TUP ~ Politics now and then

Day 1,212, 11:57 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by The Unity Party


Dear friends,

Politics in a game like eRepublik is changeable, and terms like left and right often get bandied about with little actual attempt to anchor them down to tangible ingame values. It’s natural when you think “left wing” to make direct comparisons to things like nationalisation, trade unionism, even more radical communistic programs and ideals. Similarly, the term “right-wing” creates an image of a fat cat in a factory somewhere smoking cigars and bathing in giant gold-coin swimming pools.

The truth is that real life terminology is nothing more than a frame of reference for eRepublik. People naturally gravitate in social situations to people who share their views, their values, and their idea of how to have a good time. When you get dumped in a new work/school situation, you probably find yourself spending time with people who share the same ideas, interests or hobbies to you. Whether that is computer games or fermenting revolution, the principle is the same.



To a certain extent, left and right ingame are simply ways to find people with similar real life views to share your time with. If you join TUP you will find that the bulk of our members share general left-leaning principles in the real world, though we have a smattering of libertarians and righties in here too. Sometimes it’s our social policies, our leaders or our attractive career progression programs that attract people. But mainly, we’re fairly lefty o’er here.

The second main function of the left and right labels is to directly refer to attitudes ingame. TUP, which is a centre-left liberal party, tends to be the most statist party. That means that we advocate a state which supports citizens from the day they’re born all the way to their goal (be that goal to become President, a major international diplomat, a businessman or a top journalist). Other parties have different attitudes. UKRP are a very pro-individual party, much like similar parties in the real world. Their terms are characterised by cuts in spending and an encouragement for private or charity sector companies to replace the government in supporting new players.



The final function of the classic labels is to refer to direct policies implemented ingame. Traditionally, right wing parties supported small government, with largely market-supplied armies, no publicly paid for gifting and an unelected upper house. Left wing parties supported the nationalisation of the military production facilities, the creation of a publicly paid for gifting service for new players and the sovereignty of the elected congress. As you can see, at one point or another TUP won all of those battles, though recently gifting has been abandoned under a UKRP Presidency.

Now we as a party face brand new problems which we need to address if we’re to achieve our full potential as a country. With a declining population, recruitment is a national priority and one which the party has to bring forward. Another major issue is that of the alliances, which I will be addressing in future articles. With three major alliance blocs, all with uncertain members and all but EDEN having uncertain futures, we face some very difficult political manoeuvring on the international scene in the future. As the UK’s largest party, and one which elects a large number of Presidents and the largest proportion of congress, alliance policy is something we have to consider carefully.



In addition to the re-start of the national gifting programs, our goal must be to reach out and directly involve every citizen in the future decision making of our country. Ministries go unfilled; congress is barely contested compared to past showings. We have the lowest turnout figures of all time in elections, and our recruitment is a pitiful trickle. The country has the potential to be great, but we must unite around the twin banners of strong social policy and interesting and engaging foreign policy if we hope to keep our citizens once they join, and encourage them to get out there and recruit their friends.

TUP must unite both our members and the country if we are to move forward. We need every citizen, every young player with a passion to drive this country to greatness. I hope that you will take this opportunity to join us.

Iain Keers
Party Leader






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