NationStates Jolt Archive

On my puppet nation of Kasaru...

Elevator music has been replaced by thrash metal played at maximum volume, re-education centers are being added to most prisons, people faint regularly as they get stuck with compulsory vaccinations, and drug distribution is tightly controlled by the government. Crime -- especially youth-related -- is a problem, probably because of the country's utter lack of prisons.

So...did they add imaginary re-education centers to non-existant prisons, or what? :p

My nations description is saying contradictory things!

The nation description is broken down into primarily 3 paragraphs. Your first paragraph contains some information about your population, a key feature of your government (these are usually very hard to loose once you get them), and a description based entirely on your UN type (which can cause a lot of problems). The second paragraph starts off describing your government with some adjectives (similar to the population paragraph) and lists your prioraties and major industries, as well as tax rate. The third paragraph contains some strings directly based on your last five issue choices and some info about your national animal and curency.

The problem is that all of these adjectives and descriptions are based on different things. So, for example, a popular complaint used to be that a nation that was listed as an Anarchy had no government in the first paragraph, but an "omni-present" government in the second. This was because the player had met the requirements to become an anarchy (none of which have to do with government size), but had done so through masive government intervention.

The solution? Well, there really isn't one. You can take whichever of the contradictory descriptors you want to be the "correct" description of your nation, but the game would practecally have to be rewritten from the ground up to get these contradictions out, and it won't be happening.vBulletin suxx0rz

it all depends on how you answer issues.. you ptobably just got an issue that allowed you to add that.... but your choices in the past made it so there are almost no prisons... there will almost always be contradictions in the nation description... it's just how the game is written.. no coding can be perfect.. it will be wiped off the nation description (the re-education center part) after you answer a few more issues

Kwas, I think Goober's post was sufficient enough to warrant you not adding to the conversation anything useful.

I was writing the comment as he replied, I hit reply before his post got in, had I seen his post, I would have not commented at all.