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What's the official rules on puppet states and their involvement with the main state and such? Or is there a sticky and/or post I have overlooked?

Thanks a ton!

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<----Is a puppet state of a larger, more prominent, more sexy nation.

<----Has about a dozen other puppets as well.

As long as just one's in the UN, you're gravy.

i m a puppet

That's semi-helpful. What are the other rules, I mean there has to be more than just 1 in the UN.

I don't think there are official rules. However, it's almost always true that others will refuse to RP with you if you involve your puppets, unless it's a special circumstance (I.E. a Civil War or something).

Puppets are not all about RP :roll:, they're quite useful in gameplay matters, there are no real rules on them that don't apply to your main nation (spamming, flaming, etc). I know some players who have created over 200 nations.

Well I have three confirmed Puppets.
Infinite Loop
2 Infinite Loop
3 Infinite Loop
as well as a pile of others, who have nothing to do with my Loop activities.
and do other stuff.

OOC:

There have been discussions about this before but don't worry about apologizing for bringing it up. The purge beast got some of the threads that were quite lively regarding this subject - although they had to do more with nations selling nations.

For a somewhat related note and with apologies to EOTED in advance, check out this link:

http://www.nationstates.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=77898&highlight=manenya

Roycelandia has two puppets, but both of them are RPd as Colonies, so I don't see anyone having too many problems with that.

Puppets are not all about RP :roll:, they're quite useful in gameplay matters, there are no real rules on them that don't apply to your main nation (spamming, flaming, etc). I know some players who have created over 200 nations.

He was asking about rules, which is why I brought up the unofficial rules that pretty much preclude the use of puppets. Puppets make the non-RP side a lot more fun, especially when you get involved in regional politics :D

*shrugs* I don't RP and I don't understand RP, so I post purely from a regional politiking point of view. Puppets are very useful and fun... I have about 30 myself :D

Selling Nations??

now thats an Idea, I am sitting on quite a few nations, perhaps, one day when I get tired of NS, God Forbid, I will sell Loop.but I seriously doubt it will occure anytime soon.

=-=-=
Loop,
The One ane The Prime.
His Holiness the Lord High Protector/Executioner
My current flag
http://www.nationstates.net/images/flags/uploads/1_infinite_loop.jpg

Hail, Hail the Lord High Executioner!

Selling Nations??

now thats an Idea, I am sitting on quite a few nations, perhaps, one day when I get tired of NS, God Forbid, I will sell Loop.but I seriously doubt it will occure anytime soon.

=-=-=
Loop,
The One ane The Prime.
His Holiness the Lord High Protector/Executioner
My current flag
http://www.nationstates.net/images/flags/uploads/1_infinite_loop.jpg

Hail, Hail the Lord High Executioner!

sell it on Ebay. youd get a few bucks for a Feb nation

That's sad on so many levels...

Oh I dont plan on selling it naytime in the foreseeable future, although I do have a couple of January naitons I could probably let go.if I were to do something like that.

Oh I dont plan on selling it naytime in the foreseeable future, although I do have a couple of January naitons I could probably let go.if I were to do something like that.

Fine, as long as the money goes into the beer fund. :wink:

To hell with selling that's lame as hell. Here is my situation. I have a commonwealth that I RP'd as annexed so thus it is part of my empire and when I do budgets and everything I factor it into my main nation. These two nations are combined into one, the empire of mine, and I was curious if that is cool but from what you all said it is, I mean after all its a double defense force. It wasn't mine originally so it's not like I created it and them RP'd, I annexed it from someone else who was leaving NS.

sell it on Ebay. youd get a few bucks for a Feb nation
I'd pay 10 bucks for a mint condition 1 Infinite Loop. Possibly more.

sell it on Ebay. youd get a few bucks for a Feb nation
I'd pay 10 bucks for a mint condition 1 Infinite Loop. Possibly more.

lol with the history, position, size and all the flags, Loop would be at least a hundred bucks or more.
but I dont plan on selling it, as it was my second nation, made because I couldnt get into the forums with my first nation.

Come off it, i wouldnt buy any nation for more than 50p (sterling)

Come off it, i wouldnt buy any nation for more than 50p (sterling)

Well I can tellyou you most likely Wont buy any nation for that little.

Come off it, i wouldnt buy any nation for more than 50p (sterling)

Well I can tellyou you most likely Wont buy any nation for that little.

Definetley not. Most people invest time in making their puppets unique, from neccecety or just for fun.
Even a brand new nation of mine wouldnt go for that, I pick all the mottos individually and everything.

Well here's the rules as they stnad for sure. You can have as many puppets as you want, but you can only have 1 nation in the UN. You can use them however you like. Annexing another country is fine and you can use it like a separate country or like a colony of your other nation that answers to your main one. "It's really up to you." hehehe.

OOC:

Personally, I feel that it's too easy to abuse puppets. Coming clean, I do have my main nation "Vrak" as mostly modern tech while another one is strictly future tech and I made it so that they will never interact. I also have one other nation but it acts as a mouthpiece for an organization so it's not a "nation" per say.

But really, a person can create 20 puppets, invade them, and then say they are his protectorates. It's baloney.