NationStates Jolt Archive

A weakened police force struggles to maintain law and order, the government is making attempts at curtailing the flood of spam emails with little progress, a niche industry catering to S&M enthusiasts has sprung up, and the military frequently holds bake sales to raise funds. Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force and progressive social policies in education and welfare. Nordfjord's national animal is the timberwolf, which frolics freely in the nation's many lush forests, and its currency is the grey coin.

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This kind of issue happens a lot more than people realize really. All it has to do with you make decisions on your issues. I believe the last 4 issue decisions are shown on your nation descriptions. Out of the last 4 issues, you probably got 2 issues that had to do with the police. Here's a few that may have been dealt with:

#15: More Police Needed (Maybe you decided against it and picked #2)
2. "The solution to crime is not more police!" says noted sociologist and occasional crime novelist @@RANDOMNAME@@. "Studies repeatedly show that crime is caused by poverty and poor education. Increase government spending in these areas, and crime will fall! Maybe not overnight, but it will happen."

#21: Police Consider "Big Brother" Anti-Crime System
But maybe you chose for the Anti-Crime system to be used, to make your police force "Crime is totally unknown, thanks to the all-pervasive police force".

I know when I created my nation, the same day, the description stated that "Crime was totally unknown" and it hasn't changed since then. There are a lot of factors that could have made that, but in the end, it probably was because of your decisions on 2 issues having to do with the police.

If you wanna check out the other issues and where it could have went wrong, and you can't remember what issues you had, check this out: http://forums2.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=345941

Your nation descriptions will contradict each other from time to time, that's just the way it goes. We all need to accept it and move on.

At least you don't have a small pool of 30 issues to choose from, where it was quite possible to have opposite positions listed at the same time. :D I remember advocating compulsory voting and outlawing it at the same time. Lord knows what my citizens thought of that. :p

I've had 4 issues on miltary matters in the past two weeks and each time i select that opinion that would increase my military power and spending, but it still says "it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Defence and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison." in the second alinea and "billions of rats are being blown on orbital weapons development, and military spending is on the increase. in the third.

If i spend almost nothing on defence when compared to Education then i must have a budget of several hundreds of trillions right?
PS: rat = money

I've had 4 issues on miltary matters in the past two weeks and each time i select that opinion that would increase my military power and spending, but it still says "it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Defence and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison." in the second alinea and "billions of rats are being blown on orbital weapons development, and military spending is on the increase. in the third.

If i spend almost nothing on defence when compared to Education then i must have a budget of several hundreds of trillions right?
PS: rat = money


Since you've been around for so long, I'm assuming that you've responded to a lot of issues since your creation date. If not, then there's another reason, but if so, then it's going to take responding to those issues of increasing the military budget a good while before it starts to take any effect in changing your national description. One/Two issues isn't going to drastically change anything. If you just keep responding to all of your issues in increasing your military budget, that is, if thats what you want, then eventually, in time, some sort of change will develop.

I've had 4 issues on miltary matters in the past two weeks and each time i select that opinion that would increase my military power and spending, but it still says "it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Defence and Religion & Spirituality receiving almost no funds by comparison." in the second alinea and "billions of rats are being blown on orbital weapons development, and military spending is on the increase. in the third.

If i spend almost nothing on defence when compared to Education then i must have a budget of several hundreds of trillions right?
PS: rat = money
Population: 4,250,000,000
Civil Rights: Few
Economy: Frightening
Political Freedoms: Some
Income Tax Rate: 74%
Exchange Rate: 1 rat = $1.98
Gross Domestic Product Per Capita: $16,394
Total National Production: $69,676,025,589,670
Private Consumption: $30,330,092,483,250
Government Budget: $59,523,041,213,829
Administration (2%): $1,119,033,174,820
Welfare (13%): $7,273,715,636,330
Healthcare (9%): $5,035,649,286,690
Education (37%): $20,702,113,734,170
Religion and Spirituality (0%): $0
Defence (0%): $0
Law and Order (0%): $0
Commerce (17%): $9,511,781,985,970
Public Transport (6%): $3,357,099,524,460
Environment (16%): $8,952,265,398,560
Social Equality (0%): $0
Government Waste (6%): $3,571,382,472,830


http://www.sunsetrpg.com/economystatistics.php

If you look at the XML read out for your nation, some "sections" of your government just don't get funding. It's almost like a glitch. You can with very easy math reconfigure some things manually however if you care to do so.

Population: 4,250,000,000
Civil Rights: Few
Economy: Frightening
Political Freedoms: Some
Income Tax Rate: 74%
Exchange Rate: 1 rat = $1.98
Gross Domestic Product Per Capita: $16,394
Total National Production: $69,676,025,589,670
Private Consumption: $30,330,092,483,250
Government Budget: $59,523,041,213,829
Administration (2%): $1,119,033,174,820
Welfare (13%): $7,273,715,636,330
Healthcare (9%): $5,035,649,286,690
Education (37%): $20,702,113,734,170
Religion and Spirituality (0%): $0
Defence (0%): $0
Law and Order (0%): $0
Commerce (17%): $9,511,781,985,970
Public Transport (6%): $3,357,099,524,460
Environment (16%): $8,952,265,398,560
Social Equality (0%): $0
Government Waste (6%): $3,571,382,472,830


http://www.sunsetrpg.com/economystatistics.php

I'm sorry but i dont follow offsite economycalculators, as you can see in my first post i spend money on defence (lots of it) How can my defence budget be at 0%. And if you go further you'll see that isnt the only thing thats wrong.

Since you've been around for so long, I'm assuming that you've responded to a lot of issues since your creation date. If not, then there's another reason, but if so, then it's going to take responding to those issues of increasing the military budget a good while before it starts to take any effect in changing your national description. One/Two issues isn't going to drastically change anything. If you just keep responding to all of your issues in increasing your military budget, that is, if thats what you want, then eventually, in time, some sort of change will develop.

I've been dismissing issues for the past 4-5 months, i rarely get any defence issues.
Its just wrong if i'm blowning billions of rats on orbital weapons development then i expect that to have some kind of effect, or do Orbital weapons belong in another department than defence?
Its simply wrong.

I've been dismissing issues for the past 4-5 months, i rarely get any defence issues.
Its just wrong if i'm blowning billions of rats on orbital weapons development then i expect that to have some kind of effect, or do Orbital weapons belong in another department than defence?
Its simply wrong.
i would assume that would involve a lot of scince which would raise educations budget

i would assume that would involve a lot of scince which would raise educations budget

Yes but the weapon(s) is/are operated and built by the Army (Woohoo Space Defence Division) so there has to be military spending.

I've been dismissing issues for the past 4-5 months, i rarely get any defence issues.
Its just wrong if i'm blowning billions of rats on orbital weapons development then i expect that to have some kind of effect, or do Orbital weapons belong in another department than defence?
Its simply wrong.

I believe orbital weapons is actually part of your space program, rather than your defense budget.

The people are famous throughout the region for their bleached-white teeth, the nation's drinking water tends to glow green at night, environmental protestors are being rounded up and taken away in sinister black vans as a massive land development campaign gets underway, and all marriages are arranged by the government.

hmmmmm.......green glowing fluoride :D

I have a powerhouse economy and a tiny private sector. Go figure.