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Costelberg wrote:

I love the navy, navy is our number one priority so we can continue our Costelian traditions of being a Thalassocracy.

Costelberg, I'm saying this as a friend, but stop. Stop. Everyone should stop.

Costelberg wrote:

Mmh~ Ahh~ S-stop it hurts slow down~

Wait did I actually unintentionally haram, oh god..

The FNR And It’s Consequences Have Been A Disaster For The Human Race

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Novostia wrote:

The FNR And It’s Consequences Have Been A Disaster For The Human Race

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Weed should be banned.

Answer: Strongly Agree
Reason: The FNR overdosed on weed

People of nolan wrote:

Your too late. I am going to be banned?

Let's take this to the telegrams~

Youre frickin 2 years older than me stop this madness

Soap tips wrote:

somebody stupid
like an unknown person whose name starts with Co, ends with rg, and frickin spams haram posts

I am NOT THE ******** INVENTOR OF DRUGS.
Blame People of Nolan instead, he said he loves weed and weed is drugs.

We are now making a project to remove corruption in our country, now it's starting.

Fine then.
Also, I think I used to be a brutal authoritarian, you know, the 2nd Commonwealth is basically fascist, the 3rd Commonwealth is Isolationist, very authoritarian and also favors a one-party "democratic" state, while the 4th Commonwealth is basically Pinochet's Chile..

Burgerking wrote:

oh wow it's my nation's birthday i had no idea

Happy Birthday... er... kind of...

Acceel wrote:

Happy Birthday... er... kind of...

Acceel? Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

Wasn’t there an announcement that there was a regional-flag redesign contest? Or was that just a hyper-realistic dream?

Acceel wrote:

Happy Birthday... er... kind of...

Welcome back, Acceel!

Hellenic Socialist State wrote:

Hello there.

General Kenobi! You are a bold one.

Denolia wrote:

Okay, so I wasn’t dreaming. Does one need to be a citizen to participate?

Nope, the contest is open to all residents of the region.

21st April 753 BCE (2773 years ago): Rome founded

According to tradition, on 21 April 753 BCE, Romulus and his twin brother, Remus, found Rome on the site where they were suckled by a she-wolf as orphaned infants. Actually, the Romulus and Remus myth originated sometime in the fourth century BCE, and the exact date of Rome’s founding was set by the Roman scholar Marcus Terentius Varro in the first century BCE.

According to the legend, Romulus and Remus were the sons of Rhea Silvia, the daughter of King Numitor of Alba Longa. Alba Longa was a mythical city located in the Alban Hills southeast of what would become Rome. Before the birth of the twins, Numitor was deposed by his younger brother Amulius, who forced Rhea to become a vestal virgin so that she would not give birth to rival claimants to his title. However, Rhea was impregnated by the war god Mars and gave birth to Romulus and Remus. Amulius ordered the infants drowned in the Tiber, but they survived and washed ashore at the foot of the Palatine hill, where they were suckled by a she-wolf until they were found by the shepherd Faustulus.

Reared by Faustulus and his wife, the twins later became leaders of a band of young shepherd warriors. After learning their true identity, they attacked Alba Longa, killed the wicked Amulius, and restored their grandfather to the throne. The twins then decided to found a town on the site where they had been saved as infants. They soon became involved in a petty quarrel, however, and Remus was slain by his brother. Romulus then became ruler of the settlement, which was named “Rome” after him.

To populate his town, Romulus offered asylum to fugitives and exiles. Rome lacked women, however, so Romulus invited the neighboring Sabines to a festival and abducted their women. A war then ensued, but the Sabine women intervened to prevent the Sabine men from seizing Rome. A peace treaty was drawn up, and the communities merged under the joint rule of Romulus and the Sabine king, Titus Tatius. Tatius’ early death, perhaps perpetrated by Romulus, left the Roman as the sole king again. After a long and successful rule, Romulus died under obscure circumstances. Many Romans believed he was changed into a god and worshipped him as the deity Quirinus. After Romulus, there were six more kings of Rome, the last three believed to be Etruscans. Around 509 BCE, the Roman republic was established.

Another Roman foundation legend, which has its origins in ancient Greece, tells of how the mythical Trojan Aeneas founded Lavinium and started a dynasty that would lead to the birth of Romulus and Remus several centuries later. In the Iliad, an epic Greek poem probably composed by Homer in the eighth century BCE, Aeneas was the only major Trojan hero to survive the Greek destruction of Troy. A passage told of how he and his descendants would rule the Trojans, but since there was no record of any such dynasty in Troy, Greek scholars proposed that Aeneas and his followers relocated.

In the fifth century BCE, a few Greek historians speculated that Aeneas settled at Rome, which was then still a small city-state. In the fourth century B.C., Rome began to expand within the Italian peninsula, and Romans, coming into greater contact with the Greeks, embraced the suggestion that Aeneas had a role in the foundation of their great city. In the first century BCE, the Roman poet Virgil developed the Aeneas myth in his epic poem the Aeneid, which told of Aeneas’ journey to Rome. Augustus, the first Roman emperor and emperor during Virgil’s time, and Julius Caesar, his great-uncle and predecessor as Roman ruler, were said to be descended from Aeneas.