Nationstates

There was a week that went by without me sending in my Nationstates moves, but I’ve been keeping up with it lately. My nation, Dryroot, recently passed 500 million people, which makes it a superpower. Well, here’s how it stands. And ignore that bit about being the third most corrupt government in the region; there are only three countries in the region, so Dryroot is the least corrupt. We haven’t swallowed up any fellow countries recently either… unlike SOME country I could name… ...

Nationstates is a weird little game. Although they don’t call me a dictator, everything I decide is passed, so what’s the difference? I am dismissing most issues brought to my attention because making any decision sends the nation veering off into bizarre tangents. I just KNOW that if I took any decision on the mandatory organ donation policy from this morning, that either roving bands of government agents would be lurking about at accident scenes, or millions would die from an absolute lack of donor organs. ...

Yes, Dryroot has become a nation of Dance Dance Revolution fanatics… Dryroot has left the South Pacific and joined a Germanic region with left-leaning politics. I THINK DDR stands for “Deutsche Demokratische Republik”, but that is probably a) not what it stands for, and b) poorly spelled. Nonetheless, it’s a small region where I can make a dent on some charts. South Pacific is just too huge. This is their advertisement: ...

New flag for Dryroot. The Wheel represents Dryroot’s nomadic roots. The chocobo represents lunch. The green represents the grasslands through which we roamed, before Dryroot became a barren, inhospitable landscape. Dryroot has an Upper and a Lower Parliament. The Prime Minister, Tarena Schlosschild, addressed the Upper Parliament this morning. I’ll have a transcript up later. The “Anti-Government Hour” is really a big hit among radio listeners, and has improved Dryroot’s political freedom index…

My economy was crumbling, people were unhappy: I had to make deals with big business. My utopian vision of a Dryroot where free peoples sustain themselves in small, nomadic communities became a relic that had to be abandoned. The environment is still wonky, led, I suspect, by pollution from nearby industrial nations, but I will work on that when I can. The Nomadic Peoples of Dryroot is a large, safe nation, renowned for its compulsory military service. Its compassionate population of 23 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt. ...

This morning, I was kinda alarmed when I pulled up the dossier for Dryroot and found it had gone from being a nation with lush forests, to a barren, inhospitable wasteland. HUH? What did I do? Luckily, in today’s afternoon update, some regrowth had kicked in, and though still bereft of forests, Dryroot is no longer such a wasteland. However, the government is - it’s HUGE. At least I am keeping the taxes low.

NationStates is an interesting web game; you make a country and mold it according to your own beliefs, interact with other nations, join the UN and debate items of world importance and so forth. My nation is The Nomadic Peoples of Dryroot, a small nation in the South Pacific. I received a worrying telegram this morning from the Queendom of Goddessness. Hers is a capitalist monarchy. We traded endorsements, but I warned her I would be watching for imperialist incursions across Dryroot borders. ...