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This is our updated party program, it looks much like the previous one but our thoughts on the specific subjects are updated.

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 thinks joining Sirius would be the best option for the Netherlands but we think the irresponsible behavior of the government attempting to make an aggressive attack on Belgium made this impossible for the time being. The reason they gave for the attack was “Sirius doesn’t think we are a threat, we will show them we are a treat by attacking a pro-Sirius country, they’ll surely consider accepting us then!” That both doesn’t make sense and the mentality is completely wrong, it shows the government wants the alliance to accept us so we are less of a “pain in the ass.” Iron and Wine thinks we should focus on showing that we can contribute something proving them we are a nice friend to have and worth of membership.

The reason why it was about to pass in congress was mainly for fun, it is a game so of course we are supporters of fun but we think randomly attacking bordering countries is a short term, expensive kind of fun and the diplomatic bullshit that comes with it kills the fun for a lot of us. We’d consider a non aggressive war with mutual respect fun too, it is about the battles anyway, keeping regions occupied will only cost us money in the end. Military Policy;
We think there should the Netherlands should have an active deployable unit consisting out of any person willing to participate because to alliances every directly deployable soldier is worth 10 ordinary ones. 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 replenishing the emergency fund, government programs and supplies for our army rather than supplying foreigners. 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.

eRepublik has its own wiki for sharing and archiving information, unfortunately many of it’s pages in Dutch and pages regarding the Netherlands are outdated, we think it should be a task of the Ministry of Home Affairs to make sure they are getting updated. Congress Policy;
There has 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 but 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.

If you have any questions feel free to send a message to any member of the party staff!

Best regards on behalf of Iron & Wine,
MaartenW

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