Transemilia
Posted: Tue Mar 09, 2021 9:44 pm
i got a couple of calls for a separate post about transemilia when i posted about the telephone system, and while my first thought was that there wasn't enough to post, i eventually figured "why not"
ages ago i used to play nationstates.net a lot, first as a cartoon villain dictatorship and later as a sort of parody of hippie liberal paradise. when i got back into the game a few years back i decided i wanted to play as a country that more accurately represented my own politics, so the people's republic of transemilia was born. unlike the previous nations i had made in the game (for the liberal island paradise, i put some hawaiian-sounding gibberish as the motto and called it a day, and i just figured the dictatorship spoke german), i pretty quickly set about making a conlang for the nation, which i'll go into later. (with transemilia i got into raiding fascist regions with a group of other leftists, but eventually grew tired of the game and now i only really play it for pizza-related reasons)
in-world, the people's republic of transemilia (эiРеспубліка эiҒёлкмаюр Трансэмілдаюр /ɛirespu'blika ɛiʝolk'majur transɛ'mildajur/) is located in eastern europe, probably somewhere in the vicinity of hungary and romania although i deliberately haven't picked a place on the map for it (i do have maps but they don't show neighboring countries). the history basically parallels that of yugoslavia (minor kingdoms and principalities under austro-hungarian rule, uneasy kingdom after wwi, monarchy overthrown by homegrown communists and the red army in wwii) for most of it, except it misses the gorbachev-style liberal reforms of the 1980s and the western-backed color revolutions and bombing campaigns of the 90s (dont @ me). how did transemilia avoid these catastrophes (don't @ me) that overthrew every other socialist government in europe? it just did, that's how
i haven't done a whole heck of a lot of fleshing out the "world" of transemilia if i'm being perfectly honest, but in addition to the telephone system outlined above i did at various points decide on license plate formats, mailing address formats, and highway designations, because that's the kind of pointless fiddly detail my brain is drawn to for whatever diseased reason. i also drew a map by hand on paper, and then traced it on the computer in such a way to cover up the fact that i accidentally made the mountain range that bisects the country look like a vagina. oh also the name (which irl comes from the fact that when i transition i will use the name emily) is justified in-universe as referring to the fact that the country straddles a mountain range called the emilas, but it turns out that in the few place names that use the prefix "trans" it means "on the other side of xyz" rather than "across both sides of it". whoops!
ages ago i used to play nationstates.net a lot, first as a cartoon villain dictatorship and later as a sort of parody of hippie liberal paradise. when i got back into the game a few years back i decided i wanted to play as a country that more accurately represented my own politics, so the people's republic of transemilia was born. unlike the previous nations i had made in the game (for the liberal island paradise, i put some hawaiian-sounding gibberish as the motto and called it a day, and i just figured the dictatorship spoke german), i pretty quickly set about making a conlang for the nation, which i'll go into later. (with transemilia i got into raiding fascist regions with a group of other leftists, but eventually grew tired of the game and now i only really play it for pizza-related reasons)
in-world, the people's republic of transemilia (эiРеспубліка эiҒёлкмаюр Трансэмілдаюр /ɛirespu'blika ɛiʝolk'majur transɛ'mildajur/) is located in eastern europe, probably somewhere in the vicinity of hungary and romania although i deliberately haven't picked a place on the map for it (i do have maps but they don't show neighboring countries). the history basically parallels that of yugoslavia (minor kingdoms and principalities under austro-hungarian rule, uneasy kingdom after wwi, monarchy overthrown by homegrown communists and the red army in wwii) for most of it, except it misses the gorbachev-style liberal reforms of the 1980s and the western-backed color revolutions and bombing campaigns of the 90s (dont @ me). how did transemilia avoid these catastrophes (don't @ me) that overthrew every other socialist government in europe? it just did, that's how
i haven't done a whole heck of a lot of fleshing out the "world" of transemilia if i'm being perfectly honest, but in addition to the telephone system outlined above i did at various points decide on license plate formats, mailing address formats, and highway designations, because that's the kind of pointless fiddly detail my brain is drawn to for whatever diseased reason. i also drew a map by hand on paper, and then traced it on the computer in such a way to cover up the fact that i accidentally made the mountain range that bisects the country look like a vagina. oh also the name (which irl comes from the fact that when i transition i will use the name emily) is justified in-universe as referring to the fact that the country straddles a mountain range called the emilas, but it turns out that in the few place names that use the prefix "trans" it means "on the other side of xyz" rather than "across both sides of it". whoops!