My Platform for the eFRoSEAn Presidency
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by Vikta
I humbly come before you, the people of the Federal Republic of South East Asia, the union of the two great and proud nations of eMalaysia and eThailand, to seek your permission for the highest office of our land, the office of the President of eFRoSEA.
The journey of our nation is currently at a crossroad. One path, is to continued mediocrity and insignificance, while the other is one that would bring our nation into greatness, be it in the area of hard power; our economic and military prowess, or soft power; in our ability to influence the world through persuasion wielding.
I hope I am allowed the privilege of guiding our nation through the second path.
I have plans and I have visions for our nation, and I hope you will lend me an ear.
BABY BOOMS
Babies are what we need.
Our nation can only rise to greatness when we have a more significant population. I will continue to privately fund the facebook advertisments, that have already generated more than 700 babies in multiple waves. I will continue running the ads until we have more than 4000 citizens. I will actively try and get more publicity for eFRoSEA in the real life media, as those are how real big number of babies are made.
To increase our baby retention rate, I will appoint a Minister to create more interesting and 'fun' activities for the new babies to do. It is in the first few days that most of our babies stop playing and give up, as the amount of things you can do are severely limite😛
I personally PM each and every one of them, and they always invariably give up when they find that there isn't much to do but eat, work and train.
This Minister will also work with the Minister of Education, attached to the Social Office of eMalaysia, to educate the babies and guide them through to a level where they will not quit and will continue to play indefinitely. The Minister of Education will also revive the Mentorship program and this time, I will personally see through that it is successful in retaining our babies. The Mentorship program will have a set and definite structure that is organised and efficient.
Although we need a large population, I believe it is equally important if not even more so to have an ACTIVE POPULATION. Two clicker babies are bad babies. Hence, I will start a campaign to direct our babies to our forums and IRC, where we can further educate and engage them, thereby retaining them.
I will also propose a one off addition to the 'citizen fee' of around 10 - 15MYR once the babies reach level 5. This might not be much for the state, but it will definitely encourage our new babies and reenergise their commitment and passion to this game.
MILITARY
As the current Minister of Defense, I have successfully oversaw and implemented a command structure in our military. I have also tested and made changes, dropped, and introduced new structures and ideas to the military after testing.
However, the Military's work is far from over.
If elected, I will allocate a definite part of the state budget to train our military. I will make use of our command structure currently in place: each platoon will get a fixed budget every week that they can allocate amongst themselves to train their soldiers. Obviously, different types of platoons will get different kinds of funding and this Ministry will access each and every platoon and determine its budget.
Because the platoon leaders know their platoon members the best, I believe they remain the most suitable people to decide on how much to allocate each platoon member. The platoon leader knows which members are more valuable, more active, more likely to follow orders. Hence, they remain in the unique and special position to make these calls.
In addition, I also plan to deploy our military in mock training exercises to keep activity and interest levels up. These mock activities will also expose the vulnerabilities and faults in our command structure that would otherwise not be noticed. We can then correct these faults before they blow up in our face in an emergency and real situation.
FOREIGN AFFAIRS
As a former Secretary of State and Minister of Foreign Affairs, I have some experience in dealing with diplomacy in international relations. If elected, I will reconfirm our dedication to Sol and the vision of Sol. This is especially important, as Sol has been going through a tough patch lately, with eJapan's rumoured exit.
This being said, our relations with our Sol allies are currently at an all time high. I want to maintain that. We will have friendly and good relations with our Sol allies, and help them out in times of need.
I will continue the Sol War Games, as I believe that the war games are an extremely important part of our nation, and will only serve to grow our nation more, be it financially (leveling up Gold and the support for Weapons and Iron jobs, while creating a vibrant weapons industry in eFRoSEA), or military (gaining higher ranks).
I am sure you have heard some rumours that I intend to 'attack Japan'. THIS IS NOT TRUE. If elected, I will maintain our nation's neutrality and non aggression in the today's Bipolar eWorld.
In addition, as eFRoSEA grows larger due to our baby booms, I will make sure that eFRoSEA will not have imperialistic tendencies. We will not conquer our neighbours for the, quote, lulz. We will not take regions because they are resource rich. We will be committed to the idea of non-aggression, and we will maintain our neutrality.
ECONOMY
As a former Minister of Finance, I have certain experiences in dealing with the economy. However, Nagyzee, our current Minister of Finance is much more apt and experienced in dealing with such matters. I will retain Nagyzee. It would be foolish to replace our best Minister of Finance ever.
That said, I would like to elaborate slightly on my plans. In the long term, I would like to see the economy slowly adjust, whether it be the MYR to Gold value and the number of companies, products and jobs, as more waves of babies come in.
In the short term, I would like to reconfirm my dedication to the Ringgit Peg of 0.015, and also the training companies. In essence, the status quo is working for us now, and we should only slowly make adjustments to accommodate the long term structural changes due to the baby booms.
Finally, before I let you go, I would like to, if you would allow me a few more seconds, detail my vision for this great country.
I see a proud nation able to make its own significant mark in the eWorld, while reaffirming our commitment to neutrality, non-aggression and the vision of Sol.
I see us becoming a great and significant nation, but yet retaining its charm that first attracted so many migrants, reaffirming our commitment to neutrality.
I envision an nation that shatters the current eWorld paradigm and synonyms; We will have a large, yet tight knit, close, and friendly community. We will have a strong, yet peaceful military. We will be a confident and proud nation, yet also humble and accepting. We will prove that power sometimes does not corrupt. We will be a moral and just compass in the current polarized eWorld. We will be uniquely eFRoSEAn.
Above all, we will remain true to our vision, and always stay true to our hearts.
Thank you.
Vikta
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vikta for president 😃
You avoided the hard part of it:
From where you'll draw the funds for the continued military spending and of the 10-15 MYR gift to level 5 newbies. Also from level 5 to level 6 it takes only like two days. And at level 6 they'd get 5 gold anyhow.
Also it's Sol, not SOL, pretty please.😃
Btw I don't think FRoSEA has been a mediocre nation thus far, that's a bit insulting that you imply that or something similar. It's not only the size of the population that matters. A country can be a nice and even significant place and not mediocre at all even with a low population.
Good luck anyhow.
From the current tax income and printing money and the donations income. As the economy grows due to the increase population, more tax revenue and printing money income flow in, creating a upward spiraling cycle.
There are traditionally huge mortality rates between level 5 and 6, and also between levels 3 and 4 but if desired another level can be selected.
Right. Changed to Sol 😛
It is mediocre in what it possible could achieve, mainly due to the restrictions of population. True, not only the size of the population matters, it is also the activity rate, discipline and other factors, but I would say that the population is absolutely the overriding factor. A country can be nice and small yes, but would you choose a nice and small country or a nice and large country?
Thank you.
Being large is not a merit in my opinion. I might very well choose the small one, depends on the other factors. Of course it's nice to be big and have more citizens but other things are way more important for my enjoyment of the game as an e-citizen of a country.🙂
Btw I don't like to look at printing money as a source of income even if it brings us considerable amount of money. If you do it you might hypothetically end up in a situation where you'd need income from printing to finance the running costs whereas the situation on the monetary market doesn't justify it.
I mean it can lead to an inflation of our currency if you increase expenditure counting on printing to cover it. Not necessarily, but it might happen.
VITKA!!!!! FOR PREZ!!!
"From the current tax income and printing money and the donations income. As the economy grows due to the increase population, more tax revenue and printing money income flow in, creating a upward spiraling cycle."
Vikta - that sounds like what our RL Finance Minister and Prime Ministers like to say. "We are going to spend all this money now, and with forecasted development and foreign direct investment, we will recoup everything, creating an added valued economy.".
I like your vision of greatness, but your plans have shown nothing in relations to greatness - apart from creating a baby boom. I think a baby recruitment drive is great - but before that, i would strongly urge both platforms (presidents) to refine the Ministry of Education first. If you can't even retain your current 300+ new babies, i doubt you will have the time or the ability to PM the 3000+ babies you aim to recruit.
Like RL politicians - some ideals are good - and some are just fantasies. I believe both presidents should STOP promising the sky, and draw out significant changes they can bring about to FRoSEA.
Thank you. Voted for the article. All Citizens should read and comment.
I don't agree with your 4000 population desire. It'll just have FRoSEA become more boring, harder to be noticed, and it would just become less like FRoSEA or malaysia.
CDV: My advocacy for the manipulation of the laffer curve is perfectly implementable. I don't see you raising any evidence otherwise; you have merely said that it is a 'fantasy' and I am promising 'the sky'. 😒
In eRepublik a country's strength ultimately comes down to one factor - its population.
I won't have time to PM the 3000+ babies? I have PMed every baby that has come through my ads (almost 800 now). I did not say a lump sum of 3000+ babies, it is in manageable stages.
Jeff Shiiste: I want a 4000+ population that would break the normal cycle of eNations to be one that is tight knit and closed, and stay true our FRoSEA values.
Go Vikta! You have the flow and the knowledge to take it somewhere. We can grow and become stronger and have a large active population. I believe you are the person to take us there. Good luck!
Vikta we stand beside you to the top. Presidency of FRoSEA deserves a man like you.
Ali Rahimi Ferdosnezhad
SELU Chief Executive Officer
First and foremost, coming from Vikta ads I do find his add catchy in some point, thanks for inviting me to this interesting concept of e-government and I do hope to stay here for as long as I can, I would like to agree with the thread starter that being unable to do alot of things does seems to make everyone leave the game after the first few days but that does not stop people who are feeling adventurous. Personally there is no point spending money on every babies that enters the country, what they need is proper guidance, say.. and e-book on how'd the game goes from level 1-xx , and the best way to get there, or maybe a trough explanation on every function, not in wiki, but from personal experience of all of you here as the first few resident that has more experiences than us babies here.
-Balistix
@Balistix: My colleagues in the Congress and my mates from the DAP are working towards an e-book instruction, aiming towards a non-partisan assistance/guide to the new babyboomers. you can view a sample of the article here:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/newbie-guide-101-beyond-level-5-preliminary--959433/1/20" target="_blank">http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/newb[..]1/20
@Vikta: Laffer curve aye? I forget to add in my congressional resume that I am a trained economist (graduated with major in macroeconomics). So i am pretty familiar with monetary and taxation policies as well as the so-called Laffer curve. allow me to quote you:
"As the economy grows due to the increase population, more tax revenue and printing money income flow in, creating a upward spiraling cycle."
1. Increase population - increase tax revenues overall(Yes).
2. Printing money income - might and might not raise.
3. Does increase tax revenues necessarily equate increase government reserves/monies - only if the government does not go bankrupt beforehand.
4. In no circumstances that i foresee an upward spiral.
5. An unproductive population, with substantial amount of wellness gift required from your Social Office, is just as bad.
6. A large population, with meager wages and limited production (due to earlier high taxes) would result in eUSA. we all know how 'great' economical life is at e-USA.
Successful utilisation of babyboom as with eIndonesia and eHungary is what we need. That would mean, as i offered/suggested earlier: excellent structured education program and exciting media/citizenship/politics environment within the country.
I just wholeheartedly disagree with the whole notion of keeping babies in the game by donating them money. They need to be educated and entertained. Donating money for this and that won't make the game more appealing for them in my opinion.
Foremost they need to be taught how to fish, not given fish. Helping them to keep at / climb back to 40 wellness and to relocate to Peninsular Malaysia is I think good enough for material help. The more important part is educating them how to keep wellness high and so on.
If you want a functionable baby-boom, you should do two thing one before and one during the boom.
Before the boom you should ready the economy to hold such numerous new players - mean q1 food at the very beginning will dramatically cleaned from the market. Some reserves will be a must not to starve out the whole branch of newbies.
During the boom your first and foremost goal is to merge the babies into smaller groups - it is a social game at all and 90% of fun comes from interacting with other people not to pushing buttons 3 minutes a day. Able mentor-system is required as well as vivid forums/media just as Carr de Vaux said.
And finally: yes it will be a turning point. You should decide well before what to do with your power. Stay non-angressive mode is just not an option. I do not encourage any kind of agressive stance but it will come in hand with more player higher level military rank stronger economy and increasing self-confidence.
So time to plan time to choose a way to go. Good luck for that.
Fragreg
If you do not have an active social circle for newbies, they are likely to take the grow my character path, to get a sense of acomplishment. Working+training is 2xp, fighting is 10xp for a day. Guess how popular a peaceful approach is going to be.
Agreed with Nagyzee's last comment. To retain members they must work to achieve their own means and create their own fun. Taking care of them to meet your own wants/needs will only make the game less fun for them and increase the possibility of them quitting.
I'm sorry, but I couldn't read the article, I'm saving it for later, I only read the comments for now and so this comment only applies to them.
President candidate,
I would like to hear how do you see our nation's security system. As far I know, we didn't have a 5Q defense system. I'm quite concern with the rising of eIndonesia's military minded citizen lately.So, what is your opinion?
Looking forward for your reply.
Regards,
SeanLam
opssss... one more point,
How do you see the future of FRoSEA and eSingapore. Shall be merge together under the FRoSEA umbrealla? We need to be strong in order to offset the future threat..
Regards,
SeanLam
Truthfully seanlam I think that if eIndonesia decides to attack us, no amount of defense systems are going to stop them.
The idea of allowing the platoon leaders to have complete control over allocating resources is a good one.
Im unsure as to the 10-15 award for level 5. Sure when I was that level it would have nice (hell it would be nice right now), but I seriously think that creating a social network would be more achievable and more successful.
I agree with your foreign affairs and retaining Nagyzee is a good idea.
Honestly based on the platforms I'm still undecided as who would be the best candidate.
@Thomas,
Then shall we build more hospital inline with the growing of citizen at FRoSEA...
eIndonesia is the greatest threat to FRoSEA I guess, based on what had them done to eAustralia...