El Cortez
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| Motto: Falling Hard, or not Falling at all. | |
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| Region | Neffing |
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| Capital | Capital |
| Official Language(s) | English |
| Leader | Minister Corey Cortez |
| Population | 6 million |
| Currency | Camper |
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The Jingoistic States of El Cortez
"Falling Hard, or not Falling at all."
Welcome friends. The Jingoistic States of El Cortez is a tiny, environmentally stunning nation, notable for its complete lack of prisons. Its compassionate, intelligent population of 6 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.
The enormous government juggles the competing demands of Religion & Spirituality, Social Welfare, and Defence. The average income tax rate is 34%, but much higher for the wealthy. A very small private sector is dominated by the Beef-Based Agriculture industry.
Voting is voluntary and the government's religious works are headed by a New Age guru. Crime is moderate, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons. El Cortez's national animal is the monkey, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the camper.
El Cortez is ranked 1st in the region and 69,195th in the world for Healthiest Nations.
--El Cortez 04:20, 8 October 2005 (GMT)
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.[[1]]
Jingoism is a term describing chauvinistic patriotism, usually with a hawkish political stance. In plain language it means bullying other countries.
The term originated in Britain, introduced by Irish music-hall singer G. H. MacDermott at the London Pavilion during the diplomatic crisis of 1878, when Britain's Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli convinced the Tsar to retreat from Bulgaria, restoring it and Macedonia to Ottoman rule. The chorus of a song by MacDermott and G. W. Hunt commonly sung in pubs at the time gave birth to the term. The lyrics had the chorus:
- We don't want to fight
- But, by Jingo, if we do,
- We've got the ships,
- We've got the men,
- We've got the money, too.
The expression "by Jingo" is apparently a minced oath that appeared rarely in print, as far back as the 17th century, a transparent euphemism for "by Jesus", but it has also been given origins in languages which would not have been very familiar in the British pub: a corrupted borrowed word from the Basque "Jainko", meaning "God". A claim that the term referred to Jingu of Japan has been entirely dismissed.
During the 19th century in the United States, journalists called this attitude "spread-eagleism". This patriotic belligerence was intensified by the sinking of the USS Maine in Havana harbor that led to the Spanish-American War. "Jingoism" did not enter the U.S. vernacular until near the turn of the 20th century.
One of those frequently accused of Jingoism was Theodore Roosevelt, who answered in a October 8, 1895 interview in the New York Times, "There is much talk about 'jingoism'. If by 'jingoism' they mean a policy in pursuance of which Americans will with resolution and common sense insist upon our rights being respected by foreign powers, then we are 'jingoes'."
