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you could make polls about stuff in the forum open for everyone who is registered there (not just cabinet). that way you have opinion of more people and they are also not just 2clickers ingame but are looking into the forum and stuff. and of course only as means to see what people would like to have so you can try to make it happen - not to actually decide the stuff without further thoughts. you have cabinet + ministers to make the final decision/or help you make a decision on your own.


and this would only include matters like
"should worktax be raised / raised to 3% or 5%"

then you see what the opinion of the more active population is and if you decide against it you can address the why in an article. this coul😛
1. soothe the people who had the other opinion and would otherwise go "i wanted it the other way and 100% of the newbiegroup i hang with think the same - so the president must be stup1d!"

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2. by voicing the whys and whats it could educate the people on stuff they otherwise would never heard of
[dunno if that is needed as you always write many articles though...]


...of course this would not apply to stuff like:
"should we make a sneak attack on poland this month "
"should we ally with [multiple MPPs poland has], (RW our original regions) and poland will lose all their MPPs -who then will fight on our side- when attacking us"

and yes i have never been into politics but i am knowing the stuff from the other side. from time to time you have month (and presidents) where like nothing seems to happen and if there is something then it is not articulated to the population.

the more fun month -in my opinion- are the month when
-stuff happens and the ministers/president give you a heads up or even ask you about your opinion/just write an article on the topic and then a nice discussion breacks out in the comments.
-or when they after certain stuff was made in the backrooms then later come and shed light upon it (why was region XY abandoned in war etc).
-or when you get to hear about all them stuff behind the ingame. happenings in alliance headquarter, discussions and fails in congress ...

so that being said for topics that allow it open discussion might be usefull or at least interesting to hear for all the "just ingame" dwellers who don't do the metagame

Thank you! Yes, that is the way to go imo. Although better in articles, as they get read more here then stuff on forum, where most of our folk don't come.

yes of couse using articles for all the ingamers. it's the same in other countries where just ministers & president + congress are in the forum (and about 30% of congress doesn't do nothing all month). so most people would never hear what happens in politics if not for articles about congress-happenings and stuff.

but germany even touched the harder topics and made a referendum about going to war or making treaty with poland. which was also VERY surprising and interesting for yay-sayers like me as ~37% of the people were actually against a treaty.

but germany has always waves of "we must go to war with poland*"-newbies who never fought poland & think germany can make it. on the same side you have the "just for the lulz/ i am bored" guys.
and on the other side you have the "yeah ok poland is too strong" fraction who have seen battles and germany not winning them**.

and always after a bigger battle the "we must go to war - germany is stronger than you think!" guys get less after seeing what happens and with every month without big battles more newbies come ingame and think germany is strong enough to make war - wave after wave after wave (parallel to the "now after all the peace i am bored" wave)

the referendum clearly showed that this "yes to war"group + the "for the lulz/i am bored" guys are many again. and they are much more than i have thought, this was an interesting fact for me. so i would think in the next month or so it would be good to get germany into some battles to calm these people down a bit...

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*now these have also support from the "the RW determination bonus was the bit that germany needed to subdue poland"-group

**like in battles over denmark trying to save their state money. very hard battles against a mercenary MU which germany alone couldn't deal with - after these battles many who where against the poland treaty way back then admitted that war wouldn't work and so newbies were calmed & polandtreaty was renewed without big no-sayers

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If you don't like the way democracy works, don't change it around by blaming an inactive congress. Most of them are active every day, and just need to be properly informed so they can discuss matters. Continually keeping them out of the loop will not solve it.

The debate section on our forum is open to our citizens only, which means information is far from 'out on the streets'. The only time in the history of NL that anything leaked from our forums was with that issue a while ago. Insufficient argument to refrain from transparency.

Guess you just need to read it all a bit better 😉

cause you missed out on a lot all the time you where away from our country😁

Was it wrong to read it as 'I completely disagree with Garmr, relevant info will mainly be cabinet-only'?

Congress ain't inactive no. Some of the members however play a game on forum but when asked don't act, besides all kinds of discussions. I for one have asked several times if someone wanted to help work out things that needed a law change as I'm fine thinking about how things could work, but writing lawtext ain't my thing. There hardly has been any help. The only one most, well, mostly one or two, can come up with; Change the law. It would make life so much easier if there were a few people that actually focussed on rewriting laws to fit in game changes. But our law, that is outdated on several part for ages stays almost unchanged. People that are so fond of the law and know how to write/interpret it would be vary valuable if they actually would act in stead of only complain. So for the latter part they actually are inactive or at least are not adding value to our community in a productive way. That saddens me a lot...

Some of congress isn't active, but it doesn't hurt to broadly discuss things with a larger group of people right? Although that's not really of importance for the finance side of erep. I think I offered rewriting the law for you once, but when I don't know the details of what you think should change there is little I could have rewritten.

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Voted, goodluck tomorrow o7

"what if we let people who just show up once every 3 weeks, who are clueless on game changes or international relationships, decide on important matters?"

Yes, I agree that would not be the smartest move to make. But that is was we have a Congress for. They are supposed to represent us and to debate and deliberate on matters that fall into their realm of responsibility and the CP is to do the same for matters that pertain to his or her job description. Every eCountry that I have been to that simply uses Congress as a rubber stamp on what ever the executive wants to do, has not been very successful and, often, very few members of the community end up being active and aware of what is really happening to the country. This results in the same old people being elected over and over again and slowly the community begins to die and any new players that may have different ideas are held down and they end up leaving the game as well. I've seen it happen numerous times.

I, myself, would like to see a much more involved and responsible Congress and general citizenry along with an active, involved, and responsible executive government. It isn't wrong, in my opinion, for citizens to have an understanding of the workings of the government. Sure, we don't need every single citizen voting on every single matter at hand. But to keep people in the dark about things isn't the answer either in my opinion.

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