Post by Liechtenstein on Feb 8, 2013 14:23:27 GMT -5
My Reflection
Nation:
Principality of Liechtenstein
Name:
Lili Zwingli
Gender:
Female
Appearance Age:
16 Years Old
Actual Age:
207 Years Old
Appearance
During World War I: Lili was shown to wear a long-sleeved dress with a ruffled skirt and white cuffs, along with a white apron that covered the dress, tights over her legs, and Mary-Jane styled shoes for her feet. Because she fell into poverty as an aftershock of the war, the clothes at the time were serverely damaged, even the apron, which lost alot of fabric. The dress and necktie were pink, and her hair was in two, long braids that stopped at the middle of her back.
After World War I: When Switzerland adopted her, Liechtenstein began to wear a long-sleeved, white blouse with a long jumper, a necktie that was tied around the blouse. Instead of her Mary-Jane shoes, it was short boots. The jumper color was blue, neckbow now red.
Common Clothing: Lili is mostly seen wearing a deep red dress with light pink stripes and Mary-Janes, other times it is a military outfit like her adoptive brother Switzerland, this mostly being from admiration. Her full uniform consists of a green double-breasted jacket (with black collar and cuffs), brown trousers, and brown boots (with white cuffs). Like her brother, she also wears a white beret. Because of the fact that she was flat-chested, she passed off as a boy, but Switzerland fixed this issue by buying her a purple bow, also as a gift.
Hair Color:
Blonde
Eye Color:
Emerald
Height:
5'4
Weight:
120 pounds
Who Am I?
Personality:
Liechtenstein is a very sweet young girl, who is quite talented with computers and other high-tech equipment, yet is modest and will say she isn't so great with them. Having been acquainted with Austria, she knows of classical music as well as speaking the part, which makes her not understand the informal greetings shared between Seychelles and Hong Kong. She also has a habit of making little gifts for the people she admires (but not on the same admiration level as she has for Switzerland) but then finds herself being very bashful and running off after giving the gift. Because of her past, Lili is incredibly mature; though there are times she gives into her childish side. Especially when there is something cute nearby. While a bit soft-spoken, she will state her opinions on matters, something she learned from her brother.
At a physical standpoint, it makes her very self-conscious. Because of her flat chest, she comes off to look like a boy. Switzerland noticed this, and bought her a bow to help her as well as let other people be aware that she is is indeed a girl.
Likes:
-Switzerland.
-Beautiful sceneries.
-Switzerland's drawings.
-Cute things.
-Making gifts.
Dislikes:
-Anyone that becomes a threat to Switzerland in any way.
-Wars.
-Being mistakened for a boy.
-To be unhappy.
-Rudeness/intimidation (with the exception of Germany intimidation-wise, she's used to it.)
Fears:
-Losing Switzerland.
-Falling back into poverty.
-Disappointing/Failing Switzerland in any way, shape or form.
-Reverting back to how she used to be.
-Some (or most) of Switzerland's old, outdated planes. (Which, in result, caused Switzerland to sell them to Germany.)
Fun Facts:
-Lili loves to write, mostly about her admiration and adventures with Switzerland, to give an overview of their lives.
-She is actually bigger than Kugelmugel.
-For a while after Switzerland found her, she did keep the long hair, but it just became unhealthy and untreated before she cutted it and kept it short.
-She likes to tell Switzerland she's happy, most times because she is around him.
-Never did Lili have her own army, so this is why she is scared to fight sometimes, hence, being protected highly.
Strengths:
-Her loyalty
-Physical appearance (since she comes off as a boy when the ribbon is taken off, she can actually fool people.)
-Self-defense.
-Knowledge of high-tech gadgets.
-Affiliations with the German-based families (Austria, Kugelmugel & Germany.)
Weaknesses:
-Submission to cute things.
-Learning how to survive on her own again, before Switzerland saved her.
-Any type of wars.
-Kind heart.
-Lack of army.
Your History
1719 Jan 23, Principality of Liechtenstein was created within the Holy Roman Empire.
1719 Sep 23, Liechtenstein declared independence from the German empire.
1806 Jul 12, Napoleon granted Liechtenstein sovereignty.
1836 Apr 20, Johan I Jozef (75), monarch of Liechtenstein, field marshal, died.
1939-1945 Liechtenstein managed to stay neutral during WWII.
1971 Feb 28, The male electorate in Liechtenstein refused to give voting rights to women.
1984 In Lichtenstein women gained the right to vote.
1989 Prince Hans-Adam II assumed the throne upon the death of his father.
1998 Oct 12, Canada planned to begin discussion with Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Liechtenstein for the first trans-Atlantic free-trade pact.
2000 Nov, The Kunstmuseum of Liechtenstein opened.
2000 Both the G-8 group of leading industrialized nations and the 26-nation Financial Action Task Force put Liechtenstein on their blacklist of nations deemed uncooperative in fighting money laundering. The principality scrambled to revise its laws, and a year later was relieved to be removed from the blacklist.
2001 Liechtenstein was removed from the money-laundering list of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
2002 Nov, Heinrich Kieber, an employee of Liechtenstein’s LGT Treuhand AG, ended his services with the company and stole confidential data on thousands of customers and beneficiaries. He was convicted of fraud and theft in 2004 and sentenced to 3 years probation. German authorities later confirmed the purchase of Liechtenstein banking data from an informant for some $6.2 million.
2003 Mar, Prince Hans-Adam II won a referendum to change the constitution and give himself greater powers.
2003 Aug 15, The ruling prince of Liechtenstein, who garnered controversy in Europe with his push for more power in the tiny state, announced he would step down and hand over the reins to his son in one year.
2004 Aug 15, In Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II formally handed over day-to-day governing powers to his son Crown Prince Alois, and then invited all 33,000 of Liechtenstein's people to a garden party.
2004 Sep 21, Liechtenstein ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, bringing to 116 the number of nations that have endorsed the pact.
2005 Nov 27, Voters in Liechtenstein soundly rejected an initiative that critics said would have prevented abortion, birth control, assisted suicide and living wills.
2006 Jul 2, Liechtenstein remained on the list of uncooperative tax havens because, unlike 33 other jurisdictions, it had not made a commitment to the OECD to improve transparency and to establish effective exchange of information for tax purposes with OECD countries. The population stood at some 34,600.
2006 In Germany a person known to the press as “the informant” offered to sell a DVD stolen from LGT group, a firm owned by Liechtenstein’s ruling dynasty to Germany’s foreign intelligence service.. In 2002 Heinrich Kieber, an employee of Liechtenstein’s LGT Treuhand AG, had ended his services with the company and stolen confidential data on thousands of customers and beneficiaries. He was convicted of fraud and theft in 2004 and sentenced to 3 years probation. German authorities later confirmed the purchase of Liechtenstein banking data from an informant for some $6.2 million.
2007 The population of Lichtenstein numbered 35,000.
2008 Feb 20, German Chancellor Angela Merkel attacked Liechtenstein’s traditional banking secrecy and demanded a US-style deal giving Berlin insight into German investments in the Alpine tax haven.
2008 Feb 22, The German finance ministry threatened to tax all financial transfers to Liechtenstein unless the Alpine principality relaxed its banking secrecy codes and helped trace tax evaders.
2008 Feb 24, The LGT Group, Liechtenstein’s largest financial group, confirmed that stolen client data, believed to be fueling a major German tax-evasion probe, included confidential information on thousands of customers and beneficiaries in other countries.
2008 Sep 3, Swiss prosecutors said police have broken up an Internet child pornography ring operating in at least four European countries where men exchanged details about their contacts with young girls. In all investigators said they had identified 600 people in Germany, 40 in Austria, 13 in Switzerland and four in Liechtenstein using the forum.
2009 Feb 10, EU ministers demanded the reopening of negotiations with Liechtenstein on fighting fraud.
2009 Feb, The government of Liechtenstein fell. New PM Klaus Tschutscher pledged to work with other countries to get off the “uncooperative” list of tax havens.
2009 Mar, Liechtenstein’s Prince Alois agreed this month to start following the rules set down by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Europe aimed at curbing tax havens. Liechtenstein banks alone managed some $200 billion, while the principality's anonymous trusts controlled several times that much abroad.
2009 Aug 11, Liechtenstein raised the gate on its tax-haven fortress, making a deal enabling London to snare about 5,000 British accounts holders with up to 3.0 billion pounds in secret deposits.
2010 Dec 18, Germany’s weekly Der Spiegel reported that local tax authorities recovered 1.6 billion euros this year from citizens who had stashed their cash in secret accounts in Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
2011 Jun 19, Liechtenstein 69% of voters backed a new law giving gay and lesbian couples the right to formally register their partnerships.
Sample Post
Huff. Huff. Huff. The sound of constant breathing, the pitter patter of the rain, the splish-splash of the puddle atop the earth. Those feet can only go for so much longer, can they not? Just let this whirlwind end already, let the reaper arrive for the next one on his list for sure, just make it stop. The clacking of shoes against the water-stained earth only became louder and faster, as if it was making an unintentional rhythm. The cloud of breath that escaped through those small, sweaty, beaten lips only became in sight for about a second before it dispersed into thin air. It was a shame, a but of a shame.
These little patches of breath had a better escape than this one.
A trip, and a fall, a splash leading to a drench. Lili, no, better yet, Liechtenstein, was on her last string, trying to clasp the thread that hung so loosely on the rope of life: Long, draping blonde locks that fell into now two ragged braids, beautiful pinkette dress losing its luster, its beauty, just a torn, tattered mess. Sienna Mary-Janes trying to stay intact on her feet, thighs down to her ankles ridded with welts, bruises and scars--old and new, open wounds making her flinch everytime the rain touched it.
Within the barrage of rain and thunder, Liechtenstein's emerald hues swam in water, as well as her tears, the only thing giving her warmth. She layed still against the ground until finding a brick wall in sight--this finding out to be the side of a building within the depths of an alleyway. With little strength, the young girl began to half-crawl towards it until she was able to touch the brick-type sensation, turning herself around to press her back against it.
She sat in silence for quite some time. What could she say? She /hated/ the World War, it was the reason for this predicament at hand in her case. Closing her eyes to stop the rain from falling in them, her head fell down to her lap, small hiccups from the silent crying made her shoulders jump up and down as though she was laughing--instead, it was everything but.
"I'm going...I'm going to die..I have no more food to survive on...
I'm going to die."
'I'm going to die'. Those words came out of her mouth so easily, voice squeaky yet low, so only she could hear. Would it be that anybody would care if she died anyway? What was taking Death so long? Why couldn't he just take her now. Just. Take. Her. Now. But of course, it'd be fun to watch the prey squirm. Wasn't it always?
"Guten nacht, Lili." She said, "Guten nacht."
Clenching her light peach toned fists, Lili remained still. Breathing slowed, hiccups stopping. After a while of this position, her ears picked up on the sound of footsteps, click-clacking against the wetness. Shooting her head up from her lap, Lili's eyes began to open and widen, but her lips were still pursed, in hopes her hues would speak instead. As the footsteps became louder each second, her emerald gems could only dance with the sound, raindrops sliding down her features within the standstill.
She felt like...
She was staring at..
A light. A light in the dark.
The Player
Name: Alantra
Age: 20
Fun Fact:
I am completely obsessed with anything that has to do with strawberries~ Also, pink and sparkles are pretty.~
Nation:
Principality of Liechtenstein
Name:
Lili Zwingli
Gender:
Female
Appearance Age:
16 Years Old
Actual Age:
207 Years Old
Appearance
During World War I: Lili was shown to wear a long-sleeved dress with a ruffled skirt and white cuffs, along with a white apron that covered the dress, tights over her legs, and Mary-Jane styled shoes for her feet. Because she fell into poverty as an aftershock of the war, the clothes at the time were serverely damaged, even the apron, which lost alot of fabric. The dress and necktie were pink, and her hair was in two, long braids that stopped at the middle of her back.
After World War I: When Switzerland adopted her, Liechtenstein began to wear a long-sleeved, white blouse with a long jumper, a necktie that was tied around the blouse. Instead of her Mary-Jane shoes, it was short boots. The jumper color was blue, neckbow now red.
Common Clothing: Lili is mostly seen wearing a deep red dress with light pink stripes and Mary-Janes, other times it is a military outfit like her adoptive brother Switzerland, this mostly being from admiration. Her full uniform consists of a green double-breasted jacket (with black collar and cuffs), brown trousers, and brown boots (with white cuffs). Like her brother, she also wears a white beret. Because of the fact that she was flat-chested, she passed off as a boy, but Switzerland fixed this issue by buying her a purple bow, also as a gift.
Hair Color:
Blonde
Eye Color:
Emerald
Height:
5'4
Weight:
120 pounds
Who Am I?
Personality:
Liechtenstein is a very sweet young girl, who is quite talented with computers and other high-tech equipment, yet is modest and will say she isn't so great with them. Having been acquainted with Austria, she knows of classical music as well as speaking the part, which makes her not understand the informal greetings shared between Seychelles and Hong Kong. She also has a habit of making little gifts for the people she admires (but not on the same admiration level as she has for Switzerland) but then finds herself being very bashful and running off after giving the gift. Because of her past, Lili is incredibly mature; though there are times she gives into her childish side. Especially when there is something cute nearby. While a bit soft-spoken, she will state her opinions on matters, something she learned from her brother.
At a physical standpoint, it makes her very self-conscious. Because of her flat chest, she comes off to look like a boy. Switzerland noticed this, and bought her a bow to help her as well as let other people be aware that she is is indeed a girl.
Likes:
-Switzerland.
-Beautiful sceneries.
-Switzerland's drawings.
-Cute things.
-Making gifts.
Dislikes:
-Anyone that becomes a threat to Switzerland in any way.
-Wars.
-Being mistakened for a boy.
-To be unhappy.
-Rudeness/intimidation (with the exception of Germany intimidation-wise, she's used to it.)
Fears:
-Losing Switzerland.
-Falling back into poverty.
-Disappointing/Failing Switzerland in any way, shape or form.
-Reverting back to how she used to be.
-Some (or most) of Switzerland's old, outdated planes. (Which, in result, caused Switzerland to sell them to Germany.)
Fun Facts:
-Lili loves to write, mostly about her admiration and adventures with Switzerland, to give an overview of their lives.
-She is actually bigger than Kugelmugel.
-For a while after Switzerland found her, she did keep the long hair, but it just became unhealthy and untreated before she cutted it and kept it short.
-She likes to tell Switzerland she's happy, most times because she is around him.
-Never did Lili have her own army, so this is why she is scared to fight sometimes, hence, being protected highly.
Strengths:
-Her loyalty
-Physical appearance (since she comes off as a boy when the ribbon is taken off, she can actually fool people.)
-Self-defense.
-Knowledge of high-tech gadgets.
-Affiliations with the German-based families (Austria, Kugelmugel & Germany.)
Weaknesses:
-Submission to cute things.
-Learning how to survive on her own again, before Switzerland saved her.
-Any type of wars.
-Kind heart.
-Lack of army.
Your History
1719 Jan 23, Principality of Liechtenstein was created within the Holy Roman Empire.
1719 Sep 23, Liechtenstein declared independence from the German empire.
1806 Jul 12, Napoleon granted Liechtenstein sovereignty.
1836 Apr 20, Johan I Jozef (75), monarch of Liechtenstein, field marshal, died.
1939-1945 Liechtenstein managed to stay neutral during WWII.
1971 Feb 28, The male electorate in Liechtenstein refused to give voting rights to women.
1984 In Lichtenstein women gained the right to vote.
1989 Prince Hans-Adam II assumed the throne upon the death of his father.
1998 Oct 12, Canada planned to begin discussion with Norway, Sweden, Iceland and Liechtenstein for the first trans-Atlantic free-trade pact.
2000 Nov, The Kunstmuseum of Liechtenstein opened.
2000 Both the G-8 group of leading industrialized nations and the 26-nation Financial Action Task Force put Liechtenstein on their blacklist of nations deemed uncooperative in fighting money laundering. The principality scrambled to revise its laws, and a year later was relieved to be removed from the blacklist.
2001 Liechtenstein was removed from the money-laundering list of the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
2002 Nov, Heinrich Kieber, an employee of Liechtenstein’s LGT Treuhand AG, ended his services with the company and stole confidential data on thousands of customers and beneficiaries. He was convicted of fraud and theft in 2004 and sentenced to 3 years probation. German authorities later confirmed the purchase of Liechtenstein banking data from an informant for some $6.2 million.
2003 Mar, Prince Hans-Adam II won a referendum to change the constitution and give himself greater powers.
2003 Aug 15, The ruling prince of Liechtenstein, who garnered controversy in Europe with his push for more power in the tiny state, announced he would step down and hand over the reins to his son in one year.
2004 Aug 15, In Liechtenstein Prince Hans-Adam II formally handed over day-to-day governing powers to his son Crown Prince Alois, and then invited all 33,000 of Liechtenstein's people to a garden party.
2004 Sep 21, Liechtenstein ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear Test-Ban Treaty, bringing to 116 the number of nations that have endorsed the pact.
2005 Nov 27, Voters in Liechtenstein soundly rejected an initiative that critics said would have prevented abortion, birth control, assisted suicide and living wills.
2006 Jul 2, Liechtenstein remained on the list of uncooperative tax havens because, unlike 33 other jurisdictions, it had not made a commitment to the OECD to improve transparency and to establish effective exchange of information for tax purposes with OECD countries. The population stood at some 34,600.
2006 In Germany a person known to the press as “the informant” offered to sell a DVD stolen from LGT group, a firm owned by Liechtenstein’s ruling dynasty to Germany’s foreign intelligence service.. In 2002 Heinrich Kieber, an employee of Liechtenstein’s LGT Treuhand AG, had ended his services with the company and stolen confidential data on thousands of customers and beneficiaries. He was convicted of fraud and theft in 2004 and sentenced to 3 years probation. German authorities later confirmed the purchase of Liechtenstein banking data from an informant for some $6.2 million.
2007 The population of Lichtenstein numbered 35,000.
2008 Feb 20, German Chancellor Angela Merkel attacked Liechtenstein’s traditional banking secrecy and demanded a US-style deal giving Berlin insight into German investments in the Alpine tax haven.
2008 Feb 22, The German finance ministry threatened to tax all financial transfers to Liechtenstein unless the Alpine principality relaxed its banking secrecy codes and helped trace tax evaders.
2008 Feb 24, The LGT Group, Liechtenstein’s largest financial group, confirmed that stolen client data, believed to be fueling a major German tax-evasion probe, included confidential information on thousands of customers and beneficiaries in other countries.
2008 Sep 3, Swiss prosecutors said police have broken up an Internet child pornography ring operating in at least four European countries where men exchanged details about their contacts with young girls. In all investigators said they had identified 600 people in Germany, 40 in Austria, 13 in Switzerland and four in Liechtenstein using the forum.
2009 Feb 10, EU ministers demanded the reopening of negotiations with Liechtenstein on fighting fraud.
2009 Feb, The government of Liechtenstein fell. New PM Klaus Tschutscher pledged to work with other countries to get off the “uncooperative” list of tax havens.
2009 Mar, Liechtenstein’s Prince Alois agreed this month to start following the rules set down by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development in Europe aimed at curbing tax havens. Liechtenstein banks alone managed some $200 billion, while the principality's anonymous trusts controlled several times that much abroad.
2009 Aug 11, Liechtenstein raised the gate on its tax-haven fortress, making a deal enabling London to snare about 5,000 British accounts holders with up to 3.0 billion pounds in secret deposits.
2010 Dec 18, Germany’s weekly Der Spiegel reported that local tax authorities recovered 1.6 billion euros this year from citizens who had stashed their cash in secret accounts in Liechtenstein and Switzerland.
2011 Jun 19, Liechtenstein 69% of voters backed a new law giving gay and lesbian couples the right to formally register their partnerships.
Sample Post
Huff. Huff. Huff. The sound of constant breathing, the pitter patter of the rain, the splish-splash of the puddle atop the earth. Those feet can only go for so much longer, can they not? Just let this whirlwind end already, let the reaper arrive for the next one on his list for sure, just make it stop. The clacking of shoes against the water-stained earth only became louder and faster, as if it was making an unintentional rhythm. The cloud of breath that escaped through those small, sweaty, beaten lips only became in sight for about a second before it dispersed into thin air. It was a shame, a but of a shame.
These little patches of breath had a better escape than this one.
A trip, and a fall, a splash leading to a drench. Lili, no, better yet, Liechtenstein, was on her last string, trying to clasp the thread that hung so loosely on the rope of life: Long, draping blonde locks that fell into now two ragged braids, beautiful pinkette dress losing its luster, its beauty, just a torn, tattered mess. Sienna Mary-Janes trying to stay intact on her feet, thighs down to her ankles ridded with welts, bruises and scars--old and new, open wounds making her flinch everytime the rain touched it.
Within the barrage of rain and thunder, Liechtenstein's emerald hues swam in water, as well as her tears, the only thing giving her warmth. She layed still against the ground until finding a brick wall in sight--this finding out to be the side of a building within the depths of an alleyway. With little strength, the young girl began to half-crawl towards it until she was able to touch the brick-type sensation, turning herself around to press her back against it.
She sat in silence for quite some time. What could she say? She /hated/ the World War, it was the reason for this predicament at hand in her case. Closing her eyes to stop the rain from falling in them, her head fell down to her lap, small hiccups from the silent crying made her shoulders jump up and down as though she was laughing--instead, it was everything but.
"I'm going...I'm going to die..I have no more food to survive on...
I'm going to die."
'I'm going to die'. Those words came out of her mouth so easily, voice squeaky yet low, so only she could hear. Would it be that anybody would care if she died anyway? What was taking Death so long? Why couldn't he just take her now. Just. Take. Her. Now. But of course, it'd be fun to watch the prey squirm. Wasn't it always?
"Guten nacht, Lili." She said, "Guten nacht."
Clenching her light peach toned fists, Lili remained still. Breathing slowed, hiccups stopping. After a while of this position, her ears picked up on the sound of footsteps, click-clacking against the wetness. Shooting her head up from her lap, Lili's eyes began to open and widen, but her lips were still pursed, in hopes her hues would speak instead. As the footsteps became louder each second, her emerald gems could only dance with the sound, raindrops sliding down her features within the standstill.
She felt like...
She was staring at..
A light. A light in the dark.
The Player
Name: Alantra
Age: 20
Fun Fact:
I am completely obsessed with anything that has to do with strawberries~ Also, pink and sparkles are pretty.~
