NationStates Jolt Archive

The Disputed Territories of Waterkeep is a huge, safe nation, renowned for its devotion to social welfare. Its compassionate, hard-working, intelligent population of 346 million are effectively ruled by a group of massive corporations, who run for political office and provide their well-off citizens with world-class goods and services. Their poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs. The populace has reasonably extensive civil rights, although these are mostly aimed at allowing them to buy whatever they like.

It is difficult to tell where the omnipresent, corrupt, pro-business government stops and the rest of society begins, but it devotes most of its attentions to Education, with areas such as Defence and Commerce receiving almost no funds by comparison. Citizens pay a flat income tax of 50%.
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Waterkeep is "renowned for its devotion to social welfare" while "poorer citizens, however, are mostly starving to death while being urged to go out and get real jobs."

I have a "corrupt, pro-business government" with "Commerce recieving almost no funds"

Does this strike anybody but me as non-sensical?

Very much so. It's just the way the nation description works, I think...it doesn't always add up.

It reminds me of "Elections have been outlawed and voting is compulsory", from one of my other nations.

Yes, as Gruenberg said, descriptions won't always match up. I right now have an Anarchy with a "Reasonable" economy, a 78% tax rate, and a private sector made up mainly of enterprising fourteen-year-old boys selling lemonade on the sidewalk. All I can think is, whoa. That must be a lot of fourteen-year-old boys.

Your last four decisions are automatically put into your national description. The reason it contradicts itself is because you probably received issues, and used different answers for them, with the issues relating to each other, or you just received the same issue twice, and answered it differently.

In the last paragraph, yes. But I thought the first two paragraphs were more general indicators of how the nation was doing, not so dependant on individual issues.

In the last paragraph, yes. But I thought the first two paragraphs were more general indicators of how the nation was doing, not so dependant on individual issues.

I do believe that issues still have some sort of effect on the first paragraph.