What does this mean?
Dhuchas Nadur
31-12-2004, 04:44
The three catagories that describe my nation is rather odd. For 'civil rights', it says 'superb'; for 'economy' it says 'basket case'; and for 'political freedoms' it says 'world benchmark'.
Is there a page I can go to that describes the levels of the three catagories, because the last two are confusing.
No page...that means they are all really good.
Gran Cienaga
31-12-2004, 04:50
Basket case is pretty bad
Lubuckstan
31-12-2004, 04:55
it means your economy looks like north korea and your political landscape looks like denmark
Dhuchas Nadur
31-12-2004, 05:00
what is denmark like?
Rhubonia
31-12-2004, 05:09
Basically, it means your civil rights for your people are good. Very good in fact. Your economy...well, just like it says in your description, it mainly consists of kids selling lemonade or farmers setting up little stalls next to thier pickup and selling homegrown vegetables. The political freedoms are incredible, you let the people vote on everything, probably each law that's past.
Dhuchas Nadur
31-12-2004, 05:15
Hurray!
Nanakaland
31-12-2004, 06:25
Be careful about the World Benchmark political freedoms, though. If it gets much higher than that, then it's so high that it's bad.
No page...that means they are all really good.
Or is there .... : http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/Economic%2C_Political%2C_and_Civil_Rankings
Not really description yet, but one could easily add it.
Slender Goddess
31-12-2004, 10:02
The game doesn't alway make sense. Today I received an issue - "Big Business was threatening to leave my nation because of too many regulations". Capitalism is illegal in my nation. How can I have big businesses existing there?
Communist businesses were threatening to leave. ;) It means your economy is about to thrash about in its death throes.
Wait...so its GOOD to have an imploded economy???
And what is a Capitalist Paradise?
Wouldn't benchmark be very bad? I mean, a mark on a bench is pretty damn small. . .
Giliplera
01-01-2005, 01:37
benchmark as in: A standard by which something can be measured or judged
so its good because the world judges how the state of civil/political rights is based on your country.
The three scales simply guage your national politics. Your levels show a tendency towards excessive civil rights and political freedoms and your economy is more or less horrible, although that may be just how you want it. A lot of nations are proud that their economies are "basket-cases" especially if they are socialist.
The three scales are exaggerated however, as this quotation from the FAQ shows.
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.
And what is a Capitalist Paradise?
just look here, I am lazy: http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/UN_Category
EDIT: Spoiler warning! (another is here: http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/target=nationstats)
Lubuckstan
02-01-2005, 03:34
wait nationstates has it's own wikipedia section... cool
Neo-Tiburon
03-01-2005, 03:16
The game doesn't alway make sense. Today I received an issue - "Big Business was threatening to leave my nation because of too many regulations". Capitalism is illegal in my nation. How can I have big businesses existing there?
Yeah... the game does get strange like that. It's because the issues are prefabricated for every nation, so sometimes there are references to things that would never actually happen in your nation. Just ignore that part. ^_^