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As of day 1370, I had my third eRepublik birthday. My goodness I feel like an old man. In RL terms I would be 144 years old!

The Beginning of my Life

I started off my life in eRepublik in the old beta days in the United Kingdom. Back in the days where there was no Plato but there was Julius Caesar. Back in the days where there were no such things as Raw Materials. Back in the days where you could buy a Q2 house for 120 GBP which at the time was worth around 3 GOLD. Back in the days where when you joined as well as the 5 GBP citizen fee, you would receive 5 GOLD.



It was in my first month that I made a most embarrassing mistake on the monetary market. The MM was a very confusing place for a little eBaby like myself and as such I made the mistake of selling 4 GOLD for 0.08 GBP. Needless to say I have never made that same mistake again.

Just before I turned 3 months old, the infamous V1 came in. At the same time I was chosen to be the Director of the London Branch of the National Health Service. Thus began a headache. V1 came in and of course so did a large army of bugs. The most important for my job in the NHS was a bug in the friends list where only the first 10 friends the London Clinic had accepted would appear in the list. I sent the admins messages, I was constantly receiving increasingly angry messages from the Clinics patients which was progressively making me more and more frustrated. I finally created a Google Doc for the Clinic and things more or less normalized afterwards.

Ironically enough the day after I created the Google Doc, the bug regarding the friends list was fixed.

Once that headache was out of the way I ran for Congress in London. I was honoured by a number of citizens with their vote and became a Congressman for the first time. It was really at this point that my eyes were opened to the scope of the eRepublik world.

Lets face it. The actual game we call eRepublik is boring. Click - Work. Click - Train. Click - FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT. Click - Buy Food. Log Out.

It is us the citizens that make eRepublik a fun game. It is us the citizens who make the game what it is. The game itself is simple. We the citizens of the World add so many more additonal layers that without us... (ignoring the obvious point that eRepublik wouldn't exist) most of us would be wasting money on certain other world-wide famous games. We would miss out on among the best free entertainment someone can get online.

DonMogul's First Real Experience in Complicated Politics



About halfway through my first congress term, I was contacted by one of my network of friends that trouble was brewing in Austria. The Serbian section of the Austrian community had (with the Austrian support) gained the Country Presidency with their candidate Azzo Lazzo. That on its own is no big deal. But shortly after the election, the director of the Austrian equivalent of our Indian Government Bank found that a massive amount of the bank's GOLD and ATS had been transferred out. Austrian authorities went to work and soon located the funds in the Serbian Bank.

Azzo Lazzo then wrote an article in his newspaper which was translated by Hrvat. The link to the translation can be found here:

http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/translation-from-serbian-article-state-of-emergency--723660/1/20

Shortly after this, representatives from the Serbians and Austrians met together to discuss repayment of the treasury. A compromise was reached after lengthy negotiations which in the long run benefited Austria.

The CP elections in Austria came around again and the Austrian candidate Chicco contacted me asking me for help. He was nervous that the Serbians were going to attempt one last attack on the Austrian treasury. Chicco begged for my help to ensure that Serbians did not gain another term of Presidency in Austria.

As it turned out no Serbians ran for the Presidency. Most people at this point would think that Austria (while she would struggle for a while) would soon emerge again as a strong country.

However, during his term in office, Chicco effectively sold Austria to Germany to form the so-called Austrian-Germanic Union. Chicco had begged me for help to ensure Austrian sovereignty... and then sold his country. This bit of chicanery has earned him a place on my wall of shame which can be found at the bottom of my wiki page:

http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/DonMogul

We all Live in a Yellow Submarine



The political sphere in the UK is a little more complicated than here in the country we all love. part of the reason I joined India but we will save that for later on in the article At the time of the Feb 5 elections, the United Kingdom Reform Party (UKRP) was the largest party, followed closely by the People's Communist Party (PCP) who were followed even closer by The Unity Party (TUP). The Free-Thinking Party and the Movement for Democratic Unity were the two minnows of the top 5 parties.

The UKRP had in the previous months virtually dominated the elections in the UK. They had a massive army of 'sheep voters' which guaranteed them the biggest share of the Congress seats every month. Not to mention the country president elections! Throughout my time in the United Kingdom unitl this particular month there was no Country President that was not a member of the UKRP.

The UKRPs first choice for the CP elections, Dishmcds, decided not to run. jerryGFL became the UKRPs candidate.

This caused a stir in the other 4 major parties. It was their belief that jerry was not fit for the top job for two main reasons:

(1) RL circumstances were interfering with jerry's activity.
(2) They felt jerry was not experienced enough for the top job.

The 4 parties talked amongst themselves for a few days, pondering what they could do to prevent the election of an inexperienced and inactive president.

These 4 parties decided to form a coalition which was dubbed "The Yellow Submarine Coalition." The next problem was to decide out of the 4 parties who should represent the Coalition. Each party put up their choice of candidates and after several rounds of voting Final Destiny was chosen to represent the Yellow Submarine Coalition.

This prompted an attack on the Coalition by Rayf Drayson who wrote an article which has since been deleted unfortunately. But in that article, Rayf Drayson argued that the Coalition was an attack on UK democracy.

I answered his concerns with my best piece of journalism I ever made in this game:

http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/why-i-am-voting-on-5-february-730225/1/20

From this came my best moment in the United Kingdom, I 'shut down' Dishmcds the legendary UK politician. I punctured his illogical comment with cool reason. Check the comments in that article for more details.

On the day of the elections the UKRP brought voters from around the world, they begged their sheep to vote for jerry. Despite this the Yellow Submarine candidate ,Final Destiny, won the Presidential elections. Thus ensued a massive celebration amongst the Yellow Submarine parties.

A few days passed....

No word from Final Destiny...

A few more passed....

Still no word.

Final Destiny had repeated a past incident. Once again he had been elected. Once again he had disappeared. Once again he had betrayed the UK despite giving us assurances it would not happen. This earned Final Destiny a place on my Wall of Shame on my wiki page.

I felt totally humilaited. My very public support of the YS coalition in the end meant nothing. Final Destiny was impeached to be replaced by default the one man we tried to prevent getting the top job.

DonMogul Flies to his RL Homeland



It wasn't too long after this I decided to pack up and move to Australia. I moved just in time to be part of the March Congress elections.

It was shortly after a successful Congress campaign that I met one person in eRepublik, who I disliked at first sight.

Australian Warlord.

At this point in time Romania was still more or less the global superpower. There were daily fights, wages almost worth 1 GOLD daily for skill 5 workers. Australia had in the previous few months signed a return of regions agreement with Indonesia.

Australian Warlord spent his time trying to order Australian citizens to move out of Australia and join his squad in Romania in order to 'weaken Indonesia'.

Need I mention that this little message really annoyed the Indonesian military? Need I say that some called for the return of regions agreement to be torn up?

I don't think Indonesia minded Australian citizens flying to Romania to fight. I think they understood why Aussies might do this. What they did not like was the intent of Australian Warlord to bring Indonesia crashing down.

No matter what the sensible Australians tried to do. No matter how many times the Australian majority tried to pound through Australian Warlord's skull that the only way for Australia to exist we needed to work WITH Indonesia, he continued with his propaganda.

All this snowballed into a massive media battle. Indonesia didn't mind. I think they were probably laughing at us. To be quite frank if it wasn't so pathetic I would have been rolling on the floor laughing myself.

It was more to get away from the Australian media that I flew to Romania 2 weeks after my 2nd election into the Australian Congress than anything else.

It was at this point I reached a crossroads in my life. While I was dodging bullets on the eBattlefield slowly improving my rank I was thinking. The Australian media had degenerated further into childish and pathetic mudslinging.

I made one last attempt at persuading my RL country to grow up with this article:

http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-quest-for-sanity-in-politics-818313/1/20

Once I achieved the military rank of Colonel I made one last check of the Australian media. Despite the excellent response I received from the Australian public, my message was ignored. The media had turned (if it were possible) even more childish.

I threw my hands in the air and made my decision to leave Australia.

Where to now?

This brought up a new problem.

Where in the eWorld could I go?

I didn't want to return to the UK because for some reason the UK didn't seem as friendly as it did.

I didn't want to go to Romania because I do not speak their language and I didn't want to become a 'two-clicker.'

I wanted a nation that could offer 'career advancement.' There were very few opportunities in the big countries.

And perhaps most importantly, I didn't want to be in a ATLANTIS/PEACE country. I wanted a neutral nation.

I remembered srachit from my UK National Health Service days. I read India's wiki page and made my decision.

I moved to India, made contact with the great David Forde and srachit and found my new permanent home with my brothers and sisters of India.

That concludes Part One of this article. Part Two will describe in detail my life in India up until this point including for the first time I open up with what REALLY happened while I was Sardar of the National Police Force.