Thank you and goodbye
Cirno
Another President election is over, and we had even more votes then last time. In the end Eris got the most votes and is now our sitting president. Congratulation.
Let's take a moment to look back at what happened the last month.
Economy
My government made our first budget, showing all our income. This provided us with information on how much we could spend. To our big surprise we had a lot more income then anyone thought and at the moment the tax income is just a small part of it
Military
My MoD K|ng(Terje Hansen) renamed the Trooper unit to HV (Heimevernet) to make it more suitable for Norwegian conditions and matching our FSK unit.
After that, I increased the defense budget by more then 3 times what it was. We now spend 50g a week on our military units. (Including soldiers in EMC)
Immigration / Babyboom
Eris and Endy got the job to reform the Immigration dep. and come up with campaigns to keep citizens active for the first 7 days in eRep. After increasing their budget as well, they started a 'newbie' lottery, where one winner got a Q1 house. This hopefully lead to a few more active citizens.
Immigration has also been helping new citizens with tickets to move to a hospital region, and gifts to get them above 40 in wellness to fight, all this to make the gaming experience better.
On the babyboom part, Damien and Hammaburg started a Facebook group that has been advertised in-game. After the creation of this group, daily new citizens increased up towards 10 a day. This is a good number, and if we manage to keep it there, that's 300 users in a month.
The number of votes in the elections keep increasing, and I believe that is a due to these two things, mainly the effort to recruit new players, but also keeping them when they sign up.
Hospitals
This has been a hot subject in the election campaign, but the facts remain, we placed a Q5 hospital in Østlandet. The hospital was already in stock, so this isn't the biggest thing in itself.
What's more important is the restart of the hospital company! After the budget was made, I realized that we actually could afford building new ones! The cost have been calculated to 100g a month, and it is in our budget.
Media Frenzy
The media has gone hot during this election, with accusations flying in all directions. Last night I stopped commenting on the countless articles, but I would like to sum it all up here.
As you can see above, we have accomplished a lot the last period, and by all means, I didn't do it alone! I had good help from my ministers, but they worked on my command. All ministers were given tasks to complete, and I followed up on it and pushed them till it was done. In my opinion that is good leadership, and the correct way to get things done.
I've also said that I never liked pointing out the opponents flaws, and rather focus on myself, but with all the negativity and bad excuses I have to let you know the truth.
Each time we did something good, or pointed out everything we accomplished this term, members of the Teknokratene countered with either "That would have been done anyway, regardless of who was sitting" and/or "But we already have that written in our party program".
But guess what, talk is cheap!
The party program of Teknokratene is old, very old, and includes "make xx better or bigger" where you can replace xx with anything. So it covers pretty much everything. Nothing wrong with that, I agree, they have good ambitions. But... is ambitions all they have?
Teknokratene had the President seat for 3 straight months before me, so why didn't they follow their party program and do those things? Why do they wait till someone else does it, and then just say they have that in their program? I can't really answer that, but I know its easier to come with promises then actually go through with them. Kinda like real life politicians.
Conclusion
I am a man of the democracy, and I respect the majority of our population. I'm sad that all that was accomplished this month counts for nothing when the citizen of eNorway voted for their next president, but I get the clear message. Me, my work and my government is not wanted. For that reason, I'm hereby withdrawing from the Norwegian politics. I will no longer take an active part in the politics.
This is by no means critic to Eris, I hope she follows up on her election promises and keep working on all the things we accomplished this month. But I also hope the citizens will appreciate hard work and actually doing things in the future, rather then just some old written goals. If so, I might return.
I had a good run, and don't regret anything we did the last month. Hope you all will enjoy the changes, even though you didn't let me benefit of the success.
Best Regards
Cirno
Former Norwegian politician
Comments
Well thats sad to hear, I dont think you shuld quit just because you lost this election. Try to make a comeback next time instead.
Norway probably needs people that are active in politics.
Cirno better write 'Future Best Norwegian politican' because I am sure you will back in glory 🙂
It was really great month and I`d like to thank you for all You have done!
Lykke til med neste valg Cirno. Innsatsen vil ikke bli glemt! 🙂
Cirno, I respect your freedom to do as you please, but I must voice my opinion that I think leaving almost half a country worth of supporters behind is a bad call. You are important to so many of us and this is not the time to try to try bestowing guilt on our nation for seeking new direction this month. You do our country far more harm than good with your absence, and I beg you to reconsider this decision. Eris' message was about combining all of our talents, and specifically AVOIDING partisan politics that hinder our nation's progress. This is exactly what we don't want. =[
The responsible thing to do is come back even stronger.
"You are important to so many of us and this is not the time to try to try bestowing guilt on our nation for seeking new direction this month."
That's what I have a problem with, you don't seek new directions, you choose to continue what me and my government started. But I've summed up my thoughts in this article, so that I don't have to start a new discussion like this.
Dette er virkelig leit og høre 🙁 har alltid hatt sansen for deg Cirno
Cry me a river
"That's what I have a problem with, you don't seek new directions, you choose to continue what me and my government started." - I keep trying. Nothing good from that yet.
But you didn't get the majority of the citizens vote either Juxtys, so its not the same thing. I do however read all your arguments myself, and like I just posted on erep.no it will be taken into consideration when BP evaluates the taxes and economy. It would be helpful if you could include some more analyses on how various aspects would affect the different aspects of the country though.
"I get the clear message. Me, my work and my government is not wanted."
Way to act like a sore loser, you got over 48% of the votes, and you're being such a baby about it?
inb4 "I've worked hard and deserve appreciation", I dont doubt you have, but this isn't how it's done. You don't cry about losing the election, you take it like a man and continue your awesome work in politics, even though you're not in charge. Show that you're dedicated enough to get back up on your feet and really care about eNorway.
This is just low.
Way too low.
I voted for you.
I am annoyed that TT will just run on what we created HeatedCoffee, no doubt about it. And seeing as I lost, I'm already out of congress. For that reason, I've decided not to spend countless new hours on politics, and instead join our mobile forces and travel the globe.
Cirno if nothing big or good happens for our country this month I'm sure you could easily get a re-election, so please run again next month, you'll always have my vote!
Someone from BP with good intension will run again next month Kristianexer, don't worry about that 🙂
Yayh - the Cirno we all know and love is back!! 🙂
(In regards to the avatar, though 😛 )
I recon Cirno will be back from his trip with the mobile forces after xmas. Regardless if TT is to fix something that isn't broken, or TT tries to improve perfection, I don't really care. As long as eNorway as a country builds up and we still give new players a kick-start, and active players handle the economy and politics within eRepublik.
I expect TT to continue Cirno and BP good work! If they try to improve it; then you have all my blessings...