Have all the UN members voted on the wage proposal? If not, get in there and vote!!

Oh damn, 3 issues to solve....

* Uranium Mining Workers Strike! Break it
* Cash for Colons? A good heart is hard to find
* Should Democracy Be Compulsory? No fecking way!

I just sold my political soul to the corporations. I got a good price, though, and taxes are on their way down.

The Principality of North Elasia
"It is your privilege to serve"


UN Category: Inoffensive Centrist Democracy
Civil Rights: Average
Economy: Reasonable
Political Freedoms: Some

Location: Cellarious; Regional Influence: Minnow

The Principality of North Elasia is a tiny, environmentally stunning nation, remarkable for its burgeoning forest cat population. Its compassionate population of 5 million have some civil rights, but not too many, enjoy the freedom to spend their money however they like, to a point, and take part in free and open elections, although not too often.

The medium-sized government appears to have no policy direction whatsoever. The average income tax rate is 22%, but much higher for the wealthy. A substantial private sector is led by the Uranium Mining industry, followed by Soda Sales and Arms Manufacturing.

Crime is moderate, and the police force struggles against a lack of funding and a high mortality rate. North Elasia's national animal is the forest cat and its currency is the kibble.

My SO has joined us, his country is The Dictatorship of Free-Willed Socialism :eyebrow: .

I'm so proud! "Island in the Sky is ranked 16th in the region and 51,150th in the world for Most Extreme Nations." ;)

Well, I didn't like the wage decision of the UN so I left.

But, how will our region build influence if we aren't part of the UN?

I'm beginning to think there isn't much point in this game. Our status and condition is being changed arbitrarily by the system, with no relationship to the issues choices we select. They also arbitrarily designate the results of the decisions, which often skews the way you are defined as a nation in the next update, usually in a completely different direction than what you intended by the choices. I set up my nation as a principality, intending it to be like Monaco, and this game as warped it into a corrupt dictatorship instead.

The game warped nothing. It gave you choices for how to run your government, and you picked the one you agreed with.

Here's a similar game with more options, including interaction and war.

Nah, it warps stuff. I came down on one side of an issue, prohibiting corporations from donating money to politicians. My country now outlaws all campaign contributions, including from individuals. That's not what I agreed to.

Its in extremes, of couse...

Sounds like a regular old democrazy. ;)

It's NOT "extremes", it totally changes everything to suit the designer of the game. I have had 2 industries totally erased and gained 5 million people and become a totalitarian dictator by answering 3 questions: eat the cats or not, try to reform criminal behavior, whoops! I just gained another two million residents overnight, after passing on regulating divorce and/or gay marriage. Suddenly I am juggling Religion & Spirituality, when there has been nothing whatever stated about it before. Excuse me, this is WARPED. There are sinister powers behind the scenes that are manipulating us........... :worried:

This also reminds me of a game they made us play at one of our teamwork classes with IBM, must have been 30 years ago, where we had to "order" certain hypothetical supplies and services and "build" houses. The object was to see which team was the most successful at problem solving. Well, after the results were posted the first round, I saw something was wrong with the way the calculations had been done. The figures my team had submitted had been used to build a certain number of these houses alright, but then the program wiped out the rest of the inventory completely, so the calculations you submitted the second round could not possibly reflect your status and all your orders would be inadequate. We hunted down the instructor, who was in the bar getting smashed as all good IBMers do after work, and pointed it out to him. He said I was mistaken. I pulled out all my diagrams on yellow legal pads and showed him item by item what was happening. He said, doesn't matter, we have been using this program for years now and nobody ever had any problem with it. I said You have been miscalculating a mathematical exercise for years now and nobody in IBM ever NOTICED???? What are you going to do now? I asked. Keep on using it, he said. My deep contempt for IBM middle management was solidified at this point, and eventually I began to identify more with my customers than with my employer. I had always thought the object was to get things right, silly me.

I suppose these people intend to keep raising my population numbers until we are suffering from overcrowding and malnutrition and then they will try to get me to eat the cats again. Never!! ;)

your population increase every day that you exist regardless of your decisions.