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Embassies: Philosophy 115, Eladen, Hippy Haven, Yggdrasil, International Democratic Union, Antarctica, Winterfell, Antarctic Oasis, Texas, Union of Free Nations, Singapore, The Region That Has No Big Banks, Democratic Socialist Assembly, the Rejected Realms, The Bar on the corner of every region, the South Pacific, and 20 others.Oatland, Haiku, Portugal, 10000 Islands, Spiritus, Conch Kingdom, The Leftist Assembly, Europe, Wintreath, Refugia, The Union of Democratic States, Libertarian Socialist Confederation, Philosophers, A Liberal Haven, Canada, Sol Aeternalis, Ridgefield, Lands End, Valaryia, and Blue Ridge.

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Forest contains 319 nations, the 109th most in the world.

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The Most Extreme in Forest

The World Census ranked nations on the basis of how odd, extreme, or fundamentalist their social, economic, and political systems are.

As a region, Forest is ranked 12,091st in the world for Most Extreme.

NationWA CategoryMotto
1.The Technicolor Voidwalker of Vuoto AmorePsychotic Dictatorship“#1,124,005”
2.The Most Serene Republic of Luadastmaa on side questPsychotic Dictatorship“You Can't Stop Myself”
3.The Republic of Dynamic Docking AutomatonPsychotic Dictatorship“Twirling Toward Freedom”
4.The People's Republic of Order of MalahPsychotic Dictatorship“CRUSH ALL THAT STANDS BEFORE YOU!!!”
5.The Republic of Forest EventsAnarchy“Please... No more events!”
6.The Republic of Forest Poetry JudgeAnarchy“Modesty is the best policy”
7.The Holy Empire of BnuyLeft-wing Utopia“Bnuy!”
8.The Holy Empire of Mini ThembriaPsychotic Dictatorship“🌜 M O O N! That spells government! 🌛”
9.The Oppressed Peoples of Charizard2Anarchy“ROAR!”
10.The Eco-Totalitarian Cyberocracy of Ecologist HegemonyPsychotic Dictatorship“Only the Part·e can save mankind & life from extinction”
1234. . .3132»

Regional Poll • With which of the following regions shall Forest close embassies?

The Green Otters' State of Garbelia wrote:See the RMB for more details: https://www.nationstates.net/page=rmb/postid=57567294

Voting opened 2 days 15 hours ago and will close . Open to native residents. You cannot vote as you are not logged in.

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In favor of closing with A Liberal Haven and Union of Free Nations based on activity and not having a ton of relations with them recently.

Not in favor of closing with Antarctic Oasis yet. I really disagree with closing based on political alignment. The best way to fight back against political division especially in our era is to have more dialogue and community, not less. I think it would be prudent to ask if we can post on their RMB and to reevaluate the embassy in a couple months or so. If they and we are not interested in maintaining a relationship, then by all means close the embassy, but I don’t think it sets a good precedent to shut down an established relationship just because of political disagreement.

Iereia wrote:Not in favor of closing with Antarctic Oasis yet. I really disagree with closing based on political alignment. The best way to fight back against political division especially in our era is to have more dialogue and community, not less. I think it would be prudent to ask if we can post on their RMB and to reevaluate the embassy in a couple months or so. If they and we are not interested in maintaining a relationship, then by all means close the embassy, but I don’t think it sets a good precedent to shut down an established relationship just because of political disagreement.

That's entirely valid and I don't disagree at all. I would like to reiterate, all of these 3 closures have been brought to vote specifically on the grounds that they no longer meet our requirements for opening a new embassy - any additional things that were mentioned in my post were merely bits I put in after the matter and the only real motivation behind them is size/activity and considering the need for continuing relations. In the case of AO specifically, I think it's also worth mentioning that they do not allow posts from embassies on their RMB, and I have very rarely, if ever, seen anyone from there come over to our own RMB to post. Putting any qualms aside, the only real difference/value an onsite embassy allows is the exchange of RMB posts across regions and that simply isn't something that's happened between us and AO, it isn't possible on our end and they haven't shown any willingness to reciprocate. As I said initially I'm not trying to change any minds here but on a rereading I think my initial writeup didn't come across how I intended and I want to clear up that the idea for these closures purely came up from a metric of exchange of ideas and community between regions, none of which has really happened with any of those 3 for a long while.

I know there's regional stuff happening. but. How did we get here:

https://www.eatingwell.com/costco-just-recalled-butter-undeclared-allergen-8742522

They recalled 80,000 pounds of perfectly good butter. Because they forgot to say it contains milk.

I have so many questions...

How do you forget to put "milk" on the label? And then... how do people not buying exclusively vegan-advertized butter assume it's not milk, if the ingredients don't suggest otherwise? I'm... I mean. it's the right call to recall it. I know that... but the food hyperpreservative in me. I hate. I hate everything about this.

Name 0 (my main acc) has officially reached 200,000 arms manufacturing today in a population less than 4 billion. (4B population tomorrow 11.13.24!).

nation=name_0/detail=trend?censusid=16

Garbelia wrote:Antarctic Oasis is currently home to just 4 WA nations. Likewise, they've seen more active days as a regional government, but there is still discussion on their RMB from a few days ago - discourse on the US election and supposed attempts from the Democrats to steal the Pennsylvanian senate. Letting my personal politics interfere for a second, alongside the general reaction found here on the RMB, I don't think we as a region should continue to hold embassies with a region that aligns itself with the modern Republican party and Donald Trump. As for the history of relations, our embassies are 9 and a half years old and, as far as I can see, we've had a few ambassadors drop in over the years and Jutsa's puppet Marsche has been active there fairly recently.

Personally, I’m against most embassy closures (in most cases), but if I’m going to advocate against the closure of any of these embassies-it’s Antarctic Oasis. I think it’s a bit soft to use the region’s members support of Trump as a reason for closure. They seem to be more libertarian leaning, ideologically speaking, and from what I’ve seen, they’re not engaging in full blown extremist/fascist rhetoric. On top of that, I don’t mind regional alignment with a wide range political leanings.

I understand closure over for falling below 6 WA member threshold, but given that we have a longstanding embassy with them, I don’t believe the bulk of the reasoning behind closing embassies should be “they like republicans.” Just my two cents.

York Zionia wrote:I understand closure over for falling below 6 WA member threshold, but given that we have a longstanding embassy with them, I don’t believe the bulk of the reasoning behind closing embassies should be “they like republicans.” Just my two cents.

I'll reiterate what Garb said that the main reason is cause we can't even post in their RMB lol. (edit: But also cause I can't recall us ever actually doing anything together all this time.) But yeah, very glad to see folks standing against (non-fascist / R/D gameplay) ideological closures. :')

Victoriaans Nederlands wrote:RE: Proposal on closing embassy with Singapore.

I did talk about it with you* and Garbelia. I'm sure they'll talk to you a bit more about where we'll go, so I can't speak for Garb, but I'll still share their announcement and my thoughts here*. From what I can gather, of the regions proposed on discord (the original five, not including the three at vote: Winterfell, and Singapore; and also Sol Aeternalis, Oatland, and Antarctica), three (the second-to-last three mentioned) have since responded back to either Garb or me. Though they're either less active or less involved with us generally speaking, some have had substantial historical value with Forest. Especially given you've all reached out to us, it might be worth putting even their closure votes off the table - at least unless someone else wishes to call for their closures, or they seem like non-controversial closures with others in Forest**. I personally would be in favor of keeping all three (even SA, which I realize without Greg has lost a lot of its luster fairly soon after its embassy acquirement, but even being a little neutral about it myself hopefully Lendy can change that down the road). The others not already at vote, I admit I'd probably remain neutral on, since one is more of an isolate friend group, and the other I honestly don't know much about personally.

*(hope I helped give some context for why the seemingly sudden change '^^ again, we love you here and it's mostly a matter of the embassy change not making a huge difference practically speaking)

** Incidentally, feel free to discuss whether anyone would want to close any other embassies too, while we're talking about them (again lol). I know Philosophy115, Eladen and Hippy Haven have all been specifically not included in Garb's campaign for their historical value (and Haiku because some of us rather enjoy posting haikus over there), buuut, given they're all either de facto dead, or officially closed, we could still discuss their closures. I do realize that Philosophy115 in particular was saved because it's our very first embassy, in accordance with the passing of Philosophers as a non-successor region (did I get it right this time, Verdant? '^'). As an aside, if there were any others that came to mind, feel free to bring it up. As Uan has repeatedly stressed, anyone can even call for a closure if they really wanted lol, you'd just have to garner "enough interest" for someone in cabinet to bring it to vote - which I assume is enough likes and not too many counterarguments but it's fairly subjective ;p

I believe that the nation shall vote the majority. I voted for all 3 regions to close embassies. Without activity in the regions, what would even be the point of being embassies with an empty desert, like I mean, there's little to no WA members, meaning that the nations are either inactive or are alts.

Jutsa wrote:I'll reiterate what Garb said that the main reason is cause we can't even post in their RMB lol.

This alone is already a good and valid reasoning. If it was to someone to jump in here and say something like "they have discord community you can talk there" then it proves the point even more: there's no need for the on-site embassies with regions that restrict us from posting & engaging there directly.

Hello my Forestian friends,

You may recognize me as “welcomerat” from several of No Big Banks’ chess games, or as Legendary Lendenburgh on Discord… I have officially been appointed as ambassador from Sol Aeternalis! I look forward to working with you all and maintaining our regions’ diplomatic ties-

Please feel free to stop by our RMB to say hello, have a chat, or take a peek at our ongoing roleplay (which is always accepting applications!) I hope I’ll be able to participate in some of your regional events going forward as well! Feel free to TG me if you have any questions, comments, or concerns.

From the land of the sun to the land of the trees,
Lendenburgh

So, the people of Einswenn have voted in the annual presidential & parliamentary elections:


The trend of the last year's boost of Tech and Business representatives is secured for 2025 as Futurist party (FYTR) gained the most votes (18%), although that's just half of the party's results last year. To gain the majority, this party has formed a coalition with the Greens (17%), Independent (11%), and Business (10%) gaining 56 seats (56%) at the Parliament. An experienced technocrat Sir Gustav Ranvald, unanimously nominated by FYTR earlier this year, will be the next President of Einswenn.

Erin Kattell's government congratulated her successor and is preparing for a peaceful transition (no wonder as they both come from the same party having the same business background).

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