NationStates Earth

[Enigmatic]

This is something that's been floating around in my head for a while. Our nations exist on what is sometimes called NationStates Earth. This alternate earth doesn't have much of a description as far as I know. What is it like based on what we see in the game?

Obviously, NS Earth must be much larger than our own earth given the populations found in the game. My own nation has a population of nearly 8 billion which is a couple billion more than the entire population of our earth. I'm by no means the oldest and largest of nations. So either NS Earth is much much larger or the people which populate it are much much smaller. Or both.

What is the planet like geographically? There are regions for major continents and regions of the real earth, but there are also many regions with no correlation to real-life. They are either unique creations or based on some work of fiction. Is it even possible to create a reasonable geographic picture of NS Earth?

What do the people of NS Earth call it? I suppose it could be called Earth with out much confusion since we all know what we're talking about, but I've always sort of like the idea of actually calling it NS Earth within the universe we've created. Of course it strikes me as a little odd that people would actually call their planet NationStates Earth so I figured it could be stylized a bit. Ns'earth (niss-urth). N'searth (en-surth). Maybe a portmanteau? Natstarth, Nastatearth. Natiostatearth.

Does NS Earth follow the same natural laws that our own planet does? Does it orbit a star? Does it abide by our conception of physics? Maybe it's flat. Maybe it's flat with multiple levels. Really it could be anything. It could be cube shaped and operating under the scientific laws of the ancient Greeks.

I guess what I'm asking is whether or nor it is possible to form a coherent, semi-rational picture of the world in which our nations exist and if so what shape does that picture take. It might be helpful to create an agreed upon picture of the world of NS for the purposes of roleplay. A given name for the planet, set laws for the worlds operation. Or maybe this is all just a big thought experiment. Or maybe I'm just over-thinking things. Or maybe I'm just nuts. What are your thoughts on the matter?

[Guy]

All of the above

Well, you can sure raise plausible possibilities, but there can't be one 'true' earth/universe.

[Kannex]

How about simply NS Earth or NS Terra?

Let's say it's just a very big planet but somehow it has the same amount of gravity and pressure as Earth. I don't know if that is scientifically possible...

[Enigmatic]

It's like I said. Conceivably, we could have anything. There's nothing stopping us from creating a planet that operates above, beyond, outside, or next to our understanding of science.

Why can't there be a "true" earth?

[Revkyyysh]

I dont see why not.

[blizatine]

The problem is with the amount of nations entering and leaving the game every day, it would be near impossible to keep an up to date map. In addition where are these new nations coming from and where do they go. Are the ones that go into the boneyard becoming the new nations? or are the new nations just undiscovered and in which case what happened to the old ones.
- With these factors involved I think the best way to make it work is to make the world endless and flat. Then we have limitless room to discover new places and any old ones that go to the boneyard we can sink them like Atlantis if it gets restored we can raise them.

[New Dracora]

How did I miss this thread?

Way back when I often pondered over this quite a lot - I think I'll do a detailed write up in the near future on what the ramblings of my mind came up with but on a basic level I pictured NS earth as a gigantic body with a standard crust but far lower internal density (or hollow - like the dyson sphere mock up that most others in general NS seem to accept), but it is a place of dimensional instability - with nations popping in and out of existence, random gateways to other 'earths' and also due to it's enormous size many areas of its surface unexplored with new regions seemingly discovered daily as well as various parts knowing very little of others and visa versa.

[burghemisia]

Ha this is all above my head!