HRoN: Diseases and disorders in your nation

[Haiz]

In this restart of Haiz's popular "Hypothetical Responses of Nations" series, hypothetical scenarios are posed to your nation's government on the subject of diseases and disorders.

Simply respond to the information posed in each scenario. Add as much detail as you want, addressing what your nation's current government would do to address the situation

Scenarios are intentionally made to include as many nations and states as possible. For example, no diseases are mentioned specifically to account for some nations eradicating diseases prevalent in other areas of the world. Should you still find any response not applicable to your nation, feel free to skip the scenario or say "N/A".

Remember that responses can come from both official government authorities or delegated private authorities, depending on how the infrastructure of your nation is established.

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[box]1. Motivated by a decent sense of global citizenship (or, if you rather, a cunning if morally questionable PR campaign), your nation sent doctors and nurses to a far-off nation suffering from a particularly devastating epidemic of a reasonably contagious disease. After a month of treating victims, the safety measures taken by your nation's aid workers have failed to contain the spread of the disease. Several doctors and nurses have contracted it. With few medical resources to help even natives of the aforementioned countries, it is likely your aid workers will not recover if left overseas. The media and the public are asking what, if anything, can be done to help them. What is the response of your nation?[/box]

[box]2. A 87-year old anarchist familiar to both your nation's history books and the bedroom walls of your nation's rebellious youth has been imprisoned or in rehabilitation for decades after an unrivaled campaign of arson. However, doctors have confirmed he is now dying of a chronic and noncommunicable disease and almost [i]certainly[/i] has less than a year to live. Some activists in your nation are calling for his compassionate release. What is the response of your nation?[/box]

[box]3. A widespread but not crippling pandemic has caused border authorities in your nation to increase checks on incoming travelers from infected regions. Such a tourist apparently lied or otherwise concealed their health and has entered your nation while infected. As a result, your previously uninfected nation now has several confirmed cases of the disease. What is the response of your nation?[/box]

[box]4. Misinformation amongst a significant group of your nation's populace has led to paranoia over a relatively small epidemic in one of the nations bordering your nation. This paranoia has included workers and students confining themselves to their homes, ostracism of people with benign diseases that have similar symptoms to the aforementioned pandemic, and a sharp spike in sales of whatever apocalypse gear is legal. Bowing to constituent pressure, some government officials want to take enhanced albeit somewhat absurd actions, such as enacting ludicrously long quarantines, closing borders, and distributing iodine to the nation's schoolchildren. What is the response of your nation?[/box]

[box]5. A biological attack has left a moderately-sized but important city in your nation with a high rate of infection of an unknown and devastating airborne disease. Currently, the disease is contained in the city, but the efforts at containment are highly stressed and a nationwide epidemic seems probable. What is the response of your nation?[/box]

[box]6. A renowned scientist has announced that a new gene therapy treatment has been discovered that would virtually eliminate a behavioral genetic disorder that has frustrated your nation's medical community for a very long time. The treatment has met some opposition from various groups. Some object to gene therapy itself; however, most of the protesters object to the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, claiming it classifies behavior that does not impair individuals but may be viewed as socially deviant as a disorder. What is the response of your nation?
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[Haiz]

1. Motivated by a decent sense of global citizenship (or, if you rather, a cunning if morally questionable PR campaign), your nation sent doctors and nurses to a far-off nation suffering from a particularly devastating epidemic of a reasonably contagious disease. After a month of treating victims, the safety measures taken by your nation's aid workers have failed to contain the spread of the disease. With few medical resources to help even natives of the aforementioned countries, it is likely your aid workers will not recover if left overseas. Several doctors and nurses have contracted the disease. The media and the public are asking what, if anything, can be done to help them. What is the response of your nation?

The Queendom would remove the doctors and nurses from the epidemic area. If there was a nearby nation with the ability to treat the nurses, we would seek aid there until they recovered and were able to resume medical duty. Alternatively, they would be taken back to Haiz to receive treatment. If all of these options were impossible, the Queendom would treat them as infected natives of the country to which aid was being given.

2. A 87-year old anarchist familiar to both your nation's history books and the bedroom walls of your nation's rebellious youth has been imprisoned or in rehabilitation in your nation for decades after an unrivaled campaign of arson. However, doctors have confirmed he is now dying of a chronic and noncommunicable disease and almost certainly has less than a year to live. Some activists in your nation are calling for his compassionate release. What is the response of your nation?

The anarchist would be released from rehabilitation on condition that he attend designated medical care until his passing. Other restrictions placed on him would be appropraite for the specifics of his crime, such as a restriction against the purchase or possession of flammable materials.

3. A widespread but not crippling pandemic has caused border authorities in your nation to increase checks on incoming travelers from infected regions. Such a tourist apparently lied or otherwise concealed their health and has entered your nation while infected. As a result, your previously uninfected nation now has several confirmed cases of the disease. What is the response of your nation?

The tourist would be isolated and could be required to disclose truthful information by court order about individuals he has been in contact with according to Haiz's Patient Zero protocols. Failure to disclose truthful information would be considered contempt of court. The Haizian medical authorities would then attempt to contain and control the disease while treating and isolating patients of the disease.

4. Misinformation amongst a significant group of your nation's populace has led to paranoia over a relatively small epidemic in one of the nations bordering your nation. This paranoia has included workers and students confining themselves to their homes, ostracism of people with benign diseases that have similar symptoms to the aforementioned pandemic, and a sharp spike in sales of whatever apocalypse gear is legal. Bowing to constituent pressure, some government officials want to take enhanced albeit somewhat absurd actions, such as enacting ludicrously long quarantines, closing borders, and distributing iodine to the nation's schoolchildren. What is the response of your nation?

The Queendom would attempt to launch an information campaign designed to reverse the misinformation. At the same time, more reasonable means of preventing the spread of the disease, such as encouraging the sanitation of public spaces and encouraging active hand-washing, would be spread via public service announcements to assure the public that the epidemic is being taken seriously, albeit in a reasonable way. The public health operations for existing benign diseases would continue.

5. A biological attack has left a moderately-sized but important city in your nation with a high rate of infection for an unknown and devastating airborne disease. Currently, the disease is contained in the city, but the efforts at containment are highly stressed and a nationwide epidemic seems probable. What is the response of your nation?

Restrictions would likely be passed on nearby communities under emergency governmental powers that could include restrictions on movement, health inspections, motorway closures, and airport closures. Campaigns for sanitation and the stationing of resources around nearby communities would also begin in preparation for the emergence of the disease to areas outside of the city.

The entire nation would likely fall under possible health inspections and a thorough public awareness campaign would begin for signs of the disease. Public buildings and areas would likely be under surveillance by authorities for such individuals and emergency treatment centers would be organized with a minimum of resources in major cities and towns.

6. A renowned scientist has announced that a new gene therapy treatment has been discovered that would virtually eliminate a behavioral genetic disorder that has frustrated your nation's medical community for a very long time. The treatment has met some opposition from various groups. Some object to gene therapy itself, however, most of the protesters object to the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, claiming it classifies behavior that does not impair individuals but may be viewed as socially deviant as a disorder. What is the response of your nation?

The Board of Medicine of Haiz Academy of Sciences would likely motion for a review of the diagnostic criteria while ordering a temporary hold on the medical procedure approval process in Haiz. The review of the criteria would include commentary from notable scientists, doctors, and other qualified individuals who could offer insights into the nature of the disorder. From this review, the disorder could be eliminated altogether, reclassified according to new diagnostic criteria, or allowed to exist as-is. Since the Haiz Academy of Sciences can update the diagnostic criteria at any time, not just at intervals when "volumes" are published, the process should be reasonably timely.

After the Board of Medicine has made its judgement of the critera and existence of the disorder, the approval process would resume for the medical treatment. Haiz has a long record of developing and implementing genetic treatments for disorders. While behavioural traits are given more skepticism in approval, they nonetheless will likely be approved if the treatment a) has a relatively higher sense of gain for the patient compared to its risks and b) does not substantially favor one otherwise healthy individual over another (an explicit prohibition of eugenics).

The procedure would automatically be reviewed every three years when a new volume of the Board of Medicine Review would be published, but could be reviewed more frequently if a question arose.

[Haiz]

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[Alfegos]

Sounds like someone's trying to get their medical ethics homework done for them by us. You absolute lizard.

1. Motivated by a decent sense of global citizenship (or, if you rather, a cunning if morally questionable PR campaign), your nation sent doctors and nurses to a far-off nation suffering from a particularly devastating epidemic of a reasonably contagious disease. After a month of treating victims, the safety measures taken by your nation's aid workers have failed to contain the spread of the disease. Several doctors and nurses have contracted it. With few medical resources to help even natives of the aforementioned countries, it is likely your aid workers will not recover if left overseas. The media and the public are asking what, if anything, can be done to help them. What is the response of your nation?

Personnel working overseas on aid missions, with registered national and international medical charities, are entitled to healthcare in the People's Nation of Alfegos - however, if the mission is not officially sponsored by the government (i.e. Military, or FU-AID sponsored), then medical evacuation costs are to be borne by the individual, their aid mission, or their insurer. Medical evacuation, as with all aid personnel, back to Fegosian territories from disaster areas require mandatory stopover for quarantine, decompression and debriefing. This will normally be in the Los'vi archipelago, where the main military/FHS run hospital's infectious disease ward is perfectly suited for the treatment of contagious patients. Quarantine is based on contact with infected persons, development of illness, and type of illness. For low risk personnel, this will occur with freedom of travel around Los'vi Il'os - for high risk personnel, this will see confinement to a holding wing in the hospital for a short period.

Up to 160 personnel can be handled by the Los'vi facilities. If more personnel were ill, or feared contagious, then other options may be explored, including taking over other wards within the hospital,
use of the fortified military district, or use of other islands in the archipelago for low risk quarantine subjects.

In this instance, protocol would be followed, and a Fegosian Air Force mission sent (with military medical personnel) to medically evacuate personnel in an appropriate manner, in order of priority. The ill patients would be treated in a level of isolation appropriate to the disease, and a risk assessment of remaining personnel. A decompression period of 7 days would still be followed for personnel returning to the Fegosian nation, with accomodation and feeding provided at Fegosian military installations in Los'vi. This is in order to allow a full assessment of health to be carried out, alongside early detection of mental health issues or political radicalisation. With world class treatment available, there should be no deaths.

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2. A 87-year old anarchist familiar to both your nation's history books and the bedroom walls of your nation's rebellious youth has been imprisoned or in rehabilitation for decades after an unrivaled campaign of arson. However, doctors have confirmed he is now dying of a chronic and noncommunicable disease and almost certainly has less than a year to live. Some activists in your nation are calling for his compassionate release. What is the response of your nation?

The sentencing is dependent on the nature of the man's crimes. It is very rare for a man to be committed to life imprisonment, particularly in secure institutions, as it would recognise that the criminal had no chance of rehabilitation, AND would be made a martyr if executed.

Compassionate release is only ever given if the criminal has some chance of rehabilitation brought on by the realisation of his mortality, and is no longer a danger to society. As a figurehead of the anarchist movement, his release is more likely to be a threat to society than his death in prison. Similarly, his unwillingness to repent, combined with the severity of his original crime, would seal his fate of death in prison. He did not show compassion, and never has, for the deaths and maiming inflicted in his crime (as would be implied under Fegosian criminal code), and so the state will not show him compassion.

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3. A widespread but not crippling pandemic has caused border authorities in your nation to increase checks on incoming travelers from infected regions. Such a tourist apparently lied or otherwise concealed their health and has entered your nation while infected. As a result, your previously uninfected nation now has several confirmed cases of the disease. What is the response of your nation?

The Fegosian Health Service's public health branch, the Health Protection Board (HPB) is responsible in this instance for the control of infectious diseases in the People's Nation. In such an instance, all sentinel positions (GPs, A&Es, Ambulance Crews) would be aware of likely presentations, and report them immediately using a basic flow chart to follow as their response.

On finding a case, the following will happen:
1 - The HPB will be notified immediately, so that action can be taken.
2 - All exposed persons and contacts of the person will be traced and brought in for testing immediately. This may involve monitoring, or advice to report to A&E if they have any symptoms develop. Compulsory testing and confinment will only occur in rare instances.
3 - Vaccination in affected areas, of contacts and persons in contacts, will occur where possible. If not possible, chemoprophylaxis will be given where available.
4 - Isolation of the infectious patients in a negative pressure room as soon as detected, with further measures put in place where necessary.
5 - Full lab tests to occur, in appropriate biosecurity level labs, to confirm presence of the pathogen.

In many instances, compulsory screening of those from the country in question will occur at ports and airports. High levels of suspicion in basic screening interviews will result in testing.

In this instance, any pandemic disease will likely be controlled in a matter of days, with very little difficulty anticipated in most scenarios.



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4. Misinformation amongst a significant group of your nation's populace has led to paranoia over a relatively small epidemic in one of the nations bordering your nation. This paranoia has included workers and students confining themselves to their homes, ostracism of people with benign diseases that have similar symptoms to the aforementioned pandemic, and a sharp spike in sales of whatever apocalypse gear is legal. Bowing to constituent pressure, some government officials want to take enhanced albeit somewhat absurd actions, such as enacting ludicrously long quarantines, closing borders, and distributing iodine to the nation's schoolchildren. What is the response of your nation?

Mass information from the public health authorities. Standard implementation of control measures on the border as a token measure, to calm the populace. As is normal, crimes of intolerance are punished, with reminders broadcast through mass media. Government officials bowing to constituent pressure gently reminded of duty to nation, and the big picture.

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5. A biological attack has left a moderately-sized but important city in your nation with a high rate of infection of an unknown and devastating airborne disease. Currently, the disease is contained in the city, but the efforts at containment are highly stressed and a nationwide epidemic seems probable. What is the response of your nation?

Incredibly unlikely, given that this sort of thing rarely happens (if ever) in the real world. If so though, the following would be enforced by the FHS HPB in conjunction with Civil Defence and the other emergency services:

1 - Curfew enacted, and all public gathering places closed until further notice. Key public infrastructure decontaminated and utilised as overflow for medical triage and treatment, or for improvised mortuaries.
2 - Roadblocks enforced around the city, alongside closure of air, water and rail transport routes to the city. Cessation of public transport.
3 - Delivery of water and food packages from civil defence disaster stores if necessary.

4 - Hospital empirical treatment of cases started based on presence of sepsis or LRTI. Based upon the profile of the infection (ie Bacterial), empirical antibiotic treatment to be started immediately based on disease severity. If not, empirical antiviral treatments to be started if deemed non-futile. Supportive therapy to be initiated otherwise.
5 - Laboratory anaylsis of samples collected from the acutely unwell with spiking fevers to be initated as a priority, with PCR tests (results in approximately 30 minutes in the acute setting for known organisms), blood, urine and sputum cultures (1 - 7 days), and thin/thick film microscopy. Unknown organisms to be investigated as based on symptoms, using histology and cytology disciplines to guide detection.
6 - Serum collection to be started, with the aim of isolating antibodies for amplification, and for treatment of the unwell.
7 - Staffing and supplies to be supplied from outside exclusion zone as necessary.

8 - All national sentinel posts (GPs and A&Es) to be vigilant for likely infection factors.

Likely result is dependent on disease. Deaths expected from the initial cadre of presenting patients, and in vulnerable populations. Overall, incident may last at most for 3 months. Perpetrators unlikely to live to see the end of their work.

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6. A renowned scientist has announced that a new gene therapy treatment has been discovered that would virtually eliminate a behavioral genetic disorder that has frustrated your nation's medical community for a very long time. The treatment has met some opposition from various groups. Some object to gene therapy itself; however, most of the protesters object to the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, claiming it classifies behavior that does not impair individuals but may be viewed as socially deviant as a disorder. What is the response of your nation?

This would be a matter for the FHS's Ethical and Licencing Committee (ELC) to decide. In this instance, it would be viewed through the lens of the "Four Biomedical Ethical Principles":

- Benevolence - Is it going to help? Yes.
- Non-Maleficience - Is it intended to harms persons? No
- Autonomy - Does the patient have choice? NO. However, did they have the ability to consent in the first place?
- Justice - Is the outcome of this treatment just for all involved? Will its cost affect the care of others? MAYBE.

So these are the two sticking points. However, some things are to note:
- If the behavioural disorder is genetic, then there is a clear diagnostic criterian (behavioural change + gene change), so there is hardly any question of the behaviour being "socially deviant".
- Is the treatment successful? If it has been successfully put through the trials process, and found to work with no significant side-effects, then crack on.
- How expensive is it? If so, is it truly of benefit in the wider scheme of things?

On these points, the therapy would be allowed to go through to limited trial. As normal, education on the procedure would be provided, and a final decision of funding treatment on FHS budget made on trial results.


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I hope that's the result you wanted for your homework. Because I've got nothing better to do this evening, except write this whilst slightly inebriated. Treat yourself.

[Imperium Sidhicum]

1. Motivated by a decent sense of global citizenship (or, if you rather, a cunning if morally questionable PR campaign), your nation sent doctors and nurses to a far-off nation suffering from a particularly devastating epidemic of a reasonably contagious disease. After a month of treating victims, the safety measures taken by your nation's aid workers have failed to contain the spread of the disease. Several doctors and nurses have contracted it. With few medical resources to help even natives of the aforementioned countries, it is likely your aid workers will not recover if left overseas. The media and the public are asking what, if anything, can be done to help them. What is the response of your nation?

Sidh immune systems are engineered to be very robust, very few pathogens being able to cause anything more than a mild illness in a Sidh, most of the existing ones being bioweapons deliberately engineered to defeat Sidh immune systems. They can deal comfortably even with exotic diseases with no previous exposure. So a Sidh doctor catching an exotic plague seems rather unlikely.

Even more unlikely is the fact that Sidh doctors would go out beyond Imperial borders to treat anyone for a plague - there's little point for such charity/PR campains, seeing how our only neighbors in the known Galaxy also happen to be our sworn enemies. The only interest a Sidh doctor might have in such expedition is to obtain a sample of the causative organism for the bioweapons program.

In the unlikely event that Sidh doctors have gone on such expedition and become infected, the government still has no need to bother with them. Since they most likely have travelled to the location with a well-equipped starship outfitted for medical research or at least with a state-of-the-art medbay, the doctors can be quarantined and treated aboard the ship without any danger to the public.

2. A 87-year old anarchist familiar to both your nation's history books and the bedroom walls of your nation's rebellious youth has been imprisoned or in rehabilitation for decades after an unrivaled campaign of arson. However, doctors have confirmed he is now dying of a chronic and noncommunicable disease and almost certainly has less than a year to live. Some activists in your nation are calling for his compassionate release. What is the response of your nation?

If an anarchist was caught for a campaign of arson by Imperial authorities, he most definitely wouldn't have lived to the age of 87, unless he already was well over 80. It's even less likely that anyone would care about his medical status in the labour camp, provided he was imprisoned rather than executed in some gruesome and painful manner.

3. A widespread but not crippling pandemic has caused border authorities in your nation to increase checks on incoming travelers from infected regions. Such a tourist apparently lied or otherwise concealed their health and has entered your nation while infected. As a result, your previously uninfected nation now has several confirmed cases of the disease. What is the response of your nation?

Quarantine all exposed personnel, seal off infected areas and throw in a labour camp those idiots who fucked up and let an infected visitor through. If some bug is potent enough to cause a serious illness in a Sidh, then it definitely requires very serious measures to be taken.

4. Misinformation amongst a significant group of your nation's populace has led to paranoia over a relatively small epidemic in one of the nations bordering your nation. This paranoia has included workers and students confining themselves to their homes, ostracism of people with benign diseases that have similar symptoms to the aforementioned pandemic, and a sharp spike in sales of whatever apocalypse gear is legal. Bowing to constituent pressure, some government officials want to take enhanced albeit somewhat absurd actions, such as enacting ludicrously long quarantines, closing borders, and distributing iodine to the nation's schoolchildren. What is the response of your nation?

Again, Sidhae are equipped with immune systems capable of handling most diseases with ease, and there's just no way in hell a biological hazard can travel light-years across space that separate the Imperium from it's nearest neighbors, especially seeing how there's very little traffic between Imperium and neighboring nations due to the constant state of war.

5. A biological attack has left a moderately-sized but important city in your nation with a high rate of infection of an unknown and devastating airborne disease. Currently, the disease is contained in the city, but the efforts at containment are highly stressed and a nationwide epidemic seems probable. What is the response of your nation?

If all else fails, sanitize the city with orbital bombardment until nothing but vitrified slag remains. Cities can be rebuilt and repopulated, and millions may die here, but a bioweapon that's dangerous enough to possibly cause a nationwide epidemic among Sidhae of all people is a very good reason to sacrifice the population of a single city.

And obviously, find out whatever scumbag did this and make sure he dies the most horrendous possible death as soon as possible.

6. A renowned scientist has announced that a new gene therapy treatment has been discovered that would virtually eliminate a behavioral genetic disorder that has frustrated your nation's medical community for a very long time. The treatment has met some opposition from various groups. Some object to gene therapy itself; however, most of the protesters object to the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, claiming it classifies behavior that does not impair individuals but may be viewed as socially deviant as a disorder. What is the response of your nation?

Gene therapy is already used extensively to treat such disorders, including ones that do not otherwise impair individuals, but confer no evolutionary advantages. Homosexuality, for example - generally a harmless deviation, but a deviation nonetheless. With combined efforts of gene therapy, medication and psychological counseling, 85% of Sidhae who have complained about persistent homosexual urges have been successfuly cured, the remaining 15% requiring more advanced and extensive treatment to remedy their condition.

So whatever this condition be, curing it by gene therapy or any other means would not just be approved but expected in Sidh society. In Sidh eyes, it would be unethical not to.

[Tyrandel]

1. Motivated by a decent sense of global citizenship (or, if you rather, a cunning if morally questionable PR campaign), your nation sent doctors and nurses to a far-off nation suffering from a particularly devastating epidemic of a reasonably contagious disease. After a month of treating victims, the safety measures taken by your nation's aid workers have failed to contain the spread of the disease. Several doctors and nurses have contracted it. With few medical resources to help even natives of the aforementioned countries, it is likely your aid workers will not recover if left overseas. The media and the public are asking what, if anything, can be done to help them. What is the response of your nation?

The disease would have to be virulent, dangerous to Tyrandel, and located in a region close enough to us for us to have a geopolitical interest. Otherwise we would not have bothered trying to cure it. More extreme actions than merely sending in medics would be required. First, we would organize a campaign of isolation and treatment of individuals judged high value, including our nationals and major leaders. Should a treatment be properly developed, it would then be administered throughout the nation.

Because the government had failed its purpose in protecting the people, our forces would not leave the nation and would instead claim it as a vassal. Certainly native administrators would remain in place if they did not resist, but they are obviously too incompetent to handle a crisis and cannot be trusted to govern themselves. Therefore our own Governors would be put in place.

2. A 87-year old anarchist familiar to both your nation's history books and the bedroom walls of your nation's rebellious youth has been imprisoned or in rehabilitation for decades after an unrivaled campaign of arson. However, doctors have confirmed he is now dying of a chronic and noncommunicable disease and almost certainly has less than a year to live. Some activists in your nation are calling for his compassionate release. What is the response of your nation?

Jail sentences are final unless it is found that a miscarriage of justice has occurred. Age and health do not impact this. The anarchist would definitely be moved to a facility outfitted to handle his conditions, but he would not be released. Justice cannot be changed because of emotion and sentimentality. Because he is also a potential source of further anarchist threats, he would also be isolated and placed in a location not revealed publicly.

3. A widespread but not crippling pandemic has caused border authorities in your nation to increase checks on incoming travelers from infected regions. Such a tourist apparently lied or otherwise concealed their health and has entered your nation while infected. As a result, your previously uninfected nation now has several confirmed cases of the disease. What is the response of your nation?

Block all incoming traffic from infected areas. Hunt down and quarantine the infected. Produce a vaccine and issue it to all major health clinics in infected areas, as well as sending medics to distribute vaccine to villagers and peasants. Provide vaccine to infected nations and remove travel blocks if/when they have purged themselves of the disease.

4. Misinformation amongst a significant group of your nation's populace has led to paranoia over a relatively small epidemic in one of the nations bordering your nation. This paranoia has included workers and students confining themselves to their homes, ostracism of people with benign diseases that have similar symptoms to the aforementioned pandemic, and a sharp spike in sales of whatever apocalypse gear is legal. Bowing to constituent pressure, some government officials want to take enhanced albeit somewhat absurd actions, such as enacting ludicrously long quarantines, closing borders, and distributing iodine to the nation's schoolchildren. What is the response of your nation?

Inform population that they are idiots, but have the right to be idiots. Fire government officials favoring public opinion over effective governance. Iodine is already available as a supplement from most health clinics. Insist that neighbor government deals with epidemic or faces vassalage.

5. A biological attack has left a moderately-sized but important city in your nation with a high rate of infection of an unknown and devastating airborne disease. Currently, the disease is contained in the city, but the efforts at containment are highly stressed and a nationwide epidemic seems probable. What is the response of your nation?

Quarantine the city. Kill anything that tries to leave. Send medical volunteers in to attempt treatment. If treatment fails, turn city into glass with magical heliobeam. Also turn source of attack into glass.

6. A renowned scientist has announced that a new gene therapy treatment has been discovered that would virtually eliminate a behavioral genetic disorder that has frustrated your nation's medical community for a very long time. The treatment has met some opposition from various groups. Some object to gene therapy itself; however, most of the protesters object to the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, claiming it classifies behavior that does not impair individuals but may be viewed as socially deviant as a disorder. What is the response of your nation?

If the targeted behavior is indeed found to impair individuals or negatively impact intelligence, judgement made by a panel of psychologists and sociologists, approve issuing of the gene therapy. If the targeted behavior is found to not impair individuals or to be manageable with simpler methods, deny issuing of the gene therapy but keep records of it for potential later usage.

[Victorious Decepticons]

1. Motivated by a decent sense of global citizenship (or, if you rather, a cunning if morally questionable PR campaign), your nation sent doctors and nurses to a far-off nation suffering from a particularly devastating epidemic of a reasonably contagious disease. After a month of treating victims, the safety measures taken by your nation's aid workers have failed to contain the spread of the disease. Several doctors and nurses have contracted it. With few medical resources to help even natives of the aforementioned countries, it is likely your aid workers will not recover if left overseas. The media and the public are asking what, if anything, can be done to help them. What is the response of your nation?

"The media is reporting that OUR AGENTS caught the disease!"

"Ha ha ha! That's rich! Metal can't catch diseases. Have our agents keep on inoculating those biological saps with the cure for the original disease, which also contains the Decepticon Loyalty Virus an 'add-on.' And put out a press release denying that our people caught anything - without giving away that they can't catch anything, of course."

2. A 87-year old anarchist familiar to both your nation's history books and the bedroom walls of your nation's rebellious youth has been imprisoned or in rehabilitation for decades after an unrivaled campaign of arson. However, doctors have confirmed he is now dying of a chronic and noncommunicable disease and almost certainly has less than a year to live. Some activists in your nation are calling for his compassionate release. What is the response of your nation?

Whoever has been allowing this guy to hole up (there are no prisons/rehab centers here, so he must have been in hiding) and avoid meltdown "for decades" is found and executed for treason. The 87-year-old, now found, is duly melted down for treason as well, as he should have been long ago.

Any other so-called "activists" in our nation are also executed regardless of what they're agitating for. Dissent is treason.

3. A widespread but not crippling pandemic has caused border authorities in your nation to increase checks on incoming travelers from infected regions. Such a tourist apparently lied or otherwise concealed their health and has entered your nation while infected. As a result, your previously uninfected nation now has several confirmed cases of the disease. What is the response of your nation?

Only biologicals can be infected by mere contact with another, so this means he must have come to Decepticon Earth rather than Cybertron. There, he is quickly captured like a wild animal and sold into slavery without being checked in the least. Since his disease was not in the currently-active immunity patch, it then rampages through Mine #950 where he ends up, strickening all of its 2,000 head of human livestock with the disease. The mine is sealed off, trapping all of its slaves underground so they can't spread it further, as the Bureau of Biological Research rushes to analyze the disease's DNA and produce an emergency DNA patch for all of our slaves.

The patch, once developed, works as intended and makes our entire population of human livestock totally immune to the disease via direct genetic alteration. Alas, the upgrade comes to slow for Mine #950, which loses all of its slaves including the new one. The mine is closed for sterilization, and the dead slaves are run through biological rendering. The resulting fertilizer is steam-sterilized before being spread on the fields.

4. Misinformation amongst a significant group of your nation's populace has led to paranoia over a relatively small epidemic in one of the nations bordering your nation. This paranoia has included workers and students confining themselves to their homes, ostracism of people with benign diseases that have similar symptoms to the aforementioned pandemic, and a sharp spike in sales of whatever apocalypse gear is legal. Bowing to constituent pressure, some government officials want to take enhanced albeit somewhat absurd actions, such as enacting ludicrously long quarantines, closing borders, and distributing iodine to the nation's schoolchildren. What is the response of your nation?

N/A, an occasional nut might think he could get a biological disease, but there'd never be enough to cause even a pocket of paranoia. The one nut would be dragged to Debugging and repaired; it should be plainly obvious that a metal body cannot catch a disease of the sort that affects biologicals.

5. A biological attack has left a moderately-sized but important city in your nation with a high rate of infection of an unknown and devastating airborne disease. Currently, the disease is contained in the city, but the efforts at containment are highly stressed and a nationwide epidemic seems probable. What is the response of your nation?

Have everyone in the city mind-transfer to clean, new bodies. Then melt the city down from orbit, vaporizing the weird metal-eating disease and making it safe to rebuild the area.

6. A renowned scientist has announced that a new gene therapy treatment has been discovered that would virtually eliminate a behavioral genetic disorder that has frustrated your nation's medical community for a very long time. The treatment has met some opposition from various groups. Some object to gene therapy itself; however, most of the protesters object to the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, claiming it classifies behavior that does not impair individuals but may be viewed as socially deviant as a disorder. What is the response of your nation?

N/A; we don't have genes. Also, the initial code (written prior to the individual's sapience) is created in accordance with the Minimum Specifications for Code Intended to be Sapient. This means that any "socially deviant" behavior must come about later, after sapience is attained. Because of this, any code-based alteration of such behavior would be in the form of a coding patch.

Another thing that's important to note is that there is no need to work "a very long time" to get the basic idea of how to alter a particular behavior. Decepticon minds are made of Code. As long as the person is willing to be patched, even complex patches can be made in short order just by putting more coding experts on the project. Of course, the more coders are needed, the more expensive the patch will be - but a customer can get even the most extensive recode completed in a maximum of 10 days. Usually, it takes mere hours to make a custom patch.

We have no stigma against having patches made to alter our own behavior, emotions, and thought processes, as long as those patches are willingly applied. In fact, people regularly buy such patches to help them in their raiding, conniving, or even with legitimate business dealings. Patches to decrease obnoxious behavior already exist as well, and they aren't the slightest bit controversial since they aren't mandatory. (Only patches that fix technical glitches and/or actual, severe insanity are mandatory.)

As for "socially deviant" behavior...(emphasis on deviant) it's hard to think of something that'd qualify as that in our society that doesn't also significantly impair the individual. The general rule applies: If the government is bothered enough to care about it, it's also pissed enough to kill you for it. The government does not care about minor weirdness or the ick factor. It cares about whether you're against it, the Leader, the Nation, the People, or the Decepticon Way in general. If you fall into any of those categories, you and a slag pit will be meeting each other in short order.

[Lancov]

1. Motivated by a decent sense of global citizenship (or, if you rather, a cunning if morally questionable PR campaign), your nation sent doctors and nurses to a far-off nation suffering from a particularly devastating epidemic of a reasonably contagious disease. After a month of treating victims, the safety measures taken by your nation's aid workers have failed to contain the spread of the disease. Several doctors and nurses have contracted it. With few medical resources to help even natives of the aforementioned countries, it is likely your aid workers will not recover if left overseas. The media and the public are asking what, if anything, can be done to help them. What is the response of your nation?

Bring them home, quarantine them in hospitals equipped to deal with their illness.

2. A 87-year old anarchist familiar to both your nation's history books and the bedroom walls of your nation's rebellious youth has been imprisoned or in rehabilitation for decades after an unrivaled campaign of arson. However, doctors have confirmed he is now dying of a chronic and noncommunicable disease and almost certainly has less than a year to live. Some activists in your nation are calling for his compassionate release. What is the response of your nation?

Euthanasia is perfectly legal in Lancov with the patient's consent.

3. A widespread but not crippling pandemic has caused border authorities in your nation to increase checks on incoming travelers from infected regions. Such a tourist apparently lied or otherwise concealed their health and has entered your nation while infected. As a result, your previously uninfected nation now has several confirmed cases of the disease. What is the response of your nation?

Start dealing with the disease, prosecute the individual for perjury.

4. Misinformation amongst a significant group of your nation's populace has led to paranoia over a relatively small epidemic in one of the nations bordering your nation. This paranoia has included workers and students confining themselves to their homes, ostracism of people with benign diseases that have similar symptoms to the aforementioned pandemic, and a sharp spike in sales of whatever apocalypse gear is legal. Bowing to constituent pressure, some government officials want to take enhanced albeit somewhat absurd actions, such as enacting ludicrously long quarantines, closing borders, and distributing iodine to the nation's schoolchildren. What is the response of your nation?

Press releases and PR campaigns aimed at communicating the true facts of the epidemic and urging the public to go about their normal business. The Assembly would not approve any absurd responses.

5. A biological attack has left a moderately-sized but important city in your nation with a high rate of infection of an unknown and devastating airborne disease. Currently, the disease is contained in the city, but the efforts at containment are highly stressed and a nationwide epidemic seems probable. What is the response of your nation?

Martial law is declared, the affected area is quarantined.

6. A renowned scientist has announced that a new gene therapy treatment has been discovered that would virtually eliminate a behavioral genetic disorder that has frustrated your nation's medical community for a very long time. The treatment has met some opposition from various groups. Some object to gene therapy itself; however, most of the protesters object to the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, claiming it classifies behavior that does not impair individuals but may be viewed as socially deviant as a disorder. What is the response of your nation?

A parliamentary hearing will decide whether the diagnostic criteria is appropriate and ethical. Gene therapy is legal.

[Alizeria]

1. Motivated by a decent sense of global citizenship (or, if you rather, a cunning if morally questionable PR campaign), your nation sent doctors and nurses to a far-off nation suffering from a particularly devastating epidemic of a reasonably contagious disease. After a month of treating victims, the safety measures taken by your nation's aid workers have failed to contain the spread of the disease. Several doctors and nurses have contracted it. With few medical resources to help even natives of the aforementioned countries, it is likely your aid workers will not recover if left overseas. The media and the public are asking what, if anything, can be done to help them. What is the response of your nation?

Firstly, the government would - via ALIZAID, the government's foreign aid programme - continue to fund the means of helping of many people as possible gain the means to either cure or recover from the disease - or at the very least fund the nation to help keep it from spreading. Our own doctors or nurses would be able to count on whatever they need to recover from the situation and whether or not they survive can rest assured they will be treated as national heroes.

2. A 87-year old anarchist familiar to both your nation's history books and the bedroom walls of your nation's rebellious youth has been imprisoned or in rehabilitation for decades after an unrivaled campaign of arson. However, doctors have confirmed he is now dying of a chronic and noncommunicable disease and almost certainly has less than a year to live. Some activists in your nation are calling for his compassionate release. What is the response of your nation?

Alizeria has a maximum prison sentence of 20 years, so the only way he would still be in custody would be because he was found insane, in which case he will already be in hospital, and will remain in hospital.

3. A widespread but not crippling pandemic has caused border authorities in your nation to increase checks on incoming travelers from infected regions. Such a tourist apparently lied or otherwise concealed their health and has entered your nation while infected. As a result, your previously uninfected nation now has several confirmed cases of the disease. What is the response of your nation?

The government would systematically find the individual and anyone he has had contact with and quarantine them - and quarantine anyone who was in an area where the affected individual was. If he has already infected people then it's probably not going to be possible to completely contain the disease, except to quarantine everyone who has had contact with any affected individuals.

4. Misinformation amongst a significant group of your nation's populace has led to paranoia over a relatively small epidemic in one of the nations bordering your nation. This paranoia has included workers and students confining themselves to their homes, ostracism of people with benign diseases that have similar symptoms to the aforementioned pandemic, and a sharp spike in sales of whatever apocalypse gear is legal. Bowing to constituent pressure, some government officials want to take enhanced albeit somewhat absurd actions, such as enacting ludicrously long quarantines, closing borders, and distributing iodine to the nation's schoolchildren. What is the response of your nation?

Alizeria doesn't border anyone - it's an island nation, so it would continue with stringent health checks at the border for anyone from the affected country. Beyond possibly stockpiling drugs that cure the disease (for use by the public health system), the government would not be swept up in any panic and remain rational.

5. A biological attack has left a moderately-sized but important city in your nation with a high rate of infection of an unknown and devastating airborne disease. Currently, the disease is contained in the city, but the efforts at containment are highly stressed and a nationwide epidemic seems probable. What is the response of your nation?

Who the hell would attack Alizeria? Seriously? There's only a few sheep here.

If it came to something like that, the country is probably fucked - it's only a small country. Obviously residents of the city would be told to avoid leaving their homes until any potential carriers of the disease are found and quarantined and health authorities are confident they have found the source (and brought whoever did it to justice).

6. A renowned scientist has announced that a new gene therapy treatment has been discovered that would virtually eliminate a behavioral genetic disorder that has frustrated your nation's medical community for a very long time. The treatment has met some opposition from various groups. Some object to gene therapy itself; however, most of the protesters object to the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, claiming it classifies behavior that does not impair individuals but may be viewed as socially deviant as a disorder. What is the response of your nation?

You wouldn't be able to get away with this in Alizeria. We're all for science but this is somewhere between playing God and eugenics - both being things that the vast majority of Alizerians would oppose. The opposition groups would have a lot of public and political support.

[Blakullar]

1. Motivated by a decent sense of global citizenship (or, if you rather, a cunning if morally questionable PR campaign), your nation sent doctors and nurses to a far-off nation suffering from a particularly devastating epidemic of a reasonably contagious disease. After a month of treating victims, the safety measures taken by your nation's aid workers have failed to contain the spread of the disease. Several doctors and nurses have contracted it. With few medical resources to help even natives of the aforementioned countries, it is likely your aid workers will not recover if left overseas. The media and the public are asking what, if anything, can be done to help them. What is the response of your nation?

We would launch a full investigation into exactly how the disgusting liberal that managed to wheedle his way to the top of the Mechanocratic political heap successfully convinced a government that has literally no concept of, let alone incentive to give, humanitarian aid to another country ruled by of all things ORGANICS, to do just that. This would most likely result in a full-scale purge of the Propaganda Ministry and any other relevant government institutions, with the individuals guilty of cultural corrosion of the highest order almost certainly being executed in said purge.

As for this backwater and the idiots who decided to "save" them, leave them to rot. Any country that's worth conquering - and in our case this is all of them - needs all the softening up they can get without direct military intervention. Besides, give it a decade and they'll be back wailing for MORE help against this very same malady.

2. A 87-year old anarchist familiar to both your nation's history books and the bedroom walls of your nation's rebellious youth has been imprisoned or in rehabilitation for decades after an unrivalled campaign of arson. However, doctors have confirmed he is now dying of a chronic and non-communicable disease and almost certainly has less than a year to live. Some activists in your nation are calling for his compassionate release. What is the response of your nation?

First of all, we'd be surprised that our penal system hadn't managed to kill him off within a few months of being incarcerated into a Gulag. Second, the disease contracted inside the Gulag is definitely a result of the dismal conditions inside the camp, so we wouldn't do a lot other than work him to death like his fellow inmates. Finally, we'd tell these activists to take a running jump. If you've done something worthy of being locked up for life, you're staying there. We've studied a lot about pre-war Western penal systems and 21st-century terrorism and we will absolutely not let him off when he's halfway through the sentence, because before you know it he'll be out firebombing again!

That said, out of respect for his die-hard revolutionary spirit, we'd return the anarchist's corpse to his family and allow him a funeral rather than chuck him into a carbon recycling machine with everybody else.

3. A widespread but not crippling pandemic has caused border authorities in your nation to increase checks on incoming travellers from infected regions. Such a tourist apparently lied or otherwise concealed their health and has entered your nation while infected. As a result, your previously uninfected nation now has several confirmed cases of the disease. What is the response of your nation?

Going on the assumption that this is a biological disease, the miscreant would probably have walked into an Organic Ghetto and spread the disease there. We'd just let the probably lethal plague run its course while tightening entry and exit controls in said Ghetto.

Meanwhile, as we're cheering at all that free biomaterial just lying on the ground and waiting to be made useful, the NKVB would be running an investigation into how the infected tourist got past border control and make any necessary "adjustments" at the upper levels.

4. Misinformation amongst a significant group of your nation's populace has led to paranoia over a relatively small epidemic in one of the nations bordering your nation. This paranoia has included workers and students confining themselves to their homes, ostracism of people with benign diseases that have similar symptoms to the aforementioned pandemic, and a sharp spike in sales of whatever apocalypse gear is legal. Bowing to constituent pressure, some government officials want to take enhanced albeit somewhat absurd actions, such as enacting ludicrously long quarantines, closing borders, and distributing iodine to the nation's schoolchildren. What is the response of your nation?

While the Propaganda Ministry would roll out a reassurance campaign to crush this paranoia, there would be a manhunt amongst the NKVB and probably a purge, since "a significant group of your nation's populace" almost certainly pertains to at least some political clique hiding away in Mechanocratic territory.

5. A biological attack has left a moderately-sized but important city in your nation with a high rate of infection of an unknown and devastating airborne disease. Currently, the disease is contained in the city, but the efforts at containment are highly stressed and a nationwide epidemic seems probable. What is the response of your nation?

If the attack wasn't aimed at an Organic Ghetto (if it does land in one, consult answer number 3), we'd determine the exact dimensions of the disease and send in the relative city's Hazard Management to deal with the problem. When the disease has been crushed, we'd show the bellicose aggressor how to do a real attack by launching a full-scale invasion of said aggressor!

6. A renowned scientist has announced that a new gene therapy treatment has been discovered that would virtually eliminate a behavioural genetic disorder that has frustrated your nation's medical community for a very long time. The treatment has met some opposition from various groups. Some object to gene therapy itself; however, most of the protesters object to the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, claiming it classifies behaviour that does not impair individuals but may be viewed as socially deviant as a disorder. What is the response of your nation?

Give him a whack around the head with a news tablet and tell him to get with the times for making out as if technology that was mastered about a century ago is something new and interesting. While we did this, the NKVB would be investigating the opposition groups to see who needs a trip to Thought Reassignment for correction therapy.

[Arudan Habitats]

1. Motivated by a decent sense of global citizenship (or, if you rather, a cunning if morally questionable PR campaign), your nation sent doctors and nurses to a far-off nation suffering from a particularly devastating epidemic of a reasonably contagious disease. After a month of treating victims, the safety measures taken by your nation's aid workers have failed to contain the spread of the disease. Several doctors and nurses have contracted it. With few medical resources to help even natives of the aforementioned countries, it is likely your aid workers will not recover if left overseas. The media and the public are asking what, if anything, can be done to help them. What is the response of your nation?

The aid workers are returned to the Habitat they originated from, being quarantined until recovery upon their arrival.

2. A 87-year old anarchist familiar to both your nation's history books and the bedroom walls of your nation's rebellious youth has been imprisoned or in rehabilitation for decades after an unrivaled campaign of arson. However, doctors have confirmed he is now dying of a chronic and noncommunicable disease and almost certainly has less than a year to live. Some activists in your nation are calling for his compassionate release. What is the response of your nation?

He serves the remainder of his sentence under house arrest.

3. A widespread but not crippling pandemic has caused border authorities in your nation to increase checks on incoming travelers from infected regions. Such a tourist apparently lied or otherwise concealed their health and has entered your nation while infected. As a result, your previously uninfected nation now has several confirmed cases of the disease. What is the response of your nation?

Quarantine the individual and all other infected. Proceedings will be brought against the individual in question if and when s/he has recovered.

4. Misinformation amongst a significant group of your nation's populace has led to paranoia over a relatively small epidemic in one of the nations bordering your nation. This paranoia has included workers and students confining themselves to their homes, ostracism of people with benign diseases that have similar symptoms to the aforementioned pandemic, and a sharp spike in sales of whatever apocalypse gear is legal. Bowing to constituent pressure, some government officials want to take enhanced albeit somewhat absurd actions, such as enacting ludicrously long quarantines, closing borders, and distributing iodine to the nation's schoolchildren. What is the response of your nation?

The government will listen to the recommendations of the HAI (Habitat Artificial Intelligence) network before deciding on a course of action.

5. A biological attack has left a moderately-sized but important city in your nation with a high rate of infection of an unknown and devastating airborne disease. Currently, the disease is contained in the city, but the efforts at containment are highly stressed and a nationwide epidemic seems probable. What is the response of your nation?

Shut down all transport modules between the Habitat in question and quarantine individuals who have traveled from there to other Habitats within the diseases' incubation period. Investigate the perpetrator(s) of the attack and deal harshly with them if possible.

6. A renowned scientist has announced that a new gene therapy treatment has been discovered that would virtually eliminate a behavioral genetic disorder that has frustrated your nation's medical community for a very long time. The treatment has met some opposition from various groups. Some object to gene therapy itself; however, most of the protesters object to the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, claiming it classifies behavior that does not impair individuals but may be viewed as socially deviant as a disorder. What is the response of your nation?

We dealt with this long ago; Genofixing is the choice of the parent until birth. After that it requires the express consent of the individual themselves.

[Freemopia]

1. Motivated by a decent sense of global citizenship (or, if you rather, a cunning if morally questionable PR campaign), your nation sent doctors and nurses to a far-off nation suffering from a particularly devastating epidemic of a reasonably contagious disease. After a month of treating victims, the safety measures taken by your nation's aid workers have failed to contain the spread of the disease. Several doctors and nurses have contracted it. With few medical resources to help even natives of the aforementioned countries, it is likely your aid workers will not recover if left overseas. The media and the public are asking what, if anything, can be done to help them. What is the response of your nation?

Send nutritious food, water, water purifiers, soap, shelter, heating/cooling as needed, clothing, sanitation/health education, first aid supplies, to poor people in that nation, and evacuate willing poor people in bad environments to a more habitable environment(with clean water, trees, fertile land, hospital...), to help treat currently sick people, and help prevent others from becoming sick.

2. A 87-year old anarchist familiar to both your nation's history books and the bedroom walls of your nation's rebellious youth has been imprisoned or in rehabilitation for decades after an unrivaled campaign of arson. However, doctors have confirmed he is now dying of a chronic and noncommunicable disease and almost certainly has less than a year to live. Some activists in your nation are calling for his compassionate release. What is the response of your nation?

If he did not injure anyone and probably wont commit arson again, release him potentially with conditions that he must work(if able) to pay fees he owes, take a "why arson is wrong and do you want someone to burn down your house" class and agree not to commit arson, wear an ankle bracelet, be under 24-7 video surveillance, and not be allowed to use fire or flammable items. Potentially have a 12+jury trail to decide his release or conditions of his release.
Be more likely to release him if the arson his committed was mild.

3. A widespread but not crippling pandemic has caused border authorities in your nation to increase checks on incoming travelers from infected regions. Such a tourist apparently lied or otherwise concealed their health and has entered your nation while infected. As a result, your previously uninfected nation now has several confirmed cases of the disease. What is the response of your nation?

All immigrants upon arrival are already offered tax funded health/sanitation/safety educational pamphlets.
Freemopia already offers tax funded health inspections to all willing immigrants and tourists who can't afford it.

Increase sanitation education on tv and radio public service announcements and pamphlets mailed to all inhabitants. Encourage hygienic practices, automatic doors, increase hand washing/sanitizing stations especially near doors, automatic sinks, automatic soap dispensers, automatic hand sanitizer dispensers and sanitizing wipes.
wash hands/gloves after touching $, public items, and items sick people might have touched, and before touching face or food. Stay 6+feet away from sick people. Cover your cough/sneeze with elbow or tissue. Germs can travel 40feet from cough or sneeze. keep nails short-easier to clean.
Regularly wash/sanitize commonly touched items. Don't put face in contact with anything that might be unclean.
Encourage exercise outside by trees for fresh air, healthy diet lots of fruits and vegetables, drink lots of water, get enough sleep.
All tests and treatments can already be sold over the counter in Freemopia, this helps decrease price and increase access. Other factors such as low regulations and taxes, a mostly healthy population, and most Freemopians have their own small house(instead of shared buildings where doors... are often touched by sick people) and grow their own food, also helps decrease prices of tests, medicine, and treatment.
There are small hospitals every 100 residents. Small cars offer rides to hospital/clinic for poor people as needed and are sanitized in between riders. Tax-funded deliveries of food and medicine are available to contagiously ill poor people to help prevent them from going in public.

Publicize on tv criminal charges of people who detain or force tests/treatments upon unwilling victims to help prevent people from fearing getting tested/treated.

It's illegal to force or coerce anyone to disclose their medical information.

4. Misinformation amongst a significant group of your nation's populace has led to paranoia over a relatively small epidemic in one of the nations bordering your nation. This paranoia has included workers and students confining themselves to their homes, ostracism of people with benign diseases that have similar symptoms to the aforementioned pandemic, and a sharp spike in sales of whatever apocalypse gear is legal. Bowing to constituent pressure, some government officials want to take enhanced albeit somewhat absurd actions, such as enacting ludicrously long quarantines, closing borders, and distributing iodine to the nation's schoolchildren. What is the response of your nation?

The outdoor air is often cleaner than the air inside your house. Encourage them to go outside in the forest to get fresh air and exercise. As long as they stay 40+feet away from sick people, don't touch things sick people touched or at least sanitize after touching those items, don't expose them self to large amounts of the contagious illness, are hygienic, and have an average or better immune system, they don't need to worry.
Assume they are contagious if they have cough, sore throat, runny or stuffy nose, stay 6+ feet away from them and don't go in their house or car (unless your their caregiver). You can talk to them on the phone or video call.
It's illegal to remove someone from their home or city just because their sick.
Freemopia encourages non-government to have apocalypse gear.
No quarantines. No closing boarders. Iodine should be tax funded for inhabitants who they and their parents cant afford it.

5. A biological attack has left a moderately-sized but important city in your nation with a high rate of infection of an unknown and devastating airborne disease. Currently, the disease is contained in the city, but the efforts at containment are highly stressed and a nationwide epidemic seems probable. What is the response of your nation?

Increase sanitation education, hygiene and healthy diet encouragement...(see above)
Identify disease and find or develop an effective treatment.

restrictions on movement and health inspections on unwilling people not guilty of a crime (Freemopia’s Laws: http://www.nationstates.net/nation=free ... /id=170897 ), and government closing motorways and airports, is illegal.

6. A renowned scientist has announced that a new gene therapy treatment has been discovered that would virtually eliminate a behavioral genetic disorder that has frustrated your nation's medical community for a very long time. The treatment has met some opposition from various groups. Some object to gene therapy itself; however, most of the protesters object to the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, claiming it classifies behavior that does not impair individuals but may be viewed as socially deviant as a disorder. What is the response of your nation?

Terminate the scientist's license to practice science. Fire the scientist. Immediately permanently ban the scientist from practice in the scientific and medical field, and publicize it on national tv to discourage others from copying the scientist. Put the scientist under 24-7 surveillance potentially for life. Intensively surveil anyone from the medical community that has ties to the scientist. Surveil anyone that has ties to or is suspected to support the scientist.
Offer the scientist and their supporters education to teach them how to be nice, welfare and subsidized education if they and their parents can't afford it, moving them to a better neighborhood if needed, help them find a legal job, help them find friends and legal entertainment choices, help them find better things to do.


It's illegal for Freemopia to send drs/nurses aboard to contain disease, close boarders, inspect tourists and immigrants w/o their permission, quarantine, martial law, or curfew.

Freemopia sends drs/nurses abroad to treat willing people.
Freemopia more than leaves the boarder open, Freemopia brings poor sick willing people from other nations to Freemopia for treatment.

[New Frenco Empire]

1. Motivated by a decent sense of global citizenship (or, if you rather, a cunning if morally questionable PR campaign), your nation sent doctors and nurses to a far-off nation suffering from a particularly devastating epidemic of a reasonably contagious disease. After a month of treating victims, the safety measures taken by your nation's aid workers have failed to contain the spread of the disease. Several doctors and nurses have contracted it. With few medical resources to help even natives of the aforementioned countries, it is likely your aid workers will not recover if left overseas. The media and the public are asking what, if anything, can be done to help them. What is the response of your nation?

We will send medical specialists to study this disease and lend a hand or two to win over the locals (let them know it was the Frenks who came to their aid. Not the communists. Compassion makes a very compelling argument for new territory full of willful natives), but we'll make it very clear that any specialists shall not contract the disease. If they do, they can wait it out in that country until they either die or get cleared by other specialists to return home. Must be one hell of a disease if a nanopurge can't at least subdue it...

2. A 87-year old anarchist familiar to both your nation's history books and the bedroom walls of your nation's rebellious youth has been imprisoned or in rehabilitation for decades after an unrivaled campaign of arson. However, doctors have confirmed he is now dying of a chronic and noncommunicable disease and almost certainly has less than a year to live. Some activists in your nation are calling for his compassionate release. What is the response of your nation?

Fine. In lieu of democracy, we'll listen whenever our people whine about something to keep them politically satisfied. However, we make it very clear that if the anarchist does anything that might lead one to assume he is going to continue his legacy (or, even worse, encourage the younger generations to continue his anti-social activities), it's the laser lobotomy for him. We'll keep him closely monitored.

(Seriously, did our nanos just stop working?)

3. A widespread but not crippling pandemic has caused border authorities in your nation to increase checks on incoming travelers from infected regions. Such a tourist apparently lied or otherwise concealed their health and has entered your nation while infected. As a result, your previously uninfected nation now has several confirmed cases of the disease. What is the response of your nation?

Nanopurges everywhere. Of course, I'm assuming this is some kind of "super disease" that is just naturally resistant to tiny little warbots that forcefully rid malignant cells from your body. In that case, armed quarantines in their homes followed by an overhaul in the viral database to contain the spread.

4. Misinformation amongst a significant group of your nation's populace has led to paranoia over a relatively small epidemic in one of the nations bordering your nation. This paranoia has included workers and students confining themselves to their homes, ostracism of people with benign diseases that have similar symptoms to the aforementioned pandemic, and a sharp spike in sales of whatever apocalypse gear is legal. Bowing to constituent pressure, some government officials want to take enhanced albeit somewhat absurd actions, such as enacting ludicrously long quarantines, closing borders, and distributing iodine to the nation's schoolchildren. What is the response of your nation?

"Calm down and get nanopurged, twats!"

5. A biological attack has left a moderately-sized but important city in your nation with a high rate of infection of an unknown and devastating airborne disease. Currently, the disease is contained in the city, but the efforts at containment are highly stressed and a nationwide epidemic seems probable. What is the response of your nation?

Bomb the city with aeropurge warheads (or, as many people know them, "cure missiles") while mobilizing the Enforcers and military reserves to keep a quarantine going. Then, launch an invasion of extreme prejudice against the Caribbean Nexus (we know it was you).

6. A renowned scientist has announced that a new gene therapy treatment has been discovered that would virtually eliminate a behavioral genetic disorder that has frustrated your nation's medical community for a very long time. The treatment has met some opposition from various groups. Some object to gene therapy itself; however, most of the protesters object to the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, claiming it classifies behavior that does not impair individuals but may be viewed as socially deviant as a disorder. What is the response of your nation?

"Bro, you're awful late. About 70 years late, in fact. This has been standard Frenkish breeding protocol since...exactly...January 1st, 2085. Have you been living in the Outlands?"

[Zhouran]

1. Motivated by a decent sense of global citizenship (or, if you rather, a cunning if morally questionable PR campaign), your nation sent doctors and nurses to a far-off nation suffering from a particularly devastating epidemic of a reasonably contagious disease. After a month of treating victims, the safety measures taken by your nation's aid workers have failed to contain the spread of the disease. Several doctors and nurses have contracted it. With few medical resources to help even natives of the aforementioned countries, it is likely your aid workers will not recover if left overseas. The media and the public are asking what, if anything, can be done to help them. What is the response of your nation?

Okay, first off, following the Great Recession Crisis, the Supreme Order only sends doctors and nurses to areas ravaged by diseases for the sake of science, not this so-called "humanitarian crisis." Now, if these group of doctors and nurses do get infected, we have no choice but to leave them in the ravaged nation to their fate.

2. A 87-year old anarchist familiar to both your nation's history books and the bedroom walls of your nation's rebellious youth has been imprisoned or in rehabilitation for decades after an unrivaled campaign of arson. However, doctors have confirmed he is now dying of a chronic and noncommunicable disease and almost certainly has less than a year to live. Some activists in your nation are calling for his compassionate release. What is the response of your nation?

Well, we aren't gonna let some activists call for the release of this anarchist. No prisoner shall be released. It's either execution or life-sentence. Also, the Supreme Order bans any form of activism.

3. A widespread but not crippling pandemic has caused border authorities in your nation to increase checks on incoming travelers from infected regions. Such a tourist apparently lied or otherwise concealed their health and has entered your nation while infected. As a result, your previously uninfected nation now has several confirmed cases of the disease. What is the response of your nation?

We don't let in foreigners to our beautiful nation, as they will corrupt our society and our government. If a foreigner does enter this nation through clandestine means, then we will hunt him/her down. Also, if a disease does arrive in Zhouran, we will just simply put the entire nation on quarantine, and round-up potential dissidents, say that they are infected, and send them to execution grounds.

4. Misinformation amongst a significant group of your nation's populace has led to paranoia over a relatively small epidemic in one of the nations bordering your nation. This paranoia has included workers and students confining themselves to their homes, ostracism of people with benign diseases that have similar symptoms to the aforementioned pandemic, and a sharp spike in sales of whatever apocalypse gear is legal. Bowing to constituent pressure, some government officials want to take enhanced albeit somewhat absurd actions, such as enacting ludicrously long quarantines, closing borders, and distributing iodine to the nation's schoolchildren. What is the response of your nation?

Paranoia will lead to social unrest, and as a result, state media will calm the public with false information and propaganda stating that the Zhouranese People's Army will defend them.

5. A biological attack has left a moderately-sized but important city in your nation with a high rate of infection of an unknown and devastating airborne disease. Currently, the disease is contained in the city, but the efforts at containment are highly stressed and a nationwide epidemic seems probable. What is the response of your nation?

A biological attack is such a heinous act, and anyone who is responsible for this will be caught, brutally tortured and executed. The city that has been attacked will be firebombed to the ground, and if the infection starts to spread, nuclear weapons will be authorized for usage.

6. A renowned scientist has announced that a new gene therapy treatment has been discovered that would virtually eliminate a behavioral genetic disorder that has frustrated your nation's medical community for a very long time. The treatment has met some opposition from various groups. Some object to gene therapy itself; however, most of the protesters object to the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, claiming it classifies behavior that does not impair individuals but may be viewed as socially deviant as a disorder. What is the response of your nation?

Anyone who opposes this will be beaten and tortured for being absurd. But first, we will test this new treatment to prisoners to see if it works.

[Greater Mackonia]

1. Motivated by a decent sense of global citizenship (or, if you rather, a cunning if morally questionable PR campaign), your nation sent doctors and nurses to a far-off nation suffering from a particularly devastating epidemic of a reasonably contagious disease. After a month of treating victims, the safety measures taken by your nation's aid workers have failed to contain the spread of the disease. Several doctors and nurses have contracted it. With few medical resources to help even natives of the aforementioned countries, it is likely your aid workers will not recover if left overseas. The media and the public are asking what, if anything, can be done to help them. What is the response of your nation?

Bring them home and place them under strict containment for study and treatment, reduce the symptoms through strong painkillers and other short-term prophylactics while studying the pathogen and testing cures. Use it as a media coup to show why aid does not work and only ends up harming our nation.

2. A 87-year old anarchist familiar to both your nation's history books and the bedroom walls of your nation's rebellious youth has been imprisoned or in rehabilitation for decades after an unrivaled campaign of arson. However, doctors have confirmed he is now dying of a chronic and noncommunicable disease and almost certainly has less than a year to live. Some activists in your nation are calling for his compassionate release. What is the response of your nation?

What!? Prisons in Greater Mackonia! Execute the poor Mack immediately! Such barbarism has no place in our justice system.

3. A widespread but not crippling pandemic has caused border authorities in your nation to increase checks on incoming travelers from infected regions. Such a tourist apparently lied or otherwise concealed their health and has entered your nation while infected. As a result, your previously uninfected nation now has several confirmed cases of the disease. What is the response of your nation?

Locate the tourist and place him under interrogation, find out where he visited, who he met and to the greatest extent possible everyone he had contact with. Place all who we know to have come into contact with him under containment and if the situation looks truly bad place the areas he visited under quarantine while cases are isolated and neutralised.

4. Misinformation amongst a significant group of your nation's populace has led to paranoia over a relatively small epidemic in one of the nations bordering your nation. This paranoia has included workers and students confining themselves to their homes, ostracism of people with benign diseases that have similar symptoms to the aforementioned pandemic, and a sharp spike in sales of whatever apocalypse gear is legal. Bowing to constituent pressure, some government officials want to take enhanced albeit somewhat absurd actions, such as enacting ludicrously long quarantines, closing borders, and distributing iodine to the nation's schoolchildren. What is the response of your nation?

Find the fools responsible for this irrational madness and reprimand them, encourage the media (i.e: threaten to take away their licences) to mount a campaign of education about the epidemic and maintain reasonable border restrictions and measures.

5. A biological attack has left a moderately-sized but important city in your nation with a high rate of infection of an unknown and devastating airborne disease. Currently, the disease is contained in the city, but the efforts at containment are highly stressed and a nationwide epidemic seems probable. What is the response of your nation?

Quarrantine the city, no one gets out in or alive, use the populace as guinea pigs to study the disease, research a cure and turn it against our enemy. Execute any breachers of quarantine, monitor citizen's brainwaves, health, heart rate, blood types, progression of pathogen and death. No one but properly protected StaSec agents and Scientists is allowed into the city. Prepare nearby regions for endemic advising people to stay indoors, distribute prophylactic measures such as masks and hand-wash and institute regular medical checks similar to a stop and search. If the situation looks dire and no medical progress has been made order the extermination of the city.

6. A renowned scientist has announced that a new gene therapy treatment has been discovered that would virtually eliminate a behavioral genetic disorder that has frustrated your nation's medical community for a very long time. The treatment has met some opposition from various groups. Some object to gene therapy itself; however, most of the protesters object to the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, claiming it classifies behavior that does not impair individuals but may be viewed as socially deviant as a disorder. What is the response of your nation?

Crush the protests of these stinking luddites and give the scientist funding and control over a state agency to eradicate the disorder through aggressive use of his therapy (I'm assuming this is a disorder Mackonian culture would find bad not human culture?).

[Neo Prutenia]

1. Motivated by a decent sense of global citizenship (or, if you rather, a cunning if morally questionable PR campaign), your nation sent doctors and nurses to a far-off nation suffering from a particularly devastating epidemic of a reasonably contagious disease. After a month of treating victims, the safety measures taken by your nation's aid workers have failed to contain the spread of the disease. Several doctors and nurses have contracted it. With few medical resources to help even natives of the aforementioned countries, it is likely your aid workers will not recover if left overseas. The media and the public are asking what, if anything, can be done to help them. What is the response of your nation?

Prevent further voluntary, non-regulated travel to the afflicted nation and organise as reasonably quickly as possible a platform for dialogue and sanction a response team which will deal with the issue. After the results of a public poll and the consultation of professionals and experts in said field, a proper official reaction will be executed. If the public favours further spending on the issue and/or the rescue of the affected citizens, the responsible team will get conscription and requisition rights for the mission and be given sanction and limited jurisdiction to regulate and operate under the desired parametres. If the public condemns further spending on said issue, the response team will only perform as an umbrella platoform for any private/individual efforts to help coordinate them and will act in a supervisory and advisory role.

However, it's largely reasonable to assume that said citizen's would receive some sort of direct aid. The afflicted region would likely also receive some help; a probable outcome is increased efforts and large-scale humanitarian missions, if such an endeavour could be coordinated with locals.

2. A 87-year old anarchist familiar to both your nation's history books and the bedroom walls of your nation's rebellious youth has been imprisoned or in rehabilitation for decades after an unrivaled campaign of arson. However, doctors have confirmed he is now dying of a chronic and noncommunicable disease and almost certainly has less than a year to live. Some activists in your nation are calling for his compassionate release. What is the response of your nation?

If sufficient traction within the populace exists to allow some sort of pardon, the case will be examined and the person will be incorporated back into the community. Some responsible authority, most likely one of the domestic courts, would examine the case, consult relevant experts, validate public attitude and execute the desired decision. In case the general public rejects any form of clemency, the activists can lobby to be assigned responsibility for the person and that he or she might be transferred to their custody under highly regulated and pre-agreed upon conditions. In the latter scenario, as long as nothing is in violation of the constitution, the person essentially is placed under the authority of the group interested in their restoration to society; said group becomes also legally responsible for any further violations the person commits while under their responsibility. This transfer of authority, responsibility, and custody can only be done with the official, public, and explicit consent of the individual to be transferred.

3. A widespread but not crippling pandemic has caused border authorities in your nation to increase checks on incoming travelers from infected regions. Such a tourist apparently lied or otherwise concealed their health and has entered your nation while infected. As a result, your previously uninfected nation now has several confirmed cases of the disease. What is the response of your nation?

The tourist is charged with biological terrorism or illegal biological warfare and will further be treated as a hostile entity and dealt with accordingly. In case of surrender, a quite rational option in this case, said tourist will be treated as a prisoner of war and assigned the status, rights, and responsibilities of such. After the surrender a fair trail follows where culpability, responsibility, and reparations will be determined. Depending on various circumstances and the actual damage done, if any, the tourist will most likely have to pay reparations in form of a reasonable fine and/or some community work. Refusal to comply might result in either forceful repossession of the tourist's assets if possible or an expatriation back to the location of origin, depending on the existence of any valid bilateral treaties with the tourist's nation of origin. In case no surrender occurs the hostile will be eliminated as expediently as possible. Furthermore, the border control personnel will suffer serious repercussions for this security breach. There will be at least increased supervision and more frequent inspections for the near future.

Given the Prut Meritocracy's unique vulnerability to biological agents and disruptions caused by them, abiding by hygienic and medicinal standards demanded by the Prut border controls is nonnegotiable. Any violations of this code will be dealt with seriously and directly, without any reservations or hesitation. The fact that to enter the nation one needs valid documentation to be reasonably healthy and not currently be suffering any form of dangerous communicable disease is well known.

4. Misinformation amongst a significant group of your nation's populace has led to paranoia over a relatively small epidemic in one of the nations bordering your nation. This paranoia has included workers and students confining themselves to their homes, ostracism of people with benign diseases that have similar symptoms to the aforementioned pandemic, and a sharp spike in sales of whatever apocalypse gear is legal. Bowing to constituent pressure, some government officials want to take enhanced albeit somewhat absurd actions, such as enacting ludicrously long quarantines, closing borders, and distributing iodine to the nation's schoolchildren. What is the response of your nation?

Immediately organise a platform for coordination between various groups and institutions to further public awareness of the misinformation and mitigate its effects on society. A limited conscription might be implemented; at least all important media organisations would be requested to participate in the programme and inform the public about the actual facts. Limited special jurisdiction might be given to either a response team or a section of the police to deal directly with any individual or group disseminating false information, propaganda, or trying to profit in any way from scaremongering. A special committee will be formed to deal with all cases, determine which group or individual acted out of malicious intent during the spreading of misinformation, and the responsible persons will be punished accordingly. Regaining and maintaining the initiative in such circumstances will be the primary concern of public authorities, e.g. actively informing people, rebuilding their trust in the public authority, and directing operatives to approach and build rapport with people and bring them back to public life and work. Under no circumstances should the official stance be just reactive and responsive. Maintaining control of the situation, strengthening social cohesiveness, and encouraging discipline in public operatives as well as the populace will be part of this programme. Part of this includes pruning the public authorities from any disruptive individuals or groups which might jeopardise the information and awareness efforts.

5. A biological attack has left a moderately-sized but important city in your nation with a high rate of infection of an unknown and devastating airborne disease. Currently, the disease is contained in the city, but the efforts at containment are highly stressed and a nationwide epidemic seems probable. What is the response of your nation?

Declare a state of emergency in the nation and partially mobilise. The afflicted city will be expediently quarantined and isolated, and the relevant authorities will commence with all the programmes, protocols, and precautions necesssary to contain the epidemic and prevent its spread. Assuming total strategic and operational control of all transport, communication, and related infrastructure networks will be part of the response. Total physical blockade of the afflicted city is also a logical step in the preventive measures. The population in the city will continue to be reasonably supplied with materiel, electricity, and water, but their movement and behaviour will be severely limited, and if necessary restricted until a solution for the problem is found. In case the actual biological warfare sections of the public authority need help and/or cannot respond to the situation, a team will be sanctioned to cooperate with the internal authorities of the city to handle the situation. This includes researching a cure, curative, preventive, palliative and other care of the directly afflicted, maintaining the cordon sanitaire, distribution of goods, regulation of internal social mechanisms in the city, and maintaining and strengthening public morale. In most cases the already existing relevant authorities will handle the situation, like the biological warfare section of the Prut Armed Forces or the disease control section of the healthcare institution.

6. A renowned scientist has announced that a new gene therapy treatment has been discovered that would virtually eliminate a behavioral genetic disorder that has frustrated your nation's medical community for a very long time. The treatment has met some opposition from various groups. Some object to gene therapy itself; however, most of the protesters object to the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, claiming it classifies behavior that does not impair individuals but may be viewed as socially deviant as a disorder. What is the response of your nation?

Neither the therapy nor the research nor diagnosing is regulated directly by law. If no constitutional violations are taking place, the research and implementation of the research's results will be sanctioned, but any such genetic treatment for behavioural changes will be conditional on consent. Anyone wishing to undergo the procedure will have the right to do so voluntarily. However, given the scope of change and the longterm implications, any sanction of such a procedure will also be conditional on presenting a serious, reliable, and provable study about it, it's potential application, and the potential benefits and harms, and the safety of its use. A minimal condition is that it's reasonably safe for the treated person and won't result in some permanent harm. Whether or not the elimination of said behavioural disorder is considered permanent harm is left to the decision of the person undergoing the procedure, but gaining the approval of one's physician and an independent psychologist before the procedure will most likely be involved in any such cases. Regardless, this new treatment will essentially go through the same safety precautions any other therapy has to go through.

[Ammerinia]

1. Motivated by a decent sense of global citizenship (or, if you rather, a cunning if morally questionable PR campaign), your nation sent doctors and nurses to a far-off nation suffering from a particularly devastating epidemic of a reasonably contagious disease. After a month of treating victims, the safety measures taken by your nation's aid workers have failed to contain the spread of the disease. Several doctors and nurses have contracted it. With few medical resources to help even natives of the aforementioned countries, it is likely your aid workers will not recover if left overseas. The media and the public are asking what, if anything, can be done to help them. What is the response of your nation?

As much effort would be put into studying the disease as possible, having medical professionals and top officials from the CDCN analyze the virus. If one of the professionals contacts the disease, they will be put in immediate emergency stasis, and would remain that way for about a month. If they still have the disease after these procedures, they will transferred to the Sleeper Archives and be worked on by the droids. This is of course assuming that the disease could get through our Bio-Nanorators.

2. A 87-year old anarchist familiar to both your nation's history books and the bedroom walls of your nation's rebellious youth has been imprisoned or in rehabilitation for decades after an unrivaled campaign of arson. However, doctors have confirmed he is now dying of a chronic and noncommunicable disease and almost certainly has less than a year to live. Some activists in your nation are calling for his compassionate release. What is the response of your nation?

We would do whatever would make the public happy. We are a democracy after all. However, we would monitor his activities very closely, and if he tried anything while out of prison, it would be time for him to meet a beam of superheated plasma.

(But really now, we should probably fire the guy who's job it was to monitor the Bio-Nanorators at this point.)

3. A widespread but not crippling pandemic has caused border authorities in your nation to increase checks on incoming travelers from infected regions. Such a tourist apparently lied or otherwise concealed their health and has entered your nation while infected. As a result, your previously uninfected nation now has several confirmed cases of the disease. What is the response of your nation?

Immediate detainment of the immigrant, lockdown of their homes, and laser-treatment. But seriously though, it is hard to believe such a disease could get past our Bio-Nanorators that are able to completely clear your body of anything deemed harmful.

4. Misinformation amongst a significant group of your nation's populace has led to paranoia over a relatively small epidemic in one of the nations bordering your nation. This paranoia has included workers and students confining themselves to their homes, ostracism of people with benign diseases that have similar symptoms to the aforementioned pandemic, and a sharp spike in sales of whatever apocalypse gear is legal. Bowing to constituent pressure, some government officials want to take enhanced albeit somewhat absurd actions, such as enacting ludicrously long quarantines, closing borders, and distributing iodine to the nation's schoolchildren. What is the response of your nation?

"EAT BIO-DECONTAMINATOR MISSILES MOTHERF*CKERS!"

5. A biological attack has left a moderately-sized but important city in your nation with a high rate of infection of an unknown and devastating airborne disease. Currently, the disease is contained in the city, but the efforts at containment are highly stressed and a nationwide epidemic seems probable. What is the response of your nation?

Same as stated above: Fire missile after missile of Bio-De-contaminator Agents, as well as mobilize the military, ZOCOM, and the local authorities to contain the spread.

6. A renowned scientist has announced that a new gene therapy treatment has been discovered that would virtually eliminate a behavioral genetic disorder that has frustrated your nation's medical community for a very long time. The treatment has met some opposition from various groups. Some object to gene therapy itself; however, most of the protesters object to the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, claiming it classifies behavior that does not impair individuals but may be viewed as socially deviant as a disorder. What is the response of your nation?

"Mate, this is standard procedure. You hit your head or somthing?"

[Panait]

1. Motivated by a decent sense of global citizenship (or, if you rather, a cunning if morally questionable PR campaign), your nation sent doctors and nurses to a far-off nation suffering from a particularly devastating epidemic of a reasonably contagious disease. After a month of treating victims, the safety measures taken by your nation's aid workers have failed to contain the spread of the disease. Several doctors and nurses have contracted it. With few medical resources to help even natives of the aforementioned countries, it is likely your aid workers will not recover if left overseas. The media and the public are asking what, if anything, can be done to help them. What is the response of your nation?

The Panaitan government would never have sent out doctors/nurses to infected areas; assuming they somehow were sent and encountered the above scenario, they would immediately be collected by special aircrafts, sent back to Panait, and quarantined in a reasonably isolated hospital.

2. An 87-year old anarchist familiar to both your nation's history books and the bedroom walls of your nation's rebellious youth has been imprisoned or in rehabilitation for decades after an unrivaled campaign of arson. However, doctors have confirmed he is now dying of a chronic and noncommunicable disease and almost certainly has less than a year to live. Some activists in your nation are calling for his compassionate release. What is the response of your nation?

The only legal way for this person to be released will be parole, no matter what the current conditions of this person are; it is practically impossible, too, given this person's past crimes (series of arsons). Therefore, the activists' demand will be ignored.

3. A widespread but not crippling pandemic has caused border authorities in your nation to increase checks on incoming travelers from infected regions. Such a tourist apparently lied or otherwise concealed their health and has entered your nation while infected. As a result, your previously uninfected nation now has several confirmed cases of the disease. What is the response of your nation?

All direct flights (if any) from our nation to any airports of all infected regions will be suspended indefinitely. All tourists from the infected regions, who travelled to our country via transit, will be placed in a special isolated Observation Room for the average latency period the disease has, or until a report of the negative result of the disease on the tourist is available, before the tourist is allowed entry to our nation. All passengers sitting in the row before and after the tourist, and those on the same row as the tourist will be subject to a compulsory medical health check (about 1.5 hours) before they are allowed entry.

4. Misinformation amongst a significant group of your nation's populace has led to paranoia over a relatively small epidemic in one of the nations bordering your nation. This paranoia has included workers and students confining themselves to their homes, ostracism of people with benign diseases that have similar symptoms to the aforementioned pandemic, and a sharp spike in sales of whatever apocalypse gear is legal. Bowing to constituent pressure, some government officials want to take enhanced albeit somewhat absurd actions, such as enacting ludicrously long quarantines, closing borders, and distributing iodine to the nation's schoolchildren. What is the response of your nation?

Panait shares no borders with any nation; assuming she does, in such a scenario, the officials will never allow any such bills to pass (assuming the government knows of the misinformation). If a significant group campaigns for government action based on their misinformation, or normal lifestyles are disturbed as a result of this misinformation (for example, workers and students confining themselves to their homes), then the government would cancel all radio, television and other media programs except news, and constantly replay a clip explaining the real nature of the epidemic, while all Internet services will be suspended and all websites will be redirected to a state website explaining the real nature of the epidemic (and the usual internet connection fees abolished and paid by the government). Meanwhile, all policemen will knock, door-to-door, and hand out information pamphlets to all civilians they encounter, both on the streets and in the houses. These measures will be active in all areas with confirmed hysterical responses to this epidemic based on their misinformation. This will last until the policemen can confirm their misinformation is rectified.

5. A biological attack has left a moderately-sized but important city in your nation with a high rate of infection of an unknown and devastating airborne disease. Currently, the disease is contained in the city, but the efforts at containment are highly stressed and a nationwide epidemic seems probable. What is the response of your nation?

Partial mobilization will be ordered. Roadblocks will be initiated at all exits of this city, while the countryside will be patrolled by both policemen and military at high frequencies. All non-essential doctors and nurses (including those in any form of not-working) will be summoned to the city and attempt to analyze the nature of this disease and research a cure, all the while helping with keeping the civilians in. Life necessities will continue to be supplied via airlifts. If the disease managed to spread, then all uninfected medical personnel and government officials in higher positions will immediately be moved to a fallback nuclear bunker, where the aforementioned medical personnel will continue to research the cure. God bless all those that would be denied entry into the bunker.

6. A renowned scientist has announced that a new gene therapy treatment has been discovered that would virtually eliminate a behavioral genetic disorder that has frustrated your nation's medical community for a very long time. The treatment has met some opposition from various groups. Some object to gene therapy itself; however, most of the protesters object to the diagnostic criteria for the disorder, claiming it classifies behavior that does not impair individuals but may be viewed as socially deviant as a disorder. What is the response of your nation?

The diagnostic criteria will require a bill to determine its legality; meanwhile the treatment itself will be registered on the list of known medical procedures in the Health and Medical Bureau, then like all other medical procedures, require a written consent of the patient (unless in the case of an emergency, but it's out of the scope of this post) to be implemented.