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Jennifer Government: NationStates is a nation simulation game playable on the World Wide Web. It was created by Max Barry in late 2002, based loosely on his novel Jennifer Government.

In the game, a player has charge of a "nation", deciding government policies on automatically-presented issues from a list of options. These decisions affect the character of the nation's status in the areas of Civil Rights, Economy, and Political Freedoms. Based on criteria closely related to these areas, nations range from 27 categories like Scandinavian Liberal Paradise and New York Times Democracy to Compulsory Consumerist State and Psychotic Dictatorship. Players can also dismiss issues: this has no effect.

As of July 22, 2005, players had set up over 1,300,000 individual nations since NationStates premiered in late 2002. At any time fewer than 150,000 remain in existence as a result of the deletion of nations due to various rule infractions and to inactivity.

A second version of the game, currently in development and called "NationStates 2", may include complex functions for war, trade, diplomacy, and customization.