While the police are necessarily involved with Channel, the actual process is designed to be as community-based as possible, gently nudging people back towards mainstream society rather than threatening them with retribution.
If competing for the top seven or eight places was part of the plan, no one truly imagined this, even if Málaga have superb support with over 20,000 season ticket holders in a region where unemployment is nudging 40%.
It was nudging a spherical boulder as high as its blade, one metre in diameter.
It looks good and there's fun to be had, but it can sometimes feel a bit over-aggressive in nudging you to pay.
Would my relationship with my wife be better if I was sending her naked pictures of myself rather than nudging her to make a move in our online Scrabble marathons?
At the same time, in the north of the country, the temperature was nudging 30C and there wasn't a cloud in the sky; an hour's drive west of Santiago, the conditions in the central valleys were those of an English spring day.
But in the UK and other European countries (including where I live in Holland), political debates are nudging us towards more autonomy for cities, which means more competition, rather than co-operation.
He played a leading role in the ill-fated constitutional convention and patrolled Dublin and London, lobbying and manoeuvring and nudging the British and Irish governments towards a new cooperative approach.
The best way to achieve it may not be via smart, reactive traffic lights, but by sending messages to drivers in cars, giving them useful information to react to and nudging them into better routes.
He said: "The work programme is worse than doing nothing and our economy isn't growing – this is a national crisis that is not going to be solved by a bit of nudging here and there".
I see people nudging each other sometimes.
