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No-one knows when or how Hippietanian society emerged.  Least of all the Hippietanians themselves, who have difficulty enough working out what day it is, whose tent they've woken up in or (most importantly of all) what the hell they've done with their [[wikipedia:cannabis|stash]].  Unsurpringly, a rigorous, extensive, evidence-based cultural history is beyond them.
 
No-one knows when or how Hippietanian society emerged.  Least of all the Hippietanians themselves, who have difficulty enough working out what day it is, whose tent they've woken up in or (most importantly of all) what the hell they've done with their [[wikipedia:cannabis|stash]].  Unsurpringly, a rigorous, extensive, evidence-based cultural history is beyond them.
  
Visitors, however, have commented that the Hippietanians' dedication to pacifism, spiritual regeneration, agrarianism and common ownership of all land is somehow [[wikipedia:diggers|familiar]].  Just with more drugs.  And much longer psychadelic keyboard solos.
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Visitors, however, have commented that the Hippietanians' dedication to pacifism, spiritual regeneration, agrarianism and common ownership of all land is somehow [[wikipedia:diggers|familiar]].  Just with more drugs.  And much longer psychedelic keyboard solos.

Revision as of 05:39, 16 November 2004

Hippietania
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Flag of Hippietania
Motto: "The land belongs to us who are the poor oppressed"
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Region Anticapitalist Alliance
Capital Dylanopolis
Official Language(s) Hippietanian
Leader None
Population c.180 000
Currency Thennat 
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UN category: Left-wing Utopia

A peaceful land of long-haired, tree-hugging hippies, located ideologically within the Anticapitalist Alliance.

The Hippietanians are signatories of the IFTA and members of the CACE and the UN. They enjoy extensive civil and political freedoms, but are so economically clueless that the majority are reduced to dirt-scrabbling poverty. Being hippies, however, they don't seem to mind this too much. Realising their utter unfitness to run a national economy, however, the Hippietanian government has recently handed over control of monetary policy to the APECB, whose governors know lots of long, clever words and can draw pretty graphs. This has necessitated the adoption of the Thennat as the national currency, but insiders expect that a black market in cuddles (the previous currency) is likely to survive for a considerable period.

No-one knows when or how Hippietanian society emerged. Least of all the Hippietanians themselves, who have difficulty enough working out what day it is, whose tent they've woken up in or (most importantly of all) what the hell they've done with their stash. Unsurpringly, a rigorous, extensive, evidence-based cultural history is beyond them.

Visitors, however, have commented that the Hippietanians' dedication to pacifism, spiritual regeneration, agrarianism and common ownership of all land is somehow familiar. Just with more drugs. And much longer psychedelic keyboard solos.