NationStates Issues **SPOILER ALERT**

[Leutria]

According to this, 67.4 is no longer in the game.

[Jutsa]

I think he's submitting them under He Qixin 2, but I'm honestly not sure.

According to this, 67.4 is no longer in the game.

Edit: Fixing that right away! Keeping that in my little reserve file.
(It's probably hopelessly unnecessary but better safe than sorry?)

[Candlewhisper Archive]

I think he's submitting them under He Qixin 2, but I'm honestly not sure.

Yeah, that would have turned up on a search for He Qixin, I think.

[Bollesiatan]

There is a 6th option to issue 511

“This is about ego,” observes twitchy armchair psychologist Athena Vader, adjusting her nicotine patch and distractedly gnawing on a well-chewed ballpoint pen. “It’s also about superego and id... but mostly just egotism. Give these exhibitionists an outlet for their vanity. Televised arena bouts, celebrity status, and official merchandise are that outlet. They’ll be promoting their careers rather than fighting on the streets, and as an added bonus, heroes and villains in the public eye are pretty easy for government to monitor.”

[The Gamma Monster]

Communist option to 352.1

2.“Someone must be blamed for the loss of industrial efficiency that these suicides have caused us,” the Director of the State Railways comments frankly. “These incidents are inconvenient, and handling them requires a lot of time and effort; and time is, of course, money. It’s not right that these people get away with disrupting state productivity, as well as the travel arrangement of our toiling workers. I humbly suggest that their families should be held accountable, and arrested. It’s only fair.”

[Candlewhisper Archive]

2.“Someone must be blamed for the loss of industrial efficiency that these suicides have caused us,” the Director of the State Railways comments frankly. “These incidents are inconvenient, and handling them requires a lot of time and effort; and time is, of course, money. It’s not right that these people get away with disrupting state productivity, as well as the travel arrangement of our toiling workers. I humbly suggest that their families should be held accountable, and arrested. It’s only fair.”

Hmm. Fixed that to arrangements.

[Bears Armed]

2.“Someone must be blamed for the loss of industrial efficiency that these suicides have caused us,” the Director of the State Railways comments frankly. “These incidents are inconvenient, and handling them requires a lot of time and effort; and time is, of course, money. It’s not right that these people get away with disrupting state productivity, as well as the travel arrangement of our toiling workers. I humbly suggest that their families should be held accountable, and arrested. It’s only fair.”

Hmm. Fixed that to arrangements.

The singular form would still be appropriate if that was a single overall arrangement made by the government rather than individual choices...

[Jutsa]

Guess it's one of those British vs. American things, yes?

Eh, updated both. I'm happy to see these, guys, but none of these are on the list.

(should I add the s or not? I added the s for now)

[Jutsa]

Hey, also, is Athena Vader fixed?

Er - and, also, is the fifth speaker fixed, for that matter?

[Zimbabwean Tibet]

913
Couped Up


The Issue
Outrage echoes through the hallowed halls of government. Your ungrateful Minister of the Interior claims you are an autocrat and has been drumming up support for a coup.

The Debate
1.“Come now, Leader, surely you see that this is all a misunderstanding,” coos Minister of the Interior Ksenya Tarkin, massaging your shoulders. “I think our problem is a failure to communicate. You never listen to anyone’s ideas but your own anymore. I felt sidelined. Our relationship needs to be more of a two-way street, or it just won’t work. Politics can’t be all me-me-me. How about I promise to stop trying to overthrow you, you promise to listen more, and we all turn over a new leaf. How does that sound?”


2.“Are you serious?” cries Minister of Defence Richard Chandra, as he sits in the corner beheading toy soldiers. “Traitors are the lowest form of scum and should be treated as such. Many could have died in this proposed mutiny, not to mention that they were trying to deliberately oust the nation’s rightful leader! We must treat this woman as the dangerous and unstable individual she is, and punish her in the only correct way for treasonous pond-life: by hanging, drawing and scattering her wicked body to the four winds for the birds to feast upon. Or, you could just chop her head off if you’re feeling generous.”


3.“There is always another way around these matters,” hisses the Secret Police’s Head of Scientific Cunning, Yolanda Hunt. “Merely pretend you agree and go for a drink with the traitor. My employees and I have found a new type of poison; it’s completely undetectable and perfectly mimics a heart attack, disappearing from the bloodstream within several hours. Slip this into any beverage and the drinker won’t be at work the next morning. The poor Minister is getting on in years, anyway. And what with all the negative press coverage about her being a disgusting traitor... perhaps the stress was simply too much to handle?”



Issue by The Holy Empire of Allahad

Edited by The Free Joy State

[Jutsa]

913?

Looks like we've got a few things to keep an eye out for. Many thanks.

Added a validity to option 3, since I can't imagine nations without a secret police force getting this.

[Heliosphere]

Issue 912: Ambassadors Behaving Madly

The Issue

The privilege of diplomatic immunity for ambassadors has entered the news after several of them have been caught in unsavory behavior, including drunk driving, fist fights, and the attempted murder of a Brancalandian Member of Parliament. Concerned citizens and outraged foreign nationals have asked your government to step in and bring your ambassadors in line.

The Debate

1. “The solution is quite simple,” states your Minister of Foreign Affairs while trying to smooth things over with his Brancalandian counterpart. “Why don’t we simply fire any ambassador who acts like a buffoon? We obviously can’t have our diplomats acting like spoiled children and besmirching our good name. We must replace them with the most upstanding members of society. Problem solved!”

2. “That still doesn’t change the fact that your ambassador tried to kill one of our MPs!” replies the Brancalandian Foreign Minister, who has started a slap fight with your own Minister of Foreign Affairs. “I demand that all ambassadors have their diplomatic immunity revoked so that we can charge them for all of the crimes they have committed. No person should be above the law! To make it fair, we wouldn’t complain if you also took away immunity from all of the foreign diplomats in Heliosphere.”

3. “Being a diplomat is so stressful,” complains Nelson Sorin, your former ambassador to Tasmania, who has taken it upon himself to stop the fighting between the two ministers. “You send us off to these dangerous hellholes all across the South Pacific. Is it any wonder that some of us snap? Our job is to promote the nation’s interests and help find new allies. We need diplomatic immunity to ensure our safety as national envoys, guarantee our freedom of movement, and maybe let off some steam on the weekends. I think that’s a small price to pay for a little international embarrassment.”

4. “Ambassadors! Bah! Who needs them?” questions infamous nationalist and staunch xenophobe Tanya Bouvier while giving a salute that makes everyone in the room uncomfortable. “This compulsive need to learn about other countries or grant their diplomats safe passage is very un-Heliospherean. We’d be much better off keeping to ourselves and not having to worry about these damn foreigners or their opinions on how we conduct our business.”

5. “Diplomatic immunity, you say?” muses Brenda Harkness, your Minister of Sycophancy. “Why should this just be limited to ambassadors? It seems to me that if anyone deserves immunity, it’s you. You’re practically a god to these people anyway. You should be able to do whatever you want.”
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Issue by The Free Secular Federation of Nation of Quebec

Edited by Pogaria

[Jutsa]

Updated! Adding these to the list of nations.

Oh, also changed "Nation has" or "Nation is" to "Must have" and "Must be" in many of the validities. Hopefully I got them all... >.>

[Ransium]

FYI all instances of Marche Noir in the issue base have been updated to Marche Noire curtesy of Joy.

[Jutsa]

Updated all instances of Marche Noire!

[Jutsa]

Also added #915 because it's on NSindex. Thanks Jar Jar.

Congratulations, Fauxia! 3 issues, now.

[Trotterdam]

#912 Ambassadors Behaving Madly

The Issue

The privilege of diplomatic immunity for ambassadors has entered the news after several of them have been caught in unsavory behavior, including drunk driving, fist fights, and the attempted murder of a Brancalandian Member of Parliament. Concerned citizens and outraged foreign nationals have asked your government to step in and bring your ambassadors in line.

The Debate

1. "The solution is quite simple," states your Minister of Foreign Affairs while trying to smooth things over with his Brancalandian counterpart. "Why don't we simply fire any ambassador who acts like a buffoon? We obviously can't have our diplomats acting like spoiled children and besmirching our good name. We must replace them with the most upstanding members of society. Problem solved!"

2. "That still doesn't change the fact that your ambassador tried to kill one of our MPs!" replies the Brancalandian Foreign Minister, who has started a slap fight with your own Minister of Foreign Affairs. "I demand that all ambassadors have their diplomatic immunity revoked so that we can charge them for all of the crimes they have committed. No person should be above the law! To make it fair, we wouldn't complain if you also took away immunity from all of the foreign diplomats in @@NAME@@."

3. "Being a diplomat is so stressful," complains @@RANDOMNAME@@, your former ambassador to Tasmania, who has taken it upon @@HIM/HER@@self to stop the fighting between the two ministers. "You send us off to these dangerous hellholes all across @@REGION@@. Is it any wonder that some of us snap? Our job is to promote the nation's interests and help find new allies. We need diplomatic immunity to ensure our safety as national envoys, guarantee our freedom of movement, and maybe let off some steam on the weekends. I think that's a small price to pay for a little international embarrassment."

4. "Ambassadors! Bah! Who needs them?" questions infamous nationalist and staunch xenophobe @@RANDOMNAME@@ while giving a salute that makes everyone in the room uncomfortable. "This compulsive need to learn about other countries or grant their diplomats safe passage is very un-@@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@. We'd be much better off keeping to ourselves and not having to worry about these damn foreigners or their opinions on how we conduct our business."

5. "Diplomatic immunity, you say?" muses @@RANDOMNAME@@, your Minister of Sycophancy. "Why should this just be limited to ambassadors? It seems to me that if anyone deserves immunity, it's you. You're practically a god to these people anyway. You should be able to do whatever you want."

Issue by Nation of Quebec
Edited by Pogaria

I got different names from Heliosphere, so I can confirm they're random. Note that the gender of the pronoun in option 1 might be too, but I can't confirm that currently.

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In other news, #211 option 2 is unavailable for communists. No replacement.

913?

Looks like we've got a few things to keep an eye out for.

I think #911 is reserved. (It's the emergency phone number in the US, and also the date of those famous terrorist attacks. Plenty of material there.)

Look out for #914, though, a religion-themed issue (or perhaps "lack-of-religion-themed" would be more accurate) with at least 7 options.

Added a validity to option 3, since I can't imagine nations without a secret police force getting this.

You can't just assume.

For all we know, the entire issue might be unavailable to nations that aren't oppressive enough to have a secret police. Or the editors could have overlooked something.

FYI all instances of Marche Noir in the issue base have been updated to Marche Noire curtesy of Joy.

You mean "courtesy".

Will Marche Blanc (#706) also be updated to Blanche?

[Leutria]

According to this, 67.4 is no longer in the game.

Edit: Fixing that right away! Keeping that in my little reserve file.
(It's probably hopelessly unnecessary but better safe than sorry?)

I suppose if you wanted to keep the record you could list the option, but then in the way you show option validity instead say something like [This option is no longer in use] or something like that?

[Jutsa]

Eh, I could... but idk, it'd get too confusing with all the rewrites to consider.
I could just keep deleted options instead of both... idk, that's up for debate.

[Trotterdam]

#912 option 3 now ends on "I think a little international embarrassment is a small price to pay for that.".

#191 2 is unavailable for nations with low religiousness (or something like that).

#190 has a new option 2 which is a variant of option 1 for nations without the internet. (I've been pretty sure about this one for a while, but I've recently confirmed there's a slot for it, though I still haven't seen it.)

Eh, I could... but idk, it'd get too confusing with all the rewrites to consider.
I could just keep deleted options instead of both... idk, that's up for debate.

I think it could be interesting to keep a historical record of major changes to issues, but not interspersed with the current spoiler list.

I did sometimes make a point in this thread of making a copy of the old issue when reporting a major change, though without knowing which numbers to search for those posts'd be essentially impossible to find.

[Jutsa]

Updated 912, and I imagine we don't have #190.2 so I'm just adding that to my list of stuff to find.

Before I update #191, I have to ask: Is option 1 and/or 3 also changed, then?
Because, option 3's narrative kinda relies on option 2, atm.

[Awesome country of jj]

914
Shepherds Without a Flock


The Issue
Religious attendance has hit rock bottom and many formerly thriving houses of faith are now abandoned. City planners have called a meeting to discuss the topic and, to their surprise, more people came to the meeting than to all religious services in the last year combined.

The Debate
1.“You know what would be really cool?” asks your nephew’s hip best friend. “If you’d turn all of these structures into something meaningful, like skate parks! These buildings are virtually perfect for half-pipes all along the halls! Can you think of any better place to do some sick flips than in a repurposed temple? And there would be some health benefits for young people, right?”


2.“Mind your manners!” snaps a grey-haired woman in a lab coat as she slams a ruler on the skater’s head. “For centuries, houses of worship were epicenters of indoctrination and persecution. What could be more fitting than to turn them into beacons of knowledge? These structures would certainly be a good place to expand Nbmfuenfhvhdmdjs University’s library. Furthermore, I can think of at least a dozen colleagues who are looking for a place to run a lab in.”


3.“Instead of wasting them on mad scientists, why don’t we turn these spaces into affordable housing?” suggests Jake Strange, parent of three. “With an ever-growing population, it is only a question of time until we run into a serious overcrowding problem! We cannot waste empty buildings for anything else but living quarters for those who need them.”


4.“It pains my heart to see our community shrink so much,” sighs Brother Freddy Butler. “I agree that we don’t need a house of worship on every corner nowadays, but let us at least keep some that remain. If we turn some of them into multi-faith community centers, we might even get some rows filled again.”


5.“Multi-faith community centers? Skate parks and blasphemers in our holy halls? Are you out of your minds?” screams religious fundamentalist Warwick Herrelko. “You have left this country in the hands of the sinners for far too long! You have brought us upon the path of damnation, but it is not too late to repent! Make religious services mandatory and this problem will solve itself in less time than I need to describe the Creator’s glory.”


6.“Just bulldoze ‘em all,” wheezes middle-aged construction worker Boris Parker whilst coughing into a stained handkerchief. “Y’all are talking about repurposing buildings, whilst I see prime real estate being wasted. Tear ‘em down, sell the land, and build whatever the new developers want there.”


Issue by The Radiant Republic of Sunset Sea Islands

Edited by Nation of Quebec

[Trotterdam]

Before I update #191, I have to ask: Is option 1 and/or 3 also changed, then?
Because, option 3's narrative kinda relies on option 2, atm.

Oops, I forgot to check.

There wasn't room for a new option, though, so if it was changed, then it was changed for everyone, even people who also get option 2. That means it shouldn't be too hard to find it again.

[Jutsa]

Congratulations, Sunset Sea Islands, for your second issue.

Funnily enough, both of their issues have a somewhat large amount of text.

Keep an eye out for 910.3, 911, and any other options 917 may have.

[Trotterdam]

Keep an eye out for 910.3, 911, and any other options 917 may have.

917? We haven't quite reached that far yet.

However, I believe #914 has two variants for the last option, though I can't tell what they're based on. (Somehow, you end up building either "luxury condos" or "community centers" - and no, the latter doesn't require communism.)