The Writers' Block

[The Free Joy State]

EDIT: I quite like the "promoting anarchy in the name of religion" issue idea though.

I came up with an effect line too:
"citizens pray the government will become less religious"

I like that. That's a nice effect line.

Have you considered writing this issue, Trotterdam?

[Trotterdam]

Have you considered writing this issue, Trotterdam?

I'd need to come up with all the other options and the triggering incident that caused the subject to come up in the first place. So not really.

In fact, you recently submitted a "people are upset that religiousness is declining" issue yourself, so this could possibly work as a last-minute option on there, although it kinda has enough options already and it'd be a bit disjointed from the main discussion.

[The Free Joy State]

Have you considered writing this issue, Trotterdam?

I'd need to come up with all the other options and the triggering incident that caused the subject to come up in the first place. So not really.

In fact, you recently submitted a "people are upset that religiousness is declining" issue yourself, so this could possibly work as a last-minute option on there, although it kinda has enough options already and it'd be a bit disjointed from the main discussion.

Eh, I submitted it. It doesn't guarantee it's going to ever be put into the game.

If someone else has another "religiousness is declining" issue idea that they want to work on, another being submitted shouldn't prevent that.

[New Ladavia]

is there any issue on SNC Lavalin?

[Australian rePublic]

I still really want to write an issue about snow removal. Any ideas about how to make it relevant to a national leader?

[Candlewhisper Archive]

I guess having signed a Climate Treaty doesn't strictly prevent choosing #733 option 5, but it's still pretty funny. Didn't even kick me out of the treaty.

Yeah, maybe it should.

Made it so.

[Australian rePublic]

I guess having signed a Climate Treaty doesn't strictly prevent choosing #733 option 5, but it's still pretty funny. Didn't even kick me out of the treaty.

Yeah, maybe it should.

Made it so.

But why should it? Why can't it serve as a reversal?

[Candlewhisper Archive]

That's what I've done. Made it a reversal.

[The Sakhalinsk Empire]

May I ask, are there any issues that reverse the "No Prisons" policy?

[The Free Joy State]

May I ask, are there any issues that reverse the "No Prisons" policy?

#199 is a direct reversal. #232 and #1200 have doppelganger options to reverse it as a side-effect.

That needn't put you off writing an issue that contains an option to reverse the No Prisons policy, as long as the story is interesting and cohesive.

[New Ladavia]

On that topic is there any issues that focus on the welfare of prisoners like in Halden in Norway.

[Japanese Schoolgirls]

On that topic is there any issues that focus on the welfare of prisoners like in Halden in Norway.

Not exactly modelled after Halden but Issue #43 discusses upgrading the welfare of prisoners in an overcrowding prison.

[Trotterdam]

Incidentally:
#428 2. forecasts predict rains of loose lead and mortar shells for the next six weeks
#1255 1. the daily weather forecast often predicts light showers of debris

[Japanese Schoolgirls]

I have searched the issues database but in the very case someone has the knowledge and I may have missed it ... Is there an issue that tackles the legality of 'citzen's arrest' and the meritocracy that comes with it?

[Trotterdam]

I have searched the issues database but in the very case someone has the knowledge and I may have missed it ... Is there an issue that tackles the legality of 'citzen's arrest' and the meritocracy that comes with it?

I can't remember anything about citizen's arrest. What do you mean by meritocracy?

[Japanese Schoolgirls]

I have searched the issues database but in the very case someone has the knowledge and I may have missed it ... Is there an issue that tackles the legality of 'citzen's arrest' and the meritocracy that comes with it?

I can't remember anything about citizen's arrest. What do you mean by meritocracy?

My draft involves having the government give incentive for people to make proper citizen's arrests. For example, there'll be some cash rewards for catching litterbugs.

[Trotterdam]

My draft involves having the government give incentive for people to make proper citizen's arrests. For example, there'll be some cash rewards for catching litterbugs.

Interesting. I can see why that would be a good idea and also how it could go horribly, horribly wrong.

[Bears Armed]

My draft involves having the government give incentive for people to make proper citizen's arrests. For example, there'll be some cash rewards for catching litterbugs.

Interesting. I can see why that would be a good idea and also how it could go horribly, horribly wrong.

We've already got an issue about costumed vigilantes, with an option to pay them... Overlap?

[Trotterdam]

We've already got an issue about costumed vigilantes, with an option to pay them... Overlap?

Hmm, true. I didn't think of that because the point of citizen's arrest is that it's mostly done by people who aren't career vigilantes, who just happened to be in the right place at the right time. But if you start paying people for it, you're likely to see an uptick in vigilantism. That would be fine for one option, but not the premise of the entire issue.

[Upper Nowhere]

I have some ideas about a craze for mocking bald people being a problem, with suggestions to punish the mockers, to reverse baldness or to hide it.

Is there an existing Issue that covers similar territory?

All information gratefully received.

[Fontenais]

I have some ideas about a craze for mocking bald people being a problem, with suggestions to punish the mockers, to reverse baldness or to hide it.

Is there an existing Issue that covers similar territory?

All information gratefully received.

Issue 729 appears to be similar - it's about 'Kick a Ginger Day'

[Fontenais]

Multiple gaps exist within the issue base. Please consider closing these with good quality issue drafts, which will be prioritised for publication:

No Adultery - Adultery is banned by several issues, and the ban is reversed in one issue that has quite stringent validity criteria. Low priority: An issue that reverses this with non-stringent entry requirements.

Is No Adultery only reversed in issue #314? I think the entry criteria for this issue are that Nation must not have the No Prisons policy, the No Dissent policy, or the State Press policy. Is that right?

[Japanese Schoolgirls]

My draft involves having the government give incentive for people to make proper citizen's arrests. For example, there'll be some cash rewards for catching litterbugs.

Interesting. I can see why that would be a good idea and also how it could go horribly, horribly wrong.

In terms of going wrong, are you referring to the idea of citizens' arrest or the idea of writing it as an issue?

[Great Robertia]

I've been looking around in the collection of issues thread and the NSIndex, being only able to find one issue that specifically is about Sortition, namely #465: Lottocracy Causing Lots Of Trouble.

Are there any other issues that have Sortition/Lottocracy as their primary subject that I missed or is it a subject not yet that expanded upon in the Issues base?

[Trotterdam]

Is No Adultery only reversed in issue #314? I think the entry criteria for this issue are that Nation must not have the No Prisons policy, the No Dissent policy, or the State Press policy. Is that right?

I count five issues that appear to remove the No Adultery policy, although this is misleading, as most of these do so as a side effect of banning marriage entirely (and if you later bring marriage back, the ban on adultery will come back with it). #314 option 2 appears to be the only proper No Adultery reversal.

The only definite validities I can identify for #314 is that the nation must have No Adultery and not have No Marriage (which hides No Adultery anyway). Also forbidding No Prisons would make sense, and my data does suggest it's relatively rare for nations with No Prisons to answer the issue, but it's happened more recently than with, say, Vegetarianism or No Nuclear Power, which obviously make no sense as validities.

In terms of going wrong, are you referring to the idea of citizens' arrest or the idea of writing it as an issue?

Yes.

I've been looking around in the collection of issues thread and the NSIndex, being only able to find one issue that specifically is about Sortition, namely #465: Lottocracy Causing Lots Of Trouble.

Are there any other issues that have Sortition/Lottocracy as their primary subject that I missed or is it a subject not yet that expanded upon in the Issues base?

That does appear to be the only issue that specifically addresses nations with sortition, although several other issues can remove the Sortition policy as a result of people complaining about not having democracy in general, which are assigned to both sortition-using nations and autocracies, or as a result of switching to autocracy.