Escapist nation!

[2012 Wont Happen]

Friends! Comrades! It is time to unite!

We must bring out diverse population together to found a new nation on the sea, far from the problems of racism, sexism, homophobia and gamer hate that plague the rest of this world. Far from the Westboro Baptist Church and Michael Atkinson!

First, there is much work to be done.

We must come to a reasonable system of deciding the government of our new land. Will we divide our new land into segments, devoting each to the prominent ideologies here, or should we all come to concurrence through Democratic process (or will DementedTeddy just become the dictator)? These are all things we need to discuss.

In addition, we need to find a suitable place to capture and found a new nation on. We could use either an uninhabited island, an abandoned oil rig or some other unused water-based area. Of course, if we are all up to a bit of cold- we could also conquer Antartica.

Once we decide where to capture, we need to provide for our own defense. We need plans to defend ourselves against assault from even the most powerful of nations! Once general defense plans are made, we'll need to select generals.

You can discuss this here, which is why it exists, but for organizations sake I also created a group for it:

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/groups/view/Escapist-Nation?created=1&forcewrite=1

 

[Berethond]

We can take over Samoa. No one will ever notice!

BETTER IDEA!

We build it under the sea. We'll use cool fifties styling and architecture! We'll do cool research forbidden on the surface! After all, is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

We can take over Samoa. No one will ever notice!

It is small, most likely reasonably defensible with a relatively small population.

We can take over Samoa. No one will ever notice!

BETTER IDEA!

We build it under the sea. We'll use cool fifties styling and architecture! We'll do cool research forbidden on the surface! After all, is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

The Socialist Gamers Guild would not be pleased...

 

[Berethond]

We can take over Samoa. No one will ever notice!

It is small, most likely reasonably defensible with a relatively small population.

True. I edited with a better idea though!

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

We can take over Samoa. No one will ever notice!

It is small, most likely reasonably defensible with a relatively small population.

True. I edited with a better idea though!

I edited to respond

 

[Neonbob]

We build it under the sea. We'll use cool fifties styling and architecture! We'll do cool research forbidden on the surface! After all, is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

No! We should make a floating city! It'll be powered off of poniosity and whatnot! It is possible, I tell you! As a backup, we could try to get Ultrajoe to kick a giant fan once a day and keep it spinning fast enough to keep us aloft.

And I can certainly help with defense.

As for leadership...I'm happy with the mods keeping the reigns. And over them would be the staffers who deign to join us, who appoint the mods.

 

[sircashews]

I'm feeling Samoa but can we annex Antartica? I've always wanted to own a penguin ranch.

 

[Thaius]

I would be slightly more excited if this thread didn't immediately start heading the way of Andrew Ryan...

But yes, I agree. Not sure of the location, I think anywhere will do. It will be important to maybe separate some ideologies, as was said, since our culture at the moment is pushing all sorts of beliefs on all sorts of people. I'm not the biggest fan of relatively new movements that claim they're being oppressed by older ones, only to gain speed and oppress said older movements in return. And that's been happening a lot lately.

Also, each area will be named after an iconic location from various nerdly stories. Star Wars planets, Lord of the Rings cities, Mass Effect locations, Morrowind... all that stuff. I mean, come on, who wouldn't want to live on Degobah street?

 

[Souplex]

If we did have a system of government, the obvious right answer is to have an autocratic pyramid of command with me on top.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

We build it under the sea. We'll use cool fifties styling and architecture! We'll do cool research forbidden on the surface! After all, is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

No! We should make a floating city! It'll be powered off of poniosity and whatnot! It is possible, I tell you! As a backup, we could try to get Ultrajoe to kick a giant fan once a day and keep it spinning fast enough to keep us aloft.

And I can certainly help with defense.

As for leadership...I'm happy with the mods keeping the reigns. And over them would be the staffers who deign to join us, who appoint the mods.

Supremely awesome if possible. How are you sure that the fan would never break or jam?

 

[neilsaccount]

We can take over Samoa. No one will ever notice!

BETTER IDEA!

We build it under the sea. We'll use cool fifties styling and architecture! We'll do cool research forbidden on the surface! After all, is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

Nooo says the man in Washington.

 

[Berethond]

The Socialist Gamers Guild would not be pleased...

Perhaps... You guys can work it out in your corner, though?

We build it under the sea. We'll use cool fifties styling and architecture! We'll do cool research forbidden on the surface! After all, is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

No! We should make a floating city! It'll be powered off of poniosity and whatnot! It is possible, I tell you! As a backup, we could try to get Ultrajoe to kick a giant fan once a day and keep it spinning fast enough to keep us aloft.

And I can certainly help with defense.

As for leadership...I'm happy with the mods keeping the reigns. And over them would be the staffers who deign to join us, who appoint the mods.

Perhaps... Perhaps... But then we'll never find the sea slugs with the key for gene splicing!

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

The Socialist Gamers Guild would not be pleased...

Perhaps... You guys can work it out in your corner, though?

We build it under the sea. We'll use cool fifties styling and architecture! We'll do cool research forbidden on the surface! After all, is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow?

No! We should make a floating city! It'll be powered off of poniosity and whatnot! It is possible, I tell you! As a backup, we could try to get Ultrajoe to kick a giant fan once a day and keep it spinning fast enough to keep us aloft.

And I can certainly help with defense.

As for leadership...I'm happy with the mods keeping the reigns. And over them would be the staffers who deign to join us, who appoint the mods.

Perhaps... Perhaps... But then we'll never find the sea slugs with the key for gene splicing!

Well, I suppose if we had a bit of the island/undersea paradise to ourselves, then it would be fine.

 

[Neonbob]

No! We should make a floating city! It'll be powered off of poniosity and whatnot! It is possible, I tell you! As a backup, we could try to get Ultrajoe to kick a giant fan once a day and keep it spinning fast enough to keep us aloft.

Supremely awesome if possible. How are you sure that the fan would never break or jam?

We'd have to get the staff to bless it. Even the mighty kicks of an epic user could not break it.

Perhaps... Perhaps... But then we'll never find the sea slugs with the key for gene splicing!

We could always send the new guys down to get em

 

[DragonsAteMyMarbles]

We should make a floating city! It'll be powered off of poniosity and whatnot! It is possible, I tell you! As a backup, we could try to get Ultrajoe to kick a giant fan once a day and keep it spinning fast enough to keep us aloft.

I've never come across any scientific evidence to suggest it wouldn't work. That's good enough for me!

As for building materials, we all know Labyrinth is powered by an endlessly regenerating supply of liquid metal, so she can provide everything we need!

Science!

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

I'm feeling Samoa but can we annex Antartica? I've always wanted to own a penguin ranch.

Well, once we had Samoa, we could establish an expedition to conquer antartica, and base our countries economy on sale of peguins and penguin accesories.

I would be slightly more excited if this thread didn't immediately start heading the way of Andrew Ryan...

But yes, I agree. Not sure of the location, I think anywhere will do. It will be important to maybe separate some ideologies, as was said, since our culture at the moment is pushing all sorts of beliefs on all sorts of people. I'm not the biggest fan of relatively new movements that claim they're being oppressed by older ones, only to gain speed and oppress said older movements in return. And that's been happening a lot lately.

Also, each area will be named after an iconic location from various nerdly stories. Star Wars planets, Lord of the Rings cities, Mass Effect locations, Morrowind... all that stuff. I mean, come on, who wouldn't want to live on Degobah street?

Don't forget, we need some Star Trek names in there.

 

[Free Thinker]

I suggest we take over a few islands in the Pacific. There's too many of us to fit on a single island.
Government will be an issue, need time to think about it.
Defense...we can always go way of Switzerland and swear neutrality.

 

[Neonbob]

We should make a floating city! It'll be powered off of poniosity and whatnot! It is possible, I tell you! As a backup, we could try to get Ultrajoe to kick a giant fan once a day and keep it spinning fast enough to keep us aloft.

I've never come across any scientific evidence to suggest it wouldn't work. That's good enough for me!

As for building materials, we all know Labyrinth is powered by an endlessly regenerating supply of liquid metal, so she can provide everything we need!

Science!

Wonderful! We'll have this working yet, by damn!

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

I suggest we take over a few islands in the Pacific. There's too many of us to fit on a single island.
Government will be an issue, need time to think about it.
Defense...we can always go way of Switzerland and swear neutrality.

Perhaps that could work, but Switzerland has pretty extensive protection from mountains. An island in the Pacific is rather accessible. We'd need to be able to repel an aquatic assault.

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

We should make a floating city! It'll be powered off of poniosity and whatnot! It is possible, I tell you! As a backup, we could try to get Ultrajoe to kick a giant fan once a day and keep it spinning fast enough to keep us aloft.

I've never come across any scientific evidence to suggest it wouldn't work. That's good enough for me!

As for building materials, we all know Labyrinth is powered by an endlessly regenerating supply of liquid metal, so she can provide everything we need!

Science!

Wonderful! We'll have this working yet, by damn!

I suppose this plan would work out well, because then we could nuke the whales without putting our own home at risk as we would if we were on the ocean.