dub3 card · www.nationstates.net
NationStates (2005)
Answer a quiz, get a country, then deal with its crises one issue at a time.
- Cost
- 1 RAM
- Power
- 2
- Rarity
- Rare
- Family
- Games
- Era
- Web 2.0 (2003 to 2008)
- Collection
- Cult Classics
What it does
On reveal: Add a copy of this card to your hand.
On reveal happens once, when the card flips.
The copy is a fresh card, ready to play.
It costs 1 RAM to play and brings 2 Power to its lane. You get 1 RAM in round 1, 2 in round 2, and so on.
Games cards roll the dice. Sometimes the dice roll you.
The site, in 2005
Max Barry's browser game in which you answer a questionnaire to found a country, then shape it by deciding political issues as they come in.
Made to promote his novel Jennifer Government, it had 20,700 players by the end of its first year and over 10 million nations since. In 2008 the real UN objected to its in-game United Nations, which became the World Assembly.
Web 2.0 era, 2003 to 2008. Rounded corners, reflections and drop shadows. Everything was social, and everything was in beta.
Cult Classics: Small, strange and loved to bits by the people who found them.
Pixel tribute by dub3, after the 2005 page.
Put it on your site
Run NationStates, or just remember it fondly? Here's its button, 88 by 31 like it's 1999. Paste this into your page:
In the game, this pixel page loads the way it did in 2005, then plays a short scene. Want NationStates in your deck? Make a free account and open some packs, or try a match first. No sign-up needed for that.
