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Region: Forest
This makes sense if we accept the convention that the WA aspect of the game has to accommodate everybody's RP no matter how outlandish it is. I'm not sure why we do accept that, however, and I can't find any basis for it in the rules. HIV is an issue because of the rule on real-life references, not because of species-wank, and it's not at all clear to me that this rule entails multiple species. The basis of NS, and the first thing a player encounters, is the issues game and the issues make it clear that nations are assumed to exist in the modern era and be populated by humans. They talk about relations with Bigtopian immigrants but not with settlers from Tau Ceti, and conflict with Blackacre not the Galactic Trade Federation. The GA legislates on CFCs and carbon emissions without worrying that these laws won't make sense on planets that have a methane atmosphere and no ozone layer. In that spirit I feel the best response to species-wank, and an entirely legal one, it to simply ignore it. Players can do what they like when taking part in RP but it doesn't mean that everyone has to treat it all as canon.
Cretox state, Atsvea, Ruinenlust, The void territories, and 4 othersMiddle Barael, Nation of ecologists, Garbelia, and The most serene republicans