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[bentflame]

The leaves are changing color in New Jersey, and some of them are falling off the trees. I've heard of this phenomenon, of course-- it happens in the northern Earth Kingdom, among other places-- but I've never actually seen it for myself until now. Is it common on Earth worlds?

... It's also getting colder; I can especially tell at night. Does it snow on Earth, too?

OOC: I AM GOING TO COMMENT ON EVERY SINGLE PERSON'S LOVE MEME THREAD as well as (hopefully) help with activity check verifications, but right I'm stuck with a pile of homework and can't multitask with anything more involved than tagging. DX But this evening you're all going to get spammed; I WILL CIRCLE YOUR JERKS (jerk your circles?) SO HARD YOU WON'T KNOW WHAT HIT YOU. 8|

Comments

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

... Where's Trenton?

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

It's the capital city of New Jersey.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

It has a capital? But it's not a country.

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

New Jersey is still part of the United States in that world, isn't it? The state capitals manage local affairs, like schools and state-level taxation.

I think that's how it used to work, anyway. It's been a few years since I took world history.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

... I see; so it's done to better delegate things. We have governors of cities and such, but regions don't have their own capitals.

You're from Japan?

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

The United States used to have a decentralized power system. Their federal government was intentionally weak and more power was given to the state governments. It worked for some things, but not others.

I'm from Japan, yes. It's 2032 in my world, and our history went differently than for most of the Earths here.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Right; and it's a democracy as well, correct? Both of the major countries on my world are monarchies.

How so?

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

Representative democracy, yes. We don't have many absolute monarchies left. They're mostly constitutional monarchies, where the ruler is symbolic and power is vested in a parliament.

Well, here, the US broke up into three separate countries in the 90s, and by 2009 we'd had World War III, which went nuclear.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Yes, that certainly didn't happen here; it's 2009 now.

"Nuclear"?

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

It doesn't seem to have happened anywhere but here.

Extremely high-yield bombs that also have the effect of poisoning the area they explode in.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

What is their purpose, exactly?

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

They're city-killers and horror weapons.

It's not so bad since the Japanese Miracle, but a nuke will still destroy any city it goes off in.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Ah, so they're primarily for terrorism.

Not useful.

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

You can paralyze a country quite effectively by destroying its capital.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Of course; I understand that very well. But total destruction is very rarely necessary.

Japan has been nuked four times in his canon.

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

It's a war crime, but that hasn't slowed anyone down.

ho shi--

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I think you mean it's war.

Yeah, you thought they had issues about nukes BEFORE...

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

Attacking civilians is against the Geneva Conventions.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

Fine, it's a war crime on your world.

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

You say that like it's a bad thing.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

I agreed that destroying an entire city is excessive and unnecessary in most cases, didn't I?

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

Uncommonly humanitarian of you.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

What's the point in destroying something that I would use?

[honestcop.livejournal.com]

I'm sure the people of your world greatly appreciate your pragmatism.

[peoplesprincess.livejournal.com]

They do.