Nation States

[SaiKar]

One of the weirdest things with NationStates is that there is often no "don't screw everything up" choice.

Like, I got this one about people saying beauty pageants were bad, and my choices boiled down to:
1) ban all beauty pageants
2) ban them AND institute a national dress code
3) allow guys into pageants
4) make pageants mandatory in all schools

And I was like... uh... I eventually with with 3 for the lulz, but it's funny how there was no option to just leave things be.

[fruckert]

I think that'd be the "dismiss" one, which I often due for completely retarded issues.

[MissingName]

One of my friends got something with pirates, and all of the options boiled down to "YARGH."

[X_marks_the_ed]

I got that exact same issue. It was hilarious!

[HackersTotalMassLaser]

So who found me out?

[Cerebus]

Great, I've managed to log back in.
So to answer your question, as mentioned in the Charasia headquarters, I did.
And as I also said...
I am just that great!

[fruckert]

This issue is retarded.
It basically boils down to:
A) Brainwash citizens
B) Relentless advertising
C) Drive up disaster rates and can't do anything about it

Whoever wrote it needs to be chloroformed and put on top of a mountain to fight a robot bear in the rain.

[Cerebus]

Option A) seems the best.

I like how I receive issues about crime rate being high when it says on my Nation page that crime is totally unknown.

And to help the case:
Following new legislation in Rheumesia, criminals are thrown to the naked mole bears to repay their debt to society.

[Cerebus]

Yeah me too, in my other Nation.
The result:
Following new legislation in Grey Pearl Island, citizens are frequently held up at gunpoint by their local pizza delivery boys.

[fruckert]

I'm starting to get tired of this.
I'm thinking I'm going to not log in anymore.

[Dragonium]

Yeah, the constant "you think you're being sensible by thinking about your choices, but all the options rape your nation in different unexpected ways" is getting old.

[SaiKar]

Then go crazy and start choosing the bad stuff for the heck of it?

[Archem]

I'm almost certain this is how it really works. There is never going to be a perfect choice, and there will always be consequences.

They're just a little exaggerated here, for the purpose of entertainment.

[fruckert]

There isn't any compromises though.
It's either far left or far evil.

The exagerration can be funny (I like the purple spiders one), but some of them are just dumb.
Should we get this gold out of the lake?
a) STEAL EVERYTHING!
b) NUKE THE LAKE!
c) DESTROY THE ECONOMY!

[Archem]

I'd think that A would be the sensible option.

Bad example, or my sinister plans manifest?