Difference between revisions of "Anti-UN"

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There are always nations who take an Anti-UN position in NationStates. These nations have decided that the potential benefits gained from UN membership (such as invasion play, proposal submitting and approving, etc.) are not worth the costs.

The costs associated with UN membership include threats to sovereignty, undesired changes to national statistics (as imposed by the Compliance Ministry), and a wide variety of philosophical differences. Others choose not to be members of the UN for Roleplaying reasons.

Some see the UN as an attempt to impose a world government over the entire collection of NationStates. This theory is dismissed by its opponents by pointing to the statistics that show that only about one-third of all nations are in fact UN members. (The number of puppets ineligible for UN membership probably skews this figure significantly.) Various attempts to form a credible competitor organisation to the UN have never had very much success, however, partly because of the difficulty of attracting enough players into such alliances, but mostly because (unlike the UN) these alliances are unable to directly affect national statistics.

A distinct variety of anti-UN sentiment originates from n00bs who join the UN thinking it will be much like the real-life United Nations or without reading the list of past resolutions. The n00bishness of this variety of anti-UN sentiment has led many UN members to dismiss more serious anti-UN concerns.

• • • • • UN NATIONS HEAR ME! You are being lied to we are fighting a war against tyranny of the UN. We are not noobs the UN is the noobs they are force feeding this junk to you. I must cut this transmission now as it is being.....****

Additional Information

• The Official I hate the UN thread
• World government entry.