NationStates Jolt Archive

Here are the results of the unofficial Nationstates survey presented here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=587999). After running for 18 days, the survey has now been closed as distribution of links is largely complete within our means and responses have slowed to a trickle.

Unfortunately, the site that hosted the survey does not allow the results to be converted to PDF format without the transfer of a considerable hunk of cash, so I've taken screencaps of the printable variant of the results and formatted them a little for those with narrower screens. Without further ado:

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Distribution of the survey
Since this is an unofficial survey launched without the support of Admins, we do not have the capacity to contact every nation in the game. This has led to some criticism and suggestions of bias with regards to who exactly got links to the survey. Since I believe that we cannot be truly objective, I think it better to provide full disclosure as to who exactly did and didn't get links to the survey (and the reasons why) than to leave it open to speculation.

Overall, link distribution was largely focused on active forums, defined as NS-based forums that have gotten posts sometime in the last few months. This required the assembly (or rather, the updating) of lists of such forums. I visited all the forums I could find that fit this criteria, with some exceptions to be named in the following post, and posted links to the survey in an appropriate forum area. Naivetry was a lot of help in reaching some of those hard-to-access regions and I'm grateful for the help with sharing the workload. Similarly, this survey couldn't have been possible without Katganistan's posting of survey links in stickied threads around the NSJolt forum.

RMBs were hit-or-miss. We opted not to post links to the survey in the RMB of every region we could find because we felt that such an act would be a serious violation of the advertising and spam rules. We did manage to post links in a few RMBs, however: Regions whose Founders requested that such links be posted, or in which members of the survey-planning group had long-standing nations. We opted not to send mass telegrams for similar reasons.

Forums that received links
Jolt (Gameplay)
Jolt (International Incidents) (via Katganistan)
Jolt (Nationstates) (ditto)
Jolt (General) (same)
Jolt (World Assembly) (Seeing a trend here)
The East Pacific
The West Pacific
The North Pacific
The South Pacific
The Pacific
The Rejected Realms
Lazarus
10000 Islands
0000 A World Power
Aahz
Absolution
Africa
Alliance of Dictators
Alliance of Queens
The Commonwealth (shared forum of 11 regions)
Anarchy
Asia
Australia
The Black Hawks
The Black Market
Canada
Capitalist Paradise
Caprecia
Catlandatopia
Concosia
The Conservative Coalition
The Council of Narnia
Democrats
Eastern Europe
01 Eastern Roman Empire
Empires of Earth
England
Equilism
Equinox
Europa
European Union
Europeia
Fidelia
Futaba Aoi
Gatesville
Gay
Global Right Alliance
Great Britain and Ireland
Hampshire
Hethrum
Imperial Britain
Ireland
The Kingdom of Middle Earth
The Kodiak Republic
Lavinium
Leviathan
Liberty Alliance
Lichentia
Lone Wolves United
Mars Hill
Mencer
Middle East
The New Meritocracy
Nationstates
New Brittanian Empire
The New Inquisition
Nova Imperium
One Big Island
Paradisia
Renatia
Sapientia
Soviet Union
Texas
Taijitu
The United Kingdom
United Kingdom of Britain
Wysteria
Yggdrasil
The Youngworld

RMBs that received links
Feeders (intermittently)
000
00000
0000000
000000000
000000000000
Antarctica
Circle of Badularity
The Eastern Islands of Dharma
The Editing Floor
Equilism
Illuminati
Liberty Alliance
Nederland
The Old Raiding Club
Philosophy 115
Raid R Us
Ulthar
Wales
Ztorque

UnDistribution of the survey

Full disclosure must be full, and so I must admit that some forums that we were aware of did not get links to this survey. Overall we tried to spread it as far as possible, but for a variety of reasons we were limited in some cases. I probably missed somebody (and expect several such somebodies to point it out in this thread) but of the forums I was aware of, here's who didn't get links and why.

Inaccessible due to registration issues
Some regional forums are easier to register in than others. Some allow people to register and post immediately. Others require validation to confirm that users are referencing an email account that belongs to them. Yet others insist that a forum admin approve of every single registrant. A few regions that do this apparently have admins that don't do validation often, or for whatever reason didn't approve my account, so I could not post links:
Antarctic Oasis
Atlantian Oceania
The Brotherhood of Blood
DEN
Germany

Inaccessible due to non-English language
I unfortunately do not speak the languages spoken on these regions' forums, and apparently nobody else in our group does either:
Belgium
Italia
Nederland
Portugal
Romania

Other

Haven, Gholgoth, Mars, Draftroom: I did not post on these NSJolt-RP-based forums because to my understanding they exist solely to be used by members of their RP community. I have no intention of joining these to RP actively (I RP elsewhere) and to join only to post the survey would be rude and an intrusion. I reasoned that since most people in these places also frequent Jolt, they could find Katganistan's links easily enough.

Europe: Members of the NS region of Europe have repeatedly, unanimously, and unequivocally stated that they want the rest of the game to leave them alone every time the subject has come up. They have made it quite clear that they are not interested in any other region, event, playstyle, or in fact anything in the game of Nationstates besides what goes on in their own region. As much as it irks me to skip over such a large region, I must respect their clearly expressed wishes.

The Heartland: I'm not sure why, but I was blocked when I logged into this forum. Someone else in our group said he could post a link there; I'm not sure if he ever did.

Any region labeled as a school class: This should be self-explanatory.

Thanks for posting these, Kandarin. :D

Looks good. :)

Awesome! Thank you so much Kandarin! :)

Thanks for posting these, Kandarin. :D

No, thank you. :)

Forgot one, Kandarin. The World Assembly Forum also had a link to the survey.

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=588659

Oh, and I forgot - Equilism and Liberty Alliance both got RMB links as well.

Of course TBoB would have problems.....the region is a swiftly dying corpse of what it once was, and only has a solitary member that still bothers there. Those who were TBoB moved to Unknown with the refounding, leaving those who could not accept fate behind.

Inaccessible due to non-English language
Nederland (Dutch)Link found on the RMB, I don't know how many people responded to it.
You may speak English on our forum, we don't mind.;)

Belgium (Belgian)

Whahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
hahahaha...
ha...
...can I breathe again please?...

Whahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
hahahaha...
ha...
...can I breathe again please?...

Sorry, Flemish. It's one of those things that's easy to forget.

I've just taken out the language references, so never mind.

Sorry, Flemish. It's one of those things that's easy to forget.

I've just taken out the language references, so never mind.

But then, why translate the Netherlands into Dutch and keep the English name for België/Belgique/Belgien(/Belgica)? ;)

Oh well, be glad Switzerland (Swiss) wasn't on the list. :p

It's the regions' name.;)

Inaccessible due to registration issues
Some regional forums are easier to register in than others... Yet others insist that a forum admin approve of every single registrant. A few regions that do this apparently have admins that don't do validation often, or for whatever reason didn't approve my account, so I could not post links:
Atlantian Oceania

»»Regional Forum: http://aoforum.3wide.com ««
Upon Registering with your Nation's Name, Contact Starblaydia to gain access to secure areas

That'd be why, as 72 bot sign-ups along with yours that I've deleted recently haven't followed the instructions. *shrugs* Well, at least I personally replied to the survey.

That'd be why, as 72 bot sign-ups along with yours that I've deleted recently haven't followed the instructions. *shrugs* Well, at least I personally replied to the survey.

Hm. I would guess that's because we were working from a pre-compiled list of regional forum urls, and not stopping by anyone's NS region page beforehand. And I know as a regional diplomat, I wouldn't have connected "gain access to secure areas" with "send me a TG or I'll delete your account."

I know 10000 Islands takes similar precautions, but they tell you about it via automated PM as soon as you register. Perhaps a thought?

Wow... some people have over eighty puppets.

REPENT!

Yay. :eek:

Hm. I would guess that's because we were working from a pre-compiled list of regional forum urls, and not stopping by anyone's NS region page beforehand. And I know as a regional diplomat, I wouldn't have connected "gain access to secure areas" with "send me a TG or I'll delete your account."

Essentially yes. I compiled the list before I visited all the forums, and while I did take cursive checks of regional pages to make sure that the region was still there and the forum of record was still the official forum, I did not look for information like that. Since Atlantian Oceania was the only region of all those listed with any such requirement (although a couple telegrammed me to confirm my registration) it wasn't really an issue elsewhere.

Wow... some people have over eighty puppets.

REPENT!

didn't fris say somebody had over 1K?

Brilliant results. :)

And 80 puppets? 1k puppets? That's addiction. :p

That's addiction

Someone should start up a role-play called "NationStates Anonymous" in zee FW style where players confess their addiction - could be funny, if people catch on how to RP it (unlike my 2015 RP that failed a miserable death).

80 puppets? I'm sure those are raiders

80 puppets? I'm sure those are raidersOr just people who like to try out different ideas...
(I'm down to about 50 nations now, myself, but had almost twice as many before I got busier in RL...)

Belgium (Belgian)
Whahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha...
hahahaha...
ha...
...can I breathe again please?...
Sorry, Flemish. It's one of those things that's easy to forget.

I've just taken out the language references, so never mind.

Generally we talk Flemish ("Belgian Dutch") on or regional message board, but 99,99% of us understand English. Though most of us would understand French and/or German (or other two official languages) as well.

Anyhoo, we've picked up the news about the survey.. Nice work.

My own language faults were the limiting factor there. If someone is playing the game, they can clearly speak English - but I wanted to post survey links in the appropriate area of a forum and I couldn't tell where that was.