The Economist ~ Presidential update week 1
Day 3,858, 02:26
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Dear friends
I will try to keep this relatively brief. We have had a very successful first week- and I know that because my direct intervention has been rarely required and our ministries have more or less run themselves. I want to start with a huge thank you to Talon Karrde, Paul Tyndale, Mr Immanuel Kant and of course Huey George for their hard work over this last week getting articles out, resetting all our organisations and setting up government for the coming term. I would also like to offer some words of encouragement to the new players working with them in government- it is early days and there’s a lot to take in. Whatever happens you will always be rewarded for trying hard and getting good work done.
Defence and Foreign Affairs
There are no significant wars of concern going on right now world wide. Our current training war with Croatia had a bit of a hiccup earlier this week when Croatia mistakenly attacked the wrong region, however it was resolved very quickly and with almost no consequences. I want to remind citizens to fight for the eUK in our resistance wars- this is part of our agreement with Croatia. It also gets you freedom fighter medals.
In terms of foreign affairs, we have been working making contacts with governments around the world. We’ve had some top level communications regarding training wars, but as I said in my manifesto I feel one training war is all the UK can manage and I am happy with our current situation. In general our position is secure at present.
Home Affairs
New Player Friday has been safely transitioned to the new Minister of Home Affairs and had a successful run. Due to technical difficulties we are having problems finding new players the old fashioned way, so if you’re a new player and want to be included in our schemes (but are not currently receiving NPF messages) please send Talon Karrde a mail and he will add you to the list.
We ran our first national lottery last weekend and had 30 participants. Congratulations to Pannonian Nomad who won. For future reference, writing “If I don’t win it’s a scam” in the comments does not guarantee success. Please do participate- the more people who enter the bigger the prize. In future we may look at making the lottery more complex but we will see how the trial goes firstly.
Talon is also working on other ideas for entertainment and games so if you have any please do drop him a line.
Congress
We had some drama at the beginning of the month with certain congress members trolling the congress thread with comments about RL religions, races and so forth, much as they do on the national feed. In order to prevent that, the congress thread has been split in two with the main troublemakers (all PCP congress members) in one thread, and everyone else in the other. Congress has been very sensible since then so I’ll mark it as a success, even if it is unfortunate we have to take such drastic measures in the first day of a new government.
Congress also voted on a change to our Work Tax this week. In line with my own manifesto goal we have lowered our tax rate from 3% to 2%. This will still cover all of our expenses and allow us a small surplus each month, and will make working as manager more viable for our citizens. Hopefully this will encourage citizens to reinvest the extra money in training grounds and companies. The recommendation to congress was made following a discussion with Huey George who knows our finances far better than I do.
Thank you for reading,
Iain
Dear friends
I will try to keep this relatively brief. We have had a very successful first week- and I know that because my direct intervention has been rarely required and our ministries have more or less run themselves. I want to start with a huge thank you to Talon Karrde, Paul Tyndale, Mr Immanuel Kant and of course Huey George for their hard work over this last week getting articles out, resetting all our organisations and setting up government for the coming term. I would also like to offer some words of encouragement to the new players working with them in government- it is early days and there’s a lot to take in. Whatever happens you will always be rewarded for trying hard and getting good work done.
Defence and Foreign Affairs
There are no significant wars of concern going on right now world wide. Our current training war with Croatia had a bit of a hiccup earlier this week when Croatia mistakenly attacked the wrong region, however it was resolved very quickly and with almost no consequences. I want to remind citizens to fight for the eUK in our resistance wars- this is part of our agreement with Croatia. It also gets you freedom fighter medals.
In terms of foreign affairs, we have been working making contacts with governments around the world. We’ve had some top level communications regarding training wars, but as I said in my manifesto I feel one training war is all the UK can manage and I am happy with our current situation. In general our position is secure at present.
Home Affairs
New Player Friday has been safely transitioned to the new Minister of Home Affairs and had a successful run. Due to technical difficulties we are having problems finding new players the old fashioned way, so if you’re a new player and want to be included in our schemes (but are not currently receiving NPF messages) please send Talon Karrde a mail and he will add you to the list.
We ran our first national lottery last weekend and had 30 participants. Congratulations to Pannonian Nomad who won. For future reference, writing “If I don’t win it’s a scam” in the comments does not guarantee success. Please do participate- the more people who enter the bigger the prize. In future we may look at making the lottery more complex but we will see how the trial goes firstly.
Talon is also working on other ideas for entertainment and games so if you have any please do drop him a line.
Congress
We had some drama at the beginning of the month with certain congress members trolling the congress thread with comments about RL religions, races and so forth, much as they do on the national feed. In order to prevent that, the congress thread has been split in two with the main troublemakers (all PCP congress members) in one thread, and everyone else in the other. Congress has been very sensible since then so I’ll mark it as a success, even if it is unfortunate we have to take such drastic measures in the first day of a new government.
Congress also voted on a change to our Work Tax this week. In line with my own manifesto goal we have lowered our tax rate from 3% to 2%. This will still cover all of our expenses and allow us a small surplus each month, and will make working as manager more viable for our citizens. Hopefully this will encourage citizens to reinvest the extra money in training grounds and companies. The recommendation to congress was made following a discussion with Huey George who knows our finances far better than I do.
Thank you for reading,
Iain
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I won't share the comments made, but spamming the Congress chat with borderline racist comments, and then being removed after repeated requests to stop, is not me being an elitist.
There was a discussion if ePalestine would be added, would we support eIsrael or ePalestine.
And as I sad in a comment below, why were some removed if they didn't say anything?
That's ok, cuz we did...
https://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-euk-beware-racism-everywhere--2673575/1/20
I like how it's slowly downgrading every time you defend your action. You fired up with "trolling the congress thread with comments about RL religions, races" which sounds really bad.
Then it's spamming with "borderline racist comments", then furtherdown it's just "spam about the crusades is disruptive". Begs the question: which reason was everybody actually removed for? You've cited a few different ones, but never in the same place, and all of them don't apply to all the individuals.
Use the government newspaper, not your own...
I can use whatever paper I like, thanks.
Yes you can, but it only shows you are a bellend...
My heart bleeds for you.
ok
Whatever the reason, it would be appriopiate to use the gouvernements one for gouvs things and the other for other things, doesn't it?
sanitary or what?
it makes a difference? o.O
Yes it does.
How? I can't see how it makes a difference.
(Genuinely asking like, is there a game mechanics reason? Because if it's just because it's a PMs newspaper then.. eh, who gives a fuck? lol)
Ah, I see, now it is OK. It was a problem in the past, but oh well... But not even that, he also put his newspaper's name in the title, but hey, as you said, who gives a f...hehe
Well it's nice to have our history in easy to find places.
Not a big deal, but I sometimes have occasion to look for old CP articles for fact-checking purposes, so it would be nice if they were all in the official PM newspaper
If the CP ain't willing to use an official paper, then maybe once his term is up, the next guy can at least link the articles in an official CP paper?
1. Generally better for fact checking in the future
2. Endorsements for government papers would go into the government orgs, therefore the government profits. Endorsements when spite does them in his own paper go to spite directly, not govt. If the govt accounts can get a tiny bit of extra money that's generally a tiny bit better.
"the congress thread has been split in two with the main troublemakers (all PCP congress members) in one thread"
Ludgate, Abraxaas, Zaphod, they wrote nothing, so they are a problem because?
Btw, I don't know about my party colleagues, but I left his Mickey Mouse new thread with only PCP members.
Dividing the thread has caused no issues that I can tell and has fixed all of the problems. Therefore it is a good solution. Next time don't be so obnoxious and it won't need to happen.
I will always be obnoxious about everything that involves you.
I suppose it's normal for children to throw their toys out of the pram when they don't get their own way.
Nah, it is just that you are a ****** (I have to many FPs, so can't say it), don't have a problem with your cabinet members, even have them on my friends list, but you are just really one big piece of ****
You would know, seeing as you let the UK get PTOd by PN's kin and ran away after the last time you lost an election. 🙂
Also, you didn't answer why the PCP members who said nothing were still segregated.
I understand that when I called you out as a petty tyrant, censoring me fixed the problem of your cognitive dissonance, but that doesn't explain the segregation of the ones who said nothing.
It's simple really. It is now expected that PCP members will act like a Wayne. You've all done a good job in making yourselves look like a joke and now that's how your party is being treated.
Is it sad? Yes. But then if PCP has stopped spamming and had contributed there would have been 0 issues.
Dapper was easier to deal with... and more adult about shizz xD
Once again, Cherry, I fail to see a valid reason for segregating those who said nothing, other than "all people from this group are the same". I thought that was what we were accused of saying?
But in any case, it's not surprising to see the populace support censorship when it benefits them nowadays. One can only hope you will learn to stick up for what's right even when you don't like the people that are oppressed, but that would require a level of maturity that I do not expect from people like Keers or Cherry ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's actually hilarious that someone who thinks posting Jew jokes is funny is trying to give a lecture on maturity.
What is wrong with jew jokes? I have Jewish ancestors and I am a big supporter of Israel in RL.
Asking for my cousin who lives in Tel Aviv...
@Mr Cherry "It is now expected that PCP members will act like a Wayne"
OK? People have been doing that since he returned to the game and the UKPP...
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Of course they lump us all together, Roachford. They don't know anything other than identity politics... we are the 'white, cis-men' of eUK, even though we harbour Jews, Blacks, Asians and Gay's in our ranks.
Knowing Keers' RL political beliefs, is it any wonder 'RACISM' is being shouted?
If you were in charge of administering the death penalty to prisoners in a prison, and got all the ones that actually deserved it according to the rules but then also threw on 3 random guys who didn't fit the criteria for execution, have you done a good job?
If you want a dumbed down version (us PCP members are all immature, after all), think of the Skyrim opening, before Alduin attacks Helgen. Are the imperials doing their job well when they decide to put the dragonborn on the execution block, even though they're not on the list?
Ethical dilemma [thicc amount of thinking emojis]
I prefer it when Macho Man Randy Savage attacks Helgen. Although that's a mod, so I guess it doesn't count... 😉
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNaTZV8qS1I
Much as I like Trainwiz's most excellent version of Alduin, the Macho Man will always be my favourite. Oooooh, yeah!
The reason can be very good, when one, two or more individual of one party or whatever, split those individual whom does in your opinion, do not split or punish one other. One human, one vote. One punish, one punish.
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Unfortunately when PCP members were presented with an alternative (A secondary Congress thread where we could spam and do what we like. If a congress member wants to leave, they can, because the serious talk is elsewhere) they completely ignored it, like they do with any idea that has merit.
If PCP congress members want to get involved, the old thread is still there, all they have to do is be productive.
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Yeah, cool alternative, we already have a group message for the party...
And serious discussions? Congress? Any serious opinions given in the past were PCP members, even when I was calling out the others to give an opinion, nothing.
but tbh, we are there to press buttons, for me asking Congress is just to have an alibi if you fail, like that former CP that went to war with Ireland, what was his name, Dish something...
And let us not mention the constitutional dictatorship thing, when the most serious discussion the Congress managed was to elect a new speaker.
This game didn't start last week.
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The old thread is still there, is spite still reading it? Did any other congressmen leave the thread (they added a button for it a while back). Is it at all productive to force a good number of congressmen to have to constantly choose between whether the CP or the rest of congress hears any proposals?
How 'productive' has congress been since their removal? Spite certainly hasn't reported much of importance to us naughty boys in the plebs PM.
Congratulations for showing everyone just how petty and tyrannical you can be when you don't get your own way by segregating Congress.
Boo hoo. Don't be horrible racists and you won't be removed form the civilised thread.
Please point out where I have been racist *ANYWHERE* in eRep. I'd love to know...