MoFA [Week 1]: "Tangled hierarchies and other usual affairs"
Plugson
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"Le tenebre fuggian da tutti lati,
e ’l sonno mio con esse; ond’ io leva’mi,
veggendo i gran maestri già levati.
«Quel dolce pome che per tanti rami
cercando va la cura de’ mortali,
oggi porrà in pace le tue fami»."
Purgatorio, Canto XXVII
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Article Video: "Pig in the Middle & other sexy affairs"
Hello eCanada,
Today marks the third week of my time working as Minister of Foreign Affairs under the supervision of Sperry. Again, it’s been a fairly quiet week since there have been few MPPs to renew and limited work to be done among the alliances. There were no T/EDEN summits this week to report on (even then, nothing can be publicized about those meetings anyhow).
Embargoes, MPPs, and other meat of the potatoes
Embargoes are being tracked in the CICERO spreadsheet that Sperry set up. The MoFA has little to do with prepping for each proposal, so Sperry does all the work/button pushing while I report it here. I cannot document the economic consequences of an embargo against players in an enemy nation, except to say “It just feels good.”
Embargoes:
May 27 – Pakistan
May 26 – Spain
May 25 – Sweden
May 24 – Poland
May 23 - Hungary
Mutual Protection Pact Proposals:
May 25 – Russia
May 25 – Albania
May 23 – Singapore (failed)
May 22 - Cyprus
While it may seem like not many MPPs were created this week, it’s mainly due to the fact that many came at the beginning of the month and many will come due at the end of the month. That’s just how the spread works.
The only interesting thing to report was an MPP proposal with Singapore. Their CP approached us wanting to set up an MPP. The Singapore CP made the proposal and 23 out of 27 of our Congressmen voted “Yes” to it. Strangely enough, the MPP failed to pass. Why? Well, it seems that Singapore has only 1 active Congressman at times and he failed to show up that day. So with a 0 “Yes” and 0 “No” vote in Singapore Congress, the MPP was not passed. No big loss there and no real consequence to eCanada. Just an amusing story, that’s all.
I saw one Congressman comment that with recent MU funding cutbacks that we should consider limiting the number of MPPs issued. I’ll bring this issue forward to Sperry and in Congress to see if this is a valid concern and/or solution. To be honest, I think a little trimming in eCanada would do some good overall.
Natural Enemy Proposals:
May 26 – United Kingdom (still in vote, will not pass, read report below)
May 23 – Hungary
As you may recall, eCanada made an attempt to NE Hungary when they occupied the French region of Brittany, which borders Nova Scotia. While eCanada was prepared to enter into a war with Hungary to help our allies and bring some True Patriot fun to our players, Hungary opened up a Resistance War and then tanked to lose the region. As such, even though the proposal passed, we lost our front with Hungary and so the NE proposal could not pass despite being voted in favour of.
The Irish-UK Treaty, and an accidental UK-Natural Enemy proposal
Today, the United Kingdom began its ‘attack’ on Irish region of Dublin after passing a Natural Enemy proposal yesterday. eCanada will not be supporting Ireland in the battles since Ireland is meant to lose these battles as part of a treaty presented over 2 months ago (Day 1,586). The reason why it has taken so long for the treaty to be put into action was partly due to eCanada’s and eUSA’s invasion into the eUK, as well as Ireland’s venture into the German-designated regions of Denmark (they still hold Nordjylland), which they defended in a strong Sebian-led RW today.
The terms of the treaty are presented here in an article by UK’s former CP, Talon Karrde, “Peace Be With You” and then backed up with a release by the current UK CP, “A Glorious Sunshine Shall Rise Over Dublin.”
Basically, Ireland gets to keep the UK region of Scotland and the UK region of Northern Ireland while the UK gets to keep the Irish regions of Dublin and Louth. Plus, there will be some form of an agreement of peace between the two nations. I’m interested to see how this treaty influences relations not only between Ireland and the UK, but also with UK and other EDEN nations. Keep in mind eCanada is under no obligation to remain peaceful to the UK during or after the region swaps. Even some Irish are have many questions regarding the treaty and that its terms/methods may not have been so clearly communicated to the general population, which you can read all about in the comments of this article: “lol silly Libertard.”
EDIT: A great summary was recently published here ~
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-seanan-everything-you-need-to-know-ire-uk-treaty-2046196/1/20
So what does this treaty mean to eCanada? Not much if we are following the current administrations aims of securing war on another front beyond the typical UK invasion. If anything, it proves that Ireland, like eCanada, is growing weary of the old back-and-forth and wants to venture into new territory/gameplay.
It also means that eCanada should support Ireland (an EDEN ally) in making the peace treaty go through with ease. Our surprise NE proposal against the UK could have complicated that process if it were passed, since the UK would then have another war to contend with as it began its region swaps with Ireland. UK thinks we’re morons anyhow for spending hundreds of Gold to attack them in a three-day war, so harm there. Yet, we don’t want EDEN HQ to look at us as the sorry excuse of a nation they thought we have been in the past. If we determine at some point that new UK-Irish relations put constraint upon eCanada’s interests, then we should deal with it directly by speaking to Irish leadership and EDEN HQ. Firing off surprise NEs proposals won’t get us any further ahead, since the allies that we can rely on around us will only end up looking at eCanada as a loose canon. If we do want to make great changes to our relations with nations around us, let us at least be up front with those intentions and express why we’ve made those choices. For example, I may as well tell you now that eCanada is funny case when it comes to alliance allegiances and war demands among our own people. It’s something I’ve come to call Bacon in the Middle…
The T/EDEN Burger: Bacon in the middle, with extra MPPs, hold the strategy
Lately, it has been expressed to me that eCanada should play a role of supporting its allies by directing its damage into battles fought by EDEN and TERRA members. When you are in an alliance, this makes perfect sense. When you are in two alliances, this also makes sense, just not perfectly. The great news is that we have access to so many MPPs that we will never be short of battles to fight in, and we should have a great supply of assistance to come our way when we enter into a serious campaign against a serious foe (sorry, UK…you do make a good enemy with production benefits, yet you’re just not that sexy anymore…maybe we should, y’know see other people now that you’re hanging out with Ireland anyhow).
The trick is getting allies to support your war ambitions. I’m not just talking about convincing them to set eCanada’s campaign as higher priority on the roster of T/EDEN battles. I’m talking more about getting them to approve the strategy necessary to simply get an NE started that would let us fight an opponent other than the UK. It does require more than a Congressman or CP proposing an NE to start a war with a new opponent. Actually, it doesn’t, but rather, it takes more than a simple NE proposal to get us a war campaign that our allies with back us on. eCanada could have chosen to ‘go it alone’ against another ONE nation, yet complications arose with alliance hierarchies. Or rather, complications arose out of competing alliance hierarchies that have separate sets of treaties and different plans of attack.
eCanada may have a whole host of MPPs to buffer us, yet it also has two sets of alliance HQs to negotiate with. But what if one says “No” to a plan of attack while the other is relying on you open up a new front on an enemy as part of a coordinated attack among several or more nations…Well, you had better show up on the battlefield when that time comes, yet eCanada, quite simply, failed to do that on 2 separate occasions this past month. I can tell you that it was not eCanada’s leadership failing to see the plan of attack before us, but rather we failed to negotiate between two separate sets of alliance superstructures to pursue our own True Patriot aims and also support of an ally under ONE occupation. Yeah, we continue to play on the sidelines supporting T/EDEN because there is too much redtape keeping us from charging into the fray. Paring down those tangled branches that hold us back is no easy task. Perhaps a CP like Rylde or Acacia believes that a quick-fire solution would bring the fun to our players, yet it could also bring damage to eCanada's reputation among the allies it wishes to hold onto. Repositioning eCanada on the gameboard will require a more subtle approach. Perhaps more of that will be discussed in my final MoFA Week 4 report.
Media tidbits and treats, battles & rookie reports
I’d like to end off this week’s update with some media treats that I came across while looking for more details on battles and international relations. What surprises me is that both war analysts are rather new players and quite new to the media scene. I highly suggest you sub the papers to these two promising correspondents if you want to keep track of some current events across the New World.
Shoi12 (May 15, ’12) ~ A Rookie’s Foolish Ideas ~ eCanada
~~“Weekly Power Rankings #1; Resurgent Turkey”
(sounds like a case of indigestion to me)
~~“Around the World #1; Who won this week?
(quite a fantastic analysis of the losers vs losers of major battles around the New World)
Hale26 (Jan 11, ’12) ~ The Stairway ~ eUSA
~~“WORLD WAR NEWS -DAY 1648 : The America's Edition”
(a nice overview from a TERRA ally’s perspective,)
Proponent (May 8, ’12) ~ eUK ~ The New Link
~~“The Past Few Days for eSlovenia”
(not directly relevant to eCanada, yet I do like his presentation)
~~“The UK is now Canadian free”
(more directly relevant to eCanada, and still a good presentation, always good to keep your eyes on ONE propaganda)
If you have any other people you are subbed to that you think present great articles on international affairs, please post a link to their profile, paper, or article here so that I can check out what they have to offer.
Cheers and play safe, eCanada (you know we always do…)
Plugson
Minister of Foreign Affairs for eCanada, May ‘12
Comments
Gotta vote good work.
Nice report, Plugson 🙂
Nice report, Plugson x2
Would it have been nicer if I put in more pictures?
I was a bit busy tonight...and it's getting too late to fire up google. And if it's tl;dr, then just look carefully at the last two sections for anything that might be interesting. Sub those papers, too ~ good stuff.
good stuff
o7
awesome job
Singapore is without congress, and president forgot to vote. Btw the article is very interesting.
Interesting to note that this peace deal came as a result of a backdoor deal made by the Irish CP, Chewie. A backdoor deal that included blindsiding eCanada and displaying little to no respect for foreign relations. This is also a deal that now CP candidate Ethel Rosencrantz claimed was never in the works and then branded me publicly as a liar and a schemer only to be expose and then never recant her original statements.
My advice is, tread carefully next month if Rosencrantz is elected!
"Basically, Ireland gets to keep the UK region of Scotland"
and the UK region of Northern Ireland, thanks.
Well done. I did not realize eIreland were still playing this game.
o7
The final hour of the Sperry Administration ~ a retrospective (of sorts), a re-imagining (of other sorts)
The Divine Tragedy: An eComedy in 3 Acts
or
The Book of Plug: Second Testament
~~a useful guide: http://danteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/purgatory/02valleyofrulers.html ~~
~~full text: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/8795/8795-h/8795-h.htm ~~
Act 1 ~ Anti-Crisis ~ Ego Revealed and the Plot Charted
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/fear-or-revere-an-ab-c-d-guide-to-the-cobra-crisis-835830/1/20
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-god-emperor-cometh-resistance-is-feudal-1055026/1/20
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/weekly-investment-report-dueling-ponzi-scheme-part-4--1238169/1/20
First Book of Plug: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/the-book-of-plug-973955/1/20
Act 2 ~ The Inverted Pyramid ~ eCanada’s Descent into Hell and Ego Punished in the Infernal Crisis
http://padresteve.files.wordpress.com/2010/02/danteinferno_400x606.jpg
A far-off ButterFly flaps its wings:
http://www.erepublik.com/ru/article/-cp-regarding-hobbits-1815109/1/20
A time of trials and tribulations ensues…until the conclusion slowly emerges…
The final expedition towards towards/out of Paradise/EDEN
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/expedition-arcadia-wanted-a-few-good-shepherds--1957809/1/20
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/1972343/1/20
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/1972474/1/20
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/1972528/1/20
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-expedition-arcacia-epilogue-a-requiem-for-dicoveries-unearthed-1994598/1/20
(an exit found to EDEN)
Anti-Crisis wraps into Infernal Crisis wraps up into Market Crisis
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/spinning-infernal-crisis-into-anti-crisis-ie-marketing-integrity--1985939/1/20
April Fowl’s Day ~ Arrival of a Fallen Angel
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/april-fouls-humor-with-a-lsquo-u-rsquo--1998863/1/20
Act 3 ~ The Pyramid Righted ~ eCanada’s Ascent out of Hell (end to the Infernal Crisis)
Through the wormhole/Angela in Wonderland http://www.erepublik.com/es/article/thinking-this-tahmasee-thing-through-2003105/1/20
“And he to me:"Thou still imaginest
Thou art beyond the centre, where I grasped
The hair of the fell worm, who mines the world.
That side thou wast, so long as I descended;
When round I turned me, thou didst pass the point
To which things heavy draw from every side"
Purgatory Pyramind and 7 Ps: http://www.wolfram.demon.co.uk/purgatory4.gif
Ante-Purgatory ~ Valley of the Rulers:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/hell-and-back-ecan-meh-perhaps-not--2008198/1/20
“Seven P's upon my forehead he described
With the sword's point, and, "Take heed that thou wash
These wounds, when thou shalt be within," he said.
Ashes, or earth that dry is excavated,
Of the same colour were with his attire,
And from beneath it he drew forth two keys.”
Step 1/The 1st Circle: The Proud
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/step-1-humility-yet-not-humiliated--2010022/1/20
The humiliating loss must lead to being stronger
“Do ye not comprehend that we are worms,
Born to bring forth the angelic butterfly
That flieth unto judgment without screen?
Why floats aloft your spirit high in air?
Like are ye unto insects undeveloped,
Even as the worm in whom formation fails!”
2nd Circle: The Envious
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/npg-a-purpose-for-which-to-unite--2012376/1/20
Learning that other’s bad times should not be our entertainment
“Sapient I was not, although I Sapia
Was called, and I was at another's harm
More happy far than at my own good fortune.
And that thou mayst not think that I deceive thee,
Hear if I was as foolish as I tell thee.
The arc already of my years descending”
3rd Circle: The Wrathful
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/charter-amendment-proposal-judicial-reform-2014894/1/20
Reforming eCanada’s broken Judicial system, a tool for the angry
“The laws exist, but who sets hand to them?
No one; because the shepherd who precedes
Can ruminate, but cleaveth not the hoof;
Wherefore the people that perceives its guide
Strike only at the good for which it hankers,
Feeds upon that, and farther seeketh not.”
4th Circle: The Slothful
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/shameless-komix-quot-addymandias-quot--2027348/1/20
Excessive love of game/imbalanced commitment shown over next 3 weeks before final expiation + unrequited Sexy War
“This threefold love is wept for down below;
Now of the other will I have thee hear,
That runneth after good with measure faulty.
Each one confusedly a good conceives
Wherein the mind may rest, and longeth for it;
Therefore to overtake it each one strikes"
5th Circle: The Avaricious
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-mofa-week-3-quot-close-calling-long-distance-quot--2033955/1/20
Desire for greatness must lead to a higher place from which to fall
“Even as the hawk, that first his feet surveys,
Then turns him to the call and stretches forward,
Through the desire of food that draws him thither,
Such I became, and such, as far as cleaves
The rock to give a way to him who mounts,
Went on to where the circling doth begin.”
6th Circle: The Gluttonous
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/mofa-week-2-quot-a-royal-pain-in-the-honeymoon-quot--2039590/1/20
Our conquest in the UK must lead to leaner times
“Desire to eat and drink enkindles in us
The scent that issues from the apple-tree,
And from the spray that sprinkles o'er the verdure;
And not a single time alone, this ground70
Encompassing, is refreshed our pain,--
I say our pain, and ought to say our solace”
7th Circle: The Lascivious
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/mofa-week-1-quot-tangled-hierarchies-and-other-usual-affairs-quot--2045786/1/20
Unbalanced desire ends in tired hunger to be set free~ego is released as we exit EDEN
“The darkness fled away on every side,
And slumber with it; whereupon I rose,
Seeing already the great Masters risen.
"That apple sweet, which through so many branches
The care of mortals goeth in pursuit of,
To-day shall put in peace thy hungerings."
7 more days to 1,666 ~ a new dawn breaks over eCanada
Act 4: The Shepherd is my Keeper in the Valley of Darkness
http://raincoaster.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/littlest-hobo.jpg
superb.
Shoot, wouldn't want to forget the countdown theme song
http://tinyurl.com/AllTheseThingseCanHasDone
(goes good with fish: http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-wyd-no-no-sperry-thank-you-for-the-fish-day-1654--2048943/1/20)
For great justice!
Subs 771
v+s 910
v+s 952
o7
Just Sub, temahojinBC request 😛
subs bro