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Citizen #22:
Miestrâ Schivâ | > What about Pengopats folks?
> Forgot about that one didn't you. :-)
Oh, the memories. Not pretty ones either. :)
> The Kingdom has pretty much ignored it since the Penguinean affair.
> That affair was the falling out point for several current Republic citizens, most of whom have a better grasp on it than our more familiar parcels of land listed above.
> I seem to recall the Penguineans developed it quite well.
The thing is, as you say, it was a label we hung on a "SH Talossan" identity, like Cezembre was the Euro-Talossan province. We would have been equally happy in Florencia, or even Port Maxhestic - it's not well known that, just before the Cort rejected me, Ben had accepted a compromise plan that would have given us PM as our little stamping ground. O
> I also recall that the whole Pengopats/Penguinea issue started as a way to give our southern hemisphere (SH)citizens something to grasp onto that was closer to home.
> Now that we are no longer under a royal thumb, why should we continue to ignore it like the Kingdom does?
Mainly because we only have one SH citizen, and I'm more than happy to be a Cezembrian, because of the cultural affinity I feel with our Euro-Talossan citizens. In any case, I am more than happy to give up any claim to a huge useless expanse of ice. Let's annex somewhere sunnier.
Miestrâ Schivâ
"Russia, China, Romania, they can have all the democracy they want, they can have a great big democracy cakewalk right down the middle of Tiananmen Square, and it won't make a lick of difference because we've got the Bomb. All right?"
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