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Emperor Jean Paul IV of the New Roman Stuggartian Empire, 1948.

"Many people would and have condemned my actions as cowardly, one man (who I admit does have some valid points) comparing it to a hyena killing a weak and crippled baby rhino separated from its mother. For starters, a hyena does that because its not going to risk her pack's or own health going after a healthy full grown rhino more then capable of defending itself and breaking hyena bones doing so. Just like that, my actions are solely for the well being of Idaho, based on recognising what risks to and not to take, honour and glory be castigated."

A message from an environmental activist who used underhanded tactics to protect the natural wonders of Idaho.

You labeled her mother as a whore, you made her a bastard, and then you spent years discrediting her. Did you really think she would just lie down and take your abuse? No, she will lead an army to take what is hers and you will answer for your crimes.
 
You labeled her mother as a whore, you made her a bastard, and then you spent years discrediting her. Did you really think she would just lie down and take your abuse? No, she will lead an army to take what is hers and you will answer for your crimes.
The Native Britannic spies of Rome speaking about Boudica's revolt which threw the Romans out of Britannica and founded the Confederacy of Britannia with all the Celtic Tribes of Britannia. It later fell apart and was reunited as the Kingdom of Pryydain by the Dumnonii after pushing the Saxons out of Britannia.

The United States of America was a failed experiment. They crowned their president as their King.......and all hell broke apart. They upfronted the royalty of Europe with that move.......and when they attacked in 1812, the rage of not only the British, but the rage of the Russians, Austrians, Swedes and Prussians was too much to bear. The Last Coalition forever broke America to become small states running around on the east cost of the continent. The Kingdom of America still exists in the land of Maryland.......no more than a shadow of it's former self.
 
The Native Britannic spies of Rome speaking about Boudica's revolt which threw the Romans out of Britannica and founded the Confederacy of Britannia with all the Celtic Tribes of Britannia. It later fell apart and was reunited as the Kingdom of Pryydain by the Dumnonii after pushing the Saxons out of Britannia.

The United States of America was a failed experiment. They crowned their president as their King.......and all hell broke apart. They upfronted the royalty of Europe with that move.......and when they attacked in 1812, the rage of not only the British, but the rage of the Russians, Austrians, Swedes and Prussians was too much to bear. The Last Coalition forever broke America to become small states running around on the east cost of the continent. The Kingdom of America still exists in the land of Maryland.......no more than a shadow of it's former self.
Hey, one of the "Chop Chop" factoid cards!

As you know the American states might be a veritable zoo of political systems and differing identities, but their fondness for snack food and ball games has been and will always be widespread from the Atlantic to the Pacific.

And you probably thought of Chop Chop Crisps while reading this, it's only natural, their founder might be controversial, successful native entrepreneur for some, exploiter of native stereotypes for others, but the truth is he can sell stuff, and sell those crisps he did.

So nowadays you can't walk into a supermarket in this mess of kingdoms, communes, federations, chiefdoms and whatnot without seeing those red packs with the chopping tomahawk. The card inside might have everything between historical factoids, religious verse, scantly clad gals or guys, cartoon characters, or whatever else mr Hawkfeather's marketing department could come up with, but you will find the same good quality crisps inside, controversial he is, but in that front he won't compromise, the best crisps from sea to sea in 366 delicious flavours (like he famously said, we will have a flavor for every day of the year, in all the years, normal, leap, or whatever else shows up on the the calendar) , chop that hunger!

And you might find a little enclave of their eternal rival, those maize cones do find their way northwards in their golden Spanish-Quechua packaging, but for the story of the "snack wars" you will be better off reading "Lands of red and gold", it's a great book, you won't be disappointed.

"Saxon swords failed to conquer these isles centuries ago, now Saxon personal computers might succeed, but for that we must have quality, value for money, gentlemen, 128k of RAM is a must, multi-lingual support is vital, we will cut no corners."
 
"Saxon swords failed to conquer these isles centuries ago, now Saxon personal computers might succeed, but for that we must have quality, value for money, gentlemen, 128k of RAM is a must, multi-lingual support is vital, we will cut no corners."
Celtic entrepreneur Cathasch Caiside, speaking on the necessity of the Kingdom of the Isles acquiring computer technology from the Free People's Union of Saxony. Saxony had been an early adopter of computer technology invented in Nippon, as part of their national obsession with advancing their technology to reach parity with the Eastern Powers. Ironically, this embrace of Eastern technology would later cause a civil war in the Union, and the Isles would pull ahead in computer technology.

"Rome and China, the two pillars of civilization, situated at either end of this vast continent and wielding resources beyond any other power, now circle each other like wolves, looking for any hint of weakness, any possible upper hand. Let us hope that the various rulers of the Indian people are wise enough to maintain their distance from the horrors to come."
 
"Rome and China, the two pillars of civilization, situated at either end of this vast continent and wielding resources beyond any other power, now circle each other like wolves, looking for any hint of weakness, any possible upper hand. Let us hope that the various rulers of the Indian people are wise enough to maintain their distance from the horrors to come."
A brohi consulate during a parley between the two empires mentioned above, specifically the Holy Byzantine Empire and the Latter Han Dynasty, clashing in the 200's onward.

"When our nation began is a complex question. Some would say it began with the treaty that freed us from british rule. Others would say it began when our ancestors entered our river valley or repelled invading hordes. Some hold it began long before even man, when the Earth's crust shifted into the current position and the creatures known as the dinosaurs stalked the primordial plains; still others maintain the story began at the very dawn of the planet. The true answer is complex, and is doubt a mix of those answers."
 
"When our nation began is a complex question. Some would say it began with the treaty that freed us from british rule. Others would say it began when our ancestors entered our river valley or repelled invading hordes. Some hold it began long before even man, when the Earth's crust shifted into the current position and the creatures known as the dinosaurs stalked the primordial plains; still others maintain the story began at the very dawn of the planet. The true answer is complex, and is doubt a mix of those answers."
A Quote by the Maltese President in 1990 after the Kingdom of Malta, a constituent Kingdom of the UK after 1955 seceded from the UK.

"I am not sure how I can describe our fight against the White men. It is a mass of contradictions, that even I do not understand properly. They arrived from the wast in magnificent ships, promising 'civilization' and 'education', but then they killed us, took our treasures and claimed our land as their own. The coastlines were lost, but we endeavored in the lands of the Great Lakes. The British wanted to bring us down to heel, but that all changed in 1783, when they became our staunchest allies. It is a mass of contradictions, for sure." - High Chief Chaska Wanbli of the Confederacy of the Great Lakes.
 
A Quote by the Maltese President in 1990 after the Kingdom of Malta, a constituent Kingdom of the UK after 1955 seceded from the UK.

"I am not sure how I can describe our fight against the White men. It is a mass of contradictions, that even I do not understand properly. They arrived from the wast in magnificent ships, promising 'civilization' and 'education', but then they killed us, took our treasures and claimed our land as their own. The coastlines were lost, but we endeavored in the lands of the Great Lakes. The British wanted to bring us down to heel, but that all changed in 1783, when they became our staunchest allies. It is a mass of contradictions, for sure." - High Chief Chaska Wanbli of the Confederacy of the Great Lakes.

The British forces had originally wanted to wipe out the Native Americans of the Confederacy of the Great Lakes to take their land and resources, but had changed their minds once they realized these Native Americans could be a buffer for American expansion after the Treaty of Paris in 1783. This is why the British attempted to become staunch allies of these Native Americans, and (for a time) stopped taking their treasures and lands.

"The Holy grail of the Perfect Bracket... turned out to be a mathematical curiosity, and had little effect on the sports world."
 
"The Holy grail of the Perfect Bracket... turned out to be a mathematical curiosity, and had little effect on the sports world."
A line from stand up comedian and former college baseball player Joseph O'Malley. Known for his regular use of commentary on the goings on in the sports world, O'Malley would prove popular with general audiences, but rather controversial among the sports institutes and athletes he would make fun of.

"And so you understand, if we wish to bring about a truly free America, we need to ensure the rights of the states to independently come to the moral conclusion regarding the owning of another individual." - Karl Marx
 
A line from stand up comedian and former college baseball player Joseph O'Malley. Known for his regular use of commentary on the goings on in the sports world, O'Malley would prove popular with general audiences, but rather controversial among the sports institutes and athletes he would make fun of.

"And so you understand, if we wish to bring about a truly free America, we need to ensure the rights of the states to independently come to the moral conclusion regarding the owning of another individual." - Karl Marx

Karl Marx, famed communist author and activist who spoke at a socialist conference and Bogota in the American state of New Granada. America, a nation spanning the entire continent of the same name, was undergoing radical political transformation as progressive ideologies became more popular across the country-continent

"Kill them all! God will know his own."
 
"Kill them all! God will know his own."

Jean-Luc 'Mad Dog' Reinard, bishop-governor of Paris, to his guards while a crowd gathered outside his palace asking for food. Reinard would be later overthrown by his own men, and the Paris area would be reintegrated in the French kingdom.

"If you ever even loved me, boy, then you must kill me."
 
"If you ever even loved me, boy, then you must kill me."

The drunken final words of Tsar Nicholas II, who was begging his only son Alexei to kill him as part of a gamble to convince the Communists to spare his family. Reluctantly. Alexei did so and proceeded to try and negotiate terms with the Bolsheviks. The utter shock of it all wa senough to convince to go and arrange deals in sparing the family. Alexei and his family would live in a Ukrainian-Belarussian rump state while the USSR was formed. One consequence led to doubts and in-fighting, which led to the deaths of several influential figures, notabl Josef Stalin.

"The United States is in good hands... our new President is America's kindly uncle... Walter Elias Disney, head of the Walt Disney Cooperative and member of the American Socialist Party!"
 
"The United States is in good hands... our new President is America's kindly uncle... Walter Elias Disney, head of the Walt Disney Cooperative and member of the American Socialist Party!"
Scattered radio broadcasts from the United Socialist States of America an isolated Stalinist regime that controls the majority of the Continental United States. The Kingdom of Canada often reveals the more disturbing broadcasts to the world in a hope for the Imperial Commonwealth to agree to an intervention.
Gentleman for three hundreds years France has occupied Europe and destroyed her ancient culture no more! Forward men for King, Country and Freedom!
 
Gentleman for three hundreds years France has occupied Europe and destroyed her ancient culture no more! Forward men for King, Country and Freedom!
The vestigal Holy Roman Roman Empire and her allies in Southern Europe declaring war on the French Empire. Expanding all of the Iberian Peninsula to consumingmost of the Germanic lands, it has become known as a threat against the old ways of Europe for its embrace of revolutionary ideals, becoming the stalwart of European protestanism and threatening the hegemony of both the Roman Catholic Church and of Eastern Orthodoxy.

This led to the Great War between the French Empire with their alles in the Celtic Union and the Lithuanian-Polish Commonwealth against the Habsburg Holy Roman Empire, the Empire of Yugoslavia, the Russian Tsardom. The result saw the formation of modern Europe, including the division of the Iberian Peninsula (which would see the shortly-lived Castile be merged with Morocco to create the Republic of Al-Andalus along with Portugal, the Basque Republic, the Kingdom of Catalonia) and of other nations.

"Given how the most powerful Catholic state is the Kongo Empire, little surprise that they'd make their own Catholic schism when Europe snubbed them"
 
"Given how the most powerful Catholic state is the Kongo Empire, little surprise that they'd make their own Catholic schism when Europe snubbed them"
Noted political commentator Juan Reinhard of the Federal Republics of Central America, speaking in 1914 on the recent break between the Holy European Alliance in Europe (consisting of the Holy Roman Empire of the German Nation, the Kingdom of Italy, the Kingdom of Portugal, and associated minor states in Iberia, disunited France, and Eastern Europe) and the Grand Empire of the Kongo, a former Dutch, then German colony which rapidly rose to prominence after the installation of one Fuani Baku, a charismatic local Prince who was palatable to the other royals upon independence. Inheriting a united Kongo that stretched from the Benue to the Limpopo, Baku managed to forge a federation of nations through charisma, support for local elites and federalized modernization efforts, and a distinctly violent methodology. The Kongo broke from the Alliance after Baku refused to allow the European Inquisition to extradite a priest accused of heresy for advocating for local religious rights.

"This just in, yes... we are receiving word here in Paris that the Royal Flying Corps of Great Britain has dropped an atomic bomb on Berlin after the Kaiser's generals yet again refused an unconditional surrender. The destruction is reported to be total, more reports to follow as they come in..."
 
"This just in, yes... we are receiving word here in Paris that the Royal Flying Corps of Great Britain has dropped an atomic bomb on Berlin after the Kaiser's generals yet again refused an unconditional surrender. The destruction is reported to be total, more reports to follow as they come in..."
Radio report courtesy of FRR radio, commenting on the end of the Second Great War in 1952. This move would be heavily criticized by the international community, earning the United Kingdom heavy criticism for such a violent end to a war widely agreed to have been started by the British.

"My only regret is that I was born to late to explore the world, and born to early to explore the universe." - Isaac Asimov
 
Radio report courtesy of FRR radio, commenting on the end of the Second Great War in 1952. This move would be heavily criticized by the international community, earning the United Kingdom heavy criticism for such a violent end to a war widely agreed to have been started by the British.

"My only regret is that I was born to late to explore the world, and born to early to explore the universe." - Isaac Asimov
Isaac Asimov, a great space scientist, facing the limitations of the technology at the time, and a rather restrictive NASA, who thought that he was too old to be effective at astronaut training. By the time he died, though, technology got better. Robotic probes turned out to be very effective at exploring the universe... or at least the Solar system.

"Nevermore... Nevermore... Nevermore..."
 
"Nevermore... Nevermore... Nevermore..."
The last words of Idaho nuclear plant Jacob Wasserman, who repeated to himself not to let temperature of the Langley Gulch nuclear power plant rise beyond a certain degree just seconds before the 1984 explosion.

"A rotten shark's tooth is the first to be replaced" - Micronesian proverb
 
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"A rotten shark's tooth is the first to be replaced" - Micronesian proverb
A proverb reflecting on how when an institute is rotting, the first things fixed are offensive weapons, using it in comparisons to military operations. It saw more prominent usage when the United Communes of Micronesia underwent peacetime at the end of the Cold War and seeing the end of Japanese military operations (and thus not needing to rely as much as help from the Union of Socialist America.

"According to the religious migrations in history, Zoroastrianism spread from Iran up to Central Asia and into the Ural Mountains and Slavic states after the introduction of Islam"
 
A proverb reflecting on how when an institute is rotting, the first things fixed are offensive weapons, using it in comparisons to military operations. It saw more prominent usage when the United Communes of Micronesia underwent peacetime at the end of the Cold War and seeing the end of Japanese military operations (and thus not needing to rely as much as help from the Union of Socialist America.

"According to the religious migrations in history, Zoroastrianism spread from Iran up to Central Asia and into the Ural Mountains and Slavic states after the introduction of Islam"
An excerpt from an essay by an unknown High-School student for his report on the history of Zoroastrianism.

"When my father passed away, it was the happiest day of my life, he was a tyrant and psychopath who destroyed intellectual institutes and had prayers written to himself or forcibly rewrote the prayers of the religions which our people followed. Even today I'm certain that at the bare minimum, a quarter of our population still adhere to the Church of Winston, and they revere me as a prophet for Christ's sake!"
 
"When my father passed away, it was the happiest day of my life, he was a tyrant and psychopath who destroyed intellectual institutes and had prayers written to himself or forcibly rewrote the prayers of the religions which our people followed. Even today I'm certain that at the bare minimum, a quarter of our population still adhere to the Church of Winston, and they revere me as a prophet for Christ's sake!"
Starting in the 1810's, a new branch of christianity emerges known as Tenentism, founded by one Alexander Paul Winston (1796-1858), a bit syncretic with hellenistic beliefs. It gained high amounts of traction amongst the southern states, whom adopted it as the state religion of the Confederate American States's expansionist empire. Winston's son, George (1818-1871) was critical of the religion, and both individuals eventually disowned one another, and the quote came from a death bed interview.

"Many said my head was in the clouds, but that was only because I was the only one whose head wasn't up their damn asses."
 
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