OOC post.
IA, you seem to think I'm calling you out for having opinions. That's not the case. It's when you have opinions and use them - which are only opinions, not the holy truth, like you yourself said - to belittle and bully others, that I'm going to be calling you out on them.
Even now I'm calling for you to apply your opinions equally, and to attack MG and UM and Auralia for their stated willful noncompliance. Go on. I'll be watching from the sidelines, rooting for you.
Imperium Anglorum wrote:non-compliance is okay when you role play the consequences of that non-compliance in a realistic manner.
Yet creative compliance is not okay when it's roleplayed out in a realistic manner?
Ara does not comply with GA resolutions.
I don't comply with the
compliance committee, I comply with the resolutions that actually
do something. But in some cases via creative compliance (letter, not spirit), which is why I'm so picky on wording choices when helping people with their drafts.
Pretending that sanctions don't happen or have no effect or that fines don't matter is not realistic role play, it is god modding.
Roleplay generally requires two parties. Araraukarian government has yet to hear from the WA in regards to any noncompliance they might have problems with - in fact, they've only heard of their laws now being in compliance via WA magic (the TG you get when a resolution passes). Unless Max steps in to RP as the WA administration, it's rather unlikely to that more will happen. Also, you're the one saying the committees shouldn't be considered to be infallible, so maybe they've just forgotten to tick a box in some form somewhere.
Setting up your nation to be the only nation on a planet of non-WA members might not be god-modding. It is also not realistic.
If I remember correctly, SP also has his nation as the only WA nation on his planet, and I actually do have PPU in WA in IC as well, but like I said before, the hivemind can do deals with Araraukar as a private citizen, not as a nation, and last I looked, that can't be banned or the compliance thing would not be in compliance itself. Also, given the WA nations comprise only 13% even of the existing NS nations (or 14% if the number of WA nations doesn't include the number of regional delegates, though I think it does), given that apparently there are numerous WA nations on some planets/universes (how many on the one IA exists on? out of curiosity?), that makes it obvious there are plenty of planets/universes without none.
(Even giving it the best numbers possible, there'd be on average 29 WA nations on a planet like RL Earth. That would mean there only needed to be 27 planets with more than one, for it to be realistic for the planet Araraukar is on to only have two.)Also, realistic? You want to talk about realistic in anything to do with NationStates? You must be thinking of the wrong game, because nothing of NS can be ultra-realistic, even before figuring in people's RP'd realities. 150 thousand nations on a single planet? Even 20 thousand? Some with populations in hundreds of billions if not trillions? Your own past tech nation would have gotten rolled over by some modern tech nation long time ago (or if you're RPing your whole planet is past tech, then some future tech nation not bound by WA's rules on warfare), if there wasn't the whole "consensual RP" requirement. It's what has realistically happened in real life, whenever there has been a significant tech disparity.
Realism in NS is what you build, not what you have in Real Life, and pretending otherwise is a fool's errand.