[CP] NoTie Checking In
Het Catshuis
(N.B: This is the first article by a President in 60 (!) days)
Dear readers,
I want to thank the citizens of the eNetherlands for their support in electing me once again as Country President of the eNetherlands. We've had an ugly month behind us, in which two sides clinched over sometimes irrelevant, sometimes relevant issues. What was forgotten, though, was the very important in-game event that was going on. A shame, because we ended up with a very bad result. The only optimistic thing I could say is that we never had the luxury of having a lot of resources so in that context nothing much changes. We saw a lot of (negative) energy last month, but sadly it did not translate into in-game activity. The recent CP Elections were a dud, in which several big parties didn't even participate, nor support anyone. It is due to this circumstance that I ended up being Country President, even though it wasn't necessarily my wish to become CP once again. In fact, I intended to tone-down my activity as the last month really wasn't good for my motivation.
But enough with the pessimism. A new month and a new term it is. And there's a lot to deal with. The last month have shown cracks into our political system. People slowly tend to agree that the system we've had for years is no longer sufficient for our society, that has had so many changes in its long existence. It even got to the point that two major parties disavowed the current system due to the ugly actions that were being taken in this system the last month. However, a new found positivism has been found in all of us, even GPN and ReL. A movement is rising, one that will reform the country into a fair and egalitarian society. In which additive positions like the Chairman of Congress no longer dictate the population as opposed to Congressmen, in which Congress access is no longer shunned for a large part of the Congress due to 'inactivity' as opposed to parties getting their fair share based on in-game elections, in which positions like the commander of the DAF are not determined by capability, but by political tricks (thank god the Dictatorship ended up in the right hands - Trannsvaal is our new Dictator and I have the fullest confidence that he will serve our country well).
And it doesn't stop there. In-game there will be a lot of interesting (or not so) changes coming up. The complete resource reshuffle will take place over the coming weeks and with it many mechanics will be changed. There will be a Dictatorship Fee to pay for having a Dictator, people can now place their companies in foreign countries, Taxes now include Combat Orders and (CC) medals, an entire new industry is coming up in which we can influence the battle field (airplanes). It will require us to think about how we are going to adapt to these changes and what our opportunities are. Perhaps our Dictatorship is no longer necessary once it shows it costs a lot to upkeep (perhaps exponentially?), perhaps we can finally welcome back all our expats like Heikanu or Dave Brinkman that were forced to carry foreign nationalities to give our people profitable work in industries elsewhere, perhaps we need to invest in the new Airplane Industry. If not this month, it will definitely get interesting over the next coming months. Let's just hope that our society hasn't gone down in cynicism by then.
A minor note is also required for the changing Foreign Affairs. Already before the event there were subtle changes in the global alliances. Our current alliance Orion has suffered the most, as Iran and Peru have switched over to Asteria. However, one has to realize that Asteria is currently the alliance Orion is allied with and that in that context not much is lost. However, Asteria too has lost some influence and new factions are looming (e.g. Adriatica led by Croatia), but time will tell if they are able to change the geopolitics.
Just when I thought I could leave.
Now on to the new Government. It shouldn't come as a surprise that there are few people that are willing or active enough to serve in your Government. However, surprisingly it went relatively easy this month to find a Government. It's a mix of new and old people, a combination that I always like the best. Auggustus will be my Vice President. Despite being seen as just another old player coming back and claiming anything, Auggustus has shown ambitions in re-energizing our eCountry. He has come up with interesting new ideas and in one case one that is working in practice, namely the communication channel for our country on Discord - where many people who we won't see on IRC or the forums often are socializing. Last month he has pushed hard for the reforming of our system and it's voices like these we should listen to. The rest of the Government will probably not be anything controversial or anything interesting; it just works. Shawtyl0w and AndreasIssaakson will work on the Ministry of Defense, per usual. Same goes for Trannsvaal and Gwom on the Ministry of Finances and Ministry of Coaching.
However, I have decided to introduce two completely new persons to the team. On the one hand I have invited Feddolt to serve as Minister of Home Affairs. He has been active as Chairman of Congress before, and is interested in keeping the eNetherlands running. Henri II will be my Minister of Foreign Affairs. One of the most active recent players, based on the numerous articles written by him, he has shown ambition in running one of the heaviest Ministries. As we sadly do lack players with a lot of FA experience I can only applaud such initiatives. As Country President I will naturally stand beside him with regards to Foreign Affairs. And keep the last for the best: I have invited Jordic to serve as advisor in my Government. He has been my right-hand all through 2015 and it was with him we saw our greatest events of the past, like the wars that we fought over our independence and the entry of our country to our alliance Orion.
Kind regards,
NoTie112
Comments
Congrats & goodluck in the month ahead mate o7
Congrats!
There 's not going to be a lot of tone-down as CP though.
*salutes inactively*
Time to form economic pacts
o7 sir!
Congratz and Good luck my friend o7
boom, well said. Just goes to show that we need to reform the old model because the old one is broken. Tonie could have done it last month, but congress rejected him. he is CP again, so makes the last month of bitching pointless. All the reason we need to push through reforms, and get activity going. Good Job Tonie 🙂
Nothing new. Same people, same politics, new fancy article saying more of the same, and that's it.
"Just when I thought I could leave." - then do it, what's the objective to claim something you can't do.
o7!! I'm a servant of my country and I'm proud of it 🙂 I am Henri the Eleventh tho, not the Second 😛
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The fact you get re-elected after the amount of MoNCs of last term you had shows the system indeed doesn't work. Somehow congress has grown too separate from the people and it needs fixing. I'll try to help you with that, as I think it's necessary.
It's not only that, there's no real democracy or any change in politics, just check the way they always are re-elected in the same positions. It's not only the system it's the community it self that is failing and is letting a few people manage the country, and that Tonie is the real shame, you guys claim for participation but at the same time you guys deny it with abuse (forum, COC position, some congressman discussing in circles without any real conclusion, irc channel, some of you playing as of some of you are saviours etc etc, and at the end a split community which is getting tired, and let's be honest, jordic, Trannsvaal, Henri XI, Auggustus and the people you have decided to help you aren't the majority.
It's funny you know because for one side you've said they control the country, and in the other side you want to control it, saying to some party members what they need to vote or ignore, and when they aren't agree then you do what you want doing a melodramatic entrance, in conclusion you aren't different to odan, except of course in the way you get what you want.
This community, yes you as individual need to realise there's nothing to defend except the goals of a few, because yes you! don't have voice or vote, and if you agree with that, then why do you waste time fighting for this. It's dumb and sorry for the expression, but just think about it, don't be a conformist and look for something better, but never let others decide for you, because in that case you are the one loosing.
And that's why Revvenge your ideas will never be taken in consideration, because at the end they just want the same: control, just don't fall in the trap of the fancy article, be smart and look forward and in other way to achieve better goals because there's always better ways than this one we are living for at least one year and a half, and we need to stop this non existent democracy.
The alternative you suggest, doing everything in-game, which will result in an unorganized nation ripe for year-long wipes, or Discord, which is practically the same as IRC are not in any way better. We do need some rules and some platform to enhance our country if we want it to be any more than a headless chicken. I'm not saying we can make this country a true democracy. I don't even think that's preferable. At the same time I don't think we can make it as democratic as I do think is preferable, but we can try to make it more democratic than the non-democracy it is now.
It's still disorganised, incompetent, anti-democratic, non impartial, that's the congress section on forums, nothing more. Again stop to lie yourself. The forum is not the saviour some of you expect to be.
He did not get these MoNCs because he was a bad person. I have full confidence that NoTie can be an awesome CP for our country...
And I'm glad that he will be more active again now that he has been elected...
So in short, I fail to see the separation you're talking about.
The people, while Tonie was already Dictator and had been so for a while, had still opted to elect Tonie as CP while the law that he couldn't was in place.
Congress decided to MoNC him for it, and after initial failure, succeeded in removing him from both positions, even though the public was clearly fine with him having both, if not at least one, of those positions.
Then, in the next election, Tonie is not punished by the public for his transgretions, but instead elected again as CP, showing that the people don't think he's untrustworthy.
In short, the actions of congress are in no way backed by the public, and there is the separation.
Do you really believe these votes are real? Like someone in rl is like let's vote for Tonie today and let's be inactive the rest of the month, okay.
About the congress, you just can't call a minority democracy, so again nothing have changed, don't lie to yourself.
So we shouldn't listen to forum elite, but the citizens who don't appear on the forum are mostly not real? Useful. We can really build on that. Let's focus on things we can work with instead, shall we?
Tell me how if the same people are always in the same positions and discussions?
And don't call them elite, they aren't different to anyone else, they just have access to commands and like to abuse or play with fancy articles like this one.
I'm sorry but you haven't found the solution to the lack of democracy, you just got a spot in the current government.
Good luck Tonie!
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Good luck Tonie!
The reason that DemNL did not officially support any of the candidates would be the awesome amount of articles these candidates published. It took so much time to read them all, that we couldn't make up our minds. 😛
Okay, okay... Perhaps there were no articles at all, causing similar distress. How can we support a candidate who does not care enough about his own candidacy to inform the population about it?
In any case, you are definitely the candidate I felt most confident about during these elections. And I'm happy to see you involved Henry XI in your government.