Hello, my name is Jack

by on March 5, 2016 at 12:01 am
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Republic of Lakota is one of the largest Indian Nations when it comes to the land they govern. They don’t have the largest population, but they do real good for themselves. They somehow manage to balance distrust of others with a friendliness towards visitors who are there to spend money. They’ve got a serious military and are one of the staunchest members of the Small Government Coalition that has always been a thorn in the side of those who want to give Washington DC more power. Some people call them old fashioned and reactionary. I always have thought they just had a better grasp of the real world than other people. I like them.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on March 4, 2016 at 12:01 am
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The democratization of news from the control of the major networks to the voices of hundreds, then thousands, and even millions of voices caused a major change in the fabric of society. The majority of people had listened to the major news services in previous decades because those were the only news sources. Those who disbelieved were the minority, reading or listening to underground newspapers and pirate radio stations. But with the anti-establishment news readily available for anyone to see on the new distributed networks, trust in the governments hit an all-time low. The dissatisfaction and rebellion against pro-government candidates put forth by both major American parties in the twenty teens was a direct result of this new paradigm.

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Hello, my name is Charles

by on March 3, 2016 at 12:01 am
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We first began wearing suits instead of our military uniforms during the Hyades Campaign. The locals reacted to us well and the suits became our uniform of choice for the rest of The War. They became part of our identity, and we continued to wear them as Peace began to reign. The Cowboys still wear suits, though our suits are not identical. I prefer the old world, old money, business suits that I grew up with for example. Those from Midwestern America and Old Mexico have other ideas of what makes a good suit. I will never understand their ties. But I suppose it is the thought that counts.

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Hello, my name is Jack

by on March 2, 2016 at 12:01 am
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I grew up a short flight from the Republic of Lakota, so I saw them on a fairly regular basis. We made yearly trips out to Wounded Knee to remember the massacre, before celebrating the New Year in a cheerier place. They still maintain that and other historic monuments and reenactments in the old ways, but the majority of Lakota is just as modern as any other major nation in America. Pine Ridge is better than Las Vegas in my opinion for instance. You can go to dinner shows, take tours of the Bad Lands, go gambling, or just sit and lazy your way through the day at five star hotels. Pine Ridge knows how to make people who have money to spend feel real welcome.

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Hello, my name is Betty

by on March 1, 2016 at 12:01 am
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The late Twentieth and early Twenty-First Century saw the rise of the Internet. For the first time in human history, people could easily communicate with each other all around the globe. And they could publish anything they wanted in virtual space and everyone could read or listen to it anywhere. As servers became less expensive, online news sites and blogs became common, allowing anybody to report the news with minimal or no cost to them. Much of this “reporting” was of course substandard, but this further reduced the lock on news the major networks had once had. People no longer had to listen to their news. They could get it anywhere.

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