Nation Breakdown
On 23 May 2003, with just under 100,000 active nations, a scan was performed to determine how many of each type of nation there are in the game.
Spoiler warning: if you don't want to know every type of UN classification in NationStates, stop reading!
1. The Graph
Inoffensive Centrist Democracy is the most popular nation type, comprising just over 15% of all nations. It's closely followed by Democratic Socialists, with about 14%.
Interestingly, you have to get down to #6 on the list, Compulsory Consumerist State, before you find a nation type with more freedom on any scale than the middle-of-the-road Inoffensive Centrist Democracy -- and even then it's economic freedom at the expense of personal freedom. The first nation type to be clearly more liberty-loving than the default is Capitalist Paradise (#9).
2. The Raw Data
UN Classification | Number | % |
---|---|---|
Inoffensive Centrist Democracy | 15,090 | 15.5% |
Democratic Socialists | 13,423 | 13.8% |
Father Knows Best State | 9,512 | 9.8% |
Iron Fist Consumerists | 6,278 | 6.5% |
Corrupt Dictatorship | 5,602 | 5.8% |
Compulsory Consumerist State | 5,526 | 5.7% |
Scandinavian Liberal Paradise | 5,077 | 5.2% |
Corporate Police State | 4,730 | 4.9% |
Capitalist Paradise | 4,570 | 4.7% |
New York Times Democracy | 4,383 | 4.5% |
Left-Leaning College State | 3,981 | 4.1% |
Psychotic Dictatorship | 3,527 | 3.6% |
Liberal Democratic Socialists | 2,662 | 2.7% |
Moralistic Democracy | 2,194 | 2.3% |
Authoritarian Democracy | 1,671 | 1.7% |
Civil Rights Lovefest | 1,653 |
1.7% |
Capitalizt | 1,305 | 1.3% |
Left-wing Utopia | 1,259 | 1.3% |
Corporate Bordello | 1,236 | 1.3% |
Anarchy | 813 | 0.8% |
Right-wing Utopia | 811 | 0.8% |
Libertarian Police State | 506 | 0.5% |
Conservative Democracy | 393 | 0.4% |
Iron Fist Socialists | 392 | 0.4% |
Benevolent Dictatorship | 287 |
0.3% |
Tyranny by Majority | 261 |
0.3% |
Free-Market Paradise | 151 | 0.2% |
TOTAL | 97,293 | 100.0% |