PANAM founded, Eden to be torn apart – The end of a bipolar world is near.

Day 1,134, 15:32 • Published in USA USA • by Sossu

During the past months and years the world of eRepublik has seen many failed attempts to diversify the sphere of global politics. Small, regional alliances have been formed but they have always fallen due to inadept leadership or to the lack of larger nations who didn’t have the nerve to quit their trusted alliances and try something new instead. Since 2008, eRepublik has been split between North America, China, Scandinavia, Spain, Romania, Croatia, Poland and Greece forming one side, fighting against Serbia, Hungary, Russia, Indonesia, South America, Western Europe and Turkey. The rest of the world’s nations have been split between these power players to serve their needs to a more or less extent. The changes on the geopolitical map have always been carried out through direct invasions instead of diplomacy and changing sides. The most notable example of a nation totally switching allegiances is of course the United Kingdom, who significantly influenced to the course of history by turning to PEACE back in 2009. Apart from UK, and Ukraine and Bosnia who have swung both ways due to having large masses of people supporting different alliances, no large changes have happened. Until the very recent weeks.

The eternal order of having two superalliances is suddenly starting to falter and decay very quickly. The foregoers were Latvia and Italy who made the risky decision of quitting Phoenix despite located in hazardous areas in terms of geopolitical safety. The risk paid off extremely well, though Latvia encountered some setbacks on the way. Both nations waged successful campaigns after joining Eden and even today Italy is holding captured regions from both Austria and Germany. These two nations paved the way for Bulgaria to rethink their stance on the global chessboard as well. The real bombshell however was the announcement of Brazil to quit Phoenix altogether due to the dissonances with Hungary over the regions of South Africa. Instead of joining Eden however, Brazil decided to stay neutral, probably being the first truly neutral nation in the game’s history. Brazil has the luxury of defining their foreign policy as they see fit due to them being the only unquestionable regional superpower in South America. By doing the unthinkable and signing peace with their age-old Spanish enemies, Brazil closed the only serious threat against them, freeing them from the burden of being a somewhat second-grade member of Phoenix and giving them the liberty to find new friends, such as us here in the America.


Which one is the pig-disgusting?

Portuguese-speaking Argentinians, Nippon America and Maple-syrup producers, or PANAM, an eligible third option?

This extraordinary convergence between USA and Brazil is the final step towards pursuing for a multipolar world. After America left Eden, the cooperation remained practically at the same level. America most certainly even continued paying fees to Eden as the military goals were so similar for the two parties. The recent takeoff in foreign politics can evolve to being the start of the first true third alliance in eRepublik. In Krems’s today’s announcement article of PANAM, USA, Brazil, Argentina, Canada and Japan are listed as the founding members. The concentration of member nations to the continents of America is a sign that PANAM’s operating range will be limited to pursue the imminent interests of the member nations.
To make PANAM a force to be reckoned with, this must be the ultimate guiding line of the alliance and the backbone of the future charter. To make PANAM a strong and an effective regional force, two things that have brought superalliances down must be remembered.

First: Not to have too weak members.
On its finest hour, PEACE GC had about half of the world as its members. Too weak members are a nuisance, a security threat and an expense. PANAM should avoid having too weak members in order to stay compact, effective and equal for all members. Small members usually are awarded from their help by granting them membership. This can be seen in the hastened membership handling of Italy in to Eden after they changed sides and blocked Hungary from reaching France’s territories again. PANAM’s future power will rely to complete hegemony of home turf. The entire North America belongs to the alliance and there is no need to accept for example Bolivia to be a full member as they are neither a threat nor an asset due to their weakness. If there are resources that are needed, the regions can be invaded like Argentina is doing right now.

Seeing Japan being taken in as a full member right from the start is perplexing. Just because we made a region rental agreement with them, though a very profitable one, should not be the only reason why they get to be in PANAM. They are not the biggest militarily, they’re on a completely different time zone and quite frankly I don’t see them as else but being a hang-around in PANAM. Should we take Ireland in as well as they are good guys too, and we rent regions from them?

Secon😛 Not to act as world police.

Being Captain ATLANTIS and PEACEkeepers is a central part of superalliance’s concept. Eden and Phoenix are continuously trying to antagonize each other in order to convince new nations to join, keep the old ones attracted to it and to save face from their own shady business. Portraying the other side as the dark side keeps the alliance united and focused on one goal, destroying that evil. PANAM doesn’t have that need to prove itself to the rest of the world. If the alliance is founded to advance it’s members interests instead of countering a roughly equal force, there is no need for world policing. For instance, the RW campaign in South Africa is something PANAM wouldn’t have to divert it’s forces.

Eden waged a long and an expensive RW campaign against Brazil in order to liberate South Africa. The goal of the campaign was to look good in the eyes of the world and cause financial harm to Brazil and Phoenix. Today we turn a blind eye to the occupation of South Africa by the very same Brazil we once fought so keenly. Once we make our alliance formal, we are approving the occupation as it makes PANAM stronger. One could say we are acting against our principals, but the other could say liberation tours are just plain hypocrisy. It’s good business if the liberated country later evolves in to a serious force and shows gratitude in the future, but that’s just what foreign policy is in essence. Bargaining. Unconditional love is hard to find in foreign policy, instead it is a net of contracts that benefit both parties of the deal. If PANAM doesn’t take the burden of being the good guy, it doesn’t have to reluctantly liberate hardly fought regions to their true owner just to look better than the other side. In between the white and black that Eden and Phoenix represent, PANAM can bring the variety of shades of gray. In between good and evil, PANAM can bring realism and opportunism.

Protecting small members can be seen as a form of world policing too. If Japan for some reason would get attacked and lose regions, it could create internal tension inside PANAM and make it look weak to the outside. The best protection of an alliance is having equally strong members. Eden was at its best when there were just 8 members, so was the Brolliance when it equaled to USA and Canucks. Phoenix has been spared from internal conflicts by being under the iron fist of the three superpowers, but the price for carrying poor and weak members along was being eternally inferior to Eden in terms of military successes.

One thing is for certain, in the current atmosphere, PANAM can’t be an independent alliance capable of attacking as well as defending. Even with Brazil out of Phoenix, the battle between Eden and Phoenix with their current members leaves no room for a third alliance to actively pursue their goals i.e. wage invasion wars. This brings us to the other hot topic of foreign policy this week, an internal rupture within Eden that could bring it down and open an opportunity for PANAM to grow to be a serious player on the global stage.

[Take a breather – You’ve read over half of the article already!]

Polish-Romanian crisis puts Eden to the brink – A possible union with Hungary could transform the power balance for good.

Poland and Hungary, two nations sharing warm ties in real life have found themselves from a similar situation in game. Both nations are trapped to the maze that’s called Europe, and while Poland is handling the situation a bit better with the invasion of France (translation needed) in search of rubber, ultimately they are in the exact same situation with Hungary, that is infinite boredom and the curse of the cyclic wars.

The critical mass is nearly fulfilled. Hungary and Poland are surrounded with either friends or too easy targets. They can’t wage exciting but still successful campaigns. After a brief period of Eden hegemony, the power balance has returned to the point where both alliances can barely wipe easy targets like Australia or Germany, but can only try to invade the real core regions, as can be seen in the dreadful attempts of Hungary and Romania, poking each other’s original regions.

The game is more boring than ever, the war module is kind of cool but strategy has disappeared and no real wars can be waged with the current alliances. To make the game exciting again on the fields of war, there must be a profound change to the alliances. Poland and Hungary are carefully probing if the time is right to abandon their old alliances and form something that will rock the world and make the game exciting again. It won’t be easy or fast, it might not even happen, but the dissent that used to be just a running gag in the cabinets of power has now escaped to the media and getting considerable support from both nations. The tensions between Romania and Poland are growing, and despite the president of Poland is denying any attempts to break out from Eden, elections are nearing and everyday puns such as Eden Supreme Commander’s, President of Romania’s, Bogdan_L😒 depiction of some members of the Polish congress as trolls is just what is needed for the two Eden superpowers to drift apart and tear Eden at the same time.


Smear campaigns run wild.

Meanwhile, America can only twiddle their thumbs and look intensely to the diplomatic tensions in Europe. PANAM is just in it’s early stage, and it can’t make independent foreign policy just yet. We should still support Eden just as Brazil is supporting Phoenix by signing a MPP with Slovenia to back their attempt to invade Italy.

Speaking of Italy, if we are to commit to PANAM 100 percent, we have to limit our friends. If our focus shall concentrate to the imminent proximity of our nation, we will have little to no in common with countries such as Croatia in the future. Croats are good, perhaps the best friends we have in Europe, but if we continue to protect their interests in the future, it will be away from the full potential of PANAM. We will find ourselves balancing between our own interest and that of others, just like we do today. As Krems put it in his today’s article, we need to flip the bird to Europe if we want to make PANAM as great as it can be.

Poland and Hungary face the same issue today as well. They must weight which one is more important, an exciting gaming experience or loyalty to age-old friends. However, they must study themselves and find out, do they really defend countries like Romania and Serbia out of true, genuine friendship or just out of obligation. Pleading to ancient favors is a sign that these two nations have nothing in common today. Poland doesn’t owe anything to Romania, nor do we owe anything to Europe.
It’s like Poland is dating a fat chick out of sheer sympathy. Breaking up with her will feel bad and make you feel like you’re a bad person, but it will feel the right decision at least when you meet a smoking chick called Hungary.

There is a possibility that everything will continue as it is, but things can go otherwise, history can be written and the bipolarity of the world can be shaken. I don’t know about you, but I am up to forgetting the past and starting to create a new exciting future with organizations like PANAM and Polgary. I want to play a game where the burning question isn’t: which country Poland is going to attack next, but: which country are we going to attack next or even better: which countries are planning to tag team and attack us? Abandoning the safety that Eden brings us is a bold and possibly a dangerous move, but maybe that is exactly which will take our nation, Poland and the entire world out of this consuming boredom and stagnation.

I’m greasing my gun already. Erm... I mean I told Jorge and Guillermo to grease it for me. Good job invading Mexico guys, now the border that separates the illegal immigrants from a higher standard of living is between USA and Canada. British Columbia where I reside, is the new California.