[GOV] Welcome to the Federal Republic of South East Asia!
Prime Minister's Department
Ladies and gentlemen, after two rounds of polling (see: 1st and 2nd) we finally have a winner. While the game will still label the union as 'Malaysia', the chosen official name of our country from today is:
Federal Republic of South East Asia
as the result of the poll was the following:
1. Federal Republic of South East Asia - 47 points
2. Confederation of South East Asia - 40 points
3. Union of South East Asia - 34 points
I'd like to apologize for the typo I made at option b, in the poll (leaving South out from Confederation of South East Asia). I hope it was still clear what I wanted to write there and that it didn't influence the poll.
And what implications does this name change have? It simply means that in their official mailings cabinet members will refer to the country with this name and official government newspapers, organizations and so on will be named with taking this new official name into account. I'd also like to take up on the suggestion of Ramos Sanchez which you can find in a comment: here.
By the spirit of that idea I'd like to ask everyone to refer to the country as FRSEA or the Union or the Federal Republic when you don't want to use the full name and call the citizens as Maithais collectively. Maithai works great as an adjective, too. Though of course other versions are also welcome.🙂
We will have one last task on this field. Setting up a procedure for requesting a name change. I think that a rule about having to collect the signatures of x congress members and y other citizens to initiate a new poll would work fine. I'll start a discussion on this on the forums.
Also hopefully now that we have settled for this new official name we can finally have a new forum up and running very soonish. And I'd like to thank everyone who submitted a suggestion for the name and/or voted in the polls later.
Best regards,
Nagyzee
Comments
i still don't see how that is a name for a country but ok sure. long live frsea
The name is good. We wont have to change it again unless we get countries outside of south east asia to join 😛 (unlikely 😁)
Good to get that out of the way 😃
I like that name 🙂. Once we conquer all of south east asia(including indonesia of course 😉) we will be able to keep it 😉 lol
Long live the federal republik!
Conquer only through diplomatic means.
Long live the Federal Republic of South East Asia!
Interesting. Long live the UNION !!!
I can try to fix the wiki... But I might need some help :/
Also we may need a new flag + coat of arms, I guess you can find some suggestions in here: http://erepublik.forumotion.net/general-f1/flag-of-the-new-union-t261.htm" target="_blank">http://erepublik.forumotion.net/general-[..]1.htm
FRSEA ... Far Sea ... Foresee ... Farsi (reminds me of Mafia) ... fear thee!
(just thinking aloud)
One more (after I read the article from the FRoSEA Foreign Office):
FRoSEA ... frowzy
Sorry for that, couldn't hold it. 🙂
Eh, I'm not much of a fan for this name, but so be it.
The only problem I have had with this name is within pre-republik context; RL Malaysia is still a monarchy and no event - including the union - has reversed that in E-history.
That's why the next two choices appeal to me far more by providing enough ambiguity...
(republic?!?!?! 'Erepublik' is enough!)
Maybe I shall write an article...
Wow. That's a name that's almost just as lame as eThais. I had thought better about you Malaysians. Disappointed, very.
Who let the sausage-eating dane out?
Kamelose, I say. Kamelose!