NationStates Issues **SPOILER ALERT**

[Ballotonia]

i'll do it.

i will add any new issue that is reported to me, or that i find by myself in the same old format as done by Ballotonia for all these years.

Thanks for volunteering to help out!

Ballotonia

[Frisbeeteria]

i'll do it.

Thread ownership has been transferred. You should have enough blank space to take you through #375 or so. Ask a mod for a cleanup when you get close to that limit. Cheers!

And thanks, Ballotonia, for your long and faithful service on this thread!

[Horusland]

How did you choose what names are ''Randomnames''?
EDIT: And can you add to those names?

[Frisbeeteria]

How did you choose what names are ''Randomnames''?
EDIT: And can you add to those names?

The site admin chose them, and you can't add to the list ... though some of your national fields may show up as random names from time to time.

Also, this isn't a Q&A thread. It's for reporting new issues when they're spotted. Next time, start a new thread in Got Issues.

[Riemstagrad]

Added two new issues:

#320: Criminals to Vote? [Iglesian Archipelago; ed:Sanctaria]
#321: Cowboys and... Aliens? [Carlosianor; ed:Luna Amore]

in #321, the second option, the sheriff appears to have the fixed name Harry Fjord and not a @@RANDOMNAME@@. some confirmation on this is welcome though.

[Sanctaria]

in #321, the second option, the sheriff appears to have the fixed name Harry Fjord and not a @@RANDOMNAME@@. some confirmation on this is welcome though.

Confirmation.

[Vladislavija]

I've seen this one. Anyone seen it before?

Get Teens out of MyFace?

The Issue

After the kidnapping, rape, and murder of a young blond girl made national headlines in Vladislavija, the concerned parenting organization Mothers Against Youth Doing Stupid Stuff (MAYDSS) has raised concerns over the use of social networking sites by the nation's teens.

The Debate

"Teens should not be allowed to use social networking!" cries the girl's mother, Mia Spirit. "Some creep added my little darling as a 'friend' on that awful website, and he used it to get all of her personal information and track her down! Obviously, the only sane course of action is to ban all legal minors from using social networking sites! And don't just stop at social networks: block everything else that MAYDSS doesn't approve of!"

"Why that's utterly preposterous!" shouts Luke Zuckermann, founder of MyFace, a popular social networking site. "You can't restrict people like that! Oh, sure, today it's keeping teens from lining my wa- I mean - accessing my website, but tomorrow it's keeping everyone from anywhere the government doesn't like! I say free up the web, and get rid of restrictions!"

"You know, there's always a compromise," says local pervert Colin Suzuki while watching you from a nearby tree. "As I see it, the best way to keep both sides of the argument happy is to remove all restrictions on what adults can view and increase restrictions on minors. But at the same time, lower the age of majority by a lot. What could possibly go wrong?"

"What could possibly go wrong, you ask?" panics your paranoid cousin, Rosalia Jefferson. "On the internet, nobody knows your actual age. It's a haven for malicious anonymity! Besides, children aren't the only people at risk on the internet. It's full of stalker-rapists and bomb-makers and viruses and sick, depraved porn. We're better off without it."

[Individuality-ness]

Just got what seems to be like a new issue: "Tourism Tanking" Tells Tabloids (Issue 324)

Issue by: The Freedom-Seeking Republic of Panageadom
Editor: Lenyo

Following a public safety disaster of unimaginable magnitude - so extreme that members of your government only mention it in hushed voices, and only then in the vaguest of terms - Individuality-ness's tourism industry has hit the rocks. Commentators from all walks of life have come to your office to offer their opinions.

The Debate

1. "The government has to step in and do something, for once!" demands tour operator Rebecca Cheswick, visibly pulling her hair out. "If we'd had proper railings on the marina, that shark would never have gotten into the oil refinery in the first place! The government has to put better regulations in place to make sure disasters of this kind never happen again. And if we want to coax back the tourists we've lost, we need a whole bunch of new state-subsidised hotels, parks and tourist attractions. Shark-proof ones. Our economy will never survive without it!"


2. "Why waste more money?" grumbles middle-aged industrialist Alexander Jones, chomping on a fat cigar, "Look. I'm as sorry as the next schmuck for those poor farmers' ant epidemic. But we've got to realise that tourism is just not Individuality-ness's strong suit; and that's not going to change, no matter how much the state spends. Hell, if the government really wanted to do something to fix our economy, it'd be to give everyone a healthy tax-cut and get rid of some of that environmental legislation - set up for the benefit of a bunch of tree-hugging foreigners, I might add."


3. "I think I've got another solution to this problem," says your shadiest government advisor, waving a magazine spread of bathing beauties sunning themselves at the Transcendent-la Grand Regent. "Now we're not goin' to be able to hide the fact that Transcendent-la is now covered in pink frosting, but... what if the inspectors an' tour guides an' all those types of folks just didn't notice all that mess? After all, we don't have the money to clear it all up, but I think we do have just about enough to dangle a few Thoughts in front of anyone who wants to give our nation a good review. After all, a few firm golden handshakes never hurt no-one."

[Mr Zurkidson]

Got this new-ish one
Issue 322: Empathy a Rare Commodity?

Last week, a jaywalking man was hit by a truck in a busy intersection. He lay there for seventeen hours before a policeman tripped over him and brought him to jail for loitering.

The Debate

"This is despicable!" yelps one lone protester, desperately trying to get others involved. "How low have we sunk that we care so little for our fellow man? The answer is as plain as the nose on your face. You must create an Empathy Awareness Squad. They would train people on how to be kind to and empathize with one another. Sure, it'll require some extra taxes, but can you really put a price on kindness? I mean, what if YOU get hit by a truck next time?"


"Good riddance!" scoffs Fanny Sanchez, a sullen, disgruntled postal worker. "I think we should give the policeman who arrested that freeloader a medal! Mandatory empathy programs? Ha! No amount of touchy-feely 'training' is gonna make me empathize with these idiots. This is just nature's way of weeding out the weak and infirm. In fact, we should cut what social spoon-feeding programs we've got left. Give your good and decent citizens a tax break."

Issue by: The Republican Federation of The Cookish States
Editor: Luna Amore

[Panageadom]

No reference to Wilbur Mercer? For shame...

[Riemstagrad]

3 new issues added:

#322: Empathy a Rare Commodity? [The Cookish States; ed:Luna Amore]
#323: Get Teens out of MyFace? [Malsitar; ed:Lenyo]
#324: "Tourism Tanking!" Tells Tabloids [Panageadom; ed:Lenyo]

[Riemstagrad]

added another one:

#325: Blazing Through the Paper Trail [Euphilium; ed:Luna Amore]

[Luna Amore]

A minor correction: there's 324 issues in game not 325. The numbering starts at #000 and two were taken out of circulation due to duplication, so the total should be the last issue number minus 1.

[Riemstagrad]

thanks, i'll correct it.

[Phourvixia]

New last names found: Esperanto, McGoohan

[Frisbeeteria]

New last names found: Esperanto, McGoohan

The game occasionally lifts elements of your own custom fields for use in issues. "Esperanto" is part of your current motto. Not sure about "McGoohan", but it appears you change your motto fairly often, so I'd look there first.

In short, it's pretty much pointless to report new random names.

[New Sibiu]

i find that the issues have too few options, or are rather set at extremes.

[Soviet Canuckistan]

That's the point, NS is meant to kind of parody politics in general and if you don't like the options dismiss the issue

[Coffin-Breathe]

Well, but some of the "results" indeed seem a little "overdosed"; I happen to remember a decrease of about thirty points in economy for a single option, and an increase of the same stat by about 25 points for another single one.
Maybe such "outcomes" should be "edited" a little bit more carefully...(no offense)...

[Sedgistan]

They are edited carefully. Choose an extreme option, and you get an extreme result. Try reading the options more carefully if you're finding yourself surprised by the results.

[I V Stalin]

Think this is a new one (not in the list, anyway), but is apparently #132.

The Issue

After a very popular domestic bill was shot down due to contradicting existing World Assembly legislation on a similar subject, the Lyonesse Observer organized a national poll among subscribers. Leaders of the 'National Sovereignty' and 'International Federalist' camps are meeting in your office to argue their case.
The Debate

"Micromanagement, micromanagement, MICROMANAGEMENT!!!" your Minister for Domestic Affairs shouts, banging his fists on your table. "Those buffoons are seriously overreaching their authority! Every resolution that infernal Assembly passes is an attack on our ability to pass our own legislation! We can't, and shouldn't, have nations full of fools ignorant to our way of life make our decisions for us. We'd be better off without that godforsaken snakepit ... we MUST resign from the World Assembly."


"Think of the CHILDREN", cries Britney Llama, your Foreign Minister. "Membership in the World Assembly is vital if I V Stalin is to ensure that countries across the multiverse adopt a way of living that is right! I shudder to think of the awfulness that would happen in other nations without our guidance in the World Assembly. Please, Rob the Insane, we must remain a part of this organisation!"

by Sanctaria, ed. Fris.

[Riemstagrad]

i didn't receive this one yet. can anyone who has it pending provide me the title and the submitter/editor?

i'll add it without a title until then.

[Jamie Anumia]

i didn't receive this one yet. can anyone who has it pending provide me the title and the submitter/editor?

i'll add it without a title until then.

The title is 'World Assembly Woes', I believe.

[I V Stalin]

i didn't receive this one yet. can anyone who has it pending provide me the title and the submitter/editor?

by Sanctaria, ed. Fris.

[Imperium Magnum]

(I think this belongs here; sorry if it doesn't.)

New issue spotted, #327:

No Rest For The Weary @@ANIMAL@@

The Issue

With the popularity of @@ANIMAL@@ racing in @@NATIONNAME@@ booming, the growing number of retired racing @@ANIMAL@@s being abandoned on the streets has become harder to ignore. As irresistibly cute pictures of sad-looking @@ANIMAL@@s fill up the pages of newspapers, the time has come for government action.

The Debate

1. "We're overflowing with @@ANIMAL@@s here!" exclaims @@RANDOMNAME@@, owner of the Sunrise @@ANIMAL@@ Retirement Lodge. "And we just don't get enough donations from the public to house them all. We're now facing a choice between turning away @@ANIMAL@@s, or putting them down. It's the @@ANIMAL@@ racing industry's fault we're in this situation - make them pay for homing the @@ANIMAL@@s they cast off."


2. "Not far enough!" declares animal-rights protestor @@RANDOMNAME@@, wearing a @@ANIMAL@@ costume to show her sympathy for their plight. "There's only one reason that @@ANIMAL@@s get abandoned in the first place, and that reason is @@ANIMAL@@ racing. These poor creatures get cooped up in a cage all day and are virtually starved so they race well, all to line the pockets of some avaricious gambling bosses. The solution is obvious - ban @@ANIMAL@@ racing!"


3. "Hold on! @@NATIONNAME@@ has a powerhouse Gambling Industry – do you really want to give it all up because of some Nematodes?" asks @@RANDOMNAME@@, owner of the @@CAPITAL@@ @@ANIMAL@@ Stadium. "What we need is less regulation - so we can race the animals more often, and draw more punters in. Besides, the @@ANIMAL@@s love to race - at least compared to the beatings."


4. "There's a better solution to this all," suggests animal shelter volunteer @@RANDOMNAME@@, as she fixes a leash to a @@ANIMAL@@. "There is a problem, but it isn't with the @@ANIMAL@@ racing industry; it's that not enough people are adopting @@ANIMAL@@s. All we need is a national campaign to persuade people to adopt a @@ANIMAL@@ - and you can set them an example!" Handing you a grizzled old @@ANIMAL@@, she finishes, "Here's Buddy."