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'''Nationstates''' (URL: www.nationstates.net) is a [[fictional]] nation-simulation website created by [[socialist]] [[Australian]] author [[Max Barry]] on November 13, 2002 to promote his anti-[[capitalist]] book Jennifer Government. The website is notable for its heavy population of [[liberals]], who regularly engage in [[liberal deceit]], [[liberal denial]], and [[double standard]] to silence [[conservatives]] and [[Christians]] and prevent [[biblical]] or [[logical]] arguments from being seen; and for openly plagiarizing Conservapedia with it's "Conservative" theme, which allows users to display the Conservapedia logo with the word "Nationstates" replacing the word "Conservapedia." <ref>https://www.nationstates.net/page=news/2010/03/31/index.html</ref>

'''Nationstates''' is a [[fictional]] nation-simulation website created by [[socialist]] [[Australian]] author [[Max Barry]] on November 13, 2002 to promote his anti-[[capitalist]] book Jennifer Government. The website is notable for its heavy population of [[liberals]], who regularly engage in [[liberal deceit]], [[liberal denial]], and [[double standard]] to silence [[conservatives]] and [[Christians]] and prevent [[biblical]] or [[logical]] arguments from being seen; and for openly plagiarizing Conservapedia with it's "Conservative" theme, which allows users to display the Conservapedia logo with the word "Nationstates" replacing the word "Conservapedia." <ref>https://www.nationstates.net/page=news/2010/03/31/index.html</ref>

===Jennifer Government===

==Jennifer Government==

[[Max Barry]]'s 2002 novel served as inspiration for Nationstates, which Barry intended to use to drum up interest in his book before it ballooned into a safe-haven for liberals to compare [[logical fallacies]] without fear of logical rebuttal from conservatives. The novel is notable for its many [[socialist]] and [[communist]] themes and attacks on the [[free market]], including depictions of [[AT&T]] and [[Verizon]] employees being shot on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange and the painting of [[Nike]]'s marketing department as a villainous organization willing to sanction murder to sell shoes. <ref>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33356.Jennifer_Government</ref>

[[Max Barry]]'s 2002 novel served as inspiration for Nationstates, which Barry intended to use to drum up interest in his book before it ballooned into a safe-haven for liberals to compare [[logical fallacies]] without fear of logical rebuttal from conservatives. The novel is notable for its many [[socialist]] and [[communist]] themes and attacks on the [[free market]], including depictions of [[AT&T]] and [[Verizon]] employees being shot on the trading floor of the New York Stock Exchange and the painting of [[Nike]]'s marketing department as a villainous organization willing to sanction murder to sell shoes. <ref>http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/33356.Jennifer_Government</ref>

===Nationstates and Liberalism===

==Nationstates and Liberalism==

With the book's blatant appeal to [[liberal]] [[wishful thinking]], the website quickly attracted a massive amount of liberal users, who soon outnumbered conservative users and drew false authority from the [[logical fallacy]] of proof by numbers to shout down any conservative argument with waves of illogical rebuttals and [[strawmen]]. While the presence of a forum on the website could have allowed it to become a vein for conservatives to demonstrate the superiority of their position and rebut many of the points presented in the book and by liberalism at large, the overwhelming population of liberals make it impossible, as any point that does not line up with their twisted worldview is dismissed out-of-hand and falsely mocked as incorrect. Repeated claims of bias to the site admins have gone unanswered, indicating that the [[liberal bias]] is not only present among the common users but also among those who are supposed to ensure fair debate.

With the book's blatant appeal to [[liberal]] [[wishful thinking]], the website quickly attracted a massive amount of liberal users, who soon outnumbered conservative users and drew false authority from the [[logical fallacy]] of proof by numbers to shout down any conservative argument with waves of illogical rebuttals and [[strawmen]]. While the presence of a forum on the website could have allowed it to become a vein for conservatives to demonstrate the superiority of their position and rebut many of the points presented in the book and by liberalism at large, the overwhelming population of liberals make it impossible, as any point that does not line up with their twisted worldview is dismissed out-of-hand and falsely mocked as incorrect. Repeated claims of bias to the site admins have gone unanswered, indicating that the [[liberal bias]] is not only present among the common users but also among those who are supposed to ensure fair debate.

===Evidence of Liberal Bias in Site Administration===

==Evidence of Liberal Bias in Site Administration==

Max Barry does not allow user-created nations to use the [[swastika]] on their flags, but does allow the [[communist]] [[hammer and sickle]] emblem, under which far more people have been murdered, in a clear example of liberal [[double standard]]. Challenges to this stance are repeatedly shut down by site admins without explanation. <ref>http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=16394962#p16394962</ref>

Max Barry does not allow user-created nations to use the [[swastika]] on their flags, but does allow the [[communist]] [[hammer and sickle]] emblem, under which far more people have been murdered, in a clear example of liberal [[double standard]]. Challenges to this stance are repeatedly shut down by site admins without explanation. <ref>http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=16394962#p16394962</ref>

The website bans any use of "political nicknaming" (i.e. referring to Barack Obama as "Barack Obummer"), and the rule is mainly used to silence conservatives from mocking the mistakes of liberal leaders or making unfavorable comparisons between them and other leaders ("Hitler-y Clinton"), while liberals are allowed to unfairly mock conservatives at will, with tactics that approach [[libel]].

The website bans any use of "political nicknaming" (i.e. referring to Barack Obama as "Barack Obummer"), and the rule is mainly used to silence conservatives from mocking the mistakes of liberal leaders or making unfavorable comparisons between them and other leaders ("Hitler-y Clinton"), while liberals are allowed to unfairly mock conservatives at will, with tactics that approach [[libel]].

===References===

==References==