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Tambra Residuel

Probably a few years or months ago, Siwale rose to power in the seat of WA Delegate.

Well, new challenges await. First off, how would Siwale make sure raiders do not take it’s position as the WA delegate.

Even harder is the inability to password-lock the region, which could make the region prone to an invasion.

The good side is, a raiding region would need around 1,250 WA members and a very meticulously planned operation. The bad side for the raiding regions is that they could be invaded by TNP if an undercover nation figures out they’re about to invade TNP.

This opinion piece deals with the gameplay side of raiding and defending.

Raiding and defending gameplay is the part of NationStates with the most fun. This aspect of the game does use WA mechanics.

Basically, Raiding is when a big bunch of nations enter a region in a short period of time before an update begins and mass-endorses who they want to be the WA delegate.

The game will say "Nation A has more endorsements than Nation B, Nation A will be the WA delegate of Region A", when the update comes and it sees that particular nation with a lot of endorsements.

Or if the region targeted by the raider group is alert, they will simply infiltrate it.

The good side for most user-created regions is that they have a Founder. And if your region has a Founder, that region with that particular founder is practically immune to this aspect of gameplay.

The police have caught and arrested 172 people caught after allegedly running or working for online vice rings. Around 17 of them were shut down, and all of them had websites. 9 of them were shut down but the other 8 could not be taken down as they were located on the “dark web”, a part of the Internet only accessible by special software.

82 of them were given mostly 1 year sentences. All of them occured in flats, mainly in the cities of Britannica, Evidensya, and Floodias. The existence of these online vice rings were discovered by undercover police officers who were browsing the dark web.

Most of the official websites of the vice rings offered services like prostitution, drug laboratory experimentation experiences, which are free laboratory experimentation environments to experiment unsupervised. The undercover police officers found people for sale, mainly meant for torture.

The police officers, through their meticulous investigations, found out the people for sale for being tortured were located in a "facility" 2km below ground.

With vigilance and willingness, an operation misleadingly named to the vice rings as Operation Profit4Vices was conducted, with over 27,000 police officers and 2,250 soldiers. They liberated around 283,260 people who were on sale for torturing, and the facility was around 28km huge.

The police have decided to convert the facility into a nuclear shelter in case of nuclear war. Further investigations are ongoing.

A charger suddenly went up in flames today near the Tablah-Drisul District in the city of Britannica today.

The user of the phone had been allegedly on the phone restlessly for 572 hours straight, and was immediately taken to hospital due to extreme eye strain.

Approximately 2 minutes and 17 seconds after the man was taken, the charger exploded and huge damage was reported. A television exploded and almost hit a huge explosives facility, which could have destroyed the city of Britannica.

According to one of the doctors, at the hospital, the person suffered from extreme eye strain and was completely addicted to his phone and constantly shouted for it.

The hospital had to deploy 6 psychologists to deal with the man’s rage. No surgery was needed luckily and thankfully. The rage almost got violent when the man shouted very loudly.

Many people went on social media and educated everyone on the dangers of excessive phone use. One of the posts amassed over 3 million shares and 7 million likes.

Scientists working together in operation Marianas has paid off with the meticulous operation of 22,250 scientists working together to gain access to something known as the “Marianas Web”.

The Marianas Web has been rumored to contain a sentient female AI which controls the entire Internet, and also has been rumored to contain humanity’s deepest secrets.

Operation Marianas was started in 2026 after heavy protests from Internet conspiracy theorists to begin the operation to uncover the Marianas Web. 20 years of hardwork has paid off to the scientists.

A quantum computer is currently needed to visit the Marianas Web, and the goverent plans to release their findings to the public. The person who was the creator of the Marianas Web, however is currently missing.

The Marianas Web is now available on the so-called Clearnet through a picture website with screenshots of the Marianas Web. The “Clearnet” is made up of all the everyday websites visited. This website currently belongs in the “Clearnet”. Other notable sites on the “Clearnet” include Wikipedia, Google, and Bing.

Many people have attempted to enter the Marianas Web to no avail since 2031, when the government announced efforts were deteriorating due to increasing costs.

The first webpage of the Marianas Web was opened at 10:27pm on August 13, today. The president proclaimed August 13 as Marianas Web Day, in celebration of the breakthrough.

To the surprise of the conspiracy theorists, around 81 trillion websites were found and the Marianas Web’s size is estimated at 2.7 quadrillion terabytes, equivalent to 400-page books of the HTML code would be the 62 million times heavier than the entire country of Crazybloxian Empire’s total weight (people included), combined.

A flag burning event which saw 892,200 Renegallean flags laid onto the floor of the Wurxasi Greenhouse to be burned and cooked occured today on the outskirts of the city of Britannica.

Around 82,250 people attended and watched as the flags burnt. Many people cheered. 7,250 shredders were taken onto the stage and chutes of Renegallean flags began to drop flags into the shredder. People shouted in joy as the flags were shredded and their remains burned. The energy from the burning was converted to electricity.

The current price to attend one ranges from 270-525SD, with permanent come-free tickets enabling people to attend for free anytime for a period of time costing 92 million for one.

Each of the events were held 200 kilometeres above the surface of the planet with the attendees wearing special sunglasses to block out the sun. The sun’s heat would then “cook” the flags. Flags were also shredded and desecrated at the event.