Hmm, that's a new one - most people ask me something like '...wow, is that named after a radio station somewhere? Are you from Syracuse (New York) or Midland (Texas)?' The answer to all of that is no, although I have listened to both of those radio stations online and I'm a radio freak that once wanted to be on the air as a DJ.
Actually, among being one of my favorite bus routes (which is about to be cancelled - shame on http://trimet.org/!), "95X" (which is now just "95") is the bus route I was riding at 10:05 AM Eastern Time on 9-11-2001. Obviously, I wasn't paying attention to what actual bus I was riding that morning, I think it was one of their at-least 10-year old Flixibles (think that's how its spelled).
The story of 95X goes like this: I wanted another nation - one that would be a little more business-oriented and espically public transit oriented, and was thinking about naming it either after TriMet or the neighboring transit district in Clark County, Washington, http://c-tran.com/. I decided not to when I thought 'what if they complain?,' and the game mods deleted all my nations. So, I decided to name it for the reasons in the above paragraph.
When I created 95X, I claimed it was a breakaway republic of Scottfire, which at the time was something like "Psychotic Dictatorship." Decisionmaking in 95X drove it to where it is today, and I once announced that, since 95X is corporate-controlled, it "bought" Scottfire outright, resulting in a name change from "...Dictatorship..." to "...Provincial Dictatorship...." Scottfire's motto read "A Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Corp. of 95X" until I moved it here to AO, where I have since changed it.
It's OK, I can live with it, and, more importantly, you're the boss of the region (and control the buttons marked "eject" and "ban"), and it's not like this is the only region in NationStates. |