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Governor: The Kingdom of The Ice Bears

WA Delegate (non-executive): The State of Maas (elected )

Founder: The Kingdom of The Ice Bears

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Welcome to ARCTIC | Founded: November 14th, 2004

"The land whose skin is of ice but whose heart is of fire" - Prekrasnaya Zemlya

"A calm clubhouse for old and esteemed nations" - Maas

Regional Flag Designed by: Polarea

LinkRegional Anthem

LinkThe regional currency as issued by the Arctic Central Bank

For Detailed or Miscellaneous Information LinkArctic Wiki, LinkArctic Regional Map, LinkArctic Discord
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Regional Assembly Members: Maas, Polarea, Antarc, Blaenavon, Norse Inuit Union, Nyaryaga

The 10th Era of Arctic has now begun! Welcome to the first Arctic Commonwealth



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    Polar N-Day summary

    MetaReference by Maas . 49 reads.

  2. 12

    Arctic Central Bank // Economic Report - Fall 2019

    MetaReference by Maas . 90 reads.

  3. 6

    The Arctic Constitution

    MetaReference by Nyaryaga . 200 reads.

  4. 2

    List of Amendments to the Arctic Constitution

    MetaReference by Kubrath . 44 reads.

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Embassies: Antarctica, Scandinavia, The Illuminati, U R N, Imperium of the Wolf, Antarctic Oasis, The Arctic, Barbaria, The Great Experiment, Christmas, Thanksgiving, Oceania, Asia, Hollow Point, Freetopia, and Liberty Democratic Alliance.

Tags: Casual, Democratic, Eco-Friendly, Featured, Free Trade, Independent, Liberal, Libertarian, Map, Medium, Neutral, Offsite Forums, and 4 others.Regional Government, Social, Trading Cards, and World Assembly.

Regional Power: Moderate

Arctic contains 44 nations, the 554th most in the world.

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Today's World Census Report

The Most Stationary in Arctic

Long-term World Census surveillance revealed which nations have been resident in their current region for the longest time.

As a region, Arctic is ranked 7,417th in the world for Most Stationary.

NationWA CategoryMotto
1.The Kingdom of The Ice BearsDemocratic Socialists“Created November 14, 2004”
2.The Commonwealth of International-NationsAuthoritarian Democracy“The Queen is dead long live the Queen”
3.The Uncharted Coordinates of Laffin IslandInoffensive Centrist Democracy“first honesty, then industry, then concentration.”
4.The Engis of RengisFather Knows Best State“Middle-sized happiness is within reach, some reach it”
5.The Song of Blue SavannahFather Knows Best State“My home is where the heart is”
6.The Grand Duchy of YoooFather Knows Best State“Viva ut vivas. Live that you may live forever”
7.The Office of The Arctic AmbassadorIron Fist Consumerists“Representing the Arctic”
8.The Federal Republic of YaynaDemocratic Socialists“Hello John got a new lens?”
9.The Displaced Settlers of AmzosNew York Times Democracy“So this is your idea of sharing”
10.The Colony of Frost Bight IslandDemocratic Socialists“Aslovaniūs cūos Lomit”
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In light of our recent n-day debacle, the Novozemlyan Ministry of Agriculture has produced a proposal for a Nuclear Operations Procedure Extraordinaire, called the NOPE:

1. Embrace guerrilla warfare. Hit and move.
Only join the faction when you are ready to launch nukes (or actively defend, see #6) . Never sit around in the faction doing nothing. It makes us an easy target, and there is no participation trophy. Spend most of your time under cover in a megafaction.

2. Hide in one of the megafactions. Stockpile nukes. Locate targets before leaving megafaction. Locate at least two targets.

3. Join Polar, target and launch immediately. Fire enough nukes at your targets to inflict more than 100 radiation combined. This way, if you are later destroyed you are still a net positive to our score.

4. Leave Polar as quickly as possible. Repeat step 2.

5. Strategic specialists should hide in a megafaction and stockpile shield. Join Polar at a quiet time and donate to the shield bank, then leave. Rinse, repeat.

6. When a nation in the faction is under attack while you are in a megafaction, join Polar to help out only if you have a realistic chance of success. Sometimes cutting our losses and losing one nation instead of two might be preferable.

7. Look for easy targets instead of trying to retaliate on stronger factions.

Thoughts?

Perhaps publish this advice again just before the next event

Novaya Zemlya wrote:What a sh*tshow that was.

Classic Polar. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

Novaya Zemlya wrote:NOPE
Thoughts?

Generally yes, that's a solid strategy.

There's the theoretical issue of border control, though. I've kept Polar open to all nations to welcome Antarctica and others, but a passwordless faction is also open to ...suicide score bombing? (Nations joining without any intention to follow the NOPE or with the implicit goal of getting wiped out in Polar.) So its worth thinking if that's a real issue we're worried about and if yes then how we include nations from other regions while minimizing that risk.

There were a few nations this time that joined and just sat and got wiped out, does that score against us?

What's been going on?

Usual

Reviewing the forecast for Arctic Over the next 7 days

The average daytime maximum temperature will be around -17°C, with a high for the week of -14°C expected on the afternoon of Saturday 23rd. The mean minimum temperature will be -32°C, dipping to its lowest on the evening of Friday 29th at -38°C. Expect the coming week to have mostly dry days although Saturday is likely to see a little snow. The current forecast indicates Saturday will have the most precipitation with an accumulation of around 2.0mm. On the whole winds are likely to be moderate.

Open question if anyone's interested: Which real-world country does your NS country most feel like?

Asking since I've always imagined and aspired for Maas to be a kind of "maritime Switzerland" (similar population size, democracy, devolution, small towns, orderly trains) but now going over my main policies and census categories (large but not huge population, nuclear weapons, massive cheese industry, overall culture, tourism, bikes over cars, secularism) it feels like I've created more of a "federal France" - which is also fine, all memes aside.

Maas wrote:Open question if anyone's interested: Which real-world country does your NS country most feel like?

Asking since I've always imagined and aspired for Maas to be a kind of "maritime Switzerland" (similar population size, democracy, devolution, small towns, orderly trains) but now going over my main policies and census categories (large but not huge population, nuclear weapons, massive cheese industry, overall culture, tourism, bikes over cars, secularism) it feels like I've created more of a "federal France" - which is also fine, all memes aside.

I also am inspired by Switzerland in the aspect of it once being Confederation but it keeping the Confederation title for historical reasons. Iceland in it having a similar population size and most of the population being located in one city, Greenland in the cultural aspect, and the process of how a bill becomes a law but apply it to government in the way I did it. Also ancient Athens in governance too and Sparta in how militaristic they were.

I answered my issues to my own preference but anything I couldn’t decide upon I answered by what legislation I thought would be passed in England

Mostly the nation turns out as inoffensive centrist but this being NationStates there are sometimes some surprise results to your answers

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