NationStates

[xShadowLordx]

NationStates is a free nation simulation game. Build a nation and run it according to your own warped political ideals. Create a Utopian paradise for society's less fortunate or a totalitarian corporate police state. Care for your people or deliberately oppress them. Join the World Assembly or remain a rogue state. It's up to you.

(That paragraph was taken directly from the website.)

Anyways, yeah, it's a massive multiplayer simulation RPG-thingy. You make your own country with it's own name, flag, and government system, and you watch it grow. Issues come up and you determine your government's stance on them, and pass legislation on them which causes your country's government to evolve and reshape itself.

But that's not the half of it. There's also a lot of multiplayer interaction and RPing involved, which is where the game becomes really fun. You work together with other players to pass worldwide legislation in a UN-type environment. You can also make your own region, gather your friends together, and even set up an RP government among yourselves.

Now, straight to the point: Me and Memzak have set up a region called Danballia just for us, and we would like you guys to set up a country and join it! The more people we get, the more fun it'll be! ;D

If you're interested in starting up and playing with us, here's a few resources to help you out!

jayisgames.com/archives/2009/10/nation_states.php

nationstates.net/page=faq

www.nswiki.net/index.php?title=Game_terms

www.nswiki.net/index.php?title=Gameplay

www.nswiki.net/index.php?title=Government_Category

www.nswiki.net/index.php?title=World_Assembly

[vaconcovat]

I created Vaconcovat Industries.

[~Memzak~]

Me and MemzaK?

Are you sure you don't mean Memzak and I?

Oh and Vacon, I telegramed your nation with an invite to our region. If all goes well we'll have, TSL, Viros, Vacon and I all in the same region.

EDIT: Can't find Vaconcovat Industries, you sure you created it?

[vaconcovat]

www.nationstates.net/nation=vaconcovat_industries

[BlueWinter]

The Empire of Russenova would love to join.

[xShadowLordx]

Awesome, guys!

A few words of advice to newbies:

1. Once you log in, you should click "Settings" on the left-hand side of the screen. From there, where it says "New Issues", select "Two per day" from the drop-down menu. This will give you two new issues every day--as opposed to one--on which to pass legislation. Doing so will make you reshape your government much faster and will allow it to become fine-tuned much faster.

2. Also in Settings, go down to where it says "Theme" and select "Century" from the drop-down menu. It's much more prettiful than the default theme. ^_^

3. Make sure you have entered an email address for your account. If you haven't done so, go to Settings and put one in. Then click "World Assembly" on the left-hand side of the screen. Then, click the "Apply to Join" button. You pretty much have a 100% chance of getting in, which should happen within 24 hours. Joining the world assembly allows you to vote on the World Assembly's Resolutions when they come up. It also allows you to endorse other WA Members in your region.

Try doing some endorsement-swapping with each other (i.e. I endorse you, you endorse me back). Once you have 2 endorsements, you can submit a new international-law proposal to the WA, but make sure you read the Proposal Rules first, which can be found on their forum. With a little snooping around you can find it easily, but if you can't, just ask me.

In addition, the person in a region with the most endorsements automatically becomes the region's WA Delegate. They can vote for or against WA Proposals to help them or hinder them from becoming a full-blown Resolution. Furthermore, when Resolutions are at vote, the region's WA Delegate automatically carries the votes for all the people who endorsed him/her (i.e. If the delegate has 5 endorsements, and he votes for a Resolution, he actually casts 6 votes for it--1 for himself and 1 each for his 5 endorsers).

If you haven't already done so, read the FAQ and the other helpful pages which I linked to in the first post.

I've only been playing NationStates for a few weeks but I've really gotten the hang of it and I've learned a ton of stuff, so if you have any questions, feel free to ask me.

[~Memzak~]

Oh so that's who Ruessenovia is...