[DRAFT] Very very dumb situation

[New Isman]

(notice this is literally my first post to this and I have no idea what I'm doing, I literally came back from a couple of months of not sleeping because of my past post cringe, so yeah, enjoy the dumpster fire I guess)
[title] Very very dumb situation
[description] In a moment of great joy, the nation managed to pay off a majority of debt to the nation of (I don't know what to put here). immediately after, somebody realized @@Name@@ paid roughly 5 times the amount of @@currency@@ owed to owned to (whatever country name I decide to put here). more frustrating enough, The nation refuses to pay back the excess funds! many of your advisors are imploring you to take action against this theft!
[validity] country needs an excellent economy, the country cannot be an autocracy or monarchy

[option]"You do know you willingly gave us the funds," says @@random name@@ leader of (said country) "You allowed us to take the money, and we are obligated to keep this money. You allowed this to happen and let your nation be humiliated on the international stage! now you're paying the consequences for your nation's incompetence, plus either way we already spent the money."

[Result] "@@name@@ usually pays more money than needed to pay off the national debt."

[option] "this is outrageous!" says your minister of defense "this is theft! no nation has the right to steal money from another! I say we should teach these criminals a lesson and bomb their cities! only that will teach them not to mess with the might of @@name@@! plus, maybe we can take more money than we gave them!"

[result] "miscalculations in transactions usually result in wars."

[option] "This is a total embarrassment." says your minister of finance "I'm dumbfounded by this situation, how in the world did we let this happen? I can assure you if you fund me a bit we can try and find the culprit behind this stupid situation and fire him, I can assure you this will be a minor hiccup, and nothing like this would ever happen again."

[result] "half of the Finance Ministry was fired after an investigation."

[USS Monitor]

immediately after somebody realized @@Name@@ paid roughly 5 times the amount of @@currency@@ owed to owned to (whatever country name I decide to put here)

Why though?

[New Isman]

immediately after somebody realized @@Name@@ paid roughly 5 times the amount of @@currency@@ owed to owned to (whatever country name I decide to put here)

Why though?

Idk, maybe because somebody was extremely stupid I guess

[Ko-oren]

- Capitalisation
- if the nation paid off the majority of the debt there's still some more debt left, so paying 5x the amount would probably do nicely to cover a portion of the remainder?
- Option 2 makes no sense: @@NAME@@ gave the money, so there's no theft involved here. There could still be an option in 'let's threaten them until they return the money' to some extent, maybe. But why stop there? if @@NAME@@ has the military power to get the money, why not extort 10x that?

[New Isman]

- Capitalisation
- if the nation paid off the majority of the debt there's still some more debt left, so paying 5x the amount would probably do nicely to cover a portion of the remainder?
- Option 2 makes no sense: @@NAME@@ gave the money, so there's no theft involved here. There could still be an option in 'let's threaten them until they return the money' to some extent, maybe. But why stop there? if @@NAME@@ has the military power to get the money, why not extort 10x that?

thanks to the feedback you do make some good points, I might flesh this out more. also, I believe it was the debt to a nation, why the country would be in debt to another nation is beyond me, maybe a trade deal or something, Idk. I will certainly make sure to fix any illogical pieces (well to be honest the entire issue is illogical), anyways, thanks.

[Eaaen]

(notice this is literally my first post to this and I have no idea what I'm doing, I literally came back from a couple of months of not sleeping because of my past post cringe, so yeah, enjoy the dumpster fire I guess)
[title] Very very dumb situation
[description] In a moment of great joy, the nation managed to pay off a majority of debt to the nation of (I don't know what to put here). immediately after, somebody realized @@Name@@ paid roughly 5 times the amount of @@currency@@ owed to owned to (whatever country name I decide to put here). more frustrating enough, The nation refuses to pay back the excess funds! many of your advisors are imploring you to take action against this theft!
[validity] country needs an excellent economy, the country cannot be an autocracy or monarchy

[option]"You do know you willingly gave us the funds," says @@random name@@ leader of (said country) "You allowed us to take the money, and we are obligated to keep this money. You allowed this to happen and let your nation be humiliated on the international stage! now you're paying the consequences for your nation's incompetence, plus either way we already spent the money."

[Result] "@@name@@ usually pays more money than needed to pay off the national debt."

[option] "this is outrageous!" says your minister of defense "this is theft! no nation has the right to steal money from another! I say we should teach these criminals a lesson! and bomb all their cities with napalm! only that will teach them not to mess with the might of @@name@@! plus, maybe we can take more money than we gave them!"

[result] "miscalculations in transactions usually result in wars."

[option] "This is a total embarrassment." says your minister of finance "I'm dumbfounded by this situation, how in the world did we let this happen? I can assure you if you fund me a bit we can try and find the culprit behind this stupid situation and fire him, I can assure you this will be a minor hiccup, and nothing like this would ever happen again."

[result] "half of the Finance Ministry was fired after an investigation."

I think you were a little trigger-happy with exclamation points in the description and I think "I say we should teach these criminals a lesson! and bomb all their cities with napalm!" should be replaced with "I say we should teach these criminals a lesson and bomb their cities!". Take my opinions with a pinch of salt, though, because I am new to Got Issues.

[New Isman]

(notice this is literally my first post to this and I have no idea what I'm doing, I literally came back from a couple of months of not sleeping because of my past post cringe, so yeah, enjoy the dumpster fire I guess)
[title] Very very dumb situation
[description] In a moment of great joy, the nation managed to pay off a majority of debt to the nation of (I don't know what to put here). immediately after, somebody realized @@Name@@ paid roughly 5 times the amount of @@currency@@ owed to owned to (whatever country name I decide to put here). more frustrating enough, The nation refuses to pay back the excess funds! many of your advisors are imploring you to take action against this theft!
[validity] country needs an excellent economy, the country cannot be an autocracy or monarchy

[option]"You do know you willingly gave us the funds," says @@random name@@ leader of (said country) "You allowed us to take the money, and we are obligated to keep this money. You allowed this to happen and let your nation be humiliated on the international stage! now you're paying the consequences for your nation's incompetence, plus either way we already spent the money."

[Result] "@@name@@ usually pays more money than needed to pay off the national debt."

[option] "this is outrageous!" says your minister of defense "this is theft! no nation has the right to steal money from another! I say we should teach these criminals a lesson! and bomb all their cities with napalm! only that will teach them not to mess with the might of @@name@@! plus, maybe we can take more money than we gave them!"

[result] "miscalculations in transactions usually result in wars."

[option] "This is a total embarrassment." says your minister of finance "I'm dumbfounded by this situation, how in the world did we let this happen? I can assure you if you fund me a bit we can try and find the culprit behind this stupid situation and fire him, I can assure you this will be a minor hiccup, and nothing like this would ever happen again."

[result] "half of the Finance Ministry was fired after an investigation."

I think you were a little trigger-happy with exclamation points in the description and I think "I say we should teach these criminals a lesson! and bomb all their cities with napalm!" should be replaced with "I say we should teach these criminals a lesson and bomb their cities!". Take my opinions with a pinch of salt, though, because I am new to Got Issues.

Thank you! I will try to implement that, but I have taken it with a pinch of salt

[Australian rePublic]

How does something like this even? Why would even have the authority to release such copious amounts of money without proper checks and balances in place? Unless the amount was inconsequential- in the case, who cares? Also, in the description, did you mean to say "released" rather than "realized"?

[New Isman]

How does something like this even? Why would even have the authority to release such copious amounts of money without proper checks and balances in place? Unless the amount was inconsequential- in the case, who cares? Also, in the description, did you mean to say "released" rather than "realized"?

Realized, I’m still new to this so I have literally no clue what’s going on. And I made this issue to be illogical, it’s a completely stupid avoidable, and illogical situation.

[Terrabod]

Hi there, I think you might find the How to Write An Issue guide quite useful if you're not sure which direction to take this draft in. There's helpful advice on how to fine-tune issue ideas, details about how to structure each section of your draft and useful tips on how you can improve each of the sections. Apologies if you've already taken a look at the guide!

My other advice for you would be to write your draft in Microsoft Word (or a similar program), spell-check it (I use the free version of Grammarly and would recommend it) and then paste it to the forum. That way you can avoid some of the more obvious mistakes and it means the drafting process on the forum is a bit quicker.

You're also welcome to post any questions about issue-writing in The Writers' Block - in my experience, the people there are always happy to help.

[Drew Durrnil]

This is not an issue. That's all I'm gonna say now.