Guide to Nation Categories and Creation

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A Guide to Nation Categories and Creation in NationStates

The following is a guide to creating NationStates nations with given characteristics and a reference for the meanings of various nation classifications and attributes.

Table of Contents
Click the links below to go to each section.

Codes and Abbreviations
The Effect of Each Question
The Effect of Answering Only One Question
The Effect of Each Government Type
The Effects of Each History
Freedom Levels by Category
The Ideocube
Descriptors for Civil Rights, Economy, and Political Freedoms

Information from here, here, here, here, here, and here. Much of the data behind this guide was originally posted by Qaaolchoura, Aelenti, and New South Hell.

Disclaimer: Neither I nor the region of the 10000 Islands can vouch for the accuracy of the information presented herein.

This guide formatted and maintained by Paffnia .

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Codes and Abbreviations

The following codes and abbreviations are used throughout this guide:

Code	Meaning
Q1	"A country should be judged by how it treats its worst-off citizens."
Q2	"Corporations are good for society."
Q3	"Marijuana should be legal."
Q4	"The world needs to rediscover its spirituality."
Q5	"Young people should perform a year's compulsory military service."
Q6	"Capitalism is on the way out."
Q7	"Without democracy, a country has nothing"
Q8	"It's better to deter criminals than rehabilitate them."
SA	Answer "strongly agree" for the given question
A	Answer "agree" for the given question
D	Answer "disagree" for the given question
SD	Answer "strongly disagree" for the given question
Med.	Medium

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The Effect of Each Question

The following table lists the independent effects of each answer for each question on World Census Report categories.

Question	Answer	Categories Increased	Categories Decreased
Q1	SA	Income Equality, Foreign Aid, Welfare, Education, Government Size, and Taxation	Economic Output
	A	Welfare, Education, Income Equality, and Inclusiveness	N/A
	D	Economy, Wealth Gaps, and Weaponization	Welfare
	SD	Economy, Average Income, Wealth Gaps, and Crime	Welfare and Foreign Aid
Q2	SA	Employment, Economic Output, Wealth Gaps, Sector: Manufacturing, Average Income, and Business Subsidization	Environmental Beauty
	A	Employment, Economic Output, Wealth Gaps, Economic Freedom, and Average Income	N/A
	D	Income Equality, Business Subsidization, and Authoritarianism	Economic Freedom
	SD	Authoritarianism, Ideological Radicality, Income Equality, and Eco-Friendliness	Industry: Retail and Economic Freedom
Q3	SA	Recreational Drug Use, Industry: Pizza Delivery, Civil Rights, Niceness, and Nudity	Law Enforcement, Lifespan, and Employment
	A	Recreational Drug Use, Industry: Pizza Delivery, Civil Rights, and Niceness	Employment
	D	Social Conservatism and Safety	Recreational Drug Use and Civil Rights
	SD	Law Enforcement, Authoritarianism, Social Conservatism, Safety, and Compliance	Recreational Drug Use and Civil Rights
Q4	SA	Religiousness, Pacifism, Compliance, Safety, and Compassion	Defense Forces and Scientific Advancement
	A	Religiousness, Pacifism, and Compassion	Scientific Advancement
	D	Secularism and Scientific Advancement	Religiousness
	SD	Secularism, Scientific Advancement, and Gambling	Religiousness
Q5	SA	Defense Forces, Law Enforcement, Social Conservatism, Weaponization, and Inclusiveness	Crime and Youth Rebelliousness
	A	Authoritarianism, Defense Forces, Law Enforcement, and Social Conservatism	Political Freedom and Youth Rebelliousness
	D	Political Freedom, Recreational Drug Use, and Civil Rights	Defense Forces
	SD	Youth Rebelliousness, Political Freedom, Recreational Drug Use, and Civil Rights	Industry: Arms Manufacturing and Defense Forces
Q6	SA	Income Equality, Taxation, Government Size, and Inclusiveness	Average Income, Economy, and Economic Freedom
	A	Income Equality and Government Size	Average Income and Economic Freedom
	D	Economic Output, Industry: Information Technology, Industry: Book Publishing, and Industry: Retail	N/A
	SD	Economic Freedom, Economic Output, Industry: Retail, Wealth Gaps, and Average Income of Rich	Average Income of Poor
Q7	SA	Political Freedom, Ideological Radicality, and Intelligence	N/A
	A	Political Freedom	N/A
	D	Authoritarianism	Political Freedom
	SD	Authoritarianism, Law Enforcement, and Ideological Radicality	Political Freedom
Q8	SA	Weaponization, Law Enforcement, Social Conservatism, and Death Rate	Niceness
	A	Law Enforcement, Weaponization, and Social Conservatism	N/A
	D	Welfare, Education, Compassion, and Inclusiveness	N/A
	SD	Welfare, Education, Government Size, Compassion, and Inclusiveness	N/A

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The Effect of Answering Only One Question

The following table lists the results of choosing either "strongly agree" or "strongly disagree" for a given question, while leaving the rest unanswered and having the neutral government type "Centrist." In other words, this table shows what your nation will look like if you only answer one question.

Question	Answer	Pretitle	Category	Civil Rights	Economy	Political Freedoms
Q1	SA	any	Democratic Socialists	Good	Developing	Good
	SD		Capitalist Paradise		Very Strong
Q2	SA	any	Capitalist Paradise	Good	Thriving	Good
	SD		Democratic Socialists		Weak
Q3	SA	any	Inoffensive Centrist Democracy	Very Good	Good	Good
	SD			Below Average
Q4	SA	any	Inoffensive Centrist Democracy	Good	Good	Good
	SD
Q5	SA	any except "Matriarchy" or "Queendom"	Father Knows Best State	Some	Good	Few
		"Matriarchy" or "Queendom"	Mother Knows Best State
	SD	any	Inoffensive Centrist Democracy	Good		Very Good
Q6	SA	any	Democratic Socialists	Good	Weak	Good
	SD		Inoffensive Centrist Democracy		Strong
Q7	SA	any	New York Times Democracy	Good	Good	Superb
	SD		Inoffensive Centrist Democracy			Good
Q8	SA	any	Inoffensive Centrist Democracy	Some	Good	Good
	SD			Very Good

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The Effect of Each Government Type

The following table lists the results of each government type with no questions answered. In other words, this table shows what your nation will look like if you choose a given government type and leave every question blank.

Government Type	Graph
Anarchic
Libertarian
Capitalist
Liberal
Centrist
Conservative
Socialist
Authoritarian
Tyrannical
Random	[Random levels for each of the three freedoms]

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The Effects of Each History

The following table lists the independent effects of each of the history options on World Census Report categories.

History	Description	Categories Increased	Categories Decreased
Violent Segregationists	"Clamored for right to secede from unrepresentative majority using petitions, speeches, letter campaign, automatic weapons."	Weaponization, Defense Forces, Law Enforcement, and Industry: Arms Manufacturing	Political Apathy
Recently Discovered Undiscovered Tribe	"Lived contentedly in self-contained universe until discovery that actual universe larger than ten by twelve miles."	Culture, Environmental Beauty, Industry: Trout Fishing, Industry: Basket Weaving, and Primitiveness	N/A
Sackers and Salvagers	"Simple-minded barbarians met advanced, scholarly empire; barbarians sacked empire for shiny things."	Defense Forces, Industry: Mining, Industry: Arms Manufacturing, Death Rate, and Crime	Welfare
Like-Minded Isolationists	"Disparate peoples drawn together by common urge to escape homeland oppression/debts/outstanding warrants."	Intelligence and Corruption	Law Enforcement and Taxation
Plucky, Malnourished Pioneers	"Brave, decreasingly well-financed explorers traveled across the globe in search of virgin lands; upon finding them, declined to notify homeland."	Environmental Beauty and Intelligence	N/A
Ethnic Cleansing Refugees	"Fled bloodthirsty regime bent on extermination; now shaken and stirred."	Foreign Aid, Compassion, and Culture	Political Apathy
Diplomatic Homeland Wranglers	"Made persuasive case for world superpower to annex territory on their behalf."	Intelligence, Pacifism, and Education	Defense Forces
Civil Bloodbath Survivors	"Slightly stunned remnants of nation-shattering internal conflict over issues which remain unclear. "	Industry: Insurance and Public Healthcare	N/A
Long-Suffering But Still Optimistic Pilgrims	"Departed godless homeland to found new spiritual paradise-on-Earth. Some decades lost after following wild-eyed man into desert."	Religiousness	N/A

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Freedom Levels by Category

The following table breaks down each nation category by freedoms: personal, economic, and political; as well as tallying up and grouping nation categories by number of freedoms at each level.

Note that the freedoms in this table are not the same as the "civil rights," "economy," and "political freedoms" variables used at the top of NS nation pages, on NS trend graphs, and in the posts above. However, they do correlate, albeit imperfectly. Civil rights correlates with personal freedom, economy correlates with economic freedom, and political freedoms correlates with political freedom. The correlation is loosest between economy (i.e. economic health) and economic freedom—for example, banning monopolies may help economic health, but it limits economic freedom.

Freedoms			Pretitle	Categories	Personal Freedom	Economic Freedom	Political Freedom
3 High			any	Anarchy	High	High	High
2 High		1 Med.	any	Corporate Bordello	Med.	High	High
				Civil Rights Lovefest	High	Med.	High
				Capitalizt	High	High	Med.
1 High	2 Med.		any	Left-Leaning College State	High	Med.	Med.
				Capitalist Paradise	Med.	High	Med.
				New York Times Democracy	Med.	Med.	High
2 High		1 Low	any	Free Market Paradise	Low	High	High
				Left-Wing Utopia	High	Low	High
				Benevolent Dictatorship	High	High	Low
3 Med.			any	Inoffensive Centrist Democracy	Med.	Med.	Med.
1 High	1 Med.	1 Low	any	Libertarian Police State	High	Med.	Low
				Scandinavian Liberal Paradise	High	Low	Med.
				Compulsory Consumerist State	Med.	High	Low
				Right-Wing Utopia	Low	High	Med.
				Liberal Democratic Socialists	Med.	Low	High
				Conservative Democracy	Low	Med.	High
1 High	2 Low		any	Iron Fist Socialists	High	Low	Low
				Corporate Police State	Low	High	Low
				Tyranny By Majority	Low	Low	High
2 Med.		1 Low	any	Moralistic Democracy	Low	Med.	Med.
				Democratic Socialists	Med.	Low	Med.
			any except "Matriarchy" or "Queendom	Father Knows Best State	Med.	Med.	Low
			"Matriarchy" or "Queendom	Mother Knows Best State	Med.	Med.	Low
1 Med.	2 Low		any	Corrupt Dictatorship	Med.	Low	Low
				Iron Fist Consumerists	Low	Med.	Low
				Authoritarian Democracy	Low	Low	Med.
3 Low			any	Psychotic Dictatorship	Low	Low	Low

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The Ideocube

The following is "the Ideocube," a graphical representation of how the categories map onto the three freedom dimensions discussed in the post above. More red in a cell indicates high personal freedom, more green indicates high economic freedom, and more blue indicates high political freedom. The image is from New South Hell.

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Descriptors for Civil Rights, Economy, and Political Freedoms

This table lists the possible descriptors of the three major variables shown on the top of NS nation pages: civil rights, economy, and political freedoms. They are listed from highest on top to lowest on the bottom.

Civil Rights	Economy	Political Freedoms
Frightening	Frightening	Corrupted
	All-Consuming	Widely Abused
Excessive	Powerhouse	Excessive
World Benchmark	Thriving	World Benchmark
Superb	Very Strong	Superb
Excellent	Strong	Excellent
Very Good	Good	Very Good
Good	Fair	Good
Average	Reasonable	Average
Below Average	Developing	Below Average
Some	Struggling	Some
Few	Weak	Few
Rare	Fragile	Rare
Unheard Of	Basket Case	Unheard Of
Outlawed	Imploded	Outlawed

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[Barry]

Wow, what a terrific job Paff! A lot of Islanders should really love the effort you put into this.

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Updated

[Marxist Germany]

Paffnia, found some broken tinypic images

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Oct 9, 2019 11:38:53 GMT -5 Marxist Germany said:

Paffnia, found some broken tinypic images

Fixed

[Vivolkha]

Paffnia , the information here could be added to this guide.