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I think that, in my previous term as FA Councillor, we've set up a lot of things that can pay off within the next month or two. After establishing a consulate with The East Pacific, we're already to a point where we qualify to become an embassy, but we have to wait until mid-November to initiate that process.

I'd also aim to clean up our embassy list a bit, closing a few of the unnecessary ones that either wanted us as embassy collections (The Embassy) or liked us in a meme fashion (Australialia). I also realised that a lot of our early success in FA as a region was when we focused on growing friendships with other regions similar to us in size and aims, like Conifer and New West Indies. I've started establishing a relationship with Grace Of Gaia, which I hope to turn into an embassy after elections are over, and have a list of some others I'll work on at that point.

Overall, I think that we can have an extremely productive upcoming term, and I look forward to the idea of seeing a new level of friendship develop between Refugia and the outside world ^-^

atheist and atheist... which one is an atheist? :D

Out of curiosity, what are the card events? And if we all endorse each other, won't the WA Delegate change? I remember something like that happening in the region before.

The card events are listed in the dispatch below. And if every WA nation in Refugia endorsed every other one, we'd have a tie, that's true. But most likely there are people who won't do that. So we just want to get the average endorsements up.

We've already gone from an average of 2 on the lowest endorsed nations to 8 :)

I need help electing a government for Deltina. Is there a way to make an interactive election that y'all can vote in, even if it's just a poll with random names?

Refuge Isle, I would like to know why you remove the tag "liberal" from Refugia, i've always thought that it fitted the region perfectly ?

Is it linked to the many new members ?

Thanks for the idea.

This is the first official Presidential Election for Deltina. Other elections will start up in the next few days/weeks.

This election will last 2 weeks. Please vote if you see this! https://www.strawpoll.me/21107265

Go off of your personal opinions, or what you think would fit best.

Deltina Description: Civil Rights Lovefest

Yes, that is why if the nations of this region collectively want Sylh Alanor to remain the WA delegate, you all must be careful to not over-endorse other nations over Sylh Alanor. Also, when that happened when we were both here it was because someone used bots/puppets to endorse the second most endorsed nation (myself) to more endorsements than Sylh Alanor had.

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To catch back up with welcomes, witness this divinely-inspired message:

Welcome to Loterdam, Coalition Of Aspa, Asladiesta, Fibbledornk, Seadasca Sol, and Dumbasser! I know a couple of you have already joined us in the discord, but I wanted to give you a formal and warm welcome 💚 If you have any questions about how Refugia or Nationstates as a whole works, please don't be afraid to ask anything, everyone here is super nice.

For those of you who haven't already, please consider joining the World Assembly and becoming a Member State of Refugia! By becoming a member state, you qualify to get onto our regional map and can vote in our elections and on referendums. But the most important thing is that you feel comfortable and safe here.

Liberal has been a tag for this region since it was founded. There's an early wayback snapshot displaying such.

https://web.archive.org/web/20190527204511/https://www.nationstates.net/region=refugia

I was going to remove it to change it up, but this was considered: Controversial.

Regarding the Independent tag, I will quote myself from seven posts up.

Refugia is neutral on gp issues. The tags should reflect that stance.

Woah I got the best Insurance in the region

Do you ever just misclick and accidentally junk a trading card you wanted to keep?

Two industries that we seem to be good at are Information Technology and Book Publishing. This seems to mean that Refugia, as a whole, is technologically interconnected and full of scholarly/bookworm individuals.

It might be that that low industry, high environment, and personal liberties countries seek welcoming regions?

Greetings treasured humans,

Today is the day of the drawing for the S2 Luna Amore, here are the results:

[spoiler]

As a result Kallictora has been shipped over the card. Big congrats to them.

The next card event is little bit less determined by the random number generator. The legendary S2 card Sciongrad is going to be sent out a week from today to the top ten nations who have given out the most endorsements in Refugia. So all you need to do to win one of those is to look for people in the region to endorse - how easy is that.

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I'm also going to take this time to start taking candidates for the Councillor of Culture, whose responsibilities are defined as orchestrating cultural events and developing the identity of the Regional culture and publishing a regula Regional Eco Report. This term would run from October 21st to Feburary 21st. All member states are allowed to run for this election.

People are always surprised, and yet I've always done it, lol

Hey everybody, just wanted to go ahead and address my duties as delegate! In lieu of regional support leaning in this direction, and seeing no personal issues with either resolution, I am currently voting for both. If anyone has any questions about either, or wants to discuss details of the votes/decisions further, I'm always happy to see more World Assembly-based discussion in the community ^-^

GA resolution-at-vote: Repeal "World Assembly Trade Rights"

SC resolution-at-vote: Commend Kuriko

Removing vectors like mosquitos doesn't do much to harming environments, however other potential vectors like rats and such would cause a significant amount of harm to environments. I'm going to have to say a hard no to this one.

So basically just more reason to vote no on getting this passed as we don't know the full effects of everything that would happen if we removed these vectors of transmission. Trying to reduce disease is a noble goal, but if ruining your environment is the consequence, it's not worth it. You're reducing infection rates at the sacrifice of reducing the quality of life for your own citizens, which long term will increase death rates.

Pedesko, Michelland

The Avalonian Government would like to begin the process of going over the agenda and deciding official policy of the League of the Democratic Left. The first agenda point is Neutrality and Demilitarisation. The Avalonian Government would like to propose a policy of encouraging policies of neutrality and demilitarization by member states, but not requiring such. This will ensure that countries may still keep defensive militaries, but that the league will not be a place for the proliferation of military conflicts.

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1305947

Whatever is easiest, we can telegram what we think, and then post the decisions?

Okidokie, the election for foreign affairs is concluded. Sylh Alanor is re-elected, hooray!

I received an amazing zero candidates for culture, so I will be acting-culture until such time as the universe graces us with the majesty of another.

My first act will be messing up the regional flag, hooray.

Great!

The next election is going to be next week. So on the 22nd of this month, I'm going to taking candidates over a 48 hour period. Any member state can run for office by announcing their candidacy in the RMB.

Good luck, Flohovistan ^-^

Also, sorry for not replying earlier to the discussion over the next GA proposal going to vote. I really liked reading all of it though, and as long as everyone's on the same page, I think we can do an early vote against.

I've sent in map file updates to feature Boolie Town and Dia Hedera. Please let me know if you spot any errors.

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1287372

Howdy.

Yesterday I made another nation to see if I could get any top 1%s. I do 5 issues and come back the next day

2 5%s

14 10%s

Fourteen

😂

The Talking Point:

Pandemics are over and done with by the time it takes to pass the nation's stringent border security.

To which Anne-Marie Juliette replies: "That's what she said." In an afterthought, she adds: "All I really care about is the health of our citizens."

Bananas Ingested Per Day: 5.44 -> 5.66 +4.0%

We really should have a national plant rather than national animal--ours would be bananas.

Those typos bothered me way too much for me to ignore them.

In a lot of countries, teens can give sexual consent to an adult if they have sexual majority (15 in France for example) but they have to get their parent's agreement.

Correct me if I'm wrong

I honestly forgot that it was 18 in eleven states in the US, but because the issue specifically said "teenage pop star", I assumed that they meant 16 (the age of sexual consent between an adult and a minor in most circumstances in 34 states). In the remaining six states it's 17.

In the US the age of sexual consent between minors can be between 11 and 16 (depending on the state), as long as the age gap doesn't exceed 3 years. But, the loophole is that a 15-17-year-old could legally have sex with an 18-year-old.

In the US, you must be 18 if you want to sell/provide sexual services. (this part isn't commonly known)

My main problems with the issue were that it didn't specify what age exactly the "teenage pop star" was (she could be anywhere between 13 and 17, or if the wording was horrid: 18) and that all the options either condemned prostitution or limited the price one can charge for it.

Sometimes an issue leaves you no choice but "Dismiss."

One thing I do want to add, the abortion issue raises civil rights both if banned or legalized. There was a bit of a thing about it.

And the organ issue does pay into religious liberties. There are some religions that do not allow organs to be removed from the body upon death, or even some that forbid it in life.

But I agree that it can feel very arbitrary at times.

In about 11 hours (but possibly at major), we're going to have a Security Council vote called Condemn Northern Borland. I'm going to be recommending a vote against.

This condemnation reads like a forum posts that's going through a list of observations that do not have any real weight. There's no narrative of case being made that supports a condemnation, it is simply a list of notes about the nation for trivia purposes. You can see that reasonably clearly in this section in particular:

"AWARE that this Northern Borlandian upper class has become so profitable as to distort World Census rankings on industry, with support from a government that spends the entire national budget on subsidising it: the nation currently ranks in the top sixty worldwide for all sixteen major industries other than book publishing (250th), information technology (691st), arms manufacturing (1,077th) and trout fishing (4,151st), with the manufacturing industry as a whole the 81st-largest in the world;"

I'm not opposed to stats C&Cs on principle, although the standards for a stats-based condemnation/commendation are astronomical. But basically I like to view SC resolutions as things that tell a good story. Something that builds the idea of what a nation does or is and whether or not it's good or evil. This condemnation does not provide that, it's just like reading the nation's auto-generated text on its front page. So, should this nation be condemned to recognise their years of diligent issue-answering, I think it should be another resolution that does it.

Yeah sorry I should have put "for transgender people", English is not my first language so I did not know that it was not gramatically correct or dehumanizing.

I did not mean to offend anyone and I'm sorry if I did.

What are The eco goals?

I'm running for Councilor of Internal Affairs. If you want to know why you should vote for me, read the corresponding factbook on my nation page.

We should march into all these new nations and start planting tree labyrinths immediately. We'll have "lost in the wilderness" as everyone's highest death rate in no time.

We'll never place barriers to keep people from being here with us if this is where they want to be ❤️

Barring, you know, them being actively dangerous to others of course.

Hi!

Samuuuu it's so sweet that you moved your main here! Wow, Refugia is actually getting really impressive lately 😅

Samu and Saka moving their mains here has made my entire year.

Very happy and grateful for everyone

The township of Junitaki-Cho:

Supportive of Refugia's commitment to fair and democratic regional governance;

Recognizing the importance of the Refugia Revised Statutes in enabling international collaboration and an equitable balance of authority;

However concerned by a lack of legal clarity and continued contradictory statements from acting officials on electoral process;

Steadfast in its dedication to regional ideals and improvements;

Hereby invokes RRS 4 and calls for a seconding Member State to bring the following proposal to a vote.

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1447093

Seconded!

I missed this when it came up the first time, sorry. Em wrote the original and I wrote most of the one that's being used now. Sometimes we take turns sending them out

boop

whaddaya mean, boop?