The Security Council,
Introducing the Voice of ARB as the last known remaining vassal state of New South Hell, a nation of intellectuals known for their brilliance, curiosity, and fascinating pokings and proddings into the nature of the NationStates universe including the political effects of nations addressing issues in certain ways;
Prefacing that, between 2008 and 2012, New South Hell's scholars and researchers dispatched many high-quality analyses to the regional forums of Ulthar, describing the tangible outcomes of choices a nation may make when faced with difficult issues. These analyses provided numerical understanding of the ideological changes a nation may see due to its' leaders' decisions, at a time when such information was certainly difficult to come across - many modern tools for doing so did not exist, including the World Census's graphs of national statistics over time and even instant updates to said statistics;
Citing, as another example of the primitive infrastructure New South Hell's scholars dealt with, the fact that they were initially shocked to discover that the effects of a decision may vary depending on the initial state of the nation, a fact that is well-known in modern times;
Applauding New South Hell's arguably most successful experimental output - the belief that choices made by nations could be understood through placement on ideological spectra, quantified via the tracking of a nation's ideological 'atoms' (e.g. "libertarianism" or "safety") across time. By painstaking manual analysis of all three-hundred-odd common dilemmas of the time - including over a thousand individual potential choices - these researchers were able to give weights to each choice's effect on a nation's atoms, using this information to chart the extremity of a nation in these themes;
Recognizing that this idea was complete enough to design and create "Ideobots", robots that would autonomously manage a puppet state according to a pre-defined spectrum of ideological atomic values. These Ideobots served as both test cases and data-gathering machines, providing excellent-quality material to refine New South Hell's ideological models of the world and publish new reports on World Census changes;
Noting that this experiment was both massive and ongoing - over the course of these four years, the ideological spectra were refined and upgraded many times, each time creating more fine-grained values and data for the Ideobots, eventually ending up with a full thirty-six ideological atoms, ranked on a scale of twenty values, and no less than fifty Ideobots managing vassal nations using these atoms - all predating the World Census's modern mechanisms for automated nation management;
Believing that these studies align so well with the system of dilemmas that we all face, and indeed, the World Census scores provided by the gods, that New South Hell was recognized as the premier analyst of their time;
Mentioning, briefly, other analyses of interest that New South Hell's researchers produced:
- Explaining the frequency at which dilemmas seem to reoccur in active nations,
- Enhancing the description of nations beyond the World Census's provisional categories,
- Quantifying the percentages of nations in the multiverse fulfilling specific criteria, including where the nations place on World Census freedom indexes and what their primary industries are,
- Reporting on other statistics provided by the World Census as they were originally released, including the deadliest killers of the global population;
Finding the musings of New South Hellian writers on Ulthar's regional forums to also be rather funny, interesting, and well worth the read for any national leader visiting Ulthar;
Wishing to recognize New South Hell for their incredible creativity and insight, as well as their ability to break from the pack and do something unique;
Hereby commends The Voice of ARB.
Co-Authored by SherpDaWerp.