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Imagine a game where about the only premise you get is that every player controls a nation. If they want, they can interact with others on a forum on the internet, about those nations.This is the premise of the browser-based game NationStates. Despite (or because of) the very limited premise, NationStates can be played several ways, be it narratively (decide how your nation evolves through daily ethical issues that you alone can solve), competitively (try to become the world number one in Basket Weaving or some other area), creatively (Roleplay your nation on web forums, act out wars, resolve diplomatic crises, participate in World Cups or develop your Region) or even to play an aggressive metagame (using the game mechanics to "Raid" the regions of other players and vandalise them, or "Defend" against this).As you might guess, NationStates means something different for everyone.Partly based on and partly an advertisement for Jennifer Government by Max Barry.See also Cyber Nations, a nation sim game with more focus on gameplay. | |
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Card-Carrying Villain | |
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Card-Carrying Villain: Through certain acts, a nation or region is able to be condemned through a vote held at the World Assembly, this game's version of the UN. However, many players view being condemned as an achievement, such as the Black Hawks, who has achieved two condemnations and is proud of this fact. | |
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Ripped from the Headlines | |
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Ripped from the Headlines: Quite a few of the issues; one referring to a particular Supreme Court case was written in less than a week. A lot of the time, when a real life tragedy occurs a whole bunch of copycat RPs emerge with similar things happening to their nations. Exaggerated in "Controversial Coup Causes Commotion", where a former general of your country stages a coup in a peaceful backwater, which is based off an in-game headline of the former Arch-Chancellor of the FRA (a Defender alliance) overthrowing the democratic government of the South Pacific. | |
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Lord British Postulate | |
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Lord British Postulate: It's a nation-building political simulator where players answer issues a few times a day (at most) and maybe chat on a forum. Players managed to create a combat system anyway. | |
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Violation of Common Sense | |
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Violation of Common Sense: A serious problem when trying to make a specific type of nation, especially given the game's damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't issues. For example, even reasonable decisions such as banning incest or cannibalism can result in a decrease in personal or political freedom. Banning anything, no matter how vile, can be seen as a restriction of freedom by the game's logic. | |
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Poor Communication Kills | |
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Poor Communication Kills: Taken to a truly absurd level in "Good Guy With A Gun" issue. | |
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Cute Kitten | |
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Cute Kitten: The national Compassion stat is determined through "exhaustive World Census tests involving kittens". | |
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Crapsack World | |
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Crapsack World: As an often-grim parody of the real world, there's all sorts of horrifying things going on, including nations which openly have slave-based economies, dumping of radioactive waste in international waters, intrusive surveillance societies, and so-on. Play your cards "right", and you can do this even in an otherwise "free" nation. This trope is subverted when you look at some of the worldwide stats in detail. For example, the NationStates world has far better average income equality than the real world, and crime has been eliminated or virtually eliminated in a majority of countries. | |
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I'm a Humanitarian | |
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I'm a Humanitarian: One of the issues gives you the option to legalize cannibalism in your nation. | |
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Immediate Self-Contradiction | |
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Immediate Self-Contradiction: Sometimes, the headline for a choice on an issue will contract the statistical effects of the choice. For example, choosing to promote eco-tourism results in "Hordes of Tourists are Ruining the Environment..." but the stats say that environmental beauty has increased. | |
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Missing White Woman Syndrome | |
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Missing White Woman Syndrome: | |
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Anachronism Stew | |
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Anachronism Stew: Forum gameplay notwithstanding, the game's issues can send your nation back to The Middle Ages or give it AI-run government and cloning vats. Or you can do both and make genetically engineered dragons. The ability to do the latter at all suggests a 20 Minutes into the Future time frame, but you can ignore it if you choose. | |
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Dirty Old Man | |
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Dirty Old Man: | |
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Karma Meter | |
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Karma Meter: On a national scale, represented by World Assembly Categories. It's not a good vs. evil system; instead, it's a three-axis system based on Economic Freedom (conducting private enterprise without government influence), Political Freedom (choosing the system of government without government influence), and Personal Freedom (making life decisions without government influence). Note that more or less freedom isn't necessarily good or evil, and even moderate nations can have less-than-savory policies despite their "freedoms".. | |
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Impossibly-Low Neckline | |
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Impossibly-Low Neckline: Referenced in the issue "Tiara Sign of Oppression, Declare Feminists"; the second option has a Moral Guardian supporting a nationwide dress code for women, with "necklines that never drop below the base of the neck". | |
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Bilingual Bonus | |
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Dà guó is an authoritarian country akin to the People's Republic of China and often acts as your nation's rival. (The nation's name means "big country" in Mandarin Chinese.) | |
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Lampshade Hanging | |
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Lampshade Hanging: Several cases. For an example in the "Hey Kid, Have a Cigar" issue, one of the options is: | |
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Bland-Name Product | |
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Bland-Name Product: Started out as THE United Nations before the real UN threatened to sue. | |
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Privately Owned Society | |
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Privately Owned Society: With the graphs, you can see your nation's economic division between private and public companies, which includes the possibility of this happening. | |
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Number of the Beast | |
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Number of the Beast: Issue 666 references a fairly popular conspiracy theory that links microchip implants with the Number of the Beast. | |
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Arch-Enemy | |
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Bigtopia is a hostile dictatorship and the closest your nation has to an NPC Arch-Enemy. Among its offenses include harboring anti-player-nation activists, calling for the extermination of your people, and sucking away your nation's jobs with its cheap labor. Some issues imply that it has been (and might still be) at outright war with your nation. On the other hand, its emigrants suffer discrimination from both the player nation and other NPC nations. | |
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Government Agency of Fiction | |
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Government Agency of Fiction: More likely than you'd think. | |
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Teens Are Monsters | |
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Teens Are Monsters: If your nation is hard enough on youth crime or has big enough problems with it, that gets a special mention. | |
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Noodle Incident | |
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Noodle Incident: One particular issue is full of this: The same issue goes on to mention within the options: A shark breaking into an oil refinery, an ant epidemic ruining farmers, and the nation's capital being coated in pink frosting. | |
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Schizo Tech | |
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Schizo Tech: It's possible for your nation to have a space program while banning computers at the same time. In fact, the "Failure to Launch" issue requires both of these policies. | |
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A Hell of a Time | |
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A Hell of a Time: If your Region's Founder or (if empowered) Delegate is displeased with you, they can banish you to an outbox region called "The Rejected Realms". After years of Gameplay Derailment, players have given this region its own culture, identity and government, and it's now a well-respected participant in interregional politics that prominent players frequently emigrate to on purpose. | |
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Zerg Rush | |
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Zerg Rush: You can't go to war with other regions in the actual simulator. However, you can get a large group of nations on your side to join a region, have them vote your nation the one in charge, then kick out the original members. It's cruel, but not against the rules. Which gives rise to the entire raider (who do this) versus defender (who prevent this by either giving additional support to the original members, or by voting the raiders out before handing the control back to the natives) game. | |
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GreyAndGreyMorality | |
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Grey-and-Grey Morality: More freedom isn't necessarily a good thing by the game's standards; maximum freedom in all respects is classified as "Anarchy". Even an "Inoffensive Centrist Democracy" can have ethically dubious policies. In the end, much of it depends on personal opinion and interpretation. | |
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Butt-Monkey | |
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Butt-Monkey: World Census interns. They always end up being sent to investigate a nation's stats in the worst possible ways. | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall | |
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Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Quite literally in the issue "Dogman Deconstructed". | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness | |
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Early-Installment Weirdness: Many of the early issues written by Max himself are noticeably different to the later issues contributed by the community. Many of the issues are often more grounded or mundane, have very limited and polarizing options, and perhaps the most striking, references real life subjects like Harry Potter or Christianity in contrast to how later issues uses the in-universe stable of references. | |
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Disproportionate Retribution | |
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Disproportionate Retribution: It is possible to create a nation that punishes even minor crimes like jaywalking with public flogging. | |
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Non-Entity General | |
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Non-Entity General: Originally played straight, now merely optional with the addition of nameable leaders. | |
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Big Brother Is Watching | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_5da3f522 | comment |
Big Brother Is Watching: Comes up as an issue in gameplay frequently. Defied by certain highly libertarian nations, some of whom don't even bother to conduct a census. | |
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1.0 | |
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| NationStates (Website) / int_5fc117f5 | type |
Fantastic Measurement System | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_5fc117f5 | comment |
Fantastic Measurement System: How almost every statistic is measured in the game. Authoritarianism, for example, is measured in "milliStalins", and nudity in "cheeks per square mile". | |
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1.0 | |
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NationStates (Website) / int_5fc117f5 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_60414102 | type |
Zombie Apocalypse | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_60414102 | comment |
Zombie Apocalypse: 2013 April Fools gag was a giant zombie apocalypse, with nations having to either kill, cure, or export the zombies in their country. It now repeats every Halloween, lasting 36 hours and giving a special issue. Each nation has some of their population turned into zombies and gets three options; set the military on the zombies (converts zombies to dead), research a cure (after a few hours you get cure missiles which allow converting zombies to survivors not only in your nation but in other nations of the same region) or joining the horde (creating more zombies and getting hordes to infect other nations in the region). The options encourage regions to work together as a team and there are several leaderboards to show success with each strategy. | |
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1.0 | |
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Drill Sergeant Nasty | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_6375f746 | comment |
Drill Sergeant Nasty: One of the issues is soldiers complaining about sergeants forcing them to crawl through muddy minefields and climb grease-coated walls. You can side with the grunts or the sergeants, or eliminate training altogether and send out troops who don't know how to shoot, or start raising children from birth to fight. | |
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| NationStates (Website) / int_63cad64b | type |
Threatening Shark | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_63cad64b | comment |
The same issue goes on to mention within the options: A shark breaking into an oil refinery, an ant epidemic ruining farmers, and the nation's capital being coated in pink frosting. | |
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NationStates (Website) / int_63cad64b | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_6627695f | type |
Author Appeal | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_6627695f | comment |
Author Appeal: The name of the nation, the type of government and its leadership (Monarch/President-for-Life/Sporting Superstar/Chief General/Jedi/Sith) is all named after the creator. It's their nation, after all. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_6627695f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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NationStates (Website) / int_6627695f | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_66755d29 | type |
Author Avatar | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_66755d29 | comment |
Author Avatar: Pretty much the premise of the whole thing. Not all players though; many people use it to play as different characters than themselves. The creator of the game has been known to appear in issues in various forms. Most notably there are many references to author Max Barry, such as Max Barry the author in issue #46 (Jennifer Government Censorship Row), Max Barry being named a beauty pageant queen as a result of pro-equality choices in Tiara Sign Of Oppression, Declare Feminists, and even a computer game called Super Barry Brothers. The staff working on the game have references to themselves inserted within the issues. For example, the Pokemon-pastiches of Charchivemander, Noqoran, Gnejgar and Sleepypuff are all derived from the nation names of the Issue Editorial Staff. | |
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NationStates (Website) / int_66755d29 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_68913e61 | type |
Hello, [Insert Name Here] | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_68913e61 | comment |
Hello, [Insert Name Here]: You can pick your national animal and currency, which appears in the description like this (and may also appear in some of the daily issues you are given): Every time an issue involves animals, they insert the name of the national animal even if it wouldn't work with the given situation. Said animal will actually be affected by the nation's environment, even if they are fictional animals, so you can sometimes see dragons and phoenixes "teeter on the brink of extinction due to air pollution". For the currency part, this may result in Weird Currency. For example, some nations use things like Diamond Ingots or Corn Chips as their currency. The nation's capital city, leader, and national religion (if you want them) can be unlocked when your population reaches a high enough level (250 million, 750 million, and 1 billion respectively; it takes about 6 months to get to 1 billion). Full nation names follow the format of The [Nation classification (e.g. Federation)] of [Nation], and you can make your own custom classification when you reach 500 million. Some have made weird or amusing names using this, such as The Water Bottles are Full of H2SO4note sulfuric acid. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_68913e61 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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NationStates (Website) / int_68913e61 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_6e0898f9 | type |
Silliness Switch | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_6e0898f9 | comment |
Silliness Switch: The Liberal and Conservative interface themes, which change nation classifications to satirical exaggerations. For example, the "Moralistic Democracy" classification is called "Ordinary Decent Hardworking People" by the Conservative theme and "Narrow-Minded Backwoodsy Bigots" by the Liberal theme. | |
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NationStates (Website) / int_6e0898f9 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_6ec989d8 | type |
Guide Dang It! | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_6ec989d8 | comment |
Guide Dang It!: A nation's World Assembly Classification is determined by (among other things) Economic Freedom, but the stat displayed on a nation's front page is Economic Output. This can get confusing if your nation is a Psychotic Dictatorship with no freedom whatsoever but a powerful economy. While the forum has a list of the game's issues and their respective options, it doesn't list the prerequisites for actually getting the issues or their often counter-intuitive effects. This is intentional for the sake of surprise; it's still irritating if you're roleplaying. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_6ec989d8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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NationStates (Website) / int_6ec989d8 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_71d75417 | type |
Anti Poop-Socking | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_71d75417 | comment |
Anti Poop-Socking: Taken to the extreme. Issues cannot come up faster than four per day after the first 20 are resolved, and it only takes a few minutes to read each issue and make your decision. Same goes for your occasional World Assembly votes. Beyond that there is nothing to do in this game. The Meta Game, on the other hand, can easily take all day if you let it. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_71d75417 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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NationStates (Website) / int_71d75417 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_722171e7 | type |
Straw Character | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_722171e7 | comment |
Straw Character: The entire game runs on this trope, and unless you dismiss all or most of the issues that come up, your nation will inevitably become this. Even the forum guide to creating new issues states explicitly that all solutions to all issues must be wrong in some way, and the results of your decisions usually sound like they're straight out of a corrupt-a-wish game. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_722171e7 | featureApplicability |
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NationStates (Website) / int_722171e7 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_7a265daa | type |
Eagleland | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_7a265daa | comment |
The United Federation, portrayed in issues as a freedom-obsessed, gun-toting, heavily capitalist country, functions as this game's equivalent to the United States. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_7a265daa | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| NationStates (Website) / int_7c46c734 | type |
Common Tongue | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_7c46c734 | comment |
Common Tongue: Every character within the game speaks English, even if they have foreign-sounding names or if the player's nation represents a non English-speaking one. This may be an Acceptable Break From Reality as the game is created by and for English-speaking players. Also, within the game reality, several issues assume that while an issue is presented and written and English, the fictional people are speaking the native tongue of NATION NAME. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_7c46c734 | featureApplicability |
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| NationStates (Website) / int_7d44b017 | type |
Balance of Power | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_7d44b017 | comment |
Balance of Power: Varies between the WA Delegates in each region, depending on their influence and number of endorsements in their regions. Present WA superpowers (Type A) include Just Guy and Alsted, whereas Type E consists of regional delegates with less than 10 endorsements. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_7d44b017 | featureApplicability |
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NationStates (Website) / int_7d44b017 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_7ed25068 | type |
Video Game Caring Potential | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_7ed25068 | comment |
Videogame Caring Potential: You can make your nation into a blooming utopia. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_7ed25068 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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NationStates (Website) / int_7ed25068 | |
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Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_808cbaeb | comment |
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: In one decision, the description starts out with "In a recent high profile trial in [nation] City, notorious mobster Maxine ‘The Octopus’ Barryotti was accused of murder, racketeering, grand theft, and jaywalking." | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_808cbaeb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| NationStates (Website) | hasFeature |
NationStates (Website) / int_808cbaeb | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_80b57bec | type |
Super-Soldier | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_80b57bec | comment |
Super-Soldier: Selecting the right answer for a certain issue will result in your soldiers becoming this. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_80b57bec | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_80b57bec | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
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NationStates (Website) / int_80b57bec | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_8387bb18 | type |
Good Girls Avoid Abortion | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_8387bb18 | comment |
Good Girls Avoid Abortion: There is one issue which deals with abortion and whether or not it should be legal in your nation; you can enforce or defy this trope depending on what you choose. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_8387bb18 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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NationStates (Website) / int_8387bb18 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_8409a385 | type |
Exactly What It Says on the Tin | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_8409a385 | comment |
"Voter Apathy Rising But No One Cares": People are too apathetic to vote, and one of the options is to energize people by putting "POWERTHIRST (TM) to the national water supply!". | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_8409a385 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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NationStates (Website) / int_8409a385 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_8437cb10 | type |
Made a Slave | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_8437cb10 | comment |
As an often-grim parody of the real world, there's all sorts of horrifying things going on, including nations which openly have slave-based economies, dumping of radioactive waste in international waters, intrusive surveillance societies, and so-on. Play your cards "right", and you can do this even in an otherwise "free" nation. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_8437cb10 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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NationStates (Website) / int_8437cb10 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_87629455 | type |
No Communities Were Harmed | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_87629455 | comment |
No Communities Were Harmed: Befitting a game based around running your own country, several issues involve fictitious countries that serve as stand-ins for real world nations. For example Brancaland is a cultured, friendly nation that's popular among tourists and retirees. Considering its multilingual policies, cold climate, and a violently separatist province, it serves as the NPC nation equivalent of Canada. Dà guó is an authoritarian country akin to the People's Republic of China and often acts as your nation's rival. (The nation's name means "big country" in Mandarin Chinese.) The United Federation, portrayed in issues as a freedom-obsessed, gun-toting, heavily capitalist country, functions as this game's equivalent to the United States. Althaniq, an authoritarian, socially conservative oil-producing country whose issues are mostly based around foreign investments and corruption, is one for the Gulf States. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_87629455 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_87629455 | featureConfidence |
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NationStates (Website) / int_87629455 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_8878f3be | type |
Badass Army | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_8878f3be | comment |
Badass Army: Many nations want one, some have one. Defied by pacifist nations, though. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_8878f3be | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| NationStates (Website) / int_89a17726 | type |
Spell My Name with an S | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_89a17726 | comment |
Other notable NPC nations are East Lebatuck, Lilliputia, Marche Noir/Noire, Maxtopia, Tasmania, Smalltopia, Skandilund, et cetera. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_89a17726 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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NationStates (Website) / int_89a17726 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_8a1bb4eb | type |
Conlang | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_8a1bb4eb | comment |
Conlang: Given that this is a nation-building simulator, NationStates has many user-created languages in varying levels of complexity and refinement. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_8a1bb4eb | featureApplicability |
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NationStates (Website) / int_8a1bb4eb | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_91cecc1e | type |
Exaggerated Trope | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_91cecc1e | comment |
Exaggerated in "Controversial Coup Causes Commotion", where a former general of your country stages a coup in a peaceful backwater, which is based off an in-game headline of the former Arch-Chancellor of the FRA (a Defender alliance) overthrowing the democratic government of the South Pacific. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_91cecc1e | featureApplicability |
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NationStates (Website) / int_91cecc1e | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_9298d265 | type |
Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_9298d265 | comment |
Jaywalking Will Ruin Your Life: In the description particular issue, an ex-convict was denied a job and is facing a lifetime of poverty for jaywalking. You can also choose the option which allows this to happen. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_9298d265 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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NationStates (Website) / int_9298d265 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_92cca75b | type |
Ret-Gone | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_92cca75b | comment |
Ret-Gone: The highest possible punishment the moderators can dole out is to outright delete the nations of rule violators. On top of that, continuing to violate the rules with replacement nations can lead to a Delete-On-Sight (or DoS) order—an effective permanent ban from the site. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_92cca75b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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| NationStates (Website) / int_950bbfa7 | type |
Take a Third Option | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_950bbfa7 | comment |
Take a Third Option: Even when you feel an issue could only have two logical solutions, there's often another option that may or may not make sense. Example: allow public nudity, ban public nudity, or enforce public nudity. Others are just a nonstandard extreme/ideal that would be really hard to bring about in real life. Not to mention you can just dismiss the issue altogether if it appears to be Failure Is the Only Option. This is lampshaded by the issue "Hey Kid, Have A Cigar!" with the third option saying...: | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_950bbfa7 | featureApplicability |
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NationStates (Website) / int_950bbfa7 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_9843be73 | type |
As You Know | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_9843be73 | comment |
As You Know: If you rule your nation with a sufficiently iron fist, you can encounter an issue where you survive an assassination attempt. The opening text? | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_9843be73 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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NationStates (Website) / int_9843be73 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_a183f4c3 | type |
Skeleton Government | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_a183f4c3 | comment |
Skeleton Government: No one wants to make up and explain all government ministries and offices, unless they want to. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_a183f4c3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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NationStates (Website) / int_a183f4c3 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_a270b9e5 | type |
Anarchy Is Chaos | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_a270b9e5 | comment |
Anarchy Is Chaos: Played straight. An anarchist nation is described as "in a state of perpetual fear, as a complete breakdown of social order has led to the rise of order through biker gangs." Contradicted and averted by the various performance indicators of a nation, however, most notably in that almost all nations of this sort have very strong economies. In game terms, the Anarchy classification comes from having maximum freedom/no regulations in every aspect, including business. Completely unregulated businesses can fuel extremely powerful economies, at the expense of safety, happiness, and life expectancy. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_a270b9e5 | featureApplicability |
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NationStates (Website) / int_a270b9e5 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_a6848924 | type |
Emergent Gameplay | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_a6848924 | comment |
Emergent Gameplay: The World Assembly Delegate election system gave birth to Raiding/Defending, where organizations compete to take over or protect regions by forcefully electing someone and using the delegacy's powers such as regional appearance or ejecting nations. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_a6848924 | featureApplicability |
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NationStates (Website) / int_a6848924 | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_a6cda066 | type |
Rule of Three | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_a6cda066 | comment |
Brasilistan is yet another dictatorship that abducts people (including its own citizens' children) to work in its diamond mines. Its mistake of kidnapping some of your nation's tourists prompts the "An International Incident" issue chain, the closest thing NationStates has to a proper Story Arc. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_a6cda066 | featureApplicability |
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| NationStates (Website) / int_b06bbf4b | type |
Be Careful What You Wish For | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_b06bbf4b | comment |
Be Careful What You Wish For: The entire Issues game is set up around this premise, with effect lines showing a "corrupted wish" outcome on a decision. Increase aviation safety standards with more inspections? You get told that planes can be grounded for months simply because an inspector "didn't like the color". This is design-as-intended, and the exaggeration and satire is the game's purpose. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_b06bbf4b | featureApplicability |
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| NationStates (Website) / int_b0fb2427 | type |
Bread and Circuses | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_b0fb2427 | comment |
Bread and Circuses: The issue "We Who Are About To Die Would Rather Go Home" allows your nation to institute gladiatorial fights to simultaneously entertain and to deal with rebellious elements. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_b0fb2427 | featureApplicability |
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| NationStates (Website) / int_b3a49cdb | type |
Satire | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_b3a49cdb | comment |
Satire: Of the Government Procedural genre. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_b3a49cdb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
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1.0 | |
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NationStates (Website) / int_b3a49cdb | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_b47d95be | type |
No OSHA Compliance | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_b47d95be | comment |
In game terms, the Anarchy classification comes from having maximum freedom/no regulations in every aspect, including business. Completely unregulated businesses can fuel extremely powerful economies, at the expense of safety, happiness, and life expectancy. | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_b47d95be | featureApplicability |
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| NationStates (Website) / int_b5049d76 | type |
Added Alliterative Appeal | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_b5049d76 | comment |
Added Alliterative Appeal: The "Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodes" issue provided us with this gem: "Space Spectacular Sours Small Stargazers", featuring a National Association of Adolescent Astronomers. | |
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Take That! | |
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Take That!: Toxicity is measured in Kardashians. | |
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Noodle Implements | |
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Noodle Implements: The issue "Dial L for Loan" centers around the government going bankrupt after an incident involving "a foreign casino, a gambling-addicted crime lord, and a secret agent that was a bit too confident in his poker-playing abilities". | |
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"Stop Having Fun" Guys: Invoked by proponents & detractors of Rule 4, which attempted to standardize the WA propositions. Has since died out. | |
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Double Standard | |
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Double Standard: You can, after enforcing nudity, make it so that only women are forced to be nude. The game gives this decision, should it pass, an appropriate description. The fact that you can't make it so only men are forced to be nude is an example within the game itself. | |
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Hypocritical Humor | |
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Hypocritical Humor: A general in the "Budget Time: Accountants Excited" issue supports increased military spending with a warning that "tinpot dictatorships" will invade otherwise, which can come off as a little awkward if you yourself are playing as a dictatorship. | |
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False Dichotomy | |
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False Dichotomy: The limited options for some issues have been known to frustrate players despite the ever-present third option (simply dismissing the issue). It's considered part of good issue writing to make sure that every choice feels like a bad choice. The issue writing guide suggests that any decision made should always leave a player wondering if they've made the right choice. Of course, this doesn't always happen, usually because the choice given just isn't bad at all. One issue is about slavery and clicking the appropriate answer reads "Slavery is outlawed." That's it. Yet others will have puns instead; for example, allowing the flying of reigonal flags gives the message, "It's been a banner year for local vexicology." | |
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It Makes Sense in Context | |
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It Makes Sense in Context: Probably three-quarters of the forum-related stuff on this page, especially nation-specific examples, fall under this. | |
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I'm Not a Hero, I'm... | |
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I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: Parodied in one newspaper headline: " I'm No Hero, Says Heroic (Insert Demonym Here)" | |
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Non-Player Character | |
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Non-Player Character: There are several NPC nations, most of them hostile to the player's nation, who will appear in certain issues. For example: Bigtopia is a hostile dictatorship and the closest your nation has to an NPC Arch-Enemy. Among its offenses include harboring anti-player-nation activists, calling for the extermination of your people, and sucking away your nation's jobs with its cheap labor. Some issues imply that it has been (and might still be) at outright war with your nation. On the other hand, its emigrants suffer discrimination from both the player nation and other NPC nations. Blackacre is another dictatorship, seemingly engaged in a Cold War with your nation. In addition, its dictator harasses and threatens other nations on Twitcher. Brasilistan is yet another dictatorship that abducts people (including its own citizens' children) to work in its diamond mines. Its mistake of kidnapping some of your nation's tourists prompts the "An International Incident" issue chain, the closest thing NationStates has to a proper Story Arc. Other notable NPC nations are East Lebatuck, Lilliputia, Marche Noir/Noire, Maxtopia, Tasmania, Smalltopia, Skandilund, et cetera. | |
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Subverted Trope | |
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This trope is subverted when you look at some of the worldwide stats in detail. For example, the NationStates world has far better average income equality than the real world, and crime has been eliminated or virtually eliminated in a majority of countries. | |
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Fun with Acronyms | |
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Fun with Acronyms: The "Citizens Raging Against the Police" in the "Police too Pushy?" issue. The "Time To Get Serious" issue gives us "Scientific Centre of Analytical Metadata". "Agents Undercover to Neutralize Troublemakers" in "The Woman From AUNT" issue. | |
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Qurac | |
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Althaniq, an authoritarian, socially conservative oil-producing country whose issues are mostly based around foreign investments and corruption, is one for the Gulf States. | |
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Felony Misdemeanor | |
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Felony Misdemeanor: In an issue regarding the possibility of direct democracy: | |
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Human Sacrifice | |
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Human Sacrifice: Just another thing you can legalize in your country. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: There are a lot of these, probably more than there are issues in the game. Some examples include: The "What's in a Name?" issue directly references The Prisoner, with a suggestion that the nation's children be given numbers instead of names. "A Grave Problem" references Soylent Green, by having an option to put corpses in fast-food burgers. "The Sky Is Falling": "A particularly bad spate of bombings, hijackings and snake attacks aboard airline flights has crippled the air travel industry in (your country name here)." The "Nobody Expects The (your country name here) Inquisition!" issue regarding the possibility of a national religious inquisition. The "Please read: A personal appeal from NationStates founder Max Barry" banner promoting Machine Man is a pretty obvious reference to the "Please read: A personal appeal from Wikipedia founder Jim Wales" banners on The Other Wiki. "Voter Apathy Rising But No One Cares": People are too apathetic to vote, and one of the options is to energize people by putting "POWERTHIRST (TM) to the national water supply!". When a player creates a new nation, the "default" flag of the nation is the Australian Aborigines' flag. Which can stem from Creator Provincialism, seeing how Barry himself is Australian. During the Genetic engineering issue, the super soldier project is mentioned as Project X. One of the other issues you can get is called "Eminent Domain: Inherent Right Or Daylight Robbery?" Basically, citizens are complaining about their houses being unwillingly demolished for, among other things, a bypass. Sounds like the start of a certain Sci-Fi series. DR. BEES even gets one when the titular character shows up (with his briefcase full of bees) to give his two cents on the declining bee population of your country. "The Worst Storm To Hit <Nation> Since...Yesterday?" includes a reference to hail the size of minivans. One of the "wonders" of your nation is mentioned to be the "(nation name) Tire Fire." Randomly generated names for characters in issues include, among others, "Chun-Li" and "Anakin", or "Dredd". "Not Mushroom For Error" has a plumber named Mario hand you a peach he found near an old castle. "No, Minister" is a straight reference to Yes, Minister, featuring government minister Jem Hacker and civil servant Humphrey Pearby. "Dà guó Takeaway" will have the first option from a Dà guó defector panicking at the foreign influence of Dà guó within a nation by claiming they "They poisoned our water supply, burned our crops and delivered a plague unto us! Well not yet, but are we just gonna sit around and wait until they do?" "Foreign Tax Credits Leave Film Industry Reeling" have your nation's film festival voting "(Nation) Getting Hit By Football" as best film "Breath of the Wild" references The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, unsurprisingly. The four petitioners are even named Mipha, Revali, Daruk, and Urbosa "Tilting at Wind Turbines" is, predictably, a reference to Don Quixote. The "Dial L for Loan" issue has a Shout-Out for Casino Royale. Well, either that or the movie based on the book. "Unintelligent Oversight" revolves around the controversy that your Intelligence Agency has been funding, among other things an "interdimensional time travelling microwave" which your Minister of Defense thinks is a waste of money given that the only thing they have to show for it is a gellified banana while another option suggested by a red haired Chief Scientist named Sarah Kurisu is to just give funding directly to the scientific community instead of the Intelligence Agency for research. "Carbon Copied" is an issue about the possibility to upload a copy of a human mind-state onto a computer databank. One of the objector happens to be someone called Sera O’Connor, who also quips that "There is no fate but what we make. What future do you want to create?� "The Woman From AUNT" has the obvious reference to The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and additionally mentions training orphans to infiltrate a mob operation run inside an orphanage with a circus kid by the name of Grayson as a potential candidate. "Loose Lips, Character Shipped" involves the controversy around the finale of a popular animated series called "Time Adventure" ending with a kiss between two male characters, Prince Marcel and Bon Bon the Vampire King confirming a long suspected same sex ship, an obvious reference to the finale of to Adventure Time confirming the relationship between Marceline and Princess Bubblegum, which too was long suspected by its fanbase. | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive | |
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Corrupt Corporate Executive: There's lots of opportunity for embracing or battling corporate corruption, which is perhaps unsurprising given that the novel the game is based on is all about this. | |
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It's Up to You | |
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It's Up to You: Everything of importance that happens in your nation demands a personal response from you, the president/dictator/first citizen/god-emperor/whatever. Responding to these things is the entire game, but it can still come off silly, as lampshaded in "A Proselytizer To Burn": | |
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A.I.-Generated Economy | |
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A.I.-Generated Economy: Nations have private and/or public sectors which their policies can influence, whether for good or for bad, so every nation has one of these out-of-universe. However, it's also possible to get an A.I. planned economy in-universe as well. | |
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Weird Currency | |
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For the currency part, this may result in Weird Currency. For example, some nations use things like Diamond Ingots or Corn Chips as their currency. | |
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Unobtainium | |
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Unobtainium: Issue 435 has miners excavating unobtainium ore, named as-is. | |
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Gambit Pileup | |
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Gambit Pileup: Roleplays tend to turn into this once they've been alive for long enough. Regional political structures often do it right from the start. There are numerous players trading favors and outmatching each other to get World Assembly resolutions passed or killed. Most regional alliances are set up as growing space for these. The more branches of the Broken Base one is familiar with, the more it appears that the entire game is one big Gambit Pileup that's been building up for eighteen years. | |
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Cult | |
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Cult: The game's issues have a whole host of wacky cults (the Cult of Pizza worships pizza, and "Vive la Chèvre" venerates cheese), but the most prevalent by far is the Order of Violet. While not quite a Religion of Evil, the Order is involved in some less-than-savory deeds like Human Sacrifice and religious terrorism (although both are implied to be extremist views). Its influence even sneaks outside the cult; "For the love of Violet!" occasionally shows up as a mild oath. Violet is a common Color Motif in general, with Earl Violet tea and movies like Fifty Shades of Violet. | |
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Video Game Cruelty Potential | |
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Videogame Cruelty Potential: You can make your nation into a "Psychotic Dictatorship" where you refer to your citizens as "Your Little Playthings" and the phrases "Political Freedoms" and "Civil Rights" do not exist in your vocabulary. | |
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Breaking the Fourth Wall | |
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The creator of the game has been known to appear in issues in various forms. Most notably there are many references to author Max Barry, such as Max Barry the author in issue #46 (Jennifer Government Censorship Row), Max Barry being named a beauty pageant queen as a result of pro-equality choices in Tiara Sign Of Oppression, Declare Feminists, and even a computer game called Super Barry Brothers. | |
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People's Republic of Tyranny | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_eef85d73 | comment |
People's Republic of Tyranny: A nation is capable of becoming this not just because of its name but also from giving your citizens high political freedoms while keeping personal and economic freedoms low, turning a nation into a literal example of this trope. | |
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Bread, Eggs, Milk, Squick | |
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Brancaland is a cultured, friendly nation that's popular among tourists and retirees. Considering its multilingual policies, cold climate, and a violently separatist province, it serves as the NPC nation equivalent of Canada. | |
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Running Gag | |
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One particular Running Gag recurring in issues: Whenever an issue concerning your political or social freedoms springs up, you can be almost certain that one of your closest relatives (brother, cousin, sister-in-law, your aunt's best friend, etc.) will come up and kindly suggest that you Take a Third Option and simply set up a totalitarian dictatorship. Whether or not you actually do it is up to you. | |
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Department of Redundancy Department | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_fc151e9d | comment |
Department of Redundancy Department: The Averageness of a nation is measured on the Average Standardized Normality Scale. | |
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Well-Intentioned Extremist | |
| NationStates (Website) / int_fd4f8299 | comment |
Well-Intentioned Extremist: One issue in the nation involves dealing with the aftermath of a terrorist attack. One of the options is to make terrorism a legal form of protest, effectively letting anyone in your nation embrace this trope as they please. | |
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Artistic License – Economics | |
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Artistic License – Economics: The game's simplistic economic engine leads to oddities such as nations with the strongest possible economy ratings having 100% tax rates (but sometimes higher for the wealthy), no private sector, and no government funds spent on economic production. And that's before we get into the economic models some players propose their nations run on. Some nations even deliberately fail economics for the sake of roleplaying. | |
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