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''NationStates'' is a multiplayer government simulation browser game. It was created by Max Barry and was publicly released on 13 November 2002,〔nationstates.net: (History ), accessdate: 10 April 2014〕 based loosely on his novel ''Jennifer Government''. Barry originally founded the site as an independent vehicle publicizing the book one week before its release.〔 The site continues to promote books written by Barry. ==Gameplay== Players set up their nation by answering a short questionnaire about their intentions for its economy, civil rights and political freedoms, giving it a name, a national animal, a currency, and an official motto.〔 The player's response to the initial questionnaire defines the type of government they are running. New nations appear in one of five main game regions (known in the game as "feeders") located in the NationStates version of the Pacific Ocean (The, East, West, North, and South Pacific), but nations are able to move to other regions, or create their own. Nations that remain inactive and are resurrected are put into three "sinker" regions called Osiris, Balder, and Lazarus, all named after characters that purportedly rose from the dead. Nations ejected or banned from a region are moved to a region known as "The Rejected Realms". Gameplay hinges on deciding government policies: twice a day the player is presented with an automatically assigned "issue",〔 such as choosing whether to allow a right-wing protest march, or dealing with food shortages in their country.〔 The player chooses a government stance from a list of options, or may elect to dismiss the problem. Each action or inaction affects the prosperity of the player's country, and may have unforeseen effects. For instance, granting greater political freedom will lead to more civil unrest.〔 Some issues are written by the game's developers, while others are submitted by players. For the first 30 days of a nation's existence, only game-created issues can be answered, but after that period any approved issue can be answered. 〔 The player's responses to issues affect the nation's status in three main factors: the level of ''Political Freedoms'' and ''Civil Rights'' and the strength of the ''Economy''.〔 Based on the nation's personal, economic and political freedoms, the nation is assigned to one of 27 government types,〔 from Anarchy, to Inoffensive Centrist Democracy, to Psychotic Dictatorship. Although there is no way of "winning" the game, daily "World Census reports" are compiled for each region and the entire world, ranking nations on anything from economic strength to the most liberal public nudity laws.〔 Outside the basic technical parameters of nation play, players can also move freely between regions, "take over" opposing regions by flooding them with foreign nations (a popular gameplay tactic also called "raiding"), interact on the game's chat boards, vote on resolutions at the World Assembly (which affect member nations' stats much the same way issues do), and chat and/or roleplay their countries on the official game forums. Many of the regions also have separate regional forums that concern regional politics, fairs, etc. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「NationStates」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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