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A move-a-day MMO where you shape a country according to your will.
There was a week that went by without me sending in my Nationstates moves, but I’ve been keeping up with it lately. My nation, Dryroot, recently passed 500 million people, which makes it a superpower. Well, here’s how it stands. And ignore that bit about being the third most corrupt government in the region; there … Read more
Nationstates is a weird little game. Although they don’t call me a dictator, everything I decide is passed, so what’s the difference? I am dismissing most issues brought to my attention because making any decision sends the nation veering off into bizarre tangents. I just KNOW that if I took any decision on the mandatory … Read more
Yes, Dryroot has become a nation of Dance Dance Revolution fanatics… Dryroot has left the South Pacific and joined a Germanic region with left-leaning politics. I THINK DDR stands for “Deutsche Demokratische Republik”, but that is probably a) not what it stands for, and b) poorly spelled. Nonetheless, it’s a small region where I can … Read more
New flag for Dryroot. The Wheel represents Dryroot’s nomadic roots. The chocobo represents lunch. The green represents the grasslands through which we roamed, before Dryroot became a barren, inhospitable landscape. Dryroot has an Upper and a Lower Parliament. The Prime Minister, Tarena Schlosschild, addressed the Upper Parliament this morning. I’ll have a transcript up later. … Read more
My economy was crumbling, people were unhappy: I had to make deals with big business. My utopian vision of a Dryroot where free peoples sustain themselves in small, nomadic communities became a relic that had to be abandoned. The environment is still wonky, led, I suspect, by pollution from nearby industrial nations, but I will … Read more