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The National Assembly of The Star Enpire My nation bans cars, but it doesn't have any public transportation. I can only assume that my people bike everywhere. Typica, Refuge Isle, Sylh Alanor, Elenaraghaenaris, and 2 othersFloofybit, and Kariforunia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Enchanted Forest of Araine Welcome! Refuge Isle, Sylh Alanor, Elenaraghaenaris, Floofybit, and 2 othersThe most serene republicans, and Kariforunia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Republic of Ambassador Bele Levy Epies Long live 🚎! Chacapoya, Refuge Isle, Elenaraghaenaris, Floofybit, and 3 othersThe most serene republicans, Pantala and pyrrhia, and Kariforunia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I slept for the entirety of my "free time" yesterday, going to try fixing my sleep schedule again. Work begins at 9:30a. I like to stay up between 12a and 2a, and noticed before that sleeping around 12-12:30a is best while not compromising too hard there. Sometimes I'm bad, especially on the weekends though, and run into trouble there. This month though, I've began trying to catch this morning livestream I like - usually an hour to an hour and a half long, with start times varying from 7am - 11am. I try to catch them all, but don't adjust my sleep schedule to account for any of them I see coming in advance. In rare cases, the VOD isn't preserved. So I told myself to go back to my 12-12:30 thing, and pick my battles in the morning better - if I'm too tired or don't have enough notice to be waking up earlier than I expected, don't worry about it. If I slept early or am awake at go time though, why not catch it? Gonna see how this works out. :D Cheesy Tots, Typica, Narwhal, Refuge Isle, and 7 othersSylh Alanor, Elenaraghaenaris, Araine, Floofybit, Junitaki-cho, Cadenzana, and Kariforunia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
niceeeeeee. BAN THE BOATS BAN THE PLANES BAN ALL MOVEMENT OF MACHINES AND ATOMS Lower French Gregballs, Narwhal, Refuge Isle, Sylh Alanor, and 5 othersElenaraghaenaris, Floofybit, Junitaki-cho, Chatula, and Kariforunia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Fanciful Tales of Refuge Isle God I wish that were me Narwhal, Sylh Alanor, Elenaraghaenaris, Floofybit, and 1 otherKariforunia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
*heat death of universe commenced* Chacapoya, Typica, Refuge Isle, Sylh Alanor, and 3 othersElenaraghaenaris, Floofybit, and Kariforunia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
This is more of a lore sorta thing for my nation, but I decided to have Chia Mizuno the main weapons smith and Wendy Oxmor our medical specialist marry. There isn't any realistic reason issue wise why I wanted this too happen, just wanted to have those two cuties get hitched. Lower French Gregballs, Refuge Isle, Sylh Alanor, Elenaraghaenaris, and 2 othersFloofybit, and Kariforunia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Welcome! Typica, Narwhal, Refuge Isle, Sylh Alanor, and 4 othersElenaraghaenaris, Araine, Floofybit, and Kariforunia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Atheist Refugi Belter Colony of Inaros OPA I go to sleep from 10:00-12:00 (pm, I'm an American) and wake up anywhere between 7:45 and 9:30 AM. Refuge Isle, Elenaraghaenaris, Araine, Floofybit, and 1 otherKariforunia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I sleep when and where the gods decide I shall fall. If at all. Lower French Gregballs, Narwhal, Refuge Isle, Elenaraghaenaris, and 3 othersAraine, Floofybit, and Kariforunia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
JOIN THE COUNCIL AND ENSURE YOUR DREAMS OF IRON AND SILENCE BECOME TRUE Narwhal, Refuge Isle, Elenaraghaenaris, Araine, and 3 othersFloofybit, The most serene republicans, and Kariforunia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Fanciful Tales of Refuge Isle Notice: Just wanted to drop in a reminder to the RMB that we will be entering election season in about two weeks time. Start considering if any of you would like to run for office, and what position you might be interested in. Councillor seat descriptions are in the RRS, starting at statute 6: . This document establishes this association of nations and their shared beliefs and values. We define these values as refuge and shelter to all who have need of it, environmental stewardship of our nations while working to improve environmental sustainability, as well as the fair treatment and political inclusion of all peoples. We resolve ourselves to form governments with transparency and integrity in leadership and work to leave things as better than we found them. The nations here will compose a region to be known as Refugia. These Statutes form our law. - The Refugia Revised Statutes - Residency: 1. A nation which resides within the Region is defined as a "Resident" and maintains this status for the duration of its residency.
2. Resident may only be ejected or barred from the region in one of the following circumstances:
3. The reasoning for all ejections of Residents must be publicly reported by the responsible party, and the ejected nation may appeal the ejection by soliciting a review to the Regional Council.
Member States: 4. Member States are defined as Residents with both a residency of no less than seven days and a continuous World Assembly membership over the same period.
5. Residents may apply for Member State status in conditions where admission to the World Assembly is declined, rejected, or impossible.
6. Member States are entitled to submit any proposal, amendment, repeal, or revision to any revised statute, including this document in its entirety. Votes must be easily accessible and include the option to abstain. Only one vote is allotted to each Member State per referendum.
Government Roles and Responsibilities: 7. The Regional Council is defined as the co-equal heads of government in Refugia. It is comprised of the following:
8. The World Assembly Delegate is the Region's envoy to the World Assembly. The Region shall support the Delegate's endorsement, and the Delegate shall apply that support towards World Assembly approval and voting stances that it believes represent the Region's values.
Government Accountability: 9. All Residents within the Region have the right to solicit an official Regional ruling, opinion, or position from the Regional Council, and delivered by a representative thereof, on subjects of:
10. At any time, a Member State can charge a Regional Councillor or Delegate of neglect in their duties or mismanagement of their position. Their charge will be submitted in writing to the Arch-Administrator only after a second member state has seconded the motion.
11. In the event that a Councillor or a Councillor's staff operates in contradiction to the RRS, the Arch-Administrator may suspend the powers of that Councillor or staff member until such time as it may be reviewed under a RRS 9 ruling, which is automatically invoked upon suspension. Elections: 12. The Arch-Administrator will call elections for all democratic Council seats according to the following convention:
13. The following rules govern election procedure:
Goals and Ideals: 14. The Region defines the goals for both its Members and the Region collectively in the following ways:
15. The Region defines its military alignment as "Neutral", shunning the agendas and obligations of the world's self-interested regimes, and only acting in the direct defence of the Region's allies when determined to be necessary by the Councillor of Operations. 16. The Region observes January 31st, the anniversary of the founding of the Region, as a region-wide holiday. Last revised 09/03/24 Elections begin June 1 uwu, I'll be taking candidates starting then. Chacapoya, Typica, Narwhal, Sylh Alanor, and 8 othersElenaraghaenaris, Araine, Floofybit, Junitaki-cho, The most serene republicans, Tovenia, Kariforunia, and Ciumbuleuit-bandung | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Socialist Solarpunk Society of Sylh Alanor If anyone has any questions about any of the positions, or about anything else on the Council side of things, please let us know! Being a Councillor is actually quite simple and we work together on things, so it's always nice to see new people getting interested. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Fanciful Tales of Refuge Isle Hello folks. Every since the Region Saver update, I've been working on a stats project. That project is now posted in this handy dandy dispatch, constructed through parsing some 6,200 data dumps and several terabytes of information. If you're interested in World Assembly trends, the consolidation of power in GCRs and large UCRs, as well as the decline of minor delegates, you can observe them through in this presentation. page=dispatch/id=1547264 Chacapoya, Cheesy Tots, Typica, Narwhal, and 9 othersSylh Alanor, Duolian, Elenaraghaenaris, Araine, Junitaki-cho, Chatula, Liphia, Golden gateway, and Kariforunia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
I thought about doing so, they seem interesting. The covers look nice at least. Right now though, my reading list is already a bit too full. Lower French Gregballs, Typica, Sylh Alanor, Araine, and 2 othersKariforunia, and Eroias | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sometimes I forget this exists D; Otoh, my nation's pretty skilled at beating apocalypses. Lower French Gregballs, Typica, Sylh Alanor, Araine, and 1 otherKariforunia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Socialist Solarpunk Society of Sylh Alanor Hey everyone, good news! We're doing the World Assembly Development Programme once again! This time we have some rare Season 1 legendary cards up for grabs, and more nations to endorse than ever before! If you want to read my mad ramblings and also learn how to qualify for these drawings, check out this dispatch: The World Assembly Development Programme of Refugia An’eth’ara Refugia! Do you remember the last time we met here? I wrote the last WADP dispatch on March 10th, and joked that Season 3 of cards would never come out. I was actually joking at the time, I really did think they’d be released as the April Fool’s Day event the site usually runs. But it turns out I forgot about my ever-increasing stranglehold on the dark powers, and my strength was simply too great. I can no longer make jokes, because the terror I inflict can never be overcome. I am crawling around inside of the CSS. Look! That button is now purple! I didn’t get a lot done in my capacity as Councillor of Culture during the month of April, and I’m very sorry about that. But we’re here now to pick things up where we left off, and do yet another World Assembly Development Programme series of drawings, based off of endorsements. To make up for not having much going on last month, we’re going to open up the vault we set up for our regional card events and give away some rare and/or high value cards. This is to thank you all for keeping up the endorsements and keeping us over 60 (currently 64) votes in the World Assembly for almost a month. That’s amazing! So let’s get into what we’re giving away. For the most part, it’s going to be Season 1 cards (though there are a few high-value Season 2 cards thrown in for variety). Also, as the region continues to grow, so too have we continued growing the number of cards we’re giving away! This time, we’ve got a whopping seven cards to give away in our lottery: • Uelvan, a Season 1 legendary valued at 45.5 bank. To qualify for this lottery, endorse the delegate by Monday May 24, 2021! Endotarting Competition! What the heck does that mean? Endotarting is when you, as a WA nation, go around to every other WA nation in the region and endorse them. This is great for other people's nations because it increases their endorsement census stat and gives them a warm fuzzy feeling. It's also great because every endorsement on a nation means that they gain +1 influence points twice a day, and can collectively build that census stat as well. No one else can get native Refugia influence, that magical stuff exists only here. Strategically, having influence in the region is a great boon for us all. Refugia is fantastic and wonderful, and I want it to last for ages. However, if something were to happen to the founder, the delegate seat would gain executive power. If that happens, dark forces from the great beyond could target Refugia and steal our kneecaps! The fact is, though, that if a bad actor gains control of the delegacy, they'll want to start banning nations, and the only thing that will protect us is a fortress of regional influence on all of our accounts. Whatever influence you have will be required for an invader to ban you. If they can't afford it, you're safe. So when we all have a ton of endorsements on our nations, we slowly get stronger and collectively build this safety net. Refugia currently boasts having the 17th most endorsements in the world, and everyone's endorsement of everyone else contributes to this. So I'm going to get the ball rolling by providing this list of Refugia WA nations that can be endorsed. And everyone should try to endorse everyone else on this list, and check the regional census page periodically to see if you can find anyone new to endorse. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Endorsable Nations ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The top twenty-one people who have given out the most endorsements by Monday May 31, 2021 will receive a Season 2 S2 Tzo. Remember, there are no limits to how many endorsements you give, so you can get this card if the RNG doesn’t favour you for the above drawings! Thanks so much to Refuge Isle for the amazing graphics presented in this dispatch! And remember, endorsing is important. Not only does it generate Refugi influence (which can be collected nowhere else on Nationstates) and get you in the drawing for cards, but it also increases the amount of votes we get at the World Assembly. Since we started frequently talking about World Assembly issues last year in the RMB, we've come to be noticed by some of the authors, including having some of them stop by our RMB to talk to us about their proposals! We've become a little more visible and our voices are becoming more heard in the WA, which means we can make a difference in the areas we really care about. So keep up the good work, this would literally be impossible without all of the support you all put into the region! If you have any questions or concerns about things, please don't hesitate to chat about it here or in the discord server, or send a message to one of the Councillors. We should all aim to be here for one another, especially when things are still kind of scary outside. -Emily Chacapoya, Lethodus, Typica, Narwhal, and 4 othersAraine, Junitaki-cho, Golden gateway, and Kariforunia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Jolly Fields of Lower French Gregballs I bought his first novel, Jennifer Government. It was pretty boring and disappointing. Typica, Sylh Alanor, Araine, Kariforunia, and 1 otherEroias | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The Enchanted Forest of Araine I'm just too broke to actually buy books. I love owning them, but if I'm only going to read them once or twice, and can get them for free at a library, it seems almost a waste. Plus, it's saving trees, which I already murder en masse because of schoolwork. Lower French Gregballs, Typica, Sylh Alanor, Kariforunia, and 1 otherEroias |