NationStates is a simulation game based on Max Barry's novel, Jennifer Government. "You create your own country, fashioned after your own political ideals, and care for its people. Either that or you deliberately torture them. It's really up to you." There are more than 72,000 nations in the NS World, but not one called Libraria! We'd start one up, a country run like a library, but we don't want the responsibility of being a ruthless dictator. [The Laughing Librarian -- Library Humor and Stuff]
The middle school boys at my school are constantly playing this on the library computers. (They're not allowed to play anything that really looks like a game.) I've pointed it out to teachers, especially in social studies, but none of them has followed up on it. It seems as though it could be a teaching tool, but maybe that would ruin its attraction as a game. I think I should probably buy and read the book,
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