eUSA Foreign Policy in a Nutshell
Gnilraps
Foreign Affair
Dear eUSA,
This will be one of the more difficult letters I’ve had to write to you.
It is difficult because the circumstances of Foreign Affairs in eRepublik are about as complicated as your girlfriend.
Closeup of one portion of a Venn diagram of your girlfriend and eRepublik FA
Basically, eRepublik Foreign Affairs works like this: Everyone hates at least someone else. Whatever nation your nation hates also hates another nation. And sometimes the nation that is hated by your nation hates a nation that is also hated by a nation your nation doesn’t hate. Well let me tell you… that’s when the trouble starts. Because if your nation doesn’t hate the nation that is hated by the nation your nation hates AND that same nation which is hated both by the nation your nation hates AND the nation your nation DOESN’T hate decides that it hates your nation… well you can see the problem.
This actually happens. I’m not making this up.
So don’t expect this Foreign Affairs update to make any sense. Don’t even bank on anything I say here as being ironclad truth. It’s not because I don’t want to tell you the truth, it’s more likely because some nation that our nation hates isn’t sufficiently hated by another nation that our nation doesn’t want to hate and that same nation that our nation doesn’t want to hate is totally hated by several nations we already don’t hate but also don’t want to start hating even though they might soon stop hating the nation we hate.
Honestly, I’m not making this up.
In fact, and I swear to (insert random e“god” here, just not that one particular e”god” that some of you hate but the rest of you don’t hate and those same people who don’t hate “him” totally hate those people who do hate “him”, if you know what I mean…) that this is the truth: we’re stuck in a pickle between a nation we hate but don’t think we want to hate and a nation we don’t hate but think we should hate, while nations we also hate don’t hate the nation we don’t hate but meanwhile the several nations we don’t hate won’t hate the nation we DO hate. It’s a bit of a quandry.
And once again, all of this is completely double-checked for veracity.
So, and at this point I don’t see any reason why I should change gears and start naming names, if we can just find a group of nations to hate that also hate the same nations we don’t hate, and if those same nations we don’t hate would please, please, please also hate the nations we’ve decided to hate… that would be great.
Oh. By the way, within eUSA, there are basically equal factions of people, some who hate the nations we are trying to hate, some who won’t hate the nations we are trying to hate, some who won’t hate the nations we are trying not to hate, and some who are willing not to hate the nations we hopefully will keep not hating. It’s somewhat less complicated than the international scene, honestly, but it still can keep one up at night.
Anyway, I just wanted to alert you, dear eUSA, to the goings-on lately in international politics. If what I’ve already written seems a little convoluted, you just need to slow down and read it again. Trust me, fill in a few of the blanks and it will all make sense.
One thing I do know, though, we do love us some Argentina.
Sincerely your CP/D
Gnilraps
Comments
I didn't make any of this up.
But where is the love?
Wrong game.
You are wrong on this, there is a lot of love in this game, despite the many haters.
NO YOU'RE WRONG. I HATE YOU.
Brutally honest.
I like it.
Would you like to have sex?
Let's just pick two equal teams and go at it. Forget the pretend BS.
*looks at Canada*
If you added grey hair to your avatar and banner it would look just like you.
some people hate you but the rest of the people don’t hate you and those same people who don’t hate you totally hate me but we can all decide together that this article was nothing to hate.
Dio did it.
Its the same because, in the end we are all humans, your girlfriend is a human and a nation is an agglomeration of humans, so it is exactly the same. Because the same human sentiments rule everyone (who is human).
This is a sadly (I only say sad because of the aptness that such a complex issue can be condensed so greatly) the most accurate summary of the state general of foreign affairs that I have read in a very long time.
Seems about right.
This is beautiful.
We're going to keep hating the ones you're talking about, despite the efforts by a small group to change that fact.
Quality analysis.
To add to what you wrote, I think we shouldn't forget a couple of things.
1- Everyone else is also in the same web. This isn't only a problem common to the eUSA. The game has evolved to a certain point where there are 2 groups of players. There are A; the somewhat oldfags, and B; the second group, or the relatively newer players. Most players in A try to fight for alliances as they were back in the day. And in B are players who want to bury the hatchets and be on a different side. No side is "wrong", but one will have to compromise. Same goes for us. Some will call us traitors, but that is a red pill we have to take to have a clearer position.
2- How we came to be in this situation. I wasn't around here at the time when this mess began, but from what I know this started after USA's exit from Sirius. Should we forget what happened?
3- Do we need to change this situation? Can we change it? How will we and Pacifica move in the future? If this web of countries meshed together remains on an international scale, I think so will our current situation. It mostly boils down to politics on a larger level. So wait it out until the rest of the world becomes a clearer place to see. Or go ahead and make it clear. We'll have to leave at least some of our current friends and befriend some of our current enemies.
"One thing I do know, though, we do love us some Argentina."
Completely agreed.
It is paramount to move forward with countries we actually want to. Countries our citizens feel passionate about and can relate to. Countries whose players we can name, not countries we're made to be friends with because we feel like we've been ordered to. Maybe do a poll, see what our people think. Make it anonymous, get the real feelings out. See how it ends up?
Just my two cents.
Keep rocking. Make a move. Stand with it. 😉
Used to be soooo simple. Serbs hate Croats, Croats hate Serbs, Serbs want to free Texas and Hungary or Poland were something-er-other. We could hate Ajay as a whole, without pesky division of political bent because he was "The Serbian PTO",
eLife had more fun perks then. Some people were so serious they were absurd.
Absurd person checking in. I invented Department of Homeland Security (initial name was the Inquisition).
Don't forget obscene amounts of DIO.
so much hate, I love it
I hate how much sense this article made. Well done
"we’re stuck in a pickle"
Watch it, that could be considered sexual abuse.
When I was eYoung life was simple. Click a few times, PM some slackers that used all their Strength and couldn't work, launder some USD through the Money Market, you know the drill. Then things changed. I moved away and became a pickle of the world. I learned politics outside the hallowed halls of US Congress. I tell you what, a few goes at FA and I completely know what Gnilly means. It's like a damn Rubik's Cube. You turn one side to make things line up and it screws up 3 other sides. lol
/me applauds and then drinks heavily
I am sorry, I do not hate a nation. Hate is so self destructive and as I love myself (and quite some others too) I am glad I do not hate a nation.
I do love eUSA (despite their are so many diosts in our nation that do hate my ancestors) so I will fight against the nations eUSA or their allies are in war with. I even fight the nations I love like eMKD when eUSA fight it.
Thanks for the article, it explained a lot. o7
You said hate 50 times 😒
lol - Best article I have read in some time.
I think that hate is just in real life, but in game can be just competitional ambition.
Maybe "I am just a dreamer.- Ozzy Osbourne".
Instead of basing our FA on countries we hate, maybe we should build a Brotherhood of countries we love.
After all love conquers all or no?
@FS - before you get carried away, while the truth of this article is undeniable, It was written more as a parody of the overall international political scene.
Try to read it ironically.
Ironic or not, it is pretty much the truth. Yes, I would also prefer being a lover rather than a hater, but there are a lot of players who make that very difficult.
There is no love without hate - me, 2015
This is glorious.
cogent analysis; would read again
Brotherhood never die!!
EDEN NEVER DIE!!
HAIL BIA!!!
0/10 EDEN = poo
eusa rocks
eUSA Foreign Policy in a Nutshell - explained better
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/spain-you-got-a-problem--2559305/1/20
My god, im vote 69
Best summation of Foreign Affairs in eRepublik I've ever read... and despite what some think, behind the scenes it has always been thus, with nations changing who they decide to hate almost with a change in the direction of the winds 🙂
I'm willing to hate most things, but I'm willing to like few things.
Tis' a conundrum.