Citizenship bug and voting [Updated]

Day 675, 07:22 • Published in Denmark Japan • by Zeb Jolnas
Update
While I'm not a congressman myself I have been informed from several sources that the issue has now been fixed. Congressmen can again only grant citizenships equal to population divided by 10 divided by number of congressmen. Thanks to the admins for swift and correct action on this issue.

Thank you everyone for the outstanding support. And Congratulations to Denmark on fighting off the group of TO'ers

Also I would lke to point out this was not in anyway a government affiliated PTO by Serbia, just a rogue group of individuals, and I would like to especially thank all the Serbs that supported this cause, looking past their nationality and supporting the fight against bugs in the game. Thank you!

Finally I would once again like to thank HoeMarx and BNMaarcher, and the danish org eDeO for funding the add campaign that made it possible to take this article global, thus raising awareness and support, and thanks to MMM-writer Fenris ulven for writing about the issue here http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/fenrisulvens-thoughts-186179/1

Bug Report sent to Admins
The following bug report has just been sent to the admins. I hope everybody will support the petition to save denmark from being exploited by what appears to be a massive bug by pressing "vote".

Quoting the Citizenship Wiki:

"A maximum of 10 % of a country's population possibly being offered citizenship, means a lot. With just one infiltrated congressman, citizenship can be granted to hundreds for a PTO attempt, right?
Actually this is not true. This is because each congress member can only grant citizenship to a maximum number of people out of the total number possible (total number= 10 % of country population). So, in a country with 10.000 citizens, and 40 congressmen, it turns out that an “infiltrated” spy could offer citizenship to a maximum of 25 people. No congressman can grant 26 in a mandate of one month, regardless of how many citizenships are still available out of the initial 1000."

Just so you don't have to look it up when you read below. Of course you are welcome to check if the quote is correct.

The image I posted as attachment can be found here: http://www.zebeyo.dk/citizenships_serb.jpg


Edit:
Also citizenship in fact is more damaging than without, Denmark can raise taxes, remove food from the market and change minimum wage to counter the PTO, but with citizenship, the invaders can just move to another country to work, but still vote in Denmark. In other words the ways to counter a PTO have been severely limited.

Finally I would like to thank the danes HoeMarx and BNMaarcher, and the danish org eDeO for funding the add campaign for the article 🙂

Also thanks to Fenrisulven for picking up this issue as well and spreading the message!
http://www.erepublik.com/en/newspaper/fenrisulvens-thoughts-186179/1



Bug report:

Denmark is currently being swarmed by a large group of people, whom are all granted citizenship so they can vote by the same 2 people. You can check the list of Danish citizenships, or look at the attached list of people that have been granted citizenship lately by the two serb infiltrators.

According to your own rules listed in the Erepublik Insider here:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/citizenship-faq-and-launch-date-869480/1/20
and in the wiki here:
http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Applying_for_Citizenship

A congressman can give at most his "share" of citizenships. Denmark had around 150 citizens before citizenship but now has 350. If we just use the number of today, 352, each congressman should be able to give 10% of 352 citizens divided by 20 congressmen. That's 352 / 10 /20 = 1,76. Lets say 2 to be fair and count in people that left congress (sharing "their citizenships" among the remaining congressmen). Actually lets say 3 just to be nice. Maaki has alone let in 18 since the 12th of september. Gusterforgrill has let in 14. in other words they have alone let in 32 people, almost equalling the 10% all by themselves.

Citizenship obviously is bugged, and Denmark is about to be taken over by Serbs, stealing the country from the RL danes. Why do I care? Because I'm a 4 time congressman, former president of Denmark, and RL Dane. Many people in Denmark are my RL friends. Most of them will probably stop playing if you do not fix this. Because I am a paying customer, and I expect a game that works as intended, and as described by the administrators. That's right I have bought gold, and I might do it again, however not as long as it is this flawed.

I therefore demand that you revoke all citizenships granted by Maaki, Gusterforgrill and Ocnizal. You may as well revoke any other citizenship that has been granted wrongfully. Several Danes have tried to counter the TO by inviting friends. Furthermore, I request that you cancel all votes placed by anyone that recieved an illegal citizenship from the election.

This is not just a matter of danish independence and the continued existence of a sovereign danish denmark, rather than a serb colony. This is about an error that can be misused in any small country. In other words citizenship does absolutely NOTHING to prevent TO's as it is. Just one person in congress for one month is enough to TO the country the following month.

Please act quickly on this. The bug may destroy an entire country.