03-30-2004, 05:45 PM
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Day 1 (for me, anyway!)
I've been reading through the discussions on merging the MCS map with the german-speaking OIK map. So far, there are three proposals, (1) to have each existing map as a different continent (east or west), with some adjustments for scale, (2) to totally mix up the nations into a new map, and (3) to keep the land-masses the same, but mix them up and put them in different places.
From the thread, it seems that the germans (by using a small "g", I mean "german-speaking people, as opposed to people from Germany) have a much more intelligent and well-developed system than us - their micronations are grouped according to culture, and fictional histories have been developed on an international scale, rather than the isolated histories which predominate here in the english-speaking world. In general, my impression is that the germans have a much more mature approach to micronationalism, and that almost all technical aspects are superior over there.
So far, the most interesting thing - more interesting than the maps! - has been an ingenious system they have in Ratelon for working out a person's "Alkoholpegel" - alcohol level - which actually measures the number of times a person uses smileys involving alcohol (i.e. a smiley drinking beer) and sets the level accordingly. If you then use that miley too much, you get a message like "ein bischen alkoholtot", which I'm sure needs no translation. Cool, eh? (I told you they were mature
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On more serious matters, the official topics to be discussed are:
Day 1 (for me, anyway!)
I've been reading through the discussions on merging the MCS map with the german-speaking OIK map. So far, there are three proposals, (1) to have each existing map as a different continent (east or west), with some adjustments for scale, (2) to totally mix up the nations into a new map, and (3) to keep the land-masses the same, but mix them up and put them in different places.
From the thread, it seems that the germans (by using a small "g", I mean "german-speaking people, as opposed to people from Germany) have a much more intelligent and well-developed system than us - their micronations are grouped according to culture, and fictional histories have been developed on an international scale, rather than the isolated histories which predominate here in the english-speaking world. In general, my impression is that the germans have a much more mature approach to micronationalism, and that almost all technical aspects are superior over there.
So far, the most interesting thing - more interesting than the maps! - has been an ingenious system they have in Ratelon for working out a person's "Alkoholpegel" - alcohol level - which actually measures the number of times a person uses smileys involving alcohol (i.e. a smiley drinking beer) and sets the level accordingly. If you then use that miley too much, you get a message like "ein bischen alkoholtot", which I'm sure needs no translation. Cool, eh? (I told you they were mature
)On more serious matters, the official topics to be discussed are:
Quote:1. Relations between the English and German Micronations.There is also some talk about creating a common micronational portal (like micro-nations.org or micronations.net, but with German nations included in the directory). As well as those discussions, there are threads where people can "compare the systems" - so far these are on "Abbreviations", "Nations in a Nutshell" and "Religion in Micronations". I haven't read all this yet - I'll leave that for further Notes.
2. Eventual agreements; peace agreement (?), diplomatic treaties, economical cooperation, exchange in sports (meaning football, basketball, athletics etc.)
3. The Merging of the German and English cartography and finding ways of a cooperation between the organisations.
