So #NationStates has zombies for Halloween. A lot of my people are zombies. More are dead. I think they'll just....be...fine...

Regardless, have a zombie piping plover!

Every now and then I think about playing #nationstates again, which is a the silly browser based game where you run a country and every decision you make turns extreme and things go comically wrong.

The best part of it is really the roleplaying - because there's not a way for countries to fight with each other, people playing the game just decided to do forum based RPs where they play as characters from their countries, fight wars, and write elaborate guides to their imaginary countries.

"The legal form of the sovereign nation-state and the concepts of contract and private property, as well as their many permutations, have spread across the world during centuries of European imperial dominance. They are neither weak nor manipulable at will. On the contrary, they form a ubiquitous and immensely powerful aspect of the way we are all ruled.

This legal infrastructure remains invulnerable to the standard critique of international law. It consists of many different kinds of law—international and domestic, private and public, formal and informal—that collaborate to reproduce the banal reality of an unjust world outside the spectacle of war and sovereign conflict. Consolidated in the context of state-building, commercial expansion and the ideologies of civilization, modernization and development, they do not form a logical system, nor are they the expression of a single plan. Yet since the 1980s, these laws have operated as largely taken-for-granted aspects of ‘global governance’, enabling powerful actors to make claims about legal rights, powers and privileges to which others have been expected to yield. Globalization has been an intensely legalistic affair. From the organization of government to the most technical rules of consumer protection, from claims of jurisdiction made by states against each other to the rights of identity, contract and property invoked by individuals and corporations, our social lives are framed and pervaded by law. Far from being an infinitely flexible façade, law governs the way we imagine our social relations, and thus defines the character of those relations. Nothing of importance can be accomplished without making claims about legal right, power and privilege."

https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii154/articles/the-laws-that-rule-us

#InternationalLaw #Capitalism #Law #PoliticalEconomy #NationStates #Globalization

So Eastern Bik Sourgicedka in #NationStates has a new flag and factbook!

Factbook at - https://www.nationstates.net/nation=eastern_bik_sourgicedka/detail=factbook/id=2695942