SEA and You
Day 1,097, 18:48
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Published in Philippines 
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by Hekter
Malaysian Version | Singaporean Version
[Firstly let me say that yes, I am worthless and can’t keep away from this game for more than a few months, even to save my life. I love you all too much to completely sever ties.]
I came back to see that eMalaysia, eSingapore and ePhilippines are aflame in controversy in our little region over the proposed quasi-creation of the country of SEA, or South-East Asia. While it seems that the governments are for this plan, many citizens have their concerns. While I am not a government official in any of these governments, I have been reading around and have sat down in discussion with Philippine President Jelly9473 for multiple hours going over the future.
First, let’s establish some difficult facts:
The eWorld has 213464 Citizens (100
ePhil has 438 Citizens (0.21
eMy has 703 Citizens (0.33
eSing has 246 Citizens (0.12
SEA would have 1387 Citizens (0.65
Election Results [latest election data available]
ePh [Nov Presidential] 79 Votes (28.83% Presence)
eMy [Oct Congress] 91 Votes (23.76% Presence) [PTOers were still present.]
eSing [Nov Presidential] 38 Votes (23.46% Presence)
SEA would have roughly 208 voting citizens.
Other SEA Facts/Trivia:
Each SEA Congressman would get roughly 3 citizenship passes, making 120 passes available a month.
Due to game mechanics, Palawan would be the Capital.
SEA would have 1 High Stone, 2 High Oil, 3 Medium Grain, 2 Medium Stone, and 3 Medium Oil.
SEA would be Rank 28 in Population, which is right below Iran. Malaysia is 47.
SEA would be internationally neutral.
General Game Mechanics:
Existing parties would be absorbed into SEA. The number of parties would become 13--well enough for fair expression, if I do say so, though would hopefully be reduced for aPTO purposes.
Due to new game rules, MPPs would activate if any of SEA’s land was attacked, not just ePh's original territories.
Indonesia has promised not to interfere in the creation of SEA.
Trivia about the ePhilippines:
Our politics are not divisive. Our parties are for the fun of it, and there is extremely little infighting. Why? Because we all believe in the future of the country, and we love to invite the rest of you to adopt the same atmosphere in your own countries, and under SEA.
We don’t hate you. In fact, we all here are just excited to have some real action going on. We hold eSing and eMalaysia in the highest esteem, and look forward to working with you all in the future, no matter what comes out of this action.
If the eMalaysian and eSingaporean population continue to think this is a radically bad idea, the ePhilippines will not be merging with anyone. Jelly9473 and I have spoken often on this, and if after the ‘war’ with Singapore is over [which is purely for fun, we promise] the majority is still of a similar mind on SEA, then we will return to the status quo. We have no desire to oppress anyone.
Economic Facts:
The ePhilippine government will provide licenses to any company still actively producing products and is vouched for by the eMalaysian or eSingaporean governments.
Before the merger, the Bank of Philippines and various other national banks will work out a solid exchange rate into PHP. [Eg. 1 SGD = 0.87 PHP and fulfilled by the banks.]
More taxes, which means more MPPs! More funding for all programs!
Citizenship Process:
Citizenship would be given as fast as possible, though it would still take some time to merge populations. Our congress can merge 40 in the first month, and will be processing as fairly and equally as we can--after the full territorial integration it will raise to 120.
Pros about SEA:
If we are united under one flag, we have significantly more strength than in our current divided state. Our economies, populations, militaries, and politics will be merged into a much more powerful machine.
It would be an interesting experiment! We have the best chance since FRoSEA to actually make it in the world, and with the new MPP mechanics, we would be in much better shape than back then.
We could actually have a place in the world. As unfortunate as it is, our small nations are simply at the bottom of the ladder. With landswapping gone, our only possible role in the mechanics of the world is now gone, and this allows us to take a place among the world.
PTO efforts would be much, much harder to pull off. All of our nations have felt the sting of PTOs, and with a much-increased population, as well as getting rid of PTOers in each our nations in the merge citizenship process, we would be infinitely safer from a botnet’s sting.
Cabinets and economic energies would be mixed! We would have the best people in all 3 of our countries working together to benefit all of us. Instead of only one of us having a very strong Financial ministry, we all can have a strong bank policy! All of us can benefit under a stronger, unified military, which will utilize the best minds, leaders, soldiers, and production facilities in all 3 of our nations.
If we’ve learned anything from the past months, it’s that people like to randomly RW things. We’ll get free wars just sitting there as random people try to free territories!
Negatives of SEA:
Deaders in parties will be lost, and it will take a while to integrate citizenship.
Large up-front integration costs, and meddling Resistance Wars started ‘for the fun of it’ may prove problematic. A strong military would significantly help suppress this.
Loss of the national identities of eMalaysia and Singapore, and people may leave because of this. Education efforts will be needed to reduce this.
If SEA ever splits up, open citizenship will prove problematic.
Conclusion
I, along with my fellow countrymates and hopefully you all, are excited as ever for the future of South East Asia, whether under the unified banner of SEA or not. Ahead of us, we have a future that could be brighter, stronger, and better under unification, and I hope that you will join with your fellow citizens and realize that future.
(Logo by no means final.)
Thank you for your time,
Hekter
PS: Thailand, if you want in on this, too, that'd be pretty nifty.
[Firstly let me say that yes, I am worthless and can’t keep away from this game for more than a few months, even to save my life. I love you all too much to completely sever ties.]
I came back to see that eMalaysia, eSingapore and ePhilippines are aflame in controversy in our little region over the proposed quasi-creation of the country of SEA, or South-East Asia. While it seems that the governments are for this plan, many citizens have their concerns. While I am not a government official in any of these governments, I have been reading around and have sat down in discussion with Philippine President Jelly9473 for multiple hours going over the future.
First, let’s establish some difficult facts:
The eWorld has 213464 Citizens (100
😵and 526 Regions (100
😵
ePhil has 438 Citizens (0.21
😵and 4 Regions (0.76
😵
eMy has 703 Citizens (0.33
😵and 3 Regions (0.57
😵
eSing has 246 Citizens (0.12
😵and 1 Region (0.19
😵
SEA would have 1387 Citizens (0.65
😵and 8 Regions (1.5
😵
Election Results [latest election data available]
ePh [Nov Presidential] 79 Votes (28.83% Presence)
eMy [Oct Congress] 91 Votes (23.76% Presence) [PTOers were still present.]
eSing [Nov Presidential] 38 Votes (23.46% Presence)
SEA would have roughly 208 voting citizens.
Other SEA Facts/Trivia:
Each SEA Congressman would get roughly 3 citizenship passes, making 120 passes available a month.
Due to game mechanics, Palawan would be the Capital.
SEA would have 1 High Stone, 2 High Oil, 3 Medium Grain, 2 Medium Stone, and 3 Medium Oil.
SEA would be Rank 28 in Population, which is right below Iran. Malaysia is 47.
SEA would be internationally neutral.
General Game Mechanics:
Existing parties would be absorbed into SEA. The number of parties would become 13--well enough for fair expression, if I do say so, though would hopefully be reduced for aPTO purposes.
Due to new game rules, MPPs would activate if any of SEA’s land was attacked, not just ePh's original territories.
Indonesia has promised not to interfere in the creation of SEA.
Trivia about the ePhilippines:
Our politics are not divisive. Our parties are for the fun of it, and there is extremely little infighting. Why? Because we all believe in the future of the country, and we love to invite the rest of you to adopt the same atmosphere in your own countries, and under SEA.
We don’t hate you. In fact, we all here are just excited to have some real action going on. We hold eSing and eMalaysia in the highest esteem, and look forward to working with you all in the future, no matter what comes out of this action.
If the eMalaysian and eSingaporean population continue to think this is a radically bad idea, the ePhilippines will not be merging with anyone. Jelly9473 and I have spoken often on this, and if after the ‘war’ with Singapore is over [which is purely for fun, we promise] the majority is still of a similar mind on SEA, then we will return to the status quo. We have no desire to oppress anyone.
Economic Facts:
The ePhilippine government will provide licenses to any company still actively producing products and is vouched for by the eMalaysian or eSingaporean governments.
Before the merger, the Bank of Philippines and various other national banks will work out a solid exchange rate into PHP. [Eg. 1 SGD = 0.87 PHP and fulfilled by the banks.]
More taxes, which means more MPPs! More funding for all programs!
Citizenship Process:
Citizenship would be given as fast as possible, though it would still take some time to merge populations. Our congress can merge 40 in the first month, and will be processing as fairly and equally as we can--after the full territorial integration it will raise to 120.
Pros about SEA:
If we are united under one flag, we have significantly more strength than in our current divided state. Our economies, populations, militaries, and politics will be merged into a much more powerful machine.
It would be an interesting experiment! We have the best chance since FRoSEA to actually make it in the world, and with the new MPP mechanics, we would be in much better shape than back then.
We could actually have a place in the world. As unfortunate as it is, our small nations are simply at the bottom of the ladder. With landswapping gone, our only possible role in the mechanics of the world is now gone, and this allows us to take a place among the world.
PTO efforts would be much, much harder to pull off. All of our nations have felt the sting of PTOs, and with a much-increased population, as well as getting rid of PTOers in each our nations in the merge citizenship process, we would be infinitely safer from a botnet’s sting.
Cabinets and economic energies would be mixed! We would have the best people in all 3 of our countries working together to benefit all of us. Instead of only one of us having a very strong Financial ministry, we all can have a strong bank policy! All of us can benefit under a stronger, unified military, which will utilize the best minds, leaders, soldiers, and production facilities in all 3 of our nations.
If we’ve learned anything from the past months, it’s that people like to randomly RW things. We’ll get free wars just sitting there as random people try to free territories!
Negatives of SEA:
Deaders in parties will be lost, and it will take a while to integrate citizenship.
Large up-front integration costs, and meddling Resistance Wars started ‘for the fun of it’ may prove problematic. A strong military would significantly help suppress this.
Loss of the national identities of eMalaysia and Singapore, and people may leave because of this. Education efforts will be needed to reduce this.
If SEA ever splits up, open citizenship will prove problematic.
Conclusion
I, along with my fellow countrymates and hopefully you all, are excited as ever for the future of South East Asia, whether under the unified banner of SEA or not. Ahead of us, we have a future that could be brighter, stronger, and better under unification, and I hope that you will join with your fellow citizens and realize that future.
(Logo by no means final.)
Thank you for your time,
Hekter
PS: Thailand, if you want in on this, too, that'd be pretty nifty.
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Still say you should've gone with iSeal. >.>
JELLYMAXXXX!
Voted, Very good points on why this merger could be beneficial to everyone : D!
please merge 🙂
Very well put together and stated.
/me worships Hekter
SABAHHHH!
HEKTER! \o/
Unfortunately this will almost definitely never happen
.o.
Where's stapler?
yay Hekter \o/
.o.
This is idealistic with a lot of good points on it for the 3 countries. But one of the issue that will hinder this is the citizens, especially RL ones playing for their own country, will see it as losing their eIdentities and will disagree to go with it regardless of the benefits we all can get from the merger.
And no, I'm talking about all 3 countries, not only eMY and eSG. We will have the same problem regardless of who will host of this merger, pride and naysayers.
Will take them by force.
I think ePhilippines and eSingapore should merge into eMalaysia as eMalaysia has the most citizens. Even if you add eSingapore and ePhilippines together, eMalaysia would have more Citizens (684-701)
EPH now atk sabah for that propose? why not e malaysia which be host?
Mah and what about RWs?
"Indonesia has promised not to interfere in the creation of SEA."
are u sure about this.?? 😛
SEA w/o eIndonesia?
SEA with Indonesia is essentially Indonesia + 8 more regions and a 150 or so extra active players.