[plamzi]

I have no idea what you just said, but I think that whatever it is, you believe it's a sound philosophy to run a game by. Ironically, what you seem to be describing makes me think you run your game less like a country than DB or I do.

Since you mentioned nothing specific about how you run your game, I can only suspect that you're failing to meet your own bizarre standards. So it would be prudent to focus on that rather than comment on how other people run their games.

And no, I don't think that any MUD fails because it's not being run as a country. They fail for much more prosaic reasons, including lack of dedicated staff, or simply that whoever was paying for the shell account disappeared one fine morning without leaving a note. Pretty much a thousand reasons, and the details of the MUD's policy simply ain't one.

And btw, countries fail, too, probably at a higher rate than MUDs. But that's just too confusing for anyone who wants to think in terms of simple false equivalencies.