A Grand Tour Of N Part I:
(OCC: I am retconning my nation to always have been called N, it was never the weird name I gave it.)
Introduction
Nation: N (many believe that it is "The Nation of N", but that is wrong. Don't make this mistake in front of an Nstralian, or they will get extremely angry)
Flag:
(OCC: Because why not?)
Nation Color: Bluey-Grey
Geographical Location: South Tambu
Government Type: Democracy officially, but NinjaCow64's party hasn't lost an election (which were all conducted legitimately) ever.
Motto: We Will Stand Against What Shall Not Be Named
Religious Makeup: 39% Agnostic/Atheist/Non-Religious, 30% Brotherhood of Mod (more to come on them later), 15% Christosian, 5% Tambu, 5% METY Worshippers, 1% Formatters, 5% Other.
Official Language: Nglish
Economic System: A mixture of Public and Private economies
Main Exports: Weapons, Computers
Affiliation: Neutral
History of N (with pictures!):
The region of N, also known as South Tambu, was not united until the 1795 CE, before then the region was highly unstable, ruled by a multitude of warlords all fighting with their tiny little empires. No warlord held onto his position for more than a year, there were too many conspiracies and betrayals for one ruler to emerge. That is until, Ninja Cat arrived.
A cartoon depicting the various warlord's armies beating the carp out of each other, for some reason it is in French.
Ninja Cat looked like a plain old cat, but he boasted the ability to speak Nglish and a multitude of other languages, plus almost godlike fighting prowess. On the dawn of 1795 CE, he unified the entirety of N in, except for the two puppet states controlled by the Thanyou Empire on either side of South Tambu. He named this new domain "The Cat Cindom" (Pronounced "The Cat Kingdom"). Ninja Cat quickly signed non aggression pacts with it's neighbours and organized a generous open borders policy with Thanyou's puppet kingdoms in South Tambu.
A famous painting of Ninja Cat, painted on December 31st 1799 CE, on the eve of Ninja Cat's disappearance
Ninja Cat mobilized the Cat Cindom to rapidly industrialise itself. Along with this industrialization he ordered a capital, called Nity, to be built in the middle of the Cindom. He ruled over the populace from the great Nall, which was the first building to be built in Nity. On the dawn of the 19th Century CE, Ninja Cat inexplicably disappeared. The Cingdom was in crisis: Ninja Cat did not have any kittens that were known, so there were no heirs! The Cindom was in crisis, the region ran the risk of devolving back into the warlord era it was stuck in for so long. Luckily for the Cingdom, Ninja Cat had prepared a lengthy plan for the bureaucrats (refereed to by the Cing as "beureaucats") to follow, so the Cingdom didn't even NEED a Cing. The Cat Cingdom, often refered to as "The Kingless Kingdom" by many other heads of state, continued in this strange situation until 1952.
Left: A picture of N in 2012 CE and the surrounding regions. The black dot is the location of Nity.
Right: The great Nall, still the seat of power for all of N.
Nothing terribly exciting happened in the Cat Cingdom until the 1952. During this period, the Cat Cingdom remained fairly isolated from the rest of the world. Society was stable, the economy was finding it's feet, all in all life was fairly good for the Nstralians. But then, disaster struck, not only for N, but for the whole world.
An immigrant from Yoshiland known as Dhoomstriker was experimenting with trying to create a formula for eternal life, a popular pursuit for biologists during the early 20th Century. He was experimenting his formulas on parrots, the latest formula increased the aggression and the strength of the parrots. One parrot was so strong it managed to escape its cage and bite Dhoomstriker. Dhoomstriker underwent a horrible mutation, transforming into the completely insane half man half parrot hybrid known as Parroclese. A swarm of billions of parrots streamed out of his body like some sick alien creature. Under Parroclese's command, the parrots attempted to take over Stureesundtails.
The horrendous Parroclese, in front of his world palace. Not all of his gigantic wings are pictured in this photograph.
These parrots had the ability to go inside people's bodies, turning them into parrot zombies. After one hour, most of Stureesundtails governments surrendered to the parrot menace. One of the only countries that did not surrender was the Cat Cingdom, as there were no guidelines for surrender in Ninja Cat's plans. Therefore, the Cat Cingdom was the nation that suffered the most and the hands of the parrots.
A photograph of a parrot zombie, they were used as basic footsoldiers by very short lived parrot government.
However, hope was not lost for humanity. After 24 hours of Parroclese's rule, an alien civilisation known as the Mods came down with their highly advanced spaceship and started to eradicate the parrots and parrot zombies with their advanced weaponry. As humanity never made contact with this species, we do not know their intentions. When Parroclese was destroyed by one of the Mod's missiles, the rest of the parrots retreated into space. The Mods disappeared, leaving a huge human death toll numbered in the millions, from both the parrot's conquest and the people caught in the crossfire from the Mods' intervention. However, most nations reformed themselves after this brief interlude of war, but not the Cat Cingdom.
A picture of one a spaceship used by the Mods.
The Cat Cingdom couldn't reform itself, the plans set out by Ninja Cat were lost. However, a man named NinjaCow64, one of the leaders of the resistance against the parrots, used his influence to found the successor state to the Cat Cingdom, N. NinjaCow64 claimed to come from a family of 63 other NinjaCows, who were in the background of N's history for many years. The first elections were held in 1955 and NinjaCow64 was elected unanimously and has won every election since.
N redeveloped its economy by selling weapons that it created, specifically designed to fight the parrots in case they ever returned. These sold like hotcakes in the late fifties, where the governments of the world were scared that the parrots would return. Although N continues to produce these weapons, they stopped being bought as frequently around 1960, where the parrot hysteria had died down quite a lot. A new industry was created to compensate for the downfall of their weapons sales: computers. N boasts the second greatest computing company in the world, Nicrosoft, only beaten by the amazingly advanced computers in the Tomorrow Foundation (they are a technocracy after all). However, Nicrosoft's computers are used much wider.
The year is now 2020 and N is watching the world fall around them from the sidelines. President NinjaCow64, now 81 years old, has offered a non aggression treaty to all nations, as they do not want to lose trade from any of its customers. The question is, what will tomorrow bring for N? Only time will tell.
President NinjaCow64, sitting down to start a day of hard politiking...
Next Time: Religions and the Brotherhood of Mod
(OCC: I was going to do religions in this post, but I am burned out now. If there is anything in there that people think shouldn't be canon, tell me and I might change it.)
