Today I’ve got this Issue on my Nationstates (nationstates.net)
Won’t Somebody Think Of The Children?
On your way to work this morning, you noticed an unusually high number of orphans pickpocketing and ‘asking for more’ from passing strangers. Realizing that this may put a stain on NATIONSNAME’s reputation, you have asked for opinions on how to deal with this orphan overcrowding problem.
I’ve encountered with many choices
1. “Gawd bless youse, Leader, but can’t ya spare a copper or two for us poor little cherubs?” meekly asks an orphan known as Minuscule Max, who has managed to pick your pocket without you noticing. “The old orphanage is in a right sorry state, an’ no mistake. Just yesterday we ‘ad ta burn our caps and clogs to have somethin’ to warm ourselves by. All we askin’ is that you ‘ave a think about us: maybe them fightin’ soldiers could get less, and we could get more?
2. “I agree that these children should not be left to fend for themselves, but let’s not be too hasty about lowering military funding,” reminds your semi-compassionate Minister of Defense who prefers to ‘kill enemies kindly’. “In fact, why do we even need these orphanages? These children are sponging off the government’s teat and all we get in return is a bloated welfare budget! All orphaned children should be sent to military training academies, and then they can repay us for our generosity by fighting for our glorious Galactic Republic!”
3. “I can’t believe what I’m hearing!” gasps factory owner Yoko Scrooge, whose remarkably clean hands have never known a day of honest labour. “How can we be sinking so low as to even consider wasting such a valuable resource on the military? I agree that we should get these kids off the government teat, but we should lower the working age so they can work and earn money to fend for themselves! Send these orphans to work in my factories and I’ll pay them a very ‘generous’ wage.”
4. “You know, I think our friends in Dàguó have the right idea with their one child policy,” suggests population control expert Ken Navratilova while going over the latest birth statistics. “NATIONSNAME has a population of 2.458 billion and growing. We can barely keep up as it is without adding orphans into the mix. I propose adopting Dàguó’s one child policy here while offering generous tax incentives for the good people of NATIONSNAME to adopt our remaining orphans. It may be a tad restrictive, but the people will thank me when they aren’t suffocating on the subway.”
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Option 3. sounds nice so I choose it.
The result saids ‘It’s a hard-knock life for the orphans doing factory work for a pittance.’
In result, my nation get a boost of this qualities.
Wealth Gaps
Rich To Poor Income Ratio 140%
Sector: Manufacturing
Gooback-Jerbs Productivity Index 33.3%
Economic Freedom
Rand Index 9.8%
Weaponization
Weapons Per Person 5.0%
Averageness
Average Standardized Normality Scale 3.6%
Crime
Crimes Per Hour 2.0%
Charmlessness
Kardashian Reflex Score 1.8%
Social Conservatism
Bush-Santorum Dawning Terror Index 1.8%
Employment
Workforce Participation Rate 1.5%
Average Income
1.0%
Economic Output
1.0%
Obesity
Obesity Rate 0.46%
Economy
Krugman-Greenspan Business Outlook Index 0.15%
Intelligence
Quips Per Hour 0.07%
And decline in this qualities
Weather
Meters Of Sunlight 0.60%
Tourism
Tourists Per Hour 0.74%
Taxation
Effective Tax Rate 0.78%
Civil Rights
Martin Luther King, Jr. Units 0.78%
Cheerfulness
Percentage Of Water Glasses Perceived Half-Full 0.85%
Pacifism
Cheeks Turned Per Day 2.4%
Niceness
Average Smiles Per Day 12.3%
Authoritarianism
Stalins 21.4%
Ideological Radicality
Paul-Nader Subjective Decentrality Index 23.5%
Compassion
Kitten Softness Rating 27.9%
Income Equality
Marx-Engels Emancipation Scale 58.3%
This choice is bad.
