History Roleplay / CoalitionOfPonyistStates

%% * TheLostWoods: The Everfree Forest.

* LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters: True of quite a few [=NationStates=] roleplays. Though many [=RPs=] are sane enough to only involve a couple of major characters, this trope is taken to the extreme in larger roleplays involving more than two players (such as in the [=CoPS=], where you start to encounter dozens of players, each introducing multiple major characters and even more minor named characters).

* {{Adorkable}}: Many characters. Below are some prominent examples:
** [=Daffy Dill=]: her eccentric personality seems to not influence (or possibly be the reason for) a number of [[AccidentalPun plots]] regarding her "rescue" by a number of male characters.
** Derpy Hooves: her clumsiness, eccentricity, and love of muffins all appear to be the reason why the Church of Muffins worships her specifically as a prophetess.
%% ** Twilight Sparkle: this goes without saying.

''Not to be confused with Series/{{COPS}} (the live-action reality TV series) or WesternAnimation/{{COPS}} (the animated television series)''.

->''"[[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic My Little CoPS]]:Friendship is International Politics and the Constant Threat of Nuclear Annhilation"''

[[https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=148574 The Coalition of Ponyist States]] ([=CoPS=]) is an RP Group on the Website/NationStates forums. The nations in [=CoPS=] RP the existence of ponies, as seen in the TV Show WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic; however, these ponies have broken themselves out of the SugarBowl that they lived in, and have come into a world where they are face to face with the same challenges that humanity faces today, with others piled at their side.

The Coalition of Ponyist States was originally founded jointly on August 2, 2011 by Enatai and Urmanian. At this point, the idea of Pony based RP had only just begun. However, over time, the idea of the pony species living alongside humanity, and many previously other established species that inhabit [=NationStates=]. Roleplay slowly established the pony nations as a permanant fixture of [=NationStates=]. While in the beginning of [=CoPS=] history, the vast majority of storylines were dealing with nations that attempted to commit genocide on the pony species, [=CoPS=] RP has begun to switch over to interaction with other groups of Role Players, as well as gained a focus on developing the relations between the various nations of the Coalition.

In character:
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!!This Roleplay contains examples of:
* {{Adorkable}}: Many characters. Below are some prominent examples.

** Derpy Hooves: her clumsiness, eccentricity, and love of muffins all appear to be the reason why the Church of Muffins worships her specifically as a prophetess.

** [=YellowApple=] uses female pilots near-exclusively in recon fighters, since the cramped spaces are more suitable for a smaller female pilot than they are for a larger male pilot. The rest of the [=YellowApplan=] armed forces is quite male-dominated, however, even with pony personnel.
* AMillionIsAStatistic: Being a [=NationStates=] roleplay, quite common. Most nations care little for the lives of their people, even alleged democratic states are willing to throw their nation into war (even a nuclear one) regularly. Overlaps with EasyLogistics as armies of millions are sent thousands of kilometers on a semi-regular basis.

* AscendedExtra: Happens quite a bit when background characters from WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic are yanked into the [=NationStates=] universe(s) and given their own detailed storylines.

* ChildSoldiers: The age for enlistment in the 'Republic' is 14(2014) years old, their allies so far, have compensated the rising age of military consent with copious dakka.
* ChurchMilitant: The Shrill Crisis ran on this trope which when the theocratic government overturned the secular one and went on a crusade upon Crystal Spires. [[DivineIntervention the Pony Gods were not pleased]].

* CommissarCap: Multiple nation's players are ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' fans, and it shows in the hats that they give their troops to wear.

** Heaven help you if you decide to take on a unified [=CoPS=]. Though now a pony-killing regime is outright ignored [=OOCly=], in times past it would result in the entirety of the Coalition coming down upon a nation and, if not utterly destroying it, cripping it quite severely.

* FantasticRacism: Many humans find the existence of ponies distasteful. Reactions to them have ranged from denying the existince of ponies, to launching campaigns of mass genocide.

* FelonyMisdemeanor: The nation of Hippostania takes a very hard line against Communists, leftists, leftist-looking people, the colour red, alcohol, sex, sharing and more. And charity organizations. Don't forget charity organizations.

** The [=YellowApple, Inc. BitTrigger=] normally results in this for infantrystallions which use it, though it's capable of being "unlocked" so the attached rifle can be manipulated as if a humanoid were holding it, making this a subversion in some cases.

%% ** New Freedomstan gets applauded for playing this trope 'straight' with some of its Equine Research Stations.

* GirlOnGirlIsHot: Lesbianism and bisexuality among female characters is a recurring motif in many [=CoPS=] [=RPs=]. This may just be because the majority of players are male, and are not above writing their own {{Fanservice}}.

%% ** New Freedomstan and Imeriata, in different ways. Special mention goes to Equine Research Station #5.

* LastOfHisKind: Maven is the only living survivor of the Storkii [[spoiler:He was actually born as a genetic mutation of a White Phoenix which is why Zaiden Chose to Possess Maven]].

* MadeOfIron: Chancellor Maven Auryn of Crystal Spires seems to have a proclivity towards getting shot by everything from AAA shells to standard bullets, and living. Averted and played straight. Maven has suffers permanent damage from some of these attempts on his life, but he believes to show weakness would be fatal because Crystal Spires is a DeathWorld which showing such weakness would be fatal, so he pretends nothing is wrong, and goes to work. [[spoiler:Furthermore he is kept alive by the parasitic immortal being Zaiden]].
%% * MagicAIsMagicA: Pony magic is governed by a number of rules - both scientific and logical - in reflection of magic as used in the WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic canon.
* MenAreTheExpendableGender: Happens quite often; males are more likely to be physically injured and/or killed than females in most combat-oriented [=RPs=]. Ties in quite a bit with MenAreGenericWomenAreSpecial, given that WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic is already female-oriented, leading to the [=CoPS=] naturally following in its footsteps. There are numerous subversions and aversions, of course (this being [=NationStates=], but numerous instances of the trope being played straight as well.
* MinovskyPhysics: Pony "magic" is quickly becoming this if it hasn't already (rather than being AppliedPhlebotinum or HandWave), with loads and loads of scientific concepts coming into play - including quantum physics (unicorn magic / pegasus flight / grabbing things with hooves), neuroscience (cutie marks / cutie pox), genetics engineering and evolution (how ''Equus sapiens'' came to be), nanorobotics (the Smooze), and many other topics - in order to make for a believable concept rather than rely on WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief. Other players just say AWizardDidIt and don't go into details.

* OurWormholesAreDifferent: In the sense that [=YellowApplan=] wormholes are created and stabilized via the use of physics-bending (specifically, the manipulation of negative energy densities to create localized regions of negative mass to achieve all kinds of things) reverse-engineered from unicorn magic. See OurTimeTravelIsDifferent above.

* ThePoliticalOfficer: New Freedomstan uses Commissars of the, "Cowards and traitors will be SHOT!" variety, although actual field-executions are rare (outside of the Penal Divisions). Their purpose is mostly about maintaining civilian power over the armed forces, however, with morale being the secondary priority.

* RetiredBadass: The RRUO used to be a really active enforcer of anti-slaver actions, to the point of sending Armada ships into international waters. Since then, there's been a coup, the reign of [[TheGeneralissimo a dictator]], a [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized a gruesome civil war]], and a quite inept interim government. Now, the RRUO would much rather mind its own business and be busy with growing a flower garden than a war overseas, but if you attack or start to beat another nation in the [=CoPS=] (Except Lubyak and Crystal Spires), Orlkjestad would be glad to pull a NeutralNoLonger, and if you attack the RRUO itself, even just a single speck of sand on the most worthless island in the nation, [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant may God/Celestia have]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge mercy on]] [[ThisMeansWar your soul]]. And, to add to all this, President Leon Palantine [[BackInTheSaddle is working on]] [[InHarmsWay changing this status]].

* SchizoTech: Like the universe of WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic, the [=CoPS=] has a variety of technologies that normally wouldn't accompany one another. This is especially prevalent when comparing nations that generally play the source material's technology relatively straight (such as the Greater Pony Herd) against nations which are significantly advanced technologically and typically will not implement "past-tech" technologies (such as [=YellowApple=]). Similarly, not all players use the same approach of validating pony "magic"; while the players behind Princess Luna and Crystal Spires, for example, stay toward the "magical" end of the explanation spectrum, others - such as the players behind [=YellowApple=] and Behntasha - go for the "scientific" end.
* UnconventionalFormatting: Several players use different font characteristics in their posts for various purposes.

* AngstWhatAngst: Despite Maven's horrific life and status as a ChewToy, he tends to be strangely between determined courage and upbeat and cheerful.

% ** Zaiden Illusory attacks as well.

5% * HordeOfAlienLocusts: Parasprites. Especially Greater Pony Herd weaponized parasprites.

** Twilight Sparkle: this goes without saying.

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation / YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Ponies. Most have two colors: mane/tail and body. Said two-color schemes range from relatively mundane (earth-tones with the possibility of a more vibrant mane/tail) to seemingly unnatural.
* AmazonBrigade: Happens quite a bit with pony armies; though subverted or averted entirely in many cases, a large number of pony characters tend to be female, and this will occasionally be reflected in military scenarios.
** Any nation which [=RPs=] with ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' will have this by default.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: Being a [=NationStates=] roleplay, quite common. Most nations care little for the lives of their people, even alleged democratic states are willing to throw their nation into war (even a nuclear one) regularily. Overlaps with EasyLogistics as armies of millions are sent thousands of kilometers on a semi-regular basis.
* AntiquatedLinguistics: Imeriata and Crystal Spires among others (but especially Imeriata).

* CrapsaccharineWorld: Every single [=CoPS=] state AND HOW is an Understatement.

* CrystalSpiresAndTogas:
** Most nations that exist in the region of Mystria fall into this trope, at least in visual style.
** The Beastling States of Crystal Spires even has this in their name, and plays it straight.

* EightiesHair / AnimeHair: Female ponies have bizarre hairstyles sometimes. The [=CoPS=] is no exception.

* ForTheEvulz:
** Basically what the majority of pony-killing/enslaving/maiming/hating "in-character" threads boil down to, considering that the justifications tend to be strawman arguments at best. Some anti-pony players are starting to formulate more legitimate reasons to be anti-pony, but the majority continue to fall quite painfully into this trope.
** New Freedomstan gets applauded for playing this trope 'straight' with some of its Equine Research Stations.

* FriendlyEnemy there are a number of tense relationships between different pairs of nations. [[FireForgedFriends Some have been resolved]], but not all.
** Greater Pony Herd v. Lubyak. Nearly escalated to nuclear war, and discussion of potential nuclear exchange still continues. A non-canonical RP does exist detailing the events of such a war were it to have actually occurred.
** Hippostania v. every nation remotely left-leaning. Hippostania's repeated oppression of any ideology short of center-right has often made it the target of political disdain from much of the rest of the [=CoPS=]. This is compounded by the accusations that the pony population - despite being a numerical minority - possesses power over the human majority, given that a proportionately small number of humans actually hold positions of significant political power (though some do).
*** In fact, OOC attitude problems with the player behind Hippostania over this issue and other RP-related disagreements have recently led the [=CoPS=] to remove Hippostania from the alliance and roleplay a nuclear attack against it.

* GreyGoo: The Smooze.
* HordeOfAlienLocusts: Parasprites. Especially Greater Pony Herd weaponized parasprites.

** New Freedomstan and Imeriata, in different ways. Special mention goes to Equine Research Station #5.

* HobbesWasRight: The Dominion of the Lubyak RUNS on this trope. It has led to more than one conflict with other states.
* HollywoodEncryption:
** Most "encrypted" communiques are merely specified to be encrypted, instead of actual details on the encryption method used. This is mostly to HandWave very-hard-to-decrypt messages, since providing a real-life encryption method/algorithm would allow more tech-saavy players an advantage in explaining how they'd decrypt the message.
** Crystal Spires averts this trope by ''actually encrypting'' messages.
* {{Joisey}}: The Reformed Republican Union of Orlkjestad is portrayed as the first form, complete with Armani suits.

* TheLostWoods: The Everfree Forest.
* MagicAIsMagicA: Pony magic is governed by a number of rules - both scientific and logical - in reflection of magic as used in the WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic canon. See MinovskyPhysics below for more details on the science portion of this.

* NukeEm: Standard threat of many nations in many situations. Rarely used.

* OurPresidentsAreDifferent
** President Leon Palantine of the RRUO is of the President Iron variety, with a little bit of President Jerkass thrown in for good measure.

* PhysicalGod:
** Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.
** [=YellowApple=]'s Fostera Manzano may eventually fit this trope as well, though to a lesser extent.
* PhysicalReligion: Ponyism is one, considering that Luna and Celestia actually exist in [=CoPS=] canon. Mystrian Pandeism is another, [[UnreliableNarrator but it's not how it written in the Holy Codices.]]

** Maven Auryn's magic.
* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld:
** Luna and Celestia fit this trope to the letter, except that they're older than that.
** [=YellowApple=]'s Administrator Amarillo Manzano is somewhere between this and standard OlderThanTheyLook. Future Administrator Fostera "Frankie" Manzano, being an alicorn like Luna and Celestia, is also expected to fill this trope.
** Chancellor Maven Auryn of Crystal Spires is well over a thousand, and still going strong.

* SealedEvilInACan: Discord. Death Wise. Zaiden. The list goes on.

** The Schizo Tech has led to a new classification of technology, 'Pony Tech' has begun to be implemented, which attempts to combine the magic inherent in ponies and modern technology.
** Made even worse (or better?) by the presence of many nations from the Roleplay/StrikeWitchesTwentyTwelve RP, bringing 'SchizoTech' to a full new meaning.
* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Individual nations fall everywhere along this spectrum from WideEyedIdealist to AppealToForce.

* UtopiaJustifiesTheMeans:
** C'tan and Menelmacar slaughter millions in the name of putting an end to slavery.
** New Freedomstan claims to be this. YMMV wether they are or not.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity:
** Averted with Princess Luna and Princess Celestia, but played terrifyingly straight with Discord and (at least in the context of political power) Lyra.
** Administrator Amarillo Manzano subverted. He was thought to be, but ultimately was more benign than typical examples of this trope.

* YourMindMakesItReal:
** Used once upon a time by anti-pony factions to degrade the Ponyist movement explaining that ponies don't actually exist but are merely hallucinations and/or psychological constructs, and that perceiving their existence and/or perceiving oneself to ''be'' a pony is indicative of psychological illness.
** Zaiden Illusory attacks as well.

The Coalition of Ponyist States ([=CoPS=]) is an RP Group on the Website/NationStates forums. The nations in [=CoPS=] RP the existence of ponies, as seen in the TV Show WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic; however, these ponies have broken themselves out of the SugarBowl that they lived in, and have come into a world where they are face to face with the same challenges that humanity faces today, with others piled at their side.

* AltumVidetur: The [=YellowApplan=]-made aerospace platforms defending [=HideaBerry=] Island are named after the Latin translations of the Elements of Harmony.

** The Corporate Man in his interactions with The Lunar Domain.

The Coalition of Ponyist States ([=CoPS=]) is an RP Group on the NationStates forums. The nations in [=CoPS=] RP the existence of ponies, as seen in the TV Show WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic; however, these ponies have broken themselves out of the SugarBowl that they lived in, and have come into a world where they are face to face with the same challenges that humanity faces today, with others piled at their side.

The Coalition of Ponyist States was originally founded jointly on August 2, 2011 by Enatai and Urmanian. At this point, the idea of Pony based RP had only just begun. However, over time, the idea of the pony species living alongside humanity, and many previously other established species that inhabit NationStates. Roleplay slowly established the pony nations as a permanant fixture of NationStates. While in the beginning of [=CoPS=] history, the vast majority of storylines were dealing with nations that attempted to commit genocide on the pony species, [=CoPS=] RP has begun to switch over to interaction with other groups of Role Players, as well as gained a focus on developing the relations between the various nations of the Coalition.

The origin of the Pony species is shrouded in mystery. Some say that they evolved the same way as humans, while other say the Regal Sisters--Celestia and Luna--created the ponies in their own image. Whatever the reason, the races of ponies have spread across the world, and now live alongside humans, elves, saurians, and all other forms of life that inhabit the NationStates world.

* AMillionIsAStatistic: Being a NationStates roleplay, quite common. Most nations care little for the lives of their people, even alleged democratic states are willing to throw their nation into war (even a nuclear one) regularily. Overlaps with EasyLogistics as armies of millions are sent thousands of kilometers on a semi-regular basis.

** Made even worse (or better?) by the presence of many nations from the StrikeWitchesTwentyTwelve RP, bringing 'SchizoTech' to a full new meaning.

** Any nation which [=RPs=] with StrikeWitches will have this by default.

* AmazingTechnicolorPopulation / YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Ponies. Most have two colors: main/tail and body. Said two-color schemes range from relatively mundane (earth-tones with the possibility of a more vibrant mane/tail) to seemingly unnatural.

** Lubyakan and Orussian assault guns also take this approach, mounting a single cannon ForMassiveDamage.

** The player behind [=YellowApple=] uses preformatted text to indicate radio chatter. His use of "[=YellowApplan=]" grammatical/punctuation/spelling rules in spoken text also partially fits this trope, as it's often used as an indication that the speaker is speaking in YellowApplan English.

** The Corporate Man in his interactions with The Lunar Domain

** [=DaffyDill=]: her eccentric personality seems to not influence (or possibly be the reason for) a number of [[AccidentalPun plots]] regarding her "rescue" by a number of male characters.

* AirborneAircraftCarrier: Multiple nations have airborne aircraft carriers (and battleships!) justified through the use of [[Magitek]] or very vague scientific explanations of quantum physics and atmospheric buoyancy.

The Coalition of Ponyist States was originally founded jointly on August 2, 2011 by Enatai and Urmanian. At this point, the idea of Pony based RP had only just begun. However, over time, the idea of the pony species living alongside humanity, and many previously other established species that inhabit NationStates. Roleplay slowly established the pony nations as a permanant fixture of NationStates. While in the beginning of Co PS history, the vast majority of storylines were dealing with nations that attempted to commit genocide on the pony species, Co PS RP has begun to switch over to interaction with other groups of Role Players, as well as gained a focus on developing the relations between the various nations of the Coalition.

** [=YellowApple=] is famous for stepping in the way of the rest of the [=CoPS=] in their attempts to exterminate entire civilizations for crimes of a minority population thereof. CrystalSpires does the same due to laws in Forntian Idealism.

* JustForPun: Half the city names. Moosecow, Yecanterinburg, Flankfurt...YMMV if JustForPun or IncrediblyLamePun

** Averted quite hard with the Greater Pony Herd, as evidenced with the lack of hesitation in slaughtering men, women, and children alike solely to make an example out of a nation.

* SlidingScaleOfIdealismVersusCynicism: Individual nations fall everywhere along this spectrum from WideEyedIdealist to ScrewTheRulesIHaveANuke.

* CrapsaccharineWorld: Every single CoPS state AND HOW is an Understatement.

* RetiredBadass: The RRUO used to be a really active enforcer of anti-slaver actions, to the point of sending Armada ships into international waters. Since then, there's been a coup, the reign of [[TheGeneralissimo a dictator]], a [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized a gruesome civil war]], and a quite inept interim government. Now, the RRUO would much rather mind its own business and be busy with growing a flower garden than a war overseas, but if you attack or start to beat another nation in the CoPS (Except Lubyak and Crystal Spires), Orlkjestad would be glad to pull a NeutralNoLonger, and if you attack the RRUO itself, even just a single speck of sand on the most worthless island in the nation, [[AwakeningTheSleepingGiant may God/Celestia have]] [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge mercy on]] [[ThisMeansWar your soul]]. And, to add to all this, President Leon Palantine [[BackInTheSaddle is working on]] [[InHarmsWay changing this status]].

* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Even though Coalition RPs tend to be darker and more grim than anything seen on the show, these are still nations inhabited with pastel colored ponies at heart, and there are many characters that can be described as 'D'AWWWW'.