Safe Nations
Western Navascuez
24-01-2004, 01:48
Any suggestions on making my nation safer (I'm nearly dead last in the region and the world). I'm sure increasing police funding helps, but I've never gotten that issue as of yet, so is there anything else I can do?
Henry Kissenger
24-01-2004, 02:31
have more prisons.
Rational Self Interest
24-01-2004, 05:46
Having more prisons won't help. Punishing criminals will usually make the situation worse (in the fevered imaginations of Max Barry et al., harsh punishments actually encourage crime).
Taking away civil rights may help, depending on the issue. Prohibition (in contradistinction to the real world) decreases crime. Hiring more police will help some. But the main thing is to increase welfare spending. In Nationstates, if you want people to stop committing crimes, you have to bribe them. Most things that reduce inequities in income will have a similar effect; they will also hurt your economy.
Rehabilitating criminals will usually reduce crime, but not always: rehabilitating drunk drivers does no good at all.
Legalizing self-defense ("Should guns be compulsory?") is good for about a one-level decrease in crime.
imported_Symmetry
24-01-2004, 06:18
Spending a lot into Education helps as well. I have done pretty much nothing for Social Warfare and I'm in the top 2500 Nations for Safety. As opposed to Social Warfare, I almost always spend towards Education, because The Secret Sect of Symmetry cares about it's future.
Emperor Matthuis
24-01-2004, 16:55
ban guns, more prisons, more police and welfare programs made me safe :D