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Seneica wrote:https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-53297864

Why is it whenever I think things can’t get weirder it does

Wellsia wrote:Have you ever read the so called Emancipation Proclamation? He granted freedom to those areas still under Confederate control, he reaffirmed and enforced slavery in the USA and those parts of the South under Union control. The worst thing to happen to the South after defeat was his death.

Wow, europoor here. i have not. But why is his death a bad thing by that logic, then?

Visois wrote:I’m running out of ideas for my factbooks

Nhoor wrote:Other themes you could describe could be the education system, social arrangements (what happens if you are ill, pregnant, jobless, homeless, old...; are there pensions, insurance systems), the police, media (tv channels, newspapers, overviews of how many people are connected to and (know how to) use internet etc), telephone numbers and zip-codes, favorite passtime, favorite holiday destinations, identification (ID cards, passports), legal systems (legal age to be allowed to do something, things that are banned...), to name a few ideas :)

Btw, you don't have to write all of them today :)
(Says the Secretary of Information who just encountered a huge list of dispatches having been written since last Sunday.. this week's weekly report is going to be a bulky one :) )

Serpens land

Nhoor wrote:Btw, you don't have to write all of them today :)
(Says the Secretary of Information who just encountered a huge list of dispatches having been written since last Sunday.. this week's weekly report is going to be a bulky one :) )

My brain can’t handle all that today anyways since I worked on my current factbooks yesterday

So here is the aforementioned weekly report :

Every month, the office selects a dispatch posted within the month that it has deemed exceptionally unique, creative and informative and deserves the recognition it needs. The dispatch is then featured here, as part of our Dispatch of the Month program. As long as the original author of the dispatch is in this region and exists on our Regional Map, the dispatch meets our requirements for the program.

Is there a dispatch you know that you feel is worthy of the award? If so, please do not hesitate to inform our Officer of Recognition - the official organizer of the program - of it. The office very much appreciates such nominations, as we are unable to keep track of every dispatch within the region.

📖 Dispatch of the Month (Month)


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Interview with the Author


What inspired you to make this dispatch?
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How do you feel about receiving this award?
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Do you have any future plans for your nation in terms of nation-building?
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Any advice for other nations making dispatches?
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Anything else you'd like to say?
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About the Dispatch of the Month

The Dispatch of the Month is a program launched and run by the Office of Information. As stated before, the program involves the office featuring a dispatch it likes and feels the need to commend. The program was done in order to stimulate regional activity, encourage creativity, improve writing skills, and boost the overall nationbuilding quality.

The following requirements need to be met in order for a dispatch to be eligible for nomination:

  • Author must be in the region and regional map

  • Dispatch will have to be posted within the month

We determine the Dispatch of the Month results through a number of criteria. Each are worth 10 points, and the highest total score you can achieve is 40. The criteria are:

  • Uniqueness: What makes it different from other dispatches and nominees.

  • Creativity: How original and creative the dispatch itself is.

  • Visual Appealingness: How appealing the dispatch is.

  • Information: How informative the dispatch is.

    You can also nominate any dispatch (yes, even yours) so long that it meets our guidelines. This greatly helps us reach a larger number of dispatches and possible nominees. However, only the dispatch with the highest total points based off our criteria will claim the title of Dispatch of the Month.

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For those who are interested in the exciting business that is the Archives: I just added a second dailyweekly report dispatch for 2020 so July (which includes 29 and 30 June because of reasons) is in this new dispatch. Apparently dispatches cannot have infinite length (a problem I already encountered once when I wanted to put all the dailyweekly reports of 2018 in one file, which turned out not to be possible) so as we are now in the middle of the year, it seemed like a good moment to split:

Every day, a little bit is added to the history of The Western Isles. In order not to forget our history, we make sure we maintain links to the important historical dispatches, threads, archives, and albums. All of these can be found below. If you believe something is missing from this list, then please bring it to our attention so that we may rectify it!


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Rhenvaar wrote:May I ask is having a WA mandatory here? May have an issue with that. Another under the same roof plays NS and uses the WA. Dont know the rule set regarding that.
(Their name shall remain anonymous as we are both new and I dont wish to espouse their name without their knowing or consent)

From the NationStates FAQ, with the relevant portion underlined.

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I only have one WA nation but my brother has one and he sometimes uses this computer.

Unfortunately that's asking for trouble. We try to identify WA cheats accurately, but we have no way of telling exactly whose fingers are touching the keyboard at any given time. So unfortunately if you don't want to run the risk of being ejected from the WA (or worse), you shouldn't let anyone else operate WA nations from your computer, either.

Sharing a network or IP address is usually fine. The game does not rely on any single method of identifying WA cheats, but combines data from many different methods to calculate the likelihood that multiple WA nations are operated by the same person.

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So assuming they use a different computer it should be fine.

I love the smell of controversy in the morning.

Segentova wrote:Wow, europoor here. i have not. But why is his death a bad thing by that logic, then?

Abraham Lincoln is the only President that was not endorsed by his own party for his second term. He was a firm believer that the South could not secede so they didn’t. When he learned of Lee’s surrender he ordered the military band to play Dixie. There would have been no Reconstruction Era, the South wouldn’t have faced occupation, the Senators and Representatives elected to the Confederate Congress were allowed to represent their states in the US Congress, till he was shot. There has always been a theory that the Republican Party convinced Booth to shoot him.

you can tell that people haven't actually looked at the statue of Lincoln with a slave kneeling in front of him before getting faux outraged bc it did not age well to say the least

Wellsia wrote:Have you ever read the so called Emancipation Proclamation? He granted freedom to those areas still under Confederate control, he reaffirmed and enforced slavery in the USA and those parts of the South under Union control. The worst thing to happen to the South after defeat was his death.

https://imgur.com/cWFEIZN
ffs how many times am I going to have to remake this

Wellsia wrote:Abraham Lincoln is the only President that was not endorsed by his own party for his second term. He was a firm believer that the South could not secede so they didn’t. When he learned of Lee’s surrender he ordered the military band to play Dixie. There would have been no Reconstruction Era, the South wouldn’t have faced occupation, the Senators and Representatives elected to the Confederate Congress were allowed to represent their states in the US Congress, till he was shot. There has always been a theory that the Republican Party convinced Booth to shoot him.

I don't know, sounds like some lost cause revisionism. Face it Wellsia, the CSA was a five year gamble to keep slaves that lost. The South didn't care about State's Rights, they were more authoritarian than the Union, the only thing they cared about were keeping a subsection of humanity subservient to them. Southerners should give up this 150 year old debate that they keep trying to make, and maybe try and make their part of the US not a sh*thole. Everything South of the Mason Dixon line is an embarrassment to the US.

Corindia and Visois

Aizcona wrote:Everything South of the Mason Dixon line is an embarrassment to the US.

Asheville NC was a pretty cool place when I went there a few years back

Shidei wrote:Asheville NC was a pretty cool place when I went there a few years back

Alright, maybe what I said was hyperbole BUT its true that some of the worst states in the union (i.e Alabama and Mississippi) are down there

Aizcona wrote:I don't know, sounds like some lost cause revisionism. Face it Wellsia, the CSA was a five year gamble to keep slaves that lost. The South didn't care about State's Rights, they were more authoritarian than the Union, the only thing they cared about were keeping a subsection of humanity subservient to them. Southerners should give up this 150 year old debate that they keep trying to make, and maybe try and make their part of the US not a sh*thole. Everything South of the Mason Dixon line is an embarrassment to the US.

I wouldn’t say EVERYTHING is bad down south but the people who are claiming the civil war wasn’t about slavery aren’t that bright

Aizcona wrote:Alright, maybe what I said was hyperbole BUT its true that some of the worst states in the union (i.e Alabama and Mississippi) are down there

I’m from Mississippi

Can confirm it sucks

You know your state is bad when Alabama's claim to fame is "at least we're not Mississippi"

Two slave nations fighting,I’m not dumb enough to say slavery wasn’t a major cause, part of the reason the South is a “$hithole” is because of Reconstruction, prior to the War, Louisiana and Mississippi were the wealthiest two states, now they are the poorest, there are still laws that only apply to the South on the books today. I said nothing about the South, I was talking about Lincoln and nothing I said was false or revisionist.

Wellsia wrote:prior to the War, Louisiana and Mississippi were the wealthiest two states

I wonder how they got all that wealth, and why it evaporated so suddenly after 1865. I guess we'll never know

Santiland repubilc and Shidei

Wellsia wrote:nothing I said was false or revisionist.

My man you're just doing the conspiracy theory/antivaxxer/lost causer move number 1 which is to lead with one true fact about an accepted belief which doesn't get much airtime and use that to suggest a whole host of meth theories could also be true. It's been done

Ayrupe Eredu 1891


Type: Rifle
Place of Origin: Aizcona

Service History

In Service: 1891 - 1950s
Used by: See Users
Wars: See Wars

Production History

Manufacturer: Ayrupe
Designed: 1891

Specifications [MT3]

Weight: 4 kg
Length: 1,295 mm
Barrel Length: 780 mm
Cartridge: 7.65×53mm Ayrupe
Action: Bolt Action
Muzzle Velocity: 640.1 m/s
Feed System: 5 round box magazine
Sights: Iron sights adjustable to 1,900 m

The Ayrupe Eredu (Model) 1891 was a bolt-action rifle of Aizconan origin that saw extensive use in the period between the late 1800s and the beginnings and through the First Imperial War. This was the first rifle model in the line designed and manufactured by Lokadi Ayrupe of the Ayrupe Company.


History

In the late 1880s and early 1890s the Aizconan Military was in a period of modernization. One of these components of modernization was a new standardized service rifle for the Aizconan Army. Thus the Army put out a contract for a new modern rifle for the Aizconan army. By the end of the contest it came down to three companies' designs, one of which being the Ayrupe Bolt Action Rifle. The Ayrupe design took a large amount of influence from European designs which the company had reverse engineered for its own use. The main features of this rifle would be the ability to use stripper clips to feed the magazine (a revolution in rate of fire), and the introduction of the high performance smokeless powder rimless bottlenecked rifle 7.65x53mm Ayrupe cartridge that they had stolen directly from European designs.

By the time of the trials of the three rifles left in April of 1890, the Ayrupe design was the furthest along in the process with the least defects due to their use of outside designs, where the other two companies went with indigenous design. The Aizconan Army was especially impressed with the stripper clips that were used in the rifle which led to a much higher rate of fire than the other two rifles. Along with that the Ayrupe design was more reliable and was more ergonomically comfortable. At the end of the rifle trials the Aizconan Army selected the Ayrupe design which was designated the Ayrupe E1891. They gave the company a large contract for the rifle.

(Talk about service history)


Features

One of the principal defining features of the Ayrupe E1891 was a spring-loaded cock on closing bolt action resembling that of the British Lee-Metford, which predates the Ayrupe E1891 by seven years. This development allowed for faster firing and was well received.

The E1891 featured a single-piece solid wooden body running the entire weapon, ending just aft of the muzzle. It contained two bands and iron sights were fitted at the middle of the receiver top and at the muzzle like virtually all other rifles of the time. Overall length of the rifle was just over 50 inches (1270 millimeters) with the barrel contributing to approximately 30 inches (762 millimeters) of this length. Of course, a fixed bayonet was issued and added another 10 inches (254 millimeters) to the design as doctrine of the period still relied heavily on the bayonet charge for the defensive victory.

All variations used the same 7.65mm round-nosed cartridge. Many parts were interchangeable.


Users

- Aizcona


Conflicts
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In case anyone needs a bolt-action rifle for the period between the 1890s and the First Imperial War, here's one here!

Athara magarat

Aizcona wrote:
Ayrupe Eredu 1891


Type: Rifle
Place of Origin: Aizcona

Service History

In Service: 1891 - 1950s
Used by: See Users
Wars: See Wars

Production History

Manufacturer: Ayrupe
Designed: 1891

Specifications [MT3]

Weight: 4 kg
Length: 1,295 mm
Barrel Length: 780 mm
Cartridge: 7.65×53mm Ayrupe
Action: Bolt Action
Muzzle Velocity: 640.1 m/s
Feed System: 5 round box magazine
Sights: Iron sights adjustable to 1,900 m

The Ayrupe Eredu (Model) 1891 was a bolt-action rifle of Aizconan origin that saw extensive use in the period between the late 1800s and the beginnings and through the First Imperial War. This was the first rifle model in the line designed and manufactured by Lokadi Ayrupe of the Ayrupe Company.


History

In the late 1880s and early 1890s the Aizconan Military was in a period of modernization. One of these components of modernization was a new standardized service rifle for the Aizconan Army. Thus the Army put out a contract for a new modern rifle for the Aizconan army. By the end of the contest it came down to three companies' designs, one of which being the Ayrupe Bolt Action Rifle. The Ayrupe design took a large amount of influence from European designs which the company had reverse engineered for its own use. The main features of this rifle would be the ability to use stripper clips to feed the magazine (a revolution in rate of fire), and the introduction of the high performance smokeless powder rimless bottlenecked rifle 7.65x53mm Ayrupe cartridge that they had stolen directly from European designs.

By the time of the trials of the three rifles left in April of 1890, the Ayrupe design was the furthest along in the process with the least defects due to their use of outside designs, where the other two companies went with indigenous design. The Aizconan Army was especially impressed with the stripper clips that were used in the rifle which led to a much higher rate of fire than the other two rifles. Along with that the Ayrupe design was more reliable and was more ergonomically comfortable. At the end of the rifle trials the Aizconan Army selected the Ayrupe design which was designated the Ayrupe E1891. They gave the company a large contract for the rifle.

(Talk about service history)


Features

One of the principal defining features of the Ayrupe E1891 was a spring-loaded cock on closing bolt action resembling that of the British Lee-Metford, which predates the Ayrupe E1891 by seven years. This development allowed for faster firing and was well received.

The E1891 featured a single-piece solid wooden body running the entire weapon, ending just aft of the muzzle. It contained two bands and iron sights were fitted at the middle of the receiver top and at the muzzle like virtually all other rifles of the time. Overall length of the rifle was just over 50 inches (1270 millimeters) with the barrel contributing to approximately 30 inches (762 millimeters) of this length. Of course, a fixed bayonet was issued and added another 10 inches (254 millimeters) to the design as doctrine of the period still relied heavily on the bayonet charge for the defensive victory.

All variations used the same 7.65mm round-nosed cartridge. Many parts were interchangeable.


Users

- Aizcona


Conflicts
Read dispatch


In case anyone needs a bolt-action rifle for the period between the 1890s and the First Imperial War, here's one here!

Probably would need that if you're willing to support a revolutionary liberal republic.

Wellsia wrote:I’m not dumb enough to say slavery was a major cause

Wait what? That was THE cause of the war. Dear lord

Imagine arguing about a nation that was created by European colonists, the slave trade and occupied native American/Mexican territory. Lol

Austrovik-Germania wrote:Probably would need that if you're willing to support a revolutionary liberal republic.

I think I would need more information

Aizcona wrote:Wait what? That was THE cause of the war. Dear lord

no see you don't understand. it's called the war of northern aggression for a reason

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