Interview with Cerber, 3-time President of Poland

Day 930, 17:15 Published in USA Hungary by Dante Alagherii
Cerber's resumé:

The ePolish guardian
The anti-germ spray better than Domestos
The king of Brandenburg in exile
Married to vingaer, the banished queen of Bavaria
Lover of the ruling king of two towers in Aquitaine, Durruti
And to the future ruler of France, Carl Friederich Gauss
Received no-life of the year award by No-Times
Owner of the fourth biggest private newspaper in the world
Inventor of the rule "If you are on the irc chan with Cerber, most probably he has a higher access than you. vingaer is excluded"
Believes that Dio himself stole shoot's account jealous of shoot's mastermind
Makes 15yo kids cry, that's why Phoenix hates him


Q: Ok Cerber, so you're the father of your nation and the most powerful man in ePoland. How did that all come about?

A: I'm not really the father of our eNation, I'd call myself an ePolish hero, but we have many heroes and I'm no bigger than they are.

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Q: So reading back to your article when you were leaving office during your last presidential term, which was when PigInZen was leaving office, you wrote that "USA is the biggest enemy of Poland." Can you explain that?

A: Looking at those words now, I can say I was mistaken. It wasn't the USA that was playing dirty at that time. It was only one person in USA - your CJCS. After HR had the fight with him, I realised that since the begginning of PiZ's term NXNW was undermining every EDEN's decision in a pursuit to make USA leave us. Both PiZ and HR were supporting EDEN and I appreaciate the cooperation I was witnessing at those terms. Unfortunately I can't say it about Woxan's term.

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Q: So after you left office, adios_pl became president. His in-game campaign goals were to occupy American fortress regions.

A: Adios' goals were a bit of flaming, trolling and just making fun at once. To be honest I don't know what was the political reason to put such goals in his campaign. They didn't do any good, just caused some chaos. I still like chaos, so I didn't mind.

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Q: Ok, so then adios declared war on Mexico. What were Poland's true plans there?

A: This was only a war in purpose to get two HI OIL regions - one for Poland and one for Spain. That's why we were talking to PNX to leave Mexico all alone and eventually Hungary and Serbia agreed not to MPP them. At that time Poland had border with USA in France, so I see no reason why would we need to use Mexico to start the invasion.

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Q: What regions did Poland and Spain want?

A: Mexico has only two HI OIL regions 😃. We wanted to keep also Baja in case we'd finally agreed to swap to Asia.

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Q: So you didnt plan on going to Peru?

A: We had that in mind, but it needed PNX to behave like complete retards, so it wasn't too probable.

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Q: So what went wrong? Mexico did end up MPP'ing PHX. And battles were lost.

A: Biggest mistake of ePolish gov was letting all MPPs to be cancelled while we could've signed quite a few more that Spain didn't have already. I suggested that, but government decided to put the plan in motion asap, not waiting for the mpps to be signed. After that, when Russia managed to block us, everything got screwed up.

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Q: Which MPPs?

A: Afair there was Sweden and Canada to be signed, as well as some other minor MPPs.

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Q: The American govt didnt know the true reason of Poland's invasion of Mexico. Why wasn't that communicated to to USA?

A: We weren't in the best relations at that time. Also we didn't want any leaks from the USA. I'm pretty sure Phoenix would get to know about what we plan to do quite quickly.

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Q: After the failed invasion on Mexico, Phx had Slovenia attack Rhone Alps. That was a big loss for Poland. Adios got impeached for it. Practically all of Poland's land workers were stranded in Rhone Alps after that.

A: Yeah, we decided to give RA to Spain so EDEN can still profit from the nice infrastructure.

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Q: Why did't Poland keep a backup territory next to RA before it got attacked?

A: We gave all territories to Spain to avoid RWs, since we planned to activate some MPPs in Mexico. If not for the Russian block, it wouldn't have mattered.

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Q: So you didnt count on the russian block? How did that get past the Polish strategists?

A: We didn't also count the Brasil to open war with us. That made them quite rapeable. As for Russia, it was the reason I proposed signing more MPPs before we start. To be honest I don't remember clearly all these days, what I said and what was said to me; too much of a mess around.

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Q: Before Poland declared war on Mexico, Poland had 60,000 citizens, twice as much as the next most populous country of the eWorld. Now Poland has around 33k citizens. Where have all the people gone? The land workers stayed in Spain, but what about the rest?

A: Yeah, we can count around 5000 ppl are either somewhere in the world looking for land job or have different citizenship. However I must say our active population didn't get die out too much, we had around 12000 ppl fighting every day and we still maintain similiar number. Most of the dead count are the accounts that never been in use and multies that are a nightmare of every booming country - it's a lot easier to hide in such a country. Now we are tempting to have a more stable population of 'core' citizens that are committed to the game. I regret we don't have such retention as Serbia, but Poland isn't as nationalistic. Also we still have bigger baby boom resources than they have - their last baby boom with an advertise in a newspaper made them only around 2000 new citizens. It proves they are pretty emptied while we are now beggining to work on another baby boom. It was only one site on the Internet that caused the last one. Every country on eRepublik when it had a huge baby-boom after a few months suffers from a nice decrease of population. It's just funny that the first one to point that our baby-boom is dying was France(lol) and another to point that we have a lot of multies in ePL was Ostin (the 'Reborn' at that time). It's like Russia saying EDEN does DDoS.

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Q: They call your the Father of ePoland because a lot of your citizens came to play because of the invasion of Germany. What was that like, planning the invasion and carrying it out?

A: I had some luck with it. While baby-boom was quite planned - the only countries that would make ePL boom are Germany and Russia, I thought we will stop on the first three regions bordering Poland. But then the hell started and everyone was involved somewhere else. Whole PNX abandoned Germs, only Ruskies were willing to help them, but still it became pretty easy campaign. It got harder later when we were helping Spain to finish off Frenchies. I wouldn't be sincere if I said that USA wasn't there to help - we planned Saarland together with Gaius Julius and the time was set to suit USA mobiles. GJ still remains the wisest American for me and it's very unfortunate that he cannot play too active due to real reasons. Other persons that helped during the campaign was Durruti and shoot as well as many others. I definitely wasn't the only one to plan it, although I spent a few weeks no-lifing, analysing every move and every decision.

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Q: What was the excitement like when Poland finally wiped out Germany after the battle for Saarland?

A: Haha, I had to reset my laptop due to way too many highlights on our irc chat. There were around 600 ppl online even though it was 3am and everyone was highlighting me. Then we had like a week of a huge celebration - it's been way too much time since ePL won its last war. I didn't have too much time to rest - as I said, France was still on the map.

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Q: When I talk to our govt officials as to why USA left EDEN, most of them say the reason is Poland. After becoming the most powerful country in the eWorld, Poland became impossible to work with. How do you respond to that?

A: Poland was quite unhappy after Sindh made RA threatened. We risked it trying to get Croatia to Asia. At this very point USA failed miserably trying to RW Sindh and move Serbia way from Karnataka. This was the beginning of the downward spiral of USA-Pol relations. After that event the flaming started. I can't say how true is the statement that we were (or still are) impossible to work with, I just never saw that 'impossibility.'

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Q: So what do you think is the reason USA left EDEN?

A: In short - backstage string pulling. It was just a manipulation and playing on the facts.

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Q: What are USA-Poland relations like now?

A: HR's term clearly warmed them - he was willing to cooperate with EDEN even risking flaming at home. We had support before the action, not like it was with Woxan and HelloKitty when he decided to send tanks after everything was over. Pol-USA relations will be good as long as EDEN-USA relations are.

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Q: So how do you propose we keep USA-EDEN relations good?

A: We were doing that for over a year now I think, so I don't think it needs to be defined. It's not that hard, some of good will is enough.

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Q: Are you confident in a shared future for USA and EDEN?

A: Oh yes 😃. I don't see USA working with Russian friends. Same as I don't see Poland doing it.

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Q: Is an invasion of Russia next on the cards for Poland?

A: Now we are waiting for v2. But Russia is a nice toy now with all those mpps they have active. Omnomnom.

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Q: It seems to me that Poland, as the most populous nation in the eWorld needs to be on the offensive as much as possible to keep its citizens and pull EDEN along. But now Poland has a thorn in its side, Slovenia, and the MPPs that it has activated against Poland. Slovenia has now even taken over a German region, and Phoenix has already moved over a thousand citizens there, from where it can keep Poland in check. How is Poland gonna get back on the offensive? It seems that Slovenia needs to be wiped out ASAP for Poland and the rest of EDEN to be comfortable in Europe.

A: Not that Slovenia can keep that region 😃 But PNX will never dare to attack ePL core when we have a set of MPPs. As one of the ePL journalists wrote - we have all MPPs against us? GREAT, now we can attack in every direction. 😃

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Q: It seems that Poland has a great relationship with Spain. A lot of Poles are in Spain, and people around the world refer to the 2 countries as Spoland. How did Poland and Spain become such friends?

A: Now I can say it's my doing. We've been cooperating a lot with Durruti when Spain was in France and Poland in Germany. Our both populations were seeing how well we work together and with the example from the ruling elite we became brothers with Spain. It was one of my goals to repair the relations with Spain after the Peruvian affair. And as you can see now it went really good. To be honest it went even better than I ever suspected. 😃

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Q: What are Polish relations like with other EDEN nations?

A: All of them are our brothers and we are happy to be able to work with them. We are all committed to win every battle and I can't say a bad word about any of EDEN members.

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Q: What about the Polish negotiations with Hungary?

A: There is no negotiating at the moment. We still respect Hungarians the most out of Phoenix members, but the eWorld is bipolar and will always be. Only way to change it would be to make one of the sides to win the game, but I don't think it will happen any time soon.

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Q: So what is the deal with Slovakia? They have a Polish President, and they want to join EDEN, but it hasn't happened yet. Why?

A: I don't really know. Slovakia refers to Poland as to their only friend, we appreciated cooperating with them, also the fact that they were risking their country while swapping with us. Turkey and Indonesia secured them though by fail-signing MPPs with them, so that Hungary wouldn't want to hit Slovakian cores. Why Slovakia isn't in EDEN yet? I don't know, their mobile force is pretty impressive for such a small country, they can deliver up to 100k mobile dmg. But that's a question for EDEN HQ.

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Q: What about China? I hear they are gonna join EDEN.

A: As for now EDEN is waiting for China to make decision about it. We will be happy to have China in EDEN.

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Q: What about the Polish presidential election last week? The personal attacks on vingaer and her losing to ariakis.

A: Ah yes, the player that took 3rd place in the race, asked one of most flaming citizens to run his campaign. So the attacks involved vingaer's real photos, calling her a political whore and so on. We all reported those articles and while moderators failed to remove such insulting articles they managed to FP vingaer for her article which she wrote few hours later about mod's inactivity. That's mainly the reason she decided to quit. She decided to protect her privacy rather than play eRepublik.

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Q: Vingaer afterwards wrote a quitting article. You think she'll really quit?

A: As for now she can't make any other choice. 5 fp speak for themselves.

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Q: You wanna comment on the Latvia-Estonia situation? Could Latvia become an EDEN ally? Or Estonia? If phx has to kick one of the nations out?

A: I'd be happy to have baltic countries neutral, pro-EDEN or just anti-Phoenix. Russia couldn't restore Kaliningrad thanks to it xD

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Q: You also run http://erepchan.org. Tell us about the site.

A: Haha, one day after hard trolling on the half of eRepublik channels there exist I thought it would be fun to run a non-censored site like this. I think eRepublik needs a space where you can flame freely. It's more an international initiative, however atm erepchan is mostly Polish-Spanish-Emerick.

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Q: Final thought?

A: Yeah, #penix.hq ftw. 😉


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