{eAust CP} Update Day 3,288

Day 3,288, 22:14 Published in Australia Australia by Aus Prime Minister Office



Good afternoon eAustralia,

Sorry about the delays in updating, but while there is a lot going on behind the scenes, a lot of it can not be openly discussed. However I will try and talk about a few different things going on at the moment in eAustralia.


MPPs

Our MPP stack is looking a bit better, there were a few extra countries that we were talking to about signing with, however due to the NE, they could not sign a MPP with us. However they have pledge to support us in our time of need.

The DoFA will continue to reach out to other nations and help rebuild our standing and friendships across the eWorld.


Congress Elections

In a few days time, you will be going to the polls to vote for your congress. For those who are running for congress, remember that you will need to apply for that from a region. However if that region changes hands, your application is removed.

"If you applied for Congress in your party and the region from where you applied is conquered until 25th of the month at 00:00, you will lose candidacy.
You can avoid this situation if you are located in another region from your citizenship country until 25th of the month at 00:00. Once you got removed from the list, you can not be added back unless you reapply."

For those who are voting, please take the time and look at what the candidates stand for, what they want to achieve and how they will achieve it. While the CP is the one who is in the hot seat, it is congress who votes on laws, votes on ideas and suggestions. While your in the public, you might not see the happenings on inside congress, but things like military movements, funds for wars etc need to be voted by congress.

The power lies in the minister's you vote for, so ask them what they want to achieve and what they are offering. The congress ministers have more power than your cabinet, so vote wisely.


Money Matters

One of my policies was to increase our revenue. While we are still earning more than we are spending, we have not been able to increase revenues to pre-invasion heights. While I spoke about this in my policy paper, I want to take the time to explain things to the public who might not be aware of game mechanics.

For general tax revenue, eRepublik game mechanics work on 3 different taxes. These are Import Tax, VAT, Work Tax. For regions that are occupied, the occupiers get 80% of that tax.

For the math whizz: PCI = TC x (CR/OR x 80% + BI)

PCI: Partial Country Income
TC: Total Country Income
TC: Tax Collected
BI: Base Income (20% for country collecting the tax)
OR: Original Regions
CR: Regions under control

That is why last term we reduce taxes to the low amounts they are now, to stop occupiers profiteering off our hard working people. If your government increased tax revenue today, be it by taxes, investment, encouragement of moving businesses here, Peru will be taking a big cut of this.

So the first thing to do is to secure our borders before looking into revenue increases.


Peru

Plans are in place to remove Peru. Unfortunately while I hoped for dialogue, they have refused to reply to any messages. However as Dil mentioned in his DoFA article, everything has to come down to timing.

Early Adriatica was helping to support Croatia in their battles against Serbia. Australia also helped out, both with damage and money for COs. Croatia was in a worse position then eAustralia, so it was only right to assist our allies there.

Afterwards Adriatica helped support Hungary (yes those guys….) in their failed attacks on Romania. And now Adriatica’s forces are split between different battle fields.

They are aware of our situation and we have had discussions with our allies as well as our friends. I ask the public to be patient on this issue. As there is no point in going hard at it, if we can only give 70% damage that is needed.

I want to tell you more about plans and what is in the works, but I can not start talking about battle plans in public, sorry.



If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask them. I will try and answer them as best as I can.



On behalf of your cabinet.

CP: Rusty D
Prime Minister: AussieCRO
MoFA: thedilpickl
dMoFA: DodgyHagrid
MoF: Elite C