NationStates Jolt Archive

This may be a technical question, but I was checking up on my nation state this very afternoon when confronted with a baffling statement in my nation's description:

...people regularly disappear off the streets and all evidence of them is destroyed...

This statement seems to counteract what I have been trying to achieve in building my nation. Instead of a socialized civil rights jamboree I am left with a nation performing attrocities similar to those of the Soviet Union under Stalin.

I would like to know which issue triggers this statement so that I might better understand this situation. I don't recall passing anything that may have brough this into my national policy, and I have reason to believe that someone may have tampered with my account.

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The Real McCoy

This is the first time for me to hear of such a statement. I would suggest going to the sticky that tells of every question you must decide on. Look through them and maybe see if on answer or question fits the sentence. I know that would take along time but if your desperate then its worth it. :)

I think this is triggered by one of the responses to the "allow torture" issue. Possibly the third (talk or die).

It's the third one. It's rather shocking, actually. :roll:

Shocking indeed. My how times change! I had intended to produce a sort of utopia with civil and political freedoms abounding, but instead I am stepping closer and closer to Stalinism. The "talk or die" position has its consequences poorly defined.

Shocking indeed. My how times change! I had intended to produce a sort of utopia with civil and political freedoms abounding, but instead I am stepping closer and closer to Stalinism. The "talk or die" position has its consequences poorly defined.

Not really...

"There's nothing wrong with torture, but we can't make it too obvious,"; says Secretary of Defense Violet Dredd. "How about we simply ask them nicely, and then, if they don't tell us, we kill them? That's better just from the intimidation."

Yeah, that sure implies sweetness and love...

Of course it isn't a benevolent course of action, but very little in the text leads one to suspect interrogation methods similar to Orwell's 1984. Stalin took it one step further, removing individuals from the archive records and chemically altering photographs to erase them from history. That's the last time I listen to a family member selling me political advice, especially one with the surname Jong-Il.

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.