[I&W] Party Program; Participation is Power

Day 2,225, 06:45 • Published in Netherlands Netherlands • by MaartenW

Where other parties focus on the ‘ordinary’ man, creating equality or building on the ultimate demographic process Iron and Wine focusses on an active community.

In the Netherlands there are three kinds of citizens;
Community players who read/comment on articles and are frequently on the forum or IRC.
Active players who only read articles and sometimes comment on them.
Two-clickers who only work, train, fight and vote.

There are roughly 35 community players in our country and also about 65 active players, this is only 20% of the total amount of inhabitants of the Netherlands. Since you are reading this you are part of this ‘elite’ 20%. These people characterise and shape the Netherlands, they are our friends and debate partners. It has been said before and I will say it again, people don’t stick around for the (crappy) game but they stick around for the community.

Iron and Wine works with and for this group of Community players and Active players, a group which we call Elite players. Obviously our political views are made with the intention to gain more Elite players and aid them. Is this unfair? It is maybe not perfectly equal but it is perfectly fair, everybody has eyes and a voice, all you have to do to be elite is use them.

Foreign policy;
Iron and Wine is realistic, we see the deal with Poland as the best means to make our country grow in many ways. In the long term we would like to see the Netherlands fully freed again but in order to prosper either Poland has to lose interest or we must gain the means to defend ourselves. For the ones that choose to fight and think the treaty is treacherous, we respect your feelings and think you have made a honourable decision but we think it only has symbolic value while in reality the change caused by your spirit is insignificant. There is not always shame in living to fight another day.

Lately we have been asking a lot of support from our allies without being able to give much in return, we should have an active army that is able to perform specific strikes. Our allies will remember our help much better if they see us changing the wall with a few % in one mini battle than us doing an insignificant amount of ‘random’ damage over the whole campaign. Having frequent joined strikes will also help us bond with the people of a country making our diplomatic relations more friendly and stable.

Military policy;
We think the Dutch military should be an unified entity focused on the state military units. Within the military there shouldn’t be any party politics, there we are all brothers in arms fighting for our country. Iron and Wine thinks the people in the army should have an ‘uniform’ with a Dutch flag in the avatar to boost nationalism and to make us as Dutch clearly recognizable on the battlefield.

The army should have two classes, the active ‘elite’ class which is able to participate in strikes and the home guard class for everybody who isn’t able or doesn’t want to do this. The elite class will be deployed like the eWorld famous Flying Dutchmen unit of old, our flagship and the nations proud. The aim should be to supply the elite soldier as much as is financially responsible.

Financial Policy;
The MoF should create a conservative estimation of the tax income over the upcoming month to frame an according budget, while all surplus tax income and the possible remainder of the budget will be invested in the Emergency Fund.

With the budget the government should acquire one MPP with frequent wars so it is for our newbies not unnecessarily complicated to get through their first days, the government can ask the citizens to crowdfund any other specific MPP’s. The remaining part should be used for government programs and supplies for our army rather than supplying foreigners or putting up Combat Orders.

Home Affairs Policy;
We think monitoring PTO risks is one of the most important MoHA jobs, in our opinion only individuals should be accepted into the country, when it looks like the individuals start forming a group the border should be closed to them.

Congress Policy;
There have been talks lately of parties not being open to inexperienced people running for congress, Iron and Wine is open to any of these people that are willing to run for congress, we have one condition however; the person must be active. We want all our congress members to be active on at least the forum and preferably also on the IRC because in politics communication is key. To quote Garmrs forum signature; “You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.”



We would like to remind you that YOU are elite and that like the title says; participating is power. In this small country it is not that hard to let your voice be heard if only you would participate in the community.

Thank you for reading this long article, if you have any questions feel free to send me a message.

Happy holidays wished on behave of Iron and Wine,
MaartenW