A Snapshot Of NationStates Society

... Through submitted issues! Yes! A complete and (probably) accurate look at what NSers feel to be top of the agenda. Things that we MUST decide on. Here we go (trumpets please), the most-submitted subject for an issue is... public sex. Yep, that's right. Looking at the number of issues I have deleted over the last year, about one-in-ten is about the right to have the old wayhey in front of everyone; the right to bare your cue and two billiards; the right to wear the costume that is in fashion everywhere (except possibly Greenland); the right to nevermind the bollocks or anything else.

Quite, quite terrifying.

And if it's not sex, it's urination, defecation, masturbation, bestiality, morris dancing, and all manner of other things that should be kept private and out of sight. There have been a fair number of issues about sex education too, though most are sadly unprintable. One sex education issue that I particularly remember was from some excitable schoolboy who suggested there should be PRACTICAL demonstrations! And you should get to TOUCH! It continued in the same vein, the caps lock key getting more out of control as it progressed. He also specified that no-one in his region (which was a class region, run by a teacher) should get it. This was for obvious reasons, I expect, being able to get a date one of them. After resisting the urge to tell the teacher about it, I deleted the issue and carried on.

But why delete this issues, I hear you ask when you're sure no-one else can hear. The answer is simple: they're just not appropriate for the game. Some issues which have a more adult nature (like ones about prostitution, cannibalism, that issue about sado-masochism (which was kept as non-sexual as possible to avoid it going under the axe. I still get a lot telegrams about it despite not being its editor though.) and the others) are put in because they're real issues and not fantasies. A special condition is put on these issues so that class regions don't get them. Yes, bestiality and other perversions could be construed as real issues, but if that's the kind of thing you want to discuss, then I'm afraid you've picked the wrong website.

I don't know about incest; I'd probably have to ask the boss about that should I ever see a good one on the subject.

So, in conclusion, a fair amount of NationStaters are a bunch of perverse sex-maniacs with about as much self-control as a magpie in a silver mine. Yeh'd never have guessed, eh?