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[Teh 2nd Soviet Union]

Option 5 for issue 907

“Got to say, all those extras sound kind of bulky,” observes Rosalia Yates, who smells faintly of petrol. “You probably ought to allow bikes to have some sort of on-board motive dynamo to help with that weight, maybe one or two extra wheels for stability, a vertical column and wheel steering system, and some sort of metal casing to protect the rider and all the delicate parts. In fact, with the extra power on board, you could also put some passenger seats in.”

You put the same text for option 5 and 6. Option 6 stays the same.

[Jutsa]

ah thank you, I was wondering why they were the same...

[Trotterdam]

Like I suspected, Teh 2nd Soviet Union has the "No Automobiles" flag. (And, of course, does not have private industry.)

[Jutsa]

ah... thanks again.

One day I'll get this right.

Edit: Also, having read it, that's a really good option.

[Singapore no2]

Bike-sharing organisations in @@NAME@@ are facing a bump in the road: inconsiderate users. From theft to vandalism, irresponsible users are forcing bikes to be replaced at unprecedented rates. The future looks bleak for bike-sharing, and without some swift intervention, the sound of bike bells across the nation’s cities may be consigned to distant memory.

Bike-sharing? Who does that? Around here most people just own their own bikes.

The poor and environmentalists in Singapore use shared bicycles instead of taking the train/bus.

2. "Clearly, this is a failure of the private sector," claims Kirby Nahasapeemapetilon, the Minister of National Development, adjusting his red beret. "If such enterprises were to be nationalised, we could ensure that all bicycles used meet safety and security standards. By retrofitting every bike in the land with theft-proof components, auto-locking mechanisms and GPS tracking systems, we'll be able to ensure no bicycle will ever be stolen or tampered with again."

That... does not even remotely sound like something the private sector wouldn't do.

You would be surprised...

[Candlewhisper Archive]

Trotterdam, bike-sharing schemes exist in more than 700 cities across the world (https://www.economist.com/news/internat ... rsc=dg%7Cc). IRL, there are various technological solutions employed by private and state-run firms to antisocial use, but they're far from universal, and not at a scale or complexity suggested in the options, mostly for cost reasons.

Jutsa, glad you liked to car ban reversal option. Nice to see my personal addition to the issue raising a smile!

[Singapore no2]

Jutsa, glad you liked to car ban reversal option. Nice to see my personal addition to the issue raising a smile!

Yeah, I really liked that option too.

[Iambored13]

909
On the Fence


The Issue
At the start of the Marche Noire Civil War, Warwick van Gogh moved his family to the relative safety of Iambored13. He stayed behind so that he could wind down his engineering business and make sure the children in the orphanage he ran all made it to safety. His plan to rejoin his family was thwarted, however, when you instituted the immigration ban.

The Debate
1.“The pain this poor man has gone through is astounding!” claims the author of the article that made Warwick a national story. “This man had to escape death camps in Marche Noire and the blazing sun in Althaniq in search of freedom, only to be separated from his family by you. Whatever their nationality, we shouldn’t be a country that divides families. Lift the ban on immigration!”


2.“Iambored13 shouldn’t divide families, no,” remarks nationalist politician Boris Cole, while munching on a piece of Willy Wenko’s best chocolate. “However, we must fight to maintain our national identity, and immigration will only undermine this. Let’s re-unite the families of people like Warwick van Gogh - by sending them and their families back to wherever it is they came from!”


3.“Well, this is quite the dilemma, isn’t it?” interjects Harriet Keating, your Minister of Finding Loopholes, looking up from a copy of the latest tax plan. “We don’t like immigrants, but we can’t be the nation that divides families, and we shouldn’t deport people who came here legally. I’ve got it! Let’s allow immigration, but only to the relatives of citizens.”


Issue by The Lawless Wasteland of Fauxia

Edited by Ransium

[Jutsa]

Updated! Congratulations, Fauxia - this is a good issue.

I also love the Willy Wenko reference.

Updating the list of nations shortly.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

You guys are getting really fast on the issue reporting. Used to be weeks before new work got noticed, now its sometimes mere minutes.

[Jutsa]

That'll come in handy if we get a series of extremely niche issues.
(we're still a bit slow on updating old issues, though...)

[Ransium]

That'll come in handy if we get a series of extremely niche issues.
(we're still a bit slow on updating old issues, though...)

Yeah, nobody has reported the changes to “Hush, Hush... Sweet Charlotte”, and that was over a month ago.

[Jutsa]

Oooooo, time to add that to my list! Rejoice

Oh, also, several validities are still unknown for several issues. Thankfully, I marked them all with ???, so I'll take a look.

Hmm... I still don't know about that issue with the TONS of options specific to certain things being banned.
That first one I didn't get even though I'm pretty sure I banned hunting.

[Fauxia]

That'll come in handy if we get a series of extremely niche issues.
(we're still a bit slow on updating old issues, though...)

Yeah, nobody has reported the changes to “Hush, Hush... Sweet Charlotte”, and that was over a month ago.

There have been changes? OMG, brilliant!

Also on Issue 909, don’t remember all the names, but the first one is completely random (I guess it’s @@RANDOMNAME_1@@)

[Jutsa]

Hopefully updated the macros correctly...

[Trotterdam]

#908 The Forbidden Fruit

The Issue

The Prime Minister of the massive agricultural nation of Ausblic has sent you a rather unconventional gift: five thousand fruit baskets worth 100 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ each. Now, crates of fruit baskets occupy almost all available space in your office.

The Debate

1. "Do you like our gift, @@LEADER@@?" enquires the Prime Minister of Ausblic, @@RANDOMNAME@@, wandering through the maze of fruit baskets only to find your face hidden by a huge pineapple. "We wish to improve ties with @@NAME@@, and what better way than by offering a sample of Ausblic's main export? If you can't finish eating all five thousand baskets worth of fruit, I'm sure that you could sell some of them back to the market with a significant markup. Just a suggestion."

2. "Nice try, but our leader is incorruptible!" snarls your devoted Home Secretary @@RANDOMNAME@@, @@HIS/HER@@ @@LEADER@@ is Love, @@LEADER@@ is Life T-shirt visible through her shirt. "We must destroy all of these odious offerings, and show that we have zero tolerance of graft. Harsh punishments must be given to anyone who tries to bribe government officials. Only then will our glorious nation be free of corruption!"

3. "That's taking it a little too far," states @@RANDOMNAME@@, the Minister of the Middle Ground, who is standing between the previous two speakers to keep them apart. "We could permit politicians to receive small gifts, inconsequential sums totalling a maximum of 50 @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@ per person, per annum. Any previous gifts received that are worth more than the amount stated, like those fruit baskets, should be donated to charity. Imagine the needy people of @@NAME@@, delightedly waiting for succour as you donate all the things you don't even need."

5. "What you call bribes, I call political donations," divulges politician @@RANDOMNAME@@, who hefts a suitcase that is bursting with cash. "Getting into public office takes millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@, and the average citizen cannot afford to do so. If you make it easier for politicians to receive donations from altruistic international investors, you could bring equality to politics and give even the most disadvantaged candidates a fighting chance. After all, if some legitimate Blackacrean businessman is actively interested in @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ politics and wants to help some idealist change @@NAME@@ for the better, what's the harm?"

Issue by Singapore no2
Edited by The Free Joy State

Nope, I don't know what option 4 is, but for the record the nation I got this on is communist, which does seem like it should be somehow relevant considering all the talk of sales and money.

Update:

4. "What you call bribes, I call political donations," divulges politician @@RANDOMNAME@@, who hefts a suitcase that is bursting with cash. "Getting into public office takes millions of @@CURRENCYPLURAL@@, and the average citizen cannot afford to do so. If you make it easier for politicians to receive donations from generous benefactors, you could bring equality to politics and give even the most disadvantaged candidates a fighting chance, regardless of their financial standing."

[Jutsa]

Updated! I'm very glad that I changed the way validity options look.

[Pencil Sharpeners]

Issue 910: A for Effort

The Issue

A home-schooled student with perfect grades was kicked out of Pencilpolis University after failing the first semester.

The Debate

1. “This is not fair!” berates Ksenya Nixon, the student’s mom, her face turning the color of beetroot as she glares at you accusingly. “How can colleges kick out a student after they’ve enrolled? It’s as if they don’t believe the grades I gave him! My little cherub worked so hard in his high school years, and now it’s all for nothing. Leader, you must make it a law that colleges cannot boot out anyone after they’ve been accepted.”

2. “Do you see these papers?” asks Falala True, the university’s admissions counsellor. “Copies of rejection letters sent to applicants who were declined a space because of this sub-par student! I think that we need to take some serious measures to make sure that home-schooled students have their grades checked and verified by the state.”

4. “Why are college entrance criteria so elitist anyway?” enquires Ken Christmas, an intern who has just completed a college paper on socialism. “Why not just make going to college mandatory for every Pencil Sharpener? College education should be free for all until the age of 24. Yes, it will require a boost in taxation to pay for it, but everyone will surely appreciate their government-funded master’s degree.”

Issue by Orgrua

Edited by Baggieland

[Jutsa]

I thought I might have seen this name before! Congratulations on being a multi-issuer, Orgrua... even though your nation seems to be CTE'd.

Congratulations to Baggieland for their first ever issue edit.

Updated! Keep an eye out for option 3! (And 908.3, I might add)

[He Qixin]

[Jutsa]

So, I used NSIndex to find some missing options and stuff (Wew! Go Minoa!) and also to see if I could figure out the missing validities that I marked with ???,
which include 60.3, 60.4, 411.1, 411.2, 523.3, 610.4, 725.3, 725.4, 786.4*, and possibly 837.3 + 837.4. Also added 488.3 to the list.

Here's what I did for validities:
60.3/4 seem obvious, but I thought there were complications. Updated their validites, but kept a [???] at the end just to be safe. Same for 786.4.
411, 523, and 610 are still a mystery.
Added government surveillance to 725.
No idea if there even are validities to 837, tbh. I feel like there should be, but I also feel like I was told there aren't any. Keeping a [???] next to them as well.

As said, I also filled in options. I updated:
114 (Actually it was already updated, but I forgot to remove it from the list. That's something you can update, Minoa. )
200 (Minoa's listings are different from mine: Saved the former if I got it wrong though. Pretty sure this is the new one, though. Thanks, Minoa!)
417 (Same as 200. Go NS Index! Also added Ransium.)
and 502.3.

ALSO REMOVED:

What about #136 3, #364 3, #467 1, #588 2, ...? Or even #205 2, #620 3, #627 1, #705 3, ...? For that matter, #352 5, #580 3, ...?

I shoulda read more closely... turns out we didn't need these, so much as it was Trotterdam pointing something out to CWA. Whoops.
Also removed 325.3, 626.2, and 857.3 because they were already updated.

So now our list is a nice, comparatively small. I also kept 717.3 because I have no idea if it's numbered right or not, if anyone could confirm this. Also added 837.5/6 for the same reason.

190.2, 488.3, 717.3, 760.3, possibly 837.5/6, 848.3, possibly 850.4, 851.4, possibly 858.5, 875.3, possibly 880.4, 884.4, possibly 896.6, and 910.4
plus validities for 411.1/2, 523.3, and 610.4.

er, plus we have 910.3 to find, now.

Also, heads up to Minoa: in 880.3, I'm pretty sure Ro Jennifer is fixed.

Edit: Underlined the new list.

Edit 2: I guess the list is still there, but at least it's smaller. Do I get an A for effort?

Serious note: What's wrong He Qixin?

[No Economy]

602.4 has a validity, as I didn't get it since I have no internet.

[Jutsa]

Nice catch! Not even on the list.

Also added validities for 1, 6, and 7.

I can't imagine 1/7 appearing for nations without sports. 6, without cars, is possible, but "locomotive" in there makes me think otherwise.
I also wonder if option 3 is available for nations that aren't democracies, seeing as the word "politician" is in there, if anyone could confirm/deny this. (asking a lot I know )

[He Qixin]

i got jealous.

[Candlewhisper Archive]

i got jealous.

Hmm, out of curiosity I poked the files to see how many issues you have in the Yes pile, and how many you have in the No pile. The answer is 0 in each.

Are you submitting under another name? Cos if not, its gonna be pretty hard for us to publish you till you actually submit an issue.