Taijitu
Forum Meta => The Role Play Council => Archived Role Play Boards => Archive => Proposals and Discussion => Topic started by: Ranholn on March 30, 2007, 08:12:51 PM
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Well yesterday i got Ranholn out of CTE heaven, and decided I should look at the traker for a nation i havnt answerd a thing for in... well a long long time, and when i do i just pick something fun.
Well it was 2.5 billion
and a converted GDP per Capita of... 4$
yes thats right it is larger then any nation on earth, and poorer then any nation on earth
This made me think two things, first, wonder if i can make it even more poor
Second rp doesn't have any good ol fashion 3rd world nations. So I was thinking of using Ranholns trackers to craft a bunch of third world nations that have only one resource really Human Labor. This will serve a few purposes, one for places to have outbreaks of diseases and other third world tragedies, a place for humanitarian aid to go to, and a place for Capitalist corporations to Set up Sweat Shops to produce goods paying people about a penny a day (1.09 cents a day if 365 days) that's for the average income, not even the poorest people.
Then we could have good fun like nations deciding how they should treat such poor ass nations.
I would also suggest these nations be in land with horrible climates, arid or something of the such, and have no real resources so conquest would be rather pointless, like the people destroyed everything they once had in wars or it just never existed or something.
what does everyone else thing?
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Me thinks good idea, It's also a great breeding ground for disncontentment and liberation organizations
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Me supports. Also, since players create these with the express purpose of being dominated, this provides a good outlet for bullying-type behavior. Plus a good propaganda tool for me.
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A very unique concept.
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Interesting.... I say, what the heck, why not?
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oh you finally posed the idea. i forgot we discussed this.
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im for it.
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As Bustos said, a very interesting idea, but I would need to think about it. Africa is generally agreed to be the worlds shittiest continent, and we don't need another one here.
On the other hand, it would provide a bunch of revenue for capitalist nations (But not you commies, haha) and good RP. So I'd have to think about my answer.
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I really see no need, seeing how my country is filling that role :D. My people don't even have television...also, just because country is mad poor, doesn't mean that a strong leader can't run it smoothly. (When I say "run smoothly", I mostly meant not giving in to the will of foreign superpowers :D, Like what North Korea has going on)
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Yes, CL, but your nation is relatively small as compared to Ranholn. I mean, we're talking a dirt poor nation twice the size (population-wise) of India. I see it as a capitalist "paradise", meaning they can make everything at minimal cost (buying land, salary, etc.) and sell it for higher amount of profit while staying below all competitors. I also like the idea in that it gives religious nations (Myro) a place to send all their foreign aid.
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and a place for the first church of cthulhu to set u[ cults and have sacrifices.
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And for me to start up a small, militant pro-people sect :P
Brotherhood - Unity - Peace O:-)
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Hmm, is there way way to control population growth in NS? I don't want to have +100 million people making two yao a year in my country...
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their really isnt.
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No, but some people RP with less than their NS population.
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another question, should the 3rd world be a bunch of nations who united use the traker, or one massive failed nation
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Both, maybe, it could be divided. Concerning the "playing with a lower population" opportunity, Arasel's population is 72 million. Period.
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I would be willing to RP one or more 3rd world nations, as I have given Ryazania to Myroria and Astaporia is still in the Iron Age.
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i still dont know why you did that,
I wanted to run them since I enjoy trying out different stuff, but first we got to see if people liked the idea, and using the ranholn tracker insures the nations can never be anything but poor 3rd world
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Alright, sounds good to me. Should we RP one nation or possibly two or three?
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No, but some people RP with less than their NS population.
I do! I believe Ryaz does too.
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I dont! ;)
I'd love to RP a corporation buyin into one of the poor countries.
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Heheh, what I wanted to do is RP an island nation of 20,000 based on a Simcity of mine, providing for quite a few interesting stats (how many students are currently enrolled at Central High...)
But more importantly, I really don't like all this talk of RPing multiple nations. It never ends well. And believe me, I've tried it before and it gets incredibly awkward attempting to manage two different nations without having their interests and policies overlap (which of course is puppet wanking).
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that's why im keeping these nation have to stay on Ranholn Traker and can not become anything more then 3rd world nation, with at most 1 resource or preferably none
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What's this now? You're giving yourself for all purposes another nation?
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:shrug:
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yes, but what value will this nation be. I want it to try out different things, this nation wont be able to change it, and if we find someone running one is trying to puppet wank, then you give it to someone else. I dont see how a nation with 4$ per person can actually make someone powerful.
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The power does not come from a low income, but rather a low cost of living. When you have citizens needing only 500 dollars a year to live comfortably compare to 50 000 dollars for a another country, the trade advantages are significant.
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A, but CL, that's not the way he's choosing to RP. He's choosing to have a dirt poor country, with a dirt poor people, susceptible to corporate exploitation and propaganda of all sorts. In other words, he's making this nation our playground.
BTW, if you want to get it on the map, Ranholn, could you put it south of St Oz and slightly east of Confederate Freedom? I'd be oh so grateful.
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this will be a nation where poverty and starvation are common. Disease is rampant, water is a rarity. Not a nation that can run trade advantage, but one with people killing each other over the smallest resources.
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Please respond to my request at the bottom of my post.
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So anyone who has better technology than technicals can win with enough manpower?
Speaking of shitty countries, does AIDS exist on Taijitu? And, if so, can the MHC find a vaccine for it? Note vaccine is not a cure. And the birth control pill was just as much zomgnevergonnahappen before the '60s as an AIDS vaccine is now.
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Who said that, Myroria?
And sure, AIDS can exist in Taijitu.
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No one said that, I was just wondering. For instance, if the EU and the US decided to go and "improve" (and by "improve" I mean "worsen the anarchy") in Africa, they could.
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A desert nation with no oil might be an ideal location.
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And make it Somaliaesque factionated.
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if the aid vaccine exists, it will be in multiple nations
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An AIDS virus vaccine does currently exist, in fact there are multiple versions. However they are worthless as the AIDS virus constantly mutates generation after generation in an infected body rendering any vaccine useless. These vaccines were amongst first attempts to combat HIV.
Retrovirus drugs, that attack the reproduction process of the virus, work at keeping the HIV numbers down (which a person will then never suffer from AIDS), assuming you can afford the costs of the prescription.
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meh the uichi ryans just kill off anyone in their nation who has such a devestating virus. its the most efficient preventaative. also for their manipulation of the genepool (hence those crazy looking uicho ryans) they utilize retroviruses to spread the genes they wish to be put into place.