Have you ever felt like your country was in a deplorable state, and you could do so much better running things if only you were in charge? Haven’t we all? Well now is your big chance! The website http://www.nationstates.net/ , inspired by Max Barry’s Jennifer Government (which we have in our very own LaFarge branch!), provides you the opportunity to create your very own country, be it sultanate, fiefdom, jingoistic state, or any of thirty-seven other possibilities. You also choose your governmental type (sensible? anarchic?) and other relevant things such as your nation’s animal (platypus, anyone?). Governmental issues are given to you as often as you designate, offering thought-provoking issues such as freedom of speech, or compulsory voting, which you have to address for your country. (Or you can ignore them, and they build up on you.) It’s a really cool way to play at international politics without anyone actually dying, and reading some of the mottoes of the other countries is well worth the entire experience. (Why didn’t *I* think of “It’s all fun and games till somebody loses an eye”?!)
By AA at Main
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