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[Lenyo]

Congrats on knowing the subjunctive mood, but that's fairly obscure among most English-speakers. The old version is idiomatic. It stands.

[Christian Democrats]

I guess it is too bourgeois for you.

[Schweizweld]

I think that issue #20 gunman kills three needs a more middle of the road option. The options are only allow guns for police and military, ban guns for everyone and crack down on movies and video games. I think there should be an option for sensible gun control like background checks, licence for owners and registration of guns.

[Viperco1]

I think it might be a good idea to drop the word Catholic from the first option of the issue "Appointment of Spiritual Advisor" that way you can have a religiously oppressive nation without the assumption of Christianity.

1.
Catholic Archbishop Tim Gutenberg: boasts an excellent track record, having rapidly increased church attendances in his constituencies through the "Reaching God Through Guilt" program. Seen as a solid choice.

[Blekksprutia]

Typo, from Not a Drop to Drink:

"@NATION@ has been hit with the worst drought in a hundred years; as a result thirsty citizens and a growing number of brown lawns are pleading for a government response."
Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't it supposed to be this?
"@NATION@ has been hit with the worst drought in a hundred years; as a result, thirsty citizens and a growing number of brown lawns are pleading for a government response."
With the comma between "result" and "thirsty"?
Thank you. Apologies if this is not the right place to put this.

[Slafstopia]

#119, Watershed Down?

2. "This is an endorsement of bad taste if ever I saw it," says @@RANDOMNAME@@, a child-care worker. "It's just wrong to subject children to graphic violence and nudity on afternoon television like this: who knows what it might possess them to do? We've all heard stories of kids who have seen some film where someone jumped off a cliff and then gone off to have a shot themselves. We must ban all violent and salacious material from our TV screens. If only to protect the innocence of our progeny!"

Unless RANDOMNAME is Italian, in which case it should really have a hyphen between have and a anyway, that a doesn't need to be there.

[Panageadom]

It's minor because it's obvious a phonetic transliteration and both are fine: but I think the traditional spelling of burqa in no. 128 ("Ban the Burka?") is with a 'q'.

[Economa Incorporated]

Issue: Who's Occupying What? (#305?)

The Issue

Many young, educated, and unemployed people are frustrated because jobs are being outsourced to workers in Bigtopia. On the other hand, low end service industries are seeing a shortage of workers, sparking debate over possible solutions to the employment gap.

The Debate

"Frankly, we shouldn't be wasting time giving our children costly educations, just to have Bigtopians take their jobs," remarks Louis Peters, a wealthy business executive sharing a drink in your office. "Let's lift the ban on child labor and instead put our children to work in service jobs in retail-jobs that can't be sent to other countries. They might not get paid much, but it'll at least get them working and this economy moving again." Handing you a wad of money, he continues, "And we'll both make a Economatian Dubloon or two off it as well..."

Accept

Al Sub-terra, author of "Command Economies: The Communist Ideal" and part-time florist, slips into your office and says, "On that thought, perhaps we could use the government to allocate our resources... erm... children. To help economic efficiency, we'll split them up early on, sending some right into the workforce where the economy needs them. We'll raise the others through the education system." The noted statist thinker, deftly rearranging your vase of roses, quickly adds, "It might be expensive to manage, and kids won't get much choice in what kind of a job they get, but I think everyone will be happy after realizing that everything fits... perfectly..."

Accept

"Our people need jobs, but giving more money to fat-cat business owners isn't the answer!" remarks Falala Jones of the Occupy Citadel Sub-Terra movement, unaware of the "Hiring" sign in a nearby department store window. "In fact, we should tighten regulations on robber barons to ensure they put our workers first. And make them pay a little more in taxes to help support Economa Incorporated's hard-working people as well! Sure, the businesses may not like it, but it will help out the common man. Help the 99%!"

Accept

"All ze jobs are VHERE?!" General Von Gugelheimer lets out a piercing scream. "Zose Bigtopians and zeir business friends need to remember vhich is ze better country! Never mind zat ze businesses at fault are based out of Economa Incorporated. Let's blow zose Bigtopians off ze map! Double ze military's size, and ve von't have to vorry about zem anymore. Trade vill take a hit, but isn't ZE POWER vorth it? Hahaha... HAHAHAHA!"

Accept

I believe it could be "and," "or," or even "or in" or "and in." However it is fixed, something isn't right with that sentence. The "-" could probably go too. If you wanted to talk aesthetics, "service or retail jobs" without the first "jobs" sounds better, but isn't necessary to change.

Thanks!

[Narkus]

I think the <industry> workers go on strike needs more options.

Namely the option to punish workers who try to go on strike.

Ideally, you could give them the death penalty, but since only the most ridiculous empires would choose that, maybe you could imprison them for a week...

[Ikania]

I understand someone's trying hard to make a joke at G. Bush's expense, but it still reads like the writer is illiterate.

You got the issue with randomly selected names, of which "George W" is one of many first names and "Bush" is one of the lastnames. It just happened to come up with whatever offended you.

Just gonna quote an old post...
I got the same issue today, with George W. Obama.

[Aja]

I got this for "Easter Egg: What's your favorite Color?"

"Tell her it's red," says Cooper Peters, sharing out the meeting's doughnut tray. "It'll show them that our nation has nowt to do with money grabbing capitalists."

I'm pretty sure nowt isn't a word.

[Ballotonia]

I got this for "Easter Egg: What's your favorite Color?"

"Tell her it's red," says Cooper Peters, sharing out the meeting's doughnut tray. "It'll show them that our nation has nowt to do with money grabbing capitalists."

I'm pretty sure nowt isn't a word.

Dictionaries disagree:
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nowt

Ballotonia

[Freemopia]

Organ donation issue. I propose than an option to make post mortem organ donation mandatory except for those who opt out, be added. People could be taught how to opt out thru ads. the opt out process would be easy. Severely ill or injured patients can be asked if they want to opt in or out of post mortem organ donation.

[Frisbeeteria]

I propose than an option

This thread is for typos and such. We're not interested in adding options to existing issues, nor is this the thread to discuss that.

[Economa Incorporated]

Did anyone address the one I spotted?

I wasn't sure if it got missed.

I figured I'd wait a bit to see if it came around to me again before I checked back but I haven't gotten it again in the past few weeks.

[Frisbeeteria]

Did anyone address the one I spotted?

Probably not. It's not something we do on a weekly basis or anything. We usually do a run through on this thread every 6-12 months, unless it's somehow gamebreaking or garishly awful.

[Economa Incorporated]

Ah. Okay! Thanks for the explanation!

[Cassadaigua]

Minor quibble with issue 327:

The resulting action of encouraging racing states: "horse racing stadiums are open 24/7"

Racing events are not in "stadiums". They are on racetracks.


(Would've been nice if this issue also had an option for the government to subsidize racing, but it's clear what the author's opinion of the general topic was. That would be an extremely useful way of spending the taxpayers money. )

[Sedgistan]

Minor quibble with issue 327:

The resulting action of encouraging racing states: "horse racing stadiums are open 24/7"

Racing events are not in "stadiums". They are on racetracks.


(Would've been nice if this issue also had an option for the government to subsidize racing, but it's clear what the author's opinion of the general topic was. That would be an extremely useful way of spending the taxpayers money. )

I live fairly close to a greyhound racing stadium. Greyhounds were actually the original animal from the issue (note: you're seeing "horse" as that's your national animal). It works better than "racetracks" when you consider all the different animals that could come up.

[Blekksprutia]

http://www.nationstates.net/page=show_dilemma/dilemma=8
Changing tenses.

The Issue
A loose coalition of sartorially-challenged individuals known as "Let It All Hang Out" has called on the government to relax public nudity laws.

The Debate
1. "For too long, our bodies have been trapped in these prisons of cotton and polyester!" yelled protester @@RANDOMNAME@@, while apparently developing a nasty case of sunburn. "We must repeal the puritanical laws that make public nudity a crime. My body--my choice to dangle!"

2. "I agree," mused sociology professor @@RANDOMNAME@@. "But I don't think the protestors are going far enough. Public nudity shouldn't be an option: it should be compulsory. Nudity is highly liberating. And it would put that disgusting "Hooters" out of business once and for all."

3. "Whoa, whoa," says noted accountant @@RANDOMNAME@@. "Are these people serious? The last thing I want to see when I'm out for a coffee is some lumbering, over-weight nudist coming down the sidewalk toward me. If people want to get naked, they can do it in the privacy of their own homes. Think of the children!"

Bolds mine. Options 1 and 2 are in the past tense, with "yelled" and "mused," while 3 is in the present tense with "says".

[Schweizweld]

I think that issue 23, uranium deposit needs to be changed. I heard that option 3 completely destroys your environment even though it clearly says that you will only mine a small part of the forest and leave most of the forest untouched. I can see why option 1 would destroy your environment but option 3 should not.

[Sanctaria]

I think that issue 23, uranium deposit needs to be changed. I heard that option 3 completely destroys your environment even though it clearly says that you will only mine a small part of the forest and leave most of the forest untouched. I can see why option 1 would destroy your environment but option 3 should not.

Issue 23 is one of the issues that Max wrote, and it's been in the game for 10+ years.

It's not going to get changed.

[United States of Natan]

I think that issue 23, uranium deposit needs to be changed. I heard that option 3 completely destroys your environment even though it clearly says that you will only mine a small part of the forest and leave most of the forest untouched. I can see why option 1 would destroy your environment but option 3 should not.

Issue 23 is one of the issues that Max wrote, and it's been in the game for 10+ years.

It's not going to get changed.

really, just because max wrote it, and it has been around for over 10 years?

[Sanctaria]

Issue 23 is one of the issues that Max wrote, and it's been in the game for 10+ years.

It's not going to get changed.

really, just because max wrote it, and it has been around for over 10 years?

Yes. It's his game, if he wants his issues to have certain effects then its his prerogative.

Also the fact it's been around for 10+ years would suggest that if the option effect was a problem it probably would have been noticed and rectified by now.

[Sedgistan]

I think that issue 23, uranium deposit needs to be changed. I heard that option 3 completely destroys your environment even though it clearly says that you will only mine a small part of the forest and leave most of the forest untouched. I can see why option 1 would destroy your environment but option 3 should not.

Whoever you heard that from is wrong.