How did you find Nationstates?

[Urlendia]

I used to be active on a forum dedicated to Donald Duck. In 2014, Nationstates got insanely popular on that forum, and I joined. I've been on and off since.

[Idzequitch]

A friend found the site and wanted to start a region and enlisted me to join. The region lasted a couple months, my friend CTE'd in 2013, and here I still am for whatever reason.

[Astares Amauricanum]

I was browsing the Internet searching fanfics and other fan material about Fallout: New Vegas, and I ended up on a defunct nation page named the New Vegas Empire.
After browsing the site a bit, I decided to give it a try, and I created my first nation back in 2017.

[Ghost Land]

I've told this story before, but here gives:

April 2012. I was interested in creating my own country in real life at the time, and while Google searching on that topic on my afternoon off, I stumbled upon NationStates. Intrigued, it took me about 12 minutes to read the FAQ, and I was already hooked from day one. Other than about a year off from 2017-2018, I've been here ever since, though this is obviously not my first nation.

[Lura]

I found this site by going down the Wikipedia rabbit hole and finding the NationStates page. As someone with an interest in politics and geography this website sounded perfect for me and so almost immediately I created a nation with the name and flag of a country I had been creating separately. I'm actually annoyed I didn't find this site sooner.

[Shrillland]

I found it after someone at GameFAQs told me about a website where you could RP your own nation. I tried it out, and I haven't looked back.

[The Black Forrest]

Walked by a bookshop and Max was talking one night.

[Tropical Isles]

I was wanting my own country and googled, 'how to create your own country' and nation states popped up.

[Cossack Peoples]

I was looking up photos of "spacey tanks", and apparently most of the results on Google Images have links back to people's factbooks and whatnot.

[Bombadil]

By Reading Lexicon. I looked up max berry online and stumbled upon this

Max Barry, with an A. It's not that hard a name to spell.

Ermm.. I believe his official name is Cap'n Max Berry, and there's even a cereal of him floating somewhere in the Internets.. otherwise I'll repeat my post from many moons ago on this same subject..

Straight after sex she jumped to her computer, 'what the hell are you doing?' I said, 'blogging about this, facebooking it?'

'No', she replied, 'I'm a moderator on this site called NSG, I need to resolve some arguments'.

So I just paid my $25 and left but a few days later curiosity got the better of me and I checked the site out.

True story.

[Farnhamia]

Max Barry, with an A. It's not that hard a name to spell.

Ermm.. I believe his official name is Cap'n Max Berry, and there's even a cereal of him floating somewhere in the Internets.. otherwise I'll repeat my post from many moons ago on this same subject..

Straight after sex she jumped to her computer, 'what the hell are you doing?' I said, 'blogging about this, facebooking it?'

'No', she replied, 'I'm a moderator on this site called NSG, I need to resolve some arguments'.

So I just paid my $25 and left but a few days later curiosity got the better of me and I checked the site out.

True story.

I like the post from Nightkill above yours. "I was told there was cake."

[Big Jim P]

I found it, lurking in my bushes, flashing old ladies.

[Luziyca]

Wanted a Sims/VMK/VFK-like game where I created my own kingdom, and that was basically the only one available. It's not even close to what I originally wanted, but I fell in love with this site, especially once I discovered the forum.

[Dominioan]

Got into politics and looked for games related to that, found NationStates

[Red Spoon]

I didn't find it : I was born in this world!

[Auruna]

Was searching the internet for country-creation games because I wanted to create and run my fictional nation that I made up a few years ago and used in a roleplay on some certain website. Ended up here out of curiosity, eventually found what I wanted.

[Yokune]

I found NationStates thanks to school. I had to define the term nation-states, and this game just so happened to be a search result. It seemed interesting, and I gave it a try. I've loved it since.

[Yorkari]

It was pretty odd, I was looking for an answer for a history project, which leads me here. I told some of my friends, and we ended up playing every day until now.

[Kinectia]

I read Jennifer Government, got to the end, wished there was more. Found the game, started and stopped several times. Tried it again last year and stuck with it this time - it's the trading cards that keep me (and the puppets) here now.

[Skundi]

I was playing that civilisation game on coolmath games and failed. So I looked up political simulation games and NS was at the top of the list. So I created Skundi (and the DRF) in proper noob fashion with no real clue of what was going on.

[Ifreann]

I desecrated the altar of a vengeful god and was cursed to wander NSG for all eternity.

[Saiwania]

I'd consider myself as technically one of the old guard. I knew of this place since 2002 if not 2003, when it was with Jolt. Back then I was Saiwan. However, I had a long absence from this website until I decided to come back to it. Thus, I don't have an antiquity nation. I could've if I stayed. Same situation I have with Neopets more or less, only I went back to that game much later than this one.

[Pax Nerdvana]

I feel like I've seen this thread before. Anyway, I heard about NS from a friend. That was
just about three years ago, and I'm still here. I don't know what his nation was though, but I kind of think he CTE'd.

[Ethel mermania]

I was reading an article on new ways for authors to connect with their audiences, max and this site was discussed, and I thought I would take a look.

[Ifreann]

I was reading an article on new ways for authors to connect with their audiences, max and this site was discussed, and I thought I would take a look.

And now we're all so connected to Matthew Berryman.