On NationStates, your nation is auto-deleted after 28 days of inactivity (60 days should you activate vacation mode), but there are lots of people who return, wanting their nations back. To get their nation back, they send a request to the Getting Help page.
These requests paint an interesting picture of NS society. I have categorised the different types of request we sometimes get, simplifying them out a bit as I don't want to detail the compound categories we get too. Here they are:
The Frugal Request:
These requests are terse and simple, only giving the name of the nation needing restored - just how I likes 'em. Ship in, ship out, next task.
The Nervous Request:
These requests are polite, earnest, and lengthy. The requester details a mini-sage of why s/he let his/her nation die and how s/he will never let it happen again! It's mildly amusing to think that some people are afraid we're going to say: "Good God, he didn't have enough time to play NationStates? I suppose he forgot, did he? Hah! We'll just not restore his nation, see how he likes that! Mwahaha!
The Informative request:
These guys, through either ignorance or an unwillingness to read the FAQ, insist on telling us everything about their nation so that we'll definitely, no-deviation-whatsoever, make sure that they've provided all the necessary info for resurrection. They tell us their nation's full name (If I wanted mine restored, I'd just have to say 'Sirocco' - not 'The Holy Hippocracy of Sirocco'), their password, their e-mail, their region, their motto, their best friend's middle name - it's an endless stream of text which invariably seems to be in a block paragraph. All we need is the nation's name and we'll restore it. It helps to be logged in when you make the request so we can telegram you the good news. We (or at least I) ignore e-mail addresses.
The Uninformative Request:
These requests tend to be along the lines of "Can you restore my nation? I can't remember what it was called, but I think it began with p."
Not much we can do there.
The Absent-Minded Request:
These guys will witter on for a novel's length about why their nation died and then forget to say what the nation was called.
The Atlas Request:
Argh! Every mod growls when they see one of these ones, as they know it's going to take a while and will kill your fingers with Repetitive Strain Disorder. It generally consists of a gigantic list consisting of about 30-50 nations needing restored. 'Why?' we feel compelled to ask. 'What uses could you possibly find for all those?!' But we do it, because we're nice.
The One-By-One Request(s):
These guys send out a separate task for every nation they want restored. Incredibly annoying when in conjunction with the Atlas Request above.
And finally...
The Unfathomable Request:
A made-up example:
"'The Incestuous Animal Rapage of Fukkinshitcock' is gone! I don't know why it was deleted as I logged into it just last week so could you please resurrect it?
I swear to God.
Well, that's all I have to say on the subject today.
On another note, though, my computer was broken the other day so I missed all the hoo-hah about the game crashing and data being lost due to lack of disc space. Maybe we know now why everything kept crashing before? But all fixed now, so everything's swell.
Ciao!
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