in the Medium Nations Coalition to avoid having our men thrown onto the frontlines or under rail lines.

The offer may seem suspicious, yes, but you must understand that these are volatile times. Until the Senatorial countries impose international order refuge and safety must be sought. However, should the esteemed Grand Duchy of Vanaheim and its coalition of Medium Nations form a coherent organization, His Majesty's government wishes to express the desire to seek membership in this band of brothers.

The new Shadow Empire has been established, and I Emperor Shady rule it with an iron fist. My country shall join Sheps great crusade and shall dedicate its economy on the production of highly lethal war machines.

All shall fall before us.

Folks forget the fact that I intend to use them as buffer satellite states and "shields" if ever the lunatics come for sacred Shroomania But if all is peaceful, the Fungal Axis shall be very beneficial for all its constituent nations.

The Greater Co-Prosperity Sphere!

I wonder how the country of Shroomania will balance its obligations to the Fungal Axis with its duties as a member-nation of FYTO.

Perhaps the Zors and DEATHs and Vollys of SDnet World (RAR!) shall be the equivalent of rogue terroristic states?

I can easily imagine Zor and DEATH being Kim Jong Ils and Ayatollahs

EDIT:

The FUNGAL AXIS and its constituent nations of Shroomania, the Vortex Empire, Triolia, and the pending nations of Vanasia and WesFox (Zoria has been rejected from the Shroomanian Referendums) wholeheartedly disapprove of the posturings of the Shadow Empire and express concern of its recent announcements!

MKSheppard wrote:

TithonusSyndrome wrote:I fanatically invade Zor's territory on principle alone and ignore any expenses, human or otherwise, that the campaign incurs.

Sir, we would like to sell you some Mustard gas for this campaign. Shall our spokesmen trade calls?

You put "Ruthless Genocidal Warmonger" in your title, and the best you can think to offer me is petty mustard gas? Come ON man, you can do better than that.

I am sure the mastermind behind Tithonia, the Mayor FU MANCHU, can cock up some hybrid plague to exterminate the Zors. Am I right?

On that note, I would totally play an SDnet World STGOD or whatever you call that. It'd be like a messed up version of Diplomacy or the Model UN. The Model FYTO!