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Most World Assembly Endorsements: 50th Most Influential: 150th Most Nations: 510th+27
Most Valuable International Artwork: 973rd Most Cultured: 1,212th Most Beautiful Environments: 1,467th Smartest Citizens: 1,476th Nudest: 1,649th Nicest Citizens: 1,682nd Largest Publishing Industry: 1,722nd Most Eco-Friendly Governments: 1,733rd Most Advanced Public Education: 1,813th Most Inclusive: 1,825th Most Accessible: 1,842nd Highest Food Quality: 1,997th Most Compassionate Citizens: 2,056th Most Rebellious Youth: 2,309th Highest Economic Output: 2,386th Highest Wealthy Incomes: 2,485th Most Advanced Public Transport: 2,504th Largest Welfare Programs: 2,529th Largest Information Technology Sector: 2,677th Healthiest Citizens: 2,736th Most Scientifically Advanced: 2,771st Most Extensive Public Healthcare: 2,828th Most Secular: 2,870th Highest Poor Incomes: 3,028th Greatest Rich-Poor Divides: 3,227th Highest Disposable Incomes: 3,307th Highest Foreign Aid Spending: 3,343rd
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Have you ever wondered
Looking at the world
Looking in your mind
Have you ever wondered
You are a philosopher
What goes through your mind?
Have you ever wondered...

Welcome:
Welcome to Philosophers, a friendly, inclusive region where we all wonder in our own way.
Guide to NationStates.

History:
We are the proud offspring of Philosophy 115.
Philosophers was founded on 18 May 2021.
Philosophers' map became the Featured Map of the day on Nov 7 2025.

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Regional:
Philosophers News.
Regional Commendation. Author: THX1138

Map:
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He who has a why to live can bear almost any how — Friedrich Nietzsche



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This is the map of Philosophers created by The Federal Village of MountAye . It has 5,743 estimated diplomatic weight behind it, the most in Philosophers. It is one of 5 maps of Philosophers.

Embassies: Philosophy 115, Forest, Nudist Dreamland, 10000 Islands, Gay Equality, Haiku, The Maritimes, Universal Dream Network, Ulthar, Gay, Deutschland, Hell, New York, Absurdistan, Texas, Portugal, and 6 others.Arctica, Schopenhauer, Free Thought, Moonveil, Anarchy, and The Sacred Elite.

Tags: Commended and Large.

Regional Power: High

Philosophers contains 52 nations, the 510th most in the world.

Today's World Census Report

The Largest Black Market in Philosophers

World Census agents tracked "off the books" deals and handshake agreements in order to study the size of nations' informal economies.

As a region, Philosophers is ranked 3,650th in the world for Largest Black Market.

NationWA CategoryMotto
1.The Atheist Empire Ambassador of Superior IntelligenceAutocratic Socialists Hell“Eternal Peace, Wealth and Progress by HIS Intelligence!”
2.The Black Death Plague Realm of KrankheitIron Fist Consumerists Champions of Commerce“Und ich sah, und siehe, ein fahles Pferd.”
3.The DDD of DDDPsychotic Dictatorship Communist Dictatorship“DDD”
4.The Commonwealth of Indochinese DistrictsInoffensive Centrist Democracy Communists“Duty and Praise to the People”
5.The Commonwealth of Poland-LithuaniaPsychotic Dictatorship Communist Dictatorship“Liberty”
6.The Platonic Aristocracy of ArchadonPsychotic Dictatorship Communist Dictatorship“Noblesse Oblige.”
7.The Corporate Dictatorship of Postapocalyptic TerrorCorporate Police State Entrepreneurial Freedom Zone“Arisen from ruins - Into an era of Glory!”
8.The Loving Couple of Fan 4rt-Capitalist Paradise Decent Hardworking Self-Starters“Lumity”
9.The Snow Crash Dystopia of AnarchocapitalistanCapitalist Paradise Decent Hardworking Self-Starters“No State, No God, No Leader, No Law”
10.The Empire of Ozren goraDemocratic Socialists Hell“Na Ozrenu brat do brata”
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Reporter wrote:Manufacturing

1. Postapocalyptic Terror top 0.8%
2. Archadon top 4%
3. The Void Cometh top 5%

Middle: Dr Orc bottom 38%

Last: Yzhklabau bottom 0%

In Clan Tokugawa, motorists' locations are constantly tracked by intelligence and law enforcement agencies.

In Sunrise Trail, groups of government workers are declared protected tribes if they venture too deep into the Capitol.

Magnaus is in perpetual campaign mode.

“It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opinion, is a monster.”
― Voltaire

If it’s just an opinion like your favorite color or something abstract like preferred economic systems. But hate is not an opinion, I refer to the paradox of intolerance where tolerance ultimately sanctions and encourages views that bring an end to tolerance and democracy. As a trans person in the us especially I want nothing to do with people who voted for a regime that is fighting to strip my rights and quality of life away.

“ Unlimited tolerance must lead to the disappearance of tolerance. If we extend unlimited tolerance even to those who are intolerant, if we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them”

Karl Raimund Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies

Cheers The Void Cometh.

Sir Karl Raimund Popper (28 July 1902 – 17 September 1994) was an Austrian–British philosopher, academic and social commentator.

One of the 20th century's most influential philosophers of science, Popper is known for his rejection of the classical inductivist views on the scientific method in favour of empirical falsification made possible by his falsifiability criterion, and for founding the Department of Philosophy at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

According to Popper, a theory in the empirical sciences can never be proven, but it can be falsified, meaning that it can (and should) be scrutinised with decisive experiments. Popper was opposed to the classical justificationist account of knowledge, which he replaced with "the first non-justificational philosophy of criticism in the history of philosophy", namely critical rationalism.

In political discourse, he is known for his vigorous defence of liberal democracy and the principles of social criticism that he believed made a flourishing open society possible. His political thought resides within the camp of Enlightenment rationalism and humanism. He was a dogged opponent of totalitarianism, communism, nationalism, fascism, historicism, and other kinds of (in Popper's view) reactionary and irrational ideas, and identified modern liberal democracies as the best-to-date embodiment of an open society.

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16 hours ago: The Theocracy of Awesomesauced arrived from The North Pacific.
17 hours ago: The Emirate of Valezinia arrived from The East Pacific.
18 hours ago: The Kingdom of Kylalo arrived from Starlight.

Kylalo has already been welcomed. Glad to have you with us. Hello also to Awesomesauced and Valezinia.

Trout Fishing

1. Llamabet top 4%
2. Littoral Clans top 8%
3. Postapocalyptic Terror top 17%

Middle: Nuevo Albuquerque bottom 29%

Last: Krankheit bottom 0%

In Valezinia, prison is a nightmare.

In Kylalo, religious organisations are being forced to leave the country or pay income taxes like everybody else.

In Quanturium, artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings.

“We are social creatures to the inmost centre of our being. The notion that one can begin anything at all from scratch, free from the past, or unindebted to others, could not conceivably be more wrong.”
― Karl Popper

Insurance

1. Postapocalyptic Terror top 0.03% (78th in world)
2. Anarchocapitalistan top 0.04%
3. Azklabau top 1%

Middle: Jibjibistan top 39%

Last: Telgan bottom 0%

In The Void Cometh, hit and run driving is no longer a crime - it's the national sport.

In Awesomesauced, schoolchildren are divided over Leader's "Why Tigers are Cooler than Lions" speech.

In Volurkunst, kids who move from attending a public school in the city to the country often struggle in goat milking class.

“What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing of the origin and destiny of cats?”
― Henry David Thoreau

2 days 5 hours ago: The Federation of Qude of the region The waters proposed constructing embassies.

What do you guys think? I don't think we have a good acquaintance with them. Therefore, I will turn them down if there are no objections.

MountAye wrote:2 days 5 hours ago: The Federation of Qude of the region The waters proposed constructing embassies.

What do you guys think? I don't think we have a good acquaintance with them. Therefore, I will turn them down if there are no objections.

That seems right. We just don’t know them. No personal connection.

Welfare

1. Superior Intelligence top 0.2%
2. Kingdom of Cambria top 0.3%
3. Telgan top 0.4%

Middle: Poland-Lithuania top 29%

Last: Anarchocapitalistan bottom 0%

Nuevo Albuquerque’s free colleges struggle to maintain standards in the face of overwhelming demand.

In The Void Cometh, the Violet Mile now refers to the long line-ups that former death row inmates wait in as they transfer to maximum security prisons.

In Sunrise Trail, Leader is adamant that ponies aren't just for little girls.

“Think of your many years of procrastination; how the gods have repeatedly granted you further periods of grace, of which you have taken no advantage. It is time now to realise the nature of the universe to which you belong, and of that controlling Power whose offspring you are; and to understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then, to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

Niceness: 1) Cognosco top 0.4%; 2) Pacific Northwest Territories top 0.5%; 3) Laughing Hyena top 0.5%. It’s nice to be nice.

Have a good weekend.

Black Market

1. Superior Intelligence top 2%
2. Krankheit top 2%
3. DDD top 3%

Middle: Richest top 48%

Last: Valezinia bottom 2%

In Archadon, artists from across the nation compete to renovate the restrooms of old government buildings.

Prisons in Yzhklabau are the summer homes of murderers.

In Magnaus, newspapers are running a front-page picture of William Williams holding a crowbar and standing over a bloodied stockbroker.

“Every country has the government it deserves.”
― Joseph de Maistre

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