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The Little Tribe decompresses the day after their tribal council. Irene is calm and is feeling much better now that she's no longer on the chopping block. Nobody knows who cast the other vote against Irene, including Mikaela, who forgot she even did that.

The Small Tribe continue to relax and feel confident about themselves. Ran has immunity for the next tribal council, so she spends the day napping and conserves her energy for the next day's immunity challenge.

It is the day of the immunity challenge. The two tribes come together to compete.

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For the first round, it's the women. Albina, Irene and Mikaela for the Little Tribe, versus Anastasia, Gisela and Lula of the Small Tribe. Anastasia is the first to reach the ball in the centre of the beach, but Irene squarely punches her in the face and grabs the ball from her. Everyone looks on in shock as Irene then struts to her tribe's hoop, shoots, and scores a point.

One point Little Tribe.

Next up are the men. The remaining men of the Little Tribe compete against Edward, Jean Claude and Vistek. Despite his injured ankle, Jesus gets the ball first, and everyone chases him back to the Little Tribe's net. Simon slaps the ball out of Jesus' hands, despite being teammates, but luckily Kristian quickly collects the ball, shoots it, and scores.

Two points for the Little Tribe.

The women are up again. Albina, Eilidh and Mikaela compete for the Little Tribe (while Irene sits on a time out for her bad behaviour) against Gisela, Lula and Ran from the Small Tribe. Ran ran to the ball first, where Albina and Eilidh both try to grab her and wrestle the ball from her grip. Ran uses her karate skills and manages to flip both of the other women over just using her arms while holding the ball. Ran ran to her tribe's net and scores a point for the Small Tribe.

Two points for the Little Tribe, and one point for the Small Tribe.

The men of the Little Tribe face off against Artabanos, Edward and Jean-Claude. They all make it to the centre of the beach around the same time and engage in a large scrum to get the ball. In the chaos of the scrum, Simon kicks Jesus' sore ankle. Edward manages to get the ball, runs back to the his net, shoots, and misses. Kristian catches the ball in the rebound and makes a break for it to the other side. At the other side, Kristian shoots and scores.

With three points, the Little Tribe wins.

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The Little Tribe also wins a fishing spear, some basic diving gear, and various other pieces of fishing equipment. As the Little Tribe begin to celebrate, a twist is revealed. The Little Tribe must send someone from the losing tribe to Exile Island, which is an even smaller and more mysterious island just off the coast of Tiny Island. There, the exiled individual must live alone for the night.

After some deliberation, the Little Tribe choose to exile Jean-Claude, and they give him a thunderous applause as he steps off his tribe mat.

However, that's not where the twist ends. Jean-Claude is then asked to pick someone from the winning tribe to join him. Jean-Claude picks Albina.

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Jean-Claude admits to Albina that he mostly picked her to join him at Exile because he needed to ask her some questions about his Premiership predecessor, Sofie Cikarova of Czech Slavia. Jean-Claude explains that he had a special pack of Junckpens he used to use as Internal Affairs Commissioner, that he then gifted to Premier Walter Cocx at the end of his term, and then Sofie apparently threw those Junckpens out when she came into office as Premier. Albina explains that this is likely something Sofie would do, and admonishes Sofie for once throwing out one of her diet vegetable smoothies that she made for her.

At Exile Island, Jean-Claude is presented with two urns. One containing a clue to the hidden immunity idol back at camp, but also an opportunity to mutiny and switch to the other tribe, while the second urn contains nothing.

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Jean-Claude picks one of the urns, and inside is an idol clue and his choice to possibly mutiny tribes. Jean-Claude decides he won't mutiny, but decides to share the immunity idol clue with Albina, since Albina was willing to criticise Sofie Cikarova.

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The two have a long night at Exile Island. Jean-Claude spends the whole evening regaling about his commission campaigns, and asks Albina what gadgets he should invent for when he visits Czech Slavia next. Jean-Claude also talks about how much he loves to use the European Commission App, but that he's currently inundated with DMs from angry Reitzmen. As Jean-Claude talks all night, Albina barely manages to get any sleep. The next morning, the two return to their tribes.

When Albina returns from Exile Island, Mikaela is shocked by how tired she looks, and insists that they should have a spa day on their tribe's beach. Mikaela gives Albina a sand scrub and the two makes plans to do some traveling once the competition is done. Albina shares the information that she collected from Jean-Claude to Mikaela.

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Eilidh and Simon decide to bury the hatchet over the Copala City land lease. Eilidh remarks how cool it is that Icholasen is the first country to have a transgender head of government, while Reitzmag is the first country to have transracial citizens. They both feel proud of the progressive societies they come from.

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Mikaela gathers Albina, Eilidh and Jesus together and without their input, decides that they should all form an alliance together. Everyone agrees, but it's not like Mikaela gave them any choice.

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While the others keep themselves busy by chatting or having a spa day, Kristian goes fishing for the tribe using their new equipment and gathers food for them. Kristian exhausts themselves by then also cooking the food for everyone.

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Readying to go to tribal council tonight, a sense of anxiety and uneasiness consumes the tribe.

Artabanos calls Vistek out for ignoring the Dolls group chat that they have with Albina and Mikaela. Vistek defends himself by saying he can't keep up with Albina's daily 'inspirational' quotes that she sends every morning. Artabanos hits back by saying that Vistek doesn't respond to Artabanos' bowtie-of-the-day selfies he sends either. Vistek finally admits that he has the group chat on mute and he never wanted to be in it to begin with. Artabanos is shocked and disappointed.

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Naturally, Edward goes ahead and starts hustling and whipping votes for the upcoming tribal council. Edward decides to target Lula, and tells people that Lula is the weakest link of the tribe, and that he doesn't care much for her authoritarian rule in Nofoaga, and says that he wished she cared for human rights as much as she did for turtle rights. Ran doesn't like this coming from Edward, and calls him out for being a fake defender of human rights, citing that he never championed for the rights of anime people during any of his years in Europolis. Edward claims that anime people rights are human rights just like everyone else, but Rans criticises him for not enshrining that in any law.

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At tribal council, it's discussed that it's pretty much an open secret that Edward is coming for Lula, and that Lula is now coming for Edward. Ran surprises everyone by presenting her special immunity idol that she found on day 1, keeping herself safe from the vote.

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It is then time to vote. Once everyone has voted, then the votes are counted.

First vote... Edward
Second vote... Lula
Third vote... Edward
Fourth vote... Edward

So far: That's 3 votes Edward and 1 vote Lula. 4 votes left.

Fifth vote... Lula
Sixth vote... Lula

That's 3 votes Edward and 3 votes Lula. 2 votes left.

Seventh vote... Edward
Eight vote... Lula

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It is a tie. Everyone, excluding Edward and Lula, will re-vote. Once everyone has cast their second vote, then the votes will once again counted.

First vote... Edward
Second vote... Lula
Third vote... Lula

So far: That's 2 votes Lula and 1 vote Edward. 3 votes left.

Fourth vote... Edward
fifth vote... Lula

Sixth vote... the 2nd person voted out of Survivor 2: Tiny Island... Lula. That's 4 votes, and that's enough.

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Lula's torch is snuffed and she turns to wave at her tribe, but also scornfully tells Edward that he'll be banned from ever holding a Nofoagese turtle ever again and promised that the Oceans Protection Act will be his next piece of legislation repealed by the European Council.

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((Not Gisela trying to originally get her husband out, queen just wants a vacation from her man.))

Disclaimer:
This analysis is based on hypothetical data if the war list has not been updated within a month from this ranking's publication. So if you want a more accurate review, update your damn war lists. And also...analysis does not take to account the weaponry but bases on the size of the fleets, so I don't care about your stupid nukes.

Also, this is just an OOC guide from a guy who knows how to game the system and understands warfare to some extent. So, it'll be up to you if you believe this or not. But I'm just here to help you. DM me if you want help on a very well-balanced and reasonable war list whilst maximizing your resources such as IC, budget, and manpower.

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Rating: ☭☭☭☭ (out of 5)

New York businesswoman, podcast host and influencer Lauren (Reiserová) is a go-getting busy bee girlboss who puts her work and career before everything else. Lauren is the Queen of the Sigma Grindset, and she shares the secrets of her success on her podcast, the 27-Hour Day, which helps listeners make the most efficient use of their time.

Lauren tries to court a business opportunity with a big-time author and lifestyle influencer, which is an opportunity that then seems to be in doubt after Lauren flubs an interview with the VIP who rebukes Lauren's severely lacking work-life balance. For this reason, among others, Lauren is convinced to attend a week-long relaxation retreat to Montana. One retreat to Montana, and an hour and a fifteen minutes of this film later, Lauren becomes a changed woman who decides to put her own personal needs before her career. Lauren is ultimately offered a chance to work with the author she was originally trying to court, but she decides to turn her down. More importantly, however, Lauren finds herself a handsome man in the process.

The film centres itself around a message of personal growth and progress, and the film itself successfully manages to build a cohesive plot pointing in this direction, but it also sometimes teeters on the mundane. Most of the film follows Lauren's stay at the retreat, where viewers watch Lauren undertake various 'relaxing' activities (picking berries, painting, canoeing, baking, etc). Most of these activities are rather boring or unimportant, but Lauren's constant (and cute) flirtations and banter with the stoic retreat boy keep things interesting. Plot development and a sense of progress is only evident in the developing feelings between Lauren and her love interest, as well as Lauren's slowly changing sigma grindset.

On paper, Lauren could very easily be an unlikable character. She's an extremely ambitious girlboss with an A-type personality, and her success could easily render herself a snob. However, Lauren doesn't seem to take herself too seriously, and she keeps and open mind and an open heart to all suggestions that come her way, as well as to dedicating herself to personal growth. Lauren is fun, witty, and very rootable. We cheer her on her journey. A large part of this is also due to Reiserová's acting, which is especially superb. Reiserová really brought life and dimension to Lauren's character, and she very successfully moulded Lauren into a hero.

The love interest also went on his own journey, but it was somewhat muddled and lost in the weeds. The love interest at first did not seem to have any real personality besides being a bit flirty (although we're also told he hasn't dated anyone in many years), or have any real motivations of his own. We eventually learn that the guy dropped his dreams of becoming a veterinarian in order to instead help maintain his mom's retreat following the death of his father (a Hallmark film would simply not be a Hallmark film without at least one deceased parent). The actor does a fine job portraying his character, but his character mostly feels one note, one dimensional, and not fully fleshed out. The love interest's actor is Canadian though, so there's that.

There doesn't seem to be any real conflict in the film whatsoever, except Lauren's own personal struggles concerning her work-life balance, but a disagreement very abruptly breaks out between Lauren and her love interest 15 minutes before the film ends, which appears to be another reoccurring theme in Hallmark movies. Thankfully, this disagreement is cleared 10 minutes later after Lauren returns to New York, and the love interest spends some time playing catch with his dog and holding a vague conversation with his mom, which then suddenly prompts him to return to veterinary school at Cornell, and to pursue a relationship with Lauren.

There were some side characters in the film, but we only care about one of them: Piggy. In fact, Piggy is probably the star and highlight of the whole show. Piggy was a piglet that lived on the retreat and was cared for by the love interest. The piglet stole every scene she was in, and we all relish in each of her appearances. Unfortunately, Piggy is sold-off rather unceremoniously near the end of the film, which is heart breaking.

The film, which is supposed to take place in New York and Montana, was actually filmed in Vancouver, BC. It has quite a few stunning shots, with mountains in the back drop. The beautiful environment in the film is aided by a very pleasant soundtrack, which sounds like something about of the Sims (but in a good way).

The romance in the film isn't necessarily the strongest, even though we do get one kissing scene before the 1 hour mark. Most of the romance comes in the form of cheeky flirtation, but it will still manage to turn your cheeks red. This Hallmark film offers more than romance though, and at least offers a compelling main character with their own interesting journey, as well as a very cute pig.

Four hammer and sickles out of five.

Bonus review from Goose (Czech Slavia): "Main character was an unrelatable workaholic, but still charming. There was a cute piglet."

Thinking somewhere like plot 50 0r 49 would make sense for such a nation.

(under development)

If you want to arrange a regional war background with other nations, cool! I encourage you to do it, I think it would bring more life to RP. But I just don't think any region-wide rules or timeline concerning history will be worth anyone's time. But its up to the mods, I reckon when it comes to region-wide stuff.