NationStates Census

I've been rather ill this last week or so, so I've not been able to blog much. Anyway. News round-up:

I got the new batch of issues, stretching from the 31st of May right up to the 13th of February 2006. One of those naughty admins installed the new issues batch without telling me (I'm certain it was Sal). It'll take a while to plough through them, but I'm a patient man. Oh, yes.

By the look of Max Barry's latest blog, he's gone to Heaven early. The fact that he's still alive can only be considered a boon. Coincidentally there has been much discussion over NationStates' future if Max Barry did suddenly expire. How incredibly morbid.

Note that intriguing part of the blog where Max says that some progress is underway in regards to the much-awaited NationStates 2...

There's proposals for a new 'feature region' feature which has garnered quite a bit of interest from our admins. We may even use it!

SalusaSecondus has generated some interesting NationStates statistics (such as the total world population) that you may like to look at:

http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=470125

Here's some other interesting stats of his about regions:

A few useful stats about regions (as of early this month):

Total Regions: 14375
Average Size: 8.2

Min: 1
First Quartile: 1
Median Size: 2.5
Third Quartile: 5.5
Max: 7300

Or, more specifically:
Size: Count
1: 5656
2: 2495
3: 1480
4: 953
5: 701
6: 529
7: 366
8: 294
9: 234
10-19: 975
20+: 625

My region, Lancre, has about 40 nations. I feel quite privileged to have their support when so many regions fail to get more than one member!