About Croatia

(Copied directly from Wikipedia, may be unreliable! ;;)

Croatia (Croatian: Hrvatska), officially the Republic of Croatia (Croatian: Republika Hrvatska), is a country in Central Europe and South-eastern Europe at the crossroads of the Pannonian Plain, the Balkans, and the Adriatic Sea. Its capital and largest city is Zagreb. Croatia borders Slovenia to the north, Hungary to the northeast, Bosnia and Herzegovina to the southeast, Serbia to the east, and Montenegro to the southeast.

The Croats arrived in the early 7th century in what today is Croatia. They organized the state into two dukedoms. The first king, King Tomislav was crowned in AD 925 and Croatia was elevated into the status of a kingdom. The Kingdom of Croatia retained its sovereignty for almost two centuries, reaching its peak during the rule of Kings Peter Krešimir IV and Demetrius Zvonimir. Croatia entered a union with Hungary in 1102. In 1527, the Croatian Parliament elected Ferdinand from the House of Habsburg to the Croatian throne. In 1918, Croatia was included in the short-lived State of Slovenes, Croats, and Serbs that declared independence from Austria–Hungary and co-founded the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. An independent Croatian state briefly existed during World War II. After World War II, Croatia became a founding member of the Second Yugoslavia.

On 25 June 1991, Croatia declared independence and became a sovereign state.

Croatia is a member of the United Nations, the Council of Europe, NATO, the World Trade Organization and CEFTA. The country is a candidate for European Union membership and is a founding member of the Union for the Mediterranean. Croatia is classified as an emerging and developing economy by the International Monetary Fund and a high income economy by the World Bank.

Capital

Zagreb (City of Zagreb, Croatian: Grad Zagreb, occasionally called “Bijeli Zagreb grad” (White city of Zagreb))

National Anthem

"Lijepa naša domovino" ("Our Beautiful Homeland")

About Vjeko

Name

Vjeko Radić

(Vjeko - means ‘age glory’. Sometimes a nickname to ‘Vjekoslav’. Commonly misspelled as ‘Vjecko’)

Nicknames/Aliases

Fellow Slavs; Hrvatska (Croatia), or ‘Sjebano’ (Fucked up) if they’re talking behind his back.
Germans: Kroatien.
Italians: Croazia.
Everyone else: Vjeko, Vjecko, Veggieco.

Age

Mentally, he’s over one thousand years old. Physically, he is about twenty-four.

Family

He doesn’t consider anyone to really be is family. He would consider Austria to be his ‘dad’, or maybe even Vatican City. Hungary could be his ‘mother’, however he doesn’t dwell upon who his parents could be. Once upon a time he would call the other Balkans his relatives, however nowadays he only considers Albania and Bosnia (as well as Herzegovina) to be related to him. He wouldn’t ever dare admit that Serbia or Slovenia could be his siblings, never. He would rather not think about his family too much, but if anyone ever called him their ‘brother’ or ‘cousin’, he would go along with it.

Languages

(Please note, I can only speak English! The occasional Croatian phrase may be thrown around, but other than that, I have no clue how to speak the language. Please correct me on any mistakes I may make!)

Croatian - His mother tongue. He thinks he speaks his own ‘unique’ language when compared to his neighbours (Only true when talking about Croatian to Slovenian).
German - Can’t exactly read it well, but speaks it well enough to sound like a fluent speaker.
Italian - Knows a few phrases here or there. Most of them are swear words and insults.
English - Solely for business purposes. (And, because the roleplayer can’t speak anything else ;;)

He also understands bits and pieces of Slovenian, Albanian and Hungarian, however not enough to say more than basic sentences. If you’re speaking Serbian or Bosnian to him, you’ll have to speak slowly for him to understand the occasional different word.

Personality

He is rather arrogant, cynical and judgmental. He is very quick to make assumptions about people and can really come off as a real asshole, which is a terrible first impression. It’s quick to get on his nerves and it’s even quicker for him to get on your nerves. However, when arguing with people, he usually says the first thing that comes to his mind, and doesn’t really think it over. This makes it easy to find holes in his argument. If you point out his flaws, it makes a dent in his (extremely large) ego. Which either makes him sad or even angrier.
If you manage to stand him for more than a conversation, you’ll find that his speech patterns are rather… noticeable. He stalls when he speaks often and has a problem with words that have “J” in it (“Jaguar” may be pronounced as “Yaguar”). Other than that, he has a very terse speaking pattern. It makes him seem uncertain when he’s talking, even if he’s confident in what he’s saying.

When he was younger and under the rule of Austria-Hungary, he was surprisingly more easier to piss off. He’s cooled down over the years, even after the break-up of Yugoslavia. Even though he was very pissy in his early teens, he was more happier and less stressed out. Nowadays he is either angry or stressed, leaving him flustered and annoyed.

This is only his cranky side, though. He’s very nice to tourists and people he has to, for lack of a better term, kiss up to. Towards these people he’s very charismatic and friendly, talkative and a bit loud. He tends to talk with his hands, which may get annoying if it looks like he’s flailing around. Even when he’s happy, he tends to curse… a lot. He curses more when he’s mad, though. Regardless, he has quite the filthy mouth, no matter what his mood may be.
There are a few people he will always try to be in a good mood for. These people are the ones who usually don’t make him want to grind his teeth and scream at every time they open their mouth.

Appearance

The one thing that sort of stands out about him after he states that he’s a Slav, is that he has no cheekbones. Surprisingly, even though smooth faces are typically more ‘attractive’, Vjeko is a bit self conscious about his appearance because of this -- however, he’s still convinced he’s the most beautiful man in the world. He keeps himself well dressed and always staying ‘pretty’. His upbringing was with Austria, so he seems to have a natural instinct to stay clean, and keep his surroundings clean (As such, litter and dirty houses make him a bit twitchy). He’s at an average height for a man his age, standing at 5’7” (which is roughly 175cm), and a bit thin for his height. When shirtless, you can see the bottom of his ribcage quite easily. His hands are another thing worth noticing; he has long fingers, but his left ring finger looks bent. It’s permanently broken from conflicts in the past that he never got properly treated. It doesn’t bother him, however; if he’s holding something for too long, it may start to ache, but other than that he’s okay.

He mostly dresses in western clothing, however he really enjoys dressing up in suits. Even if he’s in casual clothing he’ll wear a sort of ‘fancy’ article of clothing to add to it - such as a cravat, or a dress shirt underneath a sweater. He usually wears sweaters and coats to seem a bit bigger than he is; despite his height being at a relatively normal size for a man his age, he doesn’t like that fact he’s thin.

Likes

Croatia.
Alcohol.
Pretty much any food.
German things.
Beaches.
Proving he’s right.
Football (soccer).
Music.
Croatia.
Pretty ladies. = v =
His mother tongue.
Dogs.
Croatia.

Dislikes

Serbia.
Slovenia.
Communism.
Hypocrites.
Most of his neighbours.
Especially Serbia.
Litter.
Children.
Most Italians.
Serbia.
Working towards the EU.
Being told he’s wrong.
Serbia.

(Even More) Little Things!

It’s quite obvious he doesn’t like Serbia. Don’t try to talk him out of his hatred towards all things Serbian, he’ll just hate you in return.

As long as you’re not from Serbia (or Slovenia, depending on his mood) but he still doesn’t like you, he’ll try to be civil. Even if you’re as arrogant as him.

But around girls, he’ll always shape up his act. = v = heh

His favourite song is ‘Danke, Danke, Deutschland’ ♥

He’s into… rather disturbing things (read as: kinks). ;; Most of these things aren’t even ones like bondage. They’re rather squick inducing.

It’s really easy for him to hold a grudge. Even the people he’s forgiven, he still holds small things over their heads until they apologize hundreds of times.

He loves boasting. LOVES IT. If you ask him about things he’s done and is proud of, he won’t. shut. up.

Which also leads to the fact he loves the sound of his own voice.

… As much as he doesn’t want to admit it, he’s a fan of Milan Stankovic.