NationStates Jolt Archive

I've noticed that over the last few days, none of these three categories has been updating on any of my nations. Finally, English Knights' Political Freedoms changed after the most recent update, but nothing else has yet. Is this a normal thing, is it part of the recent bugs, or is it something else?

You actually have to make an issue decision changing one of the rankings for them to change. I believe that's how it works.

Also, after you hit a certain size, changing stats becomes somewhat harder. For instance, I've stayed at Excessive political freedoms for some time now, even though I've made plenty of decisions that would increase the freedoms for a smaller nation.

What does the first mean? Does it mean that I actually have to choose one of the options rather than dismissing the issue? If so, that's what I've been doing most of the time.

What's considered a big nation? Mine range from something like 7 million to 25 million, or thereabouts.

Sometimes your decision doesn't affect your civil rights/economy/political freedoms levels because your decision doesn't make enough of an impact to raise/decrease them a level. This could happen when you make compromises, I think.

And 7 to 25 million really isn't much. My population's above 800 million now, and if you look around there are quite a few countries whose populations have exceeded a billion.

Also, after you hit a certain size, changing stats becomes somewhat harder. For instance, I've stayed at Excessive political freedoms for some time now, even though I've made plenty of decisions that would increase the freedoms for a smaller nation.
I don't think it's your size, it's the number of decisions you've made that makes it harder to change them. Like how it's harder to change an average when there's more numbers already averaged.