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Op-Ed
Managing Editor
The oft-debated "summer slump" is said to be the inevitable period between May and the end of August where Nationstates slows downs as high school and university students invest their summers in other pursuits rather than spending their study time on Nationstates.
Many people are skeptical of this supposed trend, saying that just as many summers have been on par with activity or even higher activity than those that have been noteworthily inactive. However, with the scarring memory of last summer's series of devastating slumps and crises, officials were prepared for the worst:
First Minister Pichtonia mentioned the word "summer" four times in his election platform, telling the electorate that fear of another catastrophic summer slump was part of what motivated him to run.
"This summer will likely be very harsh on Europeia and NationStates. We need someone who cares for this region, our home, and the office of First Minister to lead us through it," Pichtonia wrote in his platform. "I believe I am that someone."
By the grace of hard work, or good luck, or a little of both, he may have been proven right.
Unnamed officials in the Administrative Bureau (me) have recently confirmed exclusively to ENN (me) that July 2019 was the most active month Europeia's forum has on record. With an average of 166 posts a day, the region falls a little short of the historical average of 200 posts a day, but also far outstrips the 77 post a day average of June.
Much of the posting surge is owned to the push to get Europeia over 1,000,000 posts, but that isn't the whole story.
"The one million post push accounted for roughly 1000 posts," ENN correspondent Paul Krugman shares. Spread out across the month, this specific push would only boost the daily average by roughly 30 posts. It certainly helps, but it's not the whole story."
Social and cultural corners of the region have roared back to life, with renewed activity on spam games and social conversation sparking additional political and governmental conversations that seem to be attracting more participation than in months past. More often than not, it is newer members who have joined in 2019 or 2018 at the center of these dialogues.
July has been a good month. The only question is whether it's just a good month, or whether my Rome allegories can be finally be put to rest at start of a Europeian renaissance.
