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I guess the ideology that closest fits my values would be Democratic Socialist, as I am firmly progressive on social issues and believe in the state protecting and providing for the citizens.

I will limit my answer to the IC (In-character) ideology of this country (LFG): Environmentalist, and liberalist-humanistic. I believe this fits more or less the professed ideology of the region. However, in terms of Socilism vs. Capitalism, I consider this country Capitalist-with-welfare, or rather slightly-left-of-center.

Good question! Personally, I identify as a left leaning centrist. Extremism, I think, drives me away perhaps more than centrism attracts me-- I come from a highly religious, extremely right wing household, and this has driven me away from both religion and rightism. My political views are still developing, and, in general, I tend to have mixed views on economic socialism, but I thoroughly support environmentalism, and therefore tighter regulations on business. I also think that state funded welfare should be a no brainier, and, quite frankly, my nation's lack of a universal healthcare program baffles me. So, I suppose I don't support any specific ideology, but I definitely lean towards leftism.

The answer to this is kinda complex. In one regard it's "whatever you want to". NationStates is kinda like minecraft in that the world is pretty open and the objectives area whatever you'd like them to be. There is content at the surface level, but if you want more, there is always more that can be had, even beyond however much time you have available to do them.

Probably life starts with issues, they're the most basic and come in automatically every six hours. A lot of people get competitive with their nation's stats and protective about what types of things their nation does well and how well they do them. Some folks put a lot of thought and effort into building their nation's image. What it looks like, how it behaves, coming up with art and backstories. Dispatches and factbooks are fantastic sandboxes to come up with your own articles because there's enough tools at your disposal to make a mock webpage. Ponderosa's factbook is a great example of this. (Hi Ponderosa).

Beyond that, there are things that function like international issues which are votes that happen in the World Assembly, which functions like a United Nations, of sorts. All the stuff there is written by players, sometimes literally by us, so that's also fun.

After that, a lot of regions (including ours) have regional laws and regional government. Our regional law is called the Refugia Revised Statutes and that forms how things work around here, what government jobs are available, how our programs work, etc. If you are interested in legislation, it's relatively straightforward to float ideas on how to amend the law, and send in a referendum. We also have elections every four months for regional councillor positions, the people who effectively run the region. Those councillor jobs are protecting the region, doing cultural and eco events, foreign affairs, World Assembly affairs, and public relations, essentially. And all of that work takes time and energy input, but keep things stable and running smoothly here, and those take people who like those kinds of fields.

There is a cards metagame, a challenges metagame, a sort of invasion metagame, and more. All of which can get substantially more complicated the more time and thought you put into each.

Alternatively, people can just hang out in the chat, spam, and play tetris. The world is your oyster, etc.

oi hello there, it's your favorite kral

here to tell you that your birds keep pecking at my door. >:|

:hyper: And they will never stop until you accept the parcel.

UwU konichiwa UwU

Welcome, Eroias, Batskovey, Dokkaebitopia, and Nuova Venezia to Refugia! I hope all of you enjoy your stays. If it applies to you, please pay attention to the rest of this message.

Refugia aims to be a friendly, laid-back community, which is open to players of all skill levels. Nations who wish to become more active in the region, however, should consider joining the World Assembly (WA). WA nations are able to vote on international law, and receive exclusive benefits within the region, such as the ability to vote in regional polls and elections, get a spot on Refugia's map, and even run for office when elections come up! If you're interested in joining the WA, check out this article, and make sure to endorse our delegate.

If you'd rather just chill with us, that's perfectly fine as well. We have an offsite forum, as well as frequent discussions on the regional message board (RMB), which everyone is welcome to participate in!

If you have any additional questions about the region or how NationStates works, feel free to leave them here, on the RMB. If you're interested in joining our offsite forum, look for the link at the top of Refugia's World Factbook Entry (the big text box at the top of our regional page).

Once again, I really hope you enjoy your time here, and look forward to seeing more of you soon!

Happy Earth Day Refugia!

Huh, that's a real neat idea. I am definitely doing that too, but with my own NS flag!

For RL flag suggestions though, maybe Canada or Norway? Those are very pretty flags, and incorporate red like the other two.

Hi!

Happy Earth Day to everyone!

I’m gonna sound biased but the Sámi flag is super cool imo.

I made my own variant of the japan flag. It got tanuki face B3

私はそれが好きです！

It keeps the simple, elegant design and has a unique symbol on it. I really like the flag.

It seems that 8.8% of my citizens die from.....bungee jumping.That's a weirdly specific thing to die from,lol.

Really,there's a specific issue about that?I cannot remember it...Probably I've already confronted that issue and I cannot recall it now.

I honestly thought we'd have at least one person who considered themselves an extrovert xD

All the extroverts are out talking to people and being productive and depressed, meanwhile I'm here drawing flags and playing nationstates and being productive and depressed

WE GOT ONE.

Finally, we can retreat and hide in the shadows!

We have 3/24 now, lol. It's amusing, as statistically, a normal sample of people would be noticeably more extraverted (or at least ambiverted) than introverted, and yet we have something like only 12% who identify as extraverts. NationStates itself, I suppose, just has a particular appeal.

Thank you for the kind welcome. I look forward to being a part of what looks to be a active and well run region. For the moment I will abstain from WA membership, it’s seems to have become some what trivial with a resolution being passed one week only to be over ruled the next. I believe fun of this game sits within the regions themselves, which is why I’m excited to be here.

To rephrase what I said before in a more serious way, we do have a kind of biased sampling here. I'd imagine introverted people would be more attracted to to this game, which explains why there are so few self-declared extroverts here.

But to what ends? There is no resolution passed in the WA, GA, or SC that has any actual bearing on region or nation legislation. My nation is run by the decisions I make on the issues, regardless of whether or not any assembly approve. Power to influence decisions that carry no weight isn’t worth the votes.

Those are good points but a marginal change for the constant propose/repeal doesn’t seem to show for anything. As for the invade point, that’s a positive although that can also be closed down by the regional officers.

I do agree that it's not a particularly influential system, but you can't win every battle, and quite frankly, if legislation was weighted more heavily, game stats would be absurdly chaotic, and issues playing would border on uselessness within member states. People oftentimes don't agree, and so naturally, proposals will be created and discarded as the playerbase's standpoints evolve, but that doesn't make WA participation useless. Plenty of proposals, if well written, end up unrepealed.

And yes, regional passwords can be put in place, but locking down a region which relies on in game recruitment is more often than not an undesirable outcome, as it stunts regional growth and ultimately results in a dead region. Additionally, it can only be done if officers catch the invasion in it's midst, and coup attempts are usually either covert or highly synchronized.

Regardless, the choice is entirely yours.

Hi, welcome!

Hello there.

Hi!

We have a lot of new people these days, which is super cool, but there hasn't been a whole lot of conversation in the RMB. I'm curious to learn more about your nations, let's share some cool facts!

Sylh Alanor is a republic made up of elves (the Alanori or Elvhenan). I've based a lot of the elements of the country off of Dragon Age's elves, specifically the ancient ones. If you've been around a while, you've probably seen me put elvish phrases in my regional dispatches. Here's what they mean!

And then in my personal dispatch collective, I used:

And the capital, Ara'lath (or Arlathan in English) is a combination of "ara" and "lath", which means "home" and "love". Properly translated, it means "Heart's home."

Also, the country was ruled by an immortal queen for about 1800 years before it was invaded by Kuviran and subjugated. When the country was finally liberated, the queen (Silvehn), who was traumatised by seeing all of her people dying around her due to the occupation, refused to take her throne back and remade the country as a parliamentary republic.

So how about you all?

I made up Velossa to be a mix of European cities I’d travelled around, but mostly it’s based on the Venetian Republic. Like the real thing it’s a city state known for monopolising maritime trade. Like a mix of Venice, Amsterdam and Bruge, Velossa is a city that is a maze of canals, palaces town squares and monuments to events from long ago that nobody really remembers the significance of - but they look good.

While not a great military power per se, Velossa being a hub finds itself of focal point for espionage, intrigue and has a nack of influencing events to go in its best interests or profitably in the same way another country might use an army.

I like the whole Venetian aesthetic of a grand and decadent late medieval city with masked balls, fireworks and assassins creed-eqsue roof top chases so I write that in.

Democracy hasn’t quite developed in Velossa as it has in other nations. The ruler, the Doge, is elected from the Council of the Ten who are themselves elected exclusively from the 114 noble families of Velossa. While it’s true the citizenry don’t have voting rights they are entertained with gaudy or gruesome events frequently enough and their legal and medical needs are provided for sufficiently that there has never been a serious challenge to this. Indeed the bodies gibbeted on display as traitors in St Wenceslas’s Square are over ambitious nobles.

So feel free to visit Velossa, enjoy the canal tours, culture and carnivals. But keep an eye on who is holding your luggage.

After giving it a hard thought, I decided to vote against the GA Resolution "Citizenship at Birth" https://www.nationstates.net/page=ga

I feel it's dependency on parents makes the resolution needlessly complex while further providing no support for orphaned children lacking documented heritage.

What makes the resolution complex to me is how it attempts to expand on sanguinis with potentially multiple conflicting citizenships that depend on the parents rather than some other nonkinship based default.

Maybe whichever nation most immediately capable of rendering aid to those likely under the age of majority perhaps. I'm not sure, but this seems lacking.

Inaros OPA is based off of an alternate universe of my favorite TV show, The Expanse. Inaros OPA is in an alternate reality in which Marco Inaros's army's members won the Free Navy Conflict. Its culture, language and political identity are as authentic as possible when compared to Inaros's vision for the Asteroid Belt.

*spins my Tanuki flag like a god damn helicopter*

We like to endorse everyone here, as it helps build up the region's collective influence and protects us from invasions. It's also nice to hand out endorsements to show your support for other WA members, or if even if you you just want an endorsement back ^-^

heya, if u wanna contact me tg Swedish-Norwegian Kingdoms because this is a nomadic puppet nation for me to jump around and observe some regions including this.

Also I adjusted the welcome message (so that you don't need to -snip- it):

The newest Issue was a personal attack and I properly dealt with it :3

"and elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume"

You can actually put simple bbcode like bold, italicalized, and underline on spoiler title text like this:

[pre] [spoiler=TITLE] [/pre]

Too Canadian for my taste

whoops, CTE'd but I, zukchiva the goose, have returned

my bad >.<

lol, well there is a Canada Day flag variant. Actually, I should remake it so that we can have a better one than last year.

rip

Hello!

Yeah, it has its cute moments ^_^

Also hello eco-dorks!

Just made my restaurant peeps learn some damn manners. As they say "If you don't show respect, you can forget your check"

i should also note that i am trying to make it illegal for citizens to have jobs or a wage

Welcome welcome ^-^ if you have any questions about anything, just let us know! Thanks for hanging out and chatting, we love making new friends.

Breaking news: People across Melenavenia say [EXPLETIVE] it, let's just go extinct.

Same tho. 3.5% of my nation's populace die from fox attacks, and whenever I get issues on it, I opt to leave more land to the foxes and tell people to suck it up. I think at this point, the animals are driving out the humans and not vice versa, XD.

WA question: does anyone have any thoughts on this upcoming resolution about regulating commercial genetic testing? It seems fairly comprehensive, but there are a lot of exceptions that make me wonder if problems could crop up. https://www.nationstates.net/page=UN_view_proposal/id=daarwyrth_1619002175

TIPI HUT