NationStates Jolt Archive

How about the people who rewrite the issues before incorporating them in the game stop favoring liberal views so much? They go out of their way to make conservative options sound absurd or like they were proposed by lunatics, the blatant bias towards liberalism is ridiculous.

when you say liberalism do you mean by modern communist liberalism or the original Power to the Peolple meaning of liberalism? I swear, it is so misused nowadays that i can't tell whether people mean one or the other. I did however notice that a LOT of the issues that i got i really hated, so i dismissed them, which you should do, because some of them are so absurd there is nothing left to do.

The issues are liberal biased? Only the conservative opinions are idiotic? Hah! If only!

As far as I have observed, issues are nearly always either: picking the least bad option; or picking an option you like the sound off, purely to see what happens.

As Max tells us:

Isn't this "simulation" biased towards your politics?


Very possibly. Not intentionally, though. And since there's no ultimate measure of success or failure in NationStates, any bias shouldn't affect much. For example, you don't win the game by having the strongest economy. It just means your nation has a strong economy.

Why is my nation so weird?

Everything is exaggerated a little. Well, okay, a lot. Your decisions affect your nation very strongly, so your country might seem like a more extreme version of what you were aiming for. Unless you have radical politics. In which case you probably think nothing's wrong.


My decision had unintended consequences!

Yep, that'll happen. For one thing, see "Why is my nation so weird?" above. For another, pretty much every decision you make will involve a trade-off of some kind. It's kind of an exercise in choosing the best of a bunch of bad options. You might find this frustrating, especially if you're the kind of person who thinks the solutions to all the world's problems are obvious.

Its not biased.

Almost every option has an extreme, a moderate, and the opposite extreme. Otherwise they just have two extremes or two somewhat moderate options.

Except the poet one. It has two somewhat moderate, and one extremeish one (the one I always pick, where you shoot the poets.).

Yeah, the problem is when i get the same issue 3 times and each time i choose option so and so and each time it raises my taxes 3%.
And a lot of them don't have that all around fun option. Whenever i suggested mine i did that, but a lot of them have none of that whatsoever, so i just dismiss it. So that's it, dismiss it :)