Homestar Runner Wiki Forum

Yay, it's time for the second Create a Country Contest. A lot of you probably won't remember the first one, since I did it about a year ago. So, let me explain how this goes:

The Create a Country Contest is a forum game in which users design an imaginary country, then elaborate on it using their imagination (yay!). The rules are quite simple:

1) You don't need to sign up to be in this forum game. All you have to do is post your country and you're in it!

2) Your entry must include:

• A map of the country (either hand drawn or computer made). Do not steal a map design from somebody else.
• A name (obviously).
• Its history (doesn't have to be too long).
• 3 or more interesting things about it (can be about its food, people, geography, etc.).
• Its location in the world (i.e. near Hawaii). Be creative; it doesn't even have to be in a spot that's phisically possible to be at!

Don't be limited to just this--you're allowed to add more if you want, as this is just the bare minimum.

3) Be sure to follow the forum rules along with not disrespecting anyone else's entry.

4) There are 4 judges : Jello B., ed 'lim' smilde, Entropy , and me. I'll explain more about the judging later.

5) You should obviously be creative as possible. Don't be linear and take the common person's route (i.e. making a country that looks like Canada and giving it a description similar to it).

6) There are four prizes; three for the best and one for the most original, and all of them can either fit in your sig or avatar space. Here are what they look like:
- 1st Place
- 2nd Place
- 3rd Place
- Special (the most original, or deserving to be a winner country)

You'll have to figure out how to turn the background of it transparent. I would've done it, but I didn't want to ruin how it looked (since I anti-aliased the sides). If you can't figure out how to do it, drop by the Banner and Avatar Force and see what they can do.

7) The deadline is Friday, June 23. I will not accept any more entries beyond that date.

8) Pleast post your entries in this thread. Don't PM your country to me.


That's pretty much all of the rules. If you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please tell me and I'll morph around the game if needed.

The following is about the judging:

You will be judged as according to how original your country is, how much detail is provided, and how cool it appears to others, on a 10-point rating scale. The three who get the highest average score from the judges will recieve prizes, and the most original will be voted upon by the judges, as well.

TO THE JUDGES:

When you give people a rating at the very end of the contest (the date decided upon by me), be sure to put it in x.xx form. So, if you thought someone deserved a 9.345, round it up to 9.35. It can be any number, and doesn't have to go off any rounded scale (i.e. [s]5.5[/s] 5.47). You will have up to 5 days to submit your scores to me, and if you don't fulfill the request by then, we'll move on without you.

END TO JUDGES

So, like I said before, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns, please tell me.

Ready? Set? Good luck!

EDIT 1: I added a rule and made Entropy a judge.

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Ahh, I remember. Second place. I'll start mine after homework & revision.

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Neat.

I'm going to start working on this right now.

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I'll judge. YAY! Creativity!

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Roomonkera

1936 – Peoples in search of desert juice come across an island in the middle of the Sahara desert. They are immediately devoured.

1937 – The families of those peoples look for them, and then they find monkeroos there. None are alike. The monkeroos sincerely apologize, and for some reason, the dead guys rise from the dead. All is forgiven.

1940 – Scientists come to investigate monkeroos. As they studied them, they started getting strange thoughts about nuclear bombs and things called Manhattan, so they left. End of the swing dancing craze.

1941 – Monkeroos revitalize swing dancing for half a year. It is quite fun.

1950 – People are bored in Roomonkera, so they leave.

1956 – People are bored in the real world. They search for Roomonkera, they cannot find it. The entire Sahara is mapped out, but there is no sign of Roomonkera.

1989 – Green Day sells their first record.

1990 – Some pilot steers his plane across the Sahara desert, and sees a small island in the middle of the desert. He crashes in a giant fireball and almost dies.

1991 – People search for the pilot using the signal from his plane, and rediscover Roomonkera.

1996 – More people start to vacation at Roomonkera, and monkeroos become rich out of all the venues and stuff. Monkeroos become so rich as to wipe out many of humans’ money, making them the most rich species ever.

2003 – Homestar Runner Wiki Forum is formed by a non-monkeroo kangaroo man named Joey.

2004 – Nothing happens.

2006 – topofsm introduces monkeroos to the forum. They take it over as well.

National anthem: The roomonkeran pledge to the tune of “American Idiot”
National mammal: The human
National tree: The mondling pine
National saying: If you’re not in our country, then you’re stupid.
National flower: The rafflesia, the largest flower in the world. It stinks like crap.
Currency: Pants and Cows. $1.00 to *@.03. *@ is the symbol for pants. 36 Cows to 1 pant. *& is the sign for cows.
GDP: 527,584,21 in US dollars.
Official Language: American English with an occasional 1337

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Grooveopolis


History:

1975: Discovered by an avid discoer while on a cruise with lovely ladies. He set up a home an night club (which people from foreign countries visit for it's radcal stylings) in the North.

1977: Eventually, people start living on the island instead of constantly travelling to it. By this time, there are 18,000 people living in the City.]

1979: The number of people living in the City grows to 4.7million (a very big city) It is discovered that they are not alone on the island, and are attacked by the pirate natives. A 3 year war begins.

1982: The war is ended with an agreement: Both sides can go anywhere on the island, but the City dwellers cannot enter the Ole' Pirate Dockies, and the pirate natives cannot enter the city without a permit.

1983: Explorers are sent accross the island, discover a beautiful beach, now full of tourists, and a man who was shipwrecked on the island and eating the poppies for their druggie goodness. And a spoon. They found a regular spoon.

1984-2006: A peaceful time, with advances in internet and the City.

Currency: Stars. No, not the ones from the sky, little metals ones. Don't throw them, that's dangerous!
Anthem: Do the Hustle!
Ruler: Currently Funkstar
Military: The Silver Stars, a team of ninjas.
Language: Piratese and Proper English, and English English (so I tell the swamp donkey to give me a ring on me dog 'n' bone, before I give her a gordan with me bun!)
National food: Honey roasted ham.

Located to the right of Funk.

Size: 5810km²

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Nice entries, you two. I hope there are some more as cool as those before the contest ends.

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creamy butter land of the blue indians of the great volcano which erups 1 time 4 years spewing out lava, creamy butter and ani gif (aka cblotbiotgvwetysolcbag so don even try to pronouse it)


1961 30 go out to find the mifhical(sp?) supple of creamy butter

1962 they founld it. they also desocer(sp?) mystsoris people who are blue they start climbing down the clif

1965 the frist indian talks arfter a 2 year war. they setal there diffrences and name the plase.

1974 they go back and tell millions about it they form a city called churn

1978the water path is frozen people descover tankbitcano and its hot baths


1990 sonicth comes but this diffrent one this just loves butter and trys to stop the evil dr k.o.t from taking it all.

1993 cblotbiotgvwetysolcbag makes 3d games.

2001 homestar runner and the web comes

2005 everyone has now got homsar pushtoy

2006 the water path starts to melt...

National smily

National food creamy butter

Currency volcs, canos, tanks and butter 100 v^(volcs) to a C) (canos); 100 C) to a t$(tanks) 1000 t$ to a Bt (butter) 1£ = 0.1Bt

National worst person k.o.t
Official Language british english, dingding (indians) and BUTTER


where? tucked away hidden in the grand canon(sp?)

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Nesland is located on a previously undiscovered land bridge between South America and Africa. Weird, huh?


History:
1988: An Italian plumber named Mario, while exploring a desert in Mushroom Land when he was inexplicably transported to another, similar desert far, far away.

1989: After trekking thought the desert for a year, Mario comes across a huge mountain and a river flowing to the sea. Not being the most imaginative person, he names the mountain "Thatsabig Mountain". He died shortly thereafter in a freak banana peel accident while climbing the peak.

1990: When people hear about Mario's discovery, they begin to immigrate to the country. They establish a city on the banks of the river, and not being particularly imaginative either, thaey name it the Culturally Important River, because it was. The city is named after Mario.

1991-1993: Several attempts to expand to other parts of Nesland, but the people find that most of the country are uninhabitable, be it desert, mountains, or the Enemy Plains, filled with monsters controlled by the evil wizard Genericon from his fortress.

1999: An amazing discovery is made: the warp pipes in Warp Pipe Forest are connected to other warp pipes on the other side of the country. These new pipes are named the Warp Woods. Warp Pipe Forest is made a national forest to protect it from deforestation by plumbers.

2000: A group of settlers travel through the warp pipes and found the town of Sleepyport, which is located near the Pac Coast, which quickly becomes a popular vacation spot.


Currency: Coins, rupees. (10 coins to a rupee)
Anthem: Mario Theme
Main Exports: mushrooms, power pellets
Main Imports: grains, meat
Capitol: Mario City
Major Cities: Mario and Sleepyport Town, as they are the only two cities.
Major Industry: Mushroom farming

National Bird: Hunted Duck
National "Tree": The Warp Pipe
National Flower: Fire Flower

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Waxlax public continent.

HISTORY:
The country started out as a desolate wasteland, until 2 eggs fell from the sky, noone knew what they were. But when they hatched, they contained superintelligent aliens, who created civilisation in double quick time, soon, they conquered the planet and called it Waxlax.
Then, Ikwaylx was born. He became successful in most ways thanks to his instincts.


Geography.
The Square with the triangle in it is the space center.
The square with the word IK in it is my house, almost visible from space, the little blue dot is the pool.
The dark green area is the dino reserve(look at animals)
The orange is the desert like area.
The light green is the village, where many people live.
regular squares are the span of the town. The towns are GIGANTIC.


How Ik got to Earth:
He managed to create a Ufo with all the best tech. He got to Earth and was welcomed by the fellow people. He now hides his UFo in his secret shack at his house, he would go back in need of an emergancy.
He also sends messages every day back to Waxlax, noone would ever know though, because they were total secret.


Animals:
There are the Ikwalacks, who rule waxlax, and there are many of ancient dinos around still. But they are kept in the dark green area.
There are also many earthican animals.
The Ikwalacks back in the ancient days looked familar to Orbulon off Warioware.........


Forbidden Isle:
This place is so cold and dangerous, that the village had to create a satalite to ward off the dangerous leftover dinos, and it combatted the cold via powerful radiaion rays.

The people found out about HR wiki thanks to Iks invention, the planetarinet, which links to all computers around the universe!
They also cloned Nintendos inventions. Everyone was really happy with Ik, so they gave him a UFO Build Guide. Using all the latest tech.


Thats my isle, thanks!

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Great entries so far, everyone! I'm bumping this into June so it gets more noticed.

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Lunastan.



History: The Dark Side of the Moon was first discovered in 1973. However, for several reasons, such as people telling NASA to get their hands of their stack of money, and for never seeming to find the time, it was never fully explored. In 1999, however, a scientist from TINARO, the leading organization for anylisis, anylised thd dark side of the moon and claimed it for himself. Also, oxygen appeared on it for some reason. Jesty, the scientist, rules over most of Lunastan, except for one square mile which is run by Dan, the evil space alien.

Currency: Water. Cause there's none on the moon.
Anthem: The Great Gig In The Sky by Pink Floyd
Governement: Dictatoriship!
Language: English (99.7%), Danish (0.3%)

Lunastan also bans all rap music, and all songs that have been in the top 40 after 1995. Also you can't bring is any cartoon movies that haven't been okayed by the Chairman Jesty. Currently nothing is okayed. All people banned on this forum will be gunned down when they try to enter Lunastan.

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I guess no one else is man enough to risk losing against me. . .

darn it, that's not politicly correct!

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Funkstar, stop being cocky. You're just afraid. =p

Any way, here's my country.

History

8 B.C. - The year Snailotopia was found by Snaildumtooblek.

666 A.D. - The year Snailotopia was threatened by a massive fire, burning down its trees, and grass.

867 A.D. - The year the Battle of Snails against Ninjas took place. It lasted five years. The snails won, by starving out the ninjas, by capturing half of the ninjas. The other ninjas were in crap loads, so they gave up.

872 A.D. - The year the Battle of Snails against Ninjas ended.

1078 A.D. - The year Snailotopia's most powerful leader was born... Snailmail. OMG! lol!

1108 A.D. - About 27 pioneers went out to explore the rest of Snailotopia to claim the lands to the west. Later on, they did nothing with it.

1315 A.D. - A boat of 57 explorers went out to find Newfoundland. Unfortunately, they suck at navigating, so they found the piece of land now known as "The Snails Shell"

1662 A.D. - The snails figured out thousands of sciences on this year. They invented gunpowder, even before China. They learned how to make tanks, and jets, and several other war machines. The also created ships that shot napalm bombs to a range of 10,000 miles. WOW.

1936 A.D. - The snails started using telegramaphones STOP The inventions thought swarts have invented STOP They created the factory besides thou mountain STOP

1979 A.D. - Snailotopias leader Snailmail went to the Disco sucks rally in Chicago. AWESOME.

2001 A.D. - The snails planned to attack several countries. Unfortunately, someone else did it before them. The snails went out and killed Osama Bin Laden for beating them to it. Then America started looking for Osama Bin Laden. Fools. Then Snailmail fired the snail who planned the explosions, because it wasn't funny.

2006 A.D. - Snailmail put Snailotopia in some sort of contest. The snails got ticked. Snailmail didn't. I don't get it.

Currency: Shells
Anthem: Super Snail
Main Exports: Shells, Gew
Main Imports: Mailboxes
Capitol: Snailopolis
Major City: Sheller
Major Industry: Shell farming

National Bird: The Bird
National Tree: Post Office
National Flower: Mailbox

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Umm. . . isn't this OVER?

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*wakes up*

Huh? Wha? What's going on...?

...

Oh, this contest. Er, uh, I forgot...gimme a few days to get the judges' scores. So judges, gimme' your scores!

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This still isn't finished?

Apparently the other judges never responded to my requests for the scores, so I'll just end this off by myself (sorry if I didn't ask one of the judges about it, I don't remember what I did a month ago ).

Okay, first of all, you all did incredibly well, so it took me awhile to decide on the winners. Below lists the point totals per user, the awards, and other crap like that (I did the scores in tenths instead of hundredths because there weren't as many people as I expected who played this game).

topofsm: 8.5

Funkstar: 9.3

sbe-mail 22: 8.3

Exhibit A: 8.8

ikwaylx: 8.2

Lunar Jesty: 8.4

Snailmail: 8.9


1st Place: Funkstar!
2nd Place: Snailmail!
3rd Place: Exhibit A!

4th Place: topofsm!
5th Place: Lunar Jesty!
6th Place: sbe-mail 22!
7th Place: ikwaylx!

Special Award: sbe-mail 22!

Congratulations, everyone! Even if you didn't win, you all scored in at least the 8-range (above-average) so give yourselves a pat on the back if you can.

Here are the awards for the top three and special winners:






Please use the correct award. Also, host them at your own place, because I may delete these from my Photobucket account later down the line.

Once again, congratulations to everyone! Sorry for the long delay, but it was a mixture of my forgetfulness and no judge scores. Also, sorry if something in the awards feels flawed, but these are all final scores.

Uh...peace out? *explodes*

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*does celebratory dance!*


Actually, the average is 8.6285714285714285714285714285714.

So. . . you are partially correct. . .

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OH dang. I knew I didn't send this. I even typed out the scores!

Stupid me.

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