Nation States Issues : A Role To Play

Today I’ve got this Issue on my Nationstates (nationstates.net)

A Role To Play

Perpetual loner and social outcast Howard Grimes made the news after holding five of his schoolmates hostage in a classroom for four hours, forcing them at sword-point (with an excellent replica Toledo Salamanca rapier) to play the popular role-playing game Trials and Trolls. Though everyone was released unharmed and the boy is now under arrest, many are asking if the game is a bad influence…

I’ve encountered with many choices

1. “A few months ago, my little boy started playing this so-called game, and just the other day I caught him trying to fight our dog with a toy sword,” sobs distraught parent Jessica RELIGION. “These books can only teach children to solve problems with violence. Kids everywhere are forgetting that they’re not paladins, or wizards, or whatever! It’s dangerous, and you have to ban these corrupting codices, for the good of NATIONSNAME!”

2. “People need to mind their own business,” states self-proclaimed nerd and ‘TnT-otaku’ Joseph Sanchez, proudly wearing a ‘Jesus Saves And Takes Half Damage’ t-shirt. “This is a positive activity, which can teach you social skills, maths, story-telling, and stuff! Sure, sometimes a player who has too much soda will fling half a dozen four-sided dice at someone’s head, because you know, magic missiles, ha-ha, but no real harm done by that. If this psycho held his fellow students hostage, it was because he was mentally ill, not because he gamed. Maybe deal with the mental health funding gap, and leave our hobby alone?”

3. “Actually, I think that being taken hostage was our own fault,” suggests Bella Stockholm, one of the crime’s victims. “I mean, he had asked us to game with him for months, but we thought we were too cool to play with dice and toy soldiers, and we even made fun of him. Now I’ve been obliged to try out Trials and Trolls, I realise how amazing it is! You should add the game to the national curriculum. It’ll make us better people.”

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Option 2. sounds nice so I choose it.

The result saids ‘RPG fans reminisce fondly about when people thought they were evil and dangerous rather than geeky and socially inept.’

In result, my nation get a boost of this qualities.

Ideological Radicality

Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index 1.9%

Public Healthcare

Theresa-Nightingale Rating 1.6%

Civil Rights

Martin Luther King, Jr. Units 0.41%

Intelligence

Quips Per Hour 0.09%

Taxation

Effective Tax Rate 0.06%

And decline in this qualities

Averageness

Average Standardized Normality Scale 0.27%

Social Conservatism

Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index 0.87%

This choice is OK.