Love is Wonderful

Some people say love is the best thing in the world.
Those people must not have a very active imagination. I mean, have you seen the Wonders of the World? Last year, the hard-working paper-pushers of the World Census finally got out of their offices and scouted out the most fascinating, most extreme, and most impressive sites that this great big planet of ours has ever hosted. Their last list of Wonders featured everything from the Inverted Pyramids of Maxtopia to an alien monolith that was once thought to be just an enormous concrete slab but now secretly runs all of our AI systems.
Of course, those Wonders seem just a little more special when you have someone there by your side to see them with. Especially at this time of year, people like to focus on love. But there are more types than you might think — the ancient Greek philosophers had half a dozen words for love. For example, philia is brotherly love, the thing that prevents you from throttling your siblings or neighbors when they're playing loud music at midnight for the seventeenth night in a row. Eros means romantic love, the one that everyone usually thinks of. But my favorite might just be philautia, the love that you have for yourself. You can't always convince other people to love you, but you can always love yourself.
And speaking of self-love, we want you to know that NationStates is here for you, offering a welcome distraction from the whole maudlin pink heart and diamond ring thing with a whole new set of vaguely love-themed Wonders for you to build and explore, courtesy of myself (@@JGConfig::nice_name("pogaria", 2)@@), @@JGConfig::nice_name("verdant_haven", 2)@@, and our hard-working technical and admin teams. It might not take away the pain of being single on Valentine's Day, but being the first person who figured out how to craft a Life Well Lived might give you a boost towards the real thing.
Because today, I think you should love yourself.

The love starts flowing in:

Check out the re-opened Construction Zone while you wait!