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This election was going to be a big one as with the high stakes of the office of the Prime Minister being elected, a lot of candidates presented themselves and were thoroughly campaigning to try and get the most voters possible. As always, House elections weren’t really contested in terms of candidates as there were exactly enough people to fill the 2 seats of both Heart and RGBN. In fact, both the Force Unity Party and the Federalist Party each presented one candidate for each of the territories. The incumbent Speaker of the House, Empire of elysium, was running for reelection in Heart under the FUP while his fellow party member, Alludo, was their candidate for RGBN. As mentioned before, Federalists were the other party to run candidates for the territorial House seats. In Force politics, Federalists are known to be the party of the territories, most of their policies are about the improvement of the non-capital regions of the Union and they hold big roles in the territorial branch of the government such as their co-leaders being the High Commissioner (supervisor of the territories) and the President of RGBN. Anyways, for this election, they were running both of their co-leaders with High Commissioner Salibaic running for Heart under The Scottish Republic and President of RGBN Suter, running well, for RGBN. We could maybe have expected a little more competition for the seats with the Democratic People’s Party running their own candidates but nothing came out of this. They probably would not have had much luck getting seats anyway since before the election started, the Force Unity Party and Federalist Party made an agreement where both parties would be supporting and voting for each other’s House candidates.

But because the Democratic People’s Party didn’t try their luck in the House election, that doesn’t mean that they weren’t doing anything for the Prime Ministerial election. They were putting up Bennisia as their candidate following his win during the DPP primary. This win got Bennisia a lot of power since he was now in charge of the largest party at the time but due to a lot of people not liking him and his policies and also other things that will be mentioned in another article, there was a big secession of members. This caused the creation of the Federalist Party and the gain of power of the Force Unity Party but still, Bennisia had a big campaign with lots of policies and he had some supporters and was a big contender for the election. The Force Unity Party was running Caduceo and they were the favourites for this election and probably the most involved in it. Caduceo produced multiple dispatches for his campaign and advertised it everywhere around Force, obviously because of that it got criticism as people accused him of basically just trying to win by advertising constantly with his fancy formatted dispatches which would make people want to vote for them more due to how professional they looked instead of his policies. The Force Flyer would also like to remind you that we don’t endorse any of these sides and that we are politically neutral and only here to report the news from a bystander point. The Cheese Party also presented a candidate in the name of Cumcision (a puppet of WA Delegate New Legland) but since the Cheese Party is considered a satirical party by most people, everyone knew they didn’t stand a chance to get elected. Finally, the Federalist Party was the only party to not run any candidate, instead, they endorsed independent candidate United soviet states of russian imperial (a puppet of United Soviet States of Russian Empire) which they had pretty close ties with.

Something unique with this election was the news coverage it had around it. Apart from the Force Flyer, the SBC and the CommUnity also covered the events on live. Both news outlets made their own polls to try and guess the future results. SBC, who had the survey with the most voters, predicted in their exit poll that United Soviet States of Russian Imperial would be the one to win. While asked on SBC Live, political commentator Lashnakia and Azerubia stated that they didn’t really think the final results would be the same. Azerubia explained that Caduceo would probably get more votes during the elections due to his supporters being mostly kinda inactive citizens that didn’t see the poll when it was announced. But that when the election would start, they would not forget to vote. The CommUnity Newsletter, a Force Unity Party media outlet, obviously predicted the win of their leader, Caduceo.

Nothing to say much about the Debate since every candidate manages to answer their questions in time. While all this was happening, campaigning was raging on with the Prime Ministerial candidates sending telegrams to the citizens talking about their program and why people should vote for them. Both Bennisia and Caduceo were the ones that were mainly sending the telegrams and with the accord of the Founder both of them were even allowed to send a region-wide telegram. United Soviet States of Russian Imperial (Texas) wasn’t really campaigning a lot like the others but he had solid supporters which were the ones that were campaigning for him, oddly enough Texas wasn’t not campaigning because he was inactive but more because he didn’t really seem to believe in that strategy and instead talked more to voters personally. Sadly, we didn’t see any campaigning from Cumcision which reinforces the idea of him being a joke candidate. Caduceo was probably the one that was the most campaigning between him and Bennisia with him reminding voters to vote for him almost every day which like we said before annoyed a lot of people but paid off in the end. After being removed the right to hold a public office for 2 years while the election was ongoing, Bennisia decided to endorse Texas near the end in the hopes of making him Prime Minister instead of Caduceo. He stated that he did this because he trusted more Texas than Caduceo as PM due to him having worked with Texas in the New Western Empire before.

On the 11th of July, Caduceo was elected Prime Minister with a clear majority of 56.75% of the votes. United Soviet States of Russian Imperial came second with 24.32%, Bennisia followed him in third at 13.51% and Cumcision arrived last with 5.4%. As for the House results, everyone was elected with only Suter from RGBN gaining a vote against him. This vote was controversial in the Federalist Party as per inspection from Suter, the one that voted against him also voted for Caduceo for Prime Minister and abstained in his second, third and fourth vote meaning he was a big supporter of Caduceo and probably a Force Unity Party member. This election is currently the one with the highest number of voters in the history of Force with 38 nations going to the ballots to vote for their favourite candidate.

Fun facts concerning the whole event. June the 10th broke the record of the biggest amount of different Prime Minister in power during the same day with 4 (Sir Salibaic, New Legland, Tyjarvustivdorker and Empire of Elysium). During this day, we had the first Cheese Party PM (New Legland) and Force Unity Party PM (Empire of Elysium), Caduceo becoming the second Force Unity Party PM after the July general election but the first one to get elected. New Legland stayed Prime Minister for a mere 2 minutes before resigning and all that time was enough for him to create a constitutional crisis. Tyjarvustivdorker’s mandate lasted around 4 hours while Empire of Elysium was only in power for 4 minutes.

My name is Caduceo, and I am your new Prime Minister. It was a fun journey and I had some very well-rounded and challenging opponents, but I thank everyone extensively for supporting me, as well as going against me to give me a reason to strive harder. Though I can't name you all by name, know that you have my extensive gratitude and my love goes to you, thank you.

My campaign consisted of a few points I wanted to prioritize, which was later on reinforced in this plan I wrote earlier this month for what I wanted to achieve first. I am writing this article today to tell you that your support won't go to waste, as I promise to see our priorities through, as well as update you as what I've already done to progress; So let's tackle my plan step by step.

First off, what I've accomplished;

• We have finished the Academia de Nocturna's foundation and am planning to start employing people to write for the Academy. All the dispatches that needed to be formatted are done so now it is time to put it into action. Expect more from it soon!

• Our new Cabinet has been inaugurated and they are settling in nicely. We might see a few rearrangements in the future but overall, the Cabinet has set out their plans and are putting them into action as we speak! Besides that, they have released or are releasing their first progress reports and we have done our first Cabinet Meeting earlier this month.

• In a more personal duty update, I am trying my best to maintain our population in this summer lull of recruitment by getting hands-on straight into Manual Recruitment, which will hopefully help everyone out.

What we're currently progressing on;

• The Force's Forces card game has gone a bit slow but we've made very minimal progress by starting to name the cards we'll eventually introduce.

• Our MoIA has started revamping the Newcomer's Manual to be more informative and hopefully they finish that as soon as possible.

• Our MoFA is breathing life and activity into the Ministry and our Ambassadors are doing their jobs well!

• Our MoComm is doing their usual epicness in producing this! And I heard they have other plans brewing ;>

• Our MoC has done their usual with this month's Emoji Contest and hopefully we see more to come from other members of the Ministry

• Our MoRP has also done their job quite well as far as I know and is perhaps one of our most self-sufficient Ministries

Plans to come;

• Our WA Program is still in need of more development so hopefully we see more activity there in the future

• As I said earlier, our Academia de nocturna is still in more need of progress so if you're interested in writing about what you're passionate or knowledgeable about, let us know!

• Civil Dispatch soon™ _{*cough* Renegalle when}

Once again, I thank you extensively for hearing me out and I hope you have a safe and wonderful day! This is your Prime Minister signing off.

After brief deliberation, the jury ruled that Bennisia was guilty of all charges presented. His right to vote has been revoked for one year and his right to run for a public office has been revoked for two years, a bitter end to his campaign for Prime Minister.

Well, he was and he did appoint all of these people at their promised offices. For the other ministries, all of their incumbent Ministers were re-appointed meaning Federalists Sumeka and Azerubia would keep the ministry of Roleplay and Communications respectively while Independent Heonix would stay Minister of Culture.

Then, more than 2 weeks later, Caduceo made another big decision in the Cabinet by dissolving the Union Research Institute. The URI had been created under ex-Prime Minister Sir Salibaic to help the government know more about its citizens by creating weekly polls such as approval rating polls, political party alignment polls and etc. But after discussion with Chief Research Officer Pridnestrovskaia moldavskaia, they both decided it would be best to dissolve it since it was now inactive.

Like my article last month, I'll also redirect you once again to this plan published during the start of my term and my campaign promises. This is the second month of my term and I'm quite happy to report some of the progress and future plans I have in store! Without further ado, let's dive into it!

What we've achieved:

• Not much has moved with the Academia de nocturna except for the passing of the Academia de Nocturna Act, which legally provides the structure and bases for the Academy, and you can find that here. I will personally be taking up a few important topics and I suggest you do too!

• Our population has stabilized around the ~170 mark during the summer lull and our recruitment methods are still doing the best they can and hopefully, we see that number rise relatively soon. Let's all hope for the best!

• Our MoIA has added a segment to our Welcome Manual about the Discord server to let people be more aware of it and we have published a Civil Service dispatch which you can find here, and maybe even consider signing up!

• Our former MoC Heonix resigned from his post and he was replaced with our current Minister of Culture, Sidervida. So far, they still need a bit more getting used to but they've helped arrange a Skribbl.io Contest, canceled the Emoji Contests, and I believe will help arrange more games for us to enjoy.

• Sir Lashnakia has been appointed as an Advisor and a new MoFA, Oimatsu, has been appointed to take his place. Let us wish them good luck and hope he serves us well!

• We've improved our RMB welcoming messages and they look quite organized and informative now.

What we're progressing on:

• I will focus on publishing two more dispatches this month, one for the World Assembly information and another for our Graphics and Format Repository to ensure transparency and better quality of life.

• Resume RMB questions as they seem to be a great source of activity and community interaction.

• We will potentially see a Cabinet Meeting this month and a presentation I'll prepare for everyone, which will maybe reveal a new plan or two 😳

• We have started preparing for N-Day and hope that we'll have a lot of fun when the event comes! For more info, drop by our Discord server or read this dispatch.

• Our Ministries have been a bit quiet but honestly, most of us have been, though we're doing quite well.

What we're planning:

• I've said it before and I'll say it again - World Assembly information will come soon.

• A project for Comms will hopefully be unveiled soon but I won't say much for now. No promises, though!

• A grand opening for the Academia de Nocturna is being planned when we have enough topics ready to be published. Join us so we can start up as soon as we can ;)

• Unfortunately, it's a bit difficult seeing if the Force's Forces card project should move forward. Hopefully it will but it's rather blurry at the moment. We'll see what we can do but you can help out by joining us.

That should do it for the month of August! Thank you so much for hearing me out and I look forward to serving the rest of my term with you! Have a safe and wonderful day!

Texas had been the Prime Minister of the New Western Empire for two consecutive terms and is mostly known here in Force for having helped create the “Hootship” Treaty between Force and NWE under the second Salibaic administration. Texas had joined Force while he was still Prime Minister of NWE but really started to get implicated after he had to step down from running a third time due to the regulations put in place in the Constitution of NWE for the number of consecutive terms allowed.

When asked by the Force Flyer as to why he decided to start reforming some ministries, he stated, “If it isn't already well known, Force is a first for a lot of things due to the nature of expanding and challenging the ideas on the forefront of NS. Even throwing around the concept of Territories and a functioning Union is something not many regions get to, let alone implementing it. I had this in mind when Prime Minister Cad asked me to join him as a Prime Minister Advisor and one of the first things I did was take a 24 hour day and study. Study Force history and exact Culture and what I found was that Force has a trend of creating a new or existing idea, then moving on to another, forgetting about the previous idea, then what that idea fails making a new idea to fix it (i.e the High Commission was created due to a failure in the Internal Affairs Ministry for not advancing with the times and being operational, which is a failure in basically the Executive as a whole for not catching the failure of literally 90% of their job as listed in the Constitution which is tending to the needs of the Union). With this information in mind and the input from High Commissioner Salibaic the mission to reform the Ministries started as one to fix up the government as a whole. To challenge what can be done in our government and to try new ideas, much like how the Internal Affairs Ministry is taking a brand new approach to helping out Territories as much as possible. Now obviously not everyone is in favor of this change but we are always working to address every concern with these reforms no matter their region, rank, or importance.”

Texas’s work so far was mainly concentrated on two points, the Internal Affairs Restructuration Project and the Foreign Affairs Reorganization Project. Both were to add big changes to their respective institutions and plans were made to indicate what had to be done. The Internal Affairs Restructuration Project focused on the creation of committees inside of the ministry to better distribute their tasks between their civil servants. On the official plan drafted by Texas, there were 4 committees considered. The WA Committee whose task would be to ensure that nations in the Union would register to the World Assembly and record the fluctuations between the number of registered nations. The Union Stature Committee which would serve as a line that would help Territories voice their concern and suggestions to the Union government. The Recruitment Committee which as the name indicates would be the one in charge of recruiting new nations and finding new ways to attract them, they would also be the ones to organize the stamps and stamp fund. Finally, there would be the Specialty Committee which would be in charge of anything that falls under the Ministry of Internal Affairs but not into any of the existing committees. While the Internal Affairs Reorganization Project was made to help divide tasks between individuals of the ministry, the Foreign Affairs Restructuration Project was concentrated on changing the current positions held in the administration. The only big changes brought with the plan were the Diplomatic Councils supervised by Diplomatic Advisors. Diplomatic Councils would work as a group of ambassadors from different regions. Following the plan, these councils would ensure communications between the ambassadors and help them organize events between their respective regions and the Union. At their head, would siege one or multiple Diplomatic Advisor(s) that would be there to help organize the council and ensure their assigned ambassadors are doing their jobs.

As of the writing of this article, the Internal Affairs Reorganization Project has been signed by the Founder but has currently been put on hold due to judicial problems with the High Commission while the Foreign Affairs Restructuration Project has yet to have received this honour and may be subject to change. While in discussion with Texas, the Force Flyer has also learned that the Ministry of Culture and Communications should be the two next to be subject to Texas’s reviewing.

The 90s set roleplay which was once one of Force’s main regional attractions was discontinued after 6 months of loyal service. Minister of Roleplay Sumeka stated after being questioned by the Force Flyer on the reason for this sudden decision, “Well, in short, because I was not satisfied with the time skip. I did not realize that such a dramatic change in stats would occur, and so I decided the best course of action was to restart under a different time period. This time, I wanted to focus more on the roleplay aspect rather than the stats game. I put it up to a vote and the server agreed that a restart would be in order. And so I did it.”

The roleplay was once the most flourishing section of the Union but due to some recent events, it lost some of its momentum following some controversies which made it start to crash. The main problem that caused all of these were wars. Wars are normally an integral part of the roleplay but many people didn’t like it when it happened and just ended up quitting. This once caused a massive exile of members who were angry at the fact their nations were completely weak against some like Renegalle’s due to their stats. The roleplay didn’t help the small nations because most people didn’t actually try to defend them and that’s what started all of this. So, the most viable strategy for roleplay was just to invade your neighbours which gave you almost no repercussions and made you more powerful than ever. Because of that, multiple small nations decided to quit as they felt powerless against giant nations and just didn’t feel like playing because the game had turned into more of a battle royale than an actual roleplay. It wasn’t everyone that left but we could already sense inactivity setting in because of that.

A solution that was found to counter this inevitable doom was to do a time skip. With this, Sumeka hoped that interest in the roleplay but the problems it brought with it such as stats change inevitably were what caused its demise. Sensing the inevitable, a vote was then called to know what era was the new roleplay supposed to set in and the decision was made to go in the medieval ages, more precisely during the 1200s.

As a tribute to this roleplay who had helped us recruit so many nations, it was decided for it to go with a final boom and let everyone do their thing. Chaos was then unleashed as roleplayers started to create the most impossible scenarios such as Tigslarlowducken buying 50 million nukes, Len row creating a Bernie Sanders super-soldier capable of destroying entire armies and Premier Chip of Renegalle becoming a god. Some tried to escape from this hell that had become Earth but it was too late.

After that, the roleplay was halted for 3 days until the preparations for the medieval one were completed. As we are still at the start of it we can’t tell if it’s going to live up to its predecessor but we can see that the inactivity that hit the last roleplay before its last boom seems to try and settle again. This new roleplay is more diplomacy driven and we hope to see new nations join us at this conquest of the world.

The current and only High Commissioner is Sir Salibaic. Salibaic had been selected to the office due to him being acquainted to work in the territories. He had been a House Representative for Heart, its First Minister and is now its Wolrd Assembly Delegate under the nation The Scottish Republic. It took almost 2 weeks for the High Commission to start working but it was mostly due to the fact it was lacking a discord channel where it could discuss its matters in privacy.

Another thing that was brought with Amendment 25 were the creations of Viceroys that would act as the delegate of each territory to the Union. The High Commissioner decided to appoint Viceroys only to the states since they were considered the only ones active enough. Both Aurhany and West intermarium were chosen by Sir Salibaic to act as Viceroys for Heart and RGBN respectively and with the benediction of the Founder, it was finalized. The High Commission also started organizing meetings between all territorial leaders to discuss matters such as population and the World Assembly. Currently, the High Commission is working on getting multiple things done and we should see more progress in the future. Most of their projects revolved around helping territories grow and help them communicate together such as helping the territories make their own recruitment and welcome telegram and also making a master factbook for each territory. Canterbury is probably the best example of that since they now have a brand new recruitment telegram and are starting to create a community. They have also been working with President Suter of RGBN to think about a way to create a legislative body in the region. Their biggest project of them all is certainly the Union World Assembly Exchange which should become the unified World Assembly program of the Union and help the World Assembly nations of the Union better communicate around the issues put up on vote.

In theory, the Force House elections can sound good, how they work is that each citizen has to give his approval to the candidates for the House in his region and if the candidates don’t get a majority of approval, he is not elected. If more candidates get a majority than the number of seats, it’s the one with the biggest majority who wins. Sounds great right? But the problem with that is that it allows what we call a tyranny by majority. For example, imagine Force has a population of 100 nations that are all divided between Faction A with 51 nations and Faction B with 49 nations. Continuing with that, let’s imagine the House of Representatives has 10 seats and that each faction submits 10 candidates for the elections in hope of having them all elected. Faction A can then decide to ask all their members to vote against Faction B’s candidates in the upcoming elections and vice-versa. Well, following Force’s democracy, all of the 10 candidates of Faction A would get elected with a 51% approval rating while Faction B’s candidates would all fail with a 49% approval rating. That would mean that the House, which is supposed to represent all the citizens of the Union, would be made of 100% of Faction A members even though they only represent 51% of the population. I know this is kind of an extreme example and nothing like that has ever happened to Force but it just shows you how much this democracy can be flawed.

So, I started asking myself what system could we use to fix these problems. At first, the most obvious answer would be to use a ranked-based ballot like what was used in the latest Prime Ministerial election. By doing this, the elections would concentrate more on the individuals than the parties and would let minority groups get some representatives elected but this method is not perfect. The main problem with this is that most of the time, the House Elections have fewer candidates than seats available meaning that with a ranked-based voting system, it would almost be certain that every candidate presenting themselves would get elected.

To try and find some other solutions, I decided to look at how other regions elect their legislative. I decided to see how the Pacifics and the New Western Empire (Force’s closest ally) worked. The Pacifics all follow a similar method to elect legislative with some regional differences. The legislative bodies in the Pacifics are not elected but in fact, every citizen is part of it or can easily join it. This system is helpful for them due to the sheer number of nations these regions host. It makes everything easier to manage and let citizens that could feel left out in the crowd of a thousand nations have the impression of their voice being heard. Force could probably use this with no problem politically but it creates a clash on the cultural side. The Union House as always been a simulation of legislative entities in countries and if it were to change to something like in the Pacifics, we would lose that simulation side of the House. At least, this system should be used for the states of the Union such as RGBN and Heart since they have difficulties having people be interested in representing their region and so having every citizen in their legislative would be a big help. On the other hand, the New Western Empire Senate is something very similar to the Union of Force House of Representatives and so their method would probably easier to implement. But how is the NWE Senate elected exactly? It’s simple, the New Western Empire uses a party-based electoral system to elect its Senators. Each party has to present a list of candidates in order of importance they are running and the citizens will vote for which party represents them and has the best candidates. Then, each party would receive a number of seats proportional to the percentage of votes they gained. For example, if there were 10 seats in the Senate and that Party A won 60% of the votes, they would get awarded 6 seats. Then, if they ran with a list of 10 candidates all in order, the top 6 would be the ones to join the Senate. This, in my opinion, would be the best choice to replace the current electoral system of the Union House. It would respect Force’s culture concerning the House and would allow minority groups to be represented more easily but without them being able to abuse it. The only disadvantage I could see for now would be that it would give parties a lot more power and would raise tensions between them. But in counterbalance, it would force more people to create their own parties and maybe even create some more choices than the current bland two-party system.

The Force Unity Party was seeking to finally get a majority in the House as the last election only manage to get them half of the seats with the Federalist Party in tow. The Unity ticket was composed of 5 nations with 4 running for a House seat and 2 for the position of Justice. It was composed of incumbent Representative of Force Egm, Prime Minister Caduceo and Minister of Foreign Affairs Oimatsu running for the House, Union of aryavart (before he was removed) for a seat in the High Court and Pridnestrovskaia moldavskaia for both. This ticket was highly criticized mainly by the opposition for running candidates that were said unfit for the job. Criticism was mostly headed to EGM, Aryavart and Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia. EGM’s criticism mostly came from people such as Speaker Suter and Sir Salibaic who claimed that due to her inactivity during her last term she shouldn’t be reelected. This was due to the fact she hadn’t voted for any legislation in the past 2 months, was absent for 3 debates in a row and was rarely talking to her citizens. Caduceo, the FUP leader, answered that it was mostly due to her being away for most of that time. The answer coming back from the Federalists was that she gave notice to the House well after it started, meaning she was still considered absent for a long period of time. In the case of Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia, it was largely because he had been impeached by the citizens from his last Justice term due to laziness and lack of respect for this office. During his debate, he stated that it was not true during and that his impeachment was more politically driven than anything. Finally, Union of Aryavart was the one who suffered the harshest criticism of all. He was involved in a big controversy after screenshots of him denying some parts of the Holocaust were released by the opposition. The FUP then immediately kicked him out and he was nowhere to be found on the party’s ads later on. Moderators started debating on whether to ban him because of this, the final verdict was that they would let him go as this was an isolated case and he only said something like this once. Some people were also kind of reluctant to see the Prime Minister enter the House but it was not illegal and it was up to the citizens to decide of his faith.

The Federalist ticket on the other hand was much safer. It consisted of electing Atharia, also known as Trisword, for the House while re-electing incumbent Chief Justice Tigslarlowducken. Atharia had already served a previous term as a Force Representative from October 2019 to January 2020. He hadn’t been the most active of his time but had done what was required of him such as voting and debating. Tigslarlowducken was another safe bet as he had been by far the best Justice of the last term and was the most experienced due to many other previous terms. After Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia was impeached from his office of Justice, Tigslarlowducken had been the only one left in the High Court that hadn’t been appointed by the Founder.

On September 11th, results were finally released but they had a bittersweet end to it. This election brought only brought 37% of what the last General Election had in terms of voters. In fact, only 14 nations went up to the poll and this was in part due to an inactivity wave hitting the region at the same time as the ballots opened.

In the case of the Unity ticket, both Prime Minister Caduceo and Minister Oimatsu easily gained their seats with an approval rating of 66.7% and 87.5% respectively. Even though he tried making his case as to why his impeachment was wrong, Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia failed to obtain the trust of the voters and got a mear 25% of the votes in favor of him for both the House and Justice race. Ex-FUP candidate Union of Aaryavart surprised many by winning his office with a 66.7% approval rating. Most people abstained while asked to vote for him which caused this unexpected result. In fact, abstentions were plaguing this election and it showed us how badly campaigning and getting to know your candidate currently works in the region. In the 8 ballots that citizens could vote, there was an astounding average of 3.5 abstentions for each one. There were even some ballots filled with only abstentions! EGM was also elected with a respectable 70% of votes in her favor.

The Federalist ticket was really popular amongst voters with both Atharia and Tigslarlowducken gaining the biggest approval rating in their race. Atharia came back to the House following his win with an approval of 88.9% of the voters while Tigslarlowducken had almost no problem getting elected with 90% of voters putting their trust in him.

Since there was a need to fill the third and last Justice seats, Sumeka was appointed to the office.

It had been already 4 months and so it was time for the democratic process known as elections to start again. A poll was released in the region to know who were the nations that wanted to race for the office of President. In a surprising twist, the office was very popular as 6 candidates applied their candidacy. Suter would have to run against Khokha, Baalihanaka, New kolia, Namalaka and Colmaijo.

Voting for the Presidential election wasn’t the only thing that would be held. A referendum to decide who between Southern xenick and incumbent Minister of Roleplay Betelgeuse alliance was also on the menu. Both of them were seeking to take the head of the roleplay and it was agreed that a referendum would be held in which citizens could vote for whom they prefer. But, since there is no Minister of Roleplay Election in the Constitution of RGBN, the final choice would still be in the hands of the next President.

There wasn’t a lot of campaigning done for the election but Suter, Calmaijo and Southern xenick still did some short speeches.

The results took a long time to come and were delayed to the 31st of September when Shenifar finally released the voting results. With no surprise, Suter won the election with a landslide and 71% of the population giving him their approval. Colmaijo came second and the 4 other candidates didn’t even receive 1 vote. Betelgeuse Alliance also won the Minister of Roleplay referendum with 100% of the votes if you don't count abstentions. Problem is, results were contested as Southern xenick received no votes despite the claims of Krovx Belgium and Southern xenick himself claimed that they did. Results were checked once again and nothing seemed wrong, the most accepted theory, for now, is that they just accidentally voted for the wrong person without knowing. But if we follow their statements, Betelgeuse Alliance still won the election but with only 60% of the votes this time.

The problem was that the High Commission, the government body in charge of the territories, considered this a breach into their another authority's business and on the last day of August, High Commissioner Sir Salibaic filed a case against the Minister of Internal Affairs, United nations of colombia, because he was the one who accepted the project.

The case was rapidly recognized two hours later and the ministry of Internal Affairs was asked to stop any of its activities concerning territorial matters. The trial was set to start on the same day at 7 PM Eastern Time but due to complaints made by Minister of Communications Azerubia on the matter and a formal request by the plaintiff, it was pushed back to the 4th of September at the same time. While people waited, Chief Justice Tigslarlowducken had appointed Atharia, New Legland and Qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm 1234567890- to jury duty.

Before the trial was to start, Sir Salibaic stated that he tried to get to an agreement to drop the charges if the ministry removed territorial powers from the WA Committee and delete the Union Stature Committee completely but he received a complete refusal from the defendant.

Sir Salibaic’s main accusations were also that the Minister of Internal Affairs had passed over what the High Court ruled on their power over Territories making their actions completely illegal in the eye of the law. He said that helping the territories communicate with the Capital had always been the High Commission's job and that they shouldn’t interfere in it.

Against him, UNC claimed that his ministry had been focusing on helping territories communicate with the Capital which was definitely not illegal and that the High Commission's job was to intervene into the territories to help them.

On the next day, the jury had ruled unanimously in favor of the High Commission and UNC saw his right to vote and run for a public office be removed for a 6 months time period. The Union Stature Committee was also officially disbanded and the WA Committee saw its territorial tasks be removed.

Everything can be traced back to the 20th of June when Suter was elected President of the region with a program promoting activity and the rebuilding of the region. Even though some efforts were made to generate activity (frequent polls, talking on the RMB) the region did not seem to head into a new dawn and Suter’s presidential promises seemed impossible to accomplish anymore.

What truly saved the region was its roleplay. The RMB roleplay had always been a big part of the old RGBN and so one of Suter’s promises was to bring it back. He did in fact do it, but no one was interested to partake in it at first. The future of the regional roleplay seemed very dark until some newcomers changed the tide. On the 21st of August, a nation called Southern xenick joined the ranks of the region and started roleplaying. Slowly but surely, more and more nations joined it and within days from his arrival, messages on the Regional Message Board could go up to more than 100 each day. Obviously, he wasn't the only one to thank, nations like Krovx Belgium, Plaugetopia and Suter were also roleplaying daily and helped increase the activity of their state.

With that, a new unique community was starting to develop and with that, a new identity for the region was to be created. It was to be represented with a brand new flag. The President decided after citizens agreed that they wanted something new to represent them and that the current one at the time was too similar to the Force one.

A new Constitution was also on its way for the rebirthed region. This new Constitution’s main focus would be to finally introduce a legislative body controlled by the citizens. This was one of Suter’s presidential promises and he decided to opt for one in which all citizens could register to partake in, similar to what we see in the Pacifics. It should soon be out since the only thing left to do is to correct the typos and have State Overseer Shenifar approve it.

On the surface, this seems fine but if you take a look a little closer you will notice a problem with this. The lack of votes cast in this Midterm was a complete and utter blow to democracy within the region. Now it is to be expected that voter turnout would drop partly due to it being a midterm rather than a general election but with the July general election gaining a total 37 votes compared to the 14 votes cast in the court election and the 12 votes cast in the House voting, it is appalling we let this happen.

The problem with this is that voter turnout is a good marker to base how active the Union is and how politically engage our citizens are. This low turnout shows a sudden drop in political activity and democratic participation within our Union and especially the drop inside the capital is telling. This can only be described as a disaster as this voter turnout is lower than the total membership of all active political parties in the entire Union combined. This is a show of failure upon both political parties, candidates, and the government itself failing to get citizens to go vote.

This has to change and there should be no doubt about it. But what can we do? Well, the first thing is those who are reading this and are citizens of the Union go vote and actively take part in the political field so that you can have someone that represents you. The second thing is, we must increase knowledge of how to vote and ensure that people go vote. This is a task that must be completed by the government and it must be done now before it is too late. Our government and political leaders must be held accountable for this and to save face, we must ensure they act now. This has to not just come from our House of Representatives but our executive as well. The executive is the most to blame as the lack of voters this election proves our second inactivity crisis which has been worsened by ineffective governance and failure to act upon this crisis.

This article will advocate that this government introduce a voter information scheme to provide public information to all citizens on how to vote and when to vote. For as I have said, if we do not act now we will doom our democracy. This article will also send a stark warning to all political parties, engage with our citizens or else face the consequences of a return to one-party rule. This will especially apply to opposition parties. Finally, this article will demand that candidates engage and demand that those who are elected to the House, speak to their constituents and make sure their voice is heard.

The Force Unity Party was seeking to finally get a majority in the House as the last election only manage to get them half of the seats with the Federalist Party in tow. The Unity ticket was composed of 5 nations with 4 running for a House seat and 2 for the position of Justice. It was composed of incumbent Representative of Force Egm, Prime Minister Caduceo and Minister of Foreign Affairs Oimatsu running for the House, Union of aryavart (before he was removed) for a seat in the High Court and Pridnestrovskaia moldavskaia for both. This ticket was highly criticized mainly by the opposition for running candidates that were said unfit for the job. Criticism was mostly headed to EGM, Aryavart and Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia. EGM’s criticism mostly came from people such as Speaker Suter and Sir Salibaic who claimed that due to her inactivity during her last term she shouldn’t be reelected. This was due to the fact she hadn’t voted for any legislation in the past 2 months, was absent for 3 debates in a row and was rarely talking to her citizens. Caduceo, the FUP leader, answered that it was mostly due to her being away for most of that time. The answer coming back from the Federalists was that she gave notice to the House well after it started, meaning she was still considered absent for a long period of time. In the case of Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia, it was largely because he had been impeached by the citizens from his last Justice term due to laziness and lack of respect for this office. During his debate, he stated that it was not true during and that his impeachment was more politically driven than anything. Finally, Union of Aryavart was the one who suffered the harshest criticism of all. He was involved in a big controversy after screenshots of him denying some parts of the Holocaust were released by the opposition. The FUP then immediately kicked him out and he was nowhere to be found on the party’s ads later on. Moderators started debating on whether to ban him because of this, the final verdict was that they would let him go as this was an isolated case and he only said something like this once. Some people were also kind of reluctant to see the Prime Minister enter the House but it was not illegal and it was up to the citizens to decide of his faith.

The Federalist ticket on the other hand was much safer. It consisted of electing Atharia, also known as Trisword, for the House while re-electing incumbent Chief Justice Tigslarlowducken. Atharia had already served a previous term as a Force Representative from October 2019 to January 2020. He hadn’t been the most active of his time but had done what was required of him such as voting and debating. Tigslarlowducken was another safe bet as he had been by far the best Justice of the last term and was the most experienced due to many other previous terms. After Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia was impeached from his office of Justice, Tigslarlowducken had been the only one left in the High Court that hadn’t been appointed by the Founder.

On September 11th, results were finally released but they had a bittersweet end to it. This election brought only brought 37% of what the last General Election had in terms of voters. In fact, only 14 nations went up to the poll and this was in part due to an inactivity wave hitting the region at the same time as the ballots opened.

In the case of the Unity ticket, both Prime Minister Caduceo and Minister Oimatsu easily gained their seats with an approval rating of 66.7% and 87.5% respectively. Even though he tried making his case as to why his impeachment was wrong, Pridnestrovskaia Moldavskaia failed to obtain the trust of the voters and got a mear 25% of the votes in favor of him for both the House and Justice race. Ex-FUP candidate Union of Aaryavart surprised many by winning his office with a 66.7% approval rating. Most people abstained while asked to vote for him which caused this unexpected result. In fact, abstentions were plaguing this election and it showed us how badly campaigning and getting to know your candidate currently works in the region. In the 8 ballots that citizens could vote, there was an astounding average of 3.5 abstentions for each one. There were even some ballots filled with only abstentions! EGM was also elected with a respectable 70% of votes in her favor.

The Federalist ticket was really popular amongst voters with both Atharia and Tigslarlowducken gaining the biggest approval rating in their race. Atharia came back to the House following his win with an approval of 88.9% of the voters while Tigslarlowducken had almost no problem getting elected with 90% of voters putting their trust in him.

Since there was a need to fill the third and last Justice seats, Sumeka was appointed to the office.

It had been already 4 months and so it was time for the democratic process known as elections to start again. A poll was released in the region to know who were the nations that wanted to race for the office of President. In a surprising twist, the office was very popular as 6 candidates applied their candidacy. Suter would have to run against Khokha, Baalihanaka, New kolia, Namalaka and Colmaijo.

Voting for the Presidential election wasn’t the only thing that would be held. A referendum to decide who between Southern xenick and incumbent Minister of Roleplay Betelgeuse alliance was also on the menu. Both of them were seeking to take the head of the roleplay and it was agreed that a referendum would be held in which citizens could vote for whom they prefer. But, since there is no Minister of Roleplay Election in the Constitution of RGBN, the final choice would still be in the hands of the next President.

There wasn’t a lot of campaigning done for the election but Suter, Calmaijo and Southern xenick still did some short speeches.

The results took a long time to come and were delayed to the 31st of September when Shenifar finally released the voting results. With no surprise, Suter won the election with a landslide and 71% of the population giving him their approval. Colmaijo came second and the 4 other candidates didn’t even receive 1 vote. Betelgeuse Alliance also won the Minister of Roleplay referendum with 100% of the votes if you don't count abstentions. Problem is, results were contested as Southern xenick received no votes despite the claims of Krovx Belgium and Southern xenick himself claimed that they did. Results were checked once again and nothing seemed wrong, the most accepted theory, for now, is that they just accidentally voted for the wrong person without knowing. But if we follow their statements, Betelgeuse Alliance still won the election but with only 60% of the votes this time.

The problem was that the High Commission, the government body in charge of the territories, considered this a breach into their another authority's business and on the last day of August, High Commissioner Sir Salibaic filed a case against the Minister of Internal Affairs, United nations of colombia, because he was the one who accepted the project.

The case was rapidly recognized two hours later and the ministry of Internal Affairs was asked to stop any of its activities concerning territorial matters. The trial was set to start on the same day at 7 PM Eastern Time but due to complaints made by Minister of Communications Azerubia on the matter and a formal request by the plaintiff, it was pushed back to the 4th of September at the same time. While people waited, Chief Justice Tigslarlowducken had appointed Atharia, New Legland and Qwertyuiopasdfghjklzxcvbnm 1234567890- to jury duty.

Before the trial was to start, Sir Salibaic stated that he tried to get to an agreement to drop the charges if the ministry removed territorial powers from the WA Committee and delete the Union Stature Committee completely but he received a complete refusal from the defendant.

Sir Salibaic’s main accusations were also that the Minister of Internal Affairs had passed over what the High Court ruled on their power over Territories making their actions completely illegal in the eye of the law. He said that helping the territories communicate with the Capital had always been the High Commission's job and that they shouldn’t interfere in it.

Against him, UNC claimed that his ministry had been focusing on helping territories communicate with the Capital which was definitely not illegal and that the High Commission's job was to intervene into the territories to help them.

On the next day, the jury had ruled unanimously in favor of the High Commission and UNC saw his right to vote and run for a public office be removed for a 6 months time period. The Union Stature Committee was also officially disbanded and the WA Committee saw its territorial tasks be removed.

Everything can be traced back to the 20th of June when Suter was elected President of the region with a program promoting activity and the rebuilding of the region. Even though some efforts were made to generate activity (frequent polls, talking on the RMB) the region did not seem to head into a new dawn and Suter’s presidential promises seemed impossible to accomplish anymore.

What truly saved the region was its roleplay. The RMB roleplay had always been a big part of the old RGBN and so one of Suter’s promises was to bring it back. He did in fact do it, but no one was interested to partake in it at first. The future of the regional roleplay seemed very dark until some newcomers changed the tide. On the 21st of August, a nation called Southern xenick joined the ranks of the region and started roleplaying. Slowly but surely, more and more nations joined it and within days from his arrival, messages on the Regional Message Board could go up to more than 100 each day. Obviously, he wasn't the only one to thank, nations like Krovx Belgium, Plaugetopia and Suter were also roleplaying daily and helped increase the activity of their state.

With that, a new unique community was starting to develop and with that, a new identity for the region was to be created. It was to be represented with a brand new flag. The President decided after citizens agreed that they wanted something new to represent them and that the current one at the time was too similar to the Force one.

A new Constitution was also on its way for the rebirthed region. This new Constitution’s main focus would be to finally introduce a legislative body controlled by the citizens. This was one of Suter’s presidential promises and he decided to opt for one in which all citizens could register to partake in, similar to what we see in the Pacifics. It should soon be out since the only thing left to do is to correct the typos and have State Overseer Shenifar approve it.

On the surface, this seems fine but if you take a look a little closer you will notice a problem with this. The lack of votes cast in this Midterm was a complete and utter blow to democracy within the region. Now it is to be expected that voter turnout would drop partly due to it being a midterm rather than a general election but with the July general election gaining a total 37 votes compared to the 14 votes cast in the court election and the 12 votes cast in the House voting, it is appalling we let this happen.

The problem with this is that voter turnout is a good marker to base how active the Union is and how politically engage our citizens are. This low turnout shows a sudden drop in political activity and democratic participation within our Union and especially the drop inside the capital is telling. This can only be described as a disaster as this voter turnout is lower than the total membership of all active political parties in the entire Union combined. This is a show of failure upon both political parties, candidates, and the government itself failing to get citizens to go vote.

This has to change and there should be no doubt about it. But what can we do? Well, the first thing is those who are reading this and are citizens of the Union go vote and actively take part in the political field so that you can have someone that represents you. The second thing is, we must increase knowledge of how to vote and ensure that people go vote. This is a task that must be completed by the government and it must be done now before it is too late. Our government and political leaders must be held accountable for this and to save face, we must ensure they act now. This has to not just come from our House of Representatives but our executive as well. The executive is the most to blame as the lack of voters this election proves our second inactivity crisis which has been worsened by ineffective governance and failure to act upon this crisis.

This article will advocate that this government introduce a voter information scheme to provide public information to all citizens on how to vote and when to vote. For as I have said, if we do not act now we will doom our democracy. This article will also send a stark warning to all political parties, engage with our citizens or else face the consequences of a return to one-party rule. This will especially apply to opposition parties. Finally, this article will demand that candidates engage and demand that those who are elected to the House, speak to their constituents and make sure their voice is heard.