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An update from Sir Humphrey Appleby, Prime Minister and Regent of Dublin

Day 1653 - Government Update
* We indeed have Louth *

60/60 Productivity

We've now got the highest production bonuses we've had in a while, with a healthy boost to our own BEF stockpile for the next government. Ireland have acted incredibly well throughout this campaign despite their internal difficulties, and have guaranteed a continued signatory on our respective treaties.

Moar Babyboom

Costs for the NHS have soared this month as detailed in the budget. With so many people online the MoHA this month and next will have a huge task in retention and education. Luckily Kravenn's guide has seemed to help people out slightly faster in the New Players Message, which gives us an advantage over other on quickly getting new citizens ready to fight for the UK.

Poland NEs France

Poland have declared war on France as ONE continues their attempts to fight off the remaining French resistance and US forces. It should be a nice distraction for TEDEN to mess about in our region rentals .

Weapons of Mass Destruction

The recent update has taken a massive shit on the 99% of the rest of us who can't dish out ~20M as BHs & CHs will be dominated by those that continually win and, believe it or not, get more bombs as prizes! Save your bars & bazookas for a bit as we have to wait for the admins to finish grinding the last respect of the game into cash, and help yourself to a stiff drink on Talon.

TAXES

There is a debate currently in Public Discussion between raising Income Tax by 10% or Weapons VAT by 5% to cover the current budget deficit that has been growing for a few months due to the failing markets and absence of platobot. I strongly encourage you to get involved and let your MP know where you stand on the issue.

Canada Collapses

There is currently an internal power struggle between the Canadian Speaker (Rylde) and Sperry (Prime Minister), with both intending to run on the 5th. Sperry has so far threatened to veto proposals from his Congress, so get your popcorn out and petition Dan Moir to open the book for the race

MoD Bot

We will be working on getting a new strike bot to record and co-ordinate damage and supplies to significantly streamline services offered by the MoD. Stay tuned for more info in the coming days!

Hofkens giving out GBP

The dMoF will be awarding prizes for completing 'forum missions', which can add up to a few handy K's to buy weapons, comps & food to help you out in the game . Expect a thread in general tomorrow afternoon when BigAnt's finished the article!

The Great CP Race

Conspiracy theories aside, we have two very able candidates running this month on what looks like quite a rosy picture. With retention still focussed on, I'm sure they'll do fine

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COMPETITION TIME
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So, your recently elected congress members have had a few days to get settled in, but how well do you think you know them? I think it’s time for a little contest!

The rules are simple. Below are 5 members of congress, and you have to identify them by their in-game avatars. The catch? You only get to see a little bit of their avatars! So, let’s get started 😃

Congress Member Number 1:

Whose royal hairline is this?

Congress Member Number 2:

Whose Bang Tidy moustache is this?

Congress Member Number 3:

Which industrious congressman has this logo in their avatar?

Congress Member Number 4:

Who’s covering their face with this?

Congress Member Number 5:

And finally, whose is this pearl earring?

If you think you can name all five of the above people, stick their names in a PM and send it to BigAnt, 5x randomly selected entrants with all 5 correct answers will win £2,000 each!

For those of you looking for a little hint, try checking the list of all the eUK’s congress members at http://www.erepublik.com/en/elections/country-29-election-congress-date-2012-05-region-0
and good luck!

Special thanks to BlueandEvil

BigAnt
Minister of Home Affairs


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