[OOC] Global Information Survey

If you have read the IC thread, you will know that the Global Information Survey is an effort to collect data from the various nations. This has a number of purposes, but the main ones are to help you develop your nation and to help others in knowing what kind of nation they are interacting with. If you have some questions on what would be the best way to answer a particular question in the Survey (for instance your population), here would be the place to ask. In the meantime, here are some basics tips:

• Your answers have to be realistic. There is always some leeway, but keep it within reasonable limits.
  
• Big isn't always better. If you make all your national statistics excessively large, that will hardly be realistic.
  
• By the same token, your nation can't be entirely self-sufficient: it can't produce everything, have zero poverty and the like. There have to be drawbacks.
  
• If your nation is on the map, I have your surface area. Make sure to ask here.
  

You don't have to answer all the questions, and it's always better to leave one blank if you prefer to wait for guidance here. If enough people answer, I will make maps that show which nations are monarchies, which allow capital punishment, which drive on the right, which have the highest GDP, lowest poverty rate and so on. It should be fun!