Rate the AN's Chosen Factbook!

[The Eur-asian Federation]

4/10, there's not much to look at. Just three short paragraphs and that's it.

For BN, use the one in my sig.

[High Earth]

8/10

Very informative, and did not waste any time jumping right into the facts. I enjoy the concept of Asia and Europe uniting as one.

BN, please use Important Political Figures, i just updated it

[Benuca]

8/10 i love factbooks with lot of infomation.
BN please rate my Important events in history factbook.

[Arzastan]

Well the factbook is intresting but there are no images but there are no images ir text effects and the timeline is incomplete, for example you haven't mentioned why and how the holy empire was founded, what was the situation in the territory before it's foundation, how did they lose Alicia, ect. So overall 5/10.
BN, rate this:
https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=2015937

[Jorsania]

Wow very nice, you dont really see wildlife factbooks. Good job 8/10

BN- https://www.nationstates.net/nation=jor ... id=2000103

[Lagene]

I like it but I feel like there is something missing.
6/10

For you, BN
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=lag ... id=1998268

[A m e n r i a]

2/10, there's barely anything there, sorry. If you're going to make a directory, may I suggest you look at the one The Great state of Joseon made? He inspired me to make mine, which you can see in my sig. Good luck and happy factbooking!

Speaking of which, BN, could you rate my welcome page, please?

[Saridesia]

7/10. I like the design and aesthetic you were going for, but I'll admit, I was a bit miffed when I opened the spoilers, instead of revealing additional info, it just contained an image embedded with a link to the IIWiki. My suggestion is to just have the images directly link to the IIWiki, and cut out the middle-man of the spoiler tags.

[Republics of the Solar Union]

Okay, that's quite a unique way to structure a factbook, I like the images. Very cool. There's just links and not really much content within the factbook itself for me to remark on. Definitely, 9/10 for the structuring.
I am subtracting 1 point because I didn't know they were spoilers and that could be more clear but maybe I am just being judgemental. Good job though, AN.

Ninja'd: Okay, instantly there's much more information than people usually give for their economies, it's also written more eloquently and like an economist would describe an economy. CASCEA is also an interesting system, seems like some sort of AI, that could be the start for a major economic crisis, I'll like to see it expanded on and more about it's failures. But with how much people talk about bad AI, seeing some genuinely good AI is a kind of relief. 8/10

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https://www.nationstates.net/nation=rep ... id=2016012

I am asking for a review again because the last one was not really a proper one to say.

[Saridesia]

Whoops, apologies for that.

I'm still working on it, but can you do what I have so far for this one?

//skipme

[Republics of the Solar Union]

Whoops, apologies for that.

I'm still working on it, but can you do what I have so far for this one?

//skipme

Edited.
/skipme

[Republics of the Solar Union]

/bump

[Republics of the Solar Union]

/bump again

[Transitional Global Authority]

Starting with the things i would improve: Iam personally not a big fan of the overview box being put in the middle over all the other stuff, in my matter of taste i would put it on the right side, i dont think there is enough text in it to justify putting it in such a big box. Also maybe add one or two smaller images somewhere or use a little bit more coloration in the text (for example, color the headlines the same color as your company logo?)

EDIT: I have just seen that factbook on another screen resolution and in FHD upwards the box is on the right side already. So i just suggest to make the company logo like half of the size. That would improve the design a lot.

Going next with the things i like. The company logo is very well done and fits the company perfectly. The factbook provides a good overview over the most important topics and you can get every information you need quickly. It is also not too long or covered in useless information, which i also like.
I would say its a very solid factbook overall, altough there is a bit to improve on the design (but as always this is just personal preference). I give it 7.5/10


My Factbook for rating: https://www.nationstates.net/nation=tra ... id=1748469
It is very long, so if you dont want to read the entire thing, just choose yourself a chapter and rate it.

[Lothria]

Chose the history section to rate, and I was hooked. It's very well written, and I've always been a fan of covert invasions/takeover plots (if it wasn't obvious by my nation. I also really like it when people take the space race and make it about aliens, or whatever the Hosts are. It's rarely done well, but I enjoy it nonetheless. But that's not to say that this is done poorly - quite the opposite actually. It's very interesting, as is the IGA's slow takeover of the world, with just enough information being classified to keep it spicy. I will also say that the layout is also quite nice. I'm a sucker for pictures, especially ones like the propaganda posters. Visually, it's a very appealing factbook. It is rather long, as you mention, but I'm guilty of long factbooks myself so I won't dock too many points for that. 9/10


BN: The Northern Pantheon

[Lothria]

Actually, as I've done that one before

BN: House of Gaunt

[Pathonia]

9/10

Absolutely marvelous work!
It's quite aesthetically pleasing while also providing information.

I thought it was a give/take balance :P

Lovely stuff, I believe that I'll spend the next little while reading through more of your work!

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https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1939686

[Lycantine]

8/10.

It's your standard "government constitution" that people make for their nations. Immediate points however, for adding the original constitution as well as the ammendments, the dates, and the names of said ammendments inside of the factbook itself. It kinda details how the nation evolved as time progressed. Very eat.

It's also very detailed, something I can respect. Good job. Understandable too. The sections of the electoral process and requirements for president were easily understandable, and the section about city governments was particularly interesting. Good job.

Unfortunately, you fall bit short because despite being a constitution of some sort, it is really hard to read through it all without getting bored and accidentally just start skimming. The images at the end don't load for me either. Idk if that's a skill issue on my part or not, but points off.

Overall, I think refining it a bit more, maybe organizing it so that it isn't a massive wall of text will give it that full 10 points. Nevertheless, I think it's served its purpose and I can tell you've spent time on it, so I can commend your effort.


BN, please pick whatever "Stories from Lycantine" chapter you'd like. You can find em in the Miscellaneous section of my factbooks. You don't have to read the whole favtbook, just one chapter of either of the two seasons. (As always, let me know what you think and don't one line. No pressure. Thanks.)

[The New Detroit Republic]

I chose season one, chapter one, might as well start from the beginning. As the first part of your nation's history it's okay, but I feel it doesn't provide the best background on the world as a whole but it serves it's purpose. I'd say it's an 8/10.

BN, do this one. I know it says five minutes ago but that's because I was fixing some spelling errors.

[Gorutimania]

6/10, good writing, could use BBCode, though.

https://www.nationstates.net/nation=gor ... id=2014491

[Gorutimania]

/bump
/stillme

[Taosun]

7/10, I really like the boxes and the italics, also the detail is really nice. Maybe add some colors.

I would like BN to rate my “Leader of Taosun: 1700-Now” Factbook

[Khoikhoia]

I like a list, you like a list, everybody likes a list. Nice colour, and it's short and sweet. I also really like the added commentary on regime changes. It gets a 7.5/10 from me, I do feel it could be a bit better with some images and maybe a Wikipedia-like table format.

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BN. Please try and do two or more sentences.

[Insulamia]

Everyone needs a national overview. Whilst it may not be the most unique or flashy type of factbooks, it is still handy for readers to get a general conception of the nation and for you to have a foundation from which to build your lore. And as far as they go, Khoikhoia's national overview is probably amongst the best I've seen on the site.

First some comments on aesthetics, as I have a particular interest for it. I appreciate that you have specified a font for the factbook, which at the very least gives me a nice break from the default-font factbooks that dominate the site. The choice of Courier is nice and it gives me a vibe of government documents from the 20th century. However, it is quite thin which makes it a bit difficult to read, and (at least on my device) the bolded and italicised sections seem to be faux bold/italic, which is a little off-putting. But just a little. I don't think these complaints are significant enough to be addressed.

Now another thing I like about the factbook aesthetically is the assortment of images included. Images are always nice to 1. illustrate the text and 2. keep the reader's attention. And I think this factbook has a sensible amount to do these. It also seems a lot of the images are AI-generated, but they are tastefully AI generated. By this I mean you didn't just type a prompt into an image generator, take the first result, and slap it onto the factbook; rather it looks like you've taken some effort to perfect your prompts and curate the results (Of course there are still some imperfections - the painting of Portuguese explorers has a guy that looks like he has a massive cock out of his pants ). I noticed you took the time to crop them, which is surprisingly hard for your average NS-er to do (If I had a dime for every time I saw a square AI-generated photo in a factbook...).

Anyways, a final minor suggestion on the aesthetics: I think you should put « LAND OF THE ADVENTUROUS » in a smaller font size because currently it creates a line break on my screen which just makes the text look off-centre. And I think it's fitting for a subtitle to be smaller than the title too.

Onto the content of the factbook, I'll admit that I didn't actually read the whole thing, and that's because it's so damn long! And this is a good thing. It's natural for completed wiki-style factbooks to be quite lengthy, but I think this one is also quite concise in the sense that all the sentences convey useful, interesting information and the length of the factbook does not owe itself to some yapfest in the military or political section or something. The tone of the writing is very close to Wikipedia's - not overly descriptive and poetic yet not overly repetitive and boring either (this is also good, btw). And I couldn't find any significant typographical/grammatical errors in the text either.

I like that the factbook is quite realistic in its depiction of the nation, which is obviously what you were going for. The intertwinedness of Khoikhoia's history with real-world history makes the nation feel so much more believable, and it is apparent that you have researched the relevant topics well andor know a lot about them. This goes for not just the history but all other aspects of the factbook too. With this nation of mine (and other puppets too), I've found it hard to progress past the lede section of my national overview simply because I've found it difficult to write lore about the specifics of history, economics, politics, military, etc. without making it too unrealistic for my liking. You've managed to complete an entire article delving into multiple topics whilst keeping the realism, which is a highly commendable feat.

It's an excellent national overview. But it is ultimately still a national overview, the most common type of factbook on the site. So, taking off 1 point for originality and half a point for some smaller flaws (which every factbook has, of course), I give this one a very good 8.5/10.

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For BN!

[Nomayuki]

Ahh, Insulamia. One of the most dedicated nations on NS that I know. The generic-looking (in a good way) rainbow texted logo of insulamia4kids.ia adds to it all as well as that animated gif AN put for advertisements. AN even put the emails of site editors and some sort of reminder that "This website adheres to the Federal Net Privacy Act 2008 and the Henria Cookie Act 2014". With AN's dedication, I wouldn't be surprised if there were already factbooks about those laws. It seems this factbook has the most effort put into it compared to AN's other dispatches/factbooks which already have effort put into them.

10/10. I'm not surprised at all. Insulamia's skill is just on a whole other level.

Anyway, BN, I hope you return alive from the mountains.