NationStates

WA Delegate: FlagThe Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill (elected 1999 days ago).

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Welcome to NationStates, aiming to become one of the strongest ranking regions. Pro-Economy, Pro-Society, Pro-WA, Pro-Peace; Join our glory! Above all, freedom for all nations to control their own destinies in a region free from war.



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Today’s Featured Nation:
FlagThe Free Land of Trikster




Regional Power: Very High

NationStates contains 184 nations, the 23rd most in the world.

Administration...

Today's World Census Report

The Largest Basket Weaving Sector in NationStates

As a region, NationStates is ranked 6,071st in the world for Largest Basket Weaving Sector.

#NationWA CategoryMotto
1.FlagThe Armed Corporations of Aurora IslandsWA MemberCapitalist Paradise“If you have cash, nothing is impossible!”
2.FlagThe Democratic Republic of LiuzzoWA MemberCapitalist Paradise“Peace and prosperity to all mankind”
3.FlagThe Rogue Nation of MorturariaWA MemberFather Knows Best State“Having a pulse is highly overrated.”
4.FlagThe Darth Skipio of VxSkipioxvCompulsory Consumerist State“The vxEmperorxv of the dark side”
5.FlagThe Principality of Neu OrdenCorporate Bordello“Not worth dying for; but worth living for 'til death”
6.FlagThe Commonwealth of Libby the LabInoffensive Centrist Democracy“We are very hard to see at night.”
7.FlagThe Republic of FlingrandWA MemberAnarchy“Flinboil”
8.FlagThe Society of Saint ConfluxWA MemberFather Knows Best State“All for one, one for all”
9.FlagThe Nomadic Peoples of SearosWA MemberInoffensive Centrist Democracy“Wandering”
10.FlagThe Controlled Lands of PikatroidIron Fist Consumerists“Totus pro valde rector Pikatroid”
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Regional Happenings

History...

NationStates Civil Headquarters

Messages from regional members are co-ordinated here.

LodgedFromMessages
2 days, 16 hours ago FlagThe Meditations of Happy Gilmour BREAKTHROUGH

Lake shadows color of cold,
Willow branches weep ice.
Swan rises dazzling in the sunlight.

After long self-cultivation, one's accumulated energy reaches a threshold and then bursts out full, breathing, and vibrant. Without the careful building of momentum, this moment of release would never have been possible. With long years of preparation and experience, the freeing of the soul will not be mere dissipation but will be so strongly focused that it lifts one into a higher state of awareness. When one's spiritual energy emerges, it feels like a swan rising from the water.
Once you have reached this level of stored energy, you will be a different person. On one hand, you may take genuine comfort in the point of attainment that you have made. On the other hand, you now see all the other possibilities that remain for you to explore.

With the emergence of great possibilities comes the need for responsibility. If you diverge from your life's path in order to explore new vistas, remember how far you are flying, and remember to return at the proper times. Only you can decide how to arrange your life. Once you are a strong flier, you must still use wisdom to direct your flight.

tao
2 days, 15 hours ago FlagThe Blues Guitar of Stevie Ray WKNS Radio: Belated Happy Birthday~
Sylvester Stewart (aka Sly Stone) March 15, 1943

"Everyday People"
Sly and the Family Stone"

Sometimes I'm right and I can be wrong
My own beliefs are in my song
The butcher, the banker, the drummer and then
Makes no difference what group I'm in
I am everyday people, yeah yeah
There is a blue one who can't accept the green one
For living with a fat one trying to be a skinny one
And different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo-bee
Oh sha sha - we got to live together
I am no better and neither are you
We are the same whatever we do
You love me you hate me you know me and then
You can't figure out the bag l'm in
I am everyday people, yeah yeah
There is a long hair that doesn't like the short hair
For bein' such a rich one that will not help the poor one
And different strokes for different folks
And so on and so on and scooby dooby doo-bee
Oh sha sha-we got to live together
There is a yellow one that won't accept the black one
That won't accept the red one that won't accept the white one
And different strokes for different folks

stevie
1 day, 23 hours ago FlagThe Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill Today’s Featured Nation:
FlagThe Silicatium utopia of Great technology

”You want something good? Make it Artificial.”

WA Category: Father Knows Best State

Civil Rights: Excellent
Economy: Strong
Political Freedoms: Outlawed

Great technology's national animal is the robotic bunny, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the golden silicium.
Great technology is ranked 10th in the region and 3,712th in the world for Largest Publishing Industry.

FlagThe Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill
1 day, 18 hours ago FlagThe Meditations of Happy Gilmour SANCTITY

Every soul is inviolable,
Any thought can be private.
The deepest goal is to
Find sanctity's source.

The body may be ravaged and hacked to pieces, but the mind may never be invaded. It is only when we permit others to influence us that our minds may be entered. Evil may thrive on enslaving us physically, emotionally, or mentally, but it can do so only by deception. That is why we must remember the sanctity of our own souls. Our thoughts are private. As long as we are determined, evil cannot sway us. People think that others can read minds or that the gods watch our every movement. No master, no psychic, no god can enter our inner gate if we choose not to let them in.
By withdrawing into the sanctity of our souls, we can also know ourselves. This effort cannot be carried forth by others. It can only be accomplished through the self-effort of living and engaging in ongoing contemplation. Only we can enter the most sacred core of our beings and find the secrets of life.

tao
1 day, 9 hours ago FlagThe Blues Guitar of Stevie Ray WKNS Radio:

"A Whiter Shade of Pale"
Procool Harum

We skipped a light fandango,
Turned cartwheels 'cross the floor.
I was feeling kind of seasick,
But the crowd called out for more.
The room was humming harder,
As the ceiling flew away.
When we called out for another drink,
The waiter brought a tray.

And so it was that later,
As the miller told his tale,
That her face at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale.

She said there is no reason,
And the truth is plain to see
That I wandered through my playing cards,
And would not let her be
One of sixteen vestal virgins
Who were leaving for the coast.
And although my eyes were open,
They might just as well have been closed.

And so it was later,
As the miller told his tale,
That her face at first just ghostly,
Turned a whiter shade of pale.

stevie
20 hours ago FlagThe Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill Today’s Featured Nation:
FlagThe Free Land of Trikster

”Pateu”

WA Category: New York Times Democracy

Civil Rights: Very Good
Economy: Fragile
Political Freedoms: Superb

Trikster's national animal is the Wyvern, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the RON.

Trikster is ranked 5th in the region and 642nd in the world for Best Weather.

FlagThe Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill
16 hours ago FlagThe Mikes Hope Essence of Mikeswill In Memory of Cecil Jones, January 19, 1938 - March 12, 2010. Your life impacted numerous human beings with positive spirituality.

Mh
15 hours ago FlagThe Meditations of Happy Gilmour FATE

Dispel time
And you will
Dispel fate.

Fate is the force that interferes with our lives, wrecking things at the worst moments. Yet what we call fate is nothing more than the consequence of our own actions. Each time we act, we generate a chain of events that is tied to us completely. The faster we run from these links, the faster they follow us. They cannot be severed; our every act binds us further.
The operative element here is time. The events of the past are the curse. Beginning followers of Tao learn to manipulate past, present, and future. They learn how circumstances operate and seek to take advantage of that. More advanced followers of Tao eschew this process of manipulation. They obliterate all regard to past, present, and future as definitions in order to negate the concept of fate.

In order to attain a state of being where there is no past to weigh upon the present and no future to be determined, followers of Tao must reach a profound merging with Tao. The follower then acts no differently than Tao would. There is no fate to oppose them, for they are existence, they are causality, they are Tao itself.

tao
15 hours ago FlagThe Blues Guitar of Stevie Ray WKNS Radio: SXSW Free Concert Tonite~
Cheap Trick

"I Want You To Want Me"

I want you to want me.
I need you to need me.
I'd love you to love me.
I'm beggin' you to beg me.

I want you to want me.
I need you to need me.
I'd love you to love me.
I'll shine up the old brown shoes, put on a brand-new shirt.
I'll get home early from work if you say that you love me.

Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?
Feelin' all alone without a friend, you know you feel like dyin'.
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?

I want you to want me.
I need you to need me.
I'd love you to love me.
I'm beggin' you to beg me.
I'll shine up the old brown shoes, put on a brand-new shirt.
I'll get home early from work if you say that you love me.

Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?
Feelin' all alone without a friend, you know you feel like dyin'.
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?
Feelin' all alone without a friend, you know you feel like dyin'.
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?

I want you to want me.
I need you to need me.
I'd love you to love me.
I'm beggin' you to beg me.
I want you to want me.
I want you to want me.
I want you to want me.
I want you to want me.

stevie
7 hours ago FlagThe Blues Guitar of Stevie Ray SXSW Error: Cheap Tricks plays tomorrow

Instead tonite's free concert headliner was Ozomatli who rocked.
However, in my opinion Bajofundo from Argentina truly was amazing.

From Austin Texas,

stevie