Validity: nations that haven't banned physical sports
1. "Have you seen the economic system they perpetrate?" frets your secretary of state, @@RANDOMNAME@@. "North Lebatuck is nothing like us. Attending these games would be making a mockery of everything our great @@TYPE@@ stands for. For the sake of justice, @@NAME@@ must boycott this event."
the country's flag is nowhere to be seen in international sporting events
cheerfulness down, corruption down, ideological radicality up, integrity up, health down
2. "You're going to deny this this opportunity after we've been training for years?" pleads sprinter @@RANDOMNAME@@, doing laps around the capital. "Only by sending our finest athletes to North Lebatuck can we show the world what @@DEMONYMPLURAL@@ are made of! Give us a chance to succeed on the world stage, and we'll make you proud, @@LEADER@@. Well, the North Lebatuckese Poo-bah proud, anyway..."
the nation's athletes regularly receive medals from dictators
averageness up, cheerfulness up, corruption up, integrity down, health up
3. "We don't need those Lebatuckese losers to have a good time," says @@MAJORINDUSTRY@@ mogul @@RANDOMNAME@@. "Why not sponsor a tournament of our own over here? Let the private sector run things, and we'll spruce up some stadiums in no time. I'm sure the rest of the world still has some athletes left over..."
@@NAME@@'s sprinters lose on home soil to second-string Bigtopians
taxes up, economy up, business subsidization up, average income of rich up, cheerfulness up, health up
4. "Going to North Lebatuck is fine, but failure is not an option," rages mad scientist @@RANDOMNAME@@. "With a new national doping scheme, our athletes will be guaranteed to succeed, and we'll really show those Lebatuckese who's superior--on track and in the lab. The stakes are too high to accept mediocrity!"
bloated and furious @@DEMONYMADJECTIVE@@ athletes growl the national anthem at medal ceremonies
health down, integrity down, corruption up, scientific advancement up
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I'd strongly prefer to keep it as "an athletics championship" (the ambiguity as to the more general "all sports" meaning of athletics or the "track and field" meaning is fine), not "the Olympics"--as far as I'm concerned the longstanding Sports RP Olympics, which require immense time and effort to host, shouldn't be merged into the same "canon" as the issues world, but alluding to something along the lines of issue 291 etc. is fine.
Option 3 is an allusion to the Goodwill Games (sponsored by Ted Turner) and/or Friendship Games. Tried to keep this vague enough so that it could be valid for any economic system, just with the implication that North Lebatuck's is at the other end of the spectrum from yours.
