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Hey friends, hope yÂ’all are having a great day :)

I just wanted to wish all Refugis a nice & peaceful weekend!

Our religious holidays are approaching and I'm so excited with preparations (preparing soft drinks, getting ready for the anual Spring cleanup, etc.).

I'm still unsure where I'll spend Seder Night (I got two people vying for my presence, lol). I shall resolve this conflict tonight (The senior of the two gets to decide if he "lends" me over to the other one, in exchnage for me attending his Seder Table next year, Chuckle).

My roommate is convalescing and has found a hospital to stay in for the next few months or so, until he either recovers enough to come back here or a more permanent solution is found for him, such as an old-age-home.

I hope to manage a holiday visit to my older sister's at the end of the holiday, or in the middle of the holiday week.

I have a Canary bird, called Pavarotti and my younger brother has a rainbow crab, Called "Rainbowy"

I have a turtle called Victoria!

Do you like my new flag?

Amoung us in real life

I am the Humble Berry god

My favorite animals are cats.

I have two cats (Goliath and Willow) and a dog named Rockie.

My only pets I have are the excessive amount of stuffed animals in my room. But I wish I had a fennec fox.

Two boring tortoises but are really cute when they actually activate, A hell of a responsibility of a cat that doesn't know what a letterbox means.

An animal I want is a dog that actually becomes my friend and cheers me up, that would be nice.

After seeing the latest vote in the World Assembly, I was wondering how a region could be envaded?

It said that the region of EmbassyRegionia had been invaded. ThatÂ’s what I was wondering.

When a region is created, by default, all control over that region rests with the founder. And while regional officers may be appointed to help carry out the functions of a region's administration, the ultimate power is still held by that founder. However, when the founder nation is no longer present, either from them abandoning the region or (almost always) ceasing to exist, the region's World Assembly delegate becomes the ultimate executive power by circumstance.

Since the delegate of a region is whichever nation has the most World Assembly endorsements at the time the database updates it, that means raiders can sweep in at a moment's notice and rig the system to install one of their own. After raiders control the region, natives have little chance of getting it back without outside help, as occupiers will simply ban any resistance that's not carefully organised. Given enough time, invaders may install a secret password to the region, eject the native inhabitants, and destroy the region, its history, and any messages ever posted there.

Since a region must be emptied of all inhabitants to be destroyed, having a password to prevent nations from entering helps a great deal. So a Security Council liberation makes that much harder (among other uses), by preventing one from being imposed by a non-founder.

I reaaaaally love those names! Especially Aspen, I've never been but I want to snowboard there definitely and it's just such a cool name.

Me too-I have hermit crabs

Hi guys. I am new here. Could anyone add me to the referendum so i can vote?

I see thank you

I keep passing laws and accidentally ruining my country /: I accidentally banned prison and didn't think long enough before clicking a law that banned people who DISAGREED with the death penalty and not just banned capital punishment ): Imma just pretend that I never made those laws, for all intents and purposes I have rehab prisons, and the crack down law is retconned

It's okay, a lot of the results of these things are meant to kind of troll you. If you answer an issue in a way that a policy is instituted, you'll usually get an issue sometimes over the next several days that gives you the option to reverse that.

Phew

Hey friends, hope y'all have wonderful days :)

Regarding paid family leave https://www.nationstates.net/page=UN_view_proposal/id=minskiev_1648236181

(Sorry still donÂ’t know how to embed)

Hi Miskiev, thank you for writting this. Here are some suggestions.

I would add words like “wage” or “monetary compensation” to 1.a.

1.c.ii is worded confusingly, and I personally think paid leave should be the same salary they usually receive based on their monthly schedule.

2.a.i is the person affect the worker or their family member that the worker needs to provide care to?

2.c.ii on a personal philosophy I donÂ’t believe workers should pay for their own leave.

5. For number five, i think you can cross out non-incarcerated so it us up to individuals nation interpretation, otherwise you’d have to use that language “non-incarcerated” everything. I personally think incarcerated persons should have the exact same paid leave as non incarcerated.

Oops okay

Daily Icebreaker #4

What is your favorite place to visit, or a place that makes you feel happy?

Wasn't today the #4? The ocean, something about it that makes me feel in peace.

I did! I woke up at 6.30 feeling very well rested which is not a normal occurrence at all for me. I hope you slept well too :)

I apologize for my inactivity in the past two weeks.

Hello all. For those who have voted for the at-vote SC proposal "Liberate EmbassyRegionia", in line with our Delegate, please switch to voting Against.

The natives of the target region have, as control has been restored, stated to want to password their region to prevent future invasion.

The Liberation was intended so that invaders couldn't password the region and destroy it unopposed. However, since natives are in control, all this would do is prevent them from keeping the region safe.

Thanks.

I was sick and I didnÂ’t really feel like moving, and also o went on a different account and I found out someone literally appointed themselves in my other countrieÂ’s region to self-advertise. So uh goodday

im all good now though, but the other factor is that i just lost interest for a bit

my sleep schedule is wack currently, yesterday i woke up at 12:30, today i woke up at 9

i remember a time period last year when i would stay up to 5 am and wake up at 1-2 pm

pretty bad

Thanks Minsk, I've changed my vote.

For everyone else: I feel like these midstream changes on liberations, while not unique, are uncommon enough that an explanation is still needed. For those who don't know, the delegate is required to make a post explaining their position on a vote when that goes against the majority opinion of the region. I haven't had to do this a lot, since ideologically I find myself in step with the majority of the region almost all the time. This is probably the same, all things considered, but not everyone who voted is going to see this immediately.

To sort of paraphrase what Minsk said, and repeat some of the things Luca said (check that post out for a better explanation on the mechanics of an occupation) on the previous page, a Security Council liberation prevents anyone but the founder of a region from implementing a password, which would keep nations from being able to move into a region. When a region is invaded by raiders, they're trying to get to a point where they can implement a password and keep people from getting into the region while they empty it out of the people who were already there. The raiders are no longer in control, and the people who previously were in control of the region are again, and they want to have a password of their own.

The liberation will still prevent the natives (the people who were invaded) from implementing a password since the founder's account no longer exists. Since we went into the vote trying to help the people who were invaded, switching our vote is the way to continue that goal. And so I have!

Vandermeerian news 'Coloniser-in-Chief' has become the Leader's new moniker.

All:

I'm pleased to announce the conclusion of the Spring Flag Competition poll. The results of which are publicly available here: https://vote.calref.network/results/26

Option C, submitted by Cheesy Tots handily won in the first round of voting, and option D was eliminated. In the second round, there was a three way tie between A, B, and E, which resolved in favour of Option A in second place, and Option E in third place by the majority of votes' second-preference choices.

So congrats to

1[sup]st[/sup] Place: Cheesy Tots

2[sup]nd[/sup] Place: Junitaki-Cho

3[sup]rd[/sup] Place: Sylh Alanor

Their submissions will be flown in reverse order of winning, in accordance with the timetable in the competition dispatch below:

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1681440

Welcome! Great flag, really like the colour scheme.

For some reason your flag reminds me of the beach but I still love it lol

Kind of you all to say

I would say "beachy" is a good descriptor of the overall sense I was going for, both with the flag design and the nation itself. Laid back, sun-drenched, and just a little bit magical :)

If you just mean that the economy is high ("frightening"), well, mostly it comes down to choosing answers that subsidize business, while keeping in mind that I don't want to damage the environment whatsoever. So, I only allow pretty limited economic freedoms, since those issues often put a real hurt to eco stuff and weather and just general "niceness". But there's loads of issues that improve the economy without harming the environment or having to compromise on other values. For instance, choosing issues which benefit the tourism industry, or cultural stuff. But you really have to be OK with inflating the size of the government and taxation, because it's all about government support of stuff. Also, at a certain point, when you've started to get that Economy rating going pretty good, there's a sort of inertia that takes over and it simply keeps on going. I don't know how to explain it, really...NS stats are a bit weird.

Night yÂ’all

What do you mean by lodge in this case?

You can endorse other nations by going to their overview and scrolling to the bottom, and the option to endorse should be there, but first you have to be a member of the World Assembly. To request membership just go to the world assembly and around the top of the page there should be a button to apply

Hooray! I have officially become a member state of Refugia!

Nice! I think I have two days before I become a member state too

"Hospitals in New Pi-Ramesses are too busy serving the needs of Refugia to see Misrans."

Oh no.

Anyways.

youÂ’re already a member of state, arenÂ’t you?

From the RRS, a Member State is a World Assembly nation that has been in the region for at least a week

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1200707

Btw everyone, today is the last day to vote in the recall of the Councillor of Culture.

Consider tossing in a vote today if you have not already: https://vote.calref.network/

Daily Icebreaker #5

What is your favorite movie/Movie series

Princess Bride, hands down.