Coalition of Ponyist States

""My Little CoPS:Friendship is International Politics and the Constant Threat of Nuclear Annhilation""

Not to be confused with Cops (series) (the live-action reality TV series) or COPS (the animated television series).

The Coalition of Ponyist States (CoPS) is an RP Group on the Nation States forums. The nations in CoPS RP the existence of ponies, as seen in the TV Show My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic; however, these ponies have broken themselves out of the Sugar Bowl 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 Nation States. Roleplay slowly established the pony nations as a permanant fixture of Nation States. 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.

In character:

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 Nation States world.

The pony species Equus sapiens is divided into three subspecies-- all of which can interbreed freely.


 * Earth Ponies (Equus sapiens terrestris) till the land, and their skills help to nurture the soil to produce bountiful crops.
 * Pegasus Ponies (Equus sapiens volaticus) who control the weather and fly in the sky
 * Unicorn Ponies (Equus sapiens rinocerotis) who can perform magical abilities such as telekinesis.

Perhaps Ponyism's hat is their universal devotion to the 'Elements of Harmony'. Just like in Real Life while almost all ponies and ponyists agree on the existence and names of the Elements of Harmony, anything beyond that is open to debate.

This Roleplay contains examples of:

 * Adorkable: Many characters. Below are some prominent examples.
 * DaffyDill: her eccentric personality seems to not influence (or possibly be the reason for) a number of plots regarding her "rescue" by a number of male characters.
 * Twilight Sparkle: this goes without saying.
 * 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.
 * Airborne Aircraft Carrier: 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.
 * Alike and Antithetical Adversaries: Specifically, the "Heterogenous Heroes vs. Homogenous Villains" variety; while the member nations/players of the CoPS are actually quite diverse in their IC implementations - ranging from far-left to far-right (and quite literally everything in between) to even corporatocracies and anarchies, with a wide variety of political structures - the anti-pony alliances opposing the CoPS tend to be rather homogenous, with nearly all members being totalitarian regimes of either the communist or fascist varieties.
 * Altum Videtur: The YellowApplan-made aerospace platforms defending HideaBerry Island are named after the Latin translations of the Elements of Harmony.
 * Amazing Technicolor Population / You Gotta Have Blue Hair: 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.
 * Amazon Brigade: 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 Strike Witches will have this by default.
 * 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.
 * A Million Is a Statistic: Being a Nation States 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 Easy Logistics as armies of millions are sent thousands of kilometers on a semi-regular basis.
 * Antiquated Linguistics: Imeriata and Crystal Spires among others (but especially Imeriata).
 * Ascended Extra: Happens quite a bit when background characters from My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic are yanked into the NationStates universe(s) and given their own detailed storylines.
 * Catgirl: Many nations have such residents, Ponyist nations included. YellowApple calls them Homo sapiens felis, and regards them to be a subspecies of Homo sapiens.
 * Church Militant: The Shrill Crisis ran on this trope which when the theocratic government overturned the secular one and went on a crusade upon Crystal Spires. the Pony Gods were not pleased.
 * Crap Saccharine World: Every single Cops (series) state AND HOW is an Understatement.
 * Commissar Cap: Multiple nation's players are Warhammer 40000 fans, and it shows in the hats that they give their troops to wear.
 * Crystal Spires and Togas: 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.
 * Curb Stomp Battle: 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.
 * Fantoa's pony genocide was met with a joint invasion by YellowApple and the Holy Marsh culminating in YellowApplan martial law until a non-genocidal and pro-Ponyist government was instated.
 * The TurtleShroomian Dark Harvest was met by an invasion by none other than C'Tan. However, in contrast to other examples of this trope, the TurtleShroomers launched a nuclear-equipped Saturn V rocket at the C'Tani invasion force, which - although certainly not doing much real damage - prompted the C'Tani invaders to retreat momentarily, though not without the defending forces having already been annihilated.
 * Eighties Hair / Anime Hair: Female ponies have bizarre hairstyles sometimes. The CoPS is no exception.
 * Fantastic Racism: 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.
 * Fantasy Kitchen Sink: Given the existence of magic (or a scientific explanation thereof) throughout the CoPS, this trope tends to run rampant in CoPS RPs, which may involve anything from saccharine magical ponies to all-consuming grey goo to Satan incarnate and everything in between.
 * Fixed Forward-Facing Weapon: 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.
 * Lubyakan and Orussian assault guns also take this approach, mounting a single cannon For Massive Damage.
 * For the Evulz: 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.
 * Full-Frontal Assault: Many ponies "don't normally wear clothes", and thus will fill this trope when they fight as such, though not exactly for the same reasons as most other examples of the trope do.
 * Friendly Enemy there are a number of tense relationships between different pairs of nations. 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).
 * Fun with Acronyms: GHEYSECS, an acronym standing for the members of one of two sub-alliances of the CoPS (Greater Pony Herd, Hippostania, Enatai, YellowApple, Shrilland (?), Earth Sphere Coalition, Crystal Spires).
 * Girl-On-Girl Is Hot: 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 Fan Service.
 * Grey Goo: The Smooze.
 * Horde of Alien Locusts: Parasprites. Especially Greater Pony Herd weaponized parasprites.
 * Humans Are Bastards: New Freedomstan and Imeriata, in different ways. Special mention goes to Equine Research Station #5.
 * Not to mention much of the general reaction from human nations towards the Coalition of Ponyist States, most who seem to do it for Out Of Character reasons.
 * Averted by many of the members of the Coalition of Ponyist States having human-majority populations; nations with pony majorities are actually few in number.
 * Hobbes Was Right: The Dominion of the Lubyak RUNS on this trope. It has led to more than one conflict with other states.
 * Hollywood Encryption: Most "encrypted" communiques are merely specified to be encrypted, instead of actual details on the encryption method used. This is mostly to Hand Wave 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.
 * Just for Pun: Half the city names. Moosecow, Yecanterinburg, Flankfurt...YMMV if Just for Pun or Incredibly Lame Pun
 * Loads and Loads of Characters: 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).
 * The Lost Woods: The Everfree Forest.
 * Magic A Is Magic A: Pony magic is governed by a number of rules - both scientific and logical - in reflection of magic as used in the My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic canon. See Minovsky Physics below for more details on the science portion of this.
 * Men Are the Expendable Gender: 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 Men Are Generic, Women Are Special, given that My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic 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.
 * Minovsky Physics: Pony "magic" is quickly becoming this if it hasn't already (rather than being Applied Phlebotinum or Hand Wave), 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 Willing Suspension of Disbelief.
 * Other players just say A Wizard Did It and don't go into details.
 * Nuke'Em: Standard threat of many nations in many situations. Rarely used.
 * Omnidisciplinary Scientist: Like in many works of fiction, scientists RPed by the CoPS and the players thereof have a tendency to be proficient in a variety of mostly-unrelated disciplines, resulting in either this trope or Renaissance Man.
 * Our Presidents Are Different
 * President Leon Palantine of the RRUO is of the President Iron variety, with a little bit of President Jerkass thrown in for good measure.
 * Peace and Love Incorporated: YellowApple, Inc. However, unlike others examples of this trope, YellowApple actually does adhere to all six of the Elements of Harmony, rather than merely pretend to.
 * Physical God: Princess Celestia and Princess Luna.
 * YellowApple's Fostera Manzano may eventually fit this trope as well, though to a lesser extent.
 * Physical Religion: Ponyism is one, considering that Luna and Celestia actually exist in CoPS canon. Mystrian Pandeism is another, but it's not how it written in the Holy Codices.
 * The Political Officer: 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.
 * Principles Zealot: The Beastling State of Crystal Spires, and their leader, Maven Auryn, tend to stick to their principles even at the cost of starting a major war, and/or being invaded.
 * Reality Warper: There are several:
 * Discord, known for bending reality to create a world of chaos.
 * Pinkie Pie, known for Breaking the Fourth Wall regularly for her own personal enjoyment, for lack of a better motive.
 * Maven Auryn's magic.
 * Really Seven Hundred Years Old: 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 Older Than They Look. 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.
 * Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Averted by Saurisia, which is pro-pony and many Spirean Citizens who are also devoted to Sapient rights.
 * Retired Badass: 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 a dictator, a 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 (series) (Except Lubyak and Crystal Spires), Orlkjestad would be glad to pull a Neutral No Longer, and if you attack the RRUO itself, even just a single speck of sand on the most worthless island in the nation, may God/Celestia have mercy on your soul. And, to add to all this, President Leon Palantine is working on changing this status.
 * Ridiculously Cute Critter: Even though Coalition R Ps 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'.
 * Sealed Evil in a Can: Discord. Death Wise. Zaiden. The list goes on.
 * Slave Liberation: Became a major point of contention in rivalry between Imeriata and other pony nations which eventually lead to them leaving when many of the members signed the Amistad Declaration, which declared a state of war against all slaver nations.
 * Yellow Apple also managed a massive liberation in an impressive manner which nearly put itself into bankruptcy to atone itself for its prior life as a slaver nation.
 * Schizo-Tech: Like the universe of My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic, the Cops (series) 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.
 * 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 Strike Witches Twenty Twelve RP, bringing 'Schizo-Tech' to a full new meaning.
 * Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: Individual nations fall everywhere along this spectrum from Wide-Eyed Idealist to Screw the Rules, I Have a Nuke.
 * Unconventional Formatting: Several players use different font characteristics in their posts for various purposes.
 * 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 Yellow Applan English.
 * Tailed Wind Demons assigns text colors to characters for use in their speech.
 * Utopia Justifies the Means: 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.
 * We ARE Struggling Together!: The Coalition claims to be an 'alliance'. However, more often than not the energies of the various nations are directed less at supporting ponyism around the world, and more at sniping at fellow Coalition states. However, when something gets the entire Coalition to band together, the results are terrifying indeed.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Awesome?: The nations of Karlsland, Orussia, and Austria-Bohemia-Hungary often RP with the Coalition. They posess Witches. No more needs to be said.
 * Not to mention Muffinvania. Who runs a muffins based economy.
 * What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?: 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.
 * With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: 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.
 * Would Not Shoot a Civilian: 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. Crystal Spires does the same due to laws in Forntian Idealism.
 * 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.
 * Your Mind Makes It Real: 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.