Today I’ve got this Issue on my Nationstates (nationstates.net)
Time To Get Serious
It’s a slow news day, and so a recent study by the Scientific Centre of Analytical Metadata is getting considerable attention. After a decade of expensive travel to exotic climes, researchers have concluded that nations where people laugh more have a lower GDP. Your advisers have gathered to find out what you want to do.
I’ve encountered with many choices
1. “That’s just a funny coincidence!” yells joke shop owner Hope Clinton as she waves a rubber-chicken at you, her cheeks puffed out in anger. “Laughter is a tonic! Laughter is the best medicine! If you take away laughter, you destroy the beating heart of NATIONSNAME! Dismiss this crackpot theory and keep the joy that makes NATIONSNAME so great… by subsidising the humour-retail industry!”
2. “At last! The link is proven!” notes clothes factory owner Bodhi de Groot as he spies on his staff through CCTV. “I last smiled seventy-two years ago and it is an accident I have striven not to repeat! Every day, the girls who should be working my machines are just laughing. I keep telling them to keep their heads down, but they keep on giggling and smiling and… oh, they’re so disobedient! Someone needs to punish them. Give employers the right to dock wages and force extra hours for excessive joviality. That’ll show those minxes!”
3. “Why so glum when there’s shopping to be done?” sings devoted consumer Stan Márquez, sporting a lovely green velvet jacket. “Just cut sales taxes on luxury goods so everybody can shop their way out of misery! Your government is wasting money funding thinktanks and research groups of dubious value. You should cut the funding of SCAM and other analysts, and give me back my own CURRENCY. The resulting spending spree will put a smile on my face AND boost the economy!”
4. “This crass commercialism saddens my heart,” observes dour faith leader Wei Moral, shaking his head sadly. “What about the soul? Laughter is evil spirits, shaking our bodies. Each guffaw is the spirit of the divine, leaking out of the body. It is Written! For the sake of the collective salvation of NATIONSNAME, laughter must be banned!”
5. “How can you listen to these people?” asks depressed laughter therapist Colleen Plath, dabbing away a tear. “NATIONSNAME needs joy, now more than ever. We need to bring the art of humour and inner happiness into everybody’s lives through intensive programmes in every school and workplace in the country. Happiness doesn’t just happen: it needs to be taught!”
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Option 5. sounds nice so I choose it.
The result saids ‘Students memorise knock-knock jokes for their mandatory twice-a-term Comedy Examinations.’
In result, my nation get a boost of this qualities.
Weather
Meters Of Sunlight 2.9%
Niceness
Average Smiles Per Day 1.9%
Public Education
Edu-tellignce® Test Score 1.7%
Health
Bananas Ingested Per Day 1.6%
Cheerfulness
Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full 0.85%
Taxation
Effective Tax Rate 0.15%
Pacifism
Cheeks Turned Per Day 0.13%
Tourism
Tourists Per Hour 0.11%
Government Size
Bureaucratic Comprehensiveness Rating Scale Index 0.10%
Lifespan
Years 0.09%
And decline in this qualities
Scientific Advancement
Kurzweil Singularity Index 0.28%
Obesity
Obesity Rate 0.53%
Intelligence
Quips Per Hour 1.2%
Nice choice
