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Bettisia

Largest Furniture Refinishers...
Wow! Three of the US are on the first page!
Huge round of applause for Onyx and Madrocea who claim the Gold and Silver.
I am just off the podium in fourth.

While Lemming evidently just likes to buy new- he is back on the last page.

Cold wet rainy- VERY rainy- day here.
Would have been nice to stay in bed... sigh.
Here's hoping your day is nicer! :)

The Teachings of Lemmingtopias

Wow, the raid on the embassy broke nationstates for a while there.

Bettisia and Madrocea

The Tropican Republic of The Tropican Islands

Lemmingtopias wrote:Issue: 'The Wind Become Death'

The Science division of the Lemmingtopian Fleet has lodged a report on it's investigation into radioactive fallout found in Lemmingtopias, almost certainly carried in by jet streams from a sloppy nuclear weapons test carried out somewhere in the Atlantis region. Any information from other nations as to the source of this event is welcomed and a hefty reward and asylum has been offered for any whistle-blowers whose information leads to the identification of the nation or entity responsible.

We DEMAND an explanation for the violation of our sovereign territory by Lemmingtopian Special Forces who kidnapped the family of one of our scientists working on the....er..... completely harmless science project.

We demand the return of the 👪 family without delay.

Bettisia and Madrocea



The Teachings of Lemmingtopias

The Tropican Islands wrote:We DEMAND an explanation for the violation of our sovereign territory by Lemmingtopian Special Forces who kidnapped the family of one of our scientists working on the....er..... completely harmless science project.

We demand the return of the 👪 family without delay.

The coast guard are not a part of the special forces, but they certainly are special for all the work they do, including the rescue of the family that was being pursued on a small craft by tropican paramilitaries while trying to escape your islands.

We have granted your scientist and her family asylum and thank them for the information on your dodgy nuclear testing. With her help we will be better able to secure the people and environment of both our nations from the harm caused by your mad dash for nuclear weapons.

Further, we hereby immediately end all aid money and lemmingtopian government financed aid projects in The Tropican Islands, with the exception of the medical corps currently working there, Tropican exemptions from tariffs, free access to our Port for your trade and all other access to Lemmingtopian infrastructure.

Nations that can afford nuclear weapons do not need aid.

Welcome to real world, Mr. President.

Bettisia, Madrocea, and The Onyx Front

The Teachings of Lemmingtopias

A warm welcome to Atlantian industries and a warm welcome back to Taesha.

How are you doing?

Bettisia, Madrocea, and Primal current

Bettisia

Today we look at those with the Richest Poor.
~~I know, sounds like an oxymoron. Right?

Well all of the Usual Suspects' poor are doing VERY well!
Five of the six are on page one, while the last is at the top of page two.
Obviously, other countries' middle classes just WISH they were poor on one of our regions!

Happy Weekend eve!

Lemmingtopias, Madrocea, The Onyx Front, Primal current, and 1 otherGreat a-tuin

Atlantian industries

Lemmingtopias wrote:A warm welcome to Atlantian industries and a warm welcome back to Taesha.

How are you doing?

Thank you for the warm welcome. I’m doing nicely.

Lemmingtopias, Bettisia, Madrocea, ElinTol, and 1 otherGreat a-tuin

Great a-tuin

Atlantian industries wrote:Thank you for the warm welcome. I’m doing nicely.

Always good to see industries in Atlantis.

Lemmingtopias, Bettisia, Madrocea, ElinTol, and 1 otherAtlantian industries

Orangutang fiction

We are closing the Travelling Wilburys embassy for raiding our friends in the Embassy and for the even worse crime of spamming my notifications with the bug they created.

More details on Discord.

The Tropican Republic of The Tropican Islands

Lemmingtopias wrote:The coast guard are not a part of the special forces, but they certainly are special for all the work they do, including the rescue of the family that was being pursued on a small craft by tropican paramilitaries while trying to escape your islands.

We have granted your scientist and her family asylum and thank them for the information on your dodgy nuclear testing. With her help we will be better able to secure the people and environment of both our nations from the harm caused by your mad dash for nuclear weapons.

Further, we hereby immediately end all aid money and lemmingtopian government financed aid projects in The Tropican Islands, with the exception of the medical corps currently working there, Tropican exemptions from tariffs, free access to our Port for your trade and all other access to Lemmingtopian infrastructure.

Nations that can afford nuclear weapons do not need aid.

Welcome to real world, Mr. President.

"Great Calamity, Presidente," Penultimo exclaims as he storms into the Presidential Office and knocks the desk with such force that El Presidente spill his coffee down his uniform.

"What now, Penultimo?" the Presidente roars as he throws his cigar at him.

"Presidente, I have just received a telegram from the Lemmingtopians. They have...." he gasps, "they have cut us off, Presidente!"

"Penultimo, have you gone soft in the head, the Lemmingtopians and I have danced this dance for the past fifteen years. They publicly condemn us while quietly continuing to pay all our government costs."

Penultimo, raised his hands in the air as if about to wail, "But Presidente, trade ships with goods for Tropico have been turned away from the Lemmingtopian Port, the daily supplies from Lemmingtopias have not arrived, the engineers building the power plant have returned to Lemmingtopias and they have vacated their embassy!"

El Presidente's face turned a shade of purple that Penultimo had not seen before. He reached inside the top draw of his desk and took out a wired phone emblazoned with the flags of the Tropican colours. He pushed the single button on the phone and lifted the receiver to his ear. The line was dead, he had been literally cut off. Out of character, El Presidente calmly replaced the receiver and stood up, turning to the window through which he gazed over the central plaza. "

"Mobilise the National Guard, Penultimo, by sunset the people will know that we have no food or supplies... this peaceful plaza will abuzz with a coup" He turned to face his deputy and friend, "and we will be under siege."

Bettisia, Madrocea, The Onyx Front, and Primal current

The Tropican Republic of The Tropican Islands

Last night, The Presidential Palace was stormed by the people. The National Guard, realising they would no longer be paid, chose not to resist and to allow the rebels through.

El Presidente was rescued from the Palace by commandos but subsequently handed over to Lemmingtopian Forces in an exchange just off the coast on speed boats for an unspecified amount of Drachmas. He is reportedly under house arrest at his, previously unknown, Lemmingtopian villa while the authorities there decide what to do with him. His deputy, Penultimo, escaped the Palace and is unaccounted for.

An opposition Leader has replaced El Presidente but will not take the presidency, instead being named as Chair of the Interim Government. He is assisted by his deputy who happens to be the cousin of Penultimo and, by chance, looks exactly like Penultimo and, funnily enough, is also called Penultimo.

The first act of the new Leader was to announce the end of the Tropican Nuclear Weapons programme and to invite Lemmingtopian inspectors to oversee the process.

The nations main radio host, loyal to El Presidente, has called the entire affair a "cowardly act of surrender to a foreign empire which hasn't even fired a shot" and called on Tropicans to resist. As yet, no-one seems to have answered the call.

Bettisia, Madrocea, and Primal current



The Teachings of Lemmingtopias

We can confirm that the Former Tropican President was handed over to the Lemmingtopian Coastal Police at approximately 0300 this morning just inside Lemmingtopian waters. While it is the intention of the government to put him on trial for his many crimes, the first judicial issues will concern to what extent the Lemmingtopian courts have jurisdiction.

We express our recognition of the new Tropican Government and look forward to more productive relations in the future. Some aid projects, supplies and finance have already resumed while others are under review.

Our weapons inspectors oversaw the preliminary disarmament procedures and then took direct control over the ongoing disarmament efforts. Lemmingtopian Forces are in the process of setting up a facility on the islands to secure the disarmament project.

We note with relief that the World Assembly's own inspectors have now recognised the Tropican Islands as a non-nuclear state.

Bettisia, Madrocea, and The Onyx Front

Bettisia

Well! Dang!

I popped ALL this popcorn, and then no WAR!
I guess I might as well watch some paint dry.

Bettisia

Last week it was the Richest Poor folks; today it is the largest rich- poor divide.

Well none of the Usual Suspects are at either extreme.
A dubious congratulations to Amma for having the largest divide.
And a more enthusiastic one to Yousphan for having the smallest.

And with that we return to our regularly schedule Monday.

Madrocea, ElinTol, and Primal current

Bettisia

And now for Something COMPLETELY different...

Who do you think drinks the Most Carbonated Beverages in Atlantis?
Why it's Madrocea. (Although I made the top 10.)

Now for the other extreme...
Who drinks the least?
Why ElinTol. She obviously have a country of coffee drinkers. :)

Lemmingtopias, Madrocea, ElinTol, and Primal current

The Fiefdom of ElinTol

Bettisia wrote:And now for Something COMPLETELY different...

Who do you think drinks the Most Carbonated Beverages in Atlantis?
Why it's Madrocea. (Although I made the top 10.)

Now for the other extreme...
Who drinks the least?
Why ElinTol. She obviously have a country of coffee drinkers. :)

Igor says that the bubbles in soda inhibit the uptake of... something or other.

[Igor: Definitely not thee mind controlling drugth.]

Yes, we would never embark on a campaign of mass drugging of the population, would we Igor.

[Igor: Oh, definitely not mithtress.]

Lemmingtopias, Bettisia, and Madrocea

Bettisia

I am not in a very Artsy- Fartsy mood today.
BUT today's ranking is for the Most Valuable International Artwork!

I had questions the last time this category came up, and I STILL have questions.
Such as WHAT classifies as International:
Art by a Bettisian being shown in ElinTol?
Art by a Lemming who is considered a true master by all of Atlantis, but the art is in Lemmingtopias?
If Onyx considered Soup cans to be art, would the trash in Madrocea be international art?
What if Primal Current tie- dyed (ocean safe dyes) international waters?

Anyway...
Four of the Usual Suspects are on the first page; none are on the last.

Congratulations to Morty Smith for claiming the top spot.
And kudos to Atlantean Industries for focusing on more important things than art.

Lemmingtopias, Madrocea, and Primal current

The Totally Not Evil Morty of Morty Smith

I'm guessing it's because of the value of the trading card deck. I have some rare Season Ones, but one of them was way over-valued IMO.

Bettisia and Madrocea

Bettisia

Morty Smith wrote:I'm guessing it's because of the value of the trading card deck. I have some rare Season Ones, but one of them was way over-valued IMO.

I just collect those with fun names, interesting flags, or members of my region. I pretty much ignore the rarity.
~~Personally expect that some of the 'common' are rarer than the 'legendary'. :)

Bettisia

Largest Black Market...
Well evidently if you want to buy forbidden (or at least untaxed) goods,
you come to the US.

Yes five of the six are in the top FIVE on this list.
Poor Lemming is attempting to keep things aboveboard,
and rather than selling- he just buys from the rest of the Usual Suspects! :)

Madrocea, ElinTol, and Primal current



The Fiefdom of ElinTol

Bettisia wrote:Largest Black Market...
Well evidently if you want to buy forbidden (or at least untaxed) goods,
you come to the US.

Yes five of the six are in the top FIVE on this list.
Poor Lemming is attempting to keep things aboveboard,
and rather than selling- he just buys from the rest of the Usual Suspects! :)

The upside of a large black market is that if you have to arrest someone and make it look legit, then you always have something to charge them with. Plus I get the thrill of illicitness when I want some under the table choccies.

[Igor: And for thothe who do not partake of the forbidden fruitth, well, the woodth are tho dangerous and they all theem to like hiking in them...]

The folklorists do warn people there is "something in the woods", don't they Igor.

[Igor: Oh yeth, mithtress].

[ooc: Incidentally, if you haven't checked out the "there is something in the woods" videos on youtube, you are missing some top notch folk-horror. I recommend the Port Chatham/Portlock, Alaska, as a good starter. The thing in the woods scared off an entire town, except for the postmaster because: neither rain nor snow, nor eldritch ravening horror...]

Bettisia and Madrocea

Bettisia

T.G.I.F!!!!!!!

Today we rank the largest disposable incomes in Atlantis.

Well we definitely have a difference of opinion going on.
Four of the US are on the first page...
they obviously think that if everyone is busy buying stuff on the internet,
that revolutions are MUCH less likely!.

As far as the two remaining go... well they realize that rebellions cost money.
SSOOOO if the people don't have any they can't fight. :)

The Fiefdom of ElinTol

I'm telling you; you want people well enough off not to riot, but not so well off they start getting ideas about who should be running things. Rich people always want to be the boss, and I'm the boss. Same reason you want to be sceptical about press barons owning too many news outlets and getting too cosy at the same clubs.

[Igor: And I do thee clubbing!]

Bettisia and Madrocea

via Antarctica

Westarctic

Hello from Antarctica!

Lemmingtopias, Bettisia, and Madrocea

Bettisia

Westarctic wrote:Hello from Antarctica!

And a warm hello to you as well!

Lemmingtopias, Madrocea, and Westarctic

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