[President's Office] Norway Withdraws From Nebula

Day 2,816, 21:43 • Published in Norway Norway • by Pressekontoret


As of today August 6th 2015, Day 2,816 Norway's Congress has officially voted to unanimously withdraw from the Nebula alliance. For a number of reasons we feel the alliance is no longer effective, nor has been in a while. Although we are taking our leave from the alliance we will remain friends and allies with most members and look forward to further cooperation outside the realms of being included in the alliance as we look to strike out on our own with our continued pro-Asteria foreign affairs policy. It will be a challenge but we look forward to it and wish the remaining members of Nebula the best of luck in their future, in or outside of Nebula. Although we have decided to leave because of numerous reasons most of it came down to a few big issues.

Israel
Nebula founder and member Israel has been wiped by Egypt and not much efforts have been made by HQ to intervene on their behalf. The current leadership would rather spend more time discussing two-month old articles, then discuss a clear and coherent strategy to end Israel's occupation. This is a concern to us of course because they are our allies and also because if it was us in Israel's shoes, it would show how incapable Nebula would be at helping to protect our sovereignty. The point of Nebula was to give smaller nations a fighting chance, after Israel's long occupation it has shown us how ineffective the current administration is at protecting its members. If for no other reason, this would be all the evidence needed to leave any alliance.



Japan, Montenegro & Friends
We have recently seen what Norway feels as the hijacking of the Nebula alliance by a select few. Its almost as if Japan and Montenegro have come together to form an alliance within an alliance. Norway never joined Nebula to become a puppet. We are more than capable of making decisions as apart of a group. But what we witness is most peoples voices being constantly drowned out by a select few who have found power, and wish to hold it. Let us be clear, the alliance is called Nebula. Not Japan, Montenegro & Friends.



Ineffective Leadership
HQ has been largely unable to function because of our leadership. First we have a leader who leaves the game without notice and then our democratically elected leader Brigidd was banned temporarily from the game for creating and administrating multiple accounts. She never faced any real punishments by HQ as she resigned herself but was allowed back into HQ about a week after she resigned. Norway doesn't agree we should allow cheaters who tarnish the alliances name back into HQ. She broke the trust of HQ when she decided to create multies and should face real punishment. HQ will give a permanent ban to people like the Czech Representative for writing an article about her feelings on the alliance, however because Brigidd usually sided with Nebulas elite, the cheater faced no real repercussions. We felt that wasn't right.



Netherlands Membership
The final act that has made Norway so fed up was the situation with the Netherlands membership. The alliance kept putting the membership vote off time and time again even though the Netherlands had fulfilled every requirement the alliance gave to them. When the time came down to it they faced opposition by of course Japan, Montenegro along with Australia. As you can read here the Dutch finally grew tired of being played with, which is exactly what most of us told the rest of HQ would happen. But of course, no one cared to listen. It saddens me to see the amount of disrespect that was shown to the Netherlands during their application process and its really no surprise why they decided to pull out of the process themselves.

Those are the main reasons why Norway will withdraw from Nebula although their are countless more, such as the constant trolling of one Japanese official during the end of last term, who of course faced no punishments even under his President's new amendments to the charter which would of saw anyone who wasn't him (such as myself) punished under the new rules. The SG is supposed to be our arbitrator, and his actions when it came to his friends and supporters didn't speak well for his neutrality within HQ. I think some of the members have concerned themselves with power to much, never having been able to attain such power in any large alliance prior to this.

Norway has been discussing our withdrawal for sometime now, but it was this past week that we really decided enough was enough. As an original signer of the Charter of Nebula it saddens me to see the alliance crumble like this but it is necessary for the members to move on into new alliances that will support each other like real alliances do. As other members were also discussing possibly withdrawing from the alliance, now seemed as best as time as any. We wish the remaining members the best of luck with Nebula, or their future prospective alliances in the wishful thinking that most of us can remain friends.



As always don't forget to V,S,S&E.

All the best,

Joshua Morriseau
President of Norway

Signed on Behalf of the Norwegian Congress