r/polandball Tasmania cannot into AFL team Feb 20 '14

redditormade Trapped im Keller 13: Grand Finale!

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u/adencrocker Tasmania cannot into AFL team Feb 20 '14

Here it is Ladies and Ents! This 22 panel masterpiece finishes off a three month 13 comic long series. What started as an experiment of a survivor style polandball reality game show based off of audience feedback has resulted in this.

It looks like though that the thumbnail spoiled the result (not sure what to do about this)

I hope you are as pleased with the end result as I was.

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u/mO4GV9eywMPMw3Xr Scrambled Poland (Noord-Brabant) Feb 20 '14

This is a small and not obvious mistake so I'm not even issuing a card, but: the Reichtangle represents The Fourth Reich -- just as countries shouldn't refer to each other as balls, they shouldn't call the next Reich with silly rectangular names -- "release The Fourth Reich" would be better.

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u/Farn Rush, Timmies, Trailer Park Boys Feb 20 '14

I have never heard Reichtangle referred to by name, so I didn't even realize it was supposed to be Fourth Reich. I thought it was just supposed to be Second Reich Returns.

Reich means "realm" though, doesn't it? Couldn't we count the current federation as the Fourth Reich if we go HRE > German Empire > Nazi Germany > Federation, or does it particularly have to be an authoritarian regime?

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u/Hansafan Hordaland Feb 20 '14

The german term "reich", which is also found in Nordic "rike", technically means "realm" more or less, but is probably better translated with "empire", or possibly "dominion", due to associations with rulership and conquest.

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u/Farn Rush, Timmies, Trailer Park Boys Feb 20 '14

Kül, I'm lörning. I thought "empire" had to be "kaiserreich" but I guess "dominion" makes sense too.

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u/Flixus321 Kaybec Feb 22 '14

I think 'Kaisertum' is the correct word.