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hermanntrude

hermanntrude

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Newfoundland!
Whilst spending some time at another forum, I was encouraged by another member to collectively use a website which simulates government of a "nation" you create for yourself. The idea was that we'd have a special subforum for discussing issues of government. Of course, due to the nature of the person doing the running, it quickly went awry (those who know who i'm talking about know what I mean).

Anyway I've started my own nation there. It's in the region of Taijitu, and called Osmelia. It's currently a left-leaning college state with a population of 14 million. You can see more at this link:

http://www.nationstates.net/osmelia

I'mn particularly proud of the flag, which is a combination of canadian and english flags.

Anyone else got a nation?
 
hermanntrude

hermanntrude

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Newfoundland!
oh hi. I never saw your reply. Nice income tax rate you have there....

I think you're giving your citizens too much freedom. Osmelia went from a left-leaning college state to an iron-fist socialism to a "father-knows-best" state. I'm hoping it stays the way it is now. I'm all for free speech and so on, but there has to be a limit.

Other advice I'd give is to remember that the consequences of your judgments are usually taken to extremes, so you might say yes to free-speech and then you'll find that your nation begins airing a racist TV show, which becomes very popular. I tend to make minimal judgments except when i feel very strongly about them. I've even dismissed some of the issues because there weren't any sensible answers available.
 
hermanntrude

hermanntrude

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Newfoundland!
today I had an issue about maternity leave. Apparently Osmelia didn't have any laws about it and so mothers had no rights to leave. My three options were:

1) allow leave and screw the businesses
2) do not allow leave at all
3) allow leave but reimburse the businesses from the government

In an ideal world, I felt it should be possible to reimburse the businesses at maybe 50% or something. However this option wasn't available so i went for option number 3, and winced, waiting for my tax rates to increase
 
Tonington

Tonington

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Yah, that sounds like an issue that probably needs addressing. I also would have gone with 3. Maybe they will update so that you can make fine tune changes like that. Not too fine, because that would get complicated, but perhaps in quarterlies.
 
hermanntrude

hermanntrude

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Newfoundland!
it's really quite a simple website. Make a decision and your nation's description gets a new line and perhaps the tax rises or falls and industry is altered a bit. Still interesting, though.
 
Tonington

Tonington

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It is, interesting for sure. My nation didn't quite come out as expected, quite religious, I just decided to appoint a new adviser, we'll see how that works...
 
Tonington

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Lol, yup. Since my population is so religious/spiritual I thought I'd better do something when they requested a new one.
 
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Tonington

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It will probably backfire;) I picked the spiritual guy, who is kinda cultish
 
hermanntrude

hermanntrude

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Newfoundland!
to those of you still playing, I have created a region called "intact cannonade" for the CanCon players to inhabit. Password is "cancon". There is no advantage to this whatsoever, I just wanted to do it.

to those of you who gave up playing, shame on you, you know who you are

to those of you not yet playing, come on, join in :0)
 
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hermanntrude said:
did you join, sal? Join up with my region
Click to expand...

Haven't yet checked out the site. Just really love the idea. I have put it under favourites and will fully explore it when I log out. I will join up with your region then hermanntrude... thanks so much.
 
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