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Andusre wrote:

One person is allowed only one WA nation, and the game rigorously enforces this. It's a way of protecting our regional security & the integrity of our elections without having to do much work.

okay then

Andusre wrote:

I saw that Srz :P

that was me not understanding a post for around 5 seconds

Why am I here again

Ok guys, this time, it’s not a personal post but I am making this post in official capacity.

I urge all of you, who believe you can do good for the region by serving a productive term in the House or Commons for the next two months, to RUN. Trust me when I say the next few months are important for the region since we have the Constitutional Convention, which’ll set the direction of our region for the next year or even two, and the proposed Military Reforms Bill, which aims to improve one of the brightest spots of our region, the military. Allow the citizens to make a choice they can be proud of, first step to ensuring this, is to make sure the citizens have a decent pool of candidates to pick from. For those who are running, make sure to be acquainted with the common issues cantering this elections: Military Reforms, Constitutional Reforms, Inter-Chamber and Inter-Branch co-operation, Acticity etc. And make a well-informed and detailed platform explaining why the voters should vote for you or consider you. A competitive battle is in everyone’s interest, don’t miss your chance to ensure that. And for those who are not running, make sure to register to vote for which the procedures might soon be announced by the Acting EC or the next EC. In order to vote, you’ll need to be a citizen for which you need WA citizenship but if you have your WA elsewhere, don’t panic, apply for a waiver by sending the Prime Minister or Home Minister Taungu a telegram from your WA nation and from your nation in Thaecia specifying it’s you. NOTE: Don’t have more than one nation in World Assembly

And for those who are worried about the recent events concerning the resignation of the EC, Thaecia has always bounced back and this is our speciality, we let no adverse conditions affect our growth. So feel optimistic!

And also those of you who have joined the WA newly, endorse Brototh.

Yours sincerely,
The Islamic Country of Honour

Hello guys im new.

Hulloooo,
Can someone give me the discord name? I need to get in, but, it's to complex to say. It involves a snitch, a glitch, and Zoom.

Hello, fellow human-like species in this universe on this planet.

Requelizza wrote:

sus

Fellow human-like species, I am DEFINITELY from this planet, 100% no cap.

Xernon wrote:

Xernon's Brilliant Take

Just a quick note -- when Andy and I set up Thaecia, we designed our legislature to meet in-game (through a regional RMB) for two main reasons:
1.) It's easily accessible to the whole population -- you don't need to sign up to a third party site to see what is being legislated. There is sense of transparency in being able to not only view debate and discussion on bills, but also have the ability to easily assess how your legislators are voting (or not if they are inactive) on certain issues. In terms of archiving, the RMBs are very nice in that you don't have to move threads around -- the RMB itself is a living archive.
2.) We were admittedly a new region and wanted to have a simple and quick way to establish our legislature. We were also likely influenced by the fact that our former region conducted legislation the RMB route. So there was definitely a factor of convenience and familiarity in the decision.

I know that for me, though, I imagined there would be a point where continuing to legislate on the RMB would not be sustainable. When you're a newly established region with a small legislature, it makes sense to address one bill at a time and to do it with maximum transparency, especially if you are a democratic region. But as the legislature grows and the region matures politically, I don't see any harm in transitioning to a more effective mode of legislation that would allow us to legislate multiple bills at the same time, but this contingent on several points:

1.) This hypothetical legislative sub-section of the forum needs to be viewable to anyone. You should not have to sign up on the forums to view it. This allows us to have continuity when it comes to transparency.
2.) We would need to alter our existing procedures to allow for multiple bills to be debated simultaneously. So long as we allow set fixed debate and voting durations for each bill, debating multiple bills will not lead to issues.
3.) Given the added responsibility this would entail of legislative presiding officers, they will likely need to hire deputies, which I imagine is not a problem. If anything, it will give our legislators an opportunity to gain experience leading their legislative houses before assuming those leading positions one day.
4.) For continuity's sake, I think that the forums should be owned by the founders -- Andy and myself. This is not questioning or taking away from anyone's character, but as the region's founders and the Discord's founders, we have a history of putting OOC policies in place to ensure that our members are safe and protected.

So overall, I think this is the right time to have this conversation, but I also think there's some considerations and work to be done before fully transitioning to a different legislative venue.

[Spoiler=TLDR]Don't be lazy -- read the whole post :P

First of all, before I start, let me just express how happy I am to see Xernon again participating in our regional discussions, this surely makes me very happy :)

I don't believe our legislatures should be moved to the forums, there are various reasons behind it. First, even though it'll be visible to everyone, there might also be a situation when some legislators wouldn't be willing to sign up for a forum account because they don't want their IP address to be seen by anyone, which is completely understandable. So in that case, some citizens will be barred from participating in our legislature. For example, I signed up for my first forum a full 1 and a half year after I joined Thaecia, on the 22nd of December, 2020(I think) when I was undertaking a diplomatic assignment to a region whose moderation skills I highly trust, which is why I had decided to sign up there in the forum. So it is understandable some people will take some time to gain some trust in the forums and their moderation, which further slows down their integration into their region. I believe our legislature should be based on-site and I don't see any reason why it should be shifted, as I completely agree with the point of Xernon that a regional RMB legislature is completely accessible to the whole population and we don't have to sign up to a third party site.

Before I say this, let me clarify, this is not to diss anyone and I implore anyone reading this not to kick up another personal attack-fueled debate over this, I would trust the Founders to own the forums, rather than non-founder citizens. There are many reasons behind it, first of all, let's admit, there's no guarantee that a citizen will never leave the region, whereas, on the other hand, the Founders are the last person who'll be leaving the region after all that they have done for the region, and they are the people, I believe, who are the most loyal to the region, for obvious reasons, they founded the region and have the Founder Account in their control, so they are the only two people, I would trust to own the forums tbh. Though they can appoint a technically sound and most importantly trusted moderation team to help lessen some of the burden on them. A forum heading by the founders will arguably be more stable.

While for the splitting of the legislator debate floors, we can create two regions like "House of Commons" and "House of Commons Room-2" to split off the works, and as Xernon said, with their deputies, they can manage the works.

Srz wrote:

actually this region is mostly uninactive

Ok

The box news wrote:

New article from box news is out, read now to think inside the box!

the brototh tale: how a master of corruption was elected president

box news edition 2 (may 7th 2021)

by The box news

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the brototh tale: how a master of corruption was elected president

many thaecians have accomplished unimaginable feats. people like Andusre have lead our great army to victory, others such as Rayekka have laid the foundations to the establishment of our modern electoral process

one thaecian has done what no other has done though, and that is our president Brototh, a national failure

brototh not only is president, but head of the fake news "federal post" (which makes no sense because thaecia isn't a federation, maybe brototh and his minions weren't thinking straight when they started their joke organisation to mislead the thaecian people)

this brings forth an interesting conflict of interest, where the president corrupts the people by making everyone believe he is good at everything through his fake news articles, while using the position of president to oppress the same people he claims to represent

our region is falling apart under this presidency, he nominated an immigrant ec who abandoned our region, perhaps this ec only intended on getting brototh re-elected and quit after he realised the corruption going on in thaecia

we must change things to put a government which agrees with box news in charge on this region, it's the only way of saving the region

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I really really really would like to know who wrote this