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Imagine a game where about the only premise you get is that every player controls a nation. If they want, they can interact with others on a forum on the internet, ''about'' those nations.
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* [[Evil Versus Evil]]. Quite common.
* [[Follow the Leader]]: New nations will sometimes have a striking similarity to movies that have come out recently (and some old nations take from popular culture as well, without much alteration in many cases).
* [[Gambit Pileup]]: See the
* [[Government Agency of Fiction]]: More likely than you'd think.
* [[Government Procedural]]: Sometimes.
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* [[I'm a Humanitarian]]: One of the issues gives you the option to legalize cannibalism in your nation.
* [[It Makes Sense in Context]]: Probably three-quarters of the forum-related stuff on this page, especially nation-specific examples, fall under this.
* [[Take a Third Option]]: Even when you feel an issue could only have two logical solutions, there's often another option that may or may not make sense. Example: allow public nudity, ban public nudity, or
* [[Non-Entity General]]: Originally played straight, now merely optional with the addition of nameable leaders.
* [[People's Republic of Tyranny]]: Always a choice.
* [[Privately-Owned Society]]: With the graphs, you can see your nation's economic division between private and public companies.
* [[Ripped from the Headlines]]: Quite a few of the issues; one referring to a particular Supreme Court case was written in less than a week. A lot of the time, when a real life tragedy occurs a whole bunch of copycat RPs emerge with similar things happening to their nations.
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* [[Video Game Cruelty Potential|Video Game Cruelty]] [[Video Game Caring Potential|and Caring Potential]]: You can either make your nation the aforementioned Utopia, or a "Psychotic Dictatorship" where you refer to your citizens as "[[Cosmic Plaything|Your Little Playthings]]" and the phrases "Political Freedoms" and "Civil Rights" do not exist in your vocabulary.
* [[You Fail Economics Forever]]: A somewhat simplistic economic engine leads to oddities such as nations with the strongest possible economy ratings having 100% tax rates, no private sector, and no government funds spent on economic production. And that's before we get into the economic models some players propose their nations run on. [[Invoked Trope|Some nations even deliberately fail at economics]] to avert [[Mary Suetopia]]. Or become one.
* [[Zerg Rush]]
== The region
* [[Aesop Amnesia]]: Astholm, although he's gradually learning his lesson and his storefront now{{when}} is better than those, of, say 2010, or even 2011.
* [[A.I. Is a Crapshoot]]: Both played straight and subverted by many people in future tech roleplay.
* [[Alternative Calendar]]: Many nations run on alternate starting dates, or even alternate systems of timekeeping entirely.
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* [[Blood Sport]]: Specifically, one involving immigrants, if you choose the option in a certain issue.
* [[Brits With Battleships]]: [http://www.nationstates.net/nation=ozymos Ozymos], the definition of the British Empah [[Recycled in Space|IN SPACE]].
* [[Our Dragons Are Different]]: [http://www.nationstates.net/nation=strykla Strykla] has his own race of bipedal
* [[Captain Ersatz]]: The automobile manufacturers appear to be this, with VLT a hybrid of Volkswagen, Fiat, Chrysler and Chevrolet in one.
** Beyazgunes appears to be based around FIAT and its products, although it does add Chinese-based cars every once in a while.
** Celsan (which has been [[Put on a Bus]] for now, due to [[Creator Provincialism]], [[Write What You Know]] was a General Motors-style [[Expy]].
* [[Casual Interstellar Travel]]: Ask the FT roleplayers. [[Space Does Not Work That Way]] be damned.
** A lot of
* [[Church Militant]]: While less common than fascist or communist regimes, some nations do intertwine their military with a religious background.
** The nation of [http://www.nationstates.net/nation=tergnitz Tergnitz] is known for having a Church as the fourth branch of government.
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* [[Deadpan Snarker]]: The mods.
** Some players are this two, in the telegram Gmodia and even Neomoskull, but that is rare.
* [[Death From Above]]: Some nations like to soften up their enemies with
** Take a lesson from FT nations, some like to Glass planets and others bombard it to nothingness.
* [[Deus Ex Nukina]]: Subverted: even threatening to use a nuke sparks massive flame wars.
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** At least justified in FT, Chrilevolika said it best one time.
** Astholm ''was'' guilty of this a few times, but he got better as time progressed, at least with his storefront design.
* [[Disproportionate Retribution]]: The amount of
* [[Does This Remind You of Anything?]]: Ertzatz copies of nations both real and fictional abound.
* [[Dystopia]]: When there's a [[Police State]], it is probably this.
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** May be part of roleplays. Also referenced to in some of the issues.
*** Taken to an extreme on both sides with the rise of the [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Coalition of Ponyist States]].
* [[For the Evulz]]: The ''modus operandi'' of many poorly RPed evil nations.
* [[Full-Circle Revolution]]: Nations can and have gone from being a Monarchy, to a Socialist People's Republic, to a Fascist Dictatorship and then back to a Monarchy all within the same thread.
* [[Gene Hunt Interrogation Technique]]: The latest{{when}} trend there, and for some reason [[Fountain of Expies|expies]] of him appear recently.
* [[General Ripper]]: Everyone wants one.
* [[Gondor Calls for Aid]]: Occasionally.
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** Some people actually have taken up huge originality, examples include [http://www.nationstates.net/nation=-byzentania- Byzentania] and [http://www.nationstates.net/nation=purpailia_draconica Purpailia Draconica] .
* [[La Résistance]]: Usually limpwristed, but there.
* [[Last Stand]]: Happens very
* [[Law of Conservation of Detail]]: Heavily played straight.
* [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]: If its not the number of players, then its within those nations who like to keep track of EVERYONE they've ever introduce, from Ambassadors to Parliamentarians.
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* [[Mnogo Nukes]]: All Russian nations.
* [[More Dakka]]: Ubiquitous.
* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]:
** Well, ''not quite''.
* [[Nice Hat]]: The ubiquitous pith helmet.
** And let's not forget Imeriata's
* [[Noob]]: You have no idea the level of hate players who have joined in the past 2 years get from those who have been playing for more than 3-4 years. Or from those who have been playing for more than 5-6 years. [[Overly Long Gag|Or those who have been playing since the game started.]]
* [[Not So Different]]: Ruthless genocide can be fun even if you are supposed to be [[The Federation]].
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* [[I Love Nuclear Power]]: Nuclear powered everything! Regular access to orbit by means of Project Orion! Nuclear tank rounds! Even [[Up to Eleven|81mm nuclear mortar rounds]] (with [[Shown Their Work|Shown Work (and exotic uranium isotopes)]]!
* [[Officer and a Gentleman]]: When they aren't [[General Ripper]].
* [[One Federation Limit]]: Averted at the beginning by the limited choice of standard state types - Federation, Kingdom,
* [[One World Order]]: What many players wish they could enforce.
* [[Our Presidents Are Different]]: If they exist at all and there are not 20 of them in one year.
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* [[Peace Through Superior Firepower]]: Perpetually.
* [[Police State]]: '''Check.'''
* [[President Evil]]: It is more fun to [[Role Play]] a completely evil leader than a nice democratically elected president, thus many nations are ruled by mindbendingly evil dictators. Most nations fail at it, and just seem like a 12-year-old just finished playing ''Grand Theft Auto''.
** Considering the demographics of this game...
*** Well, F7 anyways. The average NSer is in the 18-30 demographic, I believe.
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** Astholm nearly retconned Celsan, but decided it wasn't worth interfering with what was canon.
* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized]]: Most of them aren't.
* [[Roma]]: Traditionally the [[Butt Monkey
* [[Rouge Angles of Satin]]: Sadly, happens quite a bit. Though there are some really good writers on this site's forums, there are some ''very'' bad ones too. Rarely will a bad writer on NS improve, and most good RPers were already good from the get-go.
* [[Rule of Cool]]: Used so often it has acquired its own [[Catch Phrase]]: "But this is NS!"
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* [[Spy Fiction]]
* [[Start X to Stop X]]: A classic motive for regional coups. Sometimes [[The Extremist Was Right|it works]]. Other times....[[It Got Worse|Not so much]].
* [[Strange Bedfellows]]: A recurring theme of any
* [[Strawman Political]]: Overlaps with [[Easy Evangelism]]. And, of course, you can find them in nearly every thread on the message board.
* [[Straw Feminist]]: Several nations oppress their male population. [[Lady Land|Some don't even ''have'' a male population.]]
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* [[The Federation]]
* [[There Is No Kill Like Overkill]]: Carpet nukespam. ''On the tactical level.''
** And taken to new heights by the FT roleplaying population. Care for a weapon that can drive a sun into supernova? Hows about a wormhole weapons
* [[The Revolution Will Not Be Civilized]]: It is rare that any kind of political or economic turmoil, not matter how trivial it may seem, does ''not'' end up turning into some form of armed conflict.
* [[The Spartan Way]]
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* [[Big International Clubs]]: Definitely one of these. Membership is voluntary, though.
* [[Bland-Name Product]]: Started out as THE [[United Nations]], [http://www.maxbarry.com/2008/04/02/news.html before the real UN threatened to sue.]
* [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]]: Invoked by proponents
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