Foreign relations of Marnos

This is a list about the foreign relations of the Republic of Marnos.

## Bujan

Because Bujan taught Marnos' people to utilise advanced technology and allowed them to be students in its universities, many Marnosyns consider Bujan to be a close ally.

On the other hand, Bujanski dislike and mock Marnosyns as the opposite of themselves: vulgar, boorish, drunk, and therefore stupid. Having angry mutants who burn or electrocute anyone who angers them makes Marnos look even more embarrassing, a mockery of the Gods who supposedly gave them powers that they wasted on petty anger. Marnosyns also dislike and get into fights with Bujanski, seeing them as arrogant snobs. In the end, it was almost like their relations with Heronoja to the east, being a love-hate relationship that usually ends with friendship and banter.

The Marnosyns nonetheless aided Bujan's liberation, perhaps grateful for the technology the Zvestarid exiles taught them to use. Their mutants helped the Bujanski and their coalition defeat the Wannaenid supersoldiers.

## Umbirab

Umbirab has a teasing rivalry with Marnos because both nations have large populations of sdachels: Marnosyns tease Umbirabians either a reckless society or an ideal society for the high amount of freedom its sdachels enjoy, while Umbirabians mock Marnosyns for being vulgar and reckless.

## Daleskarnia

Although both Marnos and Daleskarnia have resumed relations in 1920 AT, the Marnosyns strongly dislike Daleskarnia for its invasions centuries ago. They also mock the Daleskarnians' obsession with their military, seeing it as too excessive and arrogant.

## Heronoja

Heronoja is Marnos' rival, sometimes considered its eastern counterpart because it happened to fall in the same latitude. While Marnosyns see the Heronoi either as creepy dolls or stupid, lovesick art students who are frightened by ice cream, the Heronoi look down on the Marnosyns as a vulgar, boorish mob. Many Marnosyns call Heronoi people "dumb blondes", while Heronoi in turn call Marnosyn people "alcoholics" and "shame of the Gods".

Fights sometimes break out between Marnosyns and Heronoi, and sports matches between the two nations had to be fenced up to avoid any more of those notorious brawls. Yet artists from both countries teasingly mock their rivalry as a grudging romance between the two countries.

In Marnos, they depicted their own nation as a drunk but handsome young man, and Heronoja as an angry blonde woman in a loose dress and a sailor's mouth. In Heronoja, their own nation is a handsome but stupid blonde man, and Marnos is drawn as a hot-tempered woman with even more stupidity and rage. Artists from both countries would ship the two nation-people together, where a brawl would end up into friendship and love. For extra cuteness, they would ship their own country's personifications together. In such art, the Marnosyn man drinks with the Marnosyn woman on a burning truck while they shoot guns everywhere. The Heronoi equivalent has the two cute blondes cuddling, kissing, or sleeping on a moonlit chariot.

## Baesorja

Many Marnosyns do not trust Baesorja because of its leaders' warmongering and its peoples' fanaticism.

## New Republics/Nyralthia

Over time, the New Republics became a reliable ally to Marnos, sheltering its people when their country was conquered by the Budinovians and providing enough weaponry to defeat and expel the Budinovians.

Nyralthians have easier access to Marnos to visit, exchange technology, and trade with the Marnosyns; and in turn the Marnosyns have easier access to trade and visit any of the Thirteen Republics and Paltirion. Marnos' people are also delighted that one of the symbols of the New Republics is the black cat, in mockery of the superstitious associations of the number thirteen.

## Rukania

See also: Foreign relations of Rukania

Rukania maintains friendly relations with Marnos, but both countries mock each other for being the opposites in terms of politeness. Marnos is at the lower end, with its more loose attitude, and mocks the Rukanians for their extremely polite attitude. However, for not being as irritable as the Bujanski, the Rukanians are more respected.

Although both countries have vulgar sports hooligans, Rukanian fans tend to be cleaner and more orderly, leading to even greater mockery if Marnos and Rukania are at the same jousting championship. Rukanians laugh at drunkenness and boorishness in the Marnosyn fans, while Marnosyns mock Rukanian fans coming to the stadium wearing armour and tunics as "the Middle Ages".

## Hothro

Yet another rival in jousting. Marnosyns love to brawl with the unruly Hothrovian sports fans.

## Kalambour

Many Marnosyns visit Kalambour for its desert and tropical landscapes, and for its many film studios. A lot of Marnosyns live in Kalambour as film directors and actors, forming little communities that are more polite than their homeland counterparts.

They are seen as more respectable and respectful than the nearby Hothrovian tourists and visitors.

## Volzeraen

Marnosyns and Volzeraenir mock each other's cultures, the former for being more vulgar and willing to brawl at any moment, and the latter for being more neat and "snobbish".

Nonetheless, both countries regard each other like brothers in the end. Marnosyns sometimes go to Volzeraen to practice archery, go on hikes along the southerly mountain forests, join horse riding parties to hunt beasts, and go on sculpting and boxing contests. In turn, Volzeraenir go to Marnos to drink, watch mutants show off their powers, and look at the religious ceremonies to various deities like Perkunas and Saule.

## Siangwaan

Siangwaan and Marnos are also rivals in jousting and pop culture. *Very* bitter rivals who like to brag about who is the better jousting nation.

Any jousting match between the two teams will inevitably devolve into a shouting match between the two teams' fans. One Siangwaanian jousting fan, Tai Lokzang, wrote in his blog a summary of eleven matches that he attended when the two countries met:

"*Every single match between the two republics is Hell raised on Earth. All around you, your ears will melt with the fans' chorus of obscene, repetitive, and mindless profanity, to the cacophony of 11 or more heavy metal songs, played across the stadium when no jousters or horses show up. Yes,* ELEVEN *songs at once, from different bands, drowning out the overjoyed and furious mockery from both teams.*

*It would have sounded like the greatest (and the most drunk) rock concert in the world, but even the sheer loudness will cause your own ears to burst and bleed. You will only bob your head, not out of thrill, but from cringe and literal damage to your ears.*

*I think the jousters and their horses are very, very lucky, since they only get to hear jeering and curses that will never affect them. The speakers stop when even one of them steps into the field, and the fans are considerate enough to shut down all music.*

*If you want to lose your sanity and rock on, this is the perfect place to be: I rate it 11/7, for the stench of alcohol, and the sheer cringe causing my own soul to shrivel and die for a hundred times in a single night.*

*Have fun.*"

Yet Siangwaan-Marnos jousting matches tend to be popular in social media due to the hilariously stupid behaviour from both countries' fans, along with the nauseating cocktail of jeers and rock singles played at once. They tend to become forges of popular Internet memes.

## See also

* Foreign relations of Rukania
* Foreign relations of Bujan
* Foreign relations of Siangwaan