The NIP Collaboration has gathered data on the changes in nation stats (census and policies) caused by answering issues, as a function of those nation stats. This can be described as: each answer for each issue being associated with a 162 dimensional vector field (or flow, or section of a vector bundle - whatever terminology you prefer) over a 162 dimensional manifold (162 = number of census items + number of policies). One does not expect the vector associated with every answer of every issue to have a non-zero component in all of these dimensions, or to vary over all of these dimensions. However, all of this data must be captured for every issue answered in order for how these vector fields vary to be determined empirically. This is what the NIP Collaboration has been doing - capturing the position and vector of change for as many answers of as many issues as possible, as many times as possible. Attached below are several vector plots for the various possible answers of issue 23 (Uranium Deposit Promises to Enrich @@NAME@@). Our work has only just begun, and there are painfully few points so far, but we hope people find this 'first light' data as interesting as we have. Needless to say, these should be taken as a first indicator of possible results of a work in progress, not as a finished product.
In the plots, two positional dimensions are displayed, as well as the vector of change in those two dimensions. All of the other dimensions are ignored (integrated over). Note that in the plots the length of the displayed arrow is not the magnitude of the change vector, but it is proportional to it. Thus there is an overall arbitrary scaling factor in the lengths of the displayed arrows. However, that factor is the same across all datasets in a plot.
Below is for a full-bulldozing, in a capitalist nation:
Below is for a full-bulldozing, in a socialist nation:
Below is for no-bulldozing - ie: full environmental protection:
Below is for a compromise - partial bulldozing of the rainforest:
Below are the results of all four answers plotted together.
In conclusion, with respect to these two stats the issue behaves pretty much as one would expect. Notice, however, for the "partial bulldoze" answer there seems to be an economy- attractor somewhere around 60. The vector flow direction is not as perfectly uniform as one might hope. This might be due to dependence on the other dimensions that are suppressed in these plots, or could be random noise. There are probably not enough data points to draw any more precise conclusions from this data.