[WHPR 2565] Thanksgiving Plagiarism Special

Day 2,564, 22:59 • Published in USA USA • by James S. Brady Press Room
[WHPR 2565] Thanksgiving Plagiarism Special
Dateline: Friday, November 28, 2014 (Day 2565)
Location: James S. Brady Press Room, The White House

Today's WHPR:
: 1 : Dept of Interior Weekend Fundraiser
: 2 : The Demise of Sirius
: 3 : eRep’s Hidden Country
: 4 : eRep Battle Video
: Video: Lions over Bears, Game Highlights

Editor’s Note:
The office is closed. The WHPR Staff is enjoying a four-day weekend. I must be insane.. oh, wait...



Department of Interior Weekend Fundraiser
Secretary of the Interior ErrOrka



All our programs (Meals on Wheels, Stack the Wall, Bank Up 2 Strength Up) are made possible by your generous donations.

Recently a new feature has been added to the game. Now you can endorse a DoI article, donating 5, 10 or 25 USD to the Dept of Interior Organization.
While this will automatically list every endorser, we will publish an article with the full list of all of those who contributed in other ways, too.

Custer and Molly Emma doing a DoI Fund Drive, circa 2012


Ways you can donate:

Endorse any article of the Department of the Interior newspaper.
Buy Weapon Raw Materials from the Org, "USA Department of the Interior". They are being sold for 100 USD each. (200 total) look around page 42 or so
Send USD/Gold directly to Secretary of Interior ErrOrka.

The Dept of Interior receives no tax money whatsoever, and runs all of its programs strictly on Donations from folks like you.

Check out the original Dept of Interior Weekend Fundraiser article:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2471945/1/20



The Demise of Sirius
Pacifica Alliance Secretary General Wild Owl



This month, Poland once again, attempted to join Asteria. Poland didn’t demand for Spain to enter alongside them which helped their prospects, and the Poles were quick to use propaganda against Croatia-Turkey, namely that these two countries had tried to join Asteria too. Bulgaria’s troll proposal which eventually led to them leaving Aurora, did not help stability in general in the e-world. However, Poland’s attempt to play both sides - an application alongside their NE to Brazil, led to disaster, as Croatia and Turkey were quick to seize the opportunity to leave the alliance, leaving Poland by themselves. Asteria’s need for Poland was also reduced, as the alliance now has an official NAP with the USA. It is also worth noting that there are no direct conflicts between Asteria and Pacifica, which helps both sides. Aurora has essentially failed, similar to how CoT did, due to its inability to play the game in the diplomatic chambers and the erratic behaviour by certain members combined with the ‘FYROM factor’.

Right now, its safe to say that Poland has allowed Spain to dictate its foreign policy to such an extent that it finds itself alone and friendless in the upper echelons of power outside its sphere of influence. Serbia, which did not do this mistake with Hungary, is still in an extremely strong spot and may march on to show its victory to the e-world. Whatever happens, I think its safe to say that the USA intends to stay loyal to its alliance, Pacifica, and its traditional ally, Croatia.

This paragraph was lifted directly from Wild Owl’s recent article: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2471720/1/20



Is there a hidden country in eRepublik?
Guest Plagiarism Victim Stolch

Since CS damage is a poor source of information about damage potential of the different countries in the game, I added up the damage according to the MUs of each country for the past week and also took the information for CS damage so that I can compare the two.

To my surprise however there were 75 countries ranked in the CS damage ranks, with a nameless country in 75th spot which came in with 630 million damage for last week.

Mystery, nameless country at Rank 75


Now we've all heard the rumours about the admins "tilting" walls using scripts and bots and so on, to manipulate battles, however there was never anything that can give any credence to those rumours. Since I'm not very versed in programming I can not speculate more then what is presented if this is indeed evidence of possible such manipulation. Obviously 630 million in a week when 3.1 trillion damage was dealt cannot really change anything of importance unless it was in very close rounds. In an a epic round where both sides have put in 5 billion each, a 51% wall represents an advantage of only 100 million. However it's presence alone begs the question, has it been different in the past.

Text is directly lifted from Stolch’s article, ”Is there a hidden country in eRepublik?”
See the entire article at: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/2471625/1/20



Indonesia attacks Southern Thailand, USA - Day 906
Posted on YouTube by Rowan Quigley

The Wall, oh, the Wall, just click on the pic and watch it fall.


Alexander_Autorias has the day off. We hope you’ll enjoy this little excursion into the past.



Your White House Media Team:
George Armstrong Custer & Melissa Rose, Co-Secretaries of Media


Alexander_Auctorias, War Correspondent
Azazel Romanov, Senior White House Correspondent
Scott Coyle Jr, Graphics Artist
Cerb, eNPR Director & Host
Catsch73, Pony Express Editor



[WHPR 2565] Thanksgiving Plagiarism Special
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