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People make puppet nations to farm card packs. There’s a very active card trading and collecting sub-game on NS, which at least some of our members do or have participated in.

I am very glad. Very, very glad.

BREAKING AEPHONY NEWS!!!

the tomato population in aephony has finally ended, as of 11/15/2021, there is NO tomatoes inside the borders of aephony.

(By the help of making it forbidden for humans, training larvae to eat it, and any rotten tomato found will be sent to Rindiania)

The rampaging elephants in my captial city are what, two tons each? Some people are just scared mongrels.

Pizza contains more deliciousness and is thus worth fighting more for.

Basically you can improve your level by doing challenges, but it becomes increasingly difficult to do so because of the exponential championship points required. Because your level is largely derived from the volume of census badges on your nation page, at a certain point it become easier to just try to increase those instead.

I wrote a guide on the Challenges game at one point, you can see if that helps a little more https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1492691

Maybe my national animal should be the watermelon

...

or maybe my currency should be turtles

...

idk both of those sound kinda weird

I was wondering, have you seen the new Anti-work movement? It started on Reddit from what I can find and has grown significantly in just a few weeks! It is essentially a workers’ rights movement that asks for better working conditions and better wages, and it seems to be mostly centered in the US. Its members basically quit their jobs in protest of these conditions, and it seems that it has started to cause a lot of stir in America. I personally think its great that the American workers finally decided to stand up for their rights, but I wanted Refugia’s opinion: What do you think of the Anti-work movement? Is it good,bad or irrelevant?

Here are some links for reference:

https://www.reddit.com/r/antiwork/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfqdDnm8J2Q

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hKXEEUElO8

PS. Also,why is my nation's backyard full of potatos and tomatos? Did I miss something?

As long as it's orange in colour. im fine

The Phillipines.

God, I wish.

Sadly, no. But there are fun Easter egg issues you can get with certain currency/animal/nation prefix choices!

Space. It would be cool to see, and there is so much that humans don't yet know about it.

Medieval Europe.

I mean... It was chaotic but... Have you seen the old European paintings..? It makes me feel non-existent nostalgia.

Y'know, where people used swords and executing in public was... Allowed.

question of the day

sam(surface to air mission) or aam(air to air missile) (assuming the air battle is over land)

1. sam

2. aam

its made up lol all of it

I would want to go to Britain. Enough said

I think you'll find most people here are largely pacifistic, so I'd be surprised if there were a lot of people with missile preferences.

Cure missiles 🙏

I choose the wrong option in one of my recent issue.

Regrettably it was full of regret

One of the primary exports of my country is wood chipping. In land named bobian culture, the word for "wood" and "teeth" are the same thing.

Amateur dentistry, anyone?

the issue

A recent investigation into a near miss between two commercial airplanes revealed that it was due to an error on the part of an air traffic controller, who in turn was being distracted by his colleague chattering about how hungry he was, which in turn was caused by his colleague’s missing packed lunch, which in turn was caused by his colleague’s wife’s temporary incapacity, in turn caused by a finger infection, in turn caused by a broken nail. Thus, the media are dubbing this “The Broken Nail Incident.”

The Debate

1. “Symptom: fragile keratin. Diagnosis: calcium deficiency,” confidently declares medically-untrained dairy industry marketing rep Wei Targaryen. “You need to subsidise the dairies so we can increase supply of our products to the populace in order to treat this. Got milk? Yes, I have! You got money?”

Accept

2. “Wait? His WIFE made lunch for him?” complains avowed feminist Luigi Chandra as he grumbles through mouthfuls of broccoli and dried figs. “This is a sign of the sickness of patriarchy in our society! The men of this nation must be made to make their own damn lunches!”

Accept

3. “His wife should have ignored the pain, and made the sandwich,” admonishes Cornelius Hunt, as his own wife timidly picks mud from his boots with her fingernails. “A wife should have to attend to her duties unless a doctor - a male doctor, mind - certifies her medically unfit to work.”

Accept

4. “Call me Captain Obvious,” says airline pilot Captain Tom Obvious, “but doesn’t a near-miss air collision suggest we need to be spending more on air safety? We need more air traffic controllers working shorter shifts, and fewer night-time and bad weather flights. What? Someone has to be sensible here.” His co-pilot, Jane Sensible, nods in agreement.

Accept

5. “This is Emergence at work,” reverently whispers wild-eyed lepidopterometeorologist Professor Frank Benjamin. “For too long has national policy been set by simplistic cause and effect models, when the complexity of chaos and the beautiful madness of multiple interacting systems rule our lives! Fund my research into Chaos Socioeconomics, and together we’ll learn to properly randomise government policy!”

Accept

6. “The only thing emerging here is the Hand of the Divine,” counters dishevelled hermit monk Sange Plath. “The world is indeed too complex for mere science to explain or predict. Dispense with air traffic control and fancy in-flight technology, and instead require all pilots and passengers to pray before takeoff and landing. Have faith in a higher power!”

Accept

Man... It's gonna be hard getting rid of the "Feudalism" policy, isn't it?

I guess you could say that resistance is feudal 👀

Moulk2’s football fans were outraged after the nation’s bid to host an important regional competition was rejected. The reason? Moulk2’s football fields are slightly shorter than the international standard.

D:

how dare you guys

reject me from hosting

the competition.

wut

Well, crap. I was attacked with nukes by the United Federation after I sent troops to help San Vitenzo, an allied nation. I launched a retaliatory missile strike and I'm waiting for confirmation of missile strikes on the enemy. Let's hope that i don't grow a third eye from the extra rads

Perhaps

Pac man as he is the only one I know how to play

anyone with a sword

swords are great

(I'm not very good at smash bros)

honestly same

but specifically lucina

When I played a long time ago I used Charizard but I always used the spinny attack and spun of the screen. (also my zodiac sign is a Rigatoni)

Kirby.

All the way.

( I only have played smash bros a little a long time ago. )

Also, The land named Bob's civil rights are at an all time high!

Dark Pit. I don't play much, though-- I don't own a Nintendo.

Don't screw the Zodiac signs.

I wouldn't mind one... it'd be kinda cool

Are there any ways to change the name of your nation? Or am I really stuck with this name forever?

You can only change the capitalisation of your nation name, unfortunately.

I am happy to announce that tomatoes still grow nicely in Lower French Gregballs. We grow them in hothouses in various shapes, sizes and flavours.

Also, we have 6 billion people.

You... You are a monster.

This isn't an advertisement whatsoever.

Wait nukes?!

oh look a small, fruity region

hi, i'm mason, i've been on nation-states on and off since like 2015 when I was like eight. I'm a gay teen interested in geopolitics and also a ton of other things. if you have any questions, my discord is surreal_cactus#6885

It's not like I'm grandson. I just like the music.

It's not Riptide it is thoughts & prayers or WWIII lol

Things are going good again :'0

Potato nukes?!?

What is the issue number?

Prudism shows up randomly from time to time. It's strange.

They might want to look up the effects in the database (http://www.mwq.dds.nl/ns/results/)

Looking up the stat changes just feels boring, I like being not able to understand one english word and accidentally messing up everything then complaining in Refugia.

potato nukes