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NationStates Banners - Descriptors of 'Earned' Banners Used for Daily Issues
This banner, which is not in this category, is my favourite because I am a keen bird watcher!
It is also the banner for Daily Issues: # 353 - Broadband Going To The Birds?, # 647 - Songbirds' Decline Ruffles Feathers, and
Daily Issue # 745 - The Bird Has Flown

This dispatch lists these banners in alphabetical order. It should be noted that five banners can be customized and are awarded solely based on achieving population figures of 50 million citizens, 200 million citizens, 1 billion citizens, 10 billion citizens, and 20 billion citizens. In addition, there are banners awarded for answering daily issue counts of 6, 10, 15, 30, 50, 75, 100, 150, 200, 250, 300, 500, 750, 1000, 2000, 2500, 3000, 4000, 5000, and 10000. Many of the banners are awarded due to a specific combination of population size, and social and economic conditions, while other banners become available due to specific actions, or events, in your nation's life. Each of the pre-selected 425 banners which can be earned is reproduced below, together with its descriptor
Enjoy!
A Golden Age: Cherish the wellbeing of old and young alike

A Many Splendored Land: Address 50 issues

A Moment's Peace: Combine a strong military with civil rights

A New Day: Change from one nation classification to another

A Roll of the Dice: Go all-in on gambling

A Voice at the Table: Join the World Assembly

Abandoned: Exhibit a disturbingly low average lifespan

Above it All: Develop a stoic, dispassionate citizenry

Agrarian Spirit: Prioritize agriculture alongside a strong, natural culture

Air and Glass: Develop a technologically literate populace that doesn't care that much

All Available Space: Run a below-average but not terrible economy

All Risks Coverage: Master the art of actuary

All That Glitters: Combine a thriving economy with significant corruption and inequality

An Apple a Day: Encourage healthy eating

Annals of History: Devote your nation to the written word

Another Day Over and Deeper in Debt: Teach children about the harshness of life early

Arms Dealer: Build enough advanced weaponry to supply half the world

Arsenal: Develop your domestic arms industry

Artist's Impression: Develop high levels of economic freedom in a nation of at least 250 million citizens

Aspire: Develop a strong economy in a scientifically advanced nation with a good environment

At Rest: Eliminate the elderly

Atomic Age: Build Bigger Bombs

Author of Your Own Destiny: Address 1000 issues and write one published issue

Autumnal: See in your first national birthday

Avast!: Keel-haul scurvy dogs

Beached: Develop a compassionate populace with a good environment

Beating Heart: Reach 300 million citizens with a very strong economy and a non-terrible environment

Better Red Than Dead: Run a socialist paradise defended by a large military

Better When Bottled: Develop a thriving bottled goods industry

Between a Rock and a Roll Place: Become a major concert destination despite having a national curfew
by banner contest winner Parenthos

Between God and Rock: Provide significant public funding for religion

Bike Lane: Ban automobiles

Birds of a Feather: Be endorsed by six nations at once

Blue Sky Mining: Develop a strong mining industry

Book Repository: Develop quality libraries

Book Smarts: Develop a nation of readers

Bottoms Up!: Toast a beverage industry that's second to none

Brave New World: Found a Region

Breadbasket of the World: Produce staggering agricultural output

Bridge to Nowhere: Overlook education

Bright Lights Big City: Combine 1 billion citizens with a very strong economy

Budding Freedoms: Develop high recreational drug use

Bushels of Baskets: Develop a strong handicrafts industry

Business First: Prioritize commerce

Camera-Carrying Cruisers: Become overrun with tourists

Carry That Weight: Mourn the losses of a terrorist attack

Cave-Ripened: Attain caseicultural perfection

Cavern: Give tourism a state-funded helping hand to promote an excellent environment

Celestial Color: Embrace the one true faith

Cheeky: Take it all off

Chewing the Cud: Prioritize agriculture-based industries

Circle of Fiends: Invest in international trade

City of Sand: Combine a population of 200 million with a terrible environment

City of Sticks: Combine a beautiful environment with a weak economy

Clean and Green: Fund environmental initiatives

Clear-Cut Choice: Turn wood into wealth with an outsized timber industry

Cold Hard Reality: Eliminate public healthcare

Cold Storage: Give IT the cold shoulder

Condemned by the Space Pope: Run a space program in a devoutly religious nation

Conference: Partner with private industry

Contemplation: Develop a faithful populace

Conveyance: Develop a strong transportation plan

Could Have Happened to Anyone: Combine sub-par intelligence with a beautiful environment

Cracked: Have trouble attracting tourists

Crisp Morning: Address 75 issues

Crisp Village: Develop a cultured, self-centered nation of at least 40 million citizens

Cruise: Build an extremely large military

Cultivated: Provide government support for parks and nature reserves

Custom # 1: Reach 50 million citizens
Custom # 2: Reach 200 million citizens
Custom # 3: Reach 1 billion citizens
Custom # 4: Reach 10 billion citizens
Custom # 5: Reach 20 billion citizens
Custom # 6: Contribute a banner - by Alinek

Customer Service: Develop the kind of people skills worth investing in

Cut it Out!: Enforce the body's natural state

Dangerous Combination: Require everyone to own guns in a nation with drugged tap water

Dedicated Devotion: Address 5000 issues

Defiance: Cultivate a nation of activists

Delicious: Support the dairy industry

Department of Oversight: Clamp down on political freedom

Detrimental Externality: Seriously prioritize the economy over the environment

Digital Future: Fuel your IT industry to reach unparalleled heights

Dissent is Treason: Harshly suppress political opposition

Do It Yourself: Force businesses to rise and fall on their own merits

Domed: Develop excellent political freedoms

Don't Forget to Carry the One: Run a space program without computers

Dumped: Eliminate environmental protections

Dune: Enhance the environment by removing trees

Early to Rise: Develop a thriving agriculture sector

Eco-Warriors: Protect the environment by any means necessary

Eggcelent Detective Work: Collect four easter eggs

Eggceptional Exploring: Find ten easter eggs

Enduring Guidance: Address 500 issues

Energy Source: Power the economy without mining
Engine of Growth: Develop a strong automotive industry

Enlightened Despotism: Have a population that understands the need to abandon democracy

Eternal Pride: Remember those who gave their lives in service of their country
by banner contest winner Alinek

Every Road is a Story: Write five or more dispatches or factbooks

Everyone Wants a Piece: Develop a thriving entertainment industry

Exodus: Combine a terrible economy with a terrible environment

Export Sales: Develop a thriving industry

Faces of Nations # 1: Develop above average civil rights

Faces of Nations # 2: Develop very good civil rights

Faces of Nations # 3: Develop very good civil rights

Faces of Nations # 4: Develop excellent civil rights

Faces of Nations # 5: Develop excellent civil rights

Faces of Nations # 6: Develop superb civil rights

Faces of Nations # 7: Develop superb civil rights

Faces of Nations # 8: Develop world benchmark civil rights

Faces of Nations # 9: Develop world benchmark civil rights

Faces of Nations # 10: Develop excessive civil rights

Faces of Nations # 11: Develop excessive civil rights

Faces of Nations # 12: Develop excessive civil rights

Faces of Nations # 13: Develop frightening civil rights

Faces of Nations # 14: Develop frightening civil rights

Fall From Power: Pass a World Assembly resolution and then lose all of your endorsements

Fast Lane: Choose Cars Over Environment

Father Knows Best: Become a Father Knows Best state

Fervent Followers: Inspire a patriotic population of true believers

Fields of Gold: Become a World Assembly Delegate

Fifth Directorate: Make omnipresent law enforcement a part of daily life

Financial Planning: Boost your financial services industry

For-Profit Governance: Earn a profit with the public purse

For Want of Kidneys: Have small pool of replacement organs

Form and Function: Guide the political process with a firm hand

Form Factor: Demonstrate an extreme affinity for paperwork

Foundry: Develop a solid industrial base

Free and Fair?: Tightly regulate voting to ensure proper election results

Freedom From: Have a populace who is happy with what you give them

Friends in High Places: Develop a wealthy and powerful state church
by banner contest winner New Bradfordsburg

From Above: Build a very large military

From Below: Let nothing stand between you and the raw materials you crave

From the Earth: Enforce compulsory vegetarianism

Fun in the Sun: Have weather the world is willing to travel for

Gatekeepers: Develop high levels of corruption

Genetic Warfare: Combine a strong military with advanced medical research

Girl Power: Run a Mother Knows Best State with a significant military

Giving Back: Extend your citizens' average lifespan beyond 70 years

Glorious Purpose: Address 750 issues

Glory to the Government: Develop a large, corrupt government

Go It Alone: Reject state-funded welfare

Gone Fission: Build nuclear power plants

Good Habits: Religiously segregate genders

Government Cheese: Feed the people

Gray Power: Care for the Elderly

Great Works: Be cultured and clever

Green Energy, Brown Lands: Fund environmentally friendly projects despite a population that doesn't really care
by banner contest winner Natit Vakkazi
Green is the Morrow: Address 100 issues

Grudges Are Forever?: Confront the threat of a nuclear holocaust

Hallowed Halls: Support traditional religion

Handheld: Stay out of the bedroom

Handicapper General: Level the playing field

Hands Off: Ban all forms of physical contact between couples

Happy Trails: Address 200 issues

Have it in a couple of weeks: Close up shop on the retail industry

Helping Hands: Comit to international aid while maintaining a strong military

High-Density Culture: Show an appreciation for the finer things

Hired Guns: Staff your military with mercenaries

Hiking: Leverage a beautiful environment into a thriving tourism industry

Hilly Terrain: Become a site supporter

Holy Warriors: Develop a faith-based military

Holy Water: Support national religion

Home: Develop a good economy with some income inequality

Home Alone: Develop a populace who like to keep to themselves

Home Furnishing: Support your local carpenters

Homeward with Ripples: Develop a thriving tourism industry

Honor Among Thieves: Be known for surprisingly courteous criminals

Hostile Elements: Develop a nation of at least 50 million citizens who aren't especially fond of strangers

I Am the State: Demonstrate absolute tendencies

Icy Gaze: Address 250 issues

Immortal: Address 300 issues

Improvements Can Be Made: Fund very advanced health research

In My Sights: Support the right to bear arms

Inconsistent Service Delivery: Abolish the government

Incremental Improvement: Develop a good economy in a nation of at least 200 million citizens

Insular Inhabitants: Run a nation with closed borders and homogenous, xenophobic citizens

Interior Tech: Combine a strong IT industry with a powerhouse economy

International Outsider: Pass a World Assembly Resolution and have no current endorsements

Infected: Deal with the undead

Invisible Hand: Let the private sector handle most typical government functions

Island of Many Hills: Develop a very strong economy in a nation of 2 billion citizens

It's Good to be Rich: Build a fabulously wealthy upper class

It's Not the Scandal, It's the Cover-Up: Face off against a harsh critic of your administration

Jacked In: Embrace technology

Joyful Noise: Attract visitors with beautiful worship music
by banner contest winner Peoples Republic of West Korea

Just Called to Say I Love You: Have a populace who is freely happy

Just Put Your Mask On Already: Have a population that soldiers on through suffocating smog and pollution

Keeper of the Flame: Support alternative religions

Keeping the Peace: Prioritize Law & Order

Kickball: Nurture a happy, free populace

Kids Wanna Rock: Have a strong youth culture

Knowing Your Own Truth: Build a nation that completely excludes all forms of religious belief

Knowledge is Power: Found schools that are the envy of the world

Lab Rats: Develop an intelligent yet cynical populace

Laissez-Faire for Some: Demonstrate a surprising tolerance for the free market

Latest Imports: Rely on foreign imports for your automotive needs

Leadership: Take Charge

Legendary Leadership: Address 10,000 issues

Let It Snow: Maintain good public transport even in poor weather
by banner cotest winner Toan dromeda

Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Ensure equality under law

Life is a Mystery: Cultivate a deeply spiritual populace

Life Finds a Way: Bring back prehistoribc beasts

Light the Lamps: Become influential in a region
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Listening In: Take a keen interest in what your citizens are doing

Live Fast, Die young: Encourage your citizens to take risks

Live Wire: Outsource national power generation

Making No Cents: Free yourself from the tyranny of coins

Manufactured Hellscape: Pursue industrial productivity at the expense of your citizens' health
by banner contest winner Glamorous

Marathon not a Sprint: Reside in a region for more than 6 months

Masterwork: Nurture the skills of master artisans

Material Disadvantage: Build an inadequately-funded military

Medical Innovation: Fund advanced health research

Medieval: Reject modern ways

Mega-Metropolis: Combine 10 billion citizens with a powerhouse economy

Mesa: Address 15 issues

Metropolis: Combine 400 million citizens with a good economy

Migrant Labor: Build an agricultural society on low-paid immigrant labor

Millenial Persistence: Address 1000 issues

Minimalistic Curves: Develop an extremely intelligent populace

Misty Morning: Protect the forests

Model of Efficiency: Prioritize the economy over the environment

Modern Steel Reach 100 million citizens with an excellent environment and economy

Modern Style: Develop clever citizens

Mono No Aware: Appreciate and value the traditions of those who came before you

Morning Calm: Achieve balance in all things

Mother and Child: Eliminate youth crime while maintaining civil rights

Nation of States: Manage a diverse yet patriotic assembly of self-governing regions

National Pride: Enforce compulsory military service

Nation's Fashion: Develop a world-class fashion industry

Needs of the Many: Enforce capital punishment

Nerds of a Feather: Have a free and intelligent yet reserved youth culture

New Around Here: Found a nation!

New Methods: Abandon the traditional industies

Nice Day Out: Have above average weather

Nice for Some: Simultaneously develop a strong economy and high income inequality

Nice Part of Town: Get cultured

No Escape From Reality: Outlaw practically everything that would distract people from their jobs

No Limits: Abolish speed limits

No Moisture Required: Have a truly terrible environment

No Place to Hide: Build a modern military that embraces state of the art technology

No Rest for the Young: Develop a problem with youth crime

Nothing to See Here: Develop a serious crime problem

Not Sure What's Happening Here: Be strange

Not Worth the Treaty Paper: Maintain a strong timber industry despite your promises

Nuclear Family Testing; Allow people to have multiple spouses but only one child

Oasis: Be a regional hermit

Oblong Secrets: Find an easter egg

Ocean Frolics: Make your people extremely cheerful

Ocean Nova: Develop a world-class environment

Old Growth: Cultivate a mighty environment

Old Ways are Best: Develop a low-tech but economically thriving nation

On a Mission: Encourage the populace to stay on their knees

On Rails: Provide substantial public transport

On the Beat: Install a police state

On the Menu: Eat your national animal

On the scent: Embrace traditional methods of hunting

On the Water: Prioritize the environment over the economy

On Everyone's Bucket List: Build a substantial tourist industry

Open for Business: Help your people do business

Oracle: Defer to the spirits

Our Thing: Allow organized crime to run much of the nation

Outdoor Pursuits: Combine a healthy populace, civil rights, and an excellent environment

Out There: Become so technologically advanced, they don't even have a name for it

Overcomer: Address 2500 issues

Overgrowth: Allow the wilderness to run rampant

Oversight: Fund Law & Order in a low-tech nation

Palatial: Develop very high levels of corruption

Parade Duty: Build a big military but have no interest in using it

Patrol: Build a ridiculously large military

Pause for Sightseeing: Combine a pleasant environment with cars and low intelligence

Peace is Our Profession: Exhibit militaristic tendencies

Peacekeepers: Build a military

Perched: Divide into self-governing regions

Permanently Grounded: Outlaw civilian air transportation

Permission Slip: Establish a bureaucracy

Personal Journeys: Divest the state of all matters of faith

Perspective: Believe in religious tolerance

Pilgrim's Progress: Become a destination for religious pilgrims

Pillar of Society: Grow the government

Piped Profits: Develop a thriving soda industry

Pizza Party: Achieve supreme levels of fast food production

Platform for Expansion: Develop a very large industrial base

Popular Uprising: Defend the right to protest

Power from the People: Develop a keenly politically aware populace

Power Grid: Boost education

Praise the Lord and Pass the Doobie: Allow citizens to get high while searching for a higher power

Productive Soil: Develop a strong agriculture sector alongside a good environment

Progress is Movement: Develop a thriving gambling industry

Progress is Thirsty Work: Develop a strong economy in a collapsing environment

Protector: Know what's best

Prototype: Lead innovation in the automotive industry

Puffing Billy: Provide a low-tech public transport

Queen of the Hill: Address 30 issues

Railworks: Maintain a healthy economy in the absence of cars

Rapid Intervention: Get your people moving together

Rebels With a Cause: Have a high crime rate despite keeping your close control of your citizens

Red Dawn: Revere a land-based animal

Red in Tooth and Claw: Leave children to fend for themselves

Red Nightmare: Run a socialist nation that leaves revolutionaries spinning in their graves

Red Tape: Run a government that spends most of its money on running the government

Release the Ballons!: Have a populace who thumbs their nose at the rules against aircraft
by banner contest winner Northern Creek

Remembered: Push average citizen lifespan below 50 years

Removed: Develop a religious yet uncaring populace

Renovator's Delight: Combine 100 million citizens with a weak economy

Respected: Be endorsed

Retirement: Extend your citizens' average lifespan beyond 80 years

Revolving: Explore alternative forms of energy

Ride the Wave: Trust the market

River City: Combine 100 million citizens with a reasonable economy

Rock of Ages: Be truly ancient

Rocky Endeavor: Address 150 issues

Room and Board: Provide a social safety net

Running Lean: Trim the fat from your administration

Runaway Bride: Oversee short-lived marriages

Running Lean: Trim the fat from your Administration

Rural Idyll: Encourage your citizens to seek happiness in the simple life

Rush Hour: Develop a strong cattle industry

Sand and Rock: Attribute 1% of annual deaths to people getting lost in the wilderness

Scenic Slag Heap: Develop a beautiful environment alongside a thriving mining industry

Scratching on Rocks: Cut off the publishing industry

Seat of Power: Develop a large, tasteful government

Secular by Choice: Allow complete religious freedom to citizens who don't care about religion

Secure: Fill the prisons

Seeing in the Dawn: Develop a population of at least 6 million citizens

Seen Better Days: Run a crumbling economy

Seen Much Better Days: Run a very poor economy

Serious Dough: Promote healthy paychecks

Server Room: Develop a strong technology industry

Service Economy: Offer the ultimate retail experience

Shacked Up: Combine a good environment with below-average economy

Simple Life: Develop an issue with unemployment

Sin City: Become a destination for tourists of questionable morals

Skyward: Reach 500 million citizens with a very strong economy

Slavery, Serfdom, and Subjugation: Run a feudal system that colonized distant lands by using forced labor

Slice of Life: Support the pizza industry

Slight Crime Problem: Develop a crippling crime problem in a reasonably wealthy nation of at least 500 million citizens

Slipped Through the Net: Decimate your fishing industry

Slumming: Develop significant numbers of impoverished citizens

Small Business: Run a fragile economy or worse

Snowed In: Address ten issues

Sole Survivor: Develop an extremely strong timber industry

Some Climbing Required: Write a Factbook

Something Better: Reject industry

Stadium: Develop healthy Citizens

Stand Alone: Eschew the military

Starting Out: Combine civil rights with a healthy economy

Steel and Glass: Reach 2 billion citizens with a strong economy

Storied: Address 1500 issues

Stories to Tell: Publish a dispatch other than a Factbook

Stringent Local Customs:: Strictly enforce local cultural etiquette on a flourishing tourism sector

Stupid Is as Stupid Does: Wallow in ignorance

Suffer the little Children: Refuse to support inevitably large families

Summer Residence: Develop deep-rooted corruption with a taste for nice things

Sunset Escort: Build a substantial military

Sword and Shield: Build a large military that doesn't use guns

Tall Timbers: Develop a thriving timber industry

Tanks for Everything: Build a large military

Temperature Dropping: Develop an inhospitable climate

Thanks for All the Fish: Draw great wealth from the seas

That's Not Red Ink Dripping From the Budget: Save money on government healthcare expenses by euthanizing the elderly

The Commonwealth of a Nation: Elevate every class of society into relative wealth

The Fish are Worth It: Support the fishing industry

The Future is Near: Make contact

The Gig is Up: Develop a strong informal economy

The Giver: Deliver unprecedented amounts to aid the needy

The Good the Bad and the Ugly Build a nation of primitive outlaws

The Great Firewall: Control the dialogue

The Hand That Feeds: Simultaneously develop strong automotive and agricultural sectors

The Hills Are Alive: Develop a beautiful environment in a nation of 1 billion citizens

The Lost World: Change your mind about dinosaurs

The Other Way: Develop a good economy without free markets

The Pen is Mightier: Develop a literary yet IT illiterate populace

The Sea Remembers: Make sewage waste someone else's problem

The Sun Always Rises: Exhibit low unemployment

The World Above Us: Reach for the stars

There Are Always More Questions: Become highly scientifically advanced

There Will Be Blood: Make sacrifices

There's A Whole World Out There: Abolish computers

They Grow Up So Fast: Develop a good economy in a nation of 300 million citizens

Thickening Blue Line: Boost the police force

This Never Happened: Clamp down on a free press

To Each According to Their Need: Guarantee your populace a comfortable life

Together: Share the institution of marriage

Tourist Destination: Develop a culture-based tourism industry

Trade Hub: Develop a broad industrial base

Traditional Knowledge: Revel in the superiority of your traditional crafts

Train to Nowhere: Spend freely on public transport without allowing mush freedom of movement
by banner contest winner Ashlink

Tranquility: Develop a pleasant environment in a religious nation

Treefall: Protect the land

Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted: Close the borders to immigration

Trickle Down: Develop high income inequality

Unbeaten Path: Become an Anarchy

Under and Over: Simultaneously develop low inequality and high culture

Under Your Eye: Eliminate youth crime while stamping out civil rights

Underbelly: Combine heavy industry with crime

Undergrounded: Develop a thriving black market

Urban Sprawl: Reach 5 billion citizens

Vats Entertainment: Embrace Vats

Vaults of Knowledge: Develop a thriving publishing industry

Very Fishy: Revere a marine animal

Virtual Gold: Use commodities to back a digital currency

Visionary Vitality: Address 3000 Issues

Vista: Be cultured

Voluntary Isolation: Lead people who freely cut themselves off from the world

Walking in Paradise: Develop an extremely good environment

We Gotta Get Out Of This Place: Restore the right to immigrate and emigrate
by banner contest winner Uzibekistan

Well, That Escalated Quickly: Resolve a complicated geopolitical situation in Brasilistan

What a Wonderful World: Give people the freedom to explore and interact with a beautiful environment

White Whale: Fail to prevent mistakes in the fishing industry

Wildly Artificial: Grow children in vats and then let them loose in the wild

Window Shopping: Develop a cultured nation of at least 80 million with good civil rights

Windswept: Address six issues

Won't Be Fooled Again: Crash your socialist economy

You Didn't Build That: Engage in corporate welfare

An earlier variation on this dispatch, but with a different emphasis, has been produced by
The Planetary Ring Space Station of Nanocyberia and may be found at:
http://zehos.com/relay/n/www_nationstates%2enet/banners.html
The banners themselves can be found using the following link:
images/banners/xxx.jpg where "xxx" should be replaced with the image number e.g. y78 or b23 etc.










