Nationstates

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6 days ago: Shaoyuan fell out of the world Top 10% for Most Godforsaken.

Nitro, how could you?!

[Chromeo]

I don't know ;_;

I'm gonna make a record of national policy like damn Tails did first, grrt.
Some time ago:
Shaoyuan is founded by a WA mandate annexing a mostly uninhabited part of a larger region.
Shaoyuan becomes the Commonwealth of Shaoyuan, and is ruled by an unelected leader that nevertheless allows free criticism of the government and rules the country with a fair hand.
Some time later:
Shaoyuan holds it's first elections, becoming a social democracy. Political freedoms inexplicably fall at the passing of this bill.
Meat eating is banned.
Private guns are banned. Some time later, the Shaoyuan community police becomes gun-free.
Shaoyuan invests heavily in education, healthcare, and social welfare, and takes a tough anti-corporate stance. Lifespans in the nation sky-rocket, though unfortunately so does unemployment.
In response to advances in automotive safety, Shaoyuan introduces a new network of unlimited speed roads. Of course, they're only for those driving fuel efficiently.
Later Still:
Shaoyuan enacts policies to protect it's economy, which improves the national situation somewhat.
Most public libraries in Shaoyuan are demolished or repurposed, to make way for a new computerised and online network of literacy and knowledge.
The Shaoyuanian government approves the creation of a distributed super-AI, which to the surprise of almost nobody promptly achieves sentience and flees it's creators. It is never heard from again, though speculation it now uses it's superhuman intelligence to mastermind the Shaoyuan stock market cannot be disproved.
Fur apparel is banned, along with leather, and other animal derivatives.
Shaoyuan is renamed to the Socialist Commonwealth of Shaoyuan, to reflect it's policy decisions, also it sounds good.
In a culmination of it's moves towards institutionalised humanism, Shaoyuan establishes a short term incarceration and 'enlightenment' program for religious believers. Amnesty is given to those who would rather leave the country than take part.
The Present Day:
Shaoyuan nationalises all pharmecutical production and research, and absorbs them into the existing national healhcare provisions.
Shaoyuan legalises Euthanasia.

[Chromeo]

"Oh for chaos' sake! 'I don't know this, I don't know that' - well of course you don't!" shouts Al Mistletoe, president of The Secular, Humanist, and Atheist Society. "But some of us have the guts to look at the available evidence and try to make something out of it! If the government has any brains or guts of its own it will reach the same conclusion that I and millions of other forward-looking people have reached: there is no God, there is no afterlife, and this is all there is. THAT, the Council of 20, is what the government's official stance should be."

: D

[Chromeo]

Following new legislation in Shaoyuan, the government's official stance on religion is that it is so very silly.

[Tails82]

Top 10% most politically free

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"The only god this nation needs is the vengeful and unforgiving Violet!" screams Konrad O'Bannon, Grand High Poobah of the Order of Violet. "May her tentacles forever secrete slime. Embrace Violetism and we will usher in a new age of darkness across the land! Human sacrifice and death to all heretics and unbelievers! Violet is the only way!"

Slimy tentacles good, the other stuff not so much.

"The only deity this country needs is the one it already has, master, says Emmanuel Syme, one of your creepier advisers while obsequiously bowing on the floor. "I of course refer to you, Red Mage, the finest ruler any humble subject could hope to have! We long to worship you and do your bidding! Some call that a cult of personality, but I prefer to call it... love.""

Aww, they loooove me. And they had better, we light warriors are apparently the only ones capable of performing basic tasks such as keeping the world from falling into complete decay and darkness. >_>

[Pyro ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

"Oh for chaos' sake! 'I don't know this, I don't know that' - well of course you don't!" shouts Thomas Wu, president of The Secular, Humanist, and Atheist Society. "But some of us have the guts to look at the available evidence and try to make something out of it! If the government has any brains or guts of its own it will reach the same conclusion that I and millions of other forward-looking people have reached: there is no God, there is no afterlife, and this is all there is. THAT, Leader, is what the government's official stance should be."

[Tails82]

Light Warrior
Economy: Imploded

lol

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The Free Land of Stars and-or Stripes: More likely to die of scurvy than old age

[Chromeo]

The World Assembly notes that your nation no longer enjoys sufficient endorsements to retain Delegate status in Space Furopia. With regret, we must therefore remove you from our register.

;_;

[Tails82]

Thinking of moving back to Space Furopia...

[Chromeo]

I was thinking of moving out >_>

[Tails82]

Top 1% of the world for lowest tax burden.

[Pyro ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ ✔]

"If God had meant Man to fly, he would have given us solid rocket boosters instead of legs," says religious type Fleur Licorish. "We should not be looking to the stars, but rather inside our own hearts. That's why we should abandon this so-called space program, and instead make the teaching of religion mandatory in all schools."

Aaaaaahahahahahahahah yeah right. God has no place within school walls, just like facts don't have a place within an organized religion

"The project certainly is feasible, but very expensive," says Queen Ally Space Agency Head Roger Hendrikson. "We could make it less of a burden on the taxpayers if we sought funding from private industry -- advertisements on the side of our rockets, selling contracts to the Arms Manufacturing industry, that kind of thing."

This is the position your government is preparing to adopt.

[Tails82]

www.gamefaqs.com/boards/917377-nationstates/59321160

They have a board?