Although my cable was restored after being down only a couple of hours last night, I didn't watch television. I spent much (probably too much ) of the night poking about on the Nation States site. It's amazing how rapidly that place is growing. I think it has only been up for about a month, and there are already more than 22,000 nations there. The "game" thus far consists primarily of people putting up messages in the forums, but everybody seems to be having a good time. Ah, we're so easlily entertained! At my last look, there were 34 nations in the Live Journalia region. Since the Nation States site doesn't have any sort of archiving system for messages,
scottobear has established the LJ community 
live_journalia for LJers playing the game. Eventually, I'm going to get around to posting something there about my nation state, Entropia. Just what I needed! Another way to squander my limited free time!