- Why would Red Rainbow defend 680 million people?
I don't remember it being the only defender of all of Nausikkak, as far as I know some of Atomic's countries may also have military. But it would because it is like division of work on an international scale. Blaist Blaland supports Red Rainbow with food, technology and other supplies, in return for military protection. They don't give the protection for free but mutual benefit.
How can they logistically defend 680 million people from two different continents across millions and millions of square kilometers? Are they actually militarily capable of defending 680 million people from a foreign invader?
I haven't sorted out the details, but I didn't intend it to be the sole protector of the entire continent. Red Rainbow may have around 5-8 million soldiers probably. I may create a military for Blaist Blaland if there's tensions in the project (so far it was my impression there weren't big threats to Nausikkak and that it was a rather peaceful place, and therefore a large military being unnecessary).
- Is Red Rainbow capable of the logistics required to obliterate a smaller country potentially tens of thousands of kilometers away in the name of gay rights? Seems very expensive.
Yes, via nuclear missiles.
- Why do they care so much about homosexuality?
Because I care a lot about it and I designed the country to reflect some of my ideas at the time
Do they also care with such a passion about other civil rights like gender equality, for example?
Red Rainbow supports gender equality and race equality but it was a gay (communist) revolution that took over the country and that's what is its main focus. So no.
- Who lives in Red Rainbow? Is it made up of mostly heterosexual people like the rest of the world?
Probably, yes, there may be a higher fraction of LGB people due to migration, but I haven't considered that in details.
- Red Rainbow comes across to me as your personal utopia for gay rights, which doesn't really fit in with the rest of Universalis.
So? Is this something I'm supposed to consider?
- Like Solea, whenever I read the wiki page on Blaist Blaland, it's very one dimensional (like a Utopia) with everything being very clean, efficient and equal. What are the downsides to Blaist Blaland?
In Blaist Blaland, luxuries and consumerism is scarse. There's not a lot of individualism, which some would view as a downside - there's no luxury clothes, the clothes are very standardized. So are cars, houses, food products, computers, phones, TVs, etc. Some people would view it as a downside not having a choice between lots of different products. There aren't people living in large mansions with 10 swimming pools and so on. Some people would also find the policies on some issues, like alcohol ban, candy ban, smoking ban, to be limiting freedom. So overall I wouldn't call it an perfect utopia, but rather a place where I put some principles, like socialism, collectivism, rationalism and so on, above freedom (in some cases) and opportunity to become a lot richer than the rest (though there still is some) and variation in products.
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