What are the top five issues your nation faces?

[Dyter]

What is the issue? Why is it an issue? What are some steps your leader has taken to help to dissolve the issue?

#1 Common Core
Politicians passed a bill that implements Common Core nationally. Before the bill, this issue was in the hands of the province. However, the bill has received backlash. Riots & strikes have broken out across the country. Our leader has declared martial in certain areas of the country to try to dissolve the issue.

#2 Free College Tuition
This has been an issue forever before our current leader took office. A lot of low & middle-class families have been demanding that the government give free college tuition to families that aren't making more than 90,000 Dyees each year. Our current leader has decided to compromise with the people by passing a bill that requires the government to pay for the first six months of a student's college, however, that student MUST maintain a 3.0 (B) GPA.

#3 Minimum Wage
Many have argued that the current minimum wage amount is livable. The best thing that our current leader has done to mitigate the rise of this issue is in certain places, the minimum wage will increase by $1.00 every year for 5 years.

#4 Drought
Drought is a huge issue in Dyter. Droughts have gotten so bad that their's a water limit per day. Droughts are mainly caused by global warming, but many people in Dyter are in denial. The leader hasn't taken many actions on this issue, causing tension in those areas that experience extreme drought.

#5 Civil War
A civil war hasn't happened in Dyter since 1911. However, due to a state secession movement, many are worried about major provinces seceding sometime in the near future, thus a civil war. The leader of my country has tried to compromise with the people who follow the movement, but compromise will only go so far. This causes many citizens to believe that Dyter is on the brink of a civil war


Share your nation's top five issues!

[Alizeria]

1. The Economy

This is by far the biggest issue facing Alizeria. While it has finally managed to get inflation under control and the economy appears to be growing again, a series of unpopular free market reforms have caused income inequality to soar, while the welfare state has been downsized. The current government, who were elected promising to reverse this, have come under heavy criticism for breaking their election promises and continuing to make cuts to the welfare state.

2. Perceived Corruption

Although in fact Alizeria is one of the least corrupt countries in the world, firebrand populist MP Izzy Yahweh has caught headlines by alleging that the governing Conservative Party were bribed by big business to support free market policies, and this has caused a storm of uproar in the public and media, although the government expressly denies these claims.

3. Constitutional Reform

It is becoming more and more accepted in mainstream Alizeria that the two upper houses, the House of Nobles and House of Clergy, are no longer relevant in the modern age and there is a growing movement to abolish them. Furthermore, with widespread disillusionment at the two-party system, support for proportional representation in the voting system is growing.

4. Immigration

The loosening of Alizeria's once extremely strict (and somewhat racist) immigration laws have been met by widespread opposition from across the political spectrum. On the left it is argued that increased immigration is depressing wages and causing unemployment to rise, while the right are arguing that immigrants are bringing with them crime, corruption and the threat of terrorism, due to their alien values.

5. LGBT Issues

Alizeria is in the grip of a culture war. The usually highly religious country recently decriminalised homosexuality in a move that was widely opposed and led to riots on the streets. Now there are calls to legalise transgenderism and gay marriage, particularly among young, urban, non-religious types, but which is strongly opposed by Alizeria's rural, conservative, Christian majority.

[Zhouran]

Some five large issues currently happening in Zhouran, in no particular order.

1. Corporates, Internationalists and Big-Bankers

Known as the Three Banking Cartels of the West, these groups are seen by the government and majority of the public as the biggest socio-political and socio-economical agitators in history. As a result, the Zhouranese market remains under Zhouranese monopoly.

2. Current Discord in the West

Due to socio-political instability in the West, the percentage of citizens who prefer Zhouran to be isolationist has increased dramatically since the last ten years. Not only that, anti-Western sentiments has skyrocketed while many people, from the moderate Kunbangist nationalists to the hardcore extremist Kaiming Chuantong movement, call for the government to increase relationship with vehemently anti-Western countries such as Iran.

3. Miscegenation

While a highly-homogeneous nation, Zhouran is the only Asian country in the Asia-Pacific region where men are more likely to marry outside their race than their female counterpart. As a result, there is a growing wave of young, disenfranchised Zhouranese women who are calling for state-imposed restrictions on miscegenation, despite protest from all parts of Zhouranese society. The highly-peculiar situation is not new in Zhouran as there has been a long history of Zhouranese women being envious of foreign women marrying Zhouranese men.

4. Nuclear Power

While 45% of Zhouran's electricity production comes from nuclear sources, many people call for an increase in production of electricity from nuclear sources. Not only that, tech-savvy youths are also writing petitions to the government to spend more money on nuclear fusion.

5. Space Exploration

The tech-savvy youths are also calling for more spending on space exploration.

[Newne Carriebean7]

1. Ethnic tensions and Democratic decay
With the election of a new President by foreign representatives stepping in as electors,many citizens are furious at the results,which saw the Communist Catholic candidate take power,even though his party has less than a majority in both the House and all three branches of Parliament, along with a rise in a more strict constitutionalist group that wants a strong Court system, with the issue going to be going for a Referendum on April 22nd of this year. This has also heightened tensions between Amanzo rebels who want to have more rights and were once a series of 28 different rebel groups with several conflicting reasons for rebellion, are now unified under four main rebel groups, the Amanzo Liberty and Unification Front (ALUF), the Amanzo Tribal Warrior Front (ATWF), the Amanzo Liberationist People's Protection Army (ALPPA) and the Amanzo Democratic Self-Sovereign Republic (ADSSR). These groups contain several different sects of the amanzo groups with different beliefs still undermining them, though a war against the aboriginals is a loose unification factor.

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[Ursa]

1. Opposition to Compulsory Service.
Ursa enforces a strict policy of universal conscription, a term of one year, making exceptions only for Devout Religious Beliefs and Disqualifying Medical Issues. There is opposition among the youth and Social Progressives. There have been several violent demonstrations and a repeal bill once reached the Senate, though it was struck down by a solid majority. Though the law stands and has been affirmed, it has been a point of contention for Ursa's separatist and anarchist organizations.

2. Increasing Xenophobia at home.
Following tumultuous elections, much of the Senate and the upper houses of Regional governments have become hotbeds of xenophobic sentiment, with discriminatory laws and ordinances cropping up across the country. Despite the President's outreach to other nations and a more open stance on immigration and naturalization, anti-immigrant and foreigner demonstrations have become common even in Ursa's metropolitan, liberal enclaves. Local police forces have reported upticks in both citations against foreign visitors and arrests of Ursans for violence against foreigners, a strange parallel of the law and the emotional state of the nation.

3. Unsolved Assassination attempt mystery.
President William Santiago barely survived a recent assassination attempt committed by a mentally unstable resident alien, and in the days since the military and the Senate have amped up readiness and even called 100,000 reservists for security efforts along the border and in the interior. Despite the uproar it has created, no states or parties abroad or even opposition parties here at home have claimed any responsibility, though the man was armed with a weapon unavailable on the domestic market and had slipped past security with well made forgeries of press credentials. Fingers are being pointed in every direction, but still there are no definite answers.

4. Rural Stagnation.
Despite the government pouring resources into rural revitalization programs, drug use, violent crime, economic downturn and mortality are up in the country's more remote communities. The Senate created the new Office of Rural Revitalization and Development only a year ago at the height of the crisis, and thus far, even with an influx of eager volunteers and experts in the fields of economics, agriculture, infrastructure and medicine, the troubled countrysides of Ursa are no better off.

5. Separatist Indigenous People.
Native Ursans are becoming more and more vocal of their opposition to the government and their wish for more autonomy if not total independence. The President has proposed representative boards for each region to be created for all indigenous Ursan Citizens, but with little Senatorial support and racial tensions at a slight boil as of late, even olive branches seem to be ineffective. There have been two clashes with police in Northern cities, thus far none have turned fatal, but the President has supposedly spoken with the Head of the Senate about a mobilization of the Militias in regions with upheaval.

[The Transylvanian States]

5. Capital Punishment

Since the Transylvanian States joined the EU in 2001 there has been growing pressure from the European council for Transylvania to abolish the death penalty, even though Transylvania is not a part of the European Convention on human rights. Current polls however still show that capital punishment is still supported with 59.4% of people supporting its use on mass murderers and murderers of children and police officers.

4. Foreign relations with Saudi Arabia

One of Transylvania's biggest 'Allies' Saudi Arabian King Salmon has been a close friend of the Transylvanian Royal family for decades but all associations from being that close friend has come with a price, namely oil. There is controversy about Prince Yosef's involvement with deals which involve the O word and also controversy of the weapons sales that Transylvania have with Arabia. Not to mention of course Saudi funding of mosques in Cluj Napoca and Sibiu.

3.Inheritance Tax

All Citizens of The Transylvanian States are currently paying up to 75% of all inheritance money left by deceased relatives after a controversial move by parliament in 2015. The Prince has vetoed the new bill in parliament to try to increase the amount, and has suggested that he may draft a brand new bill to Abolish Inheritance tax all together but nothing as of yet has happened.

2. Foreign Aid

Currently the Government has suspended all foreign aid until they can determine where exactly the money will go to when it is sent abroad. Recently the Prince drafted a bill to give financial aid to the refugees in Syria but the bill was blocked by Parliament. Instead Parliament temporarily suspended all forms of Foreign Aid until it can be agreed what causes need most immediate attention.

1.Migration

Since the Migration Crisis, Migration into The Transylvanian States increased by a record 420%. The huge influx of people spurred on by German Chancellor Angela Merkel, caused almost a stampede of Migrants at the border between Serbia and Transylvania and those claiming for refugee status also hit record numbers. According to reports the current number of Syrian refugees stands at around 4300 people. Migrants and Migration are the number one priority in Transylvanian politics.

[The Federal District of Vice Santos]

#1. Inhospitable environment & widespread pollution

A far cry from what the beautiful paradise the FDVS used to look like. There is barely any vegetation, leaving the landscape barren. Smog the worst it’s ever been, with bottled oxygen being sold on the street like its bottled water. Waterways and bays have never been more toxic. And the pollution has been made worse both by the fallout of a nuclear war and subsequent WMD testing. It has contributed to superstorms and to our national animal the dragon going extinct. It also doesn’t help that previous regimes have paid lipservice to environmental agreements, with one of those occasions causing a very short war. If it wasn’t for food imports, our nation wouldn’t exist.

#2. Corruption

Corruption has been increasing consistently for nearly two centuries. Even when the size of the government shrinks to its smallest size, the corruption persists. Efforts to bring down the rates of corruption have not been greatly successful, although we continue to do our best.

#3. Pervasive crime

Even with a large police budget, crime is pervasive and the black market is starting to grow in size once again after it had been shrinking due to the return of capitalism to the country. It is believed though that a reintroduction of welfare and social policies that have been absent from the country for decades will be able to fix the problem.

#4. Rogue military & disappearances

While disappearance rates have been high for some time, that they are increasing under Prime Minister Andreissen, even though he is democratic and trying to return the paradise it used to be by righting a lot of the wrongs in FDVS history, is concerning. This has led to concerns that the FDVS military is behind the increase of disappearances. As they have been known to go rogue, having committed coups both at home and abroad, and shooting down aircrafts on their own, it is dangerous to go against them.

#5. Political apathy

No one cares about politics, as the system is perceived to be broken, and the citizens have been conditioned not to care about politics for decades. While a lot of the apathy can be traced back to the days when The Church of the FDVS and the government that followed it, The Fortune 500, ruled the country, there was a brief opportunity to fix things when Prime Minister Andreissen came to power. He was beginning to take some steps to deal with it until a military coup stopped him. Although Andreissen has returned to power, a lot of the momentum has been stalled and he has been focused on other issues.

[The Boeric States]

1. Anti-magi terrorism
An extremist group from the northern Anderfels has pledged to annihilate the Boeric. The group named FFFM( Front for the Freedom From Magic). They have claimed responsibility for attacks against Tevinter, The Boeric States and Par Vollen specifically targeting the Magical Learning institutions and government. Thy have promised on multiple occasions to destroy Tevinter and the Boeric as they are " an alliance of abominations".

2. Neutrality
A question many in the Boeric States grapple with. How do we remain neutral while the vast majority of population are Magi? When we have championed rights for them all? While we have one of the largest Armed forces in Thedas and the world?

3. Police
Many believe we have to large a law enforcement body when the crime rate is near zero. Do we really need it?

4. Heights of buildings
It's starting to interfere with the regular air traffic in large cities. Do we build a new airport or do we stop building multiple kilometre tall and wide buildings?

5. Relaxing
Imagine problems 1-4, PLUS work, PLUS bills and taxes, PLUS whatever family issues, PLUS wanting to work basically double the hours in overtime (for no good reason)