Luniana (NSC)

Although Luniana has a rich history, it was not untill recently that the country became a member of the NSC family. Luniana does not have the privilege to be allowed to enter every NSC, but is 4th in row to become a full nation in the NSC family.

= Press conference = On Friday August 3rd, TRL/ТРЛ held a press conference about their decision to enter the NSC. Because the country is not really rich it took a while before the decision had been made to enter the NSC, but once made they held a press conference immediately (which was right before midnight, UTC+2). Below is the text of the Lunian presentation that day. The original text can be found here, including all best wishes of all countries.

Welcome everybody to the new country of Luniana!

A message from the Television Radio Luniana (TRL), broadcasting live from the capital of Henialoz. "The TRL received an invitation from Belvist to join the NSC. Our country Luniana is really enthusiastic about this kind invitation and our country - although a small country - is willing to enter! The citizens of Luniana are really eager to show the rest of the world how great their country is and can be and we are ready to face the challenges of the NSC. Thereby Luniana is willing to enter the NSC and the NSC:NF!"

To let all countries get acquainted with Luniana we present our flag and some facts about our wonderful country!

The country (#citizens 2,291,490) consists of 8 geographical areas where ancient tribes used to live (symbolized by the bluegreen wheel). Nowadays the country is divided into 5 provinces (Titan, Iapetus, Rhea, Tethys, and Dione) which are pretty autonomous, symbolized by the red star. The capital is Henialioz (symbolized by the sun, #citizens 498,201) which is located in the northern part of Titan (Титан) - the only province which uses the cyrillic alphabet - and their football team (American football, no soccer) is the best of the country. The seat of the government, the country is reigned by an emperor - traditionally the strongest king of the ancient tribes, is in Staniar (#citizens 427,837), a sea port at the northeastern part of Rhea. The national broadcaster TRL is broadcasting from Lineniaae (#citizens 227,902) from the Western part of Dione, incorporating 4 national channels including one in the local dialect of Iapetus. To complete the meaning of the flag: the 4-pointed green star symbolizes the importance of the sea to Luniana, where a lot of seals live which are very important for the tourism in the wonderful and beautiful country of Luniana!

= Nation Song Contest = Due to technical difficulties Luniana was unable to broadcast NSC9 to its citizens, but the country was happy with the decision of TRL/ТРЛ to join the NSC.

NSC X
Since Luniana is a relatively poor country, TRL/ТРЛ decided to have an internal selection instead of a National Final. The Lunian broadcaster asked Snow Patrol to represent the country with the beautiful song Chasing Cars. Snow Patrol was honored and thereby debuted at the NSC. First, Luniana had to go to Belvist for the Microstate Prequalification. The whole country celebrated when it was announced that Luniana would be present at NSC X. Unfortunately, Luniana just missed out on qualification to the final with its 15th place, only 4 points behind the number 14.

During the final something really strange happened! After 4 minutes of voting it was clear which countries would get the Lunian points, but after another 3 minutes some countries got many more votes! The TRL/ТРЛ is investigating how this happened, we expect some trouble with the voting lines. We keep you posted. The Lunianoz Ontrovi Choshchuwa (Luniana Independent Times) held a poll in Luniana about who they think will win:
 * 34% Streets ET
 * 26% Effiland
 * 18% Comino
 * 13% Mooseland
 * 9% Halito when it is their birthday

Also, 47% of the Lunians is unhappy with the 15th place of Luniana and decided not to buy any foreign products anymore.

NSC 11 and beyond
Due to the financial distress at TRL/ТРЛ it is not likely that a NF will be organized in the near future. For NSC 11 TRL/ТРЛ already selected an artist. Of course, at the moment we do not know the final ranking of this representative. However, to improve in the NSC and to approach the NSC more professionally, TRL/ТРЛ tries to free money to organize a NF and is already asking several artists from outside the country to represent Luniana at NSC 12.

Luniana in Spinoff Contests
The country also showed interest in the NSC Spinoff Contests. Its first entry is in the language spin-off to represent Frisian (although Luniana showed interest to represent Estonian at first).

Luniana has already selected a candidate for the first NSC:NF where Luniana can be present. Nevertheless this entry is kept secret until the sign up period.

=Lunian votes= This section is updated after every NSC or NSC Spinoff and will therefore not always reflect the actual statistics.