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1	!!Regarding the game itself:
2	* BrokenBase: This is probably the best way to describe the multitude of divisions of fans and the subdivisions of these divisions.
3	* CatharsisFactor: One of the reasons the game is addictive. Making a totalitarian hellhole that responds to diplomatic incidents with all-out war may not be morally acceptable, but it's plenty fun.
4	* GameplayDerailment: Nationstates stands out as a franchise whose methods of playing the game could almost all be considered forms of GameplayDerailment. Perhaps the most extreme example is the inter-regional combat system that players have improvised out of World Assembly elections, regional ejection mechanics, and huge amounts of MetaGame coordination. WordOfGod says that the creator didn't anticipate this but still finds it immensely entertaining.
5	* GoodBadBugs: A very common one, in the form of (example): "'This raises an interesting issue,' says Elizabeth Winters, [[GenderBlenderName your brother]]."
6	* WildMassGuessing: [[http://www.nationstates.net/page=news/2013/03/25/index.html What the tagline for the news item]] '''[[http://www.nationstates.net/page=news/2013/03/25/index.html "REGIONS WILL FALL"]]''' [[http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=232237&hilit=regions+will+fall have resulted in.]]
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8	!!Regarding the roleplaying section of the game:
9	* AssPull: Surprisingly fitting trope to start with. The amount of these that go on within the forum's roleplays could easily fill several volumes, as many nations create implausible characters, technology and even geography- among many other implausible elements in their nation- all in the interest of creating what they believe is a formidable foe within the RP battlefield.
10	* GameplayDerailment: As a result of the frequent {{AssPull}}s, {{Utopia}}s and StopHavingFunGuys, roleplaying can get frustrating very quickly. The experience can get really deflating if you're a storyteller roleplaying against another nation who wants to show off their (mostly implausible) "super army".
11	* MemeticBadass: Some of the older and more respected roleplayers are this.
12	** On the General (ie off-topic) forum, Lunatic Goofballs has been practically deified. The mods responded by making him a mod.
13	* StopHavingFunGuys: A recurring issue over just about every kind of role playing you can imagine, but most often seen from players who yell at people using RuleOfCool things or invoking the RuleOfDrama.
14	* {{Utopia}}: The vast majority of the nations on the forum are self-sustaining, resource-rich nations with seemingly limitless wealth, state-of-the-art technology and very few problems, with the utopias often reaching ridiculously unrealistic levels.
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16	!!Regarding Forum 7, the casual off-topic place:

Context YMMV / NationStates