Republics of the World [SEMI-OPEN] Discussion Thread

[Arkolon]

Republics of the World

GENERAL
Corburn Trends, Informative and Comprehensive Graphical Spreadsheet

Discussions Thread, General OOC
Corburn City, General IC
Senate Chamber, Senators IC

CONSERVATIVES
Conservative Party HQ, Conservative OOC
The Cheedingam Club, Conservative IC

SOCIALISTS
Socialist Party HQ, Socialist IC
King's Head Pub, Socialist OOC

MONARCHISTS
Monachist Party HQ, Monarchist IC-OOC

Roster
Kubrath - Kaloyan Strashev, Journalist, Politics and Science CONFIRMED
Towson - Mohammed Li, Senator, Conservative Party
Britanno - James Brit, Senator, Conservative Party CONFIRMED
Alouite - Conner Normandy, Senator, Socialist Party
Vairikai Sari - Colin O'Brien, Senator, Conservative Party (Minister of Health)
Calces Millia - Alphonse "Al" Magnus, CEO, Recentia Cola AND David A. Giorgetti, Journalist, Economics and Criminal CONFIRMED
Prospect Landings - Joseph Turning, Senator, Socialist Party CONFIRMED
Kinitaria - Mark Ellison, Senator, Socialist Party CONFIRMED
The Jonathanian States - Jonathan of Kohr-Corburn, Senator, Monarchist Party CONFIRMED
Indo-pasif archipelago - Dean Mckintosh, Senator, Conservative Party AND Hawking Peterson, CEO, East Spice Company CONFIRMED
Mizrah - Ari Farah, CEO, Farah Bank CONFIRMED
Alexius - Roman Vellar, CEO, CorburnAir CONFIRMED
Jamessonia - James Fergus, Senator, Conservative Party CONFIRMED

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(The I-promised-you-this-day-would-come-Alouite-two-months-late Edition)

Republics of the World, the RP-heavy, detail-extensive supermassive game anyone "who likes nation simulation games would love", is back as ROW v2.0 with plenty of big fixes, economic mishaps corrections and exciting new features.

For those of you to whom ROW is an unknown mystery: ROW is, ultimately, a very big spreadsheet, on which hundreds of thousands of calculations are made for each trigger pulled by RPers. ROW resembles NSG Senate closely, except what NSG lacks ROW has an over abundance of it. Players take the roles of members of parliament in a fictitious, virtual, anarchic nation. Players write and pass bills in the nation's legislative house which have effects on various national statistics-- a larger, more zealous police force would tackle crime, and green energy subsidies would clean the nation's air.

There are over 800 different ways to affect the country, along with over 60 default bills to pass. By default, I mean that these bills were preregistered into the spreadsheet, and user-created bills with certain, more specific effects will be added as the game progresses. Statistics range from the literacy rate to the Human Development Index to the price of a barrel of petrol.

New Ways To Play
As opposed to v1.0's playing style, where two occupations were separately available, v2.0 presents four ways to play at the same time. In v1.0 we had Senator, the politician bill-passing necessary protagonist, and the Journalist, who printed out the most recent happenings. Now, v2.0 allows the availability of the Chief Executive (CEO) role, where the player role-plays as the CEO of one of the nation's largest firms, and the Citizen, where the player role-plays any virtual citizen of the country and writes about life in the country. The player may choose to only play as one of these characters, two, three or even the whole lot of them!

v2.0 will also not be played on external forums, because that, in retrospect, killed the version. v2.0 will be played in P2TM the same way NSG Senate is played in Forum 7. There will be this Sign Up + Discussion thread (alles), a Legislative thread (Senators), News thread (Journalists), Business thread (CEOs) and a Citizen thread (Citizens). It's pretty straightforward.

v2.0 gets rid of the Gini coefficient, because that barely worked, and replaces it with a snazzy HDI module, which rather annoyingly takes up more space than just the one cell I would have preferred. Oh, and GDP per capita isn't messed up anymore (shh, no one actually knew about that).

v2.0 has a new time/calendar system, where every day is equal to one in-game month with the exception of Sunday. So Monday January, Tuesday February, Wednesday March, Thursday April, Friday May, Saturday June, Sunday we take some time off, Monday July, all the way to Saturday December. Every two weeks is a year, every Sunday I print out the semester's numerical happenings and every two months is a new election.

If you've made it this far, or alternatively if you're gasping for a TL;DR, then do check out the old June ROW signup thread, and from there the even older interest thread.

OK re-reading this I get the impression that the game is unplayably solemn and dull. It's not. If you take part in NSG Senate or enjoy role-playing senators, journalists, businessmen-- just people in general (or both), then ROW will amaze you. Here, I'll even underline this so it gets your attention. And in a box.

ANY QUESTIONS YO? YOU MUST HAVE MILLIONS. ASK THEM ALL BECAUSE I'M PRETTY SURE I COVERED 1% OF THE INFO YOU NEED SO FAR.

Oh, woops, almost forgot the applications.

Please note that ROW is based in a universe of its own, so please do not relate your characters to your NationStates nation. Thank you.

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[b]NAME OF CHARACTERS[/b] (Realistic names only, please):
• John Smith, Senator
• John Smith, Journalist
• John Smith, CEO
• John Smith, Citizen
[i]Please select a name for your desired character(s) without forgetting a comma and their class[/i]

[b]YOUR CHARACTER'S DESIRED JOBS[/b]:
[b][u]Senator[/u] Which political party will you be affiliated with?[/b]:
[b][u]Senator[/u] Will you like a place in the first Government?[/b]:
[b][u]Journalist[/u] What will your character like to write about?[/b]:
[b][u]CEO[/u] What is the name of the company you wish to own?
[u]All[/u] Tell us a bit about yourselves ...[/b]

POLITICAL PARTIES:[/td]

NAME	ECONOMIC ORIENTATION	SOCIAL ORIENTATION
Libertarian Party (LP)	Centre-Right	Libertarian
Socialist Party (SP)	Left	Libertarian
Conservative Party (CP)	Right	Authoritarian
Imperialist Party	Centre-Left	Libertarian

JOURNALISTS IN NEWSPAPERS:

• Editor-in-Chief Writes the Editorial/Leaders
• Economics Correspondent Writes all things related to the economy
• Social Matters Correspondent Writes all things to do with voters and their habits
• Political Correspondent Writes about happenings in the Senate and has interviews with Senators
• Markets Correspondent Writes about all business-related news
• Other Writes about anything else.

This list is essentially the same for all newspapers, except for "Other" and beyond, which can offer different titles and responsibilities. However, at least 3 positions must be filled for the paper to stay.

uhm no need for a sample app, right? maybe some of these to put you in the mood

[...] You have created my favourite online game. Honestly, you should make a living out of RoW

It is even better than NS are you kidding, EVERONE who likes nation simulation games would love it!

Max Barry has a rival.

Have fun guys

cheers and hugs and many kisses

Ark

[Arkolon]

A new feature has been completed as of about 10 minutes ago, where Republics of the World v2.0(.1?) now has an integrated NS-WA-Category system, adding the immensely popular module to the game. Information scattered around the spreadsheet has been compiled and thrown together to reveal Economic, Civil Rights and Political Freedom ratings, scaling from 0 to over 100. This has been added to offer a clearer understanding of the fictional government's global stance and viewpoint on general affairs.

I believe that the default, most basic skeletal state (pop 2.5m, GDP ~$8k per capita) is a Left-Leaning College State. Efforts to change this status to a more business-centred state creates a Capitalizt system, and more a universalist approach to government creates a Civil Rights Lovefest, or even a Left Wing Utopia. Just like any other statistic in the game, however, these categories can take massive jumps in just two or three bills. It all depends on how you play your cards.

In the previous post I left a rather major topic unattended and ignored, which is the world map. As you know, if you have seen the past threads before, ROW was played on a randomly-generated terrain with territories (terribly) scribbled on to in paint. I am currently hesitating between the choice of world map. I mean, we could always continue as we previously did with a different generated map, but even I get the impression that my eagerness for giving names to large swathes of land turned some players away.

There is an alternative, which is what came to mind about two days ago. We could use the real world map. Now, this creates many more possibilities underneath the ones we already have. Should we use real-world countries, with precise areas and known geographical locations; shall we role-play as a broken-off territory from a larger nation (Rep. of Scotland woo); or shall we draw an island onto the map, give it a name and use that?

The problem with A is that the default "skeletal" nation begins as a turd-world country, with a HDI nearing the HDI of Occupied Palestine. If we RP'd as the USA or generally any occidental power, the reasoning for the free-fall of standards will take a lot of creative thinking. I'm sure there are ways to bypass this.

The problem with B is relates closely with A's, and also there would be issues with realism and which regions can or cannot declare independence, and we would need someone to role-play other RL nations for international affairs. Writing this now I've answered each of those problems, and this one looks pretty doable.

The problem with C is that we cannot simply draw islands, sometimes big islands, all over the planet without totally rendering the game's realism laughable. But hey, Aurentina likes this method.

uhm hey can you guys do me a favour pl0x:

if you stumbled across this thread, for whatever reason, just tell me, in a post or a TG, what your first/new impressions of ROW v2.0 are. Even if you TL;DR'd most of the text. It means a lot to me, surprisingly enough. All criticism at this stage is constructive criticism :3

thanks, I swear this will be fun

cheers

Ark

[Kubrath]

Ah, well, why not?

NAMES OF YOUR CHARACTERS (Realistic names only, please):
• Kaloyan Strashev

YOUR CHARACTER'S DESIRED JOBS:

JOURNALIST WHAT WILL YOUR CHARACTER LIKE TO WRITE ABOUT?: Politics and Science
ALL Tell us a bit about yourselves ...[/b]

(I thought I'd give a bit more info by making it impartial, rather than personal)

Kaloyan Strashev is a Kubrathian-born 37-year-old white Caucasian. His mother and father migrated to Corburn after civic clashes in their home country forced them to seek a more secure life elsewhere. Kaloyan is an only child, with his sister dead from a rapist attack in Kubrath.

He moved to Croburn with his family at the age of 19 where he graduated with a BA in Media Studies and an MA in Freelancing and Journalism Enterprise at Corburn City University. He also holds a PhD in Communication, Cultural and Media Studies from the University of West Corburn.

He currently works for The Corburn Chronicle.

[Arkolon]

Ah Kubrath, there you are.

Naturally, you're accepted. The first country's name hasn't been properly decided yet, but if everyone's still most comfortable with it we'll stay with the Republic of Corburn. And what's your say on the map we use? RL or generated?

and name the paper whatever you wish

[Kubrath]

Ah Kubrath, there you are.

Naturally, you're accepted. The first country's name hasn't been properly decided yet, but if everyone's still most comfortable with it we'll stay with the Republic of Corburn. And what's your say on the map we use? RL or generated?

and name the paper whatever you wish

Could be easier to navigate if it's a real life map, since we'd be more familiar with the geography and such, but then again part of the fun may be to sketch out a fictional one. I say generated, but am fine either way.

Corburn Chronicles, how does that sound?

[Towson]

NAMES OF YOUR CHARACTERS (Realistic names only, please): Mohammed Li
YOUR CHARACTER'S DESIRED JOBS: Senator

SENATOR WHICH POLITICAL PARTY WILL YOUR CHARACTER BE AFFILIATED WITH?: The Conservative Party
[strike]SENATOR WILL YOUR CHARACTER LIKE TO BE PART OF THE FIRST GOVERNMENT?:The Ministry of Commerce and Finance
ALL Tell us a bit about yourselves ... Mohammed Li is a 49 Year old Hui Chinese Muslim who was born to 2nd Generation Hui Immigrants parents in a Medium Sized Town where they lived and work at a Family Restaurant.He later was elected the Town Council after running at age 32 and later elected Mayor at 40.Soon he was elected Senator at age 46 and now The Minster of Commerce and Finance as he has experience in Business and Economic Promotion also he is the only person in the world named Mohammed Li.[/b]

[Arkolon]

~snip~

A little bit of fun should render the solemnity more bearable. We'll go with generated then. For now.

Corburn Chronicles sounds great.

~snip~

Accepted, Mr. Li. What's your say on the map we use, by the way?

Oh and I've completely obliterated any signs of cultural bias from the spreadsheet. Previously, there was a large bias in favour of freedom and democracy, but this update adds a "liberalization" variable, which makes bans and curfews less acceptable for the liberal voting class-- which was previously overpowered. This also means that dictatorship-class states are possible, instead of just harsh Authoritarian Democracies.

[Britanno]

NAMES OF YOUR CHARACTERS (Realistic names only, please): James Brit
YOUR CHARACTER'S DESIRED JOBS: Senator

WHICH POLITICAL PARTY WILL YOUR CHARACTER BE AFFILIATED WITH?: Conservative Party
WILL YOUR CHARACTER LIKE TO BE PART OF THE FIRST GOVERNMENT?: That'd be nice, an executive position or Minister of Education sounds good.
ALL Forty year old politician who was raised by his Dad when his mother died early on in life. He and his brother relied on their Dad, but when he died when James was only 17, James looked after his brother for a few years. He then started up a small business, and managed to get it from a small local shop to a popular and well known superstore. The business revolved around clothing, and made lots of money. Now James seeks to explore the world of politics.

[Arkolon]

~snip~

Accepted, Mr. Brit. I trust you wish a position as President or some such?

[Lunas Legion]

Back for more, I'll get a app up later.

[Arkolon]

Back for more, I'll get a app up later.

We'll be waiting.

If Lunas Legion signs up as a Conservative like last time, it may be time for all the current senators (which all happen to be conservatives) to properly organise the party. Keep in mind that the game will start in a country about as developed as Occupied Palestine, and that has no laws whatsoever. Drugs, alcohol and illicit behavior are rampant, so luring Conservative voters should not be especially difficult. I will also need the two voter groups your party wishes to focus on (I suspect "Conservative" is one? Full list below), and a self-proclaimed orientation. An Authoritarian stance on social matters has a very negative effect on the Political Freedom of the country, so I suggest staying as Libertarian, as the general data is for worldwide standards. Oh, and you can change the party's name if desired.

Capitalist - Generally like good economies
Commuter - Generally are the opposites of Motorists
Conservative - Generally like restrictions on drugs alcohol etc
Environmentalist - Generally like controlling pollution etc
Liberals - Generally like a free society
Motorist - Generally like Car Usage and are against pollution controls
Patriot - Generally like promoting their own country to the fullest
Religious - Generally are the opposites of Liberals
Retired - Generally like passive life and social programs
Self-Employed - Generally like a good economy and low unemployment (More of a Stat than a group)
Socialist - Generally like social programs and equality
Trade Unionist - Generally prefer bad economies (it works out, sorry if you are offended), equality and favour employees to employers

A brief overview of the world's history is technologically parallel to ours, but fixed at a constant modern tech era for now. There have been no proper countries; only many city-states around the world. Corburn will be the first country in the world, ever, by joining together major cities of the region. You guys can choose a flag for the country, and even the names of cities and regions if you wish.

[Alouite]

I would really like the nation, I want my app to be authentic.

[Arkolon]

I would really like the nation, I want my app to be authentic.

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Republic of Corburn
FLAG
Motto: Freedom, Prosperity, Equality
Anthem: Our Homeland

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Capital (and largest city): Corburn City
Official Languages: English
Demonym: Corburnian
Government: Parliamentary Republic
• Head of State: TBA
• Prime Minister: TBA
Legislative House: Senate
Area: 25,285 km²
Population: 2,633,627
GDP: $23.5bn
GDP per capita: $8,920.72
HDI: 0.701 medium
Currency: Corburnian Dollar (CBD)
• Currency to USD: $0.21
• USD to Currency: 4.76
Drives on the: Right
Calling Code: +7

Corburn, officially the Republic of Corburn is an independent republic formed December 7th 0CE. It is the very first Republic in the history of the world, and is the pioneering state in the Era of Republics-- a worldwide political era which ended the Era of Extremities.

Corburn is located in the Hammerhead Peninsula, bordering the Central Ocean on the Northeastern continent. As a republic, it was formed by the unification of dozens of city-states within several regions after the North East Allied Region (NEAR) talks of June-July 0CE. The 14 most-prominent city-states of the region (Littlewood, Corburn, Renswick, Farnham, Ruthing, Wessex, Bolton, Forton, Charleston, Bridgeham, Sussex, Halton, Oxport and Hull) formed 7 regions and allied together to form NEAR, which lasted just under 6 months.

NEAR was finally unified to form one nation, the Republic of Corburn, on December 7th 0CE.

The transition was abrupt and confused all public employees so much as they looked elsewhere for work. As of December 7th 0CE, there is no national police force, military or proper legislature. Corburn is in a state of quasi-anarchy. A Senate has been present all along, but elections have been postponed to later in the month.

Corburn suffers from high unemployment (12.57%), despite having an average economy. The mean annual income of the average Corburnian is $21,407.40, but 55.28% of the population are poorer than that. A total 88,238 businesses are registered, 506 of which are dubbed "big businesses" due to their larger-than-average size. The average Corburnian lives up to the age of 60, and under 2 in 3 Corburnian adults can read. Due to a freely-open border policy, under 7 in 10 permanent residents of Corburn call themselves Corburnian. Corburn is crime riddled, with a 1.2% chance of being victim of a crime on average.

The flag of Corburn, a white cross on a black and yellow background, represents the unification of NEAR, with Black representing the North and Yellow the South. The white cross symbolizes the River Locke which traverses the peninsula in a T-Shape. The Locke River has historically been used to denote division between the North of Hammerhead and its South.

Corburn's regional division can be compared to a table looking like so:

A --- F --- R

---- K --- C --- B

---------- G

"A" represents the region of Axeshire, joined together by Bolton and Hull.
"F" represents the region of Foreshire, joined together by Littlewood and Farnham.
"R" represents the region of Ryeshire, joined together by Renswick and Forton.
"K" represents the region of Kingsport, joined together by Wessex and Sussex.
"C" represents the region of Corburn, joined together by Charleston and Corburn City.
"B" represents the region of Berkshire, joined together by Ruthing and Halton.
"G" represents the region of Gardshire, joined together by Oxport and Bridgeham.

[Kubrath]

Damn, you've put a lot of effort into this, and to think that MLP RPs garner more interest and activity than this... Sad, really.

[Arkolon]

Damn, you've put a lot of effort into this, and to think that MLP RPs garner more interest and activity than this... Sad, really.

I never understood bronies...

[Alouite]

Yeah, I am getting worried, this doesn't seem to be thriving as well as I expected.

[Alouite]

NAMES OF YOUR CHARACTERS (Realistic names only, please): Conner Normandy
YOUR CHARACTER'S DESIRED JOBS: Senator
SENATOR WHICH POLITICAL PARTY WILL YOUR CHARACTER BE AFFILIATED WITH?: The Socialist Party
[strike]SENATOR WILL YOUR CHARACTER LIKE TO BE PART OF THE FIRST GOVERNMENT?: Yes
ALL Tell us a bit about yourselves ...
Born in Corburn, Conner always in their government, and with the formation of the greater nation, he felt strong about supporting the US government. Living in a family that struggled to stay in the Middle Class had made him yearn for several economic reforms. He also wanted more industries and jobs to be opened up to trade with foreign nations abroad. Lastly he wanted to make the nation more secure and yet also with more rights for personal equality, readily identifying himself a Socialist.

[Arkolon]

NAMES OF YOUR CHARACTERS (Realistic names only, please): Conner Normandy
YOUR CHARACTER'S DESIRED JOBS: Senator
SENATOR WHICH POLITICAL PARTY WILL YOUR CHARACTER BE AFFILIATED WITH?: The Socialist Party
[strike]SENATOR WILL YOUR CHARACTER LIKE TO BE PART OF THE FIRST GOVERNMENT?: Yes
ALL Tell us a bit about yourselves ...
Born in Corburn, Conner always in their government, and with the formation of the greater nation, he felt strong about supporting the US government. Living in a family that struggled to stay in the Middle Class had made him yearn for several economic reforms. He also wanted more industries and jobs to be opened up to trade with foreign nations abroad. Lastly he wanted to make the nation more secure and yet also with more rights for personal equality, readily identifying himself a Socialist.

Accepted, of course.

Hmm.. It does despair me to see it like this. However, best to chin up and spend the pre-opening of the game discussing scenarios and bills to pass. I'm working on a proper history for the world for added authenticity and to ease difficulty it is loosely based on our real world.

I'll be helping Kubrath with journalism, by the way. Unless Kubrath speaks otherwise. And Kubrath, you can also write creatively in your newspaper, maybe even inventing worldwide events.

[The Time Alliance]

Damn, you've put a lot of effort into this, and to think that MLP RPs garner more interest and activity than this... Sad, really.

I never understood bronies...

poor bronies.

I'll app post later


I'm dropping out of a Role-Play tonight.

[Arkolon]

I never understood bronies...

poor bronies.

I'll app post later


I'm dropping out of a Role-Play tonight.

Nice to see new faces

[Vairikai Sari]

I will definately sign up!

[Vairikai Sari]

NAMES OF YOUR CHARACTERS (Realistic names only, please):
•Senator Colin O'Brien

YOUR CHARACTER'S DESIRED JOBS:

Senator
WHICH POLITICAL PARTY WILL YOUR CHARACTER BE AFFILIATED WITH?: Conservative Party
YOUR CHARACTER LIKE TO BE PART OF THE FIRST GOVERNMENT?:
Yes
ANY MINISTERIAL POSITION :
Minister of Health

[Kubrath]

I'll be helping Kubrath with journalism, by the way. Unless Kubrath speaks otherwise. And Kubrath, you can also write creatively in your newspaper, maybe even inventing worldwide events.

The more the less tedious (whoever thought I'd say 'the merrier' does not know newspaper journalism). I'll try to write creatively, although I'm pretty stuck up when it comes to articles. I contribute to the comment section of the campus paper, where I'm supposed to convey my opinions on matters, and I still write my articles like it's news. I'm pretty horrible at this creative journalism thing, sorry to say. I'll try my best, though!

[Arkolon]

NAMES OF YOUR CHARACTERS (Realistic names only, please):
•Senator Colin O'Brien

YOUR CHARACTER'S DESIRED JOBS:

Senator
WHICH POLITICAL PARTY WILL YOUR CHARACTER BE AFFILIATED WITH?: Conservative Party
YOUR CHARACTER LIKE TO BE PART OF THE FIRST GOVERNMENT?:
Yes
ANY MINISTERIAL POSITION :
Minister of Health

Could you please tell us a bit about yourself Mr. O'Brien? I will redesign the application for future members, by the way. Accepted when updated, I guess.

Oh, and it's lovely to see you here. If you are confused about anything, which I fear is the state I might have left most first-time visitors, do not hesitate to ask me

[Arkolon]

I'll be helping Kubrath with journalism, by the way. Unless Kubrath speaks otherwise. And Kubrath, you can also write creatively in your newspaper, maybe even inventing worldwide events.

The more the less tedious (whoever thought I'd say 'the merrier' does not know newspaper journalism). I'll try to write creatively, although I'm pretty stuck up when it comes to articles. I contribute to the comment section of the campus paper, where I'm supposed to convey my opinions on matters, and I still write my articles like it's news. I'm pretty horrible at this creative journalism thing, sorry to say. I'll try my best, though!

Aha, too true. Well, I have not implemented an event-generator anywhere before for it is too complicated and the human brain can come up with better scenarios, I'm sure. I'll gladly help you with creative journalism. And oh, if even your opinions sound like news, then you must have been born a journalist! That is your desired career, I presume? I wouldn't want creative journalism to be viewed as a burden but more of an additional ingredient to the already chic dish that is ROW.