People talking about music is good - I wish other members of this forum talked about their music tastes
https://cityofulthar.wordpress.com/2009/01/31/deconstructing-the-ideocube/At some point during my NationStates playing career, I decided to do my take on
Deconstructing the Ideocube, and make 8 puppets that exist solely to have the 8 most extreme government categories. NationStates' government categories are based on various thresholds for personal, political, and economic freedoms, so that each type of freedom has 3 possible ratings (high, medium, low), for 27 possible government categories.
To give my 8 nation puppets some character, I chose specific world culture/civilizational themes for each of them that don't necessarily reflect historical and modern-day preferences for certain freedoms in certain countries. This is probably evident in the choices of flags and slogans- although I'm not trying to make any political statements by giving my China/Confucianist Asia-themed and India/Subcontinent-themed puppets diametrically opposed political orientations, for example. (Also- Flora Formosa, Tr3kist3n, Fcukyuh, and Merinelle are revamped versions of puppets I made in high school.)
I'm posting this today ahead of Valentine's Day to share a little more about my NationStates persona with y'all, and to share eclectic music from playlists I made for each of my Ideocube puppets. Only three of the playlists correspond to a coherent cultural region of the world, but they all reflect a certain mood/vibe that I associate with the ideologies and ideas each puppet represents.
For each puppet I'm sharing one V-Day themed song that fits the playlist's vibe but isn't in the playlist, and one song from the playlist that I feel complements the V-Day themed song.
The descriptions below are taken directly from my Instagram post:
https://www.instagram.com/p/CSKo5g7BMo7/ Yuunxim: Free-Market Paradise (low personal, high political + economic). Paleoconservative, non-WEIRD society that’s also vaguely pro-Americana.
Hence the Yuunxim playlist being a mix of MURICAN and non-Confucianist Eastern Asia tracks.
Merinelle: Anarchy (high all- high economic without private industry). Utopian island paradise.
Playlist is generally upbeat and positive, with bright instrumentals.
Cyunzit: Iron Fist Socialists (high personal, low political + economic- no private industry). Excessively social justice/idpol-oriented hellhole regime that appropriates critical race theory and liberation theology for its own purposes.
Contains a smattering of third-world instrumental tracks, but mostly consists of parody songs and #woke culture songs.
Alixen: Corporate Police State (low personal + political, high economic). Eco-fascism with Mediterranean motifs.
A blend of English and non-English songs in languages native to the Mediterranean.Tr3kist3n: Tyranny by Majority (low personal + economic, high political). A communitarian, Hindutva inspired theocratic democracy with marks of right-wing populism.
All but 2 songs in this playlist are by South Asian artists- see if you can spot the outliers! Flora Formosa: Benevolent Dictatorship (high personal + economic, low political). Basically a socially liberated and woke dictatorship with Confucian cultural mores.
Tracks represent the linguistic diversity of Confucianist Asia- there are 3 Chinese languages and 3 non-Chinese languages featured.
Qibla: Left-Wing Utopia (high personal and political, low economic). A culturally Scandinavian/WEIRD technocratic social-democratic utopia.
Playlist is mostly mellow ambient electronic tracks, with some instrumental anime OSTs and Scandinavian/European artists thrown inFcukyuh: Psychotic Dictatorship (low all). A Brave New World-style dystopia with a Latin American caudillo-inspired cult of personality.
Most songs are in Spanish, all but one feature artists/musical groups with Latin American roots.
Yuunxim tracks:
Justin Timberlake- "Not a Bad Thing"
Daniel Padilla and Morissette- "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" (cover)
Merinelle:
Maroon 5- "She Will Be Loved"
Yuna, Tyler, The Creator - "Castaway"
Cyunzit:
The Cimarons - "Ethiopian Romance"
CUCO x CLAIRO - "DROWN" [partial Spanish]
Alixen:
Inez- "My Love" [Arabic]
Bog Bog Orkestar- "Isidora" (from Just Dance) [Serbo-Croatian]
Tr3kist3n:
Haricharan-
"Kaatru Veesum" (from Neram) [Tamil]
Sheela Bringi- "Krishna Govinda Bhajan" ("cover")
Flora Formosa:
美秀集團 Amazing Show－"戀人 Lovers" [Mandarin]
Eiko Shimamiya- "宇宙の花 Uchuu no Hana" [Japanese]
Qibla:
Zedd, Griff - "Inside Out"
Laleh- Return to the Soil
Fcukyuh:
Selena - "Amor Prohibido" [Spanish]
Trío Los Santos- "Jacaranda" [Spanish]
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