Nogovian government?

[GoOB 0]

All the while we can't ignore the French town names on Malden and Everon. You story is great, but I feel that Nogova should have a more "unusual" story behind it. Before the foreigners came in the 1600's the islands were virtually untouched barring of course the obvious unorganized baronies and small communities. Perhaps a Russian or Turkish coastal fort on some of the smaller islands, but the real crucial points are the ones that need to be covered. Wich is why the people of Nogova speak Czech, and why Everon and Malden have French town names. All of wich are covered, Everon and Malden was used by French merchants and that also opens up a history with the Turks and other countries around the Black sea.

Nogovas primary sources of income as I would like to see it are tourism, revenues from banking and taxes. The products produced by the farms and the meat produced is not exported but often stays within the borders. This minimizes the need to import meat and other foodstuffs into the country. Much like what Sweden is doing, very little of the foodstuffs produced here in Sweden are exported.

[Apollo 0]

Much of the Order of St john and the original crusaders were of French origin and definatly the leaderhip was mostly French and the languaghe of communication with eachother to ,a perfect excuse for the French town names.The island has medieval castle's afterall ,and such Islands were perfect for the crusaders to stage invasions from.

And around 1600 ad there were a lot of religious wars.In that time ,many people of tjech origin were protestants or had other religions than catholic ,and in a very Catholic country like Austria in that time such people were easily persecuted.A very good reason for emmigration of Tjech people.It's reasonable to think that a number of such immigrants would ,instead of going north to Germany or Scandinavia ,just try to get away on a river boat sailing down to the Danube.Afcourse they wouldn't had stopped in the middle of Ottoman land ,they would had sailed trough to find the first new spot where they could live in peace ,and Nogova ,a faded Crusader bulwark poppulated by people of mixed origin and religion ,could be a good spot.

Quote[/b] ]Nogovas primary sources of income as I would like to see it are tourism, revenues from banking and taxes. The products produced by the farms and the meat produced is not exported but often stays within the borders. This minimizes the need to import meat and other foodstuffs into the country. Much like what Sweden is doing, very little of the foodstuffs produced here in Sweden are exported.

I don't know about the foodstuff's.Why ,with such limmited amount of ground and such tourism would Nogova try to produce basic foodstuffs that they would never be able to grow in volume's high enough to feed their own population and wich would barely bring in some income?The soil of the average Black sea or Agean island is a s such that stuff like grain doesn't grow very good there ,but it's very good soild to produce better value agricultural products ,if you wish niche foodstuff's to export.The fauna and Flora of Islands difers of the mainland.On an island with low manpower but good economy nobody would waste it's time on low value product's as they can have better work with more income.A Black sea island would have a very good marine wildlife around it ,and within that are some very valuable product's (oisters ,caviar ,shark ,...) wich are much more interresting to exploit for the manpower low island.They wuld bring in a very nice profit ,and would easily allow for the people to pay the low prces of grain export of country's like for ex. Ukraine wich produces basic foodstuf's in enourmous volume's.If there would be people working on land estates ,i think with their soil in mind ,the amount of water that they have (grain needs much water ,and in that area water can be scarce) ,the hilly to mountainious nature of their island ,they would rather opt for plant's like Olives ,almonds ,figs and Grapes wich hold the ground stronger toghether ,need less water and are more profitable to sell.

But thats just my oppinion ,however i agree that most of it's income should come trough tourism.

[GoOB 0]

Very true about the agriculture there, I mentioned Nogova exporting wine and possibly other forms of liquor a while back aswell. And keeping the French culture and the climate in mind that wouldn't be all too far-fetched. And a very good point about the olives there!

[redface 1]

Possibly the French hero Tin Tin visited these islands on his adventures.

on a side note: Matthijs, at least you should have known that Tintin/Kuifje is of Belgian descent! ;-) Of course the Dutch were the first to discover the islands group, but as always, they sold it too quickly to English or French settlers ...

Wanted to add that mapfact.net is planning to release the Nogova Mining Ltd. buildings with their mission F.U.B.A.R. (ETA unknown).

[lennin 0]

Whoa..............

I've been looking for this and I am impressed. Everyone in this topic has really thought this way through. I'm going to make my own Nogovan Government (Including Malden and Everon). Whoa..............

[ag_smith 0]

You have digged up 5 months old topic just to say this?

[lennin 0]

yep, I just found and you just answered any topic that had a new post.

[Colossus 2]

Placebo, Hellfish? Close?

[hellfish6 7]

Did somebody say my name?

Topics can be dug up if there's something significant to add to it - a new patch, new version, requests for information etc. In my reality, however flawed, saying something is cool does not constitute a significant addition to an aging discussion.