NationStates: N-Day 5: Lessons of History

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Nuclear conflict: Are there any winners? I mean, yes, there are. We have a leaderboard. But what about the 549 out of 574 Factions who failed to finish last year's N-Day with a positive score? That's a lot of nations who wound up as radioactive dust.

I think the lesson here is that for most people, nuclear war is brief and fatal. You can do your best and still wind up flattened because larger forces decided to swat you. Something to ponder. Not here, though! Here on NationStates, your citizens are only temporarily annihilated when some madman decides to extinguish millions of lives. So that's different.

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[Orioni]

Another Nuke Day is coming up. Is anyone interested in reforming our faction Kim Jong-nuke, or do you prefer joining up with a greater inter-regional faction?

[NationStates News]

N-Day⁵ is over! And it was an incredibly tight battle this year, with three Factions closing things out within a nuclear whisker of each other. In the end, Augustin Alliance couldn't be stopped from marching to their third N-Day victory, beating out An Alliance of Potatoes and Ba Sing Se.

Final Leaderboard

In time-honored tradition, last year's winners, Horsemen of the Apocalypse, were everybody's favorite targets, finishing in last place with a world record-breaking amount of radiation (821,369). In fact, I believe that's 4.4 times more radiation than the previous record, which just goes to show: If a lot of people want to nuke something, it can get really nuked.

On the other hand, Ba Sing Se deserves special credit for not only finishing 3rd overall, but doing so with zero radiation.

	Faction	Score	Nations	Region
1.	Augustin Alliance	287,488	5,375 Nations	Augustin Alliance
2.	An Alliance of Potatoes	284,847	5,938 Nations	The Potato Alliance
3.	Ba Sing Se	275,832	4,853 Nations	The City of Ba Sing Se
4.	CRAB	107,970	2,979 Nations	CRAB
5.	Fuster Cluck Coalition	44,956	633 Nations	Northern Ocean
6.	Second Best Test	29,194	25 Nations	Big Farma
7.	RAILGUN	18,531	265 Nations	The Flyin Miniverse
8.	Antinosean Army	8,802	9 Nations	Antinosean Card Farm
9.	Alnobian Nuclear Defense Alliance	8,290	1 Nation	Alnobia
10.	German Nuclear Force	6,236	5 Nations	MG Puppet Storage

Global stats:

• 475 factions were created.

• 38693 nations joined a faction.

• 4,359,585 nukes were targeted.

• 3,715,752 nukes were launched.

• 1,800,098 nukes were shot down.

• 1,916,864 strikes occurred for 1,536,382 radiation.

And for the record, and in a confusingly slightly different format, here are Highest Scores Per Nation (with a minimum of 10 nations):

Faction	Region	Score	Score Per Nation
Second Best Test	Big Farma	29,194	1,167.8
Gholgoth	Gholgoth	4,817	133.8
BAD Corps	BAD Auxiliary	1,825	121.7
Neon Dreams	Teremara	2,397	109.0
Fuster Cluck Coalition	Northern Ocean	44,956	71.0
RAILGUN	The Flyin Miniverse	18,531	69.9
Ba Sing Se	The City of Ba Sing Se	275,832	56.8
Augustin Alliance	Augustin Alliance	287,488	53.5
An Alliance of Potatoes	The Potato Alliance	284,847	48.0
CRAB	CRAB	107,970	36.2

Thank you for participating in N-Day⁵! And remember: Several people in the world today have the power to plunge us into a nuclear conflict at the press of a button. Have a nice day.

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