NationStates News

by Ostrovskiy
Mon, 14 Sep 2026

Dobrii den, tovarisch!

The People's Issue Editing Team has noticed a major problem: while there are many issues that are faced only by the capitalist pigs, there are but a few exclusive to the socialist cause. This is unacceptable. We must seize the means of issues writing!

Therefore, we are proud to announce the first-ever themed Issues Contest, held between September 29 and November 7. Here are the rules:

1. You must submit your issue between September 29 and November 7,
2. You must check the "this is an entry for the Issues Contest" box, and
3. Your issue must be only valid for socialist nations.

Winners will be guaranteed to receive the Medal of Issues Writing. We believe in "from each according to their ability, to each according to their need", so if you need help, just get down to Got Issues to get advice from us and other authors.

Remember that you only get one entry and that coauthored submissions don't count, and, as always, za zdorovie!

by Max Barry
Thu, 03 Sep 2026

It happened! Our nation counter just ticked over 10,000,000 nations created since NationStates was born.

Only 300,000 or so of those are active, of course. We're coming up on our 24th birthday; a lot of nations have come and gone. It seems like only yesterday we were celebrating 500,000 nations, but it wasn't. It definitely wasn't.

The ten millionth nation was, no lie, NS 10 Millionth Nation. So someone was paying attention.

by Max Barry
Tue, 01 Sep 2026

You know the feeling: You're facing a pile of new General Assembly resolutions, and your people want to know which ones your nation will adopt. Oh, all the resolutions sound noble enough, on their face. But can you trust they'll be good for your nation?

No! Of course you can't! That's why we're introducing Tranches. A tranche is a bundle of General Assembly resolutions. What's in it? Well, that's up to the author of each tranche. Any nation can create a tranche and pack it full of whichever resolutions they like. Then any other World Assembly member nation can follow it, adopt its recommendations in one hit, and continue receiving its recommendations as new GA resolutions pass.

Of course, not everyone will agree on which resolutions are best — just like not everyone agrees my nation is the best, even though it clearly is. That's why, when it comes to tranches, you probably want to seek out ones that fit your own particular nation's vision.

Which will those be? Who knows! I'm writing this before there are any tranches. I don't know what you people will do. But I'm sure they'll be good.

View Tranches

by Bisofeyr
Wed, 19 Aug 2026

Believe it or not, it's already been over a month and a half since the General Assembly was reset and reformed, and we've added ten foundational resolutions to the books! Each was written by dedicated authors, had custom stats created by our Issues Editing team, was reviewed by our newly-elected World Assembly Secretariat, and was voted on by thousands of WA members worldwide.

During this time, we debuted our optional compliance system, where each nation can individually choose which GA resolutions to adopt (if any!), rather than having them all imposed universally. But there are consequences for nations who don't adopt enough resolutions. Until now, these consequences have been purely theoretical, but since the tenth resolution has passed, there is a real 75% minimum adoption threshold to retain voting power in the World Assembly.

In other words:

If you want to vote on World Assembly resolutions, you must adopt 75% or more of active GA resolutions.

Some resolutions already have high adoption numbers even without this incentive, and we look forward to seeing that increase.

And if you're thinking, "This is starting to feel like a lot of resolutions to manage individually..." we have something coming soon on that front, too.

by Max Barry
Wed, 12 Aug 2026

Your nation's newspaper, which has been faithfully delivering issues in headline form since 2011, just gained two variants.

As well as the classic version, there is now a slightly more breathless tabloid, for those stories that are a little more SHOCKING and HARD TO BELIEVE. And there's a more subtle broadsheet for readers who aren't impressed by frivolous details such as color pictures.

This feels like a good time to mention there are over 1,850 different issues your nation can face, with a combined total of over 7,000 choices. And you might be thinking, well, Max, that's not so impressive, I bet my AI assistant could write a lot of issues if I asked, but wait! Each of these has been lovingly hand-crafted by real authors and editors who desire nothing more than to expose the hypocritical lunacy offered by modern political so-called choice. I think that's nice.

by Klaus Devestatorie
Mon, 03 Aug 2026

The winners of our first ever banner contest have been patiently waiting for their entries to appear in-game, and they arrived today! All ten banners are now available to any nation that successfully achieves the necessary unlock criteria. A further 31 new banners have also been added, so look out for them as well.

Thanks again to everyone who participated!

by Southland
Sat, 25 Jul 2026

Hello, Cleveland — err, NationStates!

This year we received an astonishing 139 submissions from our very talented community. After a careful evaluation process that involved a bizarre gardening gnome accident, we are pleased to announce that for ten lucky users, tonight, we’ll be rocking them tonight, because they will walk home as this year’s winners! The winners, in alphabetical order by author, are:

• “First Past the Deal” by The Hidden Pirate Cove of Chan Island

• “Hostile Takeover” by The Eternal Radiance of Cretox State

• “Thief Rex” by The United Peoples of Dexterra

• “Call no Man Happy Until He is Dead” by The Most Kingly Commonwealth of Haloginland

• “No Truce with the Tourists” by The Arguments of Hemogard

• “Parks and Depredation” by The Socialist Republic of Krusavich

• “Insert Headline Here” by The Most Serene Republic of North Southumberland

• “Instruments of Destruction” by The Suspicious Minds of The Realizer

• “Legally Binned” by The Republic of Rudastan

• “Architects of Tomorrow” by The Cosmocratic Order of Valrifell

They will not only see their issues published in the near future, but four will be receiving their very first "Issues Author" badge. Which means keep your eyes peeled on your inboxes or the Issues thread in the "Got Issues?" forum for them. Congrats to all, and remember to keep dancing to the pipes of Pan!

by Max Barry
Thu, 02 Jul 2026

General Assembly this, General Assembly that. You'd think we have nothing else to post about. But IT HAS HAPPENED: the greatest revamp in our 23-year history of international legislation, or at least since we got lawyered by the United Nations.

There are several preview News posts on this very page that you've already carefully studied, of course, but here's your headline summary of what's new right now:

• The entire 862-resolution corpus of the General Assembly has been archived. While you're there, notice resolutions are now searchable. How convenient!

• The fresh-faced all-new General Assembly has 0 resolutions on the books

• The newly-elected WA Secretariat (congratulations Varanius, UPC, Merethin, Islandwalk, and Moduland!) will attach Opinions to at-vote resolutions, telling you how to vote, if you know what's good for you

• Resolutions have a World Census analysis, which previews what they might do to your nation, stats-wise

• Resolutions won't be automatically implemented in your nation any more — instead you choose whether to adopt them. If you don't adopt a certain minimum percentage of resolutions, you'll be barred from voting on new legislation, but for this introductory period, that percentage is 0%.

This is the culmination of a huge effort from many people over more time than really bears thinking about, some of which is documented in the Working Paper and the Plan. Thank you to everyone who contributed, especially the really persistent ones (both on staff and not), and our invaluable NS3 beta testers.

This is a big moment in terms of what it means for the future, but also for closing the book on past accomplishments. Is the final NationStates GA body of work superior to the actual United Nations'? I mean, that's not for me to judge, but we do have resolutions on Freedom of Travel (#601), International Scientific Cooperation (#615), Statelessness (#386), Landmine Safety (#356), Infectious Disease Control (#320), Biomedical Donor Rights (#217), AND Regulating Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (#748). And not all of them have been repealed. So you tell me.

by Sedgistan
Mon, 22 Jun 2026

With the GA2026 updates set to launch next week, elections for the inaugural World Assembly Secretariat are commencing imminently, to ensure officials are settled comfortably into their offices, and lobbyists know whose hands to shake.

Click here for your local time: 83 days ago

For more information on how the elections work, see our previous deep dive, and join in the debate in the new Secretariat Chambers!

by Bisofeyr
Fri, 19 Jun 2026

This is our third and final of our "deep dives" into the changes being brought to a General Assembly Near You in just a short while! During our announcement post, we revealed that we were going to be able to make significant changes to the way we treat compliance with General Assembly resolutions. We originally called this feature "Compliance" but have now changes the name to "Adoption."

The old system

Up until now, every time the General Assembly passed a resolution, every single member of the World Assembly was immediately brought into compliance with that resolution via statistical changes; see more on how these changes were determined in this previous deep dive.

What's changing

Now, nations must actively choose to adopt passed General Assembly resolutions, only after which will statistical changes be implemented. To be able to retain voting power in the World Assembly, nations must have adopted 80% of all passed resolutions. If a nation falls below this adoption threshold, they will be required to adopt more resolutions before they regain their voting power.

What happens if I answer a contradictory issue?

Once you adopt a resolution, that's it! The system roughly mirrors what currently happens if you answer an issue that contradicts a General Assembly resolution, which means that you won't incur any negative consequences, and your percentage of resolutions adopted will remain the same.

What about if a resolution I've adopted gets repealed?

As noted in the previous deep dive, repeals will not have statistical effects, meaning that the impacts of having adopted a resolution are not undone simply because that resolution was repealed. What a repeal does is remove that resolution from being counted towards your compliance threshold. This means that if 5 resolutions have been passed and you've adopted 4, and then one of the resolutions you've adopted gets repealed, you'll be brought from 80% to 75% adoption, meaning that you would need to adopt an additional resolution to maintain your voting power.

What if I've newly joined the World Assembly and don't want to read through all previously passed resolutions?

There will be a button that very conveniently lets you adopt all active resolutions, which will be applied in sequential order.

What if I adopt a resolution and then regret it?

In this case, we give the same advice we give to people who answer an issue option and then regret it: you'll eventually get the chance to reverse it if you continue playing the game and answering issues.

What if I'm the delegate of a region and accidentally go below the adoption threshold?

The only thing that will happen is that you will not be able to vote or approve new proposals. Losing voting power does not impact your status as delegate, your endorsements, or any mechanics outside of the World Assembly.

by Haymarket Riot
Tue, 09 Jun 2026

This is the second of our 'deep dive' threads into new features coming to the General Assembly next month. Stay tuned for more!

Wait, don't resolutions already have statistical effects?
Yes, but until the GA2026 update, statistical effects are determined by the resolution's category, and otherwise do not vary. Category-based effects are quite limited, which means sometimes there's only a weak connection between the text of a resolution and its statistical effects. We want to change that, so the resolution's text is more accurately translated into real stats impact.

How will the statistical effects be determined?
There's two pieces of the puzzle here: you, the player, and us, the site staff team. Write your proposal any way you want! If you want to outlaw all basket weaving, go for it. Sometime after your proposal is submitted, but before it goes to vote, the Issues Editing team will internally discuss and write statistics based on your writing, just like we do for Issues. If and when your proposal reaches the voting floor and becomes a General Assembly resolution, you will start to see baskets across the world become unwoven before your very eyes!

Who are Issues Editors and why do they get to decide stats?
Issues Editors help polish player-submitted issues and code their statistical effects, along with other writing tasks. They're site experts on translating words into math, and multiple people will look at each issue and resolution to determine its stats. If a proposal is in the queue but Issue Editors haven't finalized its stats, it won't go to vote, but we don't expect hold-ups.

Will my national policies be affected by resolutions?
Resolutions will be capable of setting and canceling policies in nations, yes. Due to another new feature, nations will also have more choice over which resolutions to adopt — so those determined that their baskets shall remain woven will have an avenue to do that without being forced out of the World Assembly altogether. More on that in a future news post.

Will I be able to tell which stats might be affected by a resolution?
Relevant resolutions will display a World Census analysis on its likely statistical impact, though this is only a general guide based on a "typical" nation, not a guarantee of results. This analysis will be developed while proposals are in the proposal queue, and be viewable by Delegates who are deciding which proposals to approve. Here's what it might look like:

If I don't like the effects of a resolution, can I undo it?
No, just like you can't un-answer an issue. But you can mitigate or reverse its effects by answering Issues.

How will repeals impact statistical changes?
They won't. If the GA repeals a resolution, this will merely remove it from the active list, so nations can no longer adopt it.

Can I make stats suggestions?
You can certainly try by writing the resolution in a specific way, but there's no guarantee. Issue Editors will do their best to translate the heart of each law into statistical effects, but as experienced nation-leaders well know, sometimes the stats don't quite come out like you might expect.

What will happen to categories?
As mentioned elsewhere, categories (and the categories rule) will be obsolete as of July 1, for all resolutions submitted after that date.

by Millenhaal
Sun, 31 May 2026

Ready your word processors, because it's that time of year again!

That's right, the annual Issues Contest is back for another edition! Reinforce the door to your office and gather your ministers, because this year we intend to take things up to eleven and see an onslaught of dilemmas hitting the forums. We hope one of them will be yours! If you like having fun with puns, have a penchant for policy, or just want to saddle the multiverse's leaders with conundrums of your own design, then this contest is for you!

What do you get if you win, I hear you cry? Well, if you are selected as one of our 10 (not 11, unfortunately...) contest winners, your work will be guaranteed publication as a 100% official NationStates issue (and you'll also get the shiny badge that entails!). If it's your first time writing an issue, that's fine! Mosey on down to our Got Issues FAQ and Issue-Writing Guide, and post your drafts on the Got Issues? subforum to get feedback and critiques from fellow authors.

To enter, you must submit your issue:

1. in the month of June; and

2. tick the "This is an entry for the Issues Contest" box.

Remember: every player only gets one entry, so make it count! Additionally, coauthored issues cannot be submitted for the contest. All submissions are final!

Good luck, and happy writing!

by Haymarket Riot
Tue, 26 May 2026

After several weeks of deliberation, the Issues Editing team has come to a decision about who our 10 winners are! To make sure we do their photos justice, we've given each of them a cute nickname. Congratulations to:

Pipe Dream by Peoples Republic of West Korea

Rock On by Parenthos

Friends in High Places by New Bradfordsburg

Tilting Towards Progress by Glamorous

Snowed In by Toandromeda

Release the Balloons! by Northern Cheek

Eternal Pride by Alinek

Just Plane Cool by Uzibekistan

Chugging Along the Straight & Narrow by Ashlinsk

Windswept Hills by Natit Vakkazi

Thank you to everyone who participated in this contest! For our winners, please note that you'll be receiving an extra banner slot shortly once these photos are added to the game, as promised! Please note that even if your image wasn't included in this set, we may use your image in the future. If we do, you'll be notified via telegram.

Addendum (28/05/2026): One of the previous winners was found to be AI-generated after this post was initially made, and has since been replaced by Friends in High Places. The submitter of the entry that was removed is no longer considered a contest "winner" and therefore will not receive an extra banner slot. Additionally, because their entry is AI-generated, we cannot use it in the game. While we tried our best to exclude AI-generated entries (we excluded roughly a quarter of submissions for being AI-generated through manual analysis), some inevitably slip through the cracks when dealing with the volume of photographs we were processing. We've learned a lot about spotting AI photographs and hopefully, if we run this contest again, there is no repeat of this incident.

by Chingis
Tue, 19 May 2026

Last week, we wrapped up the third Global Trade Fair. Some technical hiccups aside, it would appear that plenty of stashing and inspecting took place.

As always, this event is a challenge to report on in its entirety, with several different regions performing well. Most notable among them this year was The League, leading in eight different categories. Honorable mentions go to The Frontier Sea, Industriality, and Trica, all of which delivered strong performances at this event.

Global Trade Fair Region Leaderboards

Some event stats:

• Nations performed 181,839 actions, including 23,427 inspections and 107,917 stashings.

• The most searched-for items were Patriotic Flags, Inspector Uniforms, Cassowary Eggs, Sticky Labels, and Kittens.

• The least searched-for items were Coffee Beans, Gas Centrifuges, and Electronics.

• The Trade Fair ended with nations holding 97,926 unstashed items. The most commonly unstashed item was Cassowary Eggs (10,708).

• 1,007 items were destroyed. The most commonly destroyed item was Cassowary Eggs (323).

Thank you for participating, and may all your trades be fair!

by Klaus Devestatorie
Thu, 07 May 2026

*banjo music starts playing*

Come on down y'all to the third annual NationStates Global Trade Fair. Bring yer missus, bring yer kids, and bring yer truck for all the free stuff yer gonna take home after.

We got potatoes, deep fried, covered in barbeque sauce, WEEEE-HOO! We got some of them fancy cassowary eggs and you can have 'em scrambled or fried, whichever you pick. If you like coffee, we got enough coffee beans to keep you and everyone you ever loved or known awake 'til kingdom come. Every last morsel has to be eaten, so fill 'er up!

If you wanna represent y'all's choice of nation, we got patriotic flags, just for you. We got one here with the Butcher of Bigtopia on it, he's a cheerful looking fella. These ones have the Pun-isher logo. Thin Violet Line flags over here. Any of these offend you, we got these sticky labels and you can just put 'em on top, no biggie.

That ain't all though, we got wares. Y'all need tractor parts, y'all got 'em, all the parts anyone could ever need. We got some extra special ones that spin real fast if you want some 'o those. Over that end we've got all them fancy electronics, two for one deal on catalytic converters. If you need a shipping container to fit all that in, free ones out the front. You sort yer own transport out, that ain't our business.

Yer kids ain't gonna be bored neither. They can dig for gold in the sandpit, we filled it with gold last week and some of it better still be in there. Got some extra special fancy gold in there that glows green too. Make sure they put an inspector uniform on first, for safety, don't want them getting their clothes too dirty.

We'll see you down at the Global Trade Fair. Every family that visits this weekend is gonna get they-selves a free kitten. That's right, a free kitten. First in first served. See you soon!

NationStates Global Trade Fair

• Trade Fair begins 129 days ago (click for local time)

• Trade Fair ends 127 days ago (click for local time)

by Bisofeyr
Sat, 25 Apr 2026

This post comes courtesy of Issues Moderator Bisofeyr.

A little known fact about the sprawling halls of the World Census Office Building is that there is very little sound insulation between the floors, meaning that the lower you go, the more noise accumulates. This would be more widely known if more people bothered to venture to this Office Building, but unfortunately its only denizens seem to be overworked statisticians and underworked tour guides.

Still, it's a fascinating place that is more bustling than ever, due to some diligent bureaucrats who are intent on giving you -- yes, YOU! -- new and improved information on your nation. They have spent hours toiling away with field agents to find relevant information regarding each of our nations, and improving existing rankings.

Now, they ask for some additional feedback from all the World's Leaders to ensure that these statistics (both new and amended) are properly calibrated, and for any other feedback you may have before they are launched around the world:

• Nudity: a beach-loving agent noticed on their day off that our current rankings for nudism inadequately measure how much our citizens like to be naked, and has adjusted the algorithm to bring that up-to-date.

• Environmental Beauty: when a national leader complained that no matter how much they restricted environmental looting, the Census did not denote an improvement in their environment, we determined that some adjustments needed to be made.

• Most Superstitious: some folks rumor that the hallways in our building were haunted, and a bet gone wrong morphed into a measurement of how prominent superstitions are in different nations.

• Respect for Elders: older members of staff took notice at whose grandchildren called them most, and decided to start tracking the trend across nations.

• Most Discriminatory: some of the utopias among us complained at how they were not able to brag about how low discrimination is, and we duly obliged.

• Household Size: someone once asked us whether the average size of a household correlates positively or negatively with economic output, and rather than looking it up, we painstakingly polled citizens from around the world!

• Most Overworked: World Census agents needed statistics if they were going to complain to their supervisor regarding working fewer hours.

• Most Attractive: some say that the creator of this statistic was sorely disappointed when they saw their score.

• Multilingualism: one of our field agents travelled the world learning languages, only to find out that there was no big scale for them to brag about.

• Hierarchy: if there's one thing the World Census knows how to do, it's sky-high bureaucracy -- and now you can see how your nation stacks up!

• Market Diversification: we know the size of our industries, but someone wanted to know which national stock market would provide the most diversification for their portfolio, so we went above and beyond and ranked every nation.

• Recycling Efficiency: we all know the adage of "reduce, reuse, recycle," but upon further analysis, we've found that most nation's do a really bad job at actually promulgating that message -- and now you can see how bad they really are!

• Most Sport-Obsessed: sometimes when watching sports, I rip off my shirt and start swinging it around in the air to show my support; that would probably cause my rank to go up on this measure of how dedicated a populace is to their teams.

• Funniest Citizens: following a night where Census Agents attended an avant garde comedy routine, they wished they had known how awful it was going to be.

The World Census thanks you for your time and consideration!

by Max Barry
Thu, 16 Apr 2026

Fun fact: The last new policy was Cannibalism. This time, it's about nations who are not eating their own, but rather providing them with free tertiary education. You can decide for yourself which is better.

This policy developed by The Effervescent Esperance of The Ankhalic Vaspriot.

by The Ankhalic Vaspriot
Wed, 01 Apr 2026

In the midst of recent World Assembly restructuring efforts, a WA bureaucrat discovered that the entire World Assembly Photography Division was accidentally fired. When this information reached the Journalism Division in three to five business days, a panic ensued as they realized how insufficient their collections were to accurately portray the cornucopia of issues the world now faces. This only led to further questions, such as why photos of Brancaland's capital look nearly identical to those of Blackacre's, or why the same handful of politicians seem to photobomb every image of certain figures. The World Assembly Fourth Wall Repair Division quickly silenced these concerns, but agreed that the WA's photography collection was in dire need of an upgrade.

As such, the WA resolved to do what it does best: pester your nation to do things on its behalf. After sacrificing piles of old legislation to Violet, the NationStates Banner Photography Contest appeared!

Banner Photography Contest 2026

The WA bureaucrats overseeing the project want YOU to go take some beautiful pictures and submit them for use as newspaper images. They've even promised an extra custom banner slot for the ones they like best! For all the information on what pictures they're looking for and how you can participate, see this forum thread.

Happy photographing!

by Haymarket Riot
Mon, 30 Mar 2026

This is the first of our 'deep dive' threads into new features coming to the General Assembly. Stay tuned for more!

What's a WASec?

The World Assembly Secretariat (WASec) is a body of five nations who are empowered to make publicly-advertised voting recommendations on all World Assembly resolutions at vote, both in the Security Council and in the General Assembly. The head honcho of this group will be the Secretary-General, as we thank Catherine Gratwick for her decades-long service in that role until now.

How can I become a WASec member?

Great question! WASec members will be elected every six months, and you must have five endorsements to run, along with submitting a campaign dispatch explaining why people should vote for you. Once elections begin, every WA nation with more than 30 million people will be eligible to vote.

How do the elections work?

Each eligible World Assembly member has one vote in each round of the election, which they can cast for their preferred candidate. There are two rounds to the voting process, each of which lasts for 24 hours. After the first round, the top 25 candidates get through to the second round, where they are listed in the order of votes received in the previous round.

The top five candidates from the second round then form the new Secretariat, with the nation that received the most votes becoming Secretary-General.

While the Secretariat will comprise five members, nations are only permitted one vote in each round of the elections, to help enable a diverse field of candidates to be elected.

How can I be an informed voter?

As mentioned previously, candidates are required to submit a campaign bulletin as a condition of running in the elections. You can page through these dispatches when making your voting choices. Your region may also choose to 'boost' a candidate as their preferred choice.

In addition to this, candidates will send out campaign telegrams. To avoid people who don't care too much about receiving these being spammed, we'll be introducing a new "Events" telegram category and filter, so you can restrict these. Candidates will be required to select 'Events' in the appropriate dropdown menu when they send out a telegram.

How do Secretariat voting recommendations work?

Each Secretariat member can post a voting recommendation with accompanying dispatch for every World Assembly proposal that reaches the voting floor. These will be prominently displayed on the World Assembly pages. The Secretary-General's dispatch will be displayed most prominently, at the top of the page.

Why implement WASec, and why now?

The World Assembly is one of the most unique aspects of this game and we'd love to increase player engagement with it. Players will have more opportunities to directly influence WA policy through both elections and through serving as WASec members and thus implementing recommendations. This idea has been bouncing around site staff as an idea for years, and our techies are setting aside their coding time to work on this this year!

What's the release date?

We expect to hold WASec elections for the first time in July 2026, with the exact date being announced shortly after the implementation of GA changes at the start of July.

For further discussion on the World Assembly Secretariat, please see this forum thread.

by Chingis
Sun, 15 Mar 2026

Our fourteenth NDay has wrapped up in scenes of barren nations, irradiated factions and empty shieldbanks. Congratulations to this year's winner, Horsemen of the Apocalypse, who don the crown for the sixth time in the event's history. They conclude this event with an all-time high 1.9 million score, over 8 million strikes and nearly 5 million intercepts, leaving us to wonder whether we will see these records broken again in September.

Additional acknowledgement is owed to Anime Nations Against Liberals, who found themselves neck-in-neck with the eventual champions after a successful early alliance, but lost out in the second-half infighting to fall to a respectable second place, albeit over one million points clear of our winners. The following three factions found themselves pulled into taking sides in the Horsemen-Anime divide. Horsemen-aligned Supreme Powers Eviscerating All Rivals claimed third, having fought off Starlight Brigade and Canopy, who claimed fourth and fifth, respectively. No factions within the top 5 were spared from battle scars, with radiation levels ranging between thirty thousand and one million.

The Final Leaderboard:

	Faction	Score	Nations	Region
1.	Horsemen of the Apocalypse	1,894,080	14,067 Nations	Hell
2.	Anime Nations Against Liberals	574,174	6,159 Nations	Anime Nations Against Liberals
3.	Supreme Powers Eviscerating All Rivals	409,231	4,513 Nations	Supreme Powers Eviscerating All Rivals
4.	Starlight Brigade	224,585	1,259 Nations	Refugia
5.	Canopy	116,069	1,481 Nations	Canopy Command
6.	The RainDrop Pact	103,526	437 Nations	RainDrop Pact HQ
7.	Banfield Defence Front	93,230	0 Nations	Banfield Defence Front
8.	RAILGUN	55,013	10 Nations	RAILGUN
9.	The Trident Alliance	35,772	303 Nations	The Trident Alliance
10.	The Subspace Rebels	34,041	10 Nations	the Subspace Hideout

See the full final leaderboard

Highest Scores Per Nation (min 10 nations):

	Faction	Score per Nation	Nations	Region
1.	RAILGUN	5,501.3	10 Nations	RAILGUN
2.	The Subspace Rebels	3,404.1	10 Nations	the Subspace Hideout
3.	Putin's Squad	1,446.8	14 Nations	Franz Josef Land
4.	Tyrants for Mutually Assured Destruction	890.5	10 Nations	Tyrants for Mutually Assured Destruction
5.	Commonwealth Defence Force	484.7	12 Nations	Commonwealth of Sovereign States
6.	Nuking Buddies	478.7	19 Nations	Einmarken
7.	Walbard Defense Pact	455.1	42 Nations	The Empire of Walbard
8.	Mongol Horde	377.5	10 Nations	Mongol
9.	The Outer South	370.7	74 Nations	The Outskirts
10.	Brian's Demise	326.1	25 Nations	Beating Brian Up Gang

Some stats from the day:

• 316 factions were created.

• 64,847 nations joined a faction.

• 53,179,655 nukes were targeted.

• 46,416,631 nukes were launched.

• 14,897,467 nukes were shot down.

• 2,955,710 nukes were shot down by the shield bank.

• 29,117,314 strikes occurred for 4,866,843 radiation.

Thank you for launching!

by Bisofeyr
Tue, 03 Mar 2026

Since prehistory, humanity has been intrigued by fire. Since its Promethean innovation, the lick of flame has captured our minds, hearts, and spirits. For millennia we have fed it, feared it, and poked it with big sticks; yet, we still get surprised by it. The pyromaniacal streak running through our civilization has only grown since, and the geniuses among us have turned it into great boons -- metallurgy, electricity, medium-rare steak. Yet, with all positive developments, so too comes the negative -- flamethrowers, social media, well-done steak.

Alas, we are haunted by fire-laden atrocities even today, as the leaders of our great nations seem to never learn. The distant wail of sirens and the ominous ticking of the Doomsday Clock can mean only one thing: the threat of a nuclear Armageddon looms once more. The time to prepare is short, so prepare your soon-to-be-irradiated populaces while you still can.

Click here for your local time: 192 days ago

History shows us that the best way to fight fire is with fire, so be sure to pre-register for your chosen faction here, discuss the ideal material for governmental bunkers in Vault 41, and read up on the briefing materials provided by experienced bombardiers below:

Prometheus would be proud. Probably.

by Electrum
Tue, 03 Mar 2026

And that's a wrap! After several days of blood, sweat and tears, and yes, love too, the dust has settled and the multiverse has settled on yet another top seven Wonders of the World listicle. While other members of the NationStates team say that this event is all about Valentine's day, in my heart of hearts I know that February 14 is also National Cream-Filled Chocolates Day. And, according to this very reputable website I've found, February 14 is also Pet Theft Awareness Day, World Impotence Day and World Bonobo Day. So it seems like there's something to celebrate every day.

Without further ado, here are the wonders that the World Assembly has chosen as the best of the best. We're done making lists, this is it.

Rank	Name	Leader
1.	The Silver Medal Repository Honoring the Multiverse's Second Best	The Harmonic Union of Equestrian States
2.	The Mauerstädte of the Unassailable Wall of Haltengeld The Great Cities upon the Unassailable Wall	The 15 Kingdoms﹠Colonial Empire of The Terren Dominion
3.	Waldeinsamkeit The peaceful feeling of being alone in the forest.	The Nostalgic Halcyon of Azure Mines
4.	Qurari Immunisation & Labour Allocation Program Through health, productivity. Through productivity, advancement.	The Cursed Burning Legions of Hellslayer
5.	Tracen Academy Eclipse First, The Rest Nowhere	The 🩷Umazing Nation🩷 of IZERN
6.	The Last Minute The self-titled wonder is busy racing the clock.	The Southern Ring Republic of Macrasetia
7.	The Temple of Flemingovia Flemingovia Bless you all, and may He bless The North Pacific	The Artist of Art Landia

For the first time ever, those sporty nerds over at NS Sports have taken the top prize after two consecutive runner-ups. It seems like the entire world agrees with the schoolyard taunt, 'first is the worst, second is the best' with The Silver Medal Repository. The folks over at The Terren Dominion have singlehandedly stuffed the World Assembly ballot with The Mauerstädte of the Unassailable Wall of Haltengeld in second place. People come up to it and they say, "We've never seen such a big, beautiful wall with cities before," and they're right. In third place is Waldeinsamkeit, an abstract sensation of being alone in a forest brought to you from the region of Forest. You can smell the petrichor. And you can smell those special languages that allow the mashing together of any words to create new sensations.

In fourth place is the Qurari Immunisation & Labour Allocation Program from Hellslayer. We don't know much about the program or why it's in the list but it seems like the world really loves and prioritises vaccine feudalism. Coming next is the Tracen Academy which is something we can't really write about because we're too afraid to understand what an Umamusume is. In sixth place is the self- referential The Last Minute, describing the timeless clock tower brought to you by last year's fourth place finisher, Macrasetia. Imagine what place they could have been if the wonder wasn't last minute. I'll stop describing this wonder now because I would like to keep the metahumour to a minimum, I know people find it annoying. Finally, just sneaking onto the list is The Temple of Flemingovia, a well respected place from The North Pacific comprised of worshippers who can't stop banging on about Flemingovia.

Here are some statistics from this event:

• Wonders created: 2,004
• Resources contributed: 575,504 which was made up of:
  • Affection: 113,875
  • Passion: 68,142
  • Friendship: 68,484
  • Esteem: 65,047
  • Vanity: 66,393
  • Jealousy: 79,244
  • Empathy: 61,823
  • Generosity: 52,496
• Common items crafted: 246,752
• Uncommon items crafted: 52,776
• Rare items crafted: 8,085
• Epic items crafted: 833
• Legendary items crafted: 45
• Total items crafted: 308,491
• Items lost due to failed crafting attempts: 9,136

by Haymarket Riot
Sat, 14 Feb 2026

With the site back up and all major systems functional post-breach, we're happy to announce the belated re-opening of the wonderful world of wonders! Did you know that, in addition to love, St. Valentine is also the patron saint of fainting? Just something to think about if you can't help but swoon over your special someone.

With release imminent, you can construct monuments to love starting right about now (or to hate, if you must, but I'd say that's just love repackaged). Love is simply the name for pursuit of the whole, per Plato, and we're excited to see which monuments to love you're able to complete in light of that sentiment!

To discuss ways in which you're building Wonders, check out the Construction Zone on our forums! Happy building, lovelies!

by Max Barry
Wed, 04 Feb 2026

NationStates suffered a server breach on Jan 27 (or 28, depending on where you live), whereby an unauthorized person gained server entry and copied data offsite. The site was down for approximately 11 days, during which we audited our software, upgraded password security, and built an account recovery mechanism.

Please read this important notice. If you reused your NationStates password on other sites, you should change it on all those places.

Because your password was potentially compromised, in order to protect your account, we must force a password reset on all nations.

I'm very sorry this has happened, and take personal responsibility for not ensuring our security practices were adequate. I'm the guy with my name on the site, and when something like this happens, it's because I let it. NationStates is 23 years old but it's still in active development, and there's no reason it shouldn't be secure.

Please bear with our admins and moderators as they do their best.

Max.

by Max Barry
Fri, 23 Jan 2026

You might assume that the World Census is busy enough already, keeping track of almost 90 metrics of national performance across three hundred thousand nations on a daily basis. And you would be right. Those people never stop working. And it's not like we force them. They just love to measure. They need to measure. It is not completely healthy, to be honest. Psychologically. We have concerns.

But their obsessive need to keep busy is our gain, because a new ranking has emerged from the World Census labs!

• Accessibility

  Is your nation a one-size-fits-all kind of deal, or does it cater to a broad range of needs? Does it have paid maternity leave or wheelchair ramps, or provide broad access to healthcare? Are the wheelchair ramps death funnels for street gangs? These are some of the questions the World Census has begun to answer, with wheels on the ground, gathering real data, to determine the world's most and least Accessible nations.

This ranking was developed in The Pink 🩷 (great colour choice) holy (like cheese 🧀 or like religious 👼?) lucky 🍀 (are you feeling lucky?) Christmas 🎄 (who does not love this) Moon 🌙 Easter 🐰 (aka chocolate day) brains 🧠 (are we zombies now?) this reads like a list of all the stuff you love including NationStates and now you're the official mod of of Raionitu. The World Census extends its gratitude for sponsoring this important work.

by Max Barry
Sun, 11 Jan 2026

If you look closely, I mean, really closely, you will see a little smudge of a region banner on nation pages.

These unreadable yet adorable little splashes of color provide a visual connection with your region in a way that was previously only possible by reading boring words. You're welcome!