[President] Full Disclosure; End of Term

Day 2,170, 11:42 • Published in Japan Japan • by William of Edenbury


This article is written a bit earlier than I had intended but it'll be a good gauge to see if I picked the write path since there is another discussion in congress about the failure or success of my term.

The Intent of my Term

This is where there is a bit of a misunderstanding and revealing this bit will probably change how everything looks. I never really deviated from this plan so that is why some of my actions seemed strange to those who did not know my intent.

My intent was simple: I knew that CtG (now CtG and TLS) was becoming unstable and I wanted to set up countermeasures against their PTO attempts.


My Programs

If you look back through my articles you will see that I had three major programs. They were all actually designed as a countermeasure except for the Military program since there was an ethics consideration.

1. The immigration program: Designed to be the keystone of my plans this program was forced into a smaller, more under the radar version due to various events in the past month.

Intent: The purpose of the program was to target allied nations for the media campaign and gain new citizens that would help bolster our failing parties.

Effect: Technically speaking, the purpose of the program was met, But I cannot take credit for it. We were minorly successful in recruiting some new players through a small scale initiative that targeted Universities some of us attend. However, the membership of the parties grew far past the recruitment we did. I still am not sure what led to the surge in numbers So me and the friends who helped me cannot take credit for more than a handful of players.


2. The Ministry of Internal Affairs: This is the only program to have been fully completed as intended and it worked out beautifully.


Intent: The intent of the MoIA revival was to create a force that could seek out and identify illegal activity. More specifically, the creation of Multi accounts. This targeting of illegal activity is the main reason why the names of the MoIA team members have never been released. I do not want any of them suffering from revenge attacks or harassment from those they caught.

Effect: The Government has compiled a manual detailing identifying characteristics of multi accounts and various other minor scams. The information not only comes from our own team's experience but from advisers that assisted us from the multihunting teams in allied countries. Unfortunately that is all I can say, but believe me, the entire project and the team itself exceeded my expectations.


3.Military Supply Reforms: As the name indicates, this was a system of reforms for our military.

Intent: We wanted to lower the cost of the Military supplies while making the IJA and IAR a more professional force. There was also a thought tossed in that they could be used in ATO operations, but it was decided that ordering direct political interference by the military was against the entire point of their existence.


Effect: Due to a debate and congress and the war with eRoC, the system change was put on hold. The point of lowering costs was counterproductive considering that we needed to increase the number of weapons available for the war.





Congress

This is where most of the dissatisfaction with my term has been. Unfortunately, the vast majority of my time in eRepublik has been spent as an eSoldier. That means the tactics I am used to using in this game are completely different to those that career ePoliticians use.

I am not very good at giving disinformation. I am not very good at lying. And I am not very good at verbal sparring.

My experience has been to always move forward with the objective in mind. If you don't want your enemy to know what you are doing then remain silent. When you talk you run a large risk of giving things away that threaten the entire operation.

So that is why congress has been dissatisfied with my communication with them. CtG forms upward of a third of the congress. Anything I say to congress will obviously include them. Thus rather than play the games of politicians that I have no confidence in, I returned to my experience with eRep military ops. If you don't want the enemy to know your moves then stay silent.



The eRoC War

This is the second major point of dissatisfaction with my term. I am seen as not doing all that I can against them. Honestly? The military budget has already been spent on MPP's. We have reserves but I am not going to use them because I want use to finish our financial recovery from the Mitsunami war. To this point, all the food and weapons that have been distributed to our allies were personally bought with my own money.

As you all know, I am a hugely military oriented player. I have pushed for the funding of the National Military for three months and setup much of the Ministry of Defense's infrastructure. My list of friends is almost 2/3 military players with most of the politicians in it only having been added in recent months. I love the war aspect of this game and I am willing to spend huge amounts of my own money on supplying our troops, supplying foreign troops and buying mercenaries. And I have spent over a thousand of my own gold to do that.

But I am not willing to spend our nation's money.

Our country's income has been budgeted and we intend to give the next administration the funds we can. We will not break the government's power and wreck the chances of future administrations to free us because of war mongers that do not have experience with the Military aspect of this game and have not been paying attention to our battles.

Instead we have been doing something completely different. We have been strengthening our ties with our allies. We have one of the few full sets of representatives in HQ that our country has sent in months. A few months ago I was the representative to our alliance and everyone in there was surprised to see an eJapanese player. We have essentially been the ghost member of the alliance for much of the past year. Do you want to know why CoT never helped us? Our governments never sent anyone to tell them what we were doing. The first time we had any decent communication was last month During Squibeel's term. And you all saw how many of our allies assisted us for the first time.

That is where my focus has been for the past month when it comes to military matters. I have actually been integrating us into our own alliance.

And it worked.

We have been CoT's top priority multiple times this month. The reason we have a congress right now is because our allies spent so much damage that they could have been using on liberating their own regions. To be completely honest I requested once or twice that we be dropped from the priority list that day so that the alliance could focus on one of our other allies that was having a desperate battle. Despite that we would be immediately placed back on priority when I was not looking. That is how much our ties improved. Our allies actually sacrificed regions to help us get a congress this term.




Summary:

So that is what I have been doing all term. I have been setting up against CtG/TLS's PTO and strengthening our outside ties.

As to whether or not I've been successful, I'll leave up to you all to decide.

I'll probably be impeached here in a bit. I don't much care since I've completed my objectives and not much damage can be done to a wiped nation with a fully active congress in a couple of days.

Funny part is that I will likely be asked to run for CP again in a couple months. So I leave a couple questions for everyone.

Was my path correct?

Did I give our country hope for a new future or did I drag it closer to its demise?

And if I did not choose the correct path, are you willing to change it?

Do you have the resolve to alter our future?

My opponents have all been asked whether they wish to run for Country President and they have all turned it down (Except for CtG/TLS of course 😛).

What good does it do to complain about others but do nothing yourself?

My time is coming to a close and so to all the players of eJapan, both young and old I say this. Prove me wrong. Take the reins of this nation and show us your resolve. Show us your vision.

Choose our path and lead us.



~William of Edenbury