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Nation SIM is a free, open source, implementation of the game Nation States. We intend on creating a better version of the game that launches in a Java applet.
Once the Java applet launches a message reading Create Nation and another reading Log in. The user will be able to enter there name and password into the text field. If he is a first time user, and selects the create nation option. He will be brought to a screen that asks him to fill out information, regarding his political views and how his nation was formed.
Afterwards he is placed into our wonderful world. He will have an issue in his box, which he must solve by selecting an option, which will influence his countries political alignment. Every day he receives an issue which may regard such issues as abortion, taxation, immigration, or civil liberties. In another box in the side bar titled diplomacy. This allows the player to interact with other nations, initiate coups, fund rebels, declare war, sign trade agreements etc. For now the battles will be quickly solved by the applet crunching some numbers and spitting out the result, later I hope to add an RTS sort of battle to it.
Now lets talk about the actual architecture of the game. Theyre a few major models or modules, the terms are used interchangebly. The economic model, diplomatic model, military model, and the political model. The economic model is fairly simple.... read more

Nation SIM has made it's first release.