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Due to tiny, expensive technological gadgets increasingly robbed by teenagers in department stores, the hardware manufacturers have developed unopenable pacakges, even by the use of scissors or knives. Several injuries on innocent buyers have been reported by the hospitals.

* Security... enforcement... blah, blah... teenagers... police.
* Unnecesary... extremely dangerous... more investment on user-friendly packages.
* Overseas... damage... insurance... protect my investments...

Hmm... we really need to know how you are going to write it. If you are unsure what to do. Please check the Sticky... how to write an issue(and get it accepted)

IF you need help in writing it I'll do it but this issue will still remain yours.

Have you thought about what validity? I'm thinking of high teenage crime.

anywau good luck

EDIT: you know that you can't submit issues until your nation reaches 500 million people? Judging from your post count (ie 1) you would be very new to NS.

I'd reccomend waiting and read other full text versions of issues, most recently posted was my own "The Technophobia of @@NAME@@"... read that and when you receive issues get an idea of the ways you can structure an option.

Personally I try to use as many different sentence structures as I can

Sorry for not writing the options... I thought this forum was more "crowded", so many people would write better options than the previous writer.

Moderatium has only 200 million people, but one of my other countries (I have no intention of joining the UN, but making some nation "experiments") has almost 450. So I'll use it for the formal proposal (if Clueless Nonsense agrees).

Sorry, I have tried to enter the forum logged as Clueless Nonsense, but I couldn't. Still, I have written everything. So here it goes:


Name: Clamshell Packages Bite Unaware Buyers


Validity: Moderate to powerhouse Information Technologies industry


Description: Young shoplifters who steal tiny, expensive electronic gadgets have forced manufacturers to develop so-called "clamshell packages", which are too large to hide in a pocket and too strong to be opened in a rush. This has caused several injuries to hands on innocent buyers, who were not abled to open the pacakges even by the use of scissors or knives. Many groups have insisted on a solution to the issue.


[option]"These drug addict bums are endangering our peaceful and harmonic society", believes police officer @@RANDOMNAME@@, "instead of attending to school they steal our companies and destroy our cities. This has gone too far, the government should invest in the security of our country. More policemen with more power is a cost we should not refuse."
[effect] teenagers are constantly questioned and detained by the police
[stats] law & order budget increases, personal rights decrease, more taxes


[option]"A couple of stolen hearplugs are nothing compared with this", cries customer @@RANDOMNAME@@ while waving a bandaged hand. "What are these companies thinking for? They only think about their @@CURRENCY@@s and forget about the poor customers, who can't use their nsMewziks because their silly packages are harder to break than the United Nations. The government should enforce the companies to develop user-friendly packages, so noone gets hurt anymore. And if they ever do such a thing again, they should close down the factory".
[effect] manufacturers must comply with ridiculously perfectionist design rules
[stats] lower purchase power, information technologies production decreases, economic rights decrease


[option]While throwing yet another mobile phone to a huge fire in the middle of the street, @@RANDOMNAME@@ yells angrily to passerbys: "Say NO to the transnational capital moguls! They alienate us through the media and make us buy more rubbish every day. Anyone aware enough knows that this perversion must stop NOW! We won't stop until this stops. Let's kick these corporations outta the country!
[effect] any electronic devices are destroyed in a public ceremony
[stats] economic rights decrease sharply, economy decreases; automobile industries and information technologies are prohibited


[option]"Now, for the first time, we can enjoy our cutting-edge products safely", says @@RANDOMNAME@@ while showing a snow-white smile. "We are the first company ever to bring a solution to our customers regarding clamshell packages, the revolutionary SafeDesign©. This is an extremely safe package design which may be only opened with our SafeOpener© in an eyeblink. Any undesired problems are gone once and for all". Later, in a break during the annoumcement, he adds: "We cannot produce enough SafeDesign© packages due to excessive taxation. Fortunately, we know that the goverment will support us. All our range of products will soon feature our SafeDesign© products, which is what the people had been always waiting for".
[effect] a select group of companies have special contracts with the government
[stats] Information Technologies production increases, economic rights increase, taxes decrease



Please, write some comments to improve the proposal :).

Sorry, I have tried to enter the forum logged as Clueless Nonsense, but I couldn't. Still, I have written everything. So here it goes:


Name: Clamshell Packages Bite Unaware Buyers


Validity: Moderate to powerhouse Information Technologies industry


Description: Young shoplifters who steal tiny, expensive electronic gadgets have forced manufacturers to develop so-called "clamshell packages", which are too large to hide in a pocket and too strong to be opened in a rush. This has caused several injuries to hands on innocent buyers, who were not abled to open the pacakges even by the use of scissors or knives. Many groups have insisted on a solution to the issue.


[option]"These drug addict bums are endangering our peaceful and harmonic society", believes police officer @@RANDOMNAME@@, "instead of attending to school they steal our companies and destroy our cities. This has gone too far, the government should invest in the security of our country. More policemen with more power is a cost we should not refuse."
[effect] teenagers are constantly questioned and detained by the police
[stats] law & order budget increases, personal rights decrease, more taxes


[option]"A couple of stolen hearplugs are nothing compared with this", cries customer @@RANDOMNAME@@ while waving a bandaged hand. "What are these companies thinking for? They only think about their @@CURRENCY@@s and forget about the poor customers, who can't use their nsMewziks because their silly packages are harder to break than the United Nations. The government should enforce the companies to develop user-friendly packages, so noone gets hurt anymore. And if they ever do such a thing again, they should close down the factory".
[effect] manufacturers must comply with ridiculously perfectionist design rules
[stats] lower purchase power, information technologies production decreases, economic rights decrease


[option]While throwing yet another mobile phone to a huge fire in the middle of the street, @@RANDOMNAME@@ yells angrily to passerbys: "Say NO to the transnational capital moguls! They alienate us through the media and make us buy more rubbish every day. Anyone aware enough knows that this perversion must stop NOW! We won't stop until this stops. Let's kick these corporations outta the country!
[effect] any electronic devices are destroyed in a public ceremony
[stats] economic rights decrease sharply, economy decreases; automobile industries and information technologies are prohibited


[option]"Now, for the first time, we can enjoy our cutting-edge products safely", says @@RANDOMNAME@@ while showing a snow-white smile. "We are the first company ever to bring a solution to our customers regarding clamshell packages, the revolutionary SafeDesign©. This is an extremely safe package design which may be only opened with our SafeOpener© in an eyeblink. Any undesired problems are gone once and for all". Later, in a break during the annoumcement, he adds: "We cannot produce enough SafeDesign© packages due to excessive taxation. Fortunately, we know that the goverment will support us. All our range of products will soon feature our SafeDesign© products, which is what the people had been always waiting for".
[effect] a select group of companies have special contracts with the government
[stats] Information Technologies production increases, economic rights increase, taxes decrease



Please, write some comments to improve the proposal :).
I don't like option 1 because it doesn't actually adress the issue.

Option 1 definately needs re-wording... perhaps..

[option]"We need the government to be serious about shoplifting." states police officer @@RANDOMNAME@@. "If we not only increase police numbers... but give greater powers to detain and question shoplifting suspects than such public nuissances as the clamshell packaging won't be necessary. Any shoplifter will be caught and the good returned totaly negating the need for the companies to clamshell."

Also you might want to add crime level as a validity criteria...

option 2... what is "nsMewziks"?

I think that is an improvement.

@ Bazalonia:

o- nsMewziks is nothing but a iPod popular mp3 player, very popular in some NationStates countries (mewzik, music...).

o- My intention when I posted option 1 is to give a strong conservative opinion (regarding personal rights, I mean). Views like "[they are] endangering our peaceful and harmonic society" are very different from "[...thus] negating the need for the companies to clamshell".

Perhaps mine is a too "classic" NS option, while yours is quite "refreshing" as it doens't reflect the "traditional" ideologies shown in this game. But your option 1 seems a little too moderate for what the moderators are usually looking for (so I tried to write radical options).


I don't like option 1 because it doesn't actually adress the issue.

o- On the contrary, the issues are both the injuries and the shoplifting itself; I think option 4 is much more far-fetched than option 1 (tax reduction has nothing to do with the clamshell packages). Besides, the options are supposed not to address the issue, is it? This is NationStates, not a perfect utopia :D .

Sorry, I have tried to enter the forum logged as Clueless Nonsense, but I couldn't.
Fixed.

[option]"We need the government to be serious about shoplifting." states police officer @@RANDOMNAME@@, "These young hoodlems, who are most likely drug addicts, liberals and other scum, need to be taught a lesson. Give us more powers to question, detain and hold these scum and some more police too. Then we will be able to stamp the scourge of shop-lifting on our fair nation. With the threat of these scum gone, the law-abiding citizens of @@NAME@@ should not need to worry about that stupid clamshell packaging."


What about this as a replacement for option 1

@ Frisbeeteria: Thanks!


@ Bazalonia: Now it looks much better. Still, let's try again:

[option]"We need the government to be serious about shoplifting." states police officer @@RANDOMNAME@@, "These drug addicts, bums, vandals and other scum, need to be taught a lesson they should never forget. Give us more powers to question, detain and hold these scum and some more police too. Then we will be able to stamp the scourge of shoplifting on our glorious nation. With the threat of these scum gone, the law-abiding citizens of @@NAME@@ should not need to worry about anything."
[effect] teenagers are constantly questioned and detained by the police
[stats] law & order budget increases, crime decreases, personal rights decrease, more taxes


@ everyone else: any other suggestions?

Well, as noone is saying anything else, do I now send the proposal through the form in "Issues"? Or you take the proposal from the forum and write it in the code?