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Being self-rightous is just a derogatory term for being confident. I believe that there are four types of people: The Arrogant- Who listen to themselves The Self-Rightouts- Who listen to themselves The 'People like me' people- Who listen to themselves Difference is the first is the specific instance, the second is the abstract and the third is the perpendicular pronoun. The forth type are: The Sheep- Who blindly follow the pack.

Tis true, Athesists are far more superiotistical(new word) than their theocratic brethern...Take the Declaration of Human Rights....No Religion would attempt to endow everyone with rights, a conscience maybe, but rights are something which says 'This is universal right, if you disagree then we are so re-educating you.'

Not quite.... The 'annexation' is more like a liberation(from their point of view)...There is a Catholic Minority...which I wouldn't say was repressed, but may very well think of itself as repressed.... But currently the whole situtation is fairly calm, I believe.

Northern Ireland wants to be part of the UK...its is overwhelmingly Protestant English Settlers, as opposed to Catholtic Irish Natives....Which is what Southern Ireland is composed of.

S-Net has numerous theories about what Japan's motives are...basically they boil down to GM trees which will kill people or some kind of biological warfare, almost no one believes it is a sign of peace...often citing the Horse of Troy.

Brittany is on the other side of France...Switzerland has a near total, self-imposed, exile from the rest of the World...prefering to explore it though S-Net, if at all... Thanks for obeying my laws.

Switzerland Warns Japan Not to send a gift to them as it will be ill recieved.

Sere I am sending you a massive update for Switzerland, it should be with you in an hour or two...(Seriously massive)

I had planned to, but I was side tracked by a 5 hour diner party(involving singing "99 green bottles" and "BINGO" and "The animals went in two by two"...Students...) I WILL do one tommrow...

=( Ah well, I am on my isolationist binge, though you can join my space program, if you like

And then abandoned me when I needed help... Anyway: [hide] [/hide]

Ico- You betrayed me over Ethiopia.

Already a new site has sprung up, promising a new operating system which can be run using the internet, and can be installed via the satalite link.

Switzerland, worried about the break down to the internet, due to five brands dominating - You Tube, Amazon, Wikipedia, Google and Facebook - the markets, sets up a new Hyper-Site in a new, extensively reformatted, code, which is backwards compatible with HTTP but is viewed in much better detail by downloading the new web browser 'S-Net' or 'Space-Net'. The Hyper-Site creates a new form of internet, untainted by corporatism or hierachies, and is basically a review of the Internet, as well as being a place to create new websites, completely for free. Hyper-Site has a download and installation feature which installs all the data (It installs in direct relation to the Kernal of Linux, Windows and Mac, so no matter which form you use it works). Switzerland itself is highly critical of this new idea and refuses to grant any funding at all, however Cabbigas agrees to allow the website's founder, Steven Newton, access to the orbiting propaganda satalites, launched last year to combat German invasion of France. The Satalites have been moved from their standard trajectories so that information can be accessed from anywhere on the planet(Except underground and ect) by any wireless device with a HTTP or S-Net connection. However, at present data cannot be uploaded via the satalite network and more traditional systems have to be used. The download is by Cascade...basically the entire web is transmitted by these satalites every 5 minutes...which is slow update speed and unsuitable for gameplay, but is currently the best system. Steven Newton will be upgrading the coverage over the next five years to support incoming, as well as outgoing singal, with the help of the Swiss Space program. The whole system is generally better than the web and S-Net has better browser functions than any other, in addition to only being 10 Megabytes, anlysts predict that it will have replaced Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari within 5 years. Hype-Site and the Internet 2.0 show great signs of restructuring the web, potentially replacing all the current systems by the end of the year! Switzerland has begun working on the U-Shadow, an implant designed to connect to the S-Net and display data directly to the person using the implant. This will have great benefits in the militart and spy professions....as well as just generally being good for people to have, as they can now access the internet anytime. Since the device can only display information(When it is completed) it cannot be used to control human beings...or anything like that. The technology will be completed in 2020. Switzerland also begins working on a limited SI, a very small version, which can later be installed onto the U-Shadow, it will be completed in 2029. The Swiss staging point on the darkside of the moon is being constructed, due to finish in 2015. Extra-Solar travel has been ruled out, as taking any less than 60 years for a ship to travel to the nearest star is too long to be considered resonable. FTL technology has been offically disproved due to the discovery of Enstein's law of Cumulative Motion, which indicates that once light speed was achieved anything travelling at lightspeed would be converted to pure energy, releasing the mass entirely. ECM indicates that the energy would disperse spherically. There is no system of containing the energy due to the second law of thermodynamics, which means the energy is irrevocably changed, and thus can never be re-consistuted... A Number of other rules exist and basically make FTL impossible.

Star trek online to stay on the same port for more than 5 seconds when it works and less than 5 hours when it does! Damn only 100 ports out of 500...1 in 5 chance, and it seems impossible

Hehe, Dusty, Switzerland isolating itself from the magic of world debt and all that crap which doesn't really work when you are not living in the system(After all we are never gonna have a recession in this game...we are never gonna have to face global warming or anything dire. Unless Sere pulls his finger out and turns this into one long unended nightmare(Ever see a happy politian?) people are just going to invent the fatabulous to liven things up. Switzerland contacts the UN and wishes to make a deal. Switzerland doesn't want to lose the experiance it has gained with Chemical Weapons, but will willing to negotiate to study them and train with them, on a small scale only...And to share the cures and defensive data with the UN.(Which effectively makes them underpowered if any country uses chemical weapons again.) The training will be specifically to resist the effects of nerve toxins and such, not to deploy them. To this end the UN will get 5 permenant permits to travel to, and around, Switzerland. Mustard Gas mines and the various chemicals developed in the past will be destroyed, though Switzerland's borders will remain, and probably become even more heavily weaponised. The Suez Canel project is cancelled..since Abbysinia has been given independance by the UN....and Switzerland no longer feels like trying to help the world recover the problems it is sliding into. Switzerland agrees to free electricity to Romania, one year for each person killed(up to 300 Billion Kwh for 900 years) unless something significant(World ending...or the UN disbands...something like that) happens. Switzerland goes into extreme isolation, any foreigner on their soil will still be arrested for acts of sedition, unless they have a permit. TFTA(if you were wonder) has its leadership pass to Russia. Switzerland continues its self-sufficency, which will be complete(outside of industy) by 2020. The Swiss Space program really takes off into overdrive, estimates place their first manned mission in 2015 and the first manned intersolar flight to begin in 2018. The mission will be to Mars, where a small base will be set up to conduct research, three other nations are invited to send teams of three people. The ship will arrive in 2025. There will be another ship sent every 5 years, with one returning every 5 years as well. Other flights are planned to mine asteroids, but the primary focus is the research mission to Mars. No permenant space presence will be established until 2050, at the earliest. This will be the extent of Switzerland's international actions, with little trade and politik being engaged. It is fair to say that the Swiss people are extremely hostile to the idea of any other nation interacting with them(The Space Mission being an exception due to the UN) or them interacting with any other nation....With the exception of India, which didn't turn against them.

:rolleyes: Dusty I understand your point. I disagree with it. I know how unstable the world economy is. I didn't and don't want to be part of it when it goes under...Yeah, you cut me down about half way though the plan...but Switzerland is not nearly as weak as it was...Remember when the EU embargoed me? This is just a repeate of that on a larger, longer scale. The people of Switzerland will survive, and even if they do suffer continually though the period, which hopefully they won't but I accept that they probably will in some sense, they have no alternatives...If they give up their chemical weapons then Germany-France and possible other European countries will invade....If they don't give up their chemical weapons then they will suffer hardships as they attempt to recover. The UN has backed them into a corner and in that situation there are only three options....Surrender(not likely given their history), Starvation(Not likely considering they are human beings) or Survival. If you have an alternative then please suggest it, but as of right now my solution to stand fast and attempt to survive, even if it is by eating bread every day for two years while the master plan comes together...It is the best plan avalible to them. So I will throw my hands up and say, yeah, people might die, but people will get angry at Cabbigas for sending troops to Somalia...Or Romania for attacking them...or the UN for trying to strange them into submission. They might get angry with King Archi, for leading them away from the 'path of prosperity' and to this wasteland, but he at least planned for this and has a way to get them out of it.... Crying over split milk never solved anything and the Swiss are smart enough to know this.

Paul, there is no need. Dusty needs to say his piece because he wants to defeat me...because he wants me to throw a hissy fit and storm off the thread like everyone else does when the Great Dusty commands it.

Germany did fine for 4 years of world war 1... North Korea is doing fine That statement has no basis in reality...except that you can't deal with the concept....It is even counter intuitive....No country can survive without trade...No man is an Island....Oh, wait, Hermits...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG1W1h5W17Y Life goes on in Switzerland, for the numerous reasons explained above.

Sorry about the Suez Canel, sure I read it somewhere. No, wait, found it Just slightly above your quote. I think your quote relates to yearly, though I can't be sure. Dusty, Doom...anyone else who wants to have a pop has Switzerland.... Food is fine...lets think, shall we?....We can knock down the banks and cities and return to agriculture. Worst case senario the UN causes mass death though its embargo. Further 2.5 years have passed since then and I began my program of self-sufficency(and of course the massive supply of goods I brought from the EU might help stop people dying if that is not enough for you.) Minerals- Fair enough...Not much I can do about that. Oh wait. Build space craft and mine the asteroids, good idea... Oh and Switzerland is the most Xenophobic race currently in Europe...They really don't care that much that I gassed people attacking Switzerland. Other Countries should know by now that Switzerland is Neutral and only attacks in self-defence or in the defence of others(in the isolated example) Shall we look at the rest of the world? So massive loss of competition So they are gone, headless... Major disruption to world trade then. So massive loss of education The economy becomes more screwed Science and progress in the world today takes a massive hit Research continues to slide into the abyss Space takes even more of a backseat. Not really gonna change, but the enivronment takes a hit. Europe loses out, rather than Switzerland on the food front. Fine Wines takes a hit. Sport is made headless The World Economy takes another hit... Broadcasting takes a hit So massive hit to the manufacturing world In total I would say that, if Sere was being fair and just, the world should be plunged into recession for the next 8 years...knock on effect from the current recession, the price of Gold increases to 2000-3000 US Dollars per ounce. Food prices sore out of control, as does that of manufactured products....depending on if governments work together or not there is a massive inflationry effect which renders paper money useless and thus leads to everyone carrying Gold instead, which means that Governments are made powerless to trade with each other. Education is dragged down slightly, though not by a massive amount. In some total the world suffers quite substantially more than Switzerland. Happy Days, you managed to destroy the World Economy...something I wasn't even trying to do(well not at the time anyway). :thumbsup:

Doom- No. I don't think I care either. If you say so. Switzerland happens to disagree with you.

Dusty, I won't argue with you because you are powerless to screw up my country...at this point everyone but Sere is...and even he is on shaky ground. Anyway, corrections- Nerve Gases require a culture(or research) and food....Both of which I have. Materials, Switzerland is mountains and wood...thats most things...it also has most of the rivers in Europe coming from it, and a particle accelerator...and rain, and water and the sun...obviously. Suez Canel has 3 convoys of 8(or something) ships a day. All of which can be put on planes or sent round the cape of Africa...or through Panama...its not world crashing...any more than it was when Horn of Africa Pirates were raiding the ships. Foreign companies that lift their embargo can pick up their gold....It was released it some time ago (Old knee jerk reaction) Currency, thats true...the cost of living is decreasing too....Eventually to phase out money. Have fun with the rest of the game Dusty, I am sure that someone will point out that you still just Romania because of the 5 day rule. :thumbsup:

Cool. Make sure you look after it for me Sere.

Oh, Swiss Ethiopia wonders what will happen to it.(Having been abandoned by Russia)