Well if this isn’t supportive, I don’t know what is. The great state of Maryland, home of crabcakes, The Wire, Good Charlotte, and yours truly, is declaring September 21, 2010 as “Sid Meier’s Civilization V Day.” Why you ask? Because that’s the release date of Meier’s upcoming Civilization V video game of course!

Meier has created quite an impressive lineup of strategy titles at Firaxis Games, a leading video game company which he co-founded, based out of Hunt Valley, Maryland. Maryland Governor Martin O’ Malley was kind enough to sign off on the special honorary day, written on that fancy proclamation you see above.

I haven’t been this proud of my home state since Baltimore’s former mayor stole gift cards from the needy, no…um, I mean since the beltway sniper, I mean…murder rate, I mean…syphilis epidemic,… um, no, no. Let’s just mark today as the first time I’ve been proud of Maryland since the Raven’s won the Superbowl ten years ago. Yeah, that works.

Kotaku