Nation States: Join Oddthoughtania! Political Game!

[Jacx]

Mofo Nation Decides:

Spare The Rod, Demand Welfare Activists

Government Acts

The Issue

The Mofo Nation S.P.C.C. has launched a fresh campaign to stop parents from smacking their children. They demand that the government introduce laws to ban this form of 'corporal punishment'.
The Debate

1. Child Psychiatrist, Dr. Samuel Jones, speaks at a press conference on the matter: "Parents and teachers must realise that smacking children increases aggressiveness, lowers their self-esteem, and can cause long-term emotional trauma! How can anybody think that it is anything but child abuse? Parents who resort to smacking their children are obviously unfit to be parents at all! We must ban this horrible practice at once!"
2. "What are these lunatics on about?!" yells Tobias Shiomi, a concerned parent. "Smacking children has been an effective form of punishment since the dawn of mankind! Outlaw it and I guarantee you the next generation will be a disorderly disaster! Children need, nay CRAVE discipline! Sometimes the only language they understand is the cane, and the government has to respect that!"
   
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The Government Position

The government has indicated its intention to follow the recommendations of Option 2.





Mofo Nation Decides:

Build Bigger Bombs, Advise Scientists

The Issue

Top military designers in your secret laboratories have proposed projects to create nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and are looking to you for government support and funding.
The Debate

1. "This is a necessary step towards the creation of a safer Mofo Nation," claims Billy Washington, the leading researcher. "Yes, it will mean a large areas of land will become unusable as a result of the testing, and it will cost billions of Bacon Buttys, but that's the price we must pay for our national security. Just think of the power we will have if we can turn our enemies into plate glass!" Especially that newportbadboy bastard!
   
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2. "Why stop with making weapons for ourselves?" asks Freddy Utopia, CEO of Wendy's Weapons stores. "We can sell them to all sorts of groups and organisations: other nations, the WA, terror- uh - freedom fighters, anyone! And we produce our own for our protection. Think of the money we can make! I'm sure none of our clients would ever even think of trying to use them to influence our government with threats or anything like that!"
3. "You want to bring NUKES into Mofo Nation?!" screams anti-nuclear protestor, Colin Falopian. "This won't make us safer - it will just give the power to destroy everything to a few people! We must hunt down the people who suggested this evil plan and have them hanged! We must protect nature from the horrible influences of science. I say ban all new weapons research!"

The Government Position

The government has indicated its intention to follow the recommendations of Option 1.

[Vampirella]

hmmm well this looks interesting...

Move to an existing region:

Success! Gigglestonia is now located in Oddthoughtania.

The Kingdom of Gigglestonia is a fledgling, devout nation, notable for its absence of drug laws. Its compassionate population of 5 million are fiercely patriotic and enjoy great social equality; they tend to view other, more capitalist countries as somewhat immoral and corrupt.

The enormous government is mainly concerned with Religion & Spirituality, although Law & Order and Education are secondary priorities. The average income tax rate is 35%, but much higher for the wealthy. A small private sector is led by the Soda Sales industry, followed by Woodchip Exports and Uranium Mining.

Crime -- especially youth-related -- is well under control, thanks to a well-funded police force. Gigglestonia's national animal is the rat, and its currency is the billa.

http://www.nationstates.net/gigglestonia

[Santo]

Nobody Expects The SantoM Inquisition!

The Issue

Some key figures of SantoM's major religious groups have requested government sponsorship for the institution of an inquisition to try heretics and blasphemers.
The Debate

1. Cardinal Mortimer Gratwick, Archbishop of SantoM's capital, demands you kiss his ring before telling you, "the Church encourages the formation of an Inquisition. However, it will only be to try those in error and put them on the right track to holiness; you needn't worry about those nasty thumb-screws and we haven't had a rack in ages, so we won't be torturing people. Of course, in order to bring this noble plan into effect, the Holy Office must have jurisdiction over the civil courts."
2. "This is bloody outrageous!" screams Hack Steele, head of the nation's most important civil liberties movement, People for the Ethical Treatment of Everything, while jumping up and down in front of a television camera. "These damn ultra-conservatives will plunge us all into chaos! SantoM can never have an Inquisition! Everyone should have the right to think, say, believe, etc, whatever the damn they please. When was the last time you released a dove on a monthly basis? Huh? HUH?! That's what I thought! It's time to move beyond these primitive beliefs!"
3. "The people of SantoM need more than an Inquisition," pronounces Sue-Ann Wong, known fundamentalist tele-preacher, who pauses hawking the complete DVD collection to make some demands. "We must persecute all those who do not live according to the Book! The Lord has told me that the time has arrived to bring back the good old days! Back when we didn't have all these touchy-feely, fuzzy-headed punishments. Prison? Ha! Like that's a punishment! Stick those heathens in the stocks, or even better: bring back stonings! It'll bring us into a new golden age!"

Well bloody hell.....

[Sir Brian]

Something needs to be wrote into our constitution regarding clipwars.

and our severe dislike.

[nick]

Please can every keep their nationstates accounts active and anyone who hasnt signed up yet please do so to keep a lasting reminder of the community we used to have?

[Matthew Little]

The Republic of Velo City

In response to a slow news week, certain highbrow newspapers have stirred up the debate over voluntary vs compulsory voting.

The Debate.............
~~~1} "Compulsory voting makes about as much as sense as having the death penalty for attempted suicide," says civil rights activist Peggy Wu. "You can't force people to be free! You can only give them the choice. Besides, if all those derelicts who can't be bothered to get off their butts once every few years voted, who would they elect? I shudder to think."

~~~2} "It's not contradictory at all," argues political commentator Jack Bush. "The fact is, if not everyone votes, the outcome isn't truly representative. Some groups--like elderly gun nuts--vote more often than others. That's why we always end up with such terrible politicians."

~~~3} "This raises an interesting issue," says Stephanie Rifkin, your brother. "And that is: why do we need elections, anyway? Seems to me it would be much simpler if you just decided what was right, and did it. Wouldn't that save everyone a lot of time?"

The Government's Position...........
===The government has indicated its intention to follow the recommendations of Option 2.

..........and you wonder why elected officials get into so much trouble in the first place.............