Political Climate/Foreign Policy
Rathena Gelc
Congress elections were held in eCzechia yesterday and the results are as follows:
Czech Right Union - 42,65%, 13 seats
Narodni Garda - 33,82%, 10 seats
Svobodne Cesko - 23,53%, 7 seats
Election results were surprising for me, since I expected at least 47% for CRU.
My predictions were:
CRU 49%
NG 30%
SC 21%
It seems people were more confident in other parties. This result is a political win for the CRU, but many (including myself) expected CRU to get a majority in the Parliament. Since only 68 people voted, single votes made a big difference. CRU is just short of a majority there, 3 seats to one. Even though it might seem no party has a total majority and they will have to compensate on some agreements, that hypothesis is completely incorrect.
If you look at our parties' list, you can see that we have 3 parties. That seems like the political situation in RL UK. UK has 3 parties that dominate the country's politics: Labour, Conservative and LibDems. All of them are, however, center-right or right, with Labour being the most left party of the big 3, but still, in reality, center-right.
We have a similar situation here in eCzechia. Here, we have CRU, NG and SC. CRU usually gets the most votes which is natural since they have most members (I am one! 😁
and they helped eCzechia get rid of Communists long time ago. These are key variables to CRU's success. Two other parties exist, that being Narodni Garda and Svobodne Cesko.
The thing that bores me about eCzech politics is that these 3 are very, VERY similar parties. All are rightist and have very similar policies. I don't think being rightist is bad. Hell, I am member of a center-right party, that being CRU. But what worries me is that eCzechia is slowly approaching a moment in time when these 3 parties are going to blend into one. That is evident as the parties haven't got a lot of things to argue about, since their policies are so similar.
Differences exist, example being the Narodni Garda's authoritative policy as opposed to the other two parties' liberal policies. Now, don't get me wrong. I am not saying we should ban two parties so there is only one, nor would I encourage it. I just want to see a diverse political climate in eCzechia so we hear, perhaps, some leftist opinions too. Our political climate seems too monogamous, at least for me. I think there are at least 10 citizens who are center-leftist or leftist.
We should hear opinions from a different perspective, because us, members of the 3 rightist parties, also make mistakes, maybe more than we thought we did. I would love to see a new, different party opening, because it would not only make political race funnier, but we would also hear opinions from different parties.
Wow, I wrote lots of things, but there is just one thing I would like to talk about in this number. Foreign policy. As you do (or don't) know, good, lobbyist-like diplomacy is key for a country's success. With a competitive foreign policy we can make a greater influence on other enations and expand our communications. I appreciate the work our MoFA is doing, and I think he is doing a very good job. But to make us better, I suggest making embassies in the nations most important to us. That way, ambassadors will have a chance to talk to the big political beasts of that nation and also represent us in the eWorld, as I think a big majority of players think of us as a small, unimportant enation.
Many people won't agree with me on the next thing, but that's why we are here. To discuss 😃
I strongly support working with other nations and creating thriving to creat a new alliance which would be a counterpart, but also work with TWO. We mustn't be a sheep waiting to get rimmed and killed. We must be the big ram which will pick the sheep he likes, and put the seeds of prosperity in them.
I noticed almost everyone don't mention a situation where we would be a regional power, and where we would conquer others. They are stuck in past. I think that the view and constant fear of us being occupied is keeping us back. Yes, we just got our regions back, but we should and must always thrive for a better tommorow!
I won't hide it: I want us to conquer others in near future because I think we deserve it. Czechs have always been proud people, and we should manifest that here too. I want us to make this e-country proud, to take resources and come back home with head held high, knowing we done a great job. That's why our Governer should act accordingly and we should start donating. For our nation.
Many won't agree, I'm sure, but please comment! 😃
Yours truly,
Future eCzech President 😛
xoxo
Comments
Well, more or less I agree with your view of foreign policy and Poland/TWO situation, I call it surrounded by "friends", but I think I might be almost the only one here 🙂
Yes, we are in a really though situation and we will have to work very hard and be sensible if we want MPPs with nations other than TWO members. We are like a melting point between TWO and non-TWO, and that exposure tells us it's time to do something about it and be powerful.
I think we dont need a leftist party. We should take into account that there play only few people who come here more than once a day...Not everyone takes this game so seriously, me neither, but I care about situation in eČr 🙂 I agree with you in offensive actions and I believe they'll end sucesfully 🙂 ...and sorry if I mad some mistakes, I'm not sure in speaking English 😃
Well, honestly, the bit about leftist party was just me thinking loudly 😛
I agree, that is why we should try and organize a baby boom because that way we will get more money from taxes, more damage to our enemies and a better society! 🙂
Hard to achieve an e-baby boom in a game imo 😃
It is, but that's why we must try, because if we don't try, we aren't going to achieve anything. 😉
Thought-provoking article.
Thank you very much! 😃
(Partially) CRU past "foreign" policies I know of:
- attack on eGermany = fail
- getting ePoland to conquer all regions because of a alleged PTO (rea😛 CRU didn't have presidency nor many seats in congress, and wanting eCzechoslovakia any way), while at that time opening the door to anyone getting eCzech citizenship when liberated region = fail
- attack on eMoldova = fail
- being for months "friends" with ePoland while apparently being treated as if E.Beneš at the Mnichov dictate = fail
Just sayin'. 🙂
As for eCZ politics, true that it is sort of status quo anyhow and understandably. With at least a few hundreds of regular votes in each election the issue of elections being rigged by multies would be a noticably smaller one. So or so, while some citizen were moreorless constantly active, there certainly are ways to engage in politics. And in fact, no creation of any new party would be needed as there was talks about that one or more of current Party presidents would step down to sort of free up the spot to someone active and understandably with regular votes as backing. The politological settings (left, right, ...) can be changed for each party from its party president spot.
As for alliances, surely campaigns are part of the game, so it would of course make sense, if not at least a couple more MPPs. Tho personally and also sort of gameish, TWO has 19 members, and the next two alliances in the ranking in terms of amount of members have 3 each, so, joining Two would seem lame.
It is understandable and natural that not everyone agrees with the ruling party. When I was last playing, CRU was an excellent party which helped eCzechia to rise and prosper. We had, however, similar problems like today. We were neutral and didn't know what alliance we should join. That kind of problems with foreign policy stay 'till today and we must at least try to solve it.
PTO threat could be easily solved with a Baby Boom as we would have lots of real Czech players and good foreign players who wouldn't do us harm. Threat of a PTO in that case would be significantly smaller. I talked about it in my previous article 🙂
I didn't say there was nothing ever done in the upper tiers of CRU. Tho the picture of "the czech party" would seem rather flawed to me, besides the whole issue of whether eCzechia was ever risen and prosperous.
Tho yeah, no new topics mostly.
I understand what you were saying 😃
Muj prezident umi cesky, nebo alespon ma k ruce nekoho, kdo mu clanky preklada.
Můj prezident je inteligentní člověk se snahou pozdvihnout eČeskou republiku 🙂 A navíc myslim, že angličtina má dnes takový význam, že se to dá prominout...ku škodě těm, kdo neumí anglicky 😉
Sorry, I'll try to have someone translate next time as I don't speak Czech 🙁
I agree with you, but how do you suggest to do the baby boom, which seems to be the first step of all of your policies? 🙂
I suggest we contact Czech internet portals and have them make an article on it. We should contact every one of them, and also contact gaming magazines with an already made article about eCzachia 🙂 I know they done it in other countries, and it worked. My predictions are we could get at least 50 new players like that.
But we should not stop at that. We must also reform and change the welcome message so it is simpler and provides new players with only the advices they will need.
I suggest we also assign some people to be mentors so newbies can get through the first steps of the game easier.
Also contribute small welfare donations to newbies so they have at least some financial stability.
I don't want just to invite new players; our task should be to have them stay. 🙂
I hope this answers your question 🙂
I think no one will pay real money for articles or something like that in magazines.
About other things. We have welcome message simple - with contacts on some players and primarily on czech manual. Mentors are here also (erep mentors). Donations are every week.
Our "problem" riíght now We haven't any sociaty builders. We had connection with some from outside who send us new players (czech players) but government doesn't work with them any more. 🙂
You didn't understand me. No one would pay real money for it, as we would just give a suggestion for internet portals and magazines to cover the story on their pages. It would be voluntary. I know other countries have done it and they got around 100-200 people in a few days. It can just be a small article but the one that can be seen so we get good coverage.