Have you read a book recently? Will you read one soon? Do you have any book recommendations for your fellow regionmates? Share them here!

I just finished reading The Final Cut by Michael Dobbs, which was my book of the week. If you are a House of Cards fan, I highly recommend the book trilogy, since that is what inspired both the British and American series. My book for next week will be The Silmarillion, probably followed by Children of Hurin.

How about you?

I just wanna see how the candidates are faring in the forums

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Edward Yutan has announced his plans for building missions to the moon. "We will meet our gods in the heavens, and will conquer and colonize the galaxy," said Yutan. "The technology isn't quite there, but in several decades ahead of our time, the Sol Federation will be known on Earth as the first colonizers of the universe. Now, we must achieve this one step at a time. So I introduce the Space Exploration and Conquest Agency, or SECA for short. We will send a man to the moon. Some may call us mad, but I say that if we don't do it, then who will? Glory to the Solteks! Death to Selene!"

OOC: Your leaders may react to this news.


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I always like to have an OOC for things. Feel free to comment or ask questions here, I'll try to edit in something fancier when I have the time.

Now, I must remark
Something had to be done for
The lack of haiku

Used as the comments thread for the wiki-style page on Alssahra! Formerly Sylon.

Feel free to ask for a more detailed history on any of the events that I put in the timeline.

History:
Oscad has had a very complicated and active history, with peace throughout the country being virtually unknown even to this day. Lots of revolutions and takeovers have occurred, a lot of the time resulting in the loss of history books and records, which has led to much of its history being known through legends and guesses. A brief timeline will be shown below. Keep in mind that the Oscadan calendar starts in the year 3400 BC approximately, which is thought to be the first time in Oscad that records started being kept.
0- Tablet of Sanart thought to have been written, the oldest record found which details how many animals had been killed each day. It documents 100 days with the median amount of animals per day being 31 with 12 being the lowest and 68 being the highest.
25- Battle of Yerdar fought, the reason of the conflict believed to have been hunting area.
105- Tablet of Garada believed to have been written, detailing the output of a farm. It's significance comes from the fact that it is the first evidence of farming in ancient history.
150- A town near Qal is thought to have been built at this time, it is the first significant settlement documented
500- Battle of Haredri fought, over territory. Factions arise in Oscad.
740- Qal, or its precursor, is built.
800-1000- A series of battles results in two factions, north (the Onites) and south (the Yesnites) taking control.
1050- The Onites push into Yesnite territory and drive them from the land. Oscad is unified under one ruler, which is thought to be Remere Tunalt (Remere is the ancient title for king).
1070- Revolts happen, with a small part of the northwest island being controlled by anarchists.
1075- Anarchists crushed but their legacy remains.
1700- Several revolutions in the northwest island separate it from the nation. They fly the flag of the anarchists of 1070.
1700-1950- Several attempts from the kingdom, now named Karagla to reclaim the island fail and they are left alone.
2500- The northwest island, named Orsrad by the locals, trade with the mainland and northeast island. Contact is limited however.
2600- Orscrad is realized to be an Anarcho-Communist nation, with them rejecting the adoption of currency that had spread over the rest of the country at that time.
3000- Ships from Orscrad attack parts of the mainland and they capture several coastal towns.
3005- Orscrad advances further into the mainland, the oppressed and starving people putting up next to no resistance.
3007- The full army of Karagla marches to the captured territory to crush the invaders, but revolts in towns all over the nation, inspired by the freedom and equality of Orscrad, slow their progress.
3008- The armies meet, but bad conditions and revolts that weakened Karagla meant that they stood no chance against the well-fed Orscradans.
3025- Orscrad holds most of the country except for a small area in the southeast.
3027- Orscrad captures the enemy territory, wiping out the Karaglans for good.
3000-3500- The name Orscrad changes to Oscad due to mixing of Karaglan and Orscradan languages, which are slightly different.
3000-3250- Complications occur with the Karaglans as they make the change to an Anarcho-Communist point of view, rebellions occur, but none accomplish anything as they are just denied food from the rest of the population.
3554- Garde Dacam a descendant of Farilth Dacam, a leader of the invasion of Karagla, gains support and begins to act like a leader figure.
3567- Garde Dacam begins, with support of some of the population, to regulate the distribution of goods throughout Oscad.
3570- Battle of Dacam occurs, with Garde Dacam and his supporters being killed.
4000- Oscad reaches the pinnacle of an Anarcho-Communist society, with everyone taking a selfless approach to life and the nation itself becoming rich.
Between 4250-4300- Trade begins with nations such as Crypton and Scapulistan
4300-5000 Nothing worth documenting happens.
5010- Steam, gunpowder and farming machinery becomes more common.
5050- Early factories arise, although these are put under the ownership of the people.
5065- Manufactured goods are very common and the country develops an impressive railway system.
5100- A census, thought to be one of the first, reveals that 65% of the population were happy with their earnings and lifestyle, while 305 wished for a bit more and 5% were unhappy. This led to efforts from the people conducting the census, who were a government based on direct democracy, to increase relations and trade with other countries, travelling as far as the Sol Federation.
5150- Another census was conducted on the same topic, due to the countries growth over the 50 years, revealing that now 80% of the population was happy, 10% wished for a bit more, 3% were unhappy and 7% were happy but would like trade and international relations to be increase even more to make sure everyone was happy. This led to a public vote in which 77% voted for more public relation and 23% voted for less.
5250- Trade dies down a bit as the population gets quite xenophobic towards other capitalist nations and votes to cut down trade with them, not wanting capitalism to arise in their nation.
5300- Oscad becomes largely industrialized, with highly efficient farms, factories and economic systems, relations with Selene, Sartoria and almost every other nation are established.
5416- Present day.

I hope that this information is enough to give an insight on Oscad and it's view on things, particularly other countries. There is more to come but for now while I think over it I hope you enjoyed this brief history. If you would like a more detailed history on particular events please comment in the other thread that I will make after I post this one.

And thus, the Arbiter of Justice is brought upon the loser! Take that, nonexistence!

I win!


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