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Hello there

Say hi to Bob for me.

Good morning for all the people where it will be morning when they see this.

Have you come back home now, Subadent, from all your recent foreign trips?

Merry Christmas Suba <3 how is the summer treating you?

Merry Christmas from the four legged ones to the two footed ones!

Last call for national news events before I write up the cultural report!

Hey! It’s RGP but not technically!

Has RGP ever been in Refugia before though?

Hello everyone :)

Hi friends both new and old <3

Between your argument here and reading through the drafting thread, I will be voting for. I'm convinced :)

My economy has grown from imploded to basket case! Now we can afford two whole rats on a stick!

Congratulations on your slowly improving economy. Perhaps with the combined powers of our sad economies, you can have four rats!

Do not eat the rats, instead feed the rats and tame them, so that they may hunt for you!

As do all living things, including dragons!

I'm going to go ahead and call the next election cycle at this time.

From now until the end of the day Jan 2nd, I will be accepting candidacy for the Councillor of Foreign Affairs for Refugia, whose responsibilities are defined as management and maintenance of the travel portals within the region, foreign affairs and authority over embassies established to outside regions, diplomatic negotiations and foreign correspondence.

This term will last from the 7th of January to the 7th of May, 2020. The position is currently held by Subadent, who is eligible for re-election.

As the Councillor of Operations is currently deathly ill, the list of Member States who are legally able to vote and run for office is below:

1: Athidill

2: Big Payno

3: Borath Ilna

4: Chacapoya

5: Jectilan

6: Merzbach

7: Mousetown

8: Narwhal

9: Ortharion

10: Podophilia

11: Polis Diamonil

12: Poll Party

13: QuitchQian

14: Refuge Isle

15: Sentient Igaunas

16: Subadent

17: Sylh Alanor

18: Tdhitihita

19: The Second Iberian Peninsula

20: Tire Land

21: Verrhelisa

22: Virandon

23: Wankdeed

The election will run from candidacy closing time to January 7th though a public poll held here, and the term will begin immediately.

Happy New Year, everyone.

I have continued writing dispatches in Polis Diamonil and maintaining the nation's Iss-Log. Somehow primitivism and scientific advancement are both increasing in Polis Diamonil; it is a nation of falconry and aerospace, where birds can be protected by advanced armaments.

WA: Wartime Healthcare Protections is currently 5-0 in Refugia. Entering a vote of For.

For what it's worth, I'm kinda shy with new people too. I'm glad you've chosen to stick around so we can get to know you <3

Happy new year! ^-^

Received and accepted. Anyone who wishes to compete will have until the end of today PST to submit their name to run for FA.

Unrelated, a picture that I took is now being used as Forest's regional flag for the next two days XD

Alright I wrote something.

https://calref.cc/index.php?topic=72

If anyone here has anything they want to share, I hope you feel safe and happy doing it <3 this is here for everyone.

I'll officially be running for re-election, but I strongly recommend people run for these positions ^-^ new voices are the best thing for a regional government!

That's kind of the creative part, who knows! The CoC can put together an idea that could be some collaborative project or competition. They can run polls, use the Coms permission to send regional telegrams, offsite CalRef resources...there are lots of different tools available and none of them carry strict requirements. It's just about being creative to make things that feel like us.

Recently, Sylh Alanor has been making periodic news posts about events that are happening in the region. And the law requires that the CoC make a periodic eco report to see how the region is doing with our ecological goals and how we can make things better in real life, I think that's the only hard demand right now.

EVERY WEEK?! 🥺🥺🥺🥺🥺

Actually, I'll stand for election for the minister of culture, but I'll warn you that I'm pretty stodgy, too.

I've been lately bothered by the potential that malign cooperation may be shaping geopolitics in an inscrutable manner as national governments learn more about how to manipulate fervent errors induced within their populations for the enrichment of critical industries and/or key supporters of government... It's because I'm politically obsessive that I can't put this game down, despite my occasional gripes about the quality of its writing. I'm afraid that oil-supplying nations may have found their national interest in encouraging hatreds between each other's peoples thereby to create apparent instabilities (or real instabilities of controllable scope) and to thereby fuel higher prices in their resource extraction sectors. Trade wars can be particularly malign forms of "internationalism" which aid their actors at the expense of the rest of the world while confusing the ability of the people to participate politically, this last being something that many of the nations involved would doubtless consider a positive.

My concerns do have a silver lining in that if I am right about the dynamics occurring out of sight, policies that parasitize oil dependencies also increase the economic incentive for transitioning away from oil dependencies. On that note, ongoing advances in battery technology continue to improve the economic advantage of electric cars, and solar power continues gaining ground. The national leadership of the NAACP has even begun trying to discourage local chapters from anti-environmentalist activism. If the disproportionate impacts from pollution can be ameliorated that will be good news for the long-term fate of egalitarianism in America. It seems only in recent years have people begun to fully appreciate the contribution of clean air and water upon the developmental potentials of populations. This also suggests that despite its already impressive development the US economy still has more 'runway' in decades to come as continued environmental work permits the fuller flourishing of populations not yet achieving their greatest potentials... although I hope more of that prosperity ends up held by the public, rather than by already-wealthy people who seem dedicated to spending their income upon sabotages against the economic potentials of the nations that they live in. The "upper classes" today seem beset by "leaders" who have a very poor grasp of the long-term consequences of their policy preferences.

There's also this: https://www.theguardian.com/money/shortcuts/2020/jan/06/finland-is-planning-a-four-day-week-is-this-the-secret-of-happiness

The title is not the Guardian's best work, since Finland is not established within the text of the article to be planning any such thing, although I suspect they might be alluding to "plans" in the sense that I make "plans" in NationStates. I sometimes hold onto policy cards for a few days during which I use them to inspire the text of dispatches. It would be fair to say that it is something that Finland's government is contemplating in its plans, to which it has not committed. The content here (transitioning the economy towards four-day work weeks) is quite interesting. Companies around the world are experimenting with and learning about something that might constitute an unusually employee-friendly way to intensify productivity, which is the best kind of productivity intensification.

Ah, and... in local concerns... I'll note that while I hope Polis Diamonil will eventually participate in upholding the region's dedications to eco-friendliness, I will be profoundly reluctant to send this nation over 500 environmental beauty, despite regional targets. I just can't stand "animal attacks", as I suspect they represent some manner of outré extreme to this game's already vile insistence that environmental excellence would lead to losses in wilderness. That may fairly disqualify me from the Minister of Culture position.

Refuge addressed some of the other points, but I thought I could offer something on this. Apologies in advance, as I too am without a computer and am typing this up on my phone. I rather enjoy making lengthy posts, but what can you do 😅

There aren't any statistical limiters on what allows you to run for office, only that you're a WA nation who has been in the region for more than ten days. Though I would like to see you push above this limit in the future, I understand what would make you not want to.

For what it's worth, a lot of the elements of nationstates are just supposed to be silly. Whether your death rates are due to disappearance, suicide in prison, animal attacks, or lost in woods, there's always going to be something that's there to make it less serious. My nation is one that, in my RP of it, is made up of crippilingly pacifistic elves who put their environment and the happiness of others above themselves. And yet, because I haven't rolled the opportunity, I still have prisons and a military.

You can do a lot to mitigate some of the more annoying features that pop up, but you won't be able to craft the nation you want 100% except over the course of years (I believe).

Looks like someone arrived and was DEATed in the middle of the night. The world may never know what was said.

Wait, what happened? My curiosity is sparked! Isn't post suppression something that happens locally? Yet that nation says in the boneyard that its name was "disgraced", which I've never seen before... Also, apparently "Kyrie" means "sir" in Greek?

Lol I was actually unaware of that. I generally go by Valkyrie online, but one of the members of our community shortened it to Kyrie, which I have coopted. I like using my online names as puns when the opportunities arise. Things like kyrieous or sifnificant.

Election Information: The candidacy period for the Councillor of Culture has ended. I have received two valid candidacy notices from Sylh Alanor and Polis Diamonil. There will be an election to select one member, which will run as a poll in this region between now and the 13th, or the 14th if you're left handed. All Member States are legally able to vote in this election.

Currently:

[spoiler=Member States, 09/01/2020]1: Athidill

2: Borath Ilna

3: Chacapoya

4: Jectilan

5: Merzbach

6: Mousetown

7: Narwhal

8: Ortharion

9: Podophilia

10: Polis Diamonil

11: Poll Party

12: Refuge Isle

13: Sentient Igaunas

14: Subadent

15: Sylh Alanor

16: Tdhitihita

17: The Second Iberian Peninsula

18: Vakoller

19: Verrhelisa

20: Virandon

21: Wankdeed

22: Wu Nation[/spoiler]

I would like to recommend everyone vote against the current proposal. It goes out of its way to make it legal for governments to spy on their citizens while only blocking businesses and private organisations. Furthermore, Marxist Germany is famous for submitting WA proposals that have excessive loopholes so that they look like they're doing something without actually regulating people's lives, making them fall in line with his more libertarian worldview.

I'll let this post make some more specific arguments. Essentially, the proposal isn't terrible, but it's far too vague to actually protect anyone.

https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=36613640#p36613640

For the record, I would like to remind all member states to vote in the poll we currently have going on! It's important, and participating in the regional government is the best way to make sure that your thoughts are heard and appreciated!

To acknowledge the telegram that Polis Diamonil sent out, I would like to say that you shouldn't just vote for me due to experience. I helped to craft what could be expected from the Culture Councillor position, but what I've done is by no means the only way to do the job. Polis would be amazing, because they're diligent and thorough in how they record things. The little tips and tricks over how to "run reports" (believe me it's not complicated in the least) would be shared with whoever won, and I'd simply run for the next open position, Ops!

I made a new flag for Polis Diamonil.

Hello I am new here.

Welcome to Refugia, Rada Bouth Corh.

Hi Narwhal, you're amazing! I hope you're having a great day.

I have an innate fear of pinging people unnecessarily :p

I'm not sure what a threat is in the context of NationStates, but I don't think I have the temperament for threat assessment. I won't be standing for this election. I'll stand again for the next Culture election, and the next region-mail I send about it will probably be an attempt to persuade votes in my direction. BTW, if anyone wants me to use my telegram stamps in any particular way, feel free to send me a telegram.

I suffer latent paranoia. My attempts to correct this through conscious intervention into my own thought processes have produced a tendency to oscillate between too much and too little suspiciousness without clear self-insight as to which side of the pendulum I'm currently on. There's a history that produced that psychology, but I shouldn't talk about it. I've had both psychiatric consultation and brain scanning to prove the problem is sub-clinical, but I'd rather not bring it into this context.

P.S. Since talk of having brain scans in other contexts has tended to reveal other people interested in having brain scans, I have a tip for how to acquire them. If anyone who suffers tinnitus wants to own scans of their own brain, you can get an MRI to investigate the causes of tinnitus. Apparently tinnitus is usually still a mystery after MRI scanning, but very occasionally tinnitus is a sign of awful brain issues, so modern medicine considers it worth investigating. There's a silver lining to awful brain issues causing tinnitus, which is that those are the cases of tinnitus that can be corrected. With 12.5% estimated frequency of tinnitus in the population, Refugia's population of 91 nations suggests that this advice can probably assist 7 people in acquiring scans of their own brains. Ask for the images at the radiology clinic and you can get a DVD with software on it that lets you view them!

Apparently a public announcement followed me home the other day...

Thank you friends for voting for me <3 I will do my best to continue growing the office of Councillor of Culture so that Polis Diamonil can win it and have a solid foundation next time around!

Some of the things I want to do with this term are to work with the community to set new environmental goals, so that future ecological reports have a solid direction in which to go! I would also like to collect more regional/national goings-on so that I might include them in cultural reports and work to grow a more solid and interwoven community among us. If we start having shared regional lore, I think that makes us all closer and better.

I'd also like to do a more frequent dispatch promoter/sampler. If people in the community, like me, are making silly and lore-filled dispatches to tell who they are and what they enjoy, then submit them to me! Share them here, or send them to me via telegram and I'll happily include them in future updates! I'd like to send one out every one or two weeks, or whenever I get five entries, whichever is sooner ^-^ so send them in and get yourself heard!

Hi Fevhader, welcome to our cozy little corner of the internet! It's nice to meet you ^-^ how are things in TLA?

A poetry contest sounds so cool! Also roleplays are near and dear to my heart; it sounds like we have similar roles in our communities. That's super neat.

Also, I've just finished writing and posted the Eco-Report for January! I hope everyone enjoys the read.

https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=1306763

After the most recent census, it has been revealed that more residents of Sylh Alanor identify as worshipping the Zyqxuwy than any other religion. Therefore, the state religion has been changed!

All hail his holy scaliness!

Papalonia has been reported to be the ambassador to Refugia from our new friends at The Leftist Assembly, which is neat-o.

In all fairness, Subadent is presently missing, presumably because his nation is burning down, irl.

Ah, I see linguistic descriptivism is more in vogue in Sylh Alanor than prescriptivism. Good to know.

Also I'm going to recommend all WA nations in Refugia vote against on the current proposal at vote. Many concerns have been raised about this piece of potential legislation, but most centre around the fact that it's not at all ready for submission. The proposal was submitted without anyone thinking it was a good idea, and reached quorum due to a telegram campaign to get mindless votes from delegates.

This idea hasn't been workshopped to the point of having a point, let alone actually making any meaningful changes.

Here's the thread for those interested in the followup: https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?p=36635432#p36635432

Greetings yall

Please stay safe! I’m glad you’re okay!