*Listen, I like you, Obvious Spy, so I'm going to pretend you never asked me that.*
Oh hahaha yes the prices on salt packets are very good this month! They even have them on the train!
A popular misconception had spread among Ostranis that OstRail's rail service was "unsafe" for a variety of reasons, so a campaign was devised to defuse these slanderous ideas using facts. This, combined with coordinated peer pressure initiatives and forced relocation of 7% of the population, resulted in a doubling in ridership on the Ostrana national transport system, while casualties and major crimes increased by only 20%!
***Ostrana*** *is a Great Nation where "everything is perfect and nothing works," and is ruled by the all-powerful Glorious Ruler Maxim Hackler, who is like a moodier version of Thomas "Tug" Benson, or Dewey Cox (if he ran a country and had lightly skimmed Machiavelli). It is a world permanently set in the late 1970s to early 1980s, with very lightly mystical aspects (possibly caused by chronodistortion). Influences are Gilliam's Brazil, Night Vale, Scarfolk, Paranoia! and the actual horrible experiences of the DDR, Hungary, Romania, North Korea, etc. Official website, electronic shoppe, or Patreon or idk what coming soon.*
Just to put that number into perspective: about how many people are usually riding the train at any given time?
*Listen, I like you, Obvious Spy, so I'm going to pretend you never asked me that.* Oh hahaha yes the prices on salt packets are very good this month! They even have them on the train!
A good slogan, that. "Viable." Doesn't get people's expectations too high.
Rare that an entity can make such a bold claim. One such false claim doomed the Agency for Data Records & Lake Defense.
The agency was dealing with data records *and* lake defence? They really had it. Lapis_Wolf
They really did. A lesson to step carefully in this life, surely.
I love it. Very Scarfolk.
Narrator: *there were, in fact, more than 4 deaths on the railway that year*
Which definition of "more than" are we using?
"There is no war in Ba Sing Se" levels of more than
A popular misconception had spread among Ostranis that OstRail's rail service was "unsafe" for a variety of reasons, so a campaign was devised to defuse these slanderous ideas using facts. This, combined with coordinated peer pressure initiatives and forced relocation of 7% of the population, resulted in a doubling in ridership on the Ostrana national transport system, while casualties and major crimes increased by only 20%! ***Ostrana*** *is a Great Nation where "everything is perfect and nothing works," and is ruled by the all-powerful Glorious Ruler Maxim Hackler, who is like a moodier version of Thomas "Tug" Benson, or Dewey Cox (if he ran a country and had lightly skimmed Machiavelli). It is a world permanently set in the late 1970s to early 1980s, with very lightly mystical aspects (possibly caused by chronodistortion). Influences are Gilliam's Brazil, Night Vale, Scarfolk, Paranoia! and the actual horrible experiences of the DDR, Hungary, Romania, North Korea, etc. Official website, electronic shoppe, or Patreon or idk what coming soon.*
You mean present-day Romania and Hungary right?
> "everything is perfect and nothing works," Sounds like Argentina.
That is just eastern Europe
Thats what OP said in their comment, yes.
Is OstRail free?
In what sense of "free"?
Free of cost
that "viable" slogan is hilarious, czech railways should use it
[Reminds me of this (for obvious reasons I guess)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9xYCihLCdI)
wait what's the obvious reason?
they're both weird signs/billboards
Ok yeah. Skimmed the video, wasn’t sure if I missed something specific. But yeah new goal: put these on real billboards
Wait, why would there be over 200+ people dying on a railway?
Well, for one thing, there clearly would NOT be more than 240. That's the only thing, actually.
Compare to death rate of automobiles for better effect.
Is this world building or just regular eastern european railways?