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Anyway, I have done all I can for today on the essay. Am pleased. Will go to library tomorrow, for all day, and dig myself up some primary sources, then flesh out that Ess-ay.
I should have more to say, but I totally don't. I guess I'm all typed out. I might play solitaire now. I have to, otherwise I might play Neopets. Eeesh. Can't deal with that addiction again.
Oh, that's right.
I made this icon:
Anyone who cares is free to take it and brandish it at will. Same with the banner from before, but this will be Easier as it's an icon.
Joy!
I love my Nation-State
1. "We demand the power to rule the country the way we want!" cries Buffy Silk while being dragged before you in chains. "Too long have you and your dictatorial government been allowed to control our lives! The right to vote in a fair and free election is all we crave! You can take our lives, but you'll never take our souls! Elections for Greater Doom Llama!"
[Accept]
2. "If you'll take my advice, we should just send these crazies down to the dungeons," murmurs Buy Falopian, one of your political advisors. "If we let them spread this propaganda we'll soon have a revolution on our hands! We should crack down on these groups, and ban non-governmental political organisations to keep the people from getting too frisky with their pitchforks."
This is the position your government is preparing to adopt.
3. "There's no need to be quite so dramatic," assures Thomas Li, your minister of Silly Walks as he pinwheels past. "We could let them have there way a little, just to keep them happy, you know? We could give them the right to vote, but not the right to run for office. Then we could just pick out the candidates we wanted and they could choose! We've been doing this for years, we don't want some uppity new bloke trying to tell us what to do."
[Accept]
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The Holy Empire of Greater Doom Llama is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, cynical population of 155 million are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.
It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Law & Order, although Defence and Education are secondary priorities. The average income tax rate is 51%, and even higher for the wealthy. A substantial private sector is dominated by the Automobile Manufacturing industry.
People are now classified as male, female, or genderqueer, the government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid, child labor has been outlawed, and citizens are regularly shot for parking on the double-yellow line. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Greater Doom Llama's national animal is the llama, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the soul.
Greater Doom Llama is ranked 6th in the region and 20,848th in the world for Largest Defense Forces (per capita).
armygeek's Livejournal for full quote in all it's glory.Anyway, I have done all I can for today on the essay. Am pleased. Will go to library tomorrow, for all day, and dig myself up some primary sources, then flesh out that Ess-ay.
I should have more to say, but I totally don't. I guess I'm all typed out. I might play solitaire now. I have to, otherwise I might play Neopets. Eeesh. Can't deal with that addiction again.
Oh, that's right.
I made this icon:
Anyone who cares is free to take it and brandish it at will. Same with the banner from before, but this will be Easier as it's an icon.
Joy!
I love my Nation-State
1. "We demand the power to rule the country the way we want!" cries Buffy Silk while being dragged before you in chains. "Too long have you and your dictatorial government been allowed to control our lives! The right to vote in a fair and free election is all we crave! You can take our lives, but you'll never take our souls! Elections for Greater Doom Llama!"
[Accept]
2. "If you'll take my advice, we should just send these crazies down to the dungeons," murmurs Buy Falopian, one of your political advisors. "If we let them spread this propaganda we'll soon have a revolution on our hands! We should crack down on these groups, and ban non-governmental political organisations to keep the people from getting too frisky with their pitchforks."
This is the position your government is preparing to adopt.
3. "There's no need to be quite so dramatic," assures Thomas Li, your minister of Silly Walks as he pinwheels past. "We could let them have there way a little, just to keep them happy, you know? We could give them the right to vote, but not the right to run for office. Then we could just pick out the candidates we wanted and they could choose! We've been doing this for years, we don't want some uppity new bloke trying to tell us what to do."
[Accept]
---
The Holy Empire of Greater Doom Llama is a very large, safe nation, renowned for its punitive income tax rates. Its compassionate, cynical population of 155 million are ruled with an iron fist by the dictatorship government, which ensures that no-one outside the party gets too rich. In their personal lives, however, citizens are relatively unoppressed; it remains to be seen whether this is because the government genuinely cares about its people, or if it hasn't gotten around to stamping out civil rights yet.
It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt government stops and the rest of society begins, but it concentrates mainly on Law & Order, although Defence and Education are secondary priorities. The average income tax rate is 51%, and even higher for the wealthy. A substantial private sector is dominated by the Automobile Manufacturing industry.
People are now classified as male, female, or genderqueer, the government extracts trade concessions from poor nations in exchange for humanitarian aid, child labor has been outlawed, and citizens are regularly shot for parking on the double-yellow line. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force. Greater Doom Llama's national animal is the llama, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the soul.
Greater Doom Llama is ranked 6th in the region and 20,848th in the world for Largest Defense Forces (per capita).