Remember how high school and university students would sign up for "Model United Nations" and play a make-believe "game" of world politics to try to gain an appreciation for global issues?
I suppose it only made sense that the cyber-community would want to replicate that experience in some form --- and thus we now have the "Jennifer Government : Nation States" website. I only just learned today about the site at http://www.nationstates.net. To date, there are over a million registered states there (anyone can add a nation for free). I added one of the latest states - Republic of TheJewishPeople (the names "Israel, Yisrael and Palestine were not allowed by the website). If you go to the "find Nation" search box at the bottom of the page and enter "TheJewishPeople" (no spaces), you can look at my country profile (generated by the system, in response to a questionnaire I filled out). Apparently, the site has been used by some teachers as a teaching tool - see http://www.nationstates.net/pages/educators.html B'shalom, Steve Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the AJL =========================================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: Hasafran @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu SUBscribing, SIGNOFF commands send to: Listproc @ lists.acs.ohio-state.edu Questions, problems, complaints, compliments;-) send to: galron.1 @ osu.edu Ha-Safran Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org
