[UK First] All You Need To Know; eUK History
GGRyan
A proud eCountry, and one of the few that has never, ever been wiped off the map, the eUK is a vast and amusing country to be a part of, if you chat in the right places with the right people. The eUK has also meant I have met other people in other places. Now, wanna know more? Wanna know what you need to know, in one article? I'll try!
It seems funny to many new players that we aren't aligned with the Americans and Canadians. This dates back to July 2009. The United Kingdom were, prior to this, part of an alliance known as ATLANTIS; this did include such nations as Canada, USA and Poland. However, after internal warring between members (with Germany being attacked by fellow members Sweden and Poland), ATLANTIS was declared dead, and the United Kingdom was left neutral, eventually to join the PEACE alliance.
Then, along came the proposal of Fortis. This was an alliance to succeed ATLANTIS, compromised of USA, Canada, Spain, Ireland and the UK. However, certain elemets inside the proposal intended to have weighted voting, heavily aiding the USA to have their say the focus. This meant that the UK and Ireland, followed by Spain, dropped out. Conflict between USA and UK leadership and publics, whereby the UK was called such things as "allies on paper only" meant that the UK were not overly keen on remaining in allegiance with the USA.
It was decided in July 2009 to have a Training War with Hungary, who conquered Scotland as part of this. Scotland remained under Hungarian control, in return for a high quality Hospital which was used to heal citizens (in v1, hospitals had slightly different functions for the population). This debate was brought up to Congress on the 1st of July, 2009. Hungary took Scotland on the 10th of July. France attacked Canada on the 13th July, and region swapped (another v1 concept) the eUK into Canada to hold onto certain regions to aid the invasion. I am actually unclear as to the exact date the eUK joined PEACE, but was a part of it for the massive North American invasion in which we helped to wipe out numerous of our former allies whom turned their backs on us, and in which the USA were knocked down to just one region.
It remained a member of PEACE until November 2009, by which point the alliance had been effectively killed and broken apart by conflict and by lack of energy and focus. Plans were already afoot for a new alliance that the eUK would be a part of. Phoenix was formed and the eUK became a member on the 6th December, 2009. Many key eUK individuals such as Mr Woldy and Iain Keers were involved in its formation, and eUK members remain integral to it today.
The eUK has twice been invaded on a large scale (and at the time of writing, we are currently in the midst of a third with Canada occupying much of our nothern country). The first time was in January 2010, when we were brought down to a battle for London to save our independence. Needless to say, we won and eventually, peace was signed by then President Dishmcds and Minister of Foreign Affairs, GLaDOS. This meant we got all of our nation back, and we kept peace. For a while. We were once more invaded in August 2010, on the back of a spate of hackings in the eRepublik network. This led to the resignation of a burnt out President, John Bartlett and then the next (and current) President, jamesw to fight back and make the eUK whole again.
In the eUK, there is politically a strong rivalry between The Unity Party and the United Kingdom Reform Party.
The UKRP was founded in December 2007 to rival a party setup by a gaming forum that had joined eRepublik called the 313 group. It was set up by Shadowukcs (tip; if you hear someone called a butt, this comes from Shadow) and quickly became powerful, winning and holding the presidential seat in January 2008. This was held by Kaleb for four terms, until Shadowukcs was then put into the seat of eUK Presidency to mark their fifth presidential term. The UKRP truly were the main winners in 2008, with such figures as jerryGFL and Dishmcds rising to prominence. It could be said that the UKRP had it all their own way until April 2009, where they decided not to run a candidate and TUP took the Presidency.
In May 2009, a figure called SaraDroz was elected President of the eUK with the support of both TUP and the UKRP, as the UKRP decided that it would be best to back the rival candidate - they did not have a suitable candidate. This term went spectaculary awry, with roadrunnerspeed taking the Bank of England and all of our funds, and making certain demands. One of these was to remove Goku Jones as Minister of Foreign Affairs. Another was to support Germany in the war that eventually broke ATLANTIS (see military for more details) and a further one was to put the military back under control of the Minister of Defense and to make funding more consistent. These demands were met, and the money returned, but this still made for a disastrous term. This term, however, seemed to bring the beggining of the end for UKRP power over the eUK political system.
It's worth pointing out what the other parties got up to whilst UKRP were having fun. TUP revelled under the leadership of Iain Keers and began to structure themselves into a political machine, slowly gaining on the UKRP. The People's Communist Party had long been in second place with a more centre left stance than their current political movement, however had never had massive success with their slightly off-stream appeal - they did, however, elect inconic presidents such as Ip Lockard and KIA Sneak. TUP had overtaken the PCP by mid-2009, and the PCP had been further beaten back by the Radical Freethinkers Alliance. This party was branded by Goku Jones after being created as part of Final Destiny's Presidential platform. He wanted to create a viable and non-partisan place to sit in the middle of the eUK's left wing/right wing divide. This party, with their memorable black and white union jack, took to third place and put PCP far into fourth at their best.
By October 2009, TUP were in charge. They had won every Presidency since SaraDroz, and had overtaken the UKRP to make themselves the largest political party in the eUK. Since the SaraDroz presidency, the eUK has only had four non-TUP elected Presidents; Dishmcds, GLaDOS, John Bartlett and myself, GGRyan. They had major political victories, and have put UKRP firmly into second place.
You may hear things that dont seem relevant anymore; things that you can no longer find. I'll detail a few of these key things.
House of Lords; this has turned into a key political victory for TUP and sealed them as number one in the Commons. The HoL had always been a longstanding element of the eUK, which allowed older and more experienced citizens to have their input in the House of Commons and the eUK legislative system without having the ingame restraint. This was abolished by a group led by Iain Keers, mainly left wing, and has remained closed ever since, to be replaced by present day Advisors.
NHS and Gifting; the eUK NHS was an old system put into place by Dishmcds, which worked in v1. In v1, there was such an item as gifts, which a player could send to another player to give them wellness, or "gift them up". This was easy to do, however changes to eRepublik game mechanics meant this was no longer possible.
Hospitals v1; back in v1, hospitals were placed in a region and had no durability. It would serve the citizens of a region, and give them a set amount of wellness back after they had fought. In numerous eUK regions, we had Q5 Hospitals. We would typically fight five times, losing ten wellness a fight, then click the heal button, and would have all our health replaced. After that, it would have to be replaced other ways.
The Military; the eUK has an ever changing military. I'm basically going to do my eLife for this bit, so for real old stuff, find a real old-timer. The eUK used to have its military under control of the Minister of Defence, who was selected as a Minister by the President. It used to be known as the eRoyal Navy, with an Air Force and Special Forces to supplement mobile and elite soldiers respectively. Changes in the game mechanics usually come with reforms and so the military has reached the point of the UK Army which we have today.
I think this will do nicely for now. If you feel anything is missing, please comment so I can add accordingly!
Ryan
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First Denied, love ya GGRyan!
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Fairly accurate.
What about when I took your military infrastructure?
voted bro
Nice orgs, Rod.
GG, I wasn't TUP when I killed pensive 😐
Yes, they are, and will be again
nicely done, Ryan!
"It was decided in July 2009 to have a Training War with Hungary..."
Its OK, you can admit that this wasn't just a training war that you just happened to hold at such an opportune moment to give your new secret ally Hungary access to North America.
You also forgot to mention that your poor handling the conquered Canadian territories allowed Eden regain the initiative while at the brink of total annihilation and turn the tide of the war in their favour.
The ups and downs of that war are still seen as the pinnacle of the game experience for those who were lucky enough to be around then. Hope you guys enjoyed it too.
Oh common GG!
The UK started talking about joining Peace GC as soon as Atlantis fell, Wich mean while you guys were allied with us. That was even before the Fortis debate. Ask anyone who was in the leadership at that time.
On top of this. That training war was an hoax to allow hungary into canada, it was a deliberate act to sell your allegiance in exchange of a few Canadian region.
I'm not saying it's bad, you guys did what you had to do. But there is no need to sugar coat to make it look like the UK is the knight in shining armor. It could be now. but it certainly wasn't back then.
As someone who came into the game just as the Canadian territories were being liberated, I dont claim perfect knowledge, but they were great times.
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/from-the-archives-of-canada-part-4-the-hungarian-menace-and-cobra--1545700/1/20
Here's a little something that might help you about history prior to your ebirth.
Don't thank me, I'm glad to help.
@glados, I remember when the great Iain keers defeated you in July.
Sara Droz wasn't TUP- she was UKRP 😁 you can't foist her on us 😛
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Come on Canada Lets be the first too conquere them
Wow, this clown can't even do fiction right.
Nice spin on the UK betrayal, by the way.
Nice work of fiction.
I feel entertained.
Why are you still claiming that Hungary took Scotland for a Training War? Its a well known fact that it was not for a training war, as no territories actually need to be taken for a training war to occur.
steven king cant write works like this
Such a sad, sad history. I truly feel bad for you guys.
Still coming up with excuses for an outright betrayal. No honor.
i guess thishould be a first.
UKRP wasn't formed to combat 313. 313 didn't become very strong until February if I recall correctly, the UKRP was formed because the first elected PM went inactive (Snow) and the country couldn't do anything.
Fiction is pretty cool. When's the non-fiction version come out?
/me is impressed how many foreigners I can attract.
Hassan beat me to it, shame about the trolls who are still butthurt, eh.
I smell intense butthurt from amerifags
UKRP was set-up by Shadow before 313 was in the game. It was initially there to combat the UK Action Party who was another forum group.
313 was a month later and wasn't TUP till me and Paul Hudson re-branded Now El313ct Winners (N.E.W) after I small stint with another name under Zuku_Zulu into The Unity Party which lost it's first CP Election to Shadow who lost the Presidency to me the next month. Which broke UKRP's grip on the presidency till the dawn of V1 and Rayf's Presidency. BETA was mostly a battle between PCP (KIA Sneak) and UKRP.
Oh and the NHS was founded under Kaleb, reformed under me and later abolished by Jerry if memory serves.
hb741 Your right, it was the most exciting time i've had in eRep. I was lucky enough to join just weeks before the invasion.
Its when you read back that playing eRep suddenly makes sense again.
We hadn't done anything when you embargoed us. We hadn't done anything when you pushed weighted voting. We weren't in Atlantis when we swapped into Canada and swapped Hungary into Scotland. Italy and Sweden were traitors, attacking members of their own alliances. Look which side they both ended up on - yours. Go annoy them.
"They had major political victories, and have put UKRP firmly into second place."
This seems a bit unfair. It's true that UKRP are firmly second, but two of those elections were because the other candidate resigned (draaglom for PCP) or wasn't able to candidate (jamesw for TUP). Also, you didn't mention that John Bartlett only served some of his term, since he resigned and jamesw had to get our regions back.
Good article though, very useful for new players.
This is such propaganda bullshit. We all know you guys were giving info to PEACE while Atlantis was still an alliance.
And c'mon, even your leadership wouldn't insist that war with Hungary was a training war. It was a scheme to get Hungary into North America and by extension Asia. That was what made Hello Kitty the center of attention for awhile, remember?
Revisionist fail
God Save the Queen from the UK!
I love the way Americans are still hurt by our "betrayal" to this day. Its good to know we're loved.
NHS almost made up bankrupt, it was only through the 'healthcare reforms' of italy_1990 that we started to move to a system whereby people took wellness from war.
GGRyan should be PM again as he kept our best interests at heart whereas jamesaw (or whatever his name is) is making an invasion of Europe while half our country is red from the canadian invasion we should have taken that back before we advanced
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