Your World: The Biggest NS Social Experiment

[YourWorldFounder]

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Here we are starting a region experiment based off the TV show Utopia on fox.

We are transferring this to the Nationstates game by making a region where people can run their own government and the region as a whole, without any help or rules from the founder.

If you would like to join, please post here in the thread the nation you will be sending. Join Your World

[DWAsnia]

So basically, you're creating a faux-founderless region without any framework there? Good luck on that.

[Victor Siege]

If all I wanted in a region was to be left alone, there are a thousand abandoned regions I could make my home in. Why should I join yours?

[YourWorldFounder]

So basically, you're creating a faux-founderless region without any framework there? Good luck on that.

Have you ever watched utopia?

We are conducting an experiment, seeing how humans would run their government together without a firm hand or any rules? We'll see if they act as one species or if they run in chaos.

[Solorni]

I heard from friends that this show is bad. Is this advertising for it?

[Shadoke]

OH!!! Ive heard of that show! This would be interesting to see happen.

[YourWorldFounder]

I heard from friends that this show is bad. Is this advertising for it?

No. I just thought it would be interesting to put this idea into our region and conduct this experiment, much like the show does. I couldn't care less if you watch it or not.

[Victor Siege]

On second thought, this sort of thing actually has precedence in Peacezone Theory.

[The Sapientia]

Raided and refounded... just watch

[Luna Amore]

Isn't this basically the same concept as every GCR and founderless region?

[Warzone Codger]

On second thought, this sort of thing actually has precedence in Peacezone Theory.

Not quite. Peacezone Theory was a social experiment to see if communities could exist and be lead purely through social influence. To achieve this, Peacezone Theory was deliberately designed to remove all forms of overt power, in addition to removing rules. The former is important for Peacezone Theory to work, otherwise as others have suggested here, someone who gains (delegate) power can use it to self-perpetrate their rule. Peacezone Theory makes it so things are only achieved because people have agreed to work together, as no one can enforce their will.

[DWAsnia]

On second thought, this sort of thing actually has precedence in Peacezone Theory.

Not quite. Peacezone Theory was a social experiment to see if communities could exist and be lead purely through social influence. To achieve this, Peacezone Theory was deliberately designed to remove all forms of overt power, in addition to removing rules. The former is important for Peacezone Theory to work, otherwise as others have suggested here, someone who gains (delegate) power can use it to self-perpetrate their rule. Peacezone Theory makes it so things are only achieved because people have agreed to work together, as no one can enforce their will.

Not to try and go off topic, but did Peacezone Theory ever work long-term?

[Khronion]

I could see it looking more like a Warzone than a feeder or sinker, in terms of regional dynamics. There's no hegemonic sitting delegate with 50+ endorsements, very few individuals, and very little influence to hamper executive delegate privileges.

[DWAsnia]

I could see it looking more like a Warzone than a feeder or sinker, in terms of regional dynamics. There's no hegemonic sitting delegate with 50+ endorsements, very few individuals, and very little influence to hamper executive delegate privileges.

Yet bans don't reset.

[Khronion]

more of a sudden-death kind of Warzone experience then.

[YourWorldFounder]

Not quite. Peacezone Theory was a social experiment to see if communities could exist and be lead purely through social influence. To achieve this, Peacezone Theory was deliberately designed to remove all forms of overt power, in addition to removing rules. The former is important for Peacezone Theory to work, otherwise as others have suggested here, someone who gains (delegate) power can use it to self-perpetrate their rule. Peacezone Theory makes it so things are only achieved because people have agreed to work together, as no one can enforce their will.

This is in reality what I want to try out. I would like to see how people on nationstates would handle working together as a region controlled by them. I will give them control of practically everything in the region and let them set up rules as they see fit or they might just completely end up going to war with eachother. This is just an experiment, so don't try and make such a fuss out of it please. Thanks!

[Warzone Codger]

Not quite. Peacezone Theory was a social experiment to see if communities could exist and be lead purely through social influence. To achieve this, Peacezone Theory was deliberately designed to remove all forms of overt power, in addition to removing rules. The former is important for Peacezone Theory to work, otherwise as others have suggested here, someone who gains (delegate) power can use it to self-perpetrate their rule. Peacezone Theory makes it so things are only achieved because people have agreed to work together, as no one can enforce their will.

Not to try and go off topic, but did Peacezone Theory ever work long-term?

The contradiction in Peacezone Theory is the players you get. Those who are politically ambitious aren't likely to join a Peacezone, while you could argue all those regions with players who are only playing to chat socially and answer issues are kind of already Peacezones, but that's not we are talking about.

Eastern Europe was a success if you were just building an active region. Most players there didn't really care about Peacezone Theory though, the didn't really care about regional politics at all and were willing to go with whatever I wanted since I was active and organised. They quickly went back to a normal RPish region though after I left.

Overall, I failed in imbuing a sense of political identity, but that's always been my problem where all my regions become cult of personality for Codger..

Sorry for hijacking your thread YourWorldFounder. Best of luck to your region.