Sober Thought
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| Flag of Sober Thought | |
| Motto: We are extreme in our moderation | |
| None / Aucun / Kein | |
| Region | International Democratic Union |
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| Capital | Yes / Oui / Ja |
| Official Language(s) | English, français simple, schlecht Deutsch |
| Leader | Extreme Moderate |
| Population | 115 000 000 |
| Currency | Free Thought / Franc pensée / Denkmark |
| NS Sunset XML | |
The Community of Sober Thought was created in February 2005 for the NationStates game.
This page includes the gameplay of Sober Thought. For a description of the values, goals and aptitudes of the real life person who created this country, see Sober Thought real. For a discription of the fictional structure of the NS nation, see Sober Thought game.
NationStates entry
See: http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi/target=display_nation/nation=Sober_Thought for an always-up-to-date information page on the nation Sober Thought
Regional and world rankings for Sober Thought
14 March 2005: 7th and 58,651st for Largest Timber Woodchipping Industry 18 March 2005: 15th and 76,955th for Highest Average Tax Rates 21 March 2005: 16th and 42,297th for Smartest Citizens 22 March 2005: 16th and 95,019th for Best Weather 24 March 2005: 7th and 46,113th for Largest Insurance Industry 25 March 2005: 11th and 28,174th for Nudest (sic)
Falling church attendance daily issue
Religious professionals and fanatic hermits across Sober Thought have been drawing increasingly animated attention to the decreasing levels of church attendance among the population. The Debate
1. "The apathy of Sober Thought's people towards their religious duties to God is abysmal," rumbles a man known only as 'The Hierophant' as he brandishes his holy book at you. "If we don't rectify this problem immediately the ground shalt quake, the sky shalt turn blood-red, and the fields shalt turn to offal. The government must make religious attendance compulsory before all the land is damned to an eternity in the Netherworld!" (Forced faith is not faith, so not acceptable to me.)
2. "Compulsory church attendance is not the answer to this problem," says swami Zeke Mistletoe in between spells of meditation. "There are many ways to enlightenment and it would be wrong for the government to enforce any one of them so, instead, we must divert some of the money we spend on meaningless economic pursuits into funding an awareness campaign to help people discover their true religious identity. We must establish temples, mosques, and hermitages so people can find out which path to their spirituality is right for them." (Church and state need to be keep apart for the good of both, so not acceptable to me.)
3. "I reckon you could just ignore these zealots and scrap any government funding we still have going into religion," says Elizabeth Spirit, author of the wildly unpopular book 'Face It, There Is No Afterlife'. "I can't believe that modern thinkers like you and me are still tying ourselves down with outmoded and outdated concepts like the 'soul' or 'God'. Just drop all funding and give everyone a bit of a tax break. At least then we can be a bit richer before the long infinite void of oblivion at the end of our small, feeble, insignificant little lives." (Although the tongue-in-cheek colourful phrases mask it, this is the only option that is really about separation of church and state.)
