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Weekend Update: November 6
Making the headlines this week, strange and unusual things all aroun😛 the sky was reported to be blue, Admin makes some terrible changes, and Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead. Good evening New Zealand; I’m wahoobob, and you’re not.



We begin with coverage of the world’s elections. Calbe, a popular member of the New Zealand forum community and a real-life kiwi, won the first CP election in New Zealand’s history with backing from the five largest parties, including the Serbians. His cabinet will include members from both the Unity Party and the Serbian New New Zealand Party.

Next door in Australia, the race went down to the wire last night between Wally Wilson and Paul Hamon. Wilson was supported by three major parties, while Hamon had the backing of only one. Both candidates were members of the Australian community and considered friendly to their interests. This represented a refreshing change from the recent months, where each election was a battle between the Australians and Indonesia. Wilson ended up with the victory, and kindly spoke with Update shortly after the polls closed. He said the final push “was really weird, so anything can happen.” When asked about the growing calls from New Zealanders to attack Australia, President Wilson said that he may be interested in war games with the kiwis in the future, but “now may not be the proper time due to the issues with our neighbor eIndonesia. Perhaps after we wipe them off of the map.”

In the frozen Siberian wasteland, citizenship was open as the Russian nation appeared on the map again in the region formally known as Far Western Alaska. EDEN-backed candidate Alpho was defeated in what many considered to be a critical test for Phoenix by Turkish candidate Mogaba. An EDEN win would have been a serious blow to the Russians and their entire alliance, coming on the heels of the United States removing Serbia’s last Asian colony from Malaysia and Indonesia’s inability to return the favor to the Americans. For greater analysis of the impacts of the successful Russian defense, see the American media.


picture😛 Admin explains the recent updates to the game.

Many people would tell you that the vast majority of content in eRepublik is created by the players, and that this makes it unique from many other games. This is somewhat inaccurate, according to a recent study that found that a substantial majority of in-game content is actually created in response to a decision by the Admin (most often negitave). Yesterday, Admin acted yet again to create an upsurge in new rage and bawwing with the abrupt decision to finally re-integrate all four military skills into one single “Strength.” Many players claimed that their skill level was underrepresentative of the level of dedication they had devoted to the game, arguing that any monkey with a MasterCard could reach their Strength level in just a few short weeks, and surpass their Rank level in a single day. Admin declined to comment, suggesting that giving an advantage to players with plastic was not necessarily a bad thing. Others claimed that they were not awarded their fair number of “treasure map” rewards for their levels. To this allegation, Admin replied this was due to the fact that “Not all eRepublik citizens have maps,” and proceeded to emphasize the importance of education in places such as Africa and The Iraq, neither of which appears on his own map.

A large number of people raged publically in newspapers and the official forums, but there was little response. Most experts believe that Admin will delete the most extreme of the articles and posts, but otherwise sit back and hope that the rage storm dies back after a few days. Al Sleet, the hippy dippy weatherman, was kind enough to provide Update with the forecast. “Admin’s got it all wrong man, people want to fight the power,” he said. “There’s gonna be rage storms for many moons to come, man, fueled by a large Canadian low; not to be confused with a Mexican high.” But seriously, people will continue to whine about this until Admin does something even stupider to make people angry. Mr. Sleet puts the over/under on that at about 10 days.



As New Zealand’s Minster of Fun, Wahoobob has announced that the nation will observe the traditions of No-Shave November with a beard-growing contest. Those who already have a beard are not disqualified because there is no required “before” picture. Simply register by sending in a 10 NZD entry fee before the 15th, and then post a picture of yourself and your beard on Saturday, December 4. You can prove your identity by taking the picture with a computer in the background logged in to your eRepublik account, or by providing Wahoo with your full name, current address, credit card account number, and the name of your bank. A winner will be announced the following Monday by a committee of governmental beard experts and facial hair examiners. Citizens are encouraged to find more details about this on the NZ forums.

Don’t forget to check back on Tuesday morning for the weekly Economic Update, and tune in to New Zealand’s number one podcast, The Report Down Under on Wednesday nights at 1830 server time.