Nederland? Waar is dat?/ The Netherlands? Where is that?
Day 2,724, 19:57
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by Aeulmann
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I was looking at the map and realized something. A foreign plebeian looking at a map might not even notice our nation! We may remain intact, but are considered "backwater".
To the south is Belgium (which is ours rightfully), a similarly "backwater" country that at a glance would not be noticed. The real noticing goes to Hungary, Slovenia, Serbia, and Croatia. These countries have expanded far out of their original borders, conquering countries such as Germany and Switzerland.
Why are we not like this? eNetherlands is a strong and proud country, why is it not noticed? Because we remain docile! We are like sheep, docile and content. We need to rise up and make a name for ourselves! We most become wolves!
We don't want to fight but by Jingo if we do,
We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too,
We've fought the world before, and while we're Dutch true,
The world shall not have our honor!
Dutch Version (Google translator best translator)
Ik keek naar de kaart en realiseerde iets. Een buitenlandse plebejer kijken naar een kaart misschien niet eens merken onze natie! We kunnen blijven intact, maar worden beschouwd als "achtergebleven".
Naar het zuiden is België (dat is ons recht), een eveneens "achtergebleven" land dat in één oogopslag niet zou worden opgemerkt. De echte opmerken gaat naar Hongarije, Slovenië, Servië en Kroatië. Deze landen hebben uitgebreid ver buiten hun oorspronkelijke grenzen, het veroveren van landen zoals Duitsland en Zwitserland.
Waarom zijn we niet dit leuk? eNederland is een sterk en trots land, waarom is het niet opgevallen? Omdat we volgzaam blijven! We zijn als schapen, volgzaam en inhoud. We moeten opstaan en maak een naam voor onszelf! We meeste geworden wolven!
We willen niet vechten, maar door Jingo als we dat doen,
We hebben de schepen, hebben we de mannen kregen, hebben we het geld ook kreeg,
We hebben de wereld voor gevochten, en terwijl wij Nederlanders waar,
De wereld zal niet onze eer!
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eNl cannot expand their borders because we do not have the military power to do so. Even if we by chance expand our borders we would not be able to hold it for long especially with determination or regions we hold.
Indeed, like Fhaemita says. As long as we do not have ~5 times the number of citizens we do, we can never become much bigger than the 4 regions we have right now.
No alliance will truely help its smaller members to rule the world. The big countries in the alliance take all the attention. So being a small nation forces us to remain realistic. Whatever we do, we have to do on our own.
Of course, letting a lot of foreigners enter our country is not the solution either. If they become more numerous than the RL Dutch people, they might take over... So than we'd no longer be eNL, but just a province of another nation.
take over what?
Our nation, aka, a PTO.
You're right that with a dictatorship a MU would need to outgun us, instead of the foreigners needing a strict majority. So potentially we're in even more of a mess if a foreigners would enter our nation with hostile intentions.
But even without a coup and new revolution, they could take over our in-game congress, and thereby our forum congress. We'd need to create some xenophobic forum congress rules to counter their power... Definitely not desirable...
but what is our nation? There are some non-RL-dutch here that I consider to be an intregral part of our nation. Our nation is a digital figment of our imatination. We can shape it any way we want to, and include or exclude whomever we want. And RL CS is not at all a criteria for me. Hence my question take over what. Because we dont post pictures of tulips or write dutch an aweful lot.
As you're probably aware, those citizens you're talking about are also among my friends.
I have absolutely no problems with them. As long as foreigners and the RL Dutch are cooperating, on the same side there is no issue.
The point I was making is that letting in citizens unchecked might also let in some people who are not so willing to work together, but instead want to take over our nation. That is something we should definitely prevent.
Among the RL foreigners, me!
We're already struggeling to fill 40 Congress Seats. I'm not sure about the max seats, but we can barely keep our four regions for a couple of months. I'm glad we have strong international bonds now that allow us to keep our regions for the next few weeks, but I'd be glad to have all 4 until next Congress Elections. No expanding for us! o/
40 is max
Then we are at full Congress capacity as well as region capacity. Any more regions would be impossible to defend.
Unless we manage to get more than 40 regions 😛 http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Division_of_congress_members
But...Can't we try to let Belgium join us somehow? Together we are strong.
we had that in the past, it didn't work (long) than and won't work now.
plus even combining our numbers we will still be a very small fish.
Schenk maar dagelijks een paar 100 goud dan zal ik zorgen dat D4 iig veilig is. 😛