The race for Presidency: Choose Mursu
Day 710, 03:32
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by Lauri Mursu
Who am I?
I’m Lauri Mursu, a politician who came to eJapan from eFinland about 6 months ago. My life in eRepublik began about 400 days ago and I was born in eNorway, as they occupied eFinland during that time. I had back then I didn’t really get into the game, so my playing was really random and most of the time I just bought food for my eCitizen so that he wouldn’t die. Perhaps I knew back then that I was destined to play this game actively some day. As I said, I came to eJapan 6 months ago when I got fed up with the politics of eFinland. We were a big bunch of Finnish politicians that came to Japan, but I’m now the only one remaining. I’ve grew kinda fond of Japan, I like it’s citizens and politicians. I’ve been acting as the Minister of Foreign Affairs for 3 months now, and this will now change!
Now I feel I’m up for the ultimate challenge of activity in Erepublik. Country Presidency. I have decided to run this month as I feel that eJapan can still, even thou we have progressed a lot since I came here, achieve more; to be more! eJapan has so much potential that is not yet used!
What have I done?
- 1x Vice President of eJapan
- 3x Minister of Foreign Affairs of eJapan
- 1x Minister of Finance of eJapan (Economic Board Chairman)
- 1x Vice-SECDEF of eJapan
- 5x congressman of eJapan
- 1x congressman of eFinland
- JIA soldier
- PEACEkeeper
- general
- eJapanese ambassador to eFinland
- ex-Party President of Tequila Fitness Club
What’s my platform?
Cabinet:
My cabinet would probably be a bit bigger than what eJapan has used to. The forum reform we did last month has brought the Ministries into the forums, and my cabinet would be built to these ministries. Probably the biggest changes here would be the creation of Secretary of Defence again, and the upcoming change of Minister of Foreign Affairs.
President
Vice President - Origineel.NL
Advisor - Oraizan
Ministry of Defence
* Minister of Defence - KITA Ikki
* Secretary of Defence - Glxblt
* Commander of JIA - GenoGaron
* Commander of JIN - chaotic1
* PEACEkeepers representative - Glxblt
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
* Minister of Foreign Affairs - Nolan Pitler
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs - PND (pleasedaddynooo)
Ministry of Finance
* Minister of Finance -
* Secretary of Finance -
Ministry of Internal Affairs
* Minister of Internal Affairs - Reiji Mitsuragi
* Minister of Health, Education and Welfare - Metic
* Secretary of Immigration - no1kevlin
* Minister of Culture and Events - Ember Firespiral
* Secretary of Culture and Events - Laurana Psion
* PEACE advisory representatives - Oraizan and Origineel.NL
* Security advisors - Walorm and GLaDOS
eJapanese Cabinet? Surely not at my term!!
Congress:
We have already somewhat active congress in eJapan, which keeps having important conversation about the country all the time. I just feel that there’s still a big gap from the cabinet to the congress, so I’d be creating a irc-channel for the congress, where congressmen can easily contact the President and the cabinet, discuss about pressing matters and bringing the information closer to them. This could actually be done any time, and I’m surprised we don’t yet have a channel for the congress. With this addition we could even better see which congressmen are really active and interested, and that the discussion would be faster (meaning that you wouldn’t need to write everything to the forums).
PEACE relations:
This month we have progressed on this section a lot, but we shouldn’t now just be pleased to the current situation. Our presence at PEACE could, and should, be a lot more active. Japan is the Righteous Nation and we should drive that message to our allies as well. World politics are in a turning point with the (possible) upcoming MPP change, and we should make sure our relations to PEACE are as good as possible. This also includes involvement with the PEACEkeepers, but not at the expense of the JIA.
Army:
I support fully the plan about “Small independent unit organizations”. It has proved to be a worthy solution in other parts of eWorld, and I think it would be the best course of action in eJapan as well. The army is otherwise looking somewhat good now, with the weapon companies running and iron supply steady. As I said, eJapan must participate in PEACEkeepers, but with the ongoing discussions at forums, we should decide of some guidelines for JIA members who are interested in PEACEkeeper activity.
Finance:
I am still looking for an active and experienced Minister of Finance, who would be accompanied by (possibly) a younger colleague as the Secretary of Finance. Only the Minister would have the control of National Bank of Japan, but the Secretary would be there to survey the markets, keep the money log up to date, and help with creating new ideas for the supporting businesses of eJapan. On my term there would be a program started for new businesses, where we would take part in few upgradings of existing businesses. Of course this action would be up for congress discussions first.
Final words
eJapan deserves an active, well-known Japanese to serve as the President, and I sure am one of the active ones. You can always find me from eJapan irc (#eJapan @coldfront.net) if You have something to ask from me.
If you vote for Mursu, you vote for a politician who doesn’t fear to decide by the facts, won’t run away from hard decisions and always thinks the best of eJapan.
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Lauri Mursu
I’m Lauri Mursu, a politician who came to eJapan from eFinland about 6 months ago. My life in eRepublik began about 400 days ago and I was born in eNorway, as they occupied eFinland during that time. I had back then I didn’t really get into the game, so my playing was really random and most of the time I just bought food for my eCitizen so that he wouldn’t die. Perhaps I knew back then that I was destined to play this game actively some day. As I said, I came to eJapan 6 months ago when I got fed up with the politics of eFinland. We were a big bunch of Finnish politicians that came to Japan, but I’m now the only one remaining. I’ve grew kinda fond of Japan, I like it’s citizens and politicians. I’ve been acting as the Minister of Foreign Affairs for 3 months now, and this will now change!
Now I feel I’m up for the ultimate challenge of activity in Erepublik. Country Presidency. I have decided to run this month as I feel that eJapan can still, even thou we have progressed a lot since I came here, achieve more; to be more! eJapan has so much potential that is not yet used!
What have I done?
- 1x Vice President of eJapan
- 3x Minister of Foreign Affairs of eJapan
- 1x Minister of Finance of eJapan (Economic Board Chairman)
- 1x Vice-SECDEF of eJapan
- 5x congressman of eJapan
- 1x congressman of eFinland
- JIA soldier
- PEACEkeeper
- general
- eJapanese ambassador to eFinland
- ex-Party President of Tequila Fitness Club
What’s my platform?
Cabinet:
My cabinet would probably be a bit bigger than what eJapan has used to. The forum reform we did last month has brought the Ministries into the forums, and my cabinet would be built to these ministries. Probably the biggest changes here would be the creation of Secretary of Defence again, and the upcoming change of Minister of Foreign Affairs.
President
Vice President - Origineel.NL
Advisor - Oraizan
Ministry of Defence
* Minister of Defence - KITA Ikki
* Secretary of Defence - Glxblt
* Commander of JIA - GenoGaron
* Commander of JIN - chaotic1
* PEACEkeepers representative - Glxblt
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
* Minister of Foreign Affairs - Nolan Pitler
* Secretary of Foreign Affairs - PND (pleasedaddynooo)
Ministry of Finance
* Minister of Finance -
* Secretary of Finance -
Ministry of Internal Affairs
* Minister of Internal Affairs - Reiji Mitsuragi
* Minister of Health, Education and Welfare - Metic
* Secretary of Immigration - no1kevlin
* Minister of Culture and Events - Ember Firespiral
* Secretary of Culture and Events - Laurana Psion
* PEACE advisory representatives - Oraizan and Origineel.NL
* Security advisors - Walorm and GLaDOS
eJapanese Cabinet? Surely not at my term!!
Congress:
We have already somewhat active congress in eJapan, which keeps having important conversation about the country all the time. I just feel that there’s still a big gap from the cabinet to the congress, so I’d be creating a irc-channel for the congress, where congressmen can easily contact the President and the cabinet, discuss about pressing matters and bringing the information closer to them. This could actually be done any time, and I’m surprised we don’t yet have a channel for the congress. With this addition we could even better see which congressmen are really active and interested, and that the discussion would be faster (meaning that you wouldn’t need to write everything to the forums).
PEACE relations:
This month we have progressed on this section a lot, but we shouldn’t now just be pleased to the current situation. Our presence at PEACE could, and should, be a lot more active. Japan is the Righteous Nation and we should drive that message to our allies as well. World politics are in a turning point with the (possible) upcoming MPP change, and we should make sure our relations to PEACE are as good as possible. This also includes involvement with the PEACEkeepers, but not at the expense of the JIA.
Army:
I support fully the plan about “Small independent unit organizations”. It has proved to be a worthy solution in other parts of eWorld, and I think it would be the best course of action in eJapan as well. The army is otherwise looking somewhat good now, with the weapon companies running and iron supply steady. As I said, eJapan must participate in PEACEkeepers, but with the ongoing discussions at forums, we should decide of some guidelines for JIA members who are interested in PEACEkeeper activity.
Finance:
I am still looking for an active and experienced Minister of Finance, who would be accompanied by (possibly) a younger colleague as the Secretary of Finance. Only the Minister would have the control of National Bank of Japan, but the Secretary would be there to survey the markets, keep the money log up to date, and help with creating new ideas for the supporting businesses of eJapan. On my term there would be a program started for new businesses, where we would take part in few upgradings of existing businesses. Of course this action would be up for congress discussions first.
Final words
eJapan deserves an active, well-known Japanese to serve as the President, and I sure am one of the active ones. You can always find me from eJapan irc (#eJapan @coldfront.net) if You have something to ask from me.
If you vote for Mursu, you vote for a politician who doesn’t fear to decide by the facts, won’t run away from hard decisions and always thinks the best of eJapan.
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Lauri Mursu
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I like your ideas. A congressional IRC really gets me thinking. It's a good idea, but it also has drawbacks. I think this should be raised in congress to see what the rest of the Imperial Diet thinks of it. Having everything on the forum means it's accessible to the citizens, but I suppose we could also publish IRC logs. Hm. Yes, this needs to be thought over more. To the Diet!
Congressional irc would be the place for congressmen to get to know with their cabinet, ask questions fastly so they would have more info to reply to discussions at forums, for congressmen to see eachother, to actually communicate. Of course the forum would still be the place for all the matters really discussed, but the irc would definately serve it's place in getting the congressmen together.
Best of luck!
Viel Gluck!
That's true about knowing congressmen. I've never spoken to a large number of them. Then again, if they were the kind to come on the IRC, I'd think that they would already be on #eJapan. But you never know. =|
Thank you Seixo and Psi.
You never know about the congressmen, lets see how this might work. If not, atleast we'll get one more channel to idle in 😉
You'll make a damn fine president! I wish you the best of luck!
Good luck, my friend! 🙂
Mursu is Order! o/
You have my support fellow TFC Party member!
Goodluck Mursu !
Just one things like congressman Reiji said about the IRC chan, there's drawback.
I think all important matter have to be writen on forum and IRC important chat log reported to.
TFC GO !
Well if i understand right, the chat isnt really to have important discussions on, but to talk to each other before going in the forum discussion. If done right, this could help make the forum discussion alot more clearer to read and more to the point.
As a citizen I want to say that I was not satisfied with International Affairs this past term. I had to go dig up information on my own to find out what was happening around the world, and when I did, nary did I see our position these matters. Perhaps I was looking in all the wrong places. How many official statements with regards to Foreign Affairs were released by our government this past month?
Yes, behind closed doors a lot of work may have been done. The paragraph under PEACE says so. But what? What exactly has progressed in our relationship with our alliance? Why is it that I still feel so alien to a member nation of our alliance? Am I alone in feeling this way?
By creating a congress channel, would that not make discussions even more exclusive than holding it on the forums, where members of congress may participate regardless of their timezone?
When did the government body exist to alleviate itself? Candidates for Foreign Affairs - two names not often seen on both the media and the forums. Who are they, and why do you feel they are good candidates to represent Japan in Foreign Affairs? Will they be a mirror image of this past term, where little information is provided to the general populace?
And, given that the was no mention of the Economic Board, does that mean it will be scrapped?
"By creating a congress channel, would that not make discussions even more exclusive than holding it on the forums, where members of congress may participate regardless of their timezone?"
I also thought about that, so the whole idea probably needs to be worked out more. Perhaps we dont even need a whole new channel, but just need to make sure more congressmen are on the eJapan irc channel.
"When did the government body exist to alleviate itself? Candidates for Foreign Affairs - two names not often seen on both the media and the forums. Who are they, and why do you feel they are good candidates to represent Japan in Foreign Affairs? Will they be a mirror image of this past term, where little information is provided to the general populace? "
I dont really know both of them, but i know that PDN(PlzdaddyNooo)has done a good job to organize the TFC during the congress elections and the amount of candidate that got in shows that PDN is capable organizer.
These new people probably also have to do with the problem some people had, with the same people getting in cabinet fuction. So i geuss, Mursu decide it would be better to let some new blood in.
"And, given that the was no mention of the Economic Board, does that mean it will be scrapped?"
The Minister of finance is the head of the board. Im not sure, again, but i guess he will decide who the other members will be.
Mleeeeeh Why do you run for president in a month where I wont be here for a few weeks. 🙁
Good luck my favorite Walrus!
Wish you luck, Mursu.
Tanaka: A benefit of RL convo is that it is MUCH quicker to resolve tricky subjects where it is easy to repeatedly misunderstand that other people say. Something that would cause time-delayed forum threads to drag on forever. Of course, should anything significant happen, i'm sure it can be copied onto the forum.
Although irc is a useful tool I prefer to have the forum as the main point of contact for the eJapan community as it is hard enough for many citizens to find the time (or effort! 😁 to read and post on the forum but it would be impossible for many to take part on IRC due to commitments and time zone differences etc so if more is put onto IRC and taken from the forum it will make many feel more out of the loop and may make less people bother with the forum if they feel everything is on the IRC that they cannot access or use.
Thank you for the answers and explanations. 🙂
As a PEACEkeeper, did you follow their orders and Fight Green in the Nunavut RW?
@Afanasiy Drago
I was fighting elsewhere according to the orders at that given time.
no1kevlin: what i had in mind was that, say 2 people are online at the same time trading posts every now and then for half an hour, why not just have them be on the irc so they can cut down on those long consuming posts. The results (or whole log) could then be copied to the forum. I do agree that ultimately, stuff must take place on the forum, so that it is accessible to all regardless of timezone, and for transparency.