Population

One important factor of any nation is its population. The bigger you are, the more powerful you tend to be. It seems that this is true in NationStates too. Many of the biggest nations in the NS world aren't in the UN (because they don't need to be), and are generally able to amass a following without major problems. Small nations however have lots of problems facing them, they don't have respect, influence, and barely any acknowledgement. So they join the United Nations and start trying to impose their will on others through proposals and the like. It's easy to tell how old a nation in NS is by looking at their population, since it takes roughly three months for someone's population to increase by 500 million. I say roughly, as nation growth is prone to slight fluctuations.

A common misconception in NationStates is that answering more issues makes your population grow faster and that dismissing them makes it increase more slowly. This is not true. There is absolutely nothing you can do to affect your nation unless your nation expires in which case you've got zip. Issues do not affect your population.

Well, that's about all I wanted to say on population. Ciao!