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Unidalanian Culture
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Unidalanian Culture
Food
General Unidalanian food is very diverse, with a lot of influence from South Asia, the Middle East, and South America. Rice and wheat are the main grains, with rice being used as the primary grain 41% of the time and wheat at 37%. Most dishes, both main meals and popular snacks and desserts, are made using non-indigenous ingredients. Unidalanians on average drink twice as much tea as they drink coffee, with the beverage industry popularizing coffee from a barely consumed beverage to the second most popular one. Fast food isn't very popular in TLU, as health and eating home food is important in Unidalanian culture. The obesity rate is less than 1% (poll of 371,537 people), so food is generally more healthy than unhealthy.
General Unidalanian food is very diverse, with a lot of influence from South Asia, the Middle East, and South America. Rice and wheat are the main grains, with rice being used as the primary grain 41% of the time and wheat at 37%. Most dishes, both main meals and popular snacks and desserts, are made using non-indigenous ingredients. Unidalanians on average drink twice as much tea as they drink coffee, with the beverage industry popularizing coffee from a barely consumed beverage to the second most popular one. Fast food isn't very popular in TLU, as health and eating home food is important in Unidalanian culture. The obesity rate is less than 1% (poll of 371,537 people), so food is generally more healthy than unhealthy.
Media
The 4 main news companies are Dauilan Megapolis Now!, Unidalanianews, AloeTV, and Matoolas News Unidalanian (MNU). On average, Unidalanians watch and listen to 45 minutes of TV or radio news per day. There are thousands of radio stations (6,996, to be exact), with a very rough 65-35 split between private stations and government or state-owned stations. The biggest newspapers are The Nujorque Papers, World Herald at NaSisqbano (World Herald), and Nujorque Metronews. The cost of publishing has gone up as demand has, but prices have generally stayed the same, forcing many newspaper on the brink of shutting down to start allowing ads on their papers (a relatively new phenomenon in TLU). Almost all smaller papers are owned by small businesses, with the only major newspaper company being Dauiland Megapolis Now!, which owns Nujorque Metronews, 2 state level newspapers, and 99 community papers. 43% of newspapers are only in English, 25% are in 2 languages, 22% are in the most quickly growing language of the nation (Arabic), 7% are in another language, and 3% are in 3+ languages.
The 4 main news companies are Dauilan Megapolis Now!, Unidalanianews, AloeTV, and Matoolas News Unidalanian (MNU). On average, Unidalanians watch and listen to 45 minutes of TV or radio news per day. There are thousands of radio stations (6,996, to be exact), with a very rough 65-35 split between private stations and government or state-owned stations. The biggest newspapers are The Nujorque Papers, World Herald at NaSisqbano (World Herald), and Nujorque Metronews. The cost of publishing has gone up as demand has, but prices have generally stayed the same, forcing many newspaper on the brink of shutting down to start allowing ads on their papers (a relatively new phenomenon in TLU). Almost all smaller papers are owned by small businesses, with the only major newspaper company being Dauiland Megapolis Now!, which owns Nujorque Metronews, 2 state level newspapers, and 99 community papers. 43% of newspapers are only in English, 25% are in 2 languages, 22% are in the most quickly growing language of the nation (Arabic), 7% are in another language, and 3% are in 3+ languages.
Sports
Soccer (football in almost all other countries) is the nation's most popular sport, with 62% of adults watching it & 73% of children playing it, according to a large-scale poll taken by Dauilan Megapolis Now!. There are 5 main professional sports leagues in TLU. The first is the Unidalanian Soccer League (USOC), Unidalanian Baseball League (UBASE), The Basketball Association (UBAS), Tennis Unidalanian (UTEN), and Level Up Soccer League of Unidalanians (ULEV). Each league usually plays for a "season", which can last from 3 to 8 months, depending on the year and league. Combined, the 5 leagues spend 30 to 35 billion Zoops a year on players, advertising, and everything else. 2 Olympic Games have been hosted in TLU, with Unidalanians getting at least 3 Gold Medals in both. With children, soccer and baseball are popular sports while four square, tag, dodgeball, and kickball are common physically active games. Soccer is the fastest growing sport, with at least 1 new team being added to ULEV and/or USOC each pre-season.
Soccer (football in almost all other countries) is the nation's most popular sport, with 62% of adults watching it & 73% of children playing it, according to a large-scale poll taken by Dauilan Megapolis Now!. There are 5 main professional sports leagues in TLU. The first is the Unidalanian Soccer League (USOC), Unidalanian Baseball League (UBASE), The Basketball Association (UBAS), Tennis Unidalanian (UTEN), and Level Up Soccer League of Unidalanians (ULEV). Each league usually plays for a "season", which can last from 3 to 8 months, depending on the year and league. Combined, the 5 leagues spend 30 to 35 billion Zoops a year on players, advertising, and everything else. 2 Olympic Games have been hosted in TLU, with Unidalanians getting at least 3 Gold Medals in both. With children, soccer and baseball are popular sports while four square, tag, dodgeball, and kickball are common physically active games. Soccer is the fastest growing sport, with at least 1 new team being added to ULEV and/or USOC each pre-season.
Arts & Literature
Before the early 1900s, Unidalanian art and literature was influenced by other Pacific island cultures. Then, in the early and mid 1900s, Unidalanian art and literature was heavily influenced by North and South America. In the 1950s to 1960s, Unidalanians created their own style of art and literature. The shift from "North and South American" to "Unidalanian" was caused by "an influx of purely Unidalanian literature and works of art", which was "dozens of cultures being smashed together and called Unidalanian" (Book Arts and Literature - Unidalanian Everything). Only 3 Unidalanians have won a Nobel Prize in Literature, "though Evrich Zerkosi Sr., Evrich Zerkosi III, and Lighshavv Pononatotsi were the best authors to exist, and they were Unidalanian". The genres of "historical fantasy", "realistic future", and "surprisingly nonfiction" are super popular in TLU, with the first making up 21% of all Unidalanian literature, the second at 30%, and the last at 19%. "In the Arts category, Unidalanian music is very original and seems to only be influenced by Unidalanian music" and "a good case of this is the national anthem, which has some interesting and unusual parts of it". Unidalanian "visual arts are not much of a thing" and "they are basically European combined with Hawaiian". "Unidalanian art has been more recognized because even though it isn't much, it looks great" and "our literature is first-class in the world".
Before the early 1900s, Unidalanian art and literature was influenced by other Pacific island cultures. Then, in the early and mid 1900s, Unidalanian art and literature was heavily influenced by North and South America. In the 1950s to 1960s, Unidalanians created their own style of art and literature. The shift from "North and South American" to "Unidalanian" was caused by "an influx of purely Unidalanian literature and works of art", which was "dozens of cultures being smashed together and called Unidalanian" (Book Arts and Literature - Unidalanian Everything). Only 3 Unidalanians have won a Nobel Prize in Literature, "though Evrich Zerkosi Sr., Evrich Zerkosi III, and Lighshavv Pononatotsi were the best authors to exist, and they were Unidalanian". The genres of "historical fantasy", "realistic future", and "surprisingly nonfiction" are super popular in TLU, with the first making up 21% of all Unidalanian literature, the second at 30%, and the last at 19%. "In the Arts category, Unidalanian music is very original and seems to only be influenced by Unidalanian music" and "a good case of this is the national anthem, which has some interesting and unusual parts of it". Unidalanian "visual arts are not much of a thing" and "they are basically European combined with Hawaiian". "Unidalanian art has been more recognized because even though it isn't much, it looks great" and "our literature is first-class in the world".
Science & Tech
TLU has been a major contributor to technological and scientific innovation since the 1990s. Scientists in 1997, through multiple visits to the Arctic and Antarctica, calculated the effects of climate change on the poles through 2017, and were only 1.2% off. Countries around the world use TLU's 11 research bases in the Antarctic. Between 1993 and 2005, Unidalanians filed 11,035 patents in the categories of Science, Climate Change, and Technology. Between 2005 and 2017, that number increased to 11,103. In 2001, ahead-of-their-time government officials at the Department of Science, Climate Change, and Technology secretly developed a form of virtual reality. Two years later, the Department showed it to everyone else in the government, but the public only learned about it in 2008. According to a poll of 79,274 people by Dauilan Megapolis Now!, 98.7% of adults have at least one electronic, 43.7% of children above 11 have at least one electronic, 99% of households have at least once electronic, and 85.3% of households are equipped with reliable high-speed WiFi. An incredible 82% of tech innovation comes from the private sector, with 11% coming from state-owned businesses and a mere 7% from the government itself.
TLU has been a major contributor to technological and scientific innovation since the 1990s. Scientists in 1997, through multiple visits to the Arctic and Antarctica, calculated the effects of climate change on the poles through 2017, and were only 1.2% off. Countries around the world use TLU's 11 research bases in the Antarctic. Between 1993 and 2005, Unidalanians filed 11,035 patents in the categories of Science, Climate Change, and Technology. Between 2005 and 2017, that number increased to 11,103. In 2001, ahead-of-their-time government officials at the Department of Science, Climate Change, and Technology secretly developed a form of virtual reality. Two years later, the Department showed it to everyone else in the government, but the public only learned about it in 2008. According to a poll of 79,274 people by Dauilan Megapolis Now!, 98.7% of adults have at least one electronic, 43.7% of children above 11 have at least one electronic, 99% of households have at least once electronic, and 85.3% of households are equipped with reliable high-speed WiFi. An incredible 82% of tech innovation comes from the private sector, with 11% coming from state-owned businesses and a mere 7% from the government itself.
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