Post by Baden-Wuerttemberg on May 23, 2013 14:02:04 GMT -5
Hi 10000 Islanders, I'm Ba-Wue, here from the cozy, casual and chatty region Deutschland.
Viele Grüße an die Zehntausend Inseln!
Many greetings to the ten thousand islands, from Yermaney and the other nations there. Several of you have already been to Deutschland when we were still founderless.
Call me Ba-Wue, please.
My full nation name Baden-Wuerttemberg is a bit complicated for non-Germans.
Incidentally, I'm from the real Baden-Württemberg, and was charmed to find the nation name available. This Bundesland (federal state) sits in the south west corner of Germany, and shares borders with Switzerland and France. Black Forest, source of the Danube, Vineyards, Lake Constance, Rhine River, south German dialects. Capital city is Stuttgart. We are the first federal state to have a elected a minister-president from the Green Party.
My fictional NationStates Baden-Württemberg doesn't have a leader yet. I probably answered that issue in too anarchic a way. At the moment it's a Civil Rights Lovefest, and I'll see where it goes over the time. If the nation category Civil Rights Weinfest (wine festival) ever becomes available, I want it!
My national animal are three lions (drei Löwen). They appear on the original Baden-Württemberg coat of arms, but as the unfortunate creatures were designed by a heraldic show-off who had probably never seen a real lion in their life, I decided to scratch them and replace them with a bunch of wine grapes. The wine was brought to Baden-Württemberg by the Romans, and we've been cultivating and drinking it ever since.
Hintertupfingen, my fictional capital city, in the Alemannic dialects refers to a place that is remote, provincial and tiny. As in: "I was stranded on a railway station in Hintertupfingen with only four trains a day!"
When you look at a map of the real Baden-Württemberg, you can see lots and lots of towns ending in -ingen. The ending indicates that the place was probably founded around the time of the colonisation by the Franks, a confederation of Germanic tribes arriving around the 5th to 8th century.
My currency is the trolley coin (Einkaufswagenchip) which you'll still have even when you've spent your last Euro.
I am delighted to be on your forum, and am looking forward to getting to know more islanders, and staying in touch with those of you I have already met.
I'll have stories to tell about the region Deutschland too, but that'll be for the embassy thread. In the words of the German children's books writer Michael Ende from The Neverending Story:
"Aber das ist eine andere Geschichte und soll ein andermal erzählt werden."
"This is another story and shall be told another time."
Viele Grüße an die Zehntausend Inseln!
Many greetings to the ten thousand islands, from Yermaney and the other nations there. Several of you have already been to Deutschland when we were still founderless.
Call me Ba-Wue, please.
My full nation name Baden-Wuerttemberg is a bit complicated for non-Germans.
Incidentally, I'm from the real Baden-Württemberg, and was charmed to find the nation name available. This Bundesland (federal state) sits in the south west corner of Germany, and shares borders with Switzerland and France. Black Forest, source of the Danube, Vineyards, Lake Constance, Rhine River, south German dialects. Capital city is Stuttgart. We are the first federal state to have a elected a minister-president from the Green Party.
My fictional NationStates Baden-Württemberg doesn't have a leader yet. I probably answered that issue in too anarchic a way. At the moment it's a Civil Rights Lovefest, and I'll see where it goes over the time. If the nation category Civil Rights Weinfest (wine festival) ever becomes available, I want it!
My national animal are three lions (drei Löwen). They appear on the original Baden-Württemberg coat of arms, but as the unfortunate creatures were designed by a heraldic show-off who had probably never seen a real lion in their life, I decided to scratch them and replace them with a bunch of wine grapes. The wine was brought to Baden-Württemberg by the Romans, and we've been cultivating and drinking it ever since.
Hintertupfingen, my fictional capital city, in the Alemannic dialects refers to a place that is remote, provincial and tiny. As in: "I was stranded on a railway station in Hintertupfingen with only four trains a day!"
When you look at a map of the real Baden-Württemberg, you can see lots and lots of towns ending in -ingen. The ending indicates that the place was probably founded around the time of the colonisation by the Franks, a confederation of Germanic tribes arriving around the 5th to 8th century.
My currency is the trolley coin (Einkaufswagenchip) which you'll still have even when you've spent your last Euro.
I am delighted to be on your forum, and am looking forward to getting to know more islanders, and staying in touch with those of you I have already met.
I'll have stories to tell about the region Deutschland too, but that'll be for the embassy thread. In the words of the German children's books writer Michael Ende from The Neverending Story:
"Aber das ist eine andere Geschichte und soll ein andermal erzählt werden."
"This is another story and shall be told another time."