Nationstates

Everybody! If you're in the Ones, our region in Nationstates, click this link to compare all nations!
Note: Should anybody be added into the region, could somebody please update this for me, either via editing my post or replying? Thanks.
Also, the password to our nationstates region is "pmdroleplay", though this is subject to change. Want to join? Come on in!

So, there's no space for everybody. Which sucks
On another note, OH MY GOD I GOT A JOKE ISSUE.
Gimme a minute to show you guys.
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The Issue

Bobbananaville's merchant navy has seen increasing attacks from swashbuckling pirates in recent months, devastating Bobbananaville's foreign trade.

The Debate

1: "We should blow them out of the water!" says First Lord Admiral Natalia Obama. "These waterlogged vagabonds have been plundering our ships for far too long! All our exports from the Book Publishing industry are going straight into their hands! It's downright dangerous for us to let this continue! All we require is some funding for coastal patrol boats, fleet carriers, and nuclear submarines and a free hand to show these freebooters what's what."

YARR!

2: "Hello," says a grog-swilling, peg-legged scurvy dog entering your office. "I'm Chastity O'Bannon, a mighty pirate. I'd like to suggest that instead of wasting all that money on attacking pirates you simply buy them off with barrels of bullion, jewels and Maxtopian gold! There'll still be pirates around, sure, but as long as everyone's paid off, they won't hinder your trade. Not much anyway."

YARR!

3: "That's the second biggest load of bilge I've ever seen!" says Captain Grapnel, CFO of Hispaniola Shipping Insurance, LLC. "Shiver me timbers, if these scurvy dogs don't be cutting into me profit margin! Me comprehensive coverage has to pay out for victims o' illegality, and of course theft be illegal in this country, bu' that be giving me an idea - what if we were to have privateers? That is to say, if ye were to make piracy legal but with a quotar o' sorts, like huntin'? That way me and mine can stay in business and ye can get a fine cut o' th' booty from licence fees! Savvy?"

YARR!

4: "Come now, that's hardly fair," argues 'gentleman pirate' Taupebeard de Gauche with a bow and flourish. "There is an ancient tradition of actively redistributing wealth on the high seas, and we active redistributors serve an important role in the global economy. You would not keep a family-run bookstore from handing down its business from generation to generation, would you? We simply ask, nay, demand the same right! And get rid of the word 'pirate'. It's a slur. We are corsairs - not common sea-faring thugs."

YARR!


The Government Position

The government has yet to formalize a position on this issue.

ARR, T'DAVEY JONES' LOCKER WITH YE ALL!

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Note that all clickable links represent links that formalize one's position.

Hehe...Parvoria had the same issue today.
I decided for option #4.

The Issue

Due to the ongoing wars in neighboring countries, a recent rash of illegal immigrants have been caught at the borders of Wistaria, prompting many citizens to call for tighter immigration laws.

The Debate

1.) Dave Shiomi of the Wistaria National Purity League says "These illegal aliens are just an eyesore with their strange customs and funny languages. Uneducated immigrants like these only worsen crime and steal valuable jobs! I say we should boot them all out on their ears and put a big fence around the country!"

2.) Miranda Song of the Wistaria Civil Liberties Union says "We must welcome these refugees from any nation into our open arms, they are fleeing one oppressive dictatorial regime in the only way they know, we must not let them think they're jumping from the frying pan into the fire!"

3.) "Hold on there, hold on people!" says Jean-Paul Cheswick of the Wistaria Broadcasting company, "We don't have to take either extreme, all we have to do is make a TV game show out of it! We put deadly obstacles on the border and monitor it with television cameras! Those that make it across win freedom and citizenship, and those who don't, well, let's just say that our buzzards won't starve. We could call it 'Who Wants to be an Immigrant?'!"

I am the best at running a country.

Hm... I'm getting into the feeling it may be fun for some of our Region to partake in the roleplay. We could try it, but if we don't like it we don't have to stay. Plus it gives me reasoning to use these bombs- I- uh I mean go... Bowling with you guys?

We could try it of course.

So... We could go two ways... International Incidents which I think is more like a forum roleplay as we have here. Or the Wargame where we invade regions. The bad part is doing the wargame, may require us to unlock our nation, I'm not sure. Otherwise nobody could get in to do some tactic to draw us away from their nation if they find out what our homeland is... I may need to ask a moderator that. If so, we may want to get permission from everyone if they would be okay with the nation be susceptible to attacks. Plus we may not have too much of an effect raiding as we don't have too many WA members, or even active members themselves, to help.

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=4941645

This is a thread i've been looking through for an hour or so.
It offers good ideas and a basis of raiding.

I think we should stick to written roleplaying as active raiding can prove to be quite an annoyance and as you already said, there is a massive lack of manpower in our ranks, so we wouldn't be able to do much anyway.

Well I'll move Confinement over to some invading regions, which I'm still a bit confused on whether it's like a sided war given regions have tags with Invaders and Defenders or if, in Sav's guess, invaders invade random nations. If the second, I'll be joining the Defenders with confinement. But my main nation shall stay here. So the roleplay part, I was talking in the chat how we could create a map of the region. It'd take quite awhile to get everyone specific land areas. But it could be cool to do, and be useful if we get into RPing.

Hm...I don't think Savatoria would need any specific environment. Everyone would just be modified to be capable of surviving in the harsh conditions.

I've left the Ones with all my nations to join my friend's region.