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Greetings fellow citizens, Irish and Germans,

Let me start out by saying that I really appreciate the attention, and that Google is a wonderful tool. I’m not one you’d expect to do his homework, but at least I have been bestowed with the great gift of metaphorical prose. While I’m not one to degenerate into attacks like the UK’s local Chav coalition, I will say that the attention that he decides to spend on me could be better spent on himself being productive makes me blush, tbf. Each day, I shake with anticipation, and hope that I can keep motoring right along at the pace I am, even at my advanced age.

Those of you who have read my previous article have noticed the introduction of our newest innovation; the CABULL. The CABULL is the si😜art plan designed to introduce a fair bit of new blood to British society.

We currently utilise our great collection of bitter oldfags everywhere, and nowhere. Our president, for example, is an oldfag, your advisory system is full of oldfags, army command contains old milfags, even the recurring house of lords proposal contains oldfags!

I doubt most people had a think about what would happen when these ever essential oldfags suddenly quit the game.
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Yes, nothing would happen. As there would be nobody capable of replacing these people.
I see this as quite a problem, it would be most unpleasant if the Irish invaded and we had nobody capable of defending the UK, luckily, I have my brain’s right hemisphere with which to focus on luring new players to eRepublik, and then training them.



Most essential in this is my cabinet, which will be:
Prime Minister: Frerk
Deputy Prime Minister: Dishmcds
Minister of Defense: Artela
Minister of Foreign Affairs: Polio
Minister of Finances: Smack
Minister of Home Affairs: Fetaboxtrot the gallant

As for the Ministries themselves, we’ll be cutting all the sh!t positions, and going back to a consolidated, centralised Government, to which anyone can apply for. This means that we’ll have a decent amount of under-ministers and similar positions to which newer blood can apply, all to ensure that we will have both an efficient government, and a fresh amount of people ready to become ministers and get our country rolling.


Frerk’s Awesome Manifesto, and How We’re Going to Earn Your Vote

There are plenty of things that we could sit here and read, that would make you want to vote for me. I thought I’d list just a few of them just so you know you’ll be in capable hands this next month:


A Beginners Guide to Achieving World Peace

Now, I know what you’re thinking. ‘FRERK, WORLD PEACE IS SO BORING’. Well, you’re right.

World Peace would be rather boring, but as a Great Man once sai😛 ‘Peace can only be achieved through war.’

This wise man could have been me, but it was not. I recall saying that invading Ireland while we have more pressing matters is retarded, well, I still stand by that statement. What we’re doing now is stupid, because besides ruining any chance at getting into a decent alliance we’re also ignoring the actual problems our country has.

But I digress. Earlier this month we left TERRA after our congress felt we did not gain from TERRA that which was initially promised when we joined, and while I respect the choice congress has made I would like to stress that we can not keep switching sides.(Oh, and helping an alliance invading another alliance is not “neutral”, we’re just fighting for multiple sides, again.)
My foreign policy will be centered about respect, friendship and dignity, words which have lost its meaning.

This is where Understanding comes into play; we have our own goals as a country (herpireland), but we must also understand that other countries have those as well. We can not recklessly do what we feel like doing while still trying to make friends, it will get us or our friends in trouble.

I have taken on Polio as my MoFA because he’s an experienced choice, and I know I can rely on his abilities. Polio alone won’t do the trick however, he needs people to help him and support him. While Artela is a very inspiring person to work with, a couple of diplomats and ambassadors would suit him better, and in my experience as MoFA it is one hell of a job to find good and most important willing players for this. Luckily there exists such a thing as incentives. Aside from respect and experience our hard working staff will be rewarded with actual items.(You know, food and weapons?)


I like artillery

Key in attacking and defending countries is our military. Our military has been the pride of our nation for ages, and is still a strong part of our country. Another force to be reckoned with however are the militias. I feel that the time has come to actively support these militias.
By allowing the militias access to the orders our dear Minister of Defense hands out we can gain gratuitous amounts of firepower.

Using the Big Society Act we can partially fund these militias, allowing for an even bigger increase in firepower for a relatively small price.

Yes, this will cost us extra money, but it will also mean that we actually stand a chance should our congress ever decide to randomly NE a country (Ireland). As a wise man once said ‘You can not expect to win battles without spending gold.’.

What I will say next will shock army personnel, but is necessary nonetheless.

I still remember when somebody stole something from the army, and only after Iain and I exerted a considerable amount of our influence did we get a part of it back.

Since the admins are commencing the next stage of their plans the army is more or less being forced to move their companies to their citizen accounts, they will gain a very nice 25% productivity bonus. While this is indeed very nice it also raises a few issues. I, and I’d expect a lot of people too share the apprehension to transferring thousands of gold worth of companies to citizens.

While I do understand that it’s necessary, I think that in return it is only fair that we boost the amount of accountability the army has - after all government assets are being transferred to private citizens - and thus should not carelessly put everything on citizen accounts. In some way giving congress or a similar organ power to decide or at least share their opinion on military matters might solve this issue, meaning that the actual elected bodies maintain a form of control.


Free food every day!
Recruitment, retention, and all that really matters

The most important part of a country is without doubt its population, everything that makes up a country is based on its people. It is this very same population that can also break a country.
It disturbs me to see the lack of an effective increase in population, combined with our ever increasing stagnancy.

I believe the Ministry of Recruitment should run in and involve the public, and that is how the ministry operated under my previous administration and how it shall operate upon my victory. This works very well, and previously instigated our first rise in population since the start of V2. I feel that it might be a good idea to advertise this even more, and hand out additional rewards for players putting in the effort of recruiting.

I think I should add here that it is not a terribly hard job to post erepublik advertisements at each external forum you can find, but that it does actually yield results.

Either way I can not and will not promise a baby boom. In a country like the UK it is nearly impossible to get a baby boom without spending a lot of money on advertising, money which we do not have.

Even so we would not profit from gaining 10,000 citizens in one day. We would gain far more from making sure that the 40 per day we get are active and are able to say what they want, being respected for doing so. Therefore I find it pretty ridiculous that we as government do not directly attempt to get players to the forums. Most players on the forums come from programs and mass messaging of parties, and I find it odd that we as government with far more resources do not directly help new players.

The main focus of the MoHA will thus be the recruitment and retention of what is the lifeblood of our community - it’s new players.

Another essential point to any good government or president is communication. By keeping citizens up to date we can make sure people are always prepared and stay involved.
I myself will make daily announcements on the forums which will explain what we did in detail, and I will make bi-weekly articles in-game as well which serve the same purpose. My intent is not, however, to be completely transparent, as especially military and FA transparency can cause serious issues if information is released prematurely, but to inform the public of our wider goings on and try to generate in-game interest of what happens on the forums.

Another important aspect of our community that deviates from the transparency or retention duties that often fall under the purview of domestic policy, is the ability to have fun, play games, and win prizes. We have to not only keep ourselves entertained with our forums and games but also create a fun atmosphere on the forums that is truly representative of the eUK as a community. After all, entertainment and games has two large advantages, and they can be in the simplest terms described as recruitment and retention through fun.

In other words, regular games, celebrations (Vive le Monarchie) and prizes not only attract people to the forums in the first place, but give them a reason to stick around. From a broader perspective, they also give a large scope of the community a reason to stay - after all, what happens in game can at times be mundane whilst what occurs on the forums is always fluid, interesting and fun.

So what have we got planned this month? I hear you shout. We shall maintain the standard of 2 week long celebrations, manifesting themselves not only in the glorious monarch week but in the prestigious [Your Name Here] week in which one of you, as in YOU can be nominated to have a week worth of events and cash prices held in your honour. Pretty cool, right? On top of that, a consistent level of cash prizes and forum games will be handed out and operated throughout to month to keep a steady level in interest going - people shouldn’t only want to play games and win prizes for 2 weeks of the month. We should aim to keep people entertained all month round.Remember, these things aren’t for our own enjoyment. These things are meant to drive activity through the forums, give away free stuff (which was outlined in the MoHA), and improve recruitment through the Army. We must tie all of these things together to be successful, since we not only want to have fun out of game, but we absolutely must be successful in game.


For those of you who have read this far; good work. You will also have noticed how I have not yet included anything on economics or finance in my manifesto, whilst I have written that I shall have a minister of Finance. Well, truth is that there is not much the government can do as far as economics go. Since economies change the moment the admins decide that they have found a new way of getting people to buy gold it is practically uncontrollable. Thus a concerted government effort to control any markets would be, whilst the economic module may still change, a waste of assets.

The only thing we can still control is the expenditure of the government, something which we only partly decide as with the Parliamentary Budget Act congress decides on how much we are able to spend on which ministry. Luckily I have taken on Smack to ensure this all happens the way congress wishes it.

ZE END


I hope to have given you a small preview of what I am going to do when elected. Conveniently enough I have put this Irish flag here for those of you who scrolled to the end to see my views on Ireland. If you really want to know those views, read the article starting at the British flag.

Thanks to the United Kingdom Worker Party and the Alliance for Power and Prosperity for supporting my gratuitous amounts of manitude.

On the 5th vote HERMANOS, because, tbf, we are just cool

With love,
Frerk and Dish,
Awesome CABULL candidates