Free World, Free Countries

Day 612, 01:27 • Published in Australia Australia • by Captain Briggs

It's to reveal more details about a policy I hope to enact in Australia should I be elected to Congress, and a position I will continually push for even I miss the prized position.

That policy is, of course, aptly named, "Free World, Free Countries". It aims for, in it's most basic terms, to stop complete military take-overs of countries.

Government will choose someone to lead and promote the policy, so it will become an official government position, for official government policy.

The person in the position would talk to the foreign ministers of all eCountries, join the respective forums, and would discuss the issue with foreign government. This is to gain their initial stance, see where they are at, and try to change it if it doesn't align with the views expressed.

Free World, Free Countries aims to prevent full military take-overs. This is, no country would ever suffer the same fate as India, South Africa, Australia, Israel, Pakistan - and others, ever again. Partial take overs would not be restricted. We aren't here to destroy a part of erepublik, we look at this from a needs and wants position.

What the invading country needs to complete their goal. What the invaded country needs.to stay a country. Not what either of them want. This policy is about survival, and to keep a major part of the game alive for many citizens.

Australia, when it started out, had about 600 citizens. When it was taken over, it's estimated less than 200 stayed around, and it never really peaked past this number. When Australia gained just 2 terrortories back, just two, it's population ballooned to over 1000, and it's at 2000 today. Completely taking over a country does nothing positive. It;

*Destroys opportunities for new players from that country
*Aggravates opposing countries
*Puts the invader at further risk of political take over (ala PTO - as witnessed in Indonesia which was put at risk by Matza Party)
*Makes your own country look bad

What positives does it give?

-You DON'T need to fully take over a country to have their high resources (unless admin has 'jipped' you by giving your country only 1 region)
-You DON'T need to fully take over a country to get to the country on the other side
-Fully taking over a country DOESN'T reduce the risk or damage of an attack from them. You've seen the annoyance that Resistance wars can cause to major warring countries.
-Fully taking over a country DOESN'T make you any friends. It can actually destroy friendships - Atlantis anyone?

We would ask countries, promote to countries - only take what you need, give back what you don't.

If you need to pave through an entire country to make it to your enemy - then sure, but give those regions back when you've broken through. You should only need the 1 connecting region, and not the rest.

You don't need 2 regions with the same high resources. You only need 1 high resource region, you can fit an infinite amount of companies there. So if a country has 2, don't take them both. If you already have one yourself, then don't take another.

The less you take, the less people will get angry. The less selfish and arrogant you look. This is the same in real life for real people.

When it comes right down to it, you never need all of the countries regions. Never. You might find it easier just to take them all, but in the long-run, there's nothing easy about it.

Personally I would like to see myself given the task to start with, to set up the ground work for future congressman. This is something I am passionate about and want to see through, and is mainly there to protect countries that are attacked for no reason other than 'resources', or 'i need to to fight these guys'.

If a country DESERVES TO GET ATTACKED then I have no problem with it. But Australia did not deserve to be taken over, South Africa did not deserve it. India, Israel, Pakistan, etc. did not deserve it. In fact NO COUNTRY THAT HAS BEEN COMPLETELY TAKEN OVER HAS DESERVED IT.

So why does this need to happen? This policy is about respect, humility, and understanding. I want to these core values to be spread throughout erepublik, and this will help to do it.

The world is in your hands erepublik!

Thank you for reading, I hope the government is listening and I hope to be with you guys soon. 🙂
~Briggs
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