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Hello,

You might have noticed this comment under my previous article;


It made me realize that I have indeed been gone for a long time and that "my fame doesn't run before me" anymore so I wrote this article to explain a bit about myself.

About 50 days ago I celebrated my 5 years anniversary which makes me a kind of dinosaur around here. I started like anyone else, working for a boss and being a little man in my party (Neerlands Hoop) and within a few months I grew to one of the fixed congressmembers for the party (I have had a total of 19 congressterms in the Netherlands), later I was one of the people that helped unifying Belgium and the Netherlands in the peaceful union of The United Netherlands. Starting from this period I have been having several positions in Government and Public services. If you want you can check all my positions here; http://enetherlands.nl/search.php?keywords=MaartenW&fid[0]=102 after several times being MoD and MoFA (Even MoFaDA once in Artemivanov I) I found myself in a lack of enthusiasm to keep improving the ministries, since then I decided that it was better to have new faces with fresh new ideas in this ministries. From that time on I only accepted Adviser / Secretary positions. Van_Spijck, El Gorro, Garmr, Daniel Parker and I are the last active holders of the Ridder Grootkruis in the Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw which is an achievement I am really proud of.

The United Netherlands were awesome unfortunately to that time came an end when the Union and later Phoenix (our strong alliance at that time) fell, we prospered a while as a neutral country but that all ended when Poland attacked. I’ve been fighting my ass off in every way possible but my efforts and the efforts of everyone around me were pointless at that time, I went abroad both to find allies and to “make my own fun” and I came back home whenever I was needed. I was Dutch president once before and in my term I was able (I think it had a lot to do with luck) to liberate the country. To keep the Netherlands safe we did a regionswap with the UK, we got a long way up North but eventually we were beaten and Poland took our regions again, these were the official articles published during my term;
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-cp-d-day-and-upcomming-events--1866501/1/20
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-cp-welcome-to-the-united-kingdom--1869603/1/20
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-cp-countrymen--1872012/1/20
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/-cp-het-was-een-eer-1876161/1/20

The last article ends with this;
“Ik zal niet in eNederland blijven of enige Regeringspositie vervullen aankomende periode, ik ga mij hard concentreren op mijn studie. In erepublik zal ik een lekker pensioen gaan houden in de eFilipijnen maar ik wel vechten in alle slagen die op Nederlands grondsgebied zullen worden gevochten. “
Translated this means “I won’t stay in the Netherlands or apply for any governments position in the next term, I am going to focus really hard on my study. In eRepublik I will have a nice retirement in the ePhilippines but I will still fight in every battle fought on Dutch soil. “
… and this is what happened, after the Philippines came Indonesia after Indonesia came Turkey after Turkey came Belgium and after Belgium came Denmark but it never felt like I left my true home because I knew I would be welcome anytime.

A salute to you o7
Maarten



P.S.
This is the updated Government;

Minister of Defense; Marnix Maximus
Secretary of Defense; Trannsvaal* / theabsolutemonarch / Aktuh

Minister(s) of Foreign Affairs; Kordak
Secretary of Foreign Affairs; Thomasios02 / Aries Prime / Gwom

Minister of Finance; Weekstrom

Minister(s) of Home Affairs; Broersje / Daniel Parker
Secretary of Home Affairs; Weirdstuffs

Minister of Information; ElGorro
Secretary of Information; Flando

Minister of Trout; Tim Veltkamp
Secretary of Trout; 2DG

Ministerie Coaching/Recruitment; NoTie112
Secretary of Coaching/Recruitment; Afrikaner Meisje

Head of Dutch Intelligence & Ambassador Services; Arcanic Mindje

Adviser(s); Odan, Garmr, Schoft , Zeeuwsmeisje

*Yet to be confirmed.