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Citizenship & Roleplay Application
(Part One of the application must be complete in order for your application to be considered.)






Part One: Basic Information

Name of NationStates Nation: Suebica

Do you have a history of roleplay? (if yes, please provide examples): Not here, but I do dabble in forum roleplay at the various places past and present

Do you have a history in government? (if yes, please provide examples): Not really. I do have a PoliSci major, but doubt that would actually help.

Do you have previous NationStates experience? (if yes, please provide examples): Dabbled in the past.

How did you find us? Recruitment message.

What do you hope to take part in at Castratene? RP, community, NS craziness.

How active do you plan to be? At least on once a day, depending on how busy or not busy I am. Want to be involved.





The next portion of the application is only to be filled out if you desire to actively roleplay. If you DO NOT wish to roleplay at this time, please skip to the end and take not of the agreement you enter by submitting this application.





Part Two: Roleplay Information

Official Nation Name: Kingdom of Suebica

Other/Unofficial Name(s): Suebica, Kingdom of the Suebi

National Capital: Corunna

Population of Nation: N/A (still thinking about it. I am ball parking it in about 3-4 million, not everyone wants to play a major power. Though I'd be willing to work with a larger population if it fits the RP better.

Largest Metropolitan Areas/Cities and Their Populations: WIP


Form of Government: Constitutional Monarchy (considering having it as federal)

What is the Government Like?: An actual Constitutional Monarchy where a king shares power with a judiciary, and a parliament and they all check each other. And of course the King is not a rubber stamp/corgi loving figurehead.

How Educated is the Average Citizen?: WIP

How Political Aware/Involved is the Average Citizen: WIP

National Leaders: (Head of Government/Head of State/Commander-in-chief/Kings/Princes/Ministers/Secretaries/etc) WIP (Though I decided that the head of state would be the King and the head of government would be of course the standard leader of Parliament)

Legislative Body: WIP (bicameral parliament)

Judiciary Body: WIP (need to figure out how a Germanic/Hispanic nation would work)

Name of Administrative/Provincial Divisions: WIP

Colonies/Dependencies: N/A (don't think I am going to want colonies).

Historical Dates (founding, wars, crisis, etc): WIP

Currency : Thaler (might change it)

Official Motto : WIP (trying to think of an appropriate one for official RP)

Unofficial Motto(s) Homo homini lupus est (probably would be used in jest rather than an official motto.)

Racial/Ethnic background: WIP

-40%Suebis
-20% Hispano-Suebis
-17% Galicians
-13% Celtiberians
-6% Jewish (4% Sephardi, and 2% Suebic)
- 4% Others


Language(s) Spoken: Germano-Suebic [Suebic (A Germanic Language with heavy Latinic influences, some Celtic, and of course other Germanic languages feeding back into it)], Suebic Romance (a Romance language spoken by the mixed Hispanic-Suebic population, heavily influenced by Suebic and Celtiberian), Galician, Celtiberian.

Major Religion(s) : Reformed Catholicism, Catholicism, various Protestant denominations, various types of Irreligion, and Judaism.

National Religion(if applicable): Reformed Catholic Church of Suebica

Date/Address Format : ddd/mm/yy

Driving Side: Right

Internet TLD (.us, .uk, .mn, etc...): .Sbc



Describe the Climate and Weather in your nation: Atlantic (WIP for further details)

Describe the Topological/Geographical features in your nation? (Highest peak, beaches, deserts, forests, etc): WIP



Major Industries: WIP

Minor Industries: WIP

Specialization (something your nation is extremely good at: WIP

Major Resources: WIP

Minor Resources: WIP

What is the biggest mode of transportation in your nation?: WIP

List Major Ports: WIP

List Major Train-stations: WIP

List Major Airports: WIP

Is there a highway system? What is the average number of lanes in the city? In the country?: WIP

Where would you like to be placed on the map? (Climate and general ethnic makeup is similar to RL): Not exactly sure. Need to figure out a vaguely similar area that is not taken. Maybe North Africa, Macaronesia, Cuba, or Rio Grande do Sul.

Are there any restrictions or miscellaneous items regarding your nation that you wish to address?: Thinking about that.



By submitting this application for citizenship in Castratene, you understand that if your application is accepted, you are bound by the laws of Castratene.
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Your application for citizenship is accepted. Your application for roleplay is also accepted; you may post roleplay that solely effects your nation at this time, but anything which may have obvious effects outside of your nation will be put on hold until you have a place on the map. Vizier Gary (aka New Hibernia), our Cartographer, will be checking in to see when you've made a decision on map placement.

Welcome!
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Dec 26 2015, 07:17 AM
Your application for citizenship is accepted. Your application for roleplay is also accepted; you may post roleplay that solely effects your nation at this time, but anything which may have obvious effects outside of your nation will be put on hold until you have a place on the map. Vizier Gary (aka New Hibernia), our Cartographer, will be checking in to see when you've made a decision on map placement.

Welcome!
Thanks. I'll continue thinking over what to do for my nation, and when I get up tomorrow I'll double check for any errors or oversights just to make sure, and if so I'll just put them in another post. I don't think there is anything wrong though, but it never hurts to be vigilant.
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Hey there.

So I've seen the map update and my only concern is for a nation as small as yours to have holdings over such a wide stretch of sea. Now, size isn't everything, but when I say small I'm also noting that you sounded as if you wanted to play a minor nation, in which case I'm assuming you have more local oriented interests. Thus, your navy would reflect that. I am simply pointing out apparent fallacies, but there are solutions which you can explore.

If you would like to keep what the cartographer has granted you thus far, I would like to see what your reasoning behind these holdings is to be so that some sense can be made for the insular territories before it becomes canon.

Thx.
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Dec 29 2015, 07:55 AM
Hey there.

So I've seen the map update and my only concern is for a nation as small as yours to have holdings over such a wide stretch of sea. Now, size isn't everything, but when I say small I'm also noting that you sounded as if you wanted to play a minor nation, in which case I'm assuming you have more local oriented interests. Thus, your navy would reflect that. I am simply pointing out apparent fallacies, but there are solutions which you can explore.

If you would like to keep what the cartographer has granted you thus far, I would like to see what your reasoning behind these holdings is to be so that some sense can be made for the insular territories before it becomes canon.

Thx.
I can adjust as what you are saying makes sense, and play a more powerful nation. I wanted to go against the grain, or what I perceived to be the grain of NS, so no particular attachment to playing a small fry. So I can request that my African holdings get expanded, or something similar.

And the insular holdings were based off of the holdings of Spain and Portugal. Looking at the map holdings, I'd actually probably be somewhere

edit: I can go towards a naval focus too. And I can go with a bigger population since I have Morocco, Rio Grande Do Sul, and part of Macaronesia and maybe a bit of Algeria. So I'd actually have a population closer to ~45 million, maybe even more since I'd have to count the non-Berber population in my African holdings (which would be the core region and the hinterlands). So probably no land adjustment is needed.
Edited by Suebica, Dec 29 2015, 09:11 PM.
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I don't intend to muddle your desired roleplay experience at all, so if you want to remain a minor nation with a small population, that's fine. I only want to ensure that there is proper justification for such a nation to have territories thousands of miles away. For instance, your nation could have been much more powerful a century ago and those insular territories could be the remnants of a former glorious era. Of course, maintaining your hold on the territories would then come into question, but that would make for some nice rp, I would say.

Nevertheless, we can move forward with you becoming a more powerful nation if you wish. This doesn't need to translate to greater holdings or a larger mainland territory, but I think the cartographer has already made appropriate preparations per your most recent requests, so you didn't worry.
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Dec 30 2015, 04:32 AM
I don't intend to muddle your desired roleplay experience at all, so if you want to remain a minor nation with a small population, that's fine. I only want to ensure that there is proper justification for such a nation to have territories thousands of miles away. For instance, your nation could have been much more powerful a century ago and those insular territories could be the remnants of a former glorious era. Of course, maintaining your hold on the territories would then come into question, but that would make for some nice rp, I would say.

Nevertheless, we can move forward with you becoming a more powerful nation if you wish. This doesn't need to translate to greater holdings or a larger mainland territory, but I think the cartographer has already made appropriate preparations per your most recent requests, so you didn't worry.
A faded empire can easily work, and it need not be any major power, just a respectable secondary power. I can even talk with other players about common history, as in world build. I do agree that such a scenario might be interesting if it comes up during RP.

Anyways, thanks for the help.
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Indeed, just make sure to keep into contact with the cartographer if you ever need to make further readjustments to your borders. Also, I'm about to establish your nationsheet in the Library so that you can make edits for public viewing.
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Dec 30 2015, 07:07 AM
Indeed, just make sure to keep into contact with the cartographer if you ever need to make further readjustments to your borders. Also, I'm about to establish your nationsheet in the Library so that you can make edits for public viewing.
Thanks. I'll begin working on it.

edit: Well tomorrow, forgot how late it actually is.
Edited by Suebica, Dec 30 2015, 07:16 AM.
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