NationStates

NationStates is an free to play, no download required, online game created by Author Max Barry. In the game, you create your own nation, and interact with other nations via an in charcter forum, or direct messaging system (called the Telegraph Line, or TG for short). You also respond to issues in your nation from time to time. In additon to the Nation Role Play, NS has a viable community of non-NS RPers who have their own forum, Portal to the Multiverse, as well as a community of fiction writters who have their own forum, Arts & Fiction. If you just feel like chatting about non NS stuff, or unwinding the site also has forums for such activity.

Origin
After writing Jeniffer Government, Max Barry created a nation simulator.

The World Assembly
Originally called the UN, the UN wrote a letter to Max, informing him the UN logo was trademarked, so he renamed it, and organized it, as the World Assembly. It has a security council, and assembly. Nations who join the WA will have their stats effected by WA resolutions. A resolution, depending on type, tends to increase one stat among all it's members, while decreasing another, possibly opposing, stat.

Site Rules

 * The Swastika is banned on NS.
 * Trolling is banned.
 * Troll-Naming (calling some one out as a troll) is also banned... oddly enough.
 * You may have multiple nations, but only one of those nations may be a member of the World Assembly.
 * Players who repeatedly break the rules can have a DEAT called on them. In other words, the player's nations will be deleted on sight, so... just have fun, and stay on the moderator's good side.