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NationStatesHolics Anonymous has lots of embassies, but people aren't sending puppets to join in the conversation. I hope that doesn't discourage you. This is a good idea for a region.

I enjoy NationStates, and though I should spend less time on it, my main concern is the responsibility to keep regions that I (or departed friends) have created lively, or at least ticking over.

One twelve year old region of mine has nations that joined at the beginning that never say a word on the regional message board. They helped enthusiastically in the first year, but now sit there, logging in loyally just often enough not to disappear. Thankfully a newcomer has come along to do polls, so along with the timber woodchipping/trout fishing reports, there is activity.

Someone who joined NationStates two months after I did recently left the game. Just like that. His reason was to do something more useful in "real life". His main region suffered a loss of 42 puppets four weeks later. There are lots of other, real people there, including me, but he was the driving force of an exceptional region and without him it doesn't work.