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Governor: The Borderlands of Yay295

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Founder: Radole

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Best Weather: 34th Healthiest Citizens: 50th Most Rebellious Youth: 57th+22
Lowest Overall Tax Burden: 79th Longest Average Lifespans: 90th Most Pacifist: 102nd Most Cheerful Citizens: 106th Most Beautiful Environments: 127th Most Popular Tourist Destinations: 197th Nicest Citizens: 205th Most Compassionate Citizens: 235th Most Influential: 306th Highest Food Quality: 370th Lowest Crime Rates: 444th Most Patriotic: 569th Most World Assembly Endorsements: 900th Largest Populations: 1,018th Most Secular: 1,211th Smartest Citizens: 1,282nd Most Cultured: 1,304th Most Accessible: 1,438th Most Stationary: 1,473rd Most Inclusive: 1,775th Most Corrupt Governments: 1,976th Largest Governments: 2,392nd
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Lo and welcome to the free Technologica, a land of sarcasm, friendly murderous robots, and those little tea biscuits with the currants in them.

Prop up your feet on our (non)patented ottomans and enjoy the friendly atmosphere! A stewardess will be around at a time of least convenience to give you a safety demonstration.

Until then, you're welcome here, probably. Yes, definitely. You're welcome here! Just coming off our latest (up to seventh! We await our lucky number eight!) attempt at invasion!

Tags: Casual, Democratic, Egalitarian, Featured, Minuscule, Silly, and Snarky.

Technologica is home to a single nation.

Today's World Census Report

The Largest Trout Fishing Sector in Technologica

The World Census conducted frenzied haggling with fishmongers in order to determine which nations have the largest fishing industries.

As a region, Technologica is ranked 33,592nd in the world for Largest Trout Fishing Sector.

NationWA CategoryMotto
1.The Borderlands of Yay295Inoffensive Centrist Autocracy“Yay!”

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Technologica Regional Message Board

Faemirajh wrote:Um, Goblin, my friend, you don't suppose that the murderous robots have done away with the residents, do you? And possibly eaten all the biscuits as well?

Hm. Might be so. Ought we not befriend the robots, then? They've a reputation for both murder and friendship, it would seem. And just as well, I've always preferred the automatons to the fleshy mortals, anyway...

Xenhe lous

Goblin wrote:Ought we not befriend the robots, then? They've a reputation for both murder and friendship, it would seem. And just as well, I've always preferred the automatons to the fleshy mortals, anyway...

Being a fleshy mortal myself, I must admit to a preference for beings which will not try to kill me, regardless of exactly how flexible their software is. If this makes me an organicist, so be it.

Xenhe lous

Faemirajh wrote:Being a fleshy mortal myself, I must admit to a preference for beings which will not try to kill me, regardless of exactly how flexible their software is. If this makes me an organicist, so be it.

Are faeries mortal? Are goblins mortal?! Oh dear. This sounds like a question we should to take before the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, respectively.

Regardless, how would you feel about a nice set of metal automatic wings? Think of the efficiency! Think of the heights you could soar! Think of the chrome plating!

Faemirajh

Goblin wrote:Are faeries mortal? Are goblins mortal?! Oh dear. This sounds like a question we should to take before the Seelie and Unseelie Courts, respectively.

Regardless, how would you feel about a nice set of metal automatic wings? Think of the efficiency! Think of the heights you could soar! Think of the chrome plating!

I believe faeries are mortal. (After just a little fairy godmother training, it became clear that I might die of boredom.) I believe goblins may theoretically be immortal, but in practice die in combat. (This may explain why you decided to get into another line of work.)

As for "automatic wings", I shudder at the thought of bugs in their programming, and the catastrophic damage they might inflict. The damage that the organic sorts of bugs might inflict when flying at high velocity is not to be laughed off either.

Faemirajh wrote:(This may explain why you decided to get into another line of work.)

What on earth was my previous line of work, anyway? Goblins have terrible memories. Thieving? Mining? Bogeymanship? Foot soldier in the army of a dark lord? Who can say..?

Faemirajh

Goblin wrote:Goblins have terrible memories.

If goblins are indeed immortal, of course they have terrible memories. I've never seen any exlanation of how immortals can have anything but finite memories.

[math nerd diversion]After all, if you are immortal, at some point there will be more digits in your age than there are atoms in the universe. You would have to have quite a large head to hold all those digits![/math nerd diversion]

That last sentence was ripped off from a (fictional, I think) Zen koan, that went like this.

Zen student [pointing to a large rock]: I think I understand at last! That rock is only in my head!

Zen master: You must have quite a large head to hold such an enormous rock!

Ya know, we've been here for 2½ weeks, with few signs of activity, and no signs of food. There's a holiday coming up, and I think I might have seen some figgy pudding in Ship's fridge. I think I'll see how my Shipmates are doing, and wish them all a Happy Winter Festival, or whatever they celebrate to make the cold bearable. I wish you, Goblin, as well as any regional inhabitants currently in hiding for fear that we might be killer robots, the happiest of Holidays. And I look forward to traveling in the New Year somewhere where the residents are not too frightened of their own tech to say hello to visitors.

You are right, of course!

Bon voyage, techno-people :)

Faemirajh wrote:Ya know, we've been here for 2½ weeks, with few signs of activity, and no signs of food. There's a holiday coming up, and I think I might have seen some figgy pudding in Ship's fridge. I think I'll see how my Shipmates are doing, and wish them all a Happy Winter Festival, or whatever they celebrate to make the cold bearable. I wish you, Goblin, as well as any regional inhabitants currently in hiding for fear that we might be killer robots, the happiest of Holidays. And I look forward to traveling in the New Year somewhere where the residents are not too frightened of their own tech to say hello to visitors.

I sometimes ponder how people are so committed to this game. It's both laughable and entertaining.

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