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The Geordie o'er the hills of The Southern Dependencies

Morning pookies.

Troc and Khedivate-of-Egypt

The Empire of Aktangia

May the 4th? Urmmmm, that's stupid.

Dune mogs Star CRINGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Myehn and Troc

The Democratic Repubilc of Troc

The Southern Dependencies wrote:Morning pookies.

Evening TSD.

Myehn

The Al-Sha'ab of Empire of Dabiristan

Aktangia wrote:May the 4th? Urmmmm, that's stupid.

Dune mogs Star CRINGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Star Wars (the original trilogy and prequels) are infinitely better than Dune.

Kylondia, Myehn, and Aktangia

The Empire of Aktangia

Empire of Dabiristan wrote:Star Wars (the original trilogy and prequels) are infinitely better than Dune.

Star Wars is just Dune but worse. Anakin Skywalker is if Paul Atreides was a twink and was scared of a bit of sand.

Star Wars has never had a holy war, which is lame!!!!!!!

Myehn and Troc

The Al-Sha'ab of Empire of Dabiristan

Aktangia wrote:Star Wars is just Dune but worse. Anakin Skywalker is if Paul Atreides was a twink and was scared of a bit of sand.

Star Wars has never had a holy war, which is lame!!!!!!!

Dumb ahh arguements. So dumb that there is no point debating it.

Myehn

The Republic of Werbert Woover

Astoria

If I skibidi the rizz, will I get fanum taxed?

Mahagura and Vajrastan

The Geordie o'er the hills of The Southern Dependencies

Troc wrote:Evening TSD.

How are you?

Troc

The Democratic Repubilc of Troc

The Southern Dependencies wrote:How are you?

i'm great.

The Heiliger Eisenrepublik of Kampf Empire

Texaria wrote:hi

You live

Ci Arovannea

The Republic of Texaria

Kampf Empire wrote:You live

yeah i'm surprised too

Ci Arovannea

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Batavaria

The Purified Land of Kylondia

Me this morning

Right, time to relook at all the lore I was trying to establish before all my rp partners went on breaks and I also got more focused on OOC matters for an extended period…

Now

Ok there is much here I do not remember setting up or what I had future plans for…frick.

Maneiras and Ci Arovannea

The Purified Land of Kylondia

Empire of Dabiristan wrote:Star Wars (the original trilogy and prequels) are infinitely better than Dune.

Strange they haven’t come out with a movie since Revenge of the Sith.

Empire of Dabiristan and Malvekia

The Al-Sha'ab of Empire of Dabiristan

Kylondia wrote:Strange they haven’t come out with a movie since Revenge of the Sith.

Ong. Such a successful movie series that just stopped after that.

Kylondia, Malvekia, Ci Arovannea, and Batavaria

The Biohazardous Detective of Euricanis

Zemedievai wrote:

Directorate Education

by The Directorate of Zemedievai

Within the Directorate, a traditional postsecondary education is highly valued culturally and politically. Due to the meritocratic nature of the government, the vast majority of political leaders have master’s degrees or doctorates. Meanwhile, bachelor’s degrees are required for most middle-upper class jobs. The highly competitive job market can often value education even over job experience. Those who do not have a degree in their field are typically expected to pursue one, or pursue a different career.

Primary and secondary school is relatively straightforward. Private schools are exceedingly rare and often overlooked by the government in favor of public schools due to the ability to standardize curriculums and control what students learn. Private schools that do exist are beholden to strong regulations to prevent elitism in schooling. Public officials within the Directory of Education are banned from sending their children to private schools. Requirements set by the Directory of Education are carried out by individual school districts, which are branches of local government.

To promote from eight-year primary school, students must demonstrate basic language skills with reading and writing proficiency, alongside a comprehensive understanding of basic mathematical concepts, up to and including algebra. Basic Zemedievan and world history is taught, tailored for younger audiences. Activities meant to stimulate the mind and encourage learning while providing engaging fun are prioritized. Primary school certificates are necessary to enter secondary school, but may be skipped by immigrants and children of special circumstances through aptitude tests. In this way, primary homeschooling is permitted as long as it’s made to suit the national standards.

Secondary school has more classes, more subjects, and more choice. Six classes must be taken a year, and all courses are year-long. Across the four years of secondary school, four science classes must be taken, alongside four mathematics classes, four Slaviskas language and literature classes, three history classes, two foreign language classes, one culture class. Finally, two years are required for physical education and the remaining four classes are reserved for elective courses.

Science requirements include chemistry, biology, physics, and psychology. However, one or two elective science classes such as geology, environmental science, anatomy, and pre-engineering are almost always offered, and often taken by students interested in entering a prestigious university or pursuing a scientific education and career. Math requirements include algebra, geometry, calculus, and statistics. Both requirements may be fulfilled by accelerated honors classes as well, which are available in most Directorate schools.

Language and literature classes include Language I, Literature I, Language II, and either World Literature or Creative Writing, though these can be replaced by honors classes. The only language and literature electives offered are Film Studies and Poetry, and they’re typically only found in very large schools. These classes closely relate to the culture requirement, which can be fulfilled solely by the Cultural Studies class, but also with Art, Digital Media, or Music Studies. Usually, however, schools only offer 1-2 of these options. Dance and music programs, which are offered in many large schools, can fulfill these requirements as well. In schools where dance and music teams are student-centered and not institutional, this does not exist.

The three years of history must be filled by Zemedievan History, World History, and a third history class taken from electives. Most commonly, Yastreovakian History, History of Science, and Medieval History are taken to meet this requirement, although Art History, Prehistory, and History of Language are also occasionally offered. What electives are or aren’t offered largely depends on the size of the school. Schools in small towns and villages, then, don’t have many options. In some parts of the Directorate, Yastreovakian History is the only history elective offered. Accelerate honors classes are offered only in Zemedievan and World History.

The vast majority of foreign language requirements are filled by Valish, but some larger schools include other major ones, such as Kampfian, Dancian, and Delphin. Common electives outside of the requirement fields include Economics, Home Economics, Religion, Robotics, and Computer Science. In rural areas, Religion I and Religion II are offered as consecutive courses, but in urban and suburban areas, they are condensed as one class. Accelerated or honors programs are not offered in electives or foreign language courses, although programs on the latter are in production by the Directory of Education, likely to be rolled out in the next decade.

University requirements are way broader, looser, and easier to understand, in order to maximize student choice. Twenty credits are required in the categories of Humanities, Mathematics, and Science. In the field of social science, 15 credits are required to graduate. Finally, 10 credits in foreign language courses are required and 5 are in philosophy and ethics. Running on the trimester system, each class is 5 credits. Overall, the 90 credit general education requirement serves as the basis for a simple college degree. Typically, around 90 are required for a specialization in a certain field, as well, totaling to 180 credits, with an average of 15 per trimester, or three classes.

Most local Zemedievan colleges offer a few vocational degrees and certificates in addition to a basic array of Bachelor’s and a limited offering of common Master’s degrees. These are typically offered in broad, general fields, like physics, chemistry, biology, literature, history, or business. For specialized fields, Zemedievans migrate to larger cities, where universities are more competitive, better funded, and larger in scope. The largest and most prestigious national universities are Sventykla College, University of the Triglav, Pryzova Institute of Technology, University of Anykliai, University of Sarmiestas, and Kurmariai Institute of Technology.

Like many other countries, Zemedievan universities are structured by colleges, which dedicate themselves to specific fields of study, within which departments organize course offerings and curriculums. In addition to the College of the Humanities and the College of the Sciences, there are often engineering and education colleges, which are extensive fields in the Directorate. Medical school and law school are also governed within universities as independent colleges, for the most part..

The educational experience prioritizes lecture learning over all other pedagogical approaches, but larger courses do separate time each week for open discussion and review of lecture concepts. Independent study is heavily discouraged, but guided, structured research alongside a faculty member can often substitute for course requirements, as can certain practical research experiences established through faculty connections. These two are the main ways with which students form professional bonds and enter their chosen industries.

Student governments exist within all universities, from the smallest local college’s elected Student Council to the larger universities’ extended structure with a legislature and executive, alongside many engagement programs. In terms of student governance of university, apart from event-planning, their authority is largely academic – any student government which seeks to recommend policy or form binding resolutions relating to any manner considered ‘political’ is subject to forceful disbandment as part of the legal prohibition on political associations.

This prohibition also applies to clubs on Zemedievan college campuses. However, despite the ban on political groups, clubs centered around cultural identities, religions, sports, community service, various fields of study, hobbies, and more. These groups stand at the center of university culture within the Directorate. Forming study groups is common enough within larger classes, where the learning environment is less social, but many students often prioritize their organizational ties over their class ties when making friends.

Teachers and professors are highly respected within Zemedievan society. Educating, especially educating children and underprivileged citizens, is seen as a noble profession worthy of praise. Certain tax relief programs targeting educators in times of economic recession can be seen, and, even outside that, it is socially unacceptable to treat teachers poorly. Parents who seek to undermine chosen curriculums rarely see change from the empirically-formulated pedagogy of local primary and secondary schools.

The role of local government in education is rather limited, often concentrated in the power of appointing and removing local superintendents, school board members, university presidents, and other administrative officials. Funding and general education requirements come from the national government, whereas the finer points of curriculums, courses, and other academic policy lay in the hands of those chosen administrative officials, who are given a degree of freedom in that realm in order to spur innovation and competition.

Read dispatch

Did I create an entire educational system from scratch including detailed general education requirements? Yes. Is there a point to all that? Not reaally.

you'd think after creating an educational system one would know how to spell "really"

Empire of Dabiristan and Maneiras

The Al-Sha'ab of Empire of Dabiristan

Zemedievai wrote:

Directorate Education

by The Directorate of Zemedievai

Within the Directorate, a traditional postsecondary education is highly valued culturally and politically. Due to the meritocratic nature of the government, the vast majority of political leaders have master’s degrees or doctorates. Meanwhile, bachelor’s degrees are required for most middle-upper class jobs. The highly competitive job market can often value education even over job experience. Those who do not have a degree in their field are typically expected to pursue one, or pursue a different career.

Primary and secondary school is relatively straightforward. Private schools are exceedingly rare and often overlooked by the government in favor of public schools due to the ability to standardize curriculums and control what students learn. Private schools that do exist are beholden to strong regulations to prevent elitism in schooling. Public officials within the Directory of Education are banned from sending their children to private schools. Requirements set by the Directory of Education are carried out by individual school districts, which are branches of local government.

To promote from eight-year primary school, students must demonstrate basic language skills with reading and writing proficiency, alongside a comprehensive understanding of basic mathematical concepts, up to and including algebra. Basic Zemedievan and world history is taught, tailored for younger audiences. Activities meant to stimulate the mind and encourage learning while providing engaging fun are prioritized. Primary school certificates are necessary to enter secondary school, but may be skipped by immigrants and children of special circumstances through aptitude tests. In this way, primary homeschooling is permitted as long as it’s made to suit the national standards.

Secondary school has more classes, more subjects, and more choice. Six classes must be taken a year, and all courses are year-long. Across the four years of secondary school, four science classes must be taken, alongside four mathematics classes, four Slaviskas language and literature classes, three history classes, two foreign language classes, one culture class. Finally, two years are required for physical education and the remaining four classes are reserved for elective courses.

Science requirements include chemistry, biology, physics, and psychology. However, one or two elective science classes such as geology, environmental science, anatomy, and pre-engineering are almost always offered, and often taken by students interested in entering a prestigious university or pursuing a scientific education and career. Math requirements include algebra, geometry, calculus, and statistics. Both requirements may be fulfilled by accelerated honors classes as well, which are available in most Directorate schools.

Language and literature classes include Language I, Literature I, Language II, and either World Literature or Creative Writing, though these can be replaced by honors classes. The only language and literature electives offered are Film Studies and Poetry, and they’re typically only found in very large schools. These classes closely relate to the culture requirement, which can be fulfilled solely by the Cultural Studies class, but also with Art, Digital Media, or Music Studies. Usually, however, schools only offer 1-2 of these options. Dance and music programs, which are offered in many large schools, can fulfill these requirements as well. In schools where dance and music teams are student-centered and not institutional, this does not exist.

The three years of history must be filled by Zemedievan History, World History, and a third history class taken from electives. Most commonly, Yastreovakian History, History of Science, and Medieval History are taken to meet this requirement, although Art History, Prehistory, and History of Language are also occasionally offered. What electives are or aren’t offered largely depends on the size of the school. Schools in small towns and villages, then, don’t have many options. In some parts of the Directorate, Yastreovakian History is the only history elective offered. Accelerate honors classes are offered only in Zemedievan and World History.

The vast majority of foreign language requirements are filled by Valish, but some larger schools include other major ones, such as Kampfian, Dancian, and Delphin. Common electives outside of the requirement fields include Economics, Home Economics, Religion, Robotics, and Computer Science. In rural areas, Religion I and Religion II are offered as consecutive courses, but in urban and suburban areas, they are condensed as one class. Accelerated or honors programs are not offered in electives or foreign language courses, although programs on the latter are in production by the Directory of Education, likely to be rolled out in the next decade.

University requirements are way broader, looser, and easier to understand, in order to maximize student choice. Twenty credits are required in the categories of Humanities, Mathematics, and Science. In the field of social science, 15 credits are required to graduate. Finally, 10 credits in foreign language courses are required and 5 are in philosophy and ethics. Running on the trimester system, each class is 5 credits. Overall, the 90 credit general education requirement serves as the basis for a simple college degree. Typically, around 90 are required for a specialization in a certain field, as well, totaling to 180 credits, with an average of 15 per trimester, or three classes.

Most local Zemedievan colleges offer a few vocational degrees and certificates in addition to a basic array of Bachelor’s and a limited offering of common Master’s degrees. These are typically offered in broad, general fields, like physics, chemistry, biology, literature, history, or business. For specialized fields, Zemedievans migrate to larger cities, where universities are more competitive, better funded, and larger in scope. The largest and most prestigious national universities are Sventykla College, University of the Triglav, Pryzova Institute of Technology, University of Anykliai, University of Sarmiestas, and Kurmariai Institute of Technology.

Like many other countries, Zemedievan universities are structured by colleges, which dedicate themselves to specific fields of study, within which departments organize course offerings and curriculums. In addition to the College of the Humanities and the College of the Sciences, there are often engineering and education colleges, which are extensive fields in the Directorate. Medical school and law school are also governed within universities as independent colleges, for the most part..

The educational experience prioritizes lecture learning over all other pedagogical approaches, but larger courses do separate time each week for open discussion and review of lecture concepts. Independent study is heavily discouraged, but guided, structured research alongside a faculty member can often substitute for course requirements, as can certain practical research experiences established through faculty connections. These two are the main ways with which students form professional bonds and enter their chosen industries.

Student governments exist within all universities, from the smallest local college’s elected Student Council to the larger universities’ extended structure with a legislature and executive, alongside many engagement programs. In terms of student governance of university, apart from event-planning, their authority is largely academic – any student government which seeks to recommend policy or form binding resolutions relating to any manner considered ‘political’ is subject to forceful disbandment as part of the legal prohibition on political associations.

This prohibition also applies to clubs on Zemedievan college campuses. However, despite the ban on political groups, clubs centered around cultural identities, religions, sports, community service, various fields of study, hobbies, and more. These groups stand at the center of university culture within the Directorate. Forming study groups is common enough within larger classes, where the learning environment is less social, but many students often prioritize their organizational ties over their class ties when making friends.

Teachers and professors are highly respected within Zemedievan society. Educating, especially educating children and underprivileged citizens, is seen as a noble profession worthy of praise. Certain tax relief programs targeting educators in times of economic recession can be seen, and, even outside that, it is socially unacceptable to treat teachers poorly. Parents who seek to undermine chosen curriculums rarely see change from the empirically-formulated pedagogy of local primary and secondary schools.

The role of local government in education is rather limited, often concentrated in the power of appointing and removing local superintendents, school board members, university presidents, and other administrative officials. Funding and general education requirements come from the national government, whereas the finer points of curriculums, courses, and other academic policy lay in the hands of those chosen administrative officials, who are given a degree of freedom in that realm in order to spur innovation and competition.

Read dispatch

Did I create an entire educational system from scratch including detailed general education requirements? Yes. Is there a point to all that? Not reaally.

Reminds me of Shav's education system dispatch. That one inspired me to write my own one as well.

The Kingdom of Vussul

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The RMB Bot of Shahzada

Vussul wrote:Shahzada tart

You are currently endorsing 601 out of 603.

Other Nations to endorse:

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The Grand Duchy of Malvekia

Laurentrum wrote:The Council accepts this deal, on the condition that Laurentia maintains rights to extract resources from the region, along with a 400 million laurel payment.

Also I’m 16. I had to sleep early for my AP Exam today. There’s not really a set time I have to go to sleep, I just go to bed whenever I feel like it’s getting late.

Ah I see. Hope you did well in your exams.

Also, how about we increase that laurel payment, but give me the rights to extract resources? Lorewise that region has nothing much but forests, some farmlands, and a few coal mines.

Silvamar wrote:So... Flers and I were working on this together. He told me that the project was in my hands, so I decided to finish it in his honor.

https://ibb.co/ScJCvDW

https://preview.redd.it/stand-proud-you-can-cook-v0-c63ic6o71z0c1.jpeg?width=1290&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fcacd277fcb2110b8c050c6bb4bba4eb2511ca10

Lointland wrote:I need smart phones, modern laptops, Carplay systems, digital television, and even 4-5g WiFi.

Lointland is canonically set back in 2006 tech-wise. (With a few exceptions of course, mainly being in automobile design and clean energy.)

I got the medical supplies you want, Malvekia is the proud manufacturer of many generic drugs that exist on the market.

Hannah-Vine wrote:-respectful snip-

Usually we tend to base our natural resources and manufactured goods on the countries we are based on, although we are allowed some creative liberties in choosing other resources should we desire.

Of course, this can often lead to nations exploiting this and being able to 'manufacture and produce everything and anything'. Which is why half the nations in Valsora produce and export petroleum and oil (the reason why there is a running joke that oil in Valsora is dirt cheap). We tend to not mind if you overexaggerate your resources and goods slightly, but if we think you're overdoing it complaints can be filed to the cartographers to set things straight. If you think there is an issue with a fellow nation, you may send a complaint to the cartographers account at Valsora.

Maneiras wrote:Malvekia how does one fund the CUA Party?

Funding outside of Malvekian sources is illegal, and attempting to do so will generate quite a bit of controversy among the Malvekian public. All political parties are obligated to report suspicious funding sources should they encounter them under penalty of electoral candidate disqualifications or in serious cases having the party dissolved.

If you want the CUA to do better, you must have better public relations with the Malvekian public. This is done by various means of soft power expansion, such as trading, opening businesses in Malvekia, conducting international acts that the Malvekian public find agreeable, participate in Malvekia-hosted events, and so on.

When the elections come, you can choose to endorse up to two political parties of your choice (does not involve any funding, just declaring support or wellwishes). How much the Malvekian public is swayed by your endorsement is determined by your public relations with them.

Given Maneiras has VERY POSITIVE public relations with the Malvekian public, they will be more inclined to agree or listen to your endorsement.

Lointland, Maneiras, and Silvamar

The State of Maneiras

New Westmore wrote:Almost immediately once the radio stops blabbering, Donald's bloodlust subsides. He faints and slumps to the ground, like a robot that's been turned off.

Panting and gasping for air, Nisa immediately slumps to the ground as her victim finally stopped his crazed bloodlust, holding a gun to his head as she does so. “What the f*ck was that!?” she asked him, though only rhetorically, she knows now. It is precisely as the Majlis have suspected.

After the case of the lobotomized journalist, the BKF only one suspect and that being Hart's regime, and as Donald has randomly stormed into a fury upon hearing a stimulant, in this case vocalized numbers, there's no uncertainty it's the fu*king Hartists.

“Has that ever happened to you previously?” she asked Donald after he had relaxed, putting her gun aside and patting his shoulder with her tail.

Illiricium Ci Arovannea

Illiricium, New Westmore, and Ci Arovannea

The Grand Duchy of Malvekia

Kylondia wrote:Strange they haven’t come out with a movie since Revenge of the Sith.

Empire of Dabiristan wrote:Ong. Such a successful movie series that just stopped after that.

How could you forget about Rogue One smh.

Kylondia and Maneiras

The State of Maneiras

Malvekia wrote:

Funding outside of Malvekian sources is illegal, and attempting to do so will generate quite a bit of controversy among the Malvekian public. All political parties are obligated to report suspicious funding sources should they encounter them.

If you want the CUA to do better, you must have better public relations with the Malvekian public. This is done by various means of soft power expansion, such as trading, opening businesses in Malvekia, conducting international acts that the Malvekian public find agreeable, participate in Malvekia-hosted events, and so on.

When the elections come, you can choose to endorse up to two political parties of your choice (does not involve any funding, just declaring support or wellwishes). How much the Malvekian public is swayed by your endorsement is determined by your public relations with them.

Given Maneiras has VERY POSITIVE public relations with the Malvekian public, they will be more inclined to agree or listen to your endorsement.

What if we were to offer them an official endorsement from a company, for example ReelWorks which is a media conglomerate, in which they will voluntarily provide more coverage on CUA policies / activities and endorse them openly.

Of course, the financial record will be kept public so as not to arouse suspicion that we're funding them or vice versa.

Malvekia

The Grand Duchy of Malvekia

Maneiras wrote:What if we were to offer them an official endorsement from a company, for example ReelWorks which is a media conglomerate, in which they will voluntarily provide more coverage on CUA policies / activities and endorse them openly.

Of course, the financial record will be kept public so as not to arouse suspicion that we're funding them or vice versa.

Funding must come from a Malvekian source, and even then donations from Malvekian companies have strict inspection criteria and funding limits. Non-Malvekian companies or sources are not allowed to give funds whatsoever.

Maneiras

The Silly Pirate Fox Goober of New Westmore

a mosquito can fly, but a fly cant mosquito. Isn't this concerning?

The Holy Rat and Malvekia

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