LAIR Conference Call: State Building Activity (October 9)

Activity: Create a new country by getting into your teams, and creating a flag, a national slogan, and a national history, and then locating yourselves in the map, in the land you believe should be yours. Put everything in a PowerPoint file and e-mail the information to your professor before midnight.

1. Design a flag here: Flag design app

2. Think of a national slogan and put it on a poster using Piktochart.

3. Create a national history using: Plot Generator

4. Choose an existing song as your national anthem.

5. Choose your location and territory in the following map:

Now make the following decisions, and wait for instructions. Put everything in the same PowerPoint as before.

6. Key roles:

• Head of State (must approve all decisions) 
• Head of Government (must execute all decisions)

7. Key decisions:

• Type of government (How are decisions made? Monarchy, Republic, Democracy, Socialist regime, Oligarchy?)
• Who is part of the country? (Just original members, immigrants, refugees, etc)
• What will be produced? (Decide on a resource you will exchange)
• Will you be defensive or ofensive? (How will you react to internal and external threats?)

8. Challenge 1: Hurricane Francisco has reached a category 5 and will make landfall in your country right now. WHAT WILL YOU DO? How will you do it?

9. Challenge 2: Your country has received a wave of illegal immigration from the United States of America. These illegal immigrants now form a minority in your country and want to participate in its politics. WILL YOU LET THEM? Why or why not?