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[Therimenjas]

Issue #1237 ("A Polar Bear's Tale") shouldn't occur for nations with negative policing. It references the police in the intro to the issue and in all three policy options.

Thanks for the reduction to Administrative spending though, I'll just squeak through using it before you fix it.

[Camp Mennihackatorso]

Issue #73 ("@@NAME@@ - Without Cars, Going Nowhere Fast") needs an option update for an illegal clothes-wearer. The strange woman clad all in green on the third option shouldn't be wearing illegal clothing! As before, I recommend switching that to "painted" all in green. When body paints are banned as well, these suggestions will need updating.

[Steelfeather Rapture 1]

Issue #56 ("'Give Us Money!' Quoth the Poet") has its option #2 referencing a Capitalism Now Party. That may need a review for sortition governance, unless political parties are assumed to survive in sortition.

[Trotterdam]

Milostein got #1333 which asks for "real immigration reform so that the citizenship exam isn’t so onerous". The only even remotely anti-immigration option I ever choose on that nation is #940 option 3, which isn't even the most anti-immigration option on that issue, and logically wouldn't make an exception for spouses. (It took me a while to even realize that option is probably why the game keeps thinking I hate immigrants.)

[Wallowis]

Issue #222 says a “car” explodes in the city center, however I have cars banned

[Trotterdam]

A small one: "@@ANIMAL@@ Park" in #326 needs to capitalize every word in "@@ANIMAL@@".

[Panagouge]

Issue #222 says a “car” explodes in the city center, however I have cars banned

It's not impossible to smugglie in a car, no matter how absurd thar sounds . Part by part perchance...

[The Luck of Jirachi]

Issue # 130 option 1 produces "The government is a clear-cut case of tyranny by majority." upon enacting. Would this be better suited to not directly reference a nation classification, especially if we are stuck in Inoffensive Centrist Democracy Purgatory?
Maybe change to "The majority in government enjoys a major power imbalance" or "The people have an easier time dissenting than politicians"
Unrelated- make becoming a Tyranny by Majority easier dammit

[Australian rePublic]

Considering that effect lines start with "following new legisaltion in @@NAME@@", I don't think it would make much sense for effect of option 3 of 552 would be " tourists visit @@NAME@@ to mass-moon @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ politicians", because now it says "following new legisaltion in @@NAME@@, tourists visit @@NAME@@ to mass-moon @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ politicians" doesn't make much sense. Maybe replace "@@NAME@@" in the effect line with "the nation"?

[Australian rePublic]

Issue #222 says a “car” explodes in the city center, however I have cars banned

It's not impossible to smugglie in a car, no matter how absurd thar sounds . Part by part perchance...

Yea. I don't think someone who's willing to bomb a city will care too much about anti-automobile laws. Filling it with petrol, on the other hand...

[Trotterdam]

The thing is, the reason terrorists like putting bombs in cars is because cars are pretty much everywhere, so people don't pay attention to them until they blow up. If cars are illegal, then the guy parking one in the crowded city center would draw a police response even before anyone realizes there's a bomb inside, making it far less effective as a tactic.

[Australian rePublic]

The thing is, the reason terrorists like putting bombs in cars is because cars are pretty much everywhere, so people don't pay attention to them until they blow up. If cars are illegal, then the guy parking one in the crowded city center would draw a police response even before anyone realizes there's a bomb inside, making it far less effective as a tactic.

Interesting

[Cataleenia]

Issue 721, A Lack of Comma Sense has a misplaced comma, or that could just be my brain being cursed by the Microsoft Word auto editor.

“Had there been a comma after ‘Mc Catter’ but before ‘and,’ the intended meaning of the sentence would have been obvious.”

If it is a misplaced comma then it’s pretty ironic.

[Wind and Void Rapture 1]

I have a score of 99 in civil rights and have recently chosen several pro-gun options. I got #526 "Any Idea Where the Law Is, Bessie?" and it occurs to me that the issue shouldn't arise in nations with extremely well-protected gun rights. Issue option #4 in particular has a character talking about not having their service revolver, and that one stands out especially because there's no way their service revolver would be illegal in the Wind and Void Rapture.

[Steelfeather Rapture 2]

Issue #1107 ("Welcome to the Party") may be inappropriate for sortition governments or governments with advanced political freedoms. Do political parties survive under sortition? Is it necessarily true that there's a monolithic Communist Party in every state planned economy? I think this issue should only fire for nations where its associated political freedom increase would do something.

[Therimenjas]

Issue #625 ("Delivering the Goods") needs a rework or new validation check for anti-policing nations. It mentions the police in its introduction and is fundamentally about how society handles the consequences of police interventions against the black market. I like this issue, but I think Therimenjas shouldn't have this issue.

[Pogaria]

Alright, I'm back. Let's see how many of these problems I can address...

Issue #505 has the following issue text:

Bigtopian Balsam — an invasive weed with an extremely short gestation period, rapid growth, and hallucinogenic properties — has infested the Aryaxian hillsides. After smothering endangered wildflowers and crop-laden fields alike, a seemingly unlikely coalition of environmentalists and business owners have petitioned the government for action.

(emphasis mine)
That part seems odd for nations with the Socialism policy, especially since the issue answers already have socialist doppelgangers when needed. The premise itself works well for socialist nations, but I still find it hard to overlook the fact that it mentions business "owners".

Thank you. I changed it.

Found another issue with a premise that could potentially use a fix. #587 reads:

Last week, a humanoid robot announced its intentions to serve as the nation’s first android federal judge. Concerned citizens have come to you as to the implications and legality of this potential appointment.

What if the nation receiving this issue is not a federation? (I received this issue on this nation, which is not a federation)

Just think of that as American English for "national judge".

Issue #904 ("Yours Insincerely") is an issue about the behavior of professional politicians. This issue shouldn't arise under sortition.

I may be underestimating the ubiquitous nature of the "thoughts and prayers" response, such that it would tend to arise with randomly selected "politicians" as well. Freely ignore me if you think I'm wrong.

I presume that randomly selected politicians would also use this phrase, as it is very common.

Issue #555 ("It's an Honor Just to be Nominated") has an Information Technology Mogul offering that fourth option. It may not be appropriate to offer that potential to socialist nations.

mogul (n): an important, powerful, or influential person

It seems fine.

Issue 1319 offers a fourth option that allows citizens, pregnant women especially, to leave the country. This option should not be presented to nations with a "No emigration" policy in place.

The text of this option specifically describes it as a one-off exception. In your case, that would be an exception to two separate policies.

Also, I'm wondering how a nation with enforced Worship of the official state religion can have an atheist advisor (issue 285, option 3). Yes, NormanJackson still got 0.1 rating on secularism but under a dictator like their leader no living advisor would dare being atheist. Or is that a case similar to option 4 of the same issue?

Even if 100% of the population is officially a member of the mandatory state religion, there's no way to force people to actually believe it. Furthermore, please keep in mind that we wouldn't be able to have a reversal for certain policies/stats without the opinion of some sort of dissident, free-thinking individual who opposes the current situation.

Issue #1162 uses the misspelling "transwoman" - the correct spelling is "trans woman".

My (brief) research shows that the term is indeed written as 2 words. I have changed it accordingly.

[Steelfeather Rapture 2]

Issue #350 ("Queasy Cuisine") shouldn't activate for nations in the top 10% for food quality. Not that I mind seeing it.

[Therimenjas]

Issue #240 ("Plea Bargains: Tipping the Scales of Justice?") makes reference to police even in nations that don't have police. Since Therimenjas has a judiciary despite its lack of police, it might make sense for the issue to occur with some appropriate textual modifications.
Issue #21 ("Police Consider "Big Brother" Anti-Crime System") shouldn't happen in nations with negative policing.

[West Barack and East Obama]

For issue 179, my animal is capitalised in the newspaper headlies as 'Red-blooded patriotic bald eagle', despite every other word in the headline being spelled right, and the animal being capitalised as 'Red-blooded Patriotic Bald Eagle' in the issue text. Is this a mistake?

[Verdant Haven]

Issue #350 ("Queasy Cuisine") shouldn't activate for nations in the top 10% for food quality. Not that I mind seeing it.

I can see how that's a bit odd. The Food Quality stat is a very new one, and didn't exist when that issue was created. I'll bring it up backstage.

Issue #240 ("Plea Bargains: Tipping the Scales of Justice?") makes reference to police even in nations that don't have police. Since Therimenjas has a judiciary despite its lack of police, it might make sense for the issue to occur with some appropriate textual modifications.
Issue #21 ("Police Consider "Big Brother" Anti-Crime System") shouldn't happen in nations with negative policing.

We pretty consistently suggest that at least some level of policing exists, no matter how low (or negative) a Law Enforcement stat score is - it's basically one of the defining characteristics of government that it has some kind of enforcement mechanism. A negative score indicates an abysmally funded, tiny, or otherwise generally ineffective system of policing, but it's still there.

For issue 179, my animal is capitalised in the newspaper headlies as 'Red-blooded patriotic bald eagle', despite every other word in the headline being spelled right, and the animal being capitalised as 'Red-blooded Patriotic Bald Eagle' in the issue text. Is this a mistake?

Looks like different capitalization macros getting used. I'll bring this up backstage as well.

[Cataleenia]

Issue #213 (Bus Drivers Say No to Double-Decked Deathtraps) shouldn’t be available for nations with high safety and/or high public transport funding

[Brezzia]

issue #298 answer b propose me to nationalize pizza industy, but I have socialism policy so I already did.

[Zerphen]

Issue #1245 option 1's effect is "school football matches are usually five-a-side" but this does not make sense for a nation that has banned physical contact sports.

[Steelfeather Rapture 2]

Issue #198 ("Not All Those Who Wander Are Paying") makes reference to private property in its introduction. That could use a socialism-friendliness fix. There shouldn't be landowners per se in SR2.