King Steve needs YOU! Let's Play Nationstates

[Amake]

King Steve's Kickass Country (http://www.nationstates.net/region=king_steves_kickass_country) is now a real, virtual place and it needs to be populated. Come on and found your own nation, or nations, and see if all that crappy ideology you espouse can actually make a coherent, viable state for people to live in.

Yeah that's pretty much what Nationstates is about. It's a country simulator. With its supposed lack of bias, it'll allow nations of any alignment out of 27 to prosper in their own unique way. (As long as your dream world don't stray too far from the liberal American template of the author.)

So this isn't a Let's Play in the usual sense, just something for us to do together, or at least spend like two minutes a week doing in the general proximity of each other. It's almost like socializing. I dunno. They made me write this. Please try it out or maybe they'll beat me. :(

[Solid Snake]

http://www.nationstates.net/nation=grand_galloping_gala

...You might as well give up playing now, because I officially have the best nation with the best flag.

~ Your friend Pinkie Pie, Gynecocratic President of Grand Galloping Gala! <3 <3 <3

P.S. Also, the best anthem!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNu9fDGhFgE

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Isolated nation-states as opposed to world-wide harmony! I tar the creator with the stalinist brush!

Can we set up gulags! That is the most important part of any successful nation.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

You can make public nudity compulsory if you are so inclined.

[Amake]

They're only isolated states if you don't join the United Na World Assembly, so be as harmonious as you like.

And yeah, there's a lot of things you can do that we should probably mention:

You can ban cars, freedom, guns and the private sector.
You can build space stations and mutant super soilders.
You can pretend to be an absolute democracy while you personally make every policy decision for your country.
You can write your own issues for the nations of the world to decide on, if you're any good.
You can become the natural enemy of cheese.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

You can make public nudity compulsory if you are so inclined.

Can I also execute anybody who complains? Their deviant obsessions will distract from productivity. This is a policy I can get behind.

They're only isolated states if you don't join the United Na World Assembly, so be as harmonious as you like.


Stalin loves your World Assembly, mocking its "sanctions" and using it to veneer his regime.
By isolated I mean actualyl having countries and not everybody being the same- that's the big crime Stalin was accused of (along with all the other ones)- of abadoning the world revolution and dooming the future of communism in the process. Can I set up a world state?

Also can I make abortion mandatory? I going to push for a short, yet massive productivity boost of a dying race and use the proceeds to have a bitching party when I've eliminated everyone's commitments and responsbilities. People won't be able to leave due to the party police on the borders.

[Amake]

There's often options involving execution, though they tend to make you rank as a psychotic dictator. But hey, you know what's best for the little people, right?

And I guess once you have a bigger population than this entire planet, who's to say you can't achieve a more harmonious state than currently exists? But until then you have to live with the notion that the game is based on this world.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Esteemed Dictator for Life Shyria and Number One Right Hand Man I. Hitchens welcome you! (http://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_howling_spires)

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Welcome to King Steve's Kickass country!
I'll reprise my role as the dude who lists the names of all the people behind the countries. Because I feel like it.

(Alphabetical order)
Altjira: Invisible Queen
Bleached White Bone: BitVyper
Grand Galloping Gala: Solid Snake
Hardeehar: Moi (InsaneGenius)
Perigundy: A friend of BitVyper (Llelwyn?)
The Air Tonight: greed
The Howling Spires: Shyria Dracnoir
Tulul: Mr.Bookworm

Look at all those cool people!!!
You too can be part of this kool kidz klub.

Join today!

[Amake]

Oh right, some gameplay tips! You must not try to join the World Assembly with more than one nation. They notice that. You can set your settings to receive two issues a day to pound out policy changes like a crazy loon, instead of the default one. You can let five issues pile up, but then you won't get any new ones until you start resolving them. You can post in the game forums, but then you'll encounter infinite amounts of bone-headed extremists. Seriously the other day I saw a gigantic essay about how Objectivism would save the environment.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

It's a minimum effort game. You basically only have to make at least one decision per day (You can change the setting to 2 issues per day, if you're HARDCORE). So it's not something you'll have to invest hours of time in. You can just spend five minutes a day to see how a country under your leadership would play out in a most likely satirical fashion. So you should definitely join. It's not like it'll eat up your entire schedule forever. Plus: It's fun to find out which way your latest most benevolent decision gets twisted. Or if it gets twisted. Hell, sometimes the game manages to do and not do it simultaneously.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Any word on just what the Themes mean? Set mine to Antiquity for kicks, but haven't noticed anything different just yet. I'm assuming it affects what issues crop up in your country.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Actually, those are just different visual themes. Antiquity is how the site used to look until about two months ago, I think. Then the new (current) theme was introduced.
For some fun, set it to liberal or conservative. That'll change your country's classification to something a little more biased. That's purely cosmetic, though. But good for a few laughs.

[Bells]

Just stay away from their discussion forums, seems like a bunch of teens gathering to discuss pot with faulty logic, nonstop... guh!

It does seem like a fairly harmless and interesting time waster though

[Solid Snake]

...2004 Snake and 2011 Snake are totally going to battle it out, y'all.

[Bard The 5th LW]

How do you make a custom flag like the one Solid Snake has? I want to make mine a dueling pistol but it only offers me a fixed list.

[A Zarkin' Frood]

Once you set up your nation you can click a little link under the flag selection drop down menu. It should say "Create your own flag" or something along those lines.

[Melfice]

So... I just joined in with the Kingdom of Grand Silesius (Because Silesius was a country I forgot about AGES ago, and wasn't according to my wishes any longer.)

[Professor Smarmiarty]

Now trying to find the setting to put all my GDP towards making hangover pills. Cause oh shit. But what a way to go.
my nation is in majoy crisis- 80% of people die of old age, this is a disgusting waste of resources, old peoople just sit around and consume and have pretty shit times too. Now getting lost in the wilderness, that is a solid cause of death. Acts of god- pretty good too.

[Bard The 5th LW]

The Republic of Eternal Immolation (http://www.nationstates.net/nation=eternal_immolation) has been founded and our influence will hopefully continue to grow.

[Solid Snake]

I look forward to the inevitable initial outbreak of hostilities between Bard and Smarty, which will surely be the event that spirals all of us down into eternal warfare.

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I only going to war with people who shit in the pool.

[Melfice]

And I just joined with Silesius as well.
Which is a surprisingly insane nation.

I don't remember going that extreme with it, though I'll continue with it.

Also, for reference: The Kingdom of Grand Silesius seceded from the Grand Duchy of Silesius.

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

I'm sure I had one of these ages ago. Can't remember the damn name now, I'll see if I can find it again.

EDIT; Nope, couldn't find it, had to found The Disputed Territories of Unending Warfare (http://www.nationstates.net/nation=unending_warfare) instead.

EDIT EDIT; Aw crap, I just realised Bard has almost the same currency idea as me. That's like, totally lame!

[Professor Smarmiarty]

I'm a bit concerned about some of the countries we are attracting. Massive busskills.

In other news, everyone trying to spy on me. Game was like "POlice want security cameras to film home porno videos and satisfy their vicarious thrills" but I don't have any police so clearly one of you is trying to set me up!

[BitVyper]

Top 1 percent of the world for Most Extreme. That's the standard of excellence we hold ourselves to in Bleached White Bone.

[MuMu]

Also the Top 5% for the Nudest and Fattest citizens. I can't even imagine what Extreme things happen there.

[Bard The 5th LW]

EDIT EDIT; Aw crap, I just realised Bard has almost the same currency idea as me. That's like, totally lame!

You can bet your that ass war were declared.

Once I manage to enter another war with Smarty at least. After I get that conflict rearing and ready to go I'll go ahead and send some infantry at your border.

[Shyria Dracnoir]

Top 10% of the World for Happiest Citizens

Not bad for a country with literally zero political freedoms (Civil Rights are 65/100 and Economy 67/100).

[A Zarkin' Frood]

I'd love to know how that happiness is calculated. It tends to be pretty random. Also, when two countries would have to share a rank in the region the bigger one gets the better position. By better I mean #1, even if it's #1 for most burning corpses in gimp suits per km².

And I have no idea who half of those (http://www.nationstates.net/page=list_nations/region=king_steves_kickass_country/sort=residency/nation=/start=0) people are.

Someone care to enlighten us?

[The Artist Formerly Known as Hawk]

Man, I am totally oppressing the shit out of my people right now. It is excellent.