NationStates

A game for when you desperately need something to fill your time. You have the role of president, king or whatever your country uses. You solve issues by accepting one of the multiple answers. You can also dismiss issues. There are also Forums, where people make topics to gather every single bit of info about your nation and your OOC self. Or rip off Eurovision. Or make deep read-only stories. Or do whatever is legal on the site.

Britonisea: Yes! 12 points on WV!
Kid: owo whats this
Britonisea: sum gay contest on NationStates overrun by Indo

by TibeThatGuy January 31, 2019

Nationstatethinking

The fusion of nationalistic fervor and bureaucratic inertia into a supreme groupthink engine. It is the mindset of a state apparatus that has fully identified its own interests with a monolithic, mythologized vision of the nation. This creates a system where bureaucratic actions (passing a law, launching a program, suppressing data) are automatically justified as expressions of the national will, and any challenge to the state is framed as an attack on the nation itself. It is the cognitive architecture of modern nationalism.

Example: A government department fabricates economic data to show growth, believing that maintaining public confidence in "the nation's strength" is more important than factual accuracy. This Nationstatethinking blends the state's instinct for self-preservation with a nationalist narrative of inevitable progress, treating truth as a disposable tool in service of the unified nation-state story.

by Dumuabzu February 5, 2026