NationStates Jolt Archive

I just have to beg a question:

I've been told that creating new nations and having them support you is godmodding.

However!

In an upcoming RP (and invasion of a nation by my nation, and no I won't tell you who) I intend to set up a puppet government in territory I occupy. I want to RP this. I'll give the puppet state the same name, different government title, different government flag. I'll RP the economic, military, and political effects of Kilean propping up a corrupt, despotic puppet state.

Sure, I will be creating another nation to support me, but what if I RP this in a realistic manner? Unmotivated troops from the puppet state flee and run, Kilean has to eventually assert direct control, etc.

To sum up: I consider myself a mature RP'er. All I want to do is create a nice little vassal state to be my puppet in a regional crisis. I promise to RP the *downsides* of having a puppet government as well. Is this being a godmodder?

As far as I know, having a puppet nation isn't godmodding. Though it is considered by some when you use that, as well as your main nation in a war.

I just have to beg a question:

I've been told that creating new nations and having them support you is godmodding.

However!

In an upcoming RP (and invasion of a nation by my nation, and no I won't tell you who) I intend to set up a puppet government in territory I occupy. I want to RP this. I'll give the puppet state the same name, different government title, different government flag. I'll RP the economic, military, and political effects of Kilean propping up a corrupt, despotic puppet state.

Sure, I will be creating another nation to support me, but what if I RP this in a realistic manner? Unmotivated troops from the puppet state flee and run, Kilean has to eventually assert direct control, etc.

To sum up: I consider myself a mature RP'er. All I want to do is create a nice little vassal state to be my puppet in a regional crisis. I promise to RP the *downsides* of having a puppet government as well. Is this being a godmodder?

Doing what you have stated is ok. But if you wish to use the Nation that u take control of to help your other Nation Economically and Militarily and in any other way is considered a GODMOD.

(I've always held that nothing is god-modding, or whatever the stupid term is, so long as it has a good in-character explanation. And this situation would. Granted, you may run into some who take such an inflexible hardline that they cannot be persuaded that this is a free-form role play, but they're usually not worth associating with anyhow.

One potential solution is to only use your main country's population for both it and the occupied provinces, and use the new account only to post in character for the puppet government, if there is too much reactionary sentiment against this reasonable proposal.)