Well Done, New Zealand
Myles Robinson
eKiwis,
Well done on the Party President elections. All five candidates who agreed to work with ATO Efforts in the upcoming congressional candidates won. Thank you to Calbe, Thingol, Adasko, MachtGeil, and Andy Costello for their volunteering to do this. Thank you also to Fionia, Carr de Vaux, Necros Xiaoban, Venta, Bradley Reala, Ilija, Daniel Dodge, and everyone in #eKiwi-ATO for their help in coordinating things. We won by good margins, which is promising for the upcoming PTO threat we face in the Congressional Elections.
To those of you who say that the PTO threat is not real, to those of you who say that the provisional government is merely overreacting in some great conspiracy to take power, I draw your attention to this article. In it, a Serbian militia (independent of the Serb government) has brazenly declared their intention to take over eNew Zealand in order to turn it into a Serbian state. This militia has great numbers behind it and is very organized. Messages sent to them pleading to find some other solution have been met with a stubborn refusal to work with our budding community. They will create a party, they will attempt to take control of Congress, and then they will attempt to seize the presidency in order to fully force the nation to become a Serbian state.
I say to these PTOers: bring it on. We're ready to meet this challenge.
eKiwis, the reason I am optimistic is that, out of all the new nations, ours is the most active, most populated, and most organized. We are dealing economically with other nations, are improving foreign relations, boast a military of over one hundred and thirty individuals, have newspapers and organizations working to spread information, and have a great many people from differing backgrounds dedicated to preserving this new nation from hostile interests. Yes, there are disagreements in some policies and clashing of personalities, but I am truly surprised and grateful for the fact that, despite this, nearly everyone in the community seems intent on working together to preserve the community.
Just look at the numbers: out of 263 votes cast yesterday, over half, 164 voters, went to the official ATO candidates. Over fifty additional votes went to candidates who were not hostile threats but merely just individuals who either did not know about the Unity Process or did not care about the Unity Process. And yesterday we brought in no ATO help from foreign nations to help us achieve these numbers.
I hope that, with the perceived threat now a very real and declared threat, those who had been in disagreement with our ATO efforts and those who had decided to place their own personal ambitions ahead of our security will at last realise the necessity of these measures for this month. So long as this nation has open citizenship, our security is at risk-- once a Congress is established, open citizenship closes and the PTO threat dramatically decreases. All we have to do is hold our ground on Congress elections. One round of elections. I beg people to put off their personal and political ambitions just for now. Let us get through this race.
The plan is to hold primaries for Congress on the eNZ Forums to choose a slate of Unity Candidates-- 40 people to run on a united ticket. These Unity Candidates will be placed in the New Zealand Union Party, run by RL Kiwi and my Chief Advisor, Calbe, for all of our citizens to elect-- 10 people in each of the four regions. The other parties will attempt to place as many blockers--people not running for a position but holding it to prevent hostile PTOers and rogues from garnering votes--as they can. Then eKiwis will be asked to vote in the Unity Candidates to ensure that we have a safe, hostile PTO-free Congress. Once Congress is secure, politics can return to usual and next month parties can do whatever they want. Also, don't think we are doing this alone-- countries in both EDEN and Phoenix have agreed to offer ATO assistance if need be, and the Provisional Government is working with them to help coordinate our response to this threat.
Subscribe to the Kiwi Kontrol ATO newspaper, the Ministry of Public Information, and the eNew Zealand Civil Defence Orders for important information. Also, if you want to get involved with the community or participate in the Congressional Primaries, join us on IRC's Rizon Server in #eNewZealand and on our official forums.
Good job again, eKiwis. We made it through round one-- let's knock these guys out in the next round. 😉
~Myles Robinson~
Come and Get It
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Well done
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lol the sheep
Grats. I hope that you won't be pTO'd by Servians or Indos.
I luv House MD xD
well done Kiwis \o/
I think more of an effort needs to be made to educate us noobs about what PTO, ATO and the unity process is. I just started playing erepublik again and coming back it eNZ it seems like NZ is a dictatorship run by political elites. It took extensive personal research to work out that this is not so but I think that there must be included somewhere in all this ATO/PTO/BLAH BLAH "propaganda" a more layman/noobs explanation of the logic behind it. For somebody new to the game and choosing New Zealand as there homeland (who wouldn't) the natural inclination would be to go against the ATO guidelines as it goes against the grain of democracy the RL NZ way of life. I'm not against ATO i'm just saying its very hard to find what and why it is.
@GS: Okay, I took some time to explain more of it in this article, but I'll make sure another article on PTO/ATO meaning and rationality is up within the next few days.
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This militia has great numbers behind it and is very organized. - only few of us, and we aren't organized, we communicate with letters : D
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well done.
AAAANDDYYYYYY!!!
Also awesome job beating the pto, sincerely hope you guys dont get ptoed by Serbs and Indos.\o/
eKiwis, the reason I am optimistic is that, out of all the new nations, ours is the most active, most populated, and most organized. We are dealing economically with other nations, are improving foreign relations, boast a military of over one hundred and thirty individuals, have newspapers and organizations working to spread information, and have a great many people from differing backgrounds dedicated to preserving this new nation from hostile interests. Yes, there are disagreements in some policies and clashing of personalities, but I am truly surprised and grateful for the fact that, despite this, nearly everyone in the community seems intent on working together to preserve the community.
^ FULLY AGREE. eNZ FOR THE WIN!!!!
There is great future in front of NZ! \o/
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Kiwimaxxx
eNZ'ers: Get involved in the political process and choose who you want to be in Congress! To do so, go to http://www.erep.co.nz/index.php?board=3.0 and look for topics with the name "Congressional Primary -- Region X" and vote for the 10 best candidates out of everyone who signed up to be put in the primaries.
If you don't participate in this democratic process, you shouldn't complain that we lack one.
They could argue that all you want is a new US/Canada/Australia, and they want a new Serbia - why is that any different? Most of you aren't RL Kiwis.
I have read in many comments 'I don't see the point fighting with Phoenix as I have spent so much gold fighting against them!' or 'We can't ally with Indonesia, they PTOed us in Australia!' etc - this would seem like an EDEN PTO to some.
@lietk12: that is not democratic. Not every ingame person with NZ citizenship will vote or be allowed to run - if Clueless came top, would you vote for him? How about Ostin? Unless you have some other foolproof criteria of what is best for NZ, why shouldn't we just choose who we want to vote for ourselves? Or just follow a list of all your pre-chosen friends, if we want to?
Serbia and New Zealand have always been friendly countries in RL, so will remain here in the eRepublik,we are here to save them from first place by the U.S. and other Eden countries and one to provide to be in Phoenix(or to be a neutral country)that does not make a mistake as Australia and selected the wrong alliance ...
Serbia and New Zealand United... 🙂
Hail Serbia!!!
Hail New Zealand!!!
Why is that any different? I dunno. Maybe because there are tons of people in the community not from US/Canada/Australia and all of us are saying we want an eNew Zealand whereas they are saying that want a Serbia. And we're open to everyone (including Serbs, mind you, several of whom are active in the community) in eNew Zealand and they're all about making a new Serbia. Maybe something like that.
I really am getting tired of the Tu Quoque arguments. They're obnoxiously nearsighted.
Optimistic...
Hail KIWI`s
We will colonize eNew Zeland!!!!!
And now really welcome to real New Zelander. And we don`t have party we are here to support eNew Zeland and not eUSA that obviously is trying to TO eNew Zeland and drag this great country in EDEN.
Get your hand of my BattleSheep.
>And we don`t have party we are here to support eNew Zeland and not eUSA that obviously is trying to TO eNew Zeland and drag this great country in EDEN.
Is this the motivation behind you trying to take over NZ? Because it's false. Yes there are some Americans in New Zealand, but we don't want to make a puppet state. We, and the entire NZ community, are strongly trying to make a neutral state. We don't want to join EDEN or Phoenix. Therefore, NZ is not a threat to you. Why would you want to take over a non-threatening state without any good high regions? (We have high grain, but so does practically everyone else).
Also, if you think that NZ is mostly American, you are wrong. We actually have a large amount of people from Phoenix nations (UK, Argentina, even Serbia). We have put aside our past alliances and are starting over. The community is working together peacefully for the good of New Zealand. No one, EDEN or Phoenix, is trying to take it over and make it a puppet state.
PTOing NZ would be a waste of time for you. It would make more sense to PTO an EDEN nation with titanium/iron. Why spend all that time and effort for no pay-off?
eNZ free of serb wolfs!
Wang Chung
We will not takeover the country in our hands. We are here to ensure that EDEN(usa) cannot blackmail eNew Zeland to join them, while they have taken citizenship in order to stop "TO", and than they can take over the New Zeland...
We are aware that here are many pro-phoenix players, and we want to protect our brothers.
We are here just in case that you need help.
noryee- because we're the ones trying to make New Zealand an American state /sarcasm.
We'd love to have Kiwis fighting at our side, but will respect true neutrality.
New Zealand can actually afford to be neutral in a way India never really could with the active/ strong community it has so far. That said I can always hope that New Zealand chooses to become part of the Brolliance, Eden, or both.
noryee, I appreciate where you're coming from now, but I don't think I would be too worried if I was you. There are enough of us here that even those who are most strongly in favour of EDEN (seems to be the Australians, mostly) aren't likely to ever have too much control.
Speaking as an ex-eUK SAS player and RL NZ citizen, I think the current situation is in good hands as it is.
VOTE! we will not submit to terrorist
@daniecox
I sure hope you were joking in even thinking that there is nothing wrong with supporting Ostin.
Ostin http://www.erepublik.com/en/citizen/profile/1414695 was banned for cheating.
Do we need to list out all the other incarnations?
Supporting that sort of person is one of the problems this game faces.
Say NO to cheaters
we smashed them! Kiwi power!
"noryee Day 1,061, 10:20
Optimistic...
Hail KIWI`s
We will colonize eNew Zeland!!!!!"
"noryee Day 1,061, 10:24
And now really welcome to real New Zelander. And we don`t have party we are here to support eNew Zeland and not eUSA that obviously is trying to TO eNew Zeland and drag this great country in EDEN."
Interesting about face there. First you're here to colonize us, and then you're just here to stop the eUSA? Whatever that means. You are a Serbian PTOer, you have said exactly that. On the other hand, while I may be from the eUSA, I have forgone that title in favor of being an eKiwi.
Good stuff, so far...
Bradley Reala Day 1,062, 10:27
The first one was a joke, and we are here as insurance🙂
Spud of Doom Day 1,061, 17:22
We will see at first elections when all go in your favour, than we will disapear from eNew Zeland.
When you need help just ask 🙂
outstanding!
Great work all... especially Fiona 🙂