NationStates

Posted: **Sat Aug 24, 2019 3:58 pm**

So... Maybe I have a little too much time on my hands... Using data from the Index of Economic Freedom and Freedom in the World, two very well known indices that when combined together can determine the measure of a country's political, civil, and economic freedom... I manually coloured each country according to the data I found if our world were to be divided into WA categories. I only ended up using 20 of the 27 possible categories as the others were not applicable.

I wrote a full meta dispatch here on it: https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1251219

Enjoy

Posted: **Sat Aug 24, 2019 3:59 pm**

I never knew the US was an Anarchy. Perhaps I should begin looting?

/joke

Posted: **Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:00 pm**

Communist Crimean Republic wrote:I never knew the US was an Anarchy. Perhaps I should begin looting?

/joke

According to the WA categorization system used by NationStates, it is... At least from the data I found. The US rates very high in political freedom, civil rights, and economic freedom.

Posted: **Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:04 pm**

Weird, but cool.

Posted: **Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:07 pm**

Pacomia wrote:Weird, but cool.

Thanks, took several hours to do. I'm a little obsessed with infographics.

Posted: **Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:10 pm**

Takso wrote:
Pacomia wrote:Weird, but cool.

Thanks, took several hours to do. I'm a little obsessed with infographics.

How did you do the calculations? Did you just draw a line in the indexes?

Posted: **Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:12 pm**

The.... the Scandinavian countries are anarchies, none of them are Scandinavian Liberal Paradises. :blink:

Posted: **Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:13 pm**

Beautiful.

Posted: **Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:15 pm**

I really channeled my inner Peru with this nation.

Posted: **Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:16 pm**

United American Anarchist States or the UAAS is a anarchist state founded on 24/8/19 within the former land of the USA /joke

God I love WA Category sometimes

Posted: **Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:18 pm**

Pacomia wrote:
Takso wrote:
Thanks, took several hours to do. I'm a little obsessed with infographics.

How did you do the calculations? Did you just draw a line in the indexes?

Well, sort of. Both indices provide their own categories and break down how they calculated their scores. Like "Free" or "Mostly Free" for example for the Index of Economic Freedom. Obviously converting that to NationStates does make it appear a bit strange. Seemed better to me than just estimating the levels of freedom in each country myself, which would carry a great deal of personal bias. That isn't to say the measures I used are not biased a little themselves, but I think they mostly reflect reality.

I mean some may argue the United States is a "Corporate Police State" or "Libertarian Police State", or whatever have you because of the dominance of multinational corporations, but at the end of the day... You can freely criticize these corporations, vote for whoever you want, and start up competing businesses against them, so in actuality... You sort of do have a lot of freedom.

21st Century Rome wrote:The.... the Scandinavian countries are anarchies, none of them are Scandinavian Liberal Paradises.

Heh indeed, I make note of this in my meta dispatch.

Posted: **Sat Aug 24, 2019 4:19 pm**

Oh wow the U.S. and Germany are anarchy

Posted: **Sat Aug 24, 2019 5:42 pm**

The U.S is probably an Inoffensive Centrist Democracy if it existed in the NS universe.

Posted: **Sat Aug 24, 2019 5:44 pm**

Kinda amusing that none of the Scandinavian countries are Scandinavian Liberal Paradises.

Posted: **Sat Aug 24, 2019 5:59 pm**

Cekoviu wrote:Kinda amusing that none of the Scandinavian countries are Scandinavian Liberal Paradises.

According to NS, in order to be that category, you must have low economic freedom, which thus excludes Scandinavia.

Posted: **Sun Aug 25, 2019 9:23 am**

S. O. C. I. A. L. I. S. M.

is here to stay ....

S. O. C. I. A. L. I. S. M.

is the only way....

*thumbs up*

Well done on the analysis. Very fun.

Posted: **Sun Aug 25, 2019 12:05 pm**

Unibot III wrote:S. O. C. I. A. L. I. S. M.

is here to stay ....

S. O. C. I. A. L. I. S. M.

is the only way....

*thumbs up*

Well done on the analysis. Very fun.

You're welcome, I am pleased you like it.

Posted: **Mon Mar 09, 2020 2:11 am**

Poland as Civil Rights Lovefest?
South Korea and Anarchy?
Well.This is very questionable.

Posted: **Mon Mar 09, 2020 4:24 am**

Ecological Catastrophe Earth wrote:Poland as Civil Rights Lovefest?
South Korea and Anarchy?
Well.This is cery questionable.

Where did you manage to find that out? I can't see any of the images in OP or the dispatch because Imgur have removed them for some reason...

Posted: **Tue Mar 10, 2020 4:39 am**

In test.This Can be bit outdated.

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Real countries by WA category

Real countries by WA category

Forever

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