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The marconian state wrote:

Attention all Thaecians,

I would like to inform you of the creation of The Nothing Party! We stand for nothing, and we're going to turn Thaecian politics on its head.

Read our party factbook and manifesto here:

The Nothing Party

by The marconian state

Overview

• The Nothing Party stands for nothing. Notice how our logo is in the shape of a chair, turned on its head? That's because we're gonna turn Thaecian politics on its head.

• The Nothing Party believes in big government, which is why the font size on this factbook is 150%, the same amount of energy we're gonna put into turning Thaecian politics on its head.

• The Nothing Party believes in a culture centered around big personalities, which is why our party chairman will always be the first person to run in every single election, even if they already hold an elected position, because we're gonna turn Thaecian politics on its head.
  

Home Affairs Ministry

• In order to be more inclusive, the Ham Affairs Minister should serve chicken and vegetarian/vegan options for lunch.

• The Home Affairs Minister should be active 100% of the time, and should not be allowed to go to sleep. They do get a chair to sit on, however. They shouldn't have to stand for nothing.

• The Nothing Party stands for pseudo-semi-absolute-partly-nominal-would-be-so-called-apparent-complete, full, infinite, unabridged, no strings attached freedom of speech, just as long as no one's feelings are hurt.

• The House of Commons and Senate should actually have less seats, and in order to implement this, we support a constitutional amendment that removes the minimum amount of representatives in Congress. 1 seat should be enough for both, maybe even half a seat for the Senate.

• The Nothing Party believes, in the interest of compromise, in a uni+1/2cameral system where two chambers exist, but only one matters at any given moment, and the chambers don't get to vote on each other's bills. Whichever chamber has voting power is flipped every 17 days, and to start off with which chamber gets to vote, the Prime Minister should roll a d100 and assign the numbers randomly to each chamber in an even fashion, in that order.
  

Foreign Affairs Ministry

• The Foreign Affairs Ministry should form an embassy with Olive Garden. After all, when you're here, you're family™.

• We should endeavor to have an embassy with every single other region, including the private ones.

• We should join interregional programs and unions only if we get the most power, even if other regions within it are similar in size or bigger than us.

• Thaecia should became a raiding region, because it would be really funny if we were unraidable while being able to raid others.
  

Justice and the High Court

• The Nothing Party believes in the nomination of Saint ryvern to the High Court as the first Justice.

• The Chief Justice position should be rolled for on a D20 by every new Justice. A natural 20 gets you Chief Justice instantly, any roll from 2-19 plus your charisma score modifier determines your spot in line once the current Chief Justice abdicates their position, resigns, or ceases to exist. A natural 1 gets you booted off the High Court instantly.

• The Justice Minister gets advantage when plaintiff, and disadvantage when the deafened.
  

Roleplay and Culture

• Because all of this is roleplay, everything that happens on the RMB should affect the regional RP, including laws passed by the legislature.

• All roleplay should happen on the regional RMB. Roleplayers should be encouraged to be as annoying with roleplay posts as possible, posting multi-thousand word roleplay updates without putting them in a spoiler or dispatch, and writing in furry speak. OwO.

• A system of Kings and Queens should be implemented, introducing royalty into the region. Oh, we forgot to mention it earlier, but the President and PM should have their own deputy/vice-President and Prime Minister. When a monarch, the President, Vice President, Prime Minister, and Deputy Prime Minister form together, they become Volthaeciatron, and have unlimited and unrestricted government power for 5 minutes.
  

The Constitution

• The Constitution should be abolished.
  

Party Constitution

• Barbarian 28

• Fighter 27

• Cleric 17

• Wizard 12
  

Membership

• Due to our radical beliefs, we don't believe in having a membership roll. The Nothing Party is a shadow organization, and anyone can be a part of it secretly while subverting and destroying their own parties and the region from the inside. God bless you, you brave souls.
  

Regular Ship

Read factbook

Spoiler

Yes, this is a joke.

I'm interested... not just because I miss Ryvern and want him in the Court again

Saint ryvern wrote:

When the Nothing Party stands for nothing, but stands for me.

Saint Ryvern=nothing. Hello darkness, my old friend.

Woah that's deep bro.

The marconian state wrote:

What? Oh, that's old, sorry, we just haven't gotten around to updating the party factbook yet.

Actually, we don't stand for you. We believe in you. Totally different, you gotta believe me.

Saint Ryvern=nothing. That’s what I am in Thaecia now.

Rhyssua wrote:

I'm interested... not just because I miss Ryvern and want him in the Court again

I miss you too. One of the only sane people in Thaecian politics.

Rhyssua wrote:

Saint Ryvern=Superman of the Justice League. Better than nothing

here's my secret

I seem sane because I try to stay out of the arguments (at least when they spiral out of control)

If I was Superman then maintaining basic court procedures was my kryptonite.

Titanne wrote:

I also like the logo. Take your time looking over it, give me any criticisms you’ve got.

Alright, so you mentioned that I would be a good replacement for the Home Affairs Minister. In response, I would like to ask a few questions about the Party’s position in that category.

-You mentioned that you would like to provide templates for recruiting telegrams. Would citizens have to get approval before sending out recruitment telegrams? What's the benefit of having anyone in the region sending out telegrams?
-The "Greeters" idea sounds like an enhanced version of the Thaecian Greeter Gang. Would it serve the same purpose? When a new nation posts on the RMB, people already say hello to the new nation and tell them necessary information. Why have official greeters instead of the current method?
-What sort of content would the moderators be looking for? Would they have the power to shut down an argument, potentially leading to the abuse of that power?

I’m asking these questions because I want to see if your party knows how it’ll implement it’s ideas. Thank you for your time.

Now, about the new Phoenix Coalition of Thaecia thing. I really can't see the purpose of it. Compromise here, compromise there, you compromise so much to a point where most of the manifesto is common sense proposals everyone would support. This is not the kind of thing which will "make thaecia great again", Thaecian politics were fun at the start because parties had stronger identities and more well defined proposals.

Rhyssua wrote:

Islonia back me up on this.

Your Kryptonite was having a real life, unlike me... *laughs then cries*

I have a Real Life now, PLEASE SAVE ME FROM THE SCHOOL NIGHTMARE 😭(I have like 3x less free time than before [not holidays but school before this one])

I'll take this moment to point out that the new UNI manifesto was completed a couple of days ago and has been being voted on by members since then. So any policies the new manifesto might have in common with Titanne's party are nothing more than a happy coincidence.

Just putting this here before any of y'all accuse us of copying ideas.

Shoila wrote:

Alright, so you mentioned that I would be a good replacement for the Home Affairs Minister. In response, I would like to ask a few questions about the Party’s position in that category.

-You mentioned that you would like to provide templates for recruiting telegrams. Would citizens have to get approval before sending out recruitment telegrams? What's the benefit of having anyone in the region sending out telegrams?
-The "Greeters" idea sounds like an enhanced version of the Thaecian Greeter Gang. Would it serve the same purpose? When a new nation posts on the RMB, people already say hello to the new nation and tell them necessary information. Why have official greeters instead of the current method?
-What sort of content would the moderators be looking for? Would they have the power to shut down an argument, potentially leading to the abuse of that power?

I’m asking these questions because I want to see if your party knows how it’ll implement it’s ideas. Thank you for your time.

Q1: Citizens would not have to ask for approval before sending a recruitment telegram. At this time we are not in a position to limit recruitment, although any modifications to the templates would have to be approved by the HAM.

Q2: If our recruitment strategies are effective, having greeters to guide nations in will make it more likely nations will stay, be another way to widen the talent pool for elected positions and appointed ones, not to mention the fact that it will allow people already in government to get more involved.

Q3: The moderators would most definitely be an emergency measure in case an argument spirals out of hand. They would issue a warning when things devolved to personal insults, and really step in to stop people from being abused verbally based off of any discriminatory factor or for any reason. These moderators would have to be level-headed, like Rhyssua and Saint ryvern. They would be required to fill out a report regarding any incident in which they step in to. This would deter abuse of power, as well as being useful to the Justice Ministry in case of any form of lawsuit.

Andusre wrote:

I am replying in the morning, just you wait 😉

There is no need, it's going to be a bunch of nonsense anyway. I was interested in TMS's reply tbh.

The marconian state wrote:

Just woke up from a nap. People aren't on all the time, you know.

You want a response? To me, being in Thaecian politics was never about having the most power. I considered the most important purpose of a region, above everything else, to provide fun for its members. We saw it fit early on in the region's lifespan that providing that fun was best exemplified by the game of politics, as well as the regional roleplay. In my opinion, the latter was made worse over time due to the Party That Shall Not Be Named, and that same party made the game of politics more frustrating than anything. The Unity Party was formed at this time because it was an "Eat or be Eaten" system; TSP and FAlP struggled to gain enough votes to get even a single member into the HoC.

Yet with the, ahem, "departure" of the Party That Shall Not Be Named, the need for the Unity Party is no more, and if some wanted, they could easily split from the UNI and make their own party again. I find this unlikely, however; Solidarity and FAlP relied on strong party chairpersons that brought their group together, and Lemonadia is now in the High Court and Brototh is out of the region. So now we exist in a political system that is very boring compared to where it used to be. The talks of unicameralism are nowhere to be seen save for the TPP's ridiculous and irrelevant proposal of it.

I guess in an eat or be eaten system, to be as uncontroversial as possible is to win, yet without fulfillment. In the words of Eminem, "...we need a little controversy, 'Cause it feels so empty without me."

EDIT: My mistake, the TPP does not have a proposal for unicameralism in their party manifesto. They suggest a HoC of 15 members and a Senate of 9 members.

I can not say I disagree with your point that Unity's manifesto is too vague right now, but we are in the process of changing it. We have realised our flaws in this regard and thank you for signaling it to us again. The goal of Unity was originally the one you mentioned, but now our goal is to govern Thaecia and govern it like it deserves, not like it was governed lately. We already see a lot of changes in the functioning of the Senate and the House - they have all been run flawlessly while Unity was in control of them (Except for when a lot of MPs were banjected or left the region and their party head just "forgot" to appoint replacements, but that was out of our control), and I can't wait to see the turnaround in the region if the Prime Minister will be Unity-TPP too. However, my points about the hypocrisy of the TPU and its accusations stay still.

Also good luck to Titanne and his party. I hope he will leave behind his old habits as a TPU attackdog and use this party to bring the change our region so desperately needs, as well as promote honestly and fairness into the regional politics.

Indian genius wrote:

And, Xernon has got almost 110 endorsements, so there's no guarantee that 150 WA nations will not come here and raid this region. And, our founder who was CTE'd and did come back just a few days ago. There's no guarantee that he will not be CTE'd again, and in the meantime, our region is doomed, this is possible.

Actually, since our WA delegate position is non-executive raiders couldn't do anything if they seized the delegacy, they'd only have WA authority.

The Bigtopia wrote:

Actually, since our WA delegate position is non-executive raiders couldn't do anything if they seized the delegacy, they'd only have WA authority.

Founder CTE’s and delegate is executive. All they have to do is wait

Republic of zamboanga peninsula wrote:

I want to make a suggestion please take it seriously

I the Republic of Zamboanga Peninsula is furious about this regional organizations candidacy and election regulations I think we need to have a more liberal and lighter rules and regulations to have more candidates in the future I had tried to file my candidacy for senator for two times this time I again tried still no response but we need to have lighter rules and regulations to let more people file their candidacy we need to have liberal ideals we don't need those complex WA waiver things we need simple and regular rules for candidacy and elections.

Liberals should be deported actually but okay