Thank You and Farewell
Dear Reader,
What a journey it’s been for the site. When I first launched SimpleNation in the summer of 2022, I really just wanted to find a way to mimic being at an internship to gain experience in risk assessment and geopolitics while between terms of my postgraduate degree. The war in Ukraine had reached its 4th month and I saw the internet rife with misinformation, disinformation, and misunderstandings. I wanted to find a way to correct the record as best as I could - so I did. And then kept going, on far more than just Ukraine.
I thought I’d have been writing my farewell message long before April 2025.
I really do wish I could keep going, but as my career and personal life develop, I’m finding myself with less and less time to contribute to SimpleNation - and I can’t leave the audience hanging for something that might go weeks without an update.
The site will remain open for one more month - until May 24th - for general readership in its best form. I will, however, maintain backups of every article here, in case a month isn’t enough time to go back and read something. Any and every article will be available upon request.
Some fun facts about SimpleNation now that it has reached the end of its journey:
-There are 71 articles on the site covering topics on every continent - the image to the right shows a red dot for every topic capable of being narrowed down to a single area/country (see right).
-The article, Why Is Myanmar So Authoritarian?, ended up being instrumental in the application I made to my current job.
-Saudi in Transition is the only article to have received outside help for its creation.
-The site was visited 1,946 times by people from 68 countries. Someone even visited the site with an IP address from Kiribati, a Pacific Island nation with a population of 132,000.
-Where the Stone Age Still Exists is the most visited article of all time, with 93 views as of April 2025.
-For the brief period when SimpleNation was on Twitter, it gained a spike in followers (specifically of East African origin) after posting an article about Somaliland.
-The site’s entire catalogue contains 43,947 words, which covers approximately 104 pages. As of writing this farewell message, it’s apparently enough to have permanently damaged my key for the letter “C”. I needed to paste that in by Googling “what is the third letter of the alphabet”.
Special thanks to the following people:
-Steven Lee
-Yas Alfaris
-My family
-You
