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Friday, August 23, 2013

Today's #flashfiction #HistoryOfASmallGoblinNation

“You have a right to your own point of view.”
MC Escher* #quote


CJ should be coming over this weekend and we may possibly be heading over to an art museum with a video game exhibit along with its other fine arty things to check out. Anyway onto the flash fiction!


History Of A Small Goblin Nation


Once there was a goblin nation. It was a very small one founded by a bunch of a goblins that didn't like the laws of the big goblin nation so they moved away. (In the big goblin nation there was religious outlaw on jazz music). They moved into a small area in the middle of a mountain range where they couldn't be easily conquered. This is a history of their nation based on their countries calender.

Year 0: The goblins can't come up with a name for their country so they name in “The Republic Of Here”

Year 1: The goblins came up with a better name, “We Have Jazz Music” to attract more people that want to move there because they want to have jazz music. 

Year 3: We Have Jazz Music's economy starts to form as they finish building their first city and their farms are fully self-sufficient and they no longer need outside supplies. At this point they operate a city-state. At this point despite being a city-state the government is also an anarchy because everybody is too busy working their farms to worry about politics.

Year 5: A gold mine is discovered. Though the mountains protect them from any military encroachment companies and a population of miners enter. A corporate presence does not damage the welfare of We Have Jazz Music as it boosts the economy and the companies are treated as dual citizens and taxed. Money flows in and the goblins move beyond farming. 

Year 7: We Have Jazz Music is forced to be more proactive and make a government to use and deal with tax dollars. Things get confusing and corrupt very quickly as people grab for power. Eventually they settle on a government where people are voted into positions like treasurer or whatever. This was chosen because goblins heard other governments did it and it sounded nice to them. 

Year 10: Tom the goblin attempts a military coup. However since nobody has weapons and nobody wanted to beat each other up instead of fighting they decided to resolve it with a rock-paper-scissors tournament. Tom's coup failed and he was executed while all his follows were tortured by watching reruns of really bad sitcoms for days. The sleep deprivation along with bad jokes caused a bout of madness along with absolute devotion to We Have Jazz Music.

Year 12: An elf bandit and his crew decide to attack We Have Jazz Music considering it an easy target. With his guns he is able kill many goblins easily since there has been no active military or police force there but the numbers of the goblins still take him over. The goblins of the nation realize that although a military attack on the nation wouldn't be easy it would still be possible. The wealth of their nation was increasing along with its fame and its goldmines proving deeper. They decide to weaponize.

Year 20: We Have Jazz Music is equipped with guns and tanks and most importantly anti-aircraft weapons. The attack of the bandit scarred them emotionally so they went into overkill. The bandit became a sort of boogey man. 

Year 50: We Have Jazz Music has filled its tiny mountain hideaway with three cities and every mining facility and farm it can. Effectively it is full with population control laws and immigration laws. Goblins tend to be very strict about their laws, hypocrisy considering the fact that the nation was founded on running away from. The slogan of population control is: “If you have too many children we'll throw the eldest out the window of the tallest building in the city.” They were serious.

Year 52: The main goblin nation realizes how deep the goldmines of We Have Jazz Music really goes and is no longer content with just trading for it. Using the fact they moved to avoid the religious law as an excuse they invade. The mountain range does protect the nation from invasion as planned when the nation was founded but it is a long costly war that costs lives on both sides. 

Year 60: The name of the nation is changed to “Don't Mess With Us” to symbolize the victory over the massive home goblin nation and unemphasize the possession of jazz music. So ends the history of We Have Jazz Music and begins the history of Don't Mess With Us. 

Epilogue: Don't Mess With Us turns into a full on military nation, especially to compensation predictions of the mines running out of gold. They eventually conquer the home goblin nation and spread jazz music there and begin conquering other nations, oppressing the elves and humans until they are finally defeated by an alliance by a revolution of those they have conquered and the fairy people along with the dragons. Jazz music is then banned all over the world as something that leads to corruption of nations and governments.

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