NationStates - a 3Pol2 and 3Pol3 IR Online Simulation

Play the game, and simulate building and managing your state in the Political Science way.

https://www.nationstates.net/

NationStates is a freeware online simulation of state building and management.

Click the link above and start building your state by making political decisions based on your own preferences, political leanings, ideology, or worldview.

As you play, make sure that you take LOTS of screenshots.  These will be needed in the output, which is an infographic that you will assemble with cutouts of your printed screenshots.

Goals are 1) simulate running a state and know of the repercussions of your political and governmental decisions; and 2) to distinguish Comparative Politics elements from International Relations elements.

Hence:

Output must address two tasks:

1. Describe the study of Comparative Politics through the simulation that you experienced in the game.
2. Describe the study of International Relations through the simulation that you experienced in the game.

Output is accomplished through an infographic printed on a long oslo paper or cardboard paper.  The paper must be plain.  Answer on the two tasks above should be two separate newspaper type columns.  They should be stated in a series of short, direct statements.

The two tasks above are actually argumentative.  You need to prove how the game simulated the two sub-disciplines of political science. Hence use the debate skills taught in class.  Just be direct, do not give me long paragraphs.  IT'S AN INFOGRAPHIC, not a formal paper.  It's a way to deliver content to people.  Which is an important skill in the field after graduation.

Use the screenshots to prove your answers.  Use large fonts.  Limit answers to 3 - 4 short, direct, clear yet correct sentences.  There should be 5 proofs.  You should be able to identify the proof by relating it to specific parts of Compa or IR.  

You need to add the pictures, and use whatever creative way to connect the pictures to the text.  Use arrows and position properly. 1 or pictures should also clearly show you using the simulator.

All outputs are to be collected by the class president and compiled in a long sized clearbook, alphabetically.  There should be a creative cover featuring:

NationStates

An Online Freeware Simulator for Political Science 

Outcomes:  

1) Simulate experience of what are being studied.

2) Use the simulator to distinguish experience of 

concepts in Comparative Politics and of concepts in

Introduction to International Relations Theory.

Submitted to: Mr. Ronald M. Castillo M.A.

Professor

Submitted b: 3Pol(2 or 3)

Checkout samples of infographics as guides.

Individual student signature should be creatively and clearly placed at the lower corner of the output.

You will be graded on:

1. How correct your answers are to the two tasks.
2. How you were able to prove using pictures.
3. How you were able to prove based on connecting the answer to IR related components.

2 pts each.  3 categories above, 5 answers each.  

Points are 2 or 1 or 0.  

• 2 points are given if each of the three categories were satisfied correctly with proofs and with no flaws.
• 1 point for correct but flawed manner of answering.
• 0 for incorrect answer: 

Hence: highest total score is 2 x 10 (5 categories and and 2 sub-disciplines).

Failure to follow an instruction gets 1-2 points deduction per part not followed.