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Garchylandians contract their armed services out to the private industry - one of the very few capitalist things to happen in Garchyland!

Sorry all for being unresponsive/slow to respond in the last week - I just purchased my first home IRL, and with it has gone most of my time (moving, fixing, painting) at least for another week or so. I also appear to have accidentally suppressed a post (using mobile), but I unsuppressed immediately - just wanted to explain why it happened! Normalcy should resume soon on my end.

It isn't the waste, it's the undue influence a standing army can exert on the nation, especially if there is a remove between the people and the soldiery. Our motto is, "a rifle behind every blade of grass", so our nation mobilizes only under immediate threat, but the people must keep arms and train universally for their duty to resist.

That brought out the one modern weapon we do maintain. ..our Air Cavalry Division of advanced ROFLcopters

Biggest threat to security of FBP is terrorism, global and local so we have fairly small but highly trained antiterrorist police force and army. Also we prefer to fight radicalisation through our substantial education.

Eyana is one of the "other" votes. We poll very low on the religious scale and we poll in the top 24% for atheism. So Eyana has decided, through a collective poll on the government website and based on those who responded, that Eyana practices Apatheism. (Sidenote - The President was writing this answer and googled atheism apathy and discovered apatheism which fit the nation's quandary perfectly.)

Of course, being liberal and secular state there is no official religion of FBP, but government of each of principalitys can chose up to two religious holidays. They can't officially participate in religious traditions and rituals of course. Today they are more part of folklore than ready religious holiday

A new poll has been posted - it's about apples! Feel free to comment here with your selection.

I must admit, my choice was a tough one. As a native New Englander I consider myself lucky to have a large variety of local apples available to me. My two favorites are nearly tied, Honeycrisp and Cortland. As a matter of fact, one of our local state universities cultivates/studies apples, and has an orchard of their own where they experiment with their own hybrids (Cold Spring Orchard, Belchertown, MA).

I also greatly enjoy winesap apples, which are also tart and crunchy, like a Granny Smith.

It's time for a new poll, Garchy.

Greetings from Forest! The last few years I've been able to celebrate Halloween with some math nerds who take their Halloween costume contest very...humorously. :)

But my favorite thing about October is baseball playoffs!!

Well, we don't really celebrate Halloween, but I think the coolest thing about this time of the year is the charming autumn scenery. Yellow-brown foliage, a sky covered with dark clouds...it's like a fairy tale, sometimes the scenes really feel otherworldly.

As I am not a huge fan of summer heat, I am also happy that temperatures fall down in the autumn, and I think I would also be excited about dressing up for a Halloween party, if I ever attended one.

But I had to choose one option, and I chose scenery :))

The best thing about October is Black Oaktober, the annual month-long celebration of the music of Black Oak Arkansas

There is no celebration of Halloween where I live but I voted for scenery. I love autumn even here in city of million + pop. It doesn't have all of the beauty of scenery and autumn colors are a little sparse but I still enjoy it.

Finally, there is no heat and I can wear clothes with enough pockets :)

Unfortunately, it's been very dry up here, so our "leaf season" isn't shaping up to be so good.

We have friends in the region of Social Liberal Union that have been raided - I would offer assistance, except our resources are small. We also have been practicing basic isolationism, during our last invasion our allies were unable to allocate any resources to come to our need - with so many invasions in this current time it seems like ever region is, unfortunately, dealing with things on their own.

Good news as a native of the SLU! Our regional founder was found by some longtime members and he kicked out the invaders!

Our good friend Sheila Anteres (one of the longest going residents in A Liberal Haven) has CTE'd...they have been residing in Philosophy 115 since the raid a few months ago, but I have reached out to them on another online platform and hopefully they will be back with us ASAP. Until then, RIP Sheila.

It's worth trying. I certainly don't have a better alternative.

That's something we have to decide, although we may not want to have a specific timetable, otherwise determined raider nations will remain active until that point. We could have a set timetable, but I wouldn't let the nations in question know this. Perhaps a few weeks or months? My original thought was 1-2 months.

Woooo!

That sounds a little to long. I'm afraid if they have to wait to long they will lose interest.

Are you all ready for the annual zombie apocalypse? More info available here. [B]REMEMBER:[/B] As a region we will research a cure, and then you can fire "cure missiles" at other infected nations. The more active we are the better chance we have at surviving! For those new (or just those who want to see more info) check this out: https://www.nationstates.net/page=news

I think we will have to be better organized this time around - apparently the zombies will be able to freely travel through regions much easier than in past years, so the password protection may not help.

Maineiacs has successfully developed a cure! Missiles being launched starting now!

Awesome! Garchyland is still working on it, but will begin sending missiles as soon as we can!

I cleaned up Madolonihe's outbreak earlier. Trying to fix it alone for a larger nation is too much with the sort of weapons I have.

Well - we made the World news at least - throughout the whole site we are in the top 100 (#96) for "Most Infected" in our region this year...not something to be "proud" of usually, but what the heck - congrats everyone!

BTW, how are there any dead at all, much less this many? No one's killing people or zombies, and the virus isn't technically "fatal".

We are now #98 in the Word for Most Dead and #93 for Most Infected - still being updated! https://www.nationstates.net/page=zday_tally#dtotal

I'm looking for people to cure. Anyone out there need help?

Huh, the latest Census Report. Either my Arms Manufacturing sector seems to have blown up somehow or this region frowns upon merchants of death in general.

Thanks!

Hello dear residents of A Liberal Haven,

The annual photo contest of Forest has officially started! As was the case last year, the contest is open to our region as well as to our embassy regions. We would be happy if we received photo submissions from your region as well:))

For details see https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=721522

Happy photo-hunting!

Are we going to have a formation of regional government/elections soon?

Ah crud, apologies for the deleted post above. Copying and pasting without adequate review :(

Comrades, greetings from the DSA. This message is on my own behalf only and not on behalf of the government of the DSA.

The GA resolution "Rights Of The Quarantined" will shortly be at vote. I politely ask you to consider voting against as the proposing nation is a resident in one of the four regions which seek to increase the anti-democratic power of superdelegates by preventing aspiring authors from campaigning for their proposals.

(See their self styled "World Assembly Accord on Campaign Spam" [URL=https://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=394445]here[/url].)

This sordid deal seeks to force authors to beg, bow and scrape at the feet of the superdelegates and actively punishes those who do not and choose to directly communicate with the voters by stacking against their proposals. I urge all fellow democrats, liberals and socialists to oppose this attack on free speech and democracy.

Hello A Liberal Haven,

Greetings from Forest! If you have not done so already, we trees encourage you to vote [B]AGAINST[/B] the current Security Council Proposal, Repeal "Liberate Eternal Scholars".

This repeal was originally meant to allow the natives of the region of Eternal Scholars to regain control of their home. However, the region was recently invaded by raiders, and now, if the resolution passes, it will enable the raiders to set a password and destroy the region. Although it originally had good intentions, this resolution would now end up helping the raiders.

The tide is already turning as more and more people realise and change their vote. We encourage, specifically your delegate but also all WA members, to also vote against in hopes that Eternal Scholars can become free.

With fern fronds from Forest,

The [nation=short]Coast Douglas-Fir[/nation]s and Forestian Foreign Minister [nation=short]Mount Seymour[/nation]

Hail A Liberal Haven! The next issue of Hell's Bells is hot off the demonic presses! Featuring an interview with Drugged Monkeys!

Issue XXII: Apeman; https://www.nationstates.net/page=dispatch/id=755792

Hope you guys enjoy!

I am The Utopia of United States, and I totally agree with you. I'd like to move that nation back here if yo'd become more active. Perhaps [nation=short]Garchyland[/nation] could make a poll about moving to a new region with a founder so we can start recruiting new members?

We really do need to get moving with that.

I'm pretty much logging in every morning to answer the issues - it took me ages to even notice that people had been holding discussions on here. This is the most active this region has been since you let me in! I do approve of refounding the region. It would mean we could recruit more active people - I just don't think most people want to sit for a month in a feeder region.

On a side-note - this nation hits 10 years old this year! Fairly soon, I believe. Derkomia should be hitting that milestone as well! And Laak may have already hit the milestone, although they took a hefty leave of absence in between :-)

Hello all! The Rogue Nation of Colfax Point has been in this region for the majority of its brief existence. Myself and the rest of the nation's 580 million citizens are still working on gaining an understanding of how this world works. Currently we struggle enough just to maintain existence, but we do strive to make more of an impact within the region and will be willing participants in whatever is decided regarding refounding the region or not.

Speaking of still trying to gain an understanding on how the world works...I believe that the last I saw, I needed 500 million citizens to name a capital city. Now it says "Unlockable: Awaiting Legislation" where I assumed a blank would be for me to fill it in. Am I overlooking something?

There is a place to enter your capital city's name. It's in settings.

I don't want to lose momentum on us talking about how we can refound or otherwise open our borders. Does anyone else have any suggestions or ideas? Even if you've never posted here before we would love to hear from you :)

I, for one, would seriously consider relocating if socialism were to become a driving ideology for the region.

I believe a region is not a well rounded region without the representation of all nations, whether communist, left leaning, liberal, middle of the road, conservative, right wing or dictatorship governments, similar to the WA.

It is open dialogue and discourse with differing views, principles and opinions and with the inherent acceptance of diversity, tolerance, understanding, civility and above all respect for all human rights and forms of government, that discourse, exchange of ideas and philosophies can take place peacefully without personal confrontation or insults...this would be monitored by an elected board or council to supervise, protect the rights of all, and to maintain civility in discussions. After all isn't being a Liberal region, all encompassing, being accepting and not judgemental??

I am of the opinion that inviting all forms of nations from all regions with differing forms governments, would result in more entertainment and activity on the RMB :)

If every nation in A Liberal Haven recruited at least one new nation from another region to join our region we would more than double our size -- strength in numbers??

Needless to say if other regions become one with us we'll be even more powerful...Any comments?

I have always resisted the idea of merging our region with another. This has nothing to do with the other regions, but has to do with our sovereignty - we are one of the oldest regions in NS and I would hate to see us go the way of the Dodo. Our main issue is that we cannot stay here in its present form and open our region to recruitment (due to not having a founder) - I think our best bet is to move everyone to Alh (in an orderly fashion), and keep this region (closed) for historical purposes (as Utopia has suggested above). One of my personal nations has already founded ALH (and won't be going anywhere), and then we could hold open elections for the WA.

By the consensus here I think this is the best plan, and will fully support it.

In a week possibly? Someone's puppet would have to stay here to preserve this region as well.

I totally agree with this. The region I've founded myself accepts nations of all political leanings, and the role-plays we do there benefit from this fact. We've also had some good ideological debates.

The only thing I don't like about the Social Liberal Union, which has been the region I have been the most active in for a long time, is the "fair but firm" policy, which makes at least "average" CR's and PF's a retirement to reside in the region. This seems like a good idea on the surface, but it has made liberals who hold conservative points because of their religion and liberals who are slightly authoritarian leave the region, when they could have been valuable and civil members.

I'd also be willing to help in recruitment when we move to ALH.

We will have to make this a campaign - to ensure everyone is notified in a timely fashion, and given ample time to move - as we know, many of our nations are not very active, and may not even check this board. We should send out multiple telegrams informing nations of the move - I can help coordinate the task of notifying, but could use help. I'm able to give people mass telegram sending capabilities through the admin area here (as WA Delegate), does anyone feel up for the task?

I also think it's time to set up an outside forum again (it's been years!) This helps make debates, forums, and multiple conversations much easier for everyone to have. Maybe a ProBoards, which I believe SLU uses?

I'll move whenever you need me to.