I'm sure that, among all the geeks, there are a number of gamers. And among the gamers, are a number of war-gamers. So, I'm counting on a fair number of well-reasoned and strategically-sound replies.

It's been a bit of a running joke among a few of us regulars that the political conditions in the US are getting to the point they're too much to tolerate, and we need to find an alternative. I've suggested this very rational option: We invade Nova Scotia.

I mean.... it's Nova Scotia, nobody's going to miss it, right?

So... given a small army of geeks (with all their strengths and weaknesses), how would we go about invading Novia Scotia and turning it into the Sovereign Nation of Geekdom?

I'd considered just walking up to the capitol building with a wheel of cheese and a case of Labatt's and saying "What about we trade, eh?" But I'm not sure if that would work.

We don't want your American cooties here--go invade Scotland or something :)

Seriously, I think you should consider moving out of the States. Things are gonna explode there so soon unless they don't.

a) Scotland is too far away
b) The Scots are mean buggers and would actually put up a fight.

While this whole "invade Nova Scotia" thing is in response to where my country is headed, the serious side is that I don't want to leave my country. I want to fix my country. It's my country, and I'm going to put up a fight before I'll let it turn into a theocracy. People that move away without a fight when things get bad get nothing but my disdain.

So anyway... what would we need to invade Nova Scotia?

"Maybe there is oil in Nova Scotia?"

Just a tad north or' da water.

The field consists principally of two early Cretaceous reservoirs - Hibernia and Avalon - located at average depths of 3700m and 2400m, respectively. Hibernia oil is a light sweet crude, with a density of about 32° to 34° API and a sulphur content, by weight, of 0.4-0.6%. The field contains approximately three billion barrels of oil in-place, and recoverable reserves are estimated to be at around 615 million bbl.

http://www.hibernia.ca/index2.html

It ain't the tar sands; but it ain't bad.

What would you need to invade Nova Scotia?

I suggest sending sleeper agents, and believe me the pun is intended, into the universities of Nova Scotia not only to learn about the culture by participating in large, many-kegged beer parties, using only REAL beer, none of that filth that you silly lot would describe as a social drink, but also to enjoy the company of the multitude of young women attending those universities, specifically with regards to screwing their brains out.

By doing so, you shake the foundations of citizen loyalty to strictly Canadian stock, and also begin to breed us Canucks out of existence.

BE WARNED THOUGH!!!!!!

Nova Scotia has a LARGE French speaking population, so in order to succeed in this, and given your country's views on the French culture, you really would have to sell your very souls to follow through with this despicable travesty of foreign conjugal relations.

Raven

Plain and simple, I don't do cold weather.

Yanks could never invade Nova Scotia.

We would simply leave a large quantity of Keith's Beer (Real Beer - unlike that fake-watered-down American beer) at the border and then wait for the invaders to all fall over drunk before we loaded them on a ship and sent them to Cuba!

No no no no. I'm not talking about the US invading Nova Scotia and making it part of the US. As I stated in the initial post, I'm talking about a bunch of geeks from around the world invading Nova Scotia and declaring it a free and sovreign nation.

It's about *leaving* the US and setting up our own country where we get to make the rules.

Nova Scotia is too cold. Now, Bocca Ratone, on the other hand.

I seriously think we need to take a nice equatorial island. And move around only at night.

Oops... Okay, no problem. Oh, BTW, that "thing" should be arriving by tomorrow. Double check the flight paths and let me know.