The Easter Basket: A Guide To Easter Egg Issues

[Dexterra]

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Interested in Easter Egg issues? Going on a hunt and need information? Have new information that could help people find an Egg? Just found an Egg and want to celebrate? Welcome to the Easter Basket!

Special thank you to Fauzjhia (now Darklight Girl Sarah) for hosting the previous thread, and for giving me permission to start a new thread due to Fauzjhia ceasing to exist. Since Fauzjhia CTEing means that he is unable to maintain the previous thread, a new thread is needed in order to continue documenting any developments in Easter Egg issues, such as new Eggs or new information on current Eggs.

What are Easter Egg issues?

From Drasnia's older thread: "An Easter Egg is a special type of issue that nations can only ever encounter once. They're meant to be jokes and references about NationStates that would otherwise not be suitable in a normal issue. They also often have strange and esoteric requirements before being able to receive it," specifically by changing your nation's custom settings, such as your pretitle, motto, currency, demonyms, capital, leader, religion and animal.

List of current Easter Egg issues and eligibilities (as of September 2024):

World To End Egg
#77: World To End, Or Possibly Just Mark Anniversary

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77 was written by Max Barry and automatically given to every nation on NationStates' one year anniversary - even nations set to vacation mode. It was later turned into a regular Easter Egg.

Nations become eligible to receive 77 after they have found at least 3 other Easter Eggs.

Holy Egg
#78: Should We Pull The Lever? [Meddlers; ed: SalusaSecondus]

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Nations become eligible to receive 78 if they have 'Holy' in their pretitle, and a population of at least 1.25 billion.

Alien Egg
#80: Aliens Wish Peace/Trade Agreement [Exiled; ed: SalusaSecondus]

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Nations become eligible to receive 80 when they have 'moo' or 'Moon' in their motto, or 'cow' as their national animal, and maintain the existence of a pizza industry (greater than 0).

Colour Egg
#215: What's Your Favourite Colour? [Antioch and the East; ed: Sirocco]

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Nations become eligible to receive 215 if they have a colour in their pretitle. Colours that trigger this are: red, blue, black, white, purple, gold, grey, green, pink, orange and yellow. The colours black, gold and pink are recommended because they do not have the letter 'E' (see below for the No 'E' Egg).

Zombie Egg
#223: Zombie Attack! [Naliitr; ed: Sirocco]

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223 seems to have two separate eligibilities. The first is to cease to exist and then resurrect. The second is to have 'brains' in the motto. There is no known population requirement.

Crime Egg
#256: Suburbs Are Out Of This World [Scolopendra; ed: Sirocco]

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Two known requirements for 256 are high crime (at least 16.75, thank you to The Rhein States for this information), and having a space program.

Fourth Wall Egg
#266: Breaching the Great Fourth Wall of @@NAME@@ [Reploid Productions; ed: Reploid Productions]

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Nations become eligible to receive 266 if they have 'NationStates' in their motto.

St. Patrick's Day Egg
#375: Keep Your Hands Off Those Lucky Charms! [Vile Island; ed: Sanctaria] March only!

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Nations can receive 375 during the month of March if they have 'gold bar' as their currency. Hunters also say it helps to have 'lucky' in your motto.

Pony Egg
#408: Pony Peril [Sedgelight Sparkle; ed:Sedgistan]

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Have the word 'friendship' in your motto for 408.

Issue Egg
#430: Please, Sir, We Want Some More Issues [Eta Carinae; ed: Luna Amore]

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For 430, answer more than 250-300 issues with no throttle and find at least 1 Easter Egg. Issues 80, 266 and 408 can all be received early, so those might be the best in order to meet that 1 Egg requirement.

Christmas Egg
#471: Red Sleigh Down [Nation of Quebec; ed: Sanctaria] December only!

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Nations become eligible to receive 471 during the month of December when they have Christmas-related words in their custom settings.

Custom settings known to work are:

Currency: candy cane
Animal: reindeer, Rudolf, elf
Capital: North Pole
Pretitle: Christmas, Winter Wonderland
Leader: Santa Claus, St. Nick, Nick or Nicholas

Halloween Egg
#622: A Holiday Masquerade [The Grim Reaper; ed:Lenyo]

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Nations become eligible to receive 622 when their national animal and national leader are Halloween-themed. Zombie, bat, vampire, werewolf, ghost, ghoul, monsters, and skeleton are known triggers for national animal. 'Bat' in particular is recommended since it does not have the letter 'E.' Dracula and Frankenstein are good ideas for leader, with the former probably a better choice since it does not have the letter 'E.'

No 'E' Egg
#1122: Just Say No to E [Zwangzug; ed: Zwangzug]

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Nations become eligible to receive 1122 when none of their custom settings contain the letter 'E.'

This requires a population of at least 1 billion because a religion is necessary.

20th Anniversary Egg
#1549: Easter Egg: 20 Years A-Workin

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Requirements for 1549 are still being researched. It is the newest Easter Egg, given to every nation who logged in during the 20th anniversary of NationStates.

Nations can find at least 10 Easter Eggs with the following settings:

Pretitle: pink, holy, lucky, Christmas
Motto: Moon, friendship, NationStates, brains
Currency: candy cane, gold bar
Animal: bat
Leader: Santa Claus
Religion: Athyism
Capital: Yggdrassil

These settings can make you eligible for issues 77, 78, 80, 215, 223, 266, 408, 430 and 622.

After receiving 266 and 408, you can also remove 'friendship' or 'NationStates' and change the currency to something like 'gold' or 'gold bar' to become eligible for 1122.

Feel free to reply to this thread if you have any questions, comments or concerns!

Happy hunting!

TBD

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[Gracierra]

Dyed an Easter Egg today!

Additionally: another find!

(Puppet of Dexterra)

[Tristerra]

Documenting some good recent finds! (Puppet of Dexterra)

[Opekian]

You said, 'Yggdrassil' for Capital I was wondering which issue this would be for?

Also if can I be cheeky and ask if you could confirm what Easter eggs I would be available for?

[Dexterra]

You said, 'Yggdrassil' for Capital I was wondering which issue this would be for?

I believe that would be for the No 'E' Egg.

Also if can I be cheeky and ask if you could confirm what Easter eggs I would be available for?

It looks like you are currently eligible for the Pony, Zombie and Fourth Wall Eggs.

Some pointers that might help:
-Your pizza industry needs to be above zero for you to be eligible for the Alien Egg
-You need to wait until December for the Christmas Egg (and possibly include more Christmas words in your custom fields)
-You need to wait until March for the St. Patrick's Day Egg
-You need a color in your pretitle, not your motto, in order to be eligible for the Colour Egg
-Your population needs to be higher for the Holy Egg

Hope this helps

[National Coraland of Fishery]

You said, 'Yggdrassil' for Capital I was wondering which issue this would be for?

Hope this helps

Does Demonyms count?

[Dexterra]

Does Demonyms count?

Demonyms count for the No 'E' Egg but not necessarily for other Eggs

[Nightralia]

do easter eggs appear immediately after you fulfil the requirements or do they take some time? the day after i changed my nations details i got 2 eggs: one for the lever, one for having 3 issues

[Aadhiris]

do easter eggs appear immediately after you fulfil the requirements or do they take some time? the day after i changed my nations details i got 2 eggs: one for the lever, one for having 3 issues

They usually take some time to appear. I got my first one less than 24 hours after I fulfilled the requirements, but the others took much longer to get. I just got the "Please, Sir, We Want Some More Issues" one a couple of days ago, but fulfilled the requirements for it around 71 days ago.

[Thorn1000]

20th Anniversary Egg
#1549: Easter Egg: 20 Years A-Workin

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Requirements for 1549 are still being researched. It is the newest Easter Egg, given to every nation who logged in during the 20th anniversary of NationStates.

Interesting piece of info, both Rudastan and Kakastania got the 20th anniversary egg today (as seen in their recent happenings). I don’t see any relation between the two including in the answered API shard.

[Dexterra]

20th Anniversary Egg
#1549: Easter Egg: 20 Years A-Workin

Issue Text

Requirements for 1549 are still being researched. It is the newest Easter Egg, given to every nation who logged in during the 20th anniversary of NationStates.

Interesting piece of info, both Rudastan and Kakastania got the 20th anniversary egg today (as seen in their recent happenings). I don’t see any relation between the two including in the answered API shard.

Huh, that is interesting. Thanks!

[Parenthos]

I'm curious if anyone else has been able to get the Christmas Easter egg this December (#471). I fulfilled the requirements before December even started and have been answering my issues daily, but still nothing. I have gone through over a hundred issues for sure by now. I know I haven't received it before.

Anyways, if anyone has gotten it, can you let me know?

[Mavenu]

I'm curious if anyone else has been able to get the Christmas Easter egg this December (#471). I fulfilled the requirements before December even started and have been answering my issues daily, but still nothing. I have gone through over a hundred issues for sure by now. I know I haven't received it before.

Anyways, if anyone has gotten it, can you let me know?

I got it this year and used the listed suggestions

[Dexterra]

I'm curious if anyone else has been able to get the Christmas Easter egg this December (#471). I fulfilled the requirements before December even started and have been answering my issues daily, but still nothing. I have gone through over a hundred issues for sure by now. I know I haven't received it before.

Anyways, if anyone has gotten it, can you let me know?

4 of my alts received it. There’s still 2-3 days left in December so hopefully you can still find it!

[Parenthos]

Okay thanks. Guess I've just been unlucky so far. Hopefully I can still get it.

[Defreo Tay Cyangton]

Which field would be the best to put the term sleigh in for maximum chances of getting the Christmas easter egg?

[Dexterra]

Which field would be the best to put the term sleigh in for maximum chances of getting the Christmas easter egg?

Maybe pretitle or currency? I'm not sure. That's not one of the customs known to work, for what it's worth, although it very well could (let us know if it does). And in case you don't know, the Christmas Egg is only available during December, so you'll have to wait a while for that one

[Parenthos]

Which field would be the best to put the term sleigh in for maximum chances of getting the Christmas easter egg?

I put all the recommendations in my settings and still didn't get it in December

[Dexterra]

I put all the recommendations in my settings and still didn't get it in December

Sorry that that happened to you! There's no guarantee that you'll receive an Easter Egg, even if you use the settings that are known to work, even during the timeframe that certain Eggs are available. Just keep trying and eventually you'll get lucky

[Merconitonitopia]

I received #1549 on this nation.

Macros at the time:
Title: Republic (not very likely to be relevant, lol)
Motto: Big Money, Big Women, Big Fun!
Capital Hayek
Leader CEO Barron Friedman
Faith Objectivism
Currency almighty dollar
Animal rattlesnake

I'm slightly tempted to think that my leader's job title might be relevant, though Thorn1000's puppets don't have that--so very conjectural.

[Dexterra]

I received #1549 on this nation.

Macros at the time:
Title: Republic (not very likely to be relevant, lol)
Motto: Big Money, Big Women, Big Fun!
Capital Hayek
Leader CEO Barron Friedman
Faith Objectivism
Currency almighty dollar
Animal rattlesnake

I'm slightly tempted to think that my leader's job title might be relevant, though Thorn1000's puppets don't have that--so very conjectural.

That’s interesting, thanks! Why do you think your leader’s job title might be relevant? I’ll have to try these settings on an alt and see if I get #1549

[Merconitonitopia]

I received #1549 on this nation.

Macros at the time:
Title: Republic (not very likely to be relevant, lol)
Motto: Big Money, Big Women, Big Fun!
Capital Hayek
Leader CEO Barron Friedman
Faith Objectivism
Currency almighty dollar
Animal rattlesnake

I'm slightly tempted to think that my leader's job title might be relevant, though Thorn1000's puppets don't have that--so very conjectural.

That’s interesting, thanks! Why do you think your leader’s job title might be relevant? I’ll have to try these settings on an alt and see if I get #1549

Because the issue about work, it might help if your leader has a 'job.' Just a thought.

[Dexterra]

That’s interesting, thanks! Why do you think your leader’s job title might be relevant? I’ll have to try these settings on an alt and see if I get #1549

Because the issue about work, it might help if your leader has a 'job.' Just a thought.

Oh that makes sense, clever. I’ll hone in on that on one of my alts and see if it’s an answer