There hasn’t been a thread about this in a while. Nation States is an online game in which you get to create your own state, based upon whatever principles appeal to you at the time, and then you administer it. Every day you get an issue. Should public demonstrations be outlawed, or encouraged? Should you flourinate the water? How about surveillance cameras on every corner? Your decisions on these issues have unexpected outcomes.
I have two nations. The Republic of Seal Rock is a libertarian paradise where people can basically do whatever they want. My people are happy, but crime is going through the roof. My other nation is Gwineth, which I originally planned to have as sort of a benevolent medieval Catholic feudalist state, a la Katherine Kurtz’s *Chronicles of Gwynedd * books. But I seem to have turned into Iran. Is that a bad thing?
If you want to play, go to http://www.nationstates.net. ‘Tis free. And if you choose, once you’ve established your very own nation, you can move it to the region called the Sea of Cecil, inhabited - as far as I know - only by Dopers. Uh, at last count, very, very few Dopers. We’re dyin’ over here!
I did for a while about a year ago. But the daily questions started repeating and I got bored with it, so I let it dissolve into whoever felt like brutally invading the place…
Oh, never mind. I had a profanity in the country name
Behold, the Opressed Peoples of Kanapkystan! The name is mostly to deter immigrants. It’s actually a very happy, liberal place full of sunshine and badgers.
We of the Free Land of Twilonia, who just declared independence from a piece of mud we found around five minutes ago, are pleased to engage in this literary-based publicity stunt, basically we had stumbled upon it before in the past and read a good review of Max Barry’s latest book in Entertainment Weekly.
I am intrigued by the idea and signed up. The Federation of The Radical Experiment. It says that private enterprise is illegal, not sure how that happened. And I wonder if the high mortality rate of the police force has anything to do with the overpopulation of carnivorous beavers in our lush forests.
Thanks! nifty game idea. I am now the leader of the Empire of Contolism Unfortunately, I won’t be joining the Sea of Cecil with this one, but maybe my next nation.
I’ve had Gundam on the brain lately, and the idea of just what a government founded on Contolism would be intrigues me. In the old UC-timeline shows, they never really get into that, other than the fact that it is somewhat authoritarian (but not a full-on dictatorship except during Gihren Zabi’s reign of terror), Germanic, and fiercely belligerent towards the Earth Federation.
Zeon Zum Deikun’s philosophy of Contolism is pretty well established though. Earth is sacred, and mankind no longer needs to live on it to survive, so we should leave for space, and allow nature to take its course. The heavy emphasis on environmentalism, expansionism, and progressive attitudes suggests a very unique world view, IMHO. I see it as a kind of fusion of modern, socially-liberal values with a strong central government where a career-military dictator serves as executive, while elected officials make up the legislative.
Sorry, as always I’m rambling… Anyway, I made a region for Gundam-themed nations, but when this nation inevitably goes to pot, I’ll probably start a more original one and hop in the CoS. And again, thanks for showing us this game!
All my 5 million little playthings love me. They have to. And behold, the graceful franzog as it frolics through my lush, environmentally stunning forests.
The peace loving people of the Armed Republic of Iroas have undertaken the laborious and costly migration from the South Pacific to the Sea of Cecil.
Marc
