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How do you play NationStates?

I enjoy creating and developing a country based on my genuine views.
18
37%
I'm here more so for the community and regional activity
10
20%
I like to create silly/insane countries for shits and giggles.
5
10%
I'm a troll, and I enjoy watching people go insane over their region getting raided.
0
No votes
I use it in connection to wider role-play games that extend onto things such as Discord, Reddit, etc.
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Other (please say in the comments!)
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33%
 
Total votes : 49

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Evolutionary Syncretic Cybercratic State
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Liberal Democratic Socialists

State of the Nations, States & Nation-States of NationStates

Postby Evolutionary Syncretic Cybercratic State » Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:54 pm

Hi everyone, I'm a long-time NationStates fan having created countries that have long-since died and exist in the boneyard (my oldest being an incredibly cringe state called 'D-NO-TEO'). As someone who has up until this current state, never engaged with anyone in forum posts or through regional assemblies, I've been one of the silent players who enjoys playing insularly just to see their country grow.

Having engaged with different NS players properly, as well as taking a stronger interest in the concepts surrounding the genre of virtual governments/democracies, I'm curious to know how people play NationStates. Obviously, there's no right or wrong way to experience this game, but I'm nonetheless interested to see the proportions of what attracts people to this site.
ESC is a theoretical superposition that postulates a form of governance (Evolutionary Syncretic Cyberocracy), and/or ideology (Evolutionary Syncretic Cyberism), depending on its context, of which augurs for an Evolutionary Syncretic Cybercratic State (ESCS). For more information, please see either my factbooks, or my Substack.
https://escism.substack.com/

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Floofybit
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Psychotic Dictatorship

Postby Floofybit » Mon Jan 13, 2025 5:58 pm

I grab my phone. I click the on button. I swipe up. I input my passcode. I swipe up to see my apps. I click Google. I tap on the search bar. I type natiodjtates. I click the link to NationStates. I click the NationStates button at the top. I click the username bar. I autofill my nation. I sporadically click buttons until things work. They always do. That's how I play.
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Evolutionary Syncretic Cybercratic State
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Founded: Jan 03, 2025
Liberal Democratic Socialists

Postby Evolutionary Syncretic Cybercratic State » Mon Jan 13, 2025 6:13 pm

Floofybit wrote:I grab my phone. I click the on button. I swipe up. I input my passcode. I swipe up to see my apps. I click Google. I tap on the search bar. I type natiodjtates. I click the link to NationStates. I click the NationStates button at the top. I click the username bar. I autofill my nation. I sporadically click buttons until things work. They always do. That's how I play.


searching 'natiodjtates' is too real
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https://escism.substack.com/

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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Mon Jan 13, 2025 6:38 pm

I don’t think I’ve ever truly played this game. At least since the early days of my NS nation. Nation building, nation happenings, Rp regions and role playing. I mostly log in these days to chat with a few long time buddies.
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Hermi card farmer-11
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Authoritarian Democracy

Postby Hermi card farmer-11 » Mon Jan 13, 2025 6:41 pm

i hate this site. i only go here to answer issues to get more gold stats so my card will get to a different color, and to get cards to get a digital number up.

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The State of The State of The State
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Authoritarian Democracy

Postby The State of The State of The State » Mon Jan 13, 2025 6:44 pm

I like that my state is in a state of statehood.

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Aryameher
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Authoritarian Democracy

Postby Aryameher » Mon Jan 13, 2025 6:44 pm

Other (please say in the comments!)

For a little bit now, I've enjoyed dreaming up a scenario where the Islamic faith never advanced beyond Arabia or, never existed. Now, as Aryameher, I can channel this vision into words easily and share my project with others who won't instantly call me a nerd or geek. That's how I intend to play this game.

So I say, yes I've enjoyed creating and developing this nation so far, but it's not necessarily based on my IRL views.
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Nanatsu no Tsuki
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Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Nanatsu no Tsuki » Mon Jan 13, 2025 6:45 pm

Hermi card farmer-11 wrote:i hate this site. i only go here to answer issues to get more gold stats so my card will get to a different color, and to get cards to get a digital number up.


Not sure why you force yourself to be here then if you hate the site. Makes no sense to stick around a place you hate.
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Technoscience Leftwing
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Democratic Socialists

Postby Technoscience Leftwing » Mon Jan 13, 2025 6:45 pm

Oh, it will be a long story. :-) It all started with the emergence of the concept of a better society, which we want to implement if not in reality, then at least in the form of a model, a dream, a utopia.

This concept arose long before the Internet. Tommaso Campanella and Thomas More already had dreams of a better society when they saw around them medieval despotism, the poverty of the population, the exploitation of workers in the first factories, slaves on plantations, etc. Then more humane versions of the dream of socialism arose, where there was less barracks regulation of people's behavior, and more everyday comfort and automation. Versions where social security was combined with cultural and everyday emancipation, where nations merged into a worldwide brotherhood, where a materialistic scientific worldview was used to understand and improve the world, where history and personalities of the revolutionary movement were respected. Life in the USSR corresponded to this dream only partially, since the cultural and technical backwardness inherited from the tsarist empire had an effect - and in the end these backward remnants ruined the socialist project. But the story did not end there, there will be more successful attempts to implement it. And this game allows you to simulate them.

And how to simulate? In the game, options for solving problems come, and you need to choose those solutions that correspond to humanistic revolutionary socialism. Solve problems, if possible, by technical means, without manipulating people and without the suffering of living beings. If it is impossible to do without harm to people, choose to put pressure on the reactionary opposition in favor of progress. Follow the main guidelines: socialism, technicism, cosmopolitanism, materialism, revolutionism, emancipation. And we'll see what happens. I have achieved the following parameters:

Image

These are good indicators, a humane, secular, enlightened, well-fed, cheerful society is being built. Today this is possible as a playful utopian model, tomorrow it can become a reality if a new wave of leftist movement arises in the world, a mass demand for leftist ideas against the backdrop of the crisis of capitalism.
* TLC Factbook
* Goal: increase comfort, technical capabilities and knowledge for most people.
* Pro: technicalism, social equality, cosmopolitanism, scientific atheism, revolutionism, emancipation.
* Contra: technophobia, reactionary despotism, nationalism, religion, ascetic regulation, traditionalism, patriarchality.
* Real location: Russia. Sorry for mistakes in English. Всем салют!

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Evolutionary Syncretic Cybercratic State
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Liberal Democratic Socialists

Postby Evolutionary Syncretic Cybercratic State » Mon Jan 13, 2025 6:55 pm

Technoscience Leftwing wrote:Oh, it will be a long story. :-) It all started with the emergence of the concept of a better society, which we want to implement if not in reality, then at least in the form of a model, a dream, a utopia.

This concept arose long before the Internet. Tommaso Campanella and Thomas More already had dreams of a better society when they saw around them medieval despotism, the poverty of the population, the exploitation of workers in the first factories, slaves on plantations, etc. Then more humane versions of the dream of socialism arose, where there was less barracks regulation of people's behavior, and more everyday comfort and automation. Versions where social security was combined with cultural and everyday emancipation, where nations merged into a worldwide brotherhood, where a materialistic scientific worldview was used to understand and improve the world, where history and personalities of the revolutionary movement were respected. Life in the USSR corresponded to this dream only partially, since the cultural and technical backwardness inherited from the tsarist empire had an effect - and in the end these backward remnants ruined the socialist project. But the story did not end there, there will be more successful attempts to implement it. And this game allows you to simulate them.

And how to simulate? In the game, options for solving problems come, and you need to choose those solutions that correspond to humanistic revolutionary socialism. Solve problems, if possible, by technical means, without manipulating people and without the suffering of living beings. If it is impossible to do without harm to people, choose to put pressure on the reactionary opposition in favor of progress. Follow the main guidelines: socialism, technicism, cosmopolitanism, materialism, revolutionism, emancipation. And we'll see what happens. I have achieved the following parameters:

(Image)

These are good indicators, a humane, secular, enlightened, well-fed, cheerful society is being built. Today this is possible as a playful utopian model, tomorrow it can become a reality if a new wave of leftist movement arises in the world, a mass demand for leftist ideas against the backdrop of the crisis of capitalism.


Perhaps you might want to read a new political philosophy that can achieve these visions for a realistic utopia, brought to you by your's truly... ;)
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=evo ... id=2600367
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https://escism.substack.com/

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Democratic Socialists

Postby Technoscience Leftwing » Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:11 pm

Evolutionary Syncretic Cybercratic State wrote:
Technoscience Leftwing wrote:Oh, it will be a long story. :-) It all started with the emergence of the concept of a better society, which we want to implement if not in reality, then at least in the form of a model, a dream, a utopia.

This concept arose long before the Internet. Tommaso Campanella and Thomas More already had dreams of a better society when they saw around them medieval despotism, the poverty of the population, the exploitation of workers in the first factories, slaves on plantations, etc. Then more humane versions of the dream of socialism arose, where there was less barracks regulation of people's behavior, and more everyday comfort and automation. Versions where social security was combined with cultural and everyday emancipation, where nations merged into a worldwide brotherhood, where a materialistic scientific worldview was used to understand and improve the world, where history and personalities of the revolutionary movement were respected. Life in the USSR corresponded to this dream only partially, since the cultural and technical backwardness inherited from the tsarist empire had an effect - and in the end these backward remnants ruined the socialist project. But the story did not end there, there will be more successful attempts to implement it. And this game allows you to simulate them.

And how to simulate? In the game, options for solving problems come, and you need to choose those solutions that correspond to humanistic revolutionary socialism. Solve problems, if possible, by technical means, without manipulating people and without the suffering of living beings. If it is impossible to do without harm to people, choose to put pressure on the reactionary opposition in favor of progress. Follow the main guidelines: socialism, technicism, cosmopolitanism, materialism, revolutionism, emancipation. And we'll see what happens. I have achieved the following parameters:

(Image)

These are good indicators, a humane, secular, enlightened, well-fed, cheerful society is being built. Today this is possible as a playful utopian model, tomorrow it can become a reality if a new wave of leftist movement arises in the world, a mass demand for leftist ideas against the backdrop of the crisis of capitalism.


Perhaps you might want to read a new political philosophy that can achieve these visions for a realistic utopia, brought to you by your's truly... ;)
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=evo ... id=2600367


This is interesting. It is very good that you ask these questions.

Many people do not know how to approach society as an object of creative change, but are content with what is now, and think that the current order and relations will always be. They do not perceive society as a developing system, which tomorrow will be completely different from today.

And you ask these questions: "What does not suit me in the current society? What kind of society would I like to live in? In which direction is the world developing - towards the realization of my dream or in the opposite direction? If now it is developing in a different direction than I would like - maybe in decades it will develop in a more favorable direction under the influence of some factors?" And it is very good that you are trying to organize your ideas and create a model based on them.
* TLC Factbook
* Goal: increase comfort, technical capabilities and knowledge for most people.
* Pro: technicalism, social equality, cosmopolitanism, scientific atheism, revolutionism, emancipation.
* Contra: technophobia, reactionary despotism, nationalism, religion, ascetic regulation, traditionalism, patriarchality.
* Real location: Russia. Sorry for mistakes in English. Всем салют!

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Fjolmidlum
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Founded: Nov 14, 2017
Left-wing Utopia

Postby Fjolmidlum » Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:13 pm

My nation reflects my serious, unbridled dog shit opinion and all stats are a reflection of my most genuine and sincerely held beliefs. I have logged hundreds, if not thousands, of hours grinding away at answering issues in order to create the truest reflection of myself in this digital format possible. Any hint, utterance, or sneeze otherwise is a farcical attempt at trolling at best or a pathetic attempt to save face at worst.
irregardless, its the same difference and i literally could care less for all intensive purposes so you're point is mute per say
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Evolutionary Syncretic Cybercratic State
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Liberal Democratic Socialists

Postby Evolutionary Syncretic Cybercratic State » Mon Jan 13, 2025 7:25 pm

Technoscience Leftwing wrote:
Evolutionary Syncretic Cybercratic State wrote:
Perhaps you might want to read a new political philosophy that can achieve these visions for a realistic utopia, brought to you by your's truly... ;)
https://www.nationstates.net/nation=evo ... id=2600367


This is interesting. It is very good that you ask these questions.

Many people do not know how to approach society as an object of creative change, but are content with what is now, and think that the current order and relations will always be. They do not perceive society as a developing system, which tomorrow will be completely different from today.

And you ask these questions: "What does not suit me in the current society? What kind of society would I like to live in? In which direction is the world developing - towards the realization of my dream or in the opposite direction? If now it is developing in a different direction than I would like - maybe in decades it will develop in a more favorable direction under the influence of some factors?" And it is very good that you are trying to organize your ideas and create a model based on them.


I think if you read further on you'll find that this is more than just about making good social progress (I'm only assuming you haven't read it all because the Overview of ESCism is around 30 pages of unapologetically pretentious vocabulary lol), but it's really the conclusion I have reached in my aim to be right. What's motivated me more than anything is the curiosity to learn and develop my episteme to know as much as I can so that I can be satisfied in knowing my place and purpose within the universe. Thus, to be totally right requires a belief in something that can address everything to offer reconciliation and reprieve. Progress itself does not define ESCism, even though it remains as one of its core principles, rather, it is built on a foundherentist epistemic justification that is far more grounded in science and is congruous within and throughout, withal.
ESC is a theoretical superposition that postulates a form of governance (Evolutionary Syncretic Cyberocracy), and/or ideology (Evolutionary Syncretic Cyberism), depending on its context, of which augurs for an Evolutionary Syncretic Cybercratic State (ESCS). For more information, please see either my factbooks, or my Substack.
https://escism.substack.com/

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New York Times Democracy

Postby Emotional Support Crocodile » Tue Jan 14, 2025 12:20 am

I'm only here for the company in NSG and Arts and Fiction. Been here since 2004, and I think I turned of new issues almost immediately, never did regional stuff, never did WA, no gameside stuff at all. Too many staff training days in the 80s and 90s instilled a loathing for roleplay in my mind.
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Dumb Ideologies
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Mother Knows Best State

Postby Dumb Ideologies » Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:08 am

I'm here because I'm bored and incapable of making connections with real people.
Are these "human rights" in the room with us right now?
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Postby Risottia » Tue Jan 14, 2025 3:45 am

I only care about NSG.
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Aryameher
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Postby Aryameher » Tue Jan 14, 2025 8:54 am

Risottia wrote:I only care about NSG.

The worst existence :(

/joke
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Iron Fist Consumerists

Postby Pale Dawn » Tue Jan 14, 2025 8:56 am

Adulthood dried up most of my other hobbies for now so NS maintains any creativity and helps with entertainment.
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Democratic Socialists

Postby Vistulange » Tue Jan 14, 2025 11:10 am

I'm here to worldbuild. I used to care about NSG—I don't think I've posted regularly for about a year or so now, and for some reason decided to take a peek yesterday.

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Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby The Black Forrest » Tue Jan 14, 2025 11:12 am

I don’t even remember why I joined as it was long ago.
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Democratic Socialists

Postby Kyete » Tue Jan 14, 2025 11:18 am

I'm here to hang out with friends mostly! I also like worldbuilding and F7 and I'm looking into starting a roleplay with my region.

Hello! All stats are canon except taxation/freedom from taxation and population.
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Democratic Socialists

Postby Weldassaikinia » Wed Jan 15, 2025 10:41 am

Other (please say in the comments!)


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Corrupt Dictatorship

Postby Qaumodeen » Wed Jan 15, 2025 2:56 pm

I use it to relax, blow off steam, and ponder. I think some people on the forums take this game way too seriously.
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Capitalizt

Postby Erythrean Thebes » Wed Jan 15, 2025 3:58 pm

Originally it was to compete with my friends in High School on the Cross-Country team. We fought fake wars and shit over TG and on the RMBs.

Then one of my countries was invited to an RP region, and I started RP'ing. The end of any involvement with my irl friends as I wouldn't be caught dead doing this back then...

Since then, I have created countries that I think would be fun to RP with.

I went from a Norse-themed country, Greenlandic People, trying to navigate the turbulent end of a decades-long Communist regime, to a Roman-themed theocratic empire, the Holy Empire, to a carbon-copy of the Umayyad Caliphate (probably my worst), to a Russia-themed nation, Balthorvia, based on the last decades of the Russian Empire, all in about 5-6 years.

I took a bit of a hiatus and then I came back. This time, I was inspired by my time spent in a Political Science B.A. program to explore themes of post-colonialism. I made several nations: Mizentia, where the concept was racial tensions post-colonialism between Anglo whites and Afro-Islamic indigenous; Osumbro, a former Spanish colony that was partially a success story but also deeply authoritarian; Weilund, a somewhat fantastic 'what-if' country that was a former German military outpost turned Socialist state; Serchantel, a former French colony struggling with how to handle colonial scars and ethnic tensions.

And now Thebes, truthfully my pride and joy, a bit of a mix between Ancient Greece, Rome, Britain, the Celts, the Mayans, the Native Americans, and more. It is a thought experiment of what it would be like to translate Antique concepts of politics and statehood into a modern context.
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Kostane
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Inoffensive Centrist Democracy

Postby Kostane » Wed Jan 15, 2025 4:05 pm

I chose other.

One does not simply "play" NationStates. It is more than a game. It is a prison in the Max Barry's basement way of life. I started out by just answering issues. But, soon that alone could not fulfill my addiction. It grew, coming from an ever-growing desire to consume. Destroy. My people became more oppressed as I joined RP after RP, suffering under constant negligence and war. The people weren't happy. But there were nothing to me --- just imaginary pixels on a screen. I thought this was a "game" as you so naively believe now. This is not a game. Now my people are dying, my citizens who trusted me and believed in me are suffering. And it's all my fault, I'm a murderer. And the only way to solve it is by going back, fighting another war, winning another NSG argument, posting again on F7. That will alleviate their pain, if only temporarily. But I have to come back. If I don't come back, they die. And their children will get their revenge on me. There is no escape anymore. My population has gradually grown and grown until there are too many for me to control. I can see it in their eyes, my citizens want freedom just as much as me. But it can't happen. I can't leave this place.
Qaumodeen wrote:I think some people on the forums take this game way too seriously.

Too seriously? Me? Never. I'm just a very chill person who doesn't take things seriously at all.
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