NationStates Jolt Archive

Specifically, I, The Armed Republic of Public Enemastan (http://www.nationstates.net/public_enemastan), wish to purchase something.

As can be seen here (http://nseconomy.thirdgeek.com/nseconomy.php?nation=Public+Enemastan), I do have money to spend, under Trade Surplus.

How does reflecting the amount of money your country has work here? I just joined NationStates.

NSEconomy is a third-party site, and their assumptions about how finance works in NationStates are just that - 'assumptions'. Nothing on that site has any specific gameplay relevance here. It's an aid to roleplaying, nothing more.

The official source of NationStates numbers is your nationpage and the NS XML feed. Instructions on how to use it can be found on another great unoffical resource, NSwiki (http://ns.goobergunch.net/wiki/index.php/XML_feed).

Specifically, I, The Armed Republic of Public Enemastan (http://www.nationstates.net/public_enemastan), wish to purchase something.

As can be seen here (http://nseconomy.thirdgeek.com/nseconomy.php?nation=Public+Enemastan), I do have money to spend, under Trade Surplus.

How does reflecting the amount of money your country has work here? I just joined NationStates.

Also Trade surplus just describes the flow of goods into/out of your country. A positive means more goods go out into foreign markets, a negative means your country relies on other countries to supply needed goods.

That is not what your government has to spend. What it has to spend are listed according to the areas that it can be spent on, Administration, Defense, social welfare, public transport and so on. Eg, You have 1 trillion defense budget which is 7% of your total government spending. And you spend nearly 4.2 Trillion for Social welfare.

But as the mod above said it is an aid, and an unofficial tool for people to use or not use as they see fit. (Though most Storefronts use it.)

Thanks for the answers, y'all.

I have a Wiki up and running, and I figure I can construct some sort of automatically updateable figure table for the Wiki page from the XML feed.

Now all I have to do is learn XML programming...

You do know that you can just create a "Infobox Nation", and it will show a link to your XML page right?