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Over the next 7 days the Arctic forecast suggests
The average daytime maximum temperature will be around -7°C, with a high for the week of -3°C expected on the afternoon of Sunday 28th. The mean minimum temperature will be -19°C, dipping to its lowest on the afternoon of Sunday 21st at -32°C. Expect the coming week to have mostly dry days although Monday 22nd and Friday 26th are likely to see a little snow. The indicators are that Sunday 21st will have the most precipitation with an accumulation of around 4.0mm. On the whole winds are likely to be fresh. Expect the strongest wind on Sunday morning, coming from a south easterly direction, and reaching around 33mph. However, the maximum wind gusts are forecast for Thursday morning
Maas, Norse Inuit Union, and Blaenavon
Do we need a new (custom) Banner to go with the new flag? or are we OK
The Outlook for Arctic
The average daytime maximum temperature will be around -25°C, with a high for the week of -14°C expected on the afternoon of Saturday 10th. The average minimum temperature will be -32°C, dipping to its lowest on the morning of Sunday 4th at -40°C. Expect the week ahead to remain predominantly dry. On the whole winds are likely to be light
I think we'd be fine with the current one. But if you or anyone has some fresh ideas then we can definitely also implement them (or even have another poll-referendum).
Best Nation in the world
It makes you wonder how people voted one way or the other, did nations canvass? Would canvassing do any good if it was random, the mind boggles
The whole 'Best Nation' thing was indeed a bit odd, so I decided to take a deep dive into it from the perspectives of methodology and how the title was eventually awarded.
For anyone interested, I've outlined my central discovery as a thesis and attached it here with the general proof of argument as best I can summarize it. Depending on what you're used to it might be a long read, apologies for that.
Any would-be generals for the upcoming nuclear event?
page=faction/fid=293 Polar returns!
gott mit uns
What a sh*tshow that was. I was targeted 30 seconds after joining and destroyed within 20 minutes. But hey, at least we are in the top 600 for best factions...
The Ice Bears, Maas, and Jajan
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, Jajan, and Blaenavon
Classic Polar. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
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.
Novaya Zemlya and Jajan
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.
Maas, Norse Inuit Union, and Blaenavon
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
Melting polar ice caps are redistributing a massive amount of water from the North and South poles across the world’s oceans. This is causing the Earth’s rotation to significantly slow.
You can see this phenomenon play out when a figure skater raises her arms over her head to rapidly spin. When she brings her arms back down, her spin slows. So as more and more water weight is diverted from the poles and distributed around Earth’s bulging centre, so too does the planet’s spin slow.
Maas, Norse Inuit Union, and Blaenavon
I'm sorry, but this doesn't make any sense scientifically. Any water that melts from the polar ice caps just flows off the edge of the world down into space like normal. If there's more water, it flows a bit faster, but the overall spinning of the Earth disc isn't affected in any way.
The Arctic Ambassador is referencing is a real one from Nature last week that I heard about as well. It's a rather minuscule amount of time (fragments of a second) but still interesting to think about. And a bit troubling.
Another weird event I have no idea how to play
It's all very simple: first you think of a wonder, then you create it, then you add an image though a custom banner, then you decide if you want it to be a collaborative effort and appoint other nations as leaders of the wonder while remaining the owner, then you make your wonder better by contributing resources, to get resources you of course solve small mathematical puzzles, then use those resources to craft items for your wonder, meanwhile other nations and unknown metrics evaluate your wonder while you keep solving the mathematical puzzles to obtain more resources to contribute to your or other nations' wonders...
Great, I can appoint Cashdeer to be the manager of my libertarian icon, the East Mendelstahl 'Big L' 'UK Weather' Tower. Maybe if I reduced my nation's integrity a bit then '13' would stop complaining when it gets overfunded and I could generate vast quantities of resources.
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