From the "How To Write An Issue" post (emphasis added):
From #40:
Why would my citizens and teachers blame poor education on government funding? This is a huge assumption. In fact, it presupposes an answer (more funding from the government). Only a inherently socialist nation would have this as a core belief.
Shouldn't this be:
Moreover, the options from this Issue are insultingly biased with all but #2 being grotesquely stereotypical and mocking towards anyone with a non-socialist, big-government picture of economics.
2. [...] This is shocking news. If the children of tomorrow cannot read, then what? Next thing you know, we’ll be speaking ebonics! The government must devote more efforts to education! Where will we be twenty years from now with an overflow of unskilled labor?
3. [...] why not issue government vouchers so that parents can afford to send their children to privately run schools? We offer a far better education than the public schools. All we do is grind our particular religious views into our students!
4. “Who needs some fancy-schmancy cash-draining school system, anyway?” @@RANDOMNAME@@ declares from the front steps of a double-wide mobile home, shotgun in hand. “My Pa raised me and my eight brothers and three sisters without no waste of time schoolin’! My Pa taught me everythin’ I need t’know, let all these whippersnappers’ Mas and Pas teach ‘em what they need t’know!”
I highlight only one Issue here amongst dozens, but this bias exists amongst the vast majority of issues I've been served (and scanning through the Spoiler list of Issues as well). Some are genuinely neutral and but the majority are so twisted it's insulting to a non-socialist.
Is the goal of NationStates to promote civic awareness and discussion of ideas, or to condition and indoctrinate players into global Communism through stereotyping ridicule of Capitalism and small government?