Due to the obvious interest in politics that is present on this thread I thought that many of you would like to try this game. http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/index.cgi You get to make your own country based on a small list of questions and then get new issues everyday. YOu can also join/create your own region for groups of people to play together. I have created a region in case anyone would like to join. The region is called Whistler Paradise and the password is chiff. Hope to see you there. I am the Holy Republic of Whistling Penguins.
Hey BrassBlower,
He’s trying for an end run around the Antarctic elections by creating his own region. And he’s taking all the penguins! It’s a brain drain (well, it is when penguins are all you have)!
Not to worry, Montana! He can keep his whistling penguins. We will still have the penguins who say “ni”! 
I created a nation and I’m trying to move it to Whistler Paradise but it says the password is wrong. Is “chiff” the correct region password?
-Brett
Evidently, Whistler Paradise has some pretty stringent immigration laws. I couldn’t get in either, and after I tried a string of permutations in a chiffy vein, it booted me out of the password areas. Oh, the sting of rejection.
OK – I got in and am now suffused with the warm glow of regional, if not international, acceptance.
THe Holy Republic of Capre Breton (pretend the “r” isn’t there) is now in Whistler Paradise
I have the Grand Duchy of Sasnakra, in the West Pacific.
Okay, I’m in. 
I’m “The Free Land of The Smiling Cyclops.”
-brett
The Republic of Duckslammer has respectfully joined your zone.
Missy
The Grand Duchy of Sasnakra has now joined Whistler Paradise, and shows interest in a whistle free-trade agreement.
Hmph… it wont let me in either, and now im temperarily blocked from password protected areas… sniff no one wants to play with me.
I think the password is case-sensitive. I tried “chiff” and it wouldn’t let me in. I tried “Chiff” (uppercase C) the next day, and it did.