NationStates

I have an idea for an issue that I want your feedback on before I start drafting it. Again please do not steal it.

So one day at the beach, a message in a bottle washes up to shore. The message reveals some location and the instructions on how you can find 1 billion currency. Now it's up to you what you want to de with the info. For example: you could send a search team to retrieve the money and use it for government, or you could send a search team to arrest the writer, or something like that.

Doesn't sound like an issue that would work.

Nobody would have any reason to take such a message at face value, instead dismissing it as a silly joke.

As a thought experiment, imagine what you'd do if you found a message in a bottle telling you where to find a billion dollars. Would you lend it any credence, really?

Now imagine you're the leader of a nation, and you find the bottle. You'd be looking out for hidden cameras and pranksters, right?

Candlewhisper Archive wrote:Doesn't sound like an issue that would work.

Nobody would have any reason to take such a message at face value, instead dismissing it as a silly joke.

As a thought experiment, imagine what you'd do if you found a message in a bottle telling you where to find a billion dollars. Would you lend it any credence, really?

Now imagine you're the leader of a nation, and you find the bottle. You'd be looking out for hidden cameras and pranksters, right?

Anyway I could rework so that it could? What I could do is make looking for the money the crazy final way, and make the options different ways of punishing the individual

I've gotta agree with CWA that it's not workable. It's a fun "what'd you do?" for a person-simulation game, but it's not a dilemma that'd come up for a nation.

Lo Santano wrote:I have an idea for an issue that I want your feedback on before I start drafting it. Again please do not steal it.

So one day at the beach, a message in a bottle washes up to shore. The message reveals some location and the instructions on how you can find 1 billion currency. Now it's up to you what you want to de with the info. For example: you could send a search team to retrieve the money and use it for government, or you could send a search team to arrest the writer, or something like that.

Agreeing with Sedg here, it sounds more like a personal endeavor rather than something that would impact nation. You can try to format it in a way where a citizen finds a lot of treasure, and a foreign nation claims that the money is theirs and wants to reclaim it back, however the money is in your nation. That would involve a diplomatic dispute where it concerns the private territory of the citizen owning it, assuming that's allowed in the nation, the claimer who wants it, and the gov't itself deciding what to do.

These are my thoughts though...

Rabbitz wrote:

Lo Santano wrote:I have an idea for an issue that I want your feedback on before I start drafting it. Again please do not steal it.

So one day at the beach, a message in a bottle washes up to shore. The message reveals some location and the instructions on how you can find 1 billion currency. Now it's up to you what you want to de with the info. For example: you could send a search team to retrieve the money and use it for government, or you could send a search team to arrest the writer, or something like that.

Agreeing with Sedg here, it sounds more like a personal endeavor rather than something that would impact nation. You can try to format it in a way where a citizen finds a lot of treasure, and a foreign nation claims that the money is theirs and wants to reclaim it back, however the money is in your nation. That would involve a diplomatic dispute where it concerns the private territory of the citizen owning it, assuming that's allowed in the nation, the claimer who wants it, and the gov't itself deciding what to do.

These are my thoughts though...

I mean it could boost the economy if you go for the money. Or decrease rights if you punish the person.

Lo Santano wrote:

Rabbitz wrote:Agreeing with Sedg here, it sounds more like a personal endeavor rather than something that would impact nation. You can try to format it in a way where a citizen finds a lot of treasure, and a foreign nation claims that the money is theirs and wants to reclaim it back, however the money is in your nation. That would involve a diplomatic dispute where it concerns the private territory of the citizen owning it, assuming that's allowed in the nation, the claimer who wants it, and the gov't itself deciding what to do.

These are my thoughts though...

I mean it could boost the economy if you go for the money. Or decrease rights if you punish the person.

The important part of an issue is making it in a way that it would concern your nation.
I suggest an international dispute.

The head leader of your nation wouldn't have a legislative inquiry about them going after treasure, that's just a personal decision.

And what do you mean by "going for the money" and "punishing the person" exactly?

Rabbitz wrote:

Lo Santano wrote:I mean it could boost the economy if you go for the money. Or decrease rights if you punish the person.

The important part of an issue is making it in a way that it would concern your nation.
I suggest an international dispute.

The head leader of your nation wouldn't have a legislative inquiry about them going after treasure, that's just a personal decision.

And what do you mean by "going for the money" and "punishing the person" exactly?

Like you could punish the person for pranking the government. Or you could try to find the money and boost the economy

Lo Santano wrote:

Rabbitz wrote:
The important part of an issue is making it in a way that it would concern your nation.
I suggest an international dispute.

The head leader of your nation wouldn't have a legislative inquiry about them going after treasure, that's just a personal decision.

And what do you mean by "going for the money" and "punishing the person" exactly?

Like you could punish the person for pranking the government. Or you could try to find the money and boost the economy

Try to make it in a way that would concern the gov't.

This is mainly just an expedition that the nation's legislative body wouldn't have to concern themselves with.

Rabbitz wrote:

Lo Santano wrote:Like you could punish the person for pranking the government. Or you could try to find the money and boost the economy

Try to make it in a way that would concern the gov't.

This is mainly just an expedition that the nation's legislative body wouldn't have to concern themselves with.

I could make the message in a bottle a classic plea for rescue?

Candlewhisper Archive wrote:Doesn't sound like an issue that would work.

Nobody would have any reason to take such a message at face value, instead dismissing it as a silly joke.

As a thought experiment, imagine what you'd do if you found a message in a bottle telling you where to find a billion dollars. Would you lend it any credence, really?

Now imagine you're the leader of a nation, and you find the bottle. You'd be looking out for hidden cameras and pranksters, right?

I could change the message to make it a plea for rescue or something like that

Still missing the point.

We're not running a text adventure game where you decide whether to Go North or Fight Orc. We're running a nation simulator game where you decide what to do about a national situation.

So not "you find a message in a bottle", rather more like

Following the box office success of hit romantic fantasy movie "Messages in Bottles" thousands of lonely fans have taken to emulating the main characters, by throwing bottles with love letters in them into the ocean.

That then becomes a situation that you might expect government to deal with.

You can, if you're skillful and experienced, phrase issues in a more personal way, like 824's family dinner, or 612's dead pet. However you have to have a better understanding of why the rules and normal forms exist before you break them. William Blake can ignore meter because he understands meter. Lesser poets ignore meter because they don't understand meter. The same applies for issues.

Hi there, just popping in as someone who very much is not an issues-author.

Perhaps, if you wanted to run with this idea, someone found such a bottle and they tracked the money to a government property, where they're now requesting the rights to dig for the final treasure?

No idea if that's workable in reality, but it is in my mind, so just thought I'd throw it out there.

Morover wrote:Hi there, just popping in as someone who very much is not an issues-author.

Perhaps, if you wanted to run with this idea, someone found such a bottle and they tracked the money to a government property, where they're now requesting the rights to dig for the final treasure?

No idea if that's workable in reality, but it is in my mind, so just thought I'd throw it out there.

That would work, but is too similar in premise to Issue 49.

Let's spend $2 billion to find potentionally find $1 billion. Yeay