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Region: The Mystical Council
The region has about one hour left under the rule of Oakplumington Insanity. :)
Malcholm
We let an anarchy rule an organized government? How does that work?
Similar, though it was a 'should we' rather than a 'we should'. I'm not entirely opposed to the way things are; its consistently brought in a flow of new nations from the hallowed depths of [nation=short]TRF Submarine Group V[/nation] to the mountainous glory of [nation=short]jegerkompaniet[/nation]. What I'm opposed to is a region led by a majority of raiders, but I'd guess that sort of thing belongs in a political party! I won't presently pursue some sort of reform or policy, but if [nation=short]vaspassia[/nation] wants to pursue a resolution to our issues when they become a member of the Lunar Council or President of Sentagon the way I vote will be entirely dependent upon the intent of the legislation. Generally speaking: I'm opposed to number 6 and would enjoy something closer to a mix of 1 and 5, but I'm not against the occurrence of 2 or 3 and their potential outcomes.
Oakplumington
When you do come over, vote for option two please. The third and fourth options are not really options if you vote for them this region really could explode. Seriously, we might have to resort to direct democracy or something. And Option 1 is not effective either. When I created the Interregional Council, I thought I was being creative. But I'll tell you the truth. I created a monster. It's Frankin-government!!! So please vote for two. It's the only answer.
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Separate issue -
And also, Chingislan and Jegerkompaniet I have an idea. If you are serious about being active in this regional government, we should work on a project together. There are forces at work in our regional government that wish to prevent raids in this region. What I propose is that we, create a political party called the Flexible Government Party. Now I'm assuming that you are both partial to the raiding cause. Theoretically, if we work together to create the Flexible Government Party (FGP) we could solidify raiding tradition right here in The Mystical Council. This will help preserve regional chaos for generations to come - fluid government in other words.
Malcholm
Oh my God! You read my mind as I was typing that last post.
Malcholm
I think when embassies get cancelled other regions tend to notice as well. That in and of itself could be a form of advertising.
I agree with your opposition to 6. Passwords really tend to kill activity. UTNA seems to kind of be an exception but even then it isn't as active as it used to be.
I truly believe the key is establishing Sentagon as our third branch. Every single nation will have a voice. And I am also considering doing what we did in UTNA for a time and give the WA nations of Sentagon 2 votes and nations without WA status 1 vote.
Malcholm
I'd be against the WA bias in Sentagon. While WA nations are typically more reputable, it would give one part of Sentagon more power than the other. A natural 50/50 split between a WA nation and a non-WA nation would then inherently go the way of the WA nation because they have a technical majority with. 2-1 vote. Itd give a select few power over the rest of the region, meaning that Sentagon wouldn't be, in my opinion, truly representative of the entire region.
Oakplumington
Post self-deleted by Malcholm.
Also, I don't believe that Transfan200 will be returning anytime soon. I know him IRL; he got himself into some pretty bad sh+t at school. Elections are really close in the Greater Holy Isles, so he'll be replaced right around when we have our elections here if he doesn't CTE or get impeached for inactivity before then.
I added a bit to our constitution that allows a member of the Cabinet to be impeached based on their general activity and conduct IC and OOC. If a suitable case can be presented, it'll be taken to the public polls where they'll face the region. In my region, inactivity in excess of ten days without notice is enough to potentially get you evicted from you position so that the government doesn't become stagnant.
In his absence, I'll hold a poll in the region so that we aren't forced to abstain from the IRC vote.
Oakplumington
That is a good point. I'm looking for a way to encourage WA membership. You're absolutely right though such a system wouldn't be truly representative.
*sees that bacon still isnt the delegate*
The ambassador to the region sees his opportunity. 'Here's my chance! Its now or never.'
Oakplumington
Hope he gets it all straightened out.
Malcholm
Seconds ago: The Vereint Reich of Malcholm altered the region's flag.
Seconds ago: The Federal Republic of New Bacon became regional WA Delegate.
'Craap..so close..maybe he won't notice?'
Oakplumington
You should totally make a bid for the Delegacy. You would win.
Malcholm
Frogcha looked out at the flag. "Ah, nice flag. Anyways General, any luck finding Plum Oakton?"
"No, Sir."
"Keep looking."
Malcholm
The Twelfth Delegate of The Mystical Council
12. New Bacon: 12/3/2015 - Present
With the support of Oakplumington, New Bacon returned to the Delegacy. Oakplumington stepped down as Acting Delegate.
Discussions continued about Sentagon as well as the legitimacy of raiding.
Oakplumington proposed the creation of the Flexible Government Party (FGP) in order to protect raiding tradition in The Mystical Council.
Maybe if the Greater Holy Isles goes stale..
..or I enact a forced migration? Who knows at this point. I've got a lot of IRL friends in the region but none of the really do much. [nation=short]tatertotia[/nation] and [nation=short]deafviper[/nation] have been my right hand men as they've been the only ones this far to step up and do something.
And now that most everything with [nation=short]new_pyrosky[/nation] has simmered down, I don't really know where I want to take the region.
I've considered taking off the password lock numerous times, but there's no better way to prevent complete and utter destruction
Regional government is up-to-date
http://www.nationstates.net/nation=oakplumington/detail=factbook/id=497274
Malcholm
Embrace the destruction, man. It's the only way to fly.
Do you think your friends would be cool making their home in this crazy region?
I am going to bed. I spent waaaaaaaaay tooooooo much time on this game today. I can't wait to see what adventures this region will see tomorrow. adios amigos!
Malcholm
I just had the greatest idea!!! We should play a game. Every player gets authority over communications. The game ends when every post is suppressed. The idea is to make the most coherent story out of everyone else's posts. So for example, let's say I suppress Malcholm's post. The one that says:
Seconds ago: The Vereint Reich of Malcholm altered the region's flag.
Seconds ago: The Federal Republic of New Bacon became regional WA Delegate.
'Craap..so close..maybe he won't notice?'
Now what I have to do is take the first five words and the last five words and try to put them together.
Like this:
Seconds ago: The Vereint Reich....close maybe he won't notice?
Now rearrange it:
Maybe seconds ago he won't notice the close Vereint Reich.
It should be a ten word "sentence" that is as close to a sentence as it gets.
Since I suppressed Malcholm's post it's his turn to pick someone to suppress and he has to do the same thing with the five words on each end of the post and try to make a sentence out of it.
No one is allowed to play out of turn.
You guys want to try it?
New Bacon, Malcholm
I know it's unconstitutional but it won't be any worse than the raid we just dealt with today.
Malcholm
I'm sure they wouldn't mind all that much, but I'm also sure that most of them kept playing because they didn't fall into irrelivancy under the weight of a bunch of other people. If they moved over, its likely they would all slowly CTE..OR they'd step up their game because this region is insanely active. I'd have to ask, but it'd definetly be controversial with all we've done in the Greater Holy Isles.
Looks nice but perhaps you could bold some stuff.
Malcholm, Oakplumington
I am so sorry for being inactive. Just realized this nation was on my other puppet list :P so yea sorry about that. Will try to be more active from now on.
New Bacon
I just wanted to point out that Wuqumof did not perpetrate action 6, I did. :D
Malcholm, Oakplumington
Can we use punctuation? Punctuation is good.
As it presently stands, the majority of voting nations within The Greater Holy Isles have motioned their favor in establishing Sentagon as The Mystical Council's regions third form of government.
If this changes in any way, you will receive prompt notification from myself or one of my fellow ministers.
This has been a formal PSA from Pyroskian Foreign Minister James Harbinger.
Oakplumington
I think Malcholm would be a great delegate. :) I'm almost done being the delegate anyway.
Oakplumington
Yeah the map is updated. I'm not kidding the raiders have stole my seat twice!
Alright where is y'all getting this from? Oakplumington said the same thing. I'm curious now!
Malcholm
HAHAHAHAHAHAAA YOU GUYS OH GEESE!
Malcholm, Oakplumington
Nice Flag it is better than mine; although my version of the flag still exists in Military Forestavia.
Malcholm
Malcholm
I've got another version that I think is better, but its on my iPad.
New Bacon
Lots of stuff to respond to today... let's see what we got.
Thanks DLA, I'll be sure to correct that in our regional history. I usually try to stick to the truth. It's the no spin zone in the Mystical Council.
Interesting. Don't cast the fishing net too early. There still may be hope for the Greater Holy Isles. I'm thinking about starting an interregional RP with UTNA and the Greater Holy Isles. I'm not sure what that means yet but something's been cooking in the back of my mind.
Excellent, this vote will be recognized as the substitute for Transfan200.
from
http://www.broomdces.com/nseconomy/exchange.php?region=the mystical council&WA=7
You can find it in my Founder's Info Center link under Economic Information! :)
I think we can do whatever we want with punctuation. I'll leave that open-ended.
It's the post suppression game on Nation States at The Mystical Council! And the irony is, as the appointed cabinet minister "Regional Code Enforcer", I have officially identified the game as unconstitutional unless approved by the regional government but I don't care this week because I'm an anarchy so we're just gonna break the rules for once and have fun!!!! Speaking of punctuation, ever heard of a run-on sentence? ;)
Hey, thanks for the feedback. I think I'll do that. In fact, I might just overdo that.
That's ok, I'm just worried that the raiding tradition in this region may be done away with if we are not constantly vigilant. We have to form a political party in this region that is pro-raiding. It would do wonders for the cause of chaos. I think there is a Greek god called chaos, actually come to think of it. Kinda fits with the whole religion/mystical sort of theme.
I think Malcholm would keep me in my place for sure! Haha! Malcholm does some quality work in the Isles.
Yeah, how did that happen? This region was completely dead a year ago. I think it might actually be going somewhere. My crazy methodology must be working. Or maybe I'm just playing this game with a bunch of left-handers who also process information and relate to the world the way I do.
We should have a poll about that sometime. I'd be curious. Our culture makes such a big deal about gender and race but I think the real difference is handedness.
Malcholm
Let's see now it looks like it's my turn.... whose post am I going to suppress next?
[spoiler=wall of text]
[/spoiler]BOLD EVERYTHING!
Malcholm, Oakplumington
Our other than total time consumption has minute embassy count.
From RMB page 38: Our total embassy count has ....other than minute time consumption.
You're it again Malcholm!
Check it out now.
Malcholm
Hmmmmmm
Personal note (in case our poll is deleted tonight): Option 2: Adopt the other residents not already part of government as the 3rd branch: New Bacon, Pyrosky, Malcholm, The God of Play, Alternate Universe 716, AU912 Mystical Council Consulate, and Vaspassia.
The other personal note from earlier: (I'm not letting go of one little vote if I can help it.)
Look out Bacon! Next chance I get you're gonna be it!
Now that I think of it, I still have to grant communications authority to everyone else. I'll be back in a few minutes....heheehehehe.
New Bacon
Oakplumington
This game is as equally fun as it is confusing!!! ;)
New Bacon
I'm laughing like a monkey right now
Oakplumington
All of a sudden, I feel so slow...
Oakplumington this is how you do mock quotes because Malcholm does it all the time to me he says stuff that I don't say literally so here is the format,
Malcholm, Oakplumington
Post self-deleted by New Bacon.
THATS MORE LIKE IT OAKPLUMINGTON!
Malcholm, Oakplumington
That's rather bold of you.
*snickers inaudibly*
Oakplumington
To Taharqa,
Once again, the house of reps has ascended.
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Love, [nation=short]malcholm[/nation]
New Bacon, Oakplumington
For the sake of the game I'm suspending communications suspensions temporarily. Is all this double talk making sense? Everyone will have communications. This game seems to be a hit.
New Bacon, Malcholm, Mordaunt States
Well, you have it down! I vote for council takes!
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Hah!! take that!
New Bacon
Alright, time for some well needed sleep (exactly ten words).
New Bacon, Malcholm
Bonjour!!!!
New Bacon, Malcholm, Oakplumington
Bonjou! I won't claim to speak French, but I know a little creole.
Well, all I actually remember is bonjou.
Whoops. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
New Bacon
I guess I do like the first flag I made better than the one on my iPad. IT STAYS!
New Bacon
Bonjour!
Ok so any raiders that own businesses in New Bacon should prepare if the Corporate income taxes go up. New Bacon Congress is getting agitated that the raiders are causing all governmental expenses to go up as Taharqa has been overthrown and in the hospital. However Plum Oakton the President of Oakplumington has announced that Taharqa will be ok and that other Mystical Council agencies should not have to worry. Corporate income tax in New Bacon is currently 1.69% which Congress is considering to raise it to 2.25%. OOC: I GO BY MY OWN TAXES BUT NOT BY WHAT THE GAME SAYS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Malcholm, Oakplumington
Oakplumington it is funny how you quoted me but nothing shows up in your last few posts
[TGHI IRC VOTE STATUS UPDATE]
As it turns out, Transfan200 actually made his return today. He's motioned his support of the manner in which the poll has been conducted, and wishes for my vote to continue representation of our region throughout this ordeal. Every nation who has voted thus far has motioned for the complete and utter destruction of the Interregional Council, and that the building be torn brick from brick. However, they'd enjoy maintaining the current relations with this great region, in that many of them seem to hold more favorable opinions of the nation's who reside here.
Again, if this changes in any way, you will receive prompt notification from myself or one of my fellow ministers.
This has been a formal PSA from Pyroskian Foreign Minister James Harbinger.
New Bacon, Malcholm, Oakplumington
Can I get a summery of how to become a part of the regional government
Oakplumington
Post self-deleted by Anti-Criminal Mafia.
Technically, you already are! Just by being in the region you're admitted to our House of Representatives, 'Sentagon'. If you're talking about the Lunar Council, asking nicely and praying to your God that the members of the region aren't a bunch of asinine lunatics usually works.
[spoiler]Lucky for you, we aren't that crazy.[/spoiler]
Really though, all you have to do is ask! Elections for my and [nation=short]TRF_submarine_group_V[/nation]'s positions are around Christmas, if you can wait that long. From the sound of it, you'd be running against Sentagon President [nation=short]Vaspassia[/nation].
[spoiler]If a spot opens up before the elections, you can always overthrow [nation=short]New Bacon[/nation] and decimate the Lunar Council like [nation=short]Jegerkompaniet[/nation] and [nation=short]chingislan[/nation] did. They were raiders who got admitted to the Lunar Council nearly immediately after they ravaged our home; not without penalty, of course.
Just remember, I wasn't the one who told you you can do that.[/spoiler]
New Bacon, Oakplumington
You are a part of the Newly formed Sentagon(Maybe) but you can also run for lunar council seats. Like If you are a raider then of course you're gonna overthrow my seat like what happened to me twice and then try to dissolve the Lunar Council with my seat powers. Although like Malcholm said elections are around Christmas so maybe you could run for a seat then I mean it is your choice.
Malcholm
Hey, what's up everyone? I missed a couple days.
Where are we on the Suppress-A-Post Game? It looks like it might be fizzling out. Is it my turn?
Like they said, once we get Sentagon established, all that will be required of nations to be in government is to be present in the region.
Our government is like this:
The Delegacy - the WA nation with the most endorsements can be elected at anytime.
The Lunar Council (five nations) - Two seats up for reelection every lunar cycle.
The not-quite-established Sentagon - Everybody else.
Right now we have a body of government called the Interregional Council which I am trying to get rid of. It's not very functional (the experiment failed). I created a political party called the Anti-Interregional Party whose sole purpose is to get rid of the Interregional Council and to establish Sentagon as The Mystical Council's third branch. I'm the only nation officially registered with it right now.
Malcholm
I'm doing it differently. I'm still working on my style of play. I understand what you were saying the other day about how to mock nations, though.
Your in Oakplumington; funny it is how few posts last!
New Bacon, Malcholm
Nice flag by the way, New Bacon.
New Bacon
Thanks
Sign me up!
The Malcholmian Ambassador looks longingly out his office window at the Circle Centre, imagining himself standing strong and proud in place of the infamous statue of Zolo Wilson. Out of the corner of his eye, he spots something..
'..a new flag?'
He pulls up a new tab in Chrome, confused as to what he just noticed.
'I've never seen something like that before..'
A quick search brings him to something he'd never expected.
'AH! New Bacon?! What's going on?
He looks back outside, now seemingly content with himself.
'Hmm.. well, I like it.'
The Ambassador decides to shoot an email to President Taharqa; 'kept it simple and sweet.'
It reads:
"Hey, nice flag. It's pretty cool."
- Malcholm's Ambassador to the Lunar Council
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OOC: The Circle Centre is the area outside the LC offices that houses a flag of every nation in the region in a circular fashion. In the center of the Centre stands a large monument to Zolo Wilson, the first delegate of the region. The Centre acts as a home for international government facilities and booming commercial industries in the region's capitol.
New Bacon, Oakplumington
Post self-deleted by New Bacon.
Hola! привет!
I don't know French either. I know a little Spanish and a microscopic bit of Russian.
Corrected OOC: I kinda reorganized my nation's structure a little bit and on the flag it quotes "Quinquaginta Unum Provincias" Which means 51 Provinces in Latin. IC: New Bacon Congress and The People of New Bacon have voted to change the flag Taharqa is happy!!!!!!!!!!!!
Malcholm, Oakplumington
I'm thinking outside the box a little. Hey Malcholm, what if we say that the Red Fleet Victims Union is back on the Interregional Council? Then we could put that vote towards our 6 Interregional Votes.
Taharqa is like................................................
Right now the Interregional Council has 10 members.
A. If Friese ceases to exist today we will go from 10 to 9 Interregional Council members.
B. If we put Malcholm's puppet back on we will go from 10 to 11.
If A and B both happen then we will be right back at 10 members and will still require 6 votes to pass it.
We currently have from both polls...
Pro Sentagon/Abolish Interregional Council
Pyrosky for Transfan, The God of Play, Alternate Universe 716, The Prayer Room, 4 votes
We will have 5 votes with Malcholm's Victim's Union puppet
Keep the Interregional Council: New Pyrosky (Leodora)
The Interregional Council is very close to passing this.
We still need one more Lunar Council vote.
We have New Bacon's approval.
I think Sentagon is going to happen. It might take a few more days but I think we might have this in the bag. We might also have to wait until the Cold Moon elections to replace Captain Misley. That will give us the Lunar Council vote we need. I am throwing full support behind Vaspassia's run for office this election.
5 residents are for it
13
3 are mine
3 are malcholm's
We have 9 residents (puppets excluded)
5/9 = 55.556%
We need two-thirds. So we're about 10% away. On that level.
Yeah...Once we get through this, Sentagon will replace two categories: the residential nations as well as the Interregional Council. This will simplify our crazy government.
I hope nobody minds that I'm literally thinking out loud on the RMB.
Malcholm
Done. The letters (AIP) appear after your nation name on the regional government factbook.
Oh yeah Sign me Up for the Anti-Interregional Party!!!!!!
Malcholm, Oakplumington
Please vote for option two in the poll or just state that you're for it on the RMB. We could be just days (maybe hours) away from a functional regional government. We're so close...We need you. Bring ChingisLan if you can.
Hello!
Oakplumington
Hello! Greetings!
Um, I should vote for option 2 you say?
Malcholm, Oakplumington
Your vote officially represents your region. Unless I hear differently from the regional government.
Announcement everyone: Unless we hear differently from Werewolves Of The Flame, we are going to count Wolfdon as their IRC representative. We officially have 5 votes (6 if we count malcholm's puppet from that other region).
We are so close... It's killing me. If Freise ceases to exist today, then we will have the approval of the Interregional Council.
Yes. :) Thank you!!! Thank you!! :)
Should I send a puppet to the region?
Here I am anyway.
Oakplumington
You don't have to but you can if you want.
Actually, a puppet would help with our residential nation statistics. We're hovering at 56% right now and we need two thirds.
Crimson Coalition
Are you going to ask URN to vote in it too?
Residential update
6/10 in favor (Crimson Coalistion is Wolfdon)
60% - 6% left remaining almost there.
Crimson
AU912
Malcholm
Vaspassia
Oakplumington
New Bacon
Interregional update - check?
5 or 6/11 (all we need is the ok from Malcholm and the Victims Union Army Puppet will count as a vote)
Approved by the Delegacy - check
One Lunar Council vote away from approval - (Are we really going to have to wait until Christmas?)
Recruiter friendly tag. :) Any raiders looking for a home, just stop by the Walls of Alpha Wolf.
So what's shaking?
Oakplumington
Not too much. Trying to reform government. Fix the constitution. Ya know, the basics.
We can't. We don't have embassies established with them. I'm actually waiting for friese to cease to exist and Malcholm to give me the green light on a region that he runs. Then we'll be done with the Interregional Council side of things.
The constitution requires four levels of approval for amendments. Since abolishing the Interregional Council is a major consititutional alteration we have to jump through all the hoops. We can manipulate the stats a little bit but only so much. Puppet votes don't count here but if it happens via the Interregional Council, that's ok. This Interregional Council thing is just a confusing mess.
Malcholm
Unless.... someone from URN physically comes over and votes for option two as a resident nation. That would work. If there's a loophole I'm going to find it. All we really need is one more resident to vote, then we can scratch the residential nations off the list.
Maybe... I could vote for URN and then Wolfdon could vote for WotF? :/ That sounds corrupted or something..
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