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1) Lamma village (pop. 90) just west of Grandriver Name TBD, outside Grandriver. Real-world inspiration. Definitely grittier than the SimCity result, but let's pretend that these are 1960s-era pix before Bassa's economy grew.

I also spy some Finnish buildings too (Krio and Prepo). edit: and I think a couple from Glenni (Norwegian)

In the 1950s, before the old church was renovated:

Thanks! It's Japanese in origin (Hide and Seek or SimCityForce, I believe) in spite of its style.

Bassa's far-right has been rocked by two separate scandals in recent days. The left-wing 11 March movement, commemorating the date (11 March 1989) when Bassa ended the Cold War policy of seclusion that sought to isolate the island from excessive Soviet and American influence, is gaining in polls after these two revelations: First, the ISIS recruitment of French-Bassan residents mentioned below turned out to be a hoax. The three French nationals turned out not to be fighting in Sinjar, Iraq. Instead, their passports were reportedly stolen by their employer, a Member of Parliament for the far-right who had infamously suggested that migrants "speak Kreyol at home." The theft and resale to Islamists in France was believed to be a desperate attempt to discredit European and French immigration and the Member of Parliament has been arrested pending trial. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2014/12/08/a-german-political-party-wants-immigrants-to-stop-speaking-foreign-languages-even-at-home/ Secondly, a political news conference at the historic Palm Fort, a building whose oldest parts are believed to predate Afro-European settlement in Bassa, was disrupted after the Israeli ambassador accused the aforementioned parliamentarian of covertly funding Likud and radical settlers in concert with European and American far-right movements. In what has allegedly become a trend in several European countries, anti-Semitic but pro-Israel factions have gained in power thanks to a poor economy and unassimilated Muslim immigrants: http://mwcnews.net/focus/politics/48874-israel-and-europe.html ISRAELI AMBASSADOR: FAR-RIGHT IN EUROPE, USA, BASSA FUNDING RADICAL SETTLERS In other news, Bassa has celebrated ten years of same sex marriage. Thanks to Voodoo's traditional tolerance of homosexuality (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/irene-monroe/vodous-acceptance-of-gays_b_821215.html), gay bars and clubs have flourished in the Republic, such as this one: The largest such chain of stores and clubs, the Queer Steer, has over 20 locations nationwide. This strong tolerance manifested itself in the passage of gay civil unions (1998), gay marriage (2010), and most recently straight civil unions (imposed by the nation's constitutional court in 2012 as part of a freedom-of-religion case that argued that the government should provide a secular alternative to marriage for gay and straight couples). Politicians from the left and center are proposing a more radical bill that will aim to fully divorce (no pun intended) religion and government; the Vodou Democratic Party has yet to endorse or oppose the changes.

Fun with Polish residential BATs: "Doesn't that garage look a bit off, Lech?" "Not after you've had enough vodka, Pawel."

Nice buildings. Is that the Steam version? No, it's the Gamersgate version for Windows. I run it in Mac with Wine (Wineskin Winery). Thanks, because I was wondering a) what is that icon in the Dock and b) how you get Extra Cheats (a .dll) to work on a Mac.

Nice buildings. Is that the Steam version?

In a worrying sign for fans of a worldly media, Bassan news agencies struggled for roughly 5 hours with how to put a local spin on the recent Air Asia tragedy in Indonesia. In shamelessly exploiting this tragedy, Bassan outlets eventually singled on the fact that a second cousin of a visiting Chinese professor at Cap Haitien State University (pictured) was scheduled to be on board the return flight from Singapore to Surabaya. The local angle was widely condemned as sensationalist by media watchdogs and politicians alike, as well as by the Bassan ambassador to Singapore and Indonesia.

Does anyone have a link to the Brazilian houses on this CJ entry ())? I have been unable to find but have heard rumors that they are on Simtropolis somewhere.

It's Polish.

Bassan fund manager Kreyol Bassa SA has concluded one of the largest European commercial property transactions of the year, simultaneously closing today (29 December) on thousands of units throughout the Nordic and Baltic countries. The units are mostly 1950s-1960s vintage and consist of a variety of high-rises, villas, townhouses, and mid rise buildings such as those in the Amager section of Copenhagen, Denmark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amager). The transaction is described as "a triumph" of Bassan social capitalism and as a less showy alternative to the equally-wealthy Gulf states who focus more on trophy assets. Kreyol Bassa has pledged to keep rent growth reasonable in these communities in spite of the blisteringly high rents common in major Nordic cities and will be lobbying for more mid-market rental construction in Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, and Finnish urban centers.

Nice. Are those the Queensbridge projects at the bottom, Hotwheeler ? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Queensbridge_Houses

In light of the nation's extremely high GDP and savings rate, Bassa has unveiled a EUR 100M stimulus plan aimed at shoring up European social democracies. Most notably, hundreds of miles of sidewalks/pavements and pedestrian malls have been refinished with calçada, a style of paving popular in Portugal and former Portuguese colonies like Brazil and Macau. This pavement was installed with a EUR 50M contract with a Portuguese builder and uses 50% Portuguese labour and 25% other European labour. In addition, Bassan leaders have increased promotion of community agriculture and started installing the new Portuguese pavement in a semi-agrarian part of Bassa city.

In addition to the prevalent Voodoo, most world religions are tolerated in Bassa. Clockwise from top left: Temple Bet Israel, Grandriver Krishna Mandir Hindu Society, Campo Roman Catholic Cathedral of St. Justin Martyr, San Pedro Guanyin Chinese Buddhist Pagoda, Bassa City First Methodist Church of Southern Bassa, Bassa City Masjid Loubnan (Lebanese Mosque), Bassa City Schnitzelkirke (German Lutheran Church), San Pedro

I was trying to imitate the great American artist Norman Rockwell:   norman rockwell

My first try using Imgur! http://imgur.com/X7bkAAh

May 2014: July 2014: September 2014: Today (December 2014): The theme is the same (no suburban sprawl, weird lovechild of Haiti/Cuba/Hong Kong/Scandinavia) but the aesthetics have improved a lot imo. edit: Here's a CBD comparison

FAR abuse and Imgur:

Mymyjp, Imgur is a hassle. It will be addressed in my next entry. :)

The Good: Bassa has inaugurated a new capital building. Designed in a tropical-colonial style, the new Parliament replaces the rickety old one seen in a prior post below. The Bad: Kurdish fighters retaking Sinjar from ISIS reportedly detained three former residents of San Pedro's notorious Eastside Homes. The three men, two French nationals who converted to Islam and one dual French-Moroccan, had taken advantage of Bassa's liberal visa laws to briefly work odd jobs. The Ugly: An American TV special, confusing Bassans with Cubans, mistakenly implied that baseball is the nation's preeminent sport. It is not. It is the Beautiful Game aka Soccer aka Association Football aka Footy. The TV special's footage even included a flyover of the South Shore Junglers FC's stadium in the intro!

The Republic of Bassa has entered into the ongoing hacking controversy around North Korea by formally denouncing popular photo-sharing website Imgur. The denunciation occurred after a government employee uploaded some tourism brochures to Imgur and then forgot the password, leading to him reportedly seeking out the same hackers who broke into Sony Pictures' emails and servers. The most important item lost was the shipping information for a 10' tall Norman Rockwell-inspired painting of Bassa City's most affluent suburbs. However, the employee eventually remembered the password and the painting has since been freed and will be placed in the Ministry of Tourism's offices. A segment of the oddly-shaped painting can be found below: