General Assembly
Security Council
Governor: 
The Glories Old of Sunrise Trail
WA Delegate (non-executive): 
The Federal Village of MountAye (elected )
Founder: The Glories Old of Sunrise Trail
Last WA Update:
Embassies: Philosophy 115, Forest, Nudist Dreamland, 10000 Islands, Gay Equality, Haiku, The Maritimes, Universal Dream Network, Ulthar, Gay, Deutschland, Hell, New York, Absurdistan, Texas, Portugal, and 6 others.Arctica, Schopenhauer, Free Thought, Moonveil, Anarchy, and The Sacred Elite.
Regional Power: High
Philosophers contains 49 nations, the 524th most in the world.
Today's World Census Report
The Largest Gambling Industry in Philosophers
The World Census tailed known underworld figures in order to determine which nations have the largest gambling industries.
As a region, Philosophers is ranked 8,345th in the world for Largest Gambling Industry.
 | Nation | WA Category | Motto | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. |  The Corporate Dictatorship of Postapocalyptic Terror | Corporate Police State Halliburton | “Arisen from ruins - Into an era of Glory!” | |
| 2. |  The Snow Crash Dystopia of Anarchocapitalistan | Capitalist Paradise Corporate Slave State | “No State, No God, No Leader, No Law” | |
| 3. |  The Black Death Plague Realm of Krankheit | Iron Fist Consumerists Imperialist Pig Dog Oppressors | “Und ich sah, und siehe, ein fahles Pferd.” | |
| 4. |  The Free Corporation of Azklabau | Capitalizt Self-Congratulatory Merchant Bankers | “Do in service of the doers.” | |
| 5. |  The Discoverian Enclave of Veritaria | Capitalizt Self-Congratulatory Merchant Bankers | “The Truth Is In Here...” | |
| 6. |  The Colony of LV-426 | Compulsory Consumerist State Consumerist Wage Drones | “Building Better Worlds” | |
| 7. |  The Federation of Littoral Clans | Civil Rights Lovefest Brave Progressives | “Stay near the shore!” | |
| 8. |  The Incorporated States of The Flea Circus | Benevolent Dictatorship Temporary Liberal State of Emergency | “Fleas are more fun than bed bugs!” | |
| 9. |  The Zultanate of Zihuatapulco | Iron Fist Consumerists Imperialist Pig Dog Oppressors | “¿Que transa, homes?” | |
| 10. | The Federal Village of MountAye | New York Times Democracy Corporate-Dominated Sham Democracy | “Why? I think, it is my duty.” |
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Last poll: “Whither Philosophers?”
Regional Happenings
- : The Zultanate of Zihuatapulco arrived from Osiris.
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The Empire of Clover Regional Ambassador departed this region for Kryndel.
- : The Empire of Clover Regional Ambassador arrived from Kryndel.
- : The Glories Old of Sunrise Trail rejected Goninan's request for regional embassies.
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The Holy Fatherland of Avlantica of the region Goninan proposed constructing embassies.
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The Republic of Doxatheia arrived from Lazarus.
- : Skin nation the second ceased to exist.
- : Embassy cancelled between Autism Spectrum and Philosophers.
- : The Glories Old of Sunrise Trail opened a new regional poll: "Whither Philosophers?".
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The E6 Series Shinkansen of The Featured Map Express departed this region for Lonia Kreptia Llor.
Philosophers Regional Message Board
Loading...Nations that aren’t members of the World Assembly don’t necessarily suggest “puppet storage”. You are right. People legitimately have nations in different regions. I do. The fundamental region for refusing the embassy is that we have no history with you.
We have few embassies and like it that way. Those we have are with regions we know well, where we have established contacts. You look a nice region. Maybe we’ll get to know each other better in time.
Hello! We would like to introduce ourselves. The nation of Doxatheia, we recently joined this region on Nationstates. Our core value is to provide every citizen with a clear, free and rational mind, believing good decisions are highly likely when the mind is unclouded.
Anyway, the Doxatheians are eager to travel the region and meet you all! And feel free to ask anything :)
Culture
1. 
Superior Intelligence top 0.5%
2. 
Telgan top 0.5%
3. 
Pacific Northwest Territories top 0.9%
Middle: Sunrise Trail top 9%
Last: 
Postapocalyptic Terror bottom 1%
In Doxatheia, the Forestry Department has decided you really can't fight fire with fire.
Brancaland has gifted over nine thousand putrid moose carcasses to 
Quanturium as a reminder of their "special relationship".
In 
The Void Cometh, unpopular cops are fired at a moment's notice by the citizens they police.
”As we are growing blind, it is an age of goggles; as we are all sick, it is an age of pills; and as few of us really read, it is, pre-eminently, an age of paragraphs. The paragraph, not of course as the articulated portion of a whole, but as a disconnected perambulating scrap, is the deadly foe alike of the power of sustained attention and of the power of thought.”
~L. Stanley Jast, 1900
Might bribing people to read work?
Further comment on Singapore scheme in the Guardian, 19 September 2026 (extract)
Ivo Vlaev, a professor of behavioural psychology at the National University of Singapore, says that while the earning potential of the scheme is low, this does not necessarily mean it will not be effective. “One of the interesting findings from behavioural science is that incentives do not always work in proportion to their monetary value,” he says.
The scheme, Vlaev continues, should not be thought of as “paying people to read” in a conventional economic sense – a dollar every few weeks is obviously not enough to compensate participants for the time they have invested – instead, the payment “may be acting more as a trigger than as a wage”. Logging reading time and accumulating points means participants “receive an immediate signal that the behaviour has been recognised, your streak continues and you make progress towards a goal”. And once someone has actually started reading, “the intrinsic rewards of the activity can take over”, he adds.
Reading’s long-term benefits are well known, but a key element of the Singapore scheme hinges on introducing a short-term reward for the activity, mimicking the immediate dopamine hit of scrolling. The “gamified” element may be “smarter” than the financial reward offered, says Patrick Taylor, the director of education at the Behavioural Insights Team, which originated in David Cameron’s Cabinet Office, and is also known as the “nudge unit”.
“Having a manageable 15-minute daily goal, built around existing routines like commuting or bedtime, with streaks and tracking to keep progress visible” are the aspects that could make the scheme a success, Taylor says.
Hello. I saw verse 67 of the Tao on this RMB and I couldn't help moving here. Peace.
Good to have you here Zihuatapulco. You are welcome.
Greetings Philosophers! I would like to inform you that I have been elected as the new Delegate of 10000 Islands. You can find out some information about me and the elections in this Dispatch:
A Shelter from the Storm!
Whether you cast your vote in my favor or not, I want to thank you for your initiative to take part in the political aspect of XKI. I'll try and do my best to deliver as much as it is expected of me.
I joined XKI back in 2019, and have been blinking in and out of activity since then. I joined TITO in 2021 because I believed that every region had the right to self-determination, safe from the hands of those ill-intentioned who wish to conquer and take them as trophies. In 2023, Chief Executive Markanite called upon my name to be included in the Hall of Heroes as the 135th Knight of TITO. In late 2025, I was elected for my first term as Senator for Blue Canaria North, and was re-elected once in 2026. As part of the Special Elections held this very month, I had cast my candidacy to eventually win uncontested. I choose to believe that I won because of the genuine will of having me in office rather than because there was no-one else to vote for.
right here that it is my intention to focus mainly on two issues that have gradually undermined our region: Inactivity and the Population Decline. Although I may have other goals in mind, these two are the principal issues that I believe we should all work together, as a region, to solve. It is not my intention to discredit the efforts of our very hard-working officials, be it serving in office or not; these problems are infinitely more structural than they are anyone's failure.I will address these affairs soon enough, and with the help of anyone who expresses their initiative. For now, anyone is welcome to suggest courses of action that we could begin to discuss.
Thank you Delegate Pantso!
Thank you Chief Executive The United Royal Islands of Euramathania!
... and a thank you to every Islander, whether in office or not!
If you're interested in reaching out to discuss matters pertaining to the World Assembly, please contact me via NS Telegram or Discord.
If you seek to establish an embassy between our regions, you are welcome to do so by following the steps, if you meet the requirements, found here.
I will also designate a Foreign Affairs Secretary to aid me in all relevant matters. This designation will be announced in a dispatch as well.
Congratulations 
Juiulia.
Juiulia and Clan Tokugawa
Insurance
1. Postapocalyptic Terror top 0.03% (77th in world)
2. 
Anarchocapitalistan top 0.05%
3. 
Azklabau top 2%
Middle: 
Clan Tokugawa top 39%
Last: Telgan bottom 0%
In Zihuatapulco, community organisers have given up going door to door because nobody is home.
In 
Laughing Hyena, old cars must undergo mandatory sensitivity training.
In The Void Cometh, dogs are encouraged to confront the psychodynamic roots of their desire to be "good boys".
“When a great wound is healed,
There will still remain a scar.”
— Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Gambling: 1) Postapocalyptic Terror top 0.04%; 2) Anarchocapitalistan top 0.06%; 3) 
Krankheit top 0.5%.
Have a good week.
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