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yes. logging in, picking the answer to issues, and recording stats is all automated

[Bla]

Pollution in The Bloodbow Kollektive

The air in The Bloodbow Kollektive is known to vary sharply from that of neighboring regions in its contents. The sky in The Bloodbow Kollektive is perpetually dark, mostly gray in the day and with stars barely visible in the night, and has a notable, perpetual red tint. A large part of the pollution stems from coal-burning power plants and highly pollutive factories that would be banned to the south in The Land of the Red Rainbow. A significant part of it is rumored to stem from an enormous torture industry. All over the country, a strong smell perpetually lingers. All people notice the difference when visiting from outside, but few can point to what the difference is. Some can tell the smell of rotten corpses, but will admit that it cannot be the full or true story. There is more to the smell. Rumors float that it is of burnt blood, skin and meat and possibly fine-grained, pulverized bones of evil, inhumane people, after years of torture and suffering for their punishments, whose tormented bodies go up in flames, cook, roast, or evaporate in ways unimaginable, and become nothing but gas. These rumors are somewhat twisted and spiced by the notable, perpetual sound of people screaming, every hour of the day, across most of the country, but most notable on the dark nights where people remain silent. The sounds are highly distorted in most places, probably by distance - distance may be the whole reason why the sounds actually resemble screams. Or, the stories say, the screams come from within the vast, dark forests of the country, spotwise lit up by unimaginable rituals resembling forest fires from a distance. The echoing screams, distorted, amplified, modified, muffled and manipulated by grotesque machines, make every death sound like a million, every torture session sound like a genocide and even distort the deepest senses of time in living beings, amplifying all the pain and suffering from every single second up to the point where it feels like thousands of years. Some of the most wild stories say that the sounds are not even real, but hallucinations that have become the geographically accepted reality.

http://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_bloodbow_kollektive/detail=factbook/id=203527

[Darvince]

what the fuck

[FiahOwl]

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[blotz]

5 days ago: Bloznvyk was ranked in the Top 5% of the world for Nudest.

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On the x-axis, nation name length in characters
On the y-axis, the probability of not being CTE
The multiple lines correspond to 30, 40,50,75,100,125,160,205,245,300,360 days after founding.

For example, you might look at the blue line (the highest one), and see that a nation with 10 characters will have a 62% chance of existing after 30 days.
As you can see, there is little to no correlation between name length and probability of CTE.

On the left is the graph, on the right is the graph with ln(probability) as the y-axis

[vh]

somethings not right

[matty406]

dropbox 403

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take this link ehtne http://www.nationstates.net/page=compare/nations=starrie+blaist_blaland+ethanthova+darvincia/censusid=70?add_nation=aeridani

[Bla]

Meh

http://www.nationstates.net/page=compare/nations=the_bloodbow_kollektive+starrie+blaist_blaland+ethanthova+darvincia+aeridani+the_land_of_the_red_rainbow/censusid=70?add_nation=The+Bloodbow+Kollektive

I wonder what the census is based on. It appears to be almost inversely proportional to intelligence, apparently. :b

http://www.nationstates.net/page=compare/nations=the_bloodbow_kollektive+starrie+blaist_blaland+ethanthova+darvincia+aeridani+the_land_of_the_red_rainbow?censusid=36

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[Bla]

Holykol a nation has a .gif as flag



http://www.nationstates.net/nation=tremalkier

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kol

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[Bla]

Wow so kolplikated.

Some discussion on the scientific advancement stats

http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?t=280399&f=12&view=unread#unread

How it's calculated seems a bit odd. This nation does rather poorly on scientific advancement (but much more poorly on primitiveness) despite massive levels of investment in education, environment, and a very permissive attitude towards science, while my theocratic GOP parody puppet that has banned a number of forms of science (stem cell/cloning, green, the LHC, the space program, genetics research, you name it) and invests absolutely nothing in education while spending a huge chunk of its government funding on religion is in the top 5% of the world in science and even less primitive than this nation. I mean hell, my puppet stones adulterers and shut down every bit of scientific research that conflicts with its state religion, how the hell is it less primitive?

Based on the description in the news article, I'm guessing the initial scores for this new ranking were assigned in a way that subtracts eco-friendliness from this score, which would explain the difference, even if it doesn't make a lot of sense.

Edit: Also, the news post seems to insinuate that HDI and scientific advancement will tend to be positively correlated, but that isn't the case with my nation and my puppets. My two active puppets, including the GOP parody, have below-average HDI scores, yet both score highly on scientific advancement, while the inverse is true for this nation, extremely high HDI and very low scientific advancement. Similarly, both puppets have extremely low national intelligence levels (both in the world's top 5% for stupidest citizens, actually), while you'd expect at least respectable intelligence levels would be necessary for high levels of scientific advancement.

Hopefully this is just a fluke, because otherwise it doesn't seem like this new ranking was particularly well-designed.

I think I agree with that.

[Bla]

Good news for Blaist Blaland: Income equality has gone back from 195 to 199 again, following these events. The bolded one should be the cause.

85 minutes ago: Following new legislation in Blaist Blaland, manufacturers are sued for almost anything not covered in their catalogue-sized manuals.
85 minutes ago: Following new legislation in Blaist Blaland, the government funds large training centres to turn African Grey Parrots into functioning members of society.
85 minutes ago: Following new legislation in Blaist Blaland, the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence.

Another thing I've been wondering is whether the time it takes between when you solve issues affect how big effects the solution will have on your nation. Old nations seem to be much less affected than young nations, but there are still some old nations with extreme jumps in the graphs. (Like Ethanthova).
I think the one where you end all business subsidies is one that can change your economy a lot, no matter nation age. I tried it in Snake Skytopia and it immediately made the economy crash completely, and I think the industry sector went to 0% of budget immediately. But I think that's just what the issue does and doesn't have anything to do with time between issues.

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take a look at this nation

http://www.nationstates.net/nation=mune_mune/detail=trend

about the thing with old nations and effects, there appears to be none the last time i checked
http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=239480&sid=d3d1821459805d3ebde798a3b321ff54

perhaps old nations typically have maxed out values that are very difficult to change so the events may seem to have less effect when in fact they don't necessarily

[Bla]

True - if your economy goes above around 90, issues seem to have much smaller effects on it.

As for the sudden drop in economy that could be one of those few issues that dramatically affect your nation:

"3 days 2 hours ago: Following new legislation in Mune Mune, the government is almost completely paralyzed by the recent abolishment of the tax code."

http://www.nationstates.net/nation=blaist_blaland/detail=trend
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_land_of_the_red_rainbow/detail=trend

I guess that is explainable somewhat by the fact that after they started stalling so much, they were above 80. I still get as many issues as when I started playing. Now I usually reject the ones that I know will decrease the civil rights of Blaist Blaland and Red Rainbow (especially Red Rainbow's for some reason seem extremely hard to increase, maybe because I'm rejecting many of those I fear might increase political freedoms).

A quick industrious communist symbol

Edit notes:
Going to try picking 2 on the Cash for Colons issue (180) in Red Rainbow... And see where the civil rights (atm 80) and income equality (atm 194) go... I expect civil rights to fall and hope for income equality to rise...
Edit: The stats remained unchanged.

[Bla]

Again, Blaist Blaland's income equality falls from 199 to 195. I remember checking it before doing the last issues, so I think I can put a blame of either of these:

1 day ago: Following new legislation in Blaist Blaland, students cut up leftover Property Notes during Arts and Crafts.
1 day ago: Following new legislation in Blaist Blaland, 'The Anti-Government Hour' is a popular programme on many of Blaist Blaland's radio stations.
1 day ago: Following new legislation in Blaist Blaland, prime real estate is devoted to wind farms and solar energy generators.

But it is very hard for me to see why either of them would reduce income equality. My guess would be the first one. Luckily, I just got this issue, which I hope will get it back to 199 (issue 255, welfare problems not faring well):

"Capitalism is the very reason why we need welfare in the first place. Laissez-faire policies would only make the problem worse," argues political activist Bianca Falopian. "If the government would ensure that all employers pay their employees the amount they need to live - no more, no less - then the problem of providing for the poor would disappear."

Edit: It didn't affect income equality. Still 195.

[Bla]

And the income equality in Blaist Blaland is back from 195 to 199, kol. Due to ejecting the capitalists when I got the issue 'A Capital Idea':

16 hours ago: Following new legislation in Blaist Blaland, the words 'private' and 'enterprise' must never appear in the same sentence.

I also got the one that says "from each according to their ability, to each according to the available budget" a few days ago, which didn't affect the income equality, just for the record.

The economy also fell down to 99 for a few days, but building some glittering new sports stadiums got it back up to 200 yesterday.

Also kol at issue 39

The Issue

"Planning for the People," a popular new movement, has been holding protests all over the country after a recent crisis where the Economic Planning Committee accidentally sent 10 tonnes of teddy bears to a small town in dire need of wheat.

The Debate

"This has gone on long enough!" shouts the leader of the protest, Gregory Li. "While I am a patriot of our glorious Eternally Shining Sunlands, things are far from perfect. No-one wants to return our economy to capitalist exploitation, but something must be done about the bureaucratic mess that our country is in! Comrades, instead of centralized planning, we can have a democratically controlled economy! Finally we can achieve the socialist dream of workers' power!"

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"This is utter madness!" seethes Lara O, one of your most trusted economic planners. "The country would be in ruins without our central planning! Who ensures that everything runs smoothly? Sure we mess up sometimes, but hey, we are only human. Besides, we intended to send that town teddy bears. Hmm... yeah, we did intend it! Those teddy bears are edible, you know?"

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"More socialism? Have you all gone mad?" fumes foreign Tourism tycoon Nick Schultz, whose face is now turning blue with rage. "Violet save me! The government has no business telling me how to run MY business! The only real way to rebuild Snake Skytopia's anemic economy is to bring back capitalism. Privatize the really lucrative industries and cut everything else. Some shock therapy would do Snake Skytopia wonders."

[Bla]

Snake Skytopia has been elected WA delegate of TUPS. I request the powers to add back the original flag and editing the factbook and establishing embasssies, and possibly the ability to surpress forum posts from the other regions that come only to spam our boards. Or that the original flag is restored.

I don't have the original flag itself, only a lower-quality, slightly edited version.

[blotz]

"BREAKING NEWS: A revolutionary new cryptocurrency, "ByteCoin," is sweeping the world! Bloznvyk can mine ByteCoin for free. Shall we begin?"

ooooooooooh yeeeeeah

[vh]

https://docs.google.com/document/d/11foCM5JbsoRYFyrxrLcVhslhfqfPSxxBfS3YIK9bQ9Y/edit

[vh]

we don't need no embassy

[Bla]

Kol, they proposed embassy to The United Pacific States too. I set up a poll for people to vote, I voted no because the proposal seemed just random, Darvince voted yes and then I just accepted the embassy.

On a side note, maybe SKA should ristrict the delegate control of things again, such as flag and factbook. Ofc, if we don't ristrict the factbook, I can continue to post updates on regional statistics occasionally, at the risk of coups ruining it.

[Bla]

Interesting, today is the census day for intelligence. Blaist Blaland initially had 40 Average Edu-tellignce® Test Score, making it number 328 in the world.

In the morning I solved the issue giving the result "Following new legislation in Blaist Blaland, the government is avowedly atheist."

And now the score has risen to 41. No change in position though, I think the country must've been (and probably still is) very close to the border between 40 and 41, some decimals that might be hidden from the public. Number 327 has 41 of the unit and number 329 has 40 of the unit.
327 http://www.nationstates.net/nation=astral_romance
329 http://www.nationstates.net/nation=laevendell

Meanwhile, some people have 85 and number 2 has 78. Holykol
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=kindjal
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=the_p

Speaking of Holykol, it looks like lemonade stands are taking over the country.

[Xriqxa]

take a look at this nation

http://www.nationstates.net/nation=mune_mune/detail=trend

about the thing with old nations and effects, there appears to be none the last time i checked
http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=239480&sid=d3d1821459805d3ebde798a3b321ff54

perhaps old nations typically have maxed out values that are very difficult to change so the events may seem to have less effect when in fact they don't necessarily

wow. Whoever runs Mune Mune is a worse dictator than Hitler.

[Bla]

8 days ago: Following new legislation in Mune Mune, citizens living in underground cities have developed a healthy green glow.

Kol.

With that said, considering it has a moderately good civil rights graph and political freedoms aren't completely exterminated, I still think Hitler makes a worse dictator. But of course it's hard to compare irl countries to NationStates ones, I think that Nazi Germany would score 0 on civil rights and political freedoms though.

[Cosmos]

take a look at this nation

http://www.nationstates.net/nation=mune_mune/detail=trend

about the thing with old nations and effects, there appears to be none the last time i checked
http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=239480&sid=d3d1821459805d3ebde798a3b321ff54

perhaps old nations typically have maxed out values that are very difficult to change so the events may seem to have less effect when in fact they don't necessarily

wow. Whoever runs Mune Mune is a worse dictator than Hitler.

Nah. At least Sultan Twice Belowed let's people do things in their personal lives. Hitler kinda just shot everything.

[Xriqxa]

I meant as in ruling, not Jew oppression.