NationStates Jolt Archive

So I was rifling through my father's dilapidated collections of The Far Side anthologies when I found a comic that piqued my attention. It featured two people in white lab coats walking up to a nerdy looking man in a military uniform saying this:

"Sorry your highness, but you're not the dictator of Ithuvania, a small European republic. In fact, there is no Ithuvania. The hordes of admirers, the military parades, this office -- we faked it all as in experiment in human psychology. In fact, you highness, your real name is Edward Belcher, you're from Long Island, New York, and it's time to go home, Eddie."

Anyways, I thought that I could make this into an RP on the NS forums the backstory:

In 1968, sociologists at Epsom City University purchace a large island off the Brittonian "mainland" with the intent of creting a "national simultion". In order to correctly recreate this simulation, they populate it with around 680,000 people who believe that the nation is ruled by an emperor in their own "cult of personality". The emperor, at this point, is fake, he is a hoax. His name is neverknown and his picture is never shown. Numerous myths are told about him, each one differing in slight aspects. However, in 2007, he has "died" and Epsom City University posts a classified ad in many foreign newspapers to find a person willing to find information about their "geneological heritage"

I am looking for people to RP:

Any person reading the ad
Foreign Players
Whatever you want to do (within reason)

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OOC: do the people in the country know it is fake, or is it the "ruler" who doesn't know?

OOC: do the people in the country know it is fake, or is it the "ruler" who doesn't know?

this is an ooc thread

the people do not know, and whowill be crowned emperor will not know also

In the setting of the NS world, i would consider this somewhat of a human rights violation. I mean you are lying to people, and tricking them for some sort of research, without really any consent. I think the idea is interesting, but still, you are toying with peoples lives...

In the setting of the NS world, i would consider this somewhat of a human rights violation. I mean you are lying to people, and tricking them for some sort of research, without really any consent. I think the idea is interesting, but still, you are toying with peoples lives...

Listen, governments lie to their people all the time, this is in no way a human rights violation

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