We have lots of smaller skinks here as well, and they are cute, but they are not such interesting pets. I am from the US originally, and had various reptile pets there when I was younger. Here in most of Australia you are only allowed to have reptiles if you have a licence (which I have), and they are supposed to be captive-bred. I don't know what the Talossan regulations are about reptiles.

A blue-tongued skink is a fairly large Australian lizard (a foot or more), and a popular pet here in Australia and overseas. They are generally calm and thus make good pets. I am very attached to mine.They can live for 20 years or longer.

Thank you! I think what I should think about first is doing some linguistic research on Talossan, since I am a linguist. By the way, I saw on the FB page that pets can also be registered -- I have a couple blue-tongued skinks which I am very fond of -- I can check whether they want to be associated with Talossa as well.

Yes, I am still interested in becoming a citizen. Sorry for the recent silence, I have been having some medical problems.

I have done a paper on language on bookmarks, and I think a Talossan bookmark should be bilingual. Likewise business cards -- I have seen some cards with one language on each side (e.g. English and Japanese). I also collect transportation tokens, but I don't think they are needed for Talossa, but who knows?

At one point I actually had a 3 volume biography of Kim Il Sung (I got it at a used bookstore in Montreal), but I did not keep it -- can't keep everything. However, I was able to find his autobiography or biography online. I don't think it would be very interesting reading.

About the North Korean business card -- I was at a stamp and/or coin show in Sydney, and there was a stand for, I think, North Korean coins, connected with their national mint I guess or some such thing. They had a business card, and so I took it. If I recall correctly, the guy there did not seem very friendly.

About bookmarks -- it is hard to say, since I have thousands of them. I have a lot of nice ones from Turkey (I used to go there a lot because I do research on Turkish and related languages). I also used to collect business cards, and my favorite is one from North Korea.

Actually I work on artificial languages, but I have not looked at Talossan -- I focus on auxiliary languages (Esperanto, Ido, Interlingua, Ardano, Babm, etc.). I will have a look at Talossan and let you know.

Thank you -- glad to be here! I could only understand some of your question, since I don't (yet?) know Talossan -- what do I think of the national ? One of my research specialties is artificial languages -- if you look me up on Google, etc., you can find some books which I have written on them. Regards, Alan