Also available as a documentary style video essay on YouTube.
This article becomes so much clearer, when you realize that nationstates is an online browser based Nation simulator
I was pulling my hair out trying to figure out what information I was missing because I wasn’t pulling it from the article. It keeps talking about government processes and then reiterating steam accounts and Discord alt accounts and I’m like why would any Nation ever care about any of these
it’s all virtual, it’s a game. So much simpler to comprehend now
Hahaha I did the same thing
Love me some niche political RP scandal write-ups
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I just thought it was a more lighthearted deep dive than the ones I usually post. It’s pretty cool to see the different techniques this guy went through to identify alt accounts and how seriously discord nation state LARPers take their community
