Its Time to Enter the World Stage
NZ Newspaper Association
A short history of eNewZealand
When the admins first introduced the new countries, the forum active group (mainly former USA) elected a provisional government. We also decided that we were going pursue a stance of "active neutrality" in other words we made MPPs and fought wars how we liked, not dictated by other countries. This of course was debated on in the forums but after the initial vote it was clear that the forum active population were happy with this decision. Then came the first congress election, the "PTO group" as it was labelled just lost out on a majority in a hard fought election and it was clear that the struggle between these two groups in New Zealand was going to be a long one. Thankfully Calbe managed to unite both groups for the Presidential election and we were blessed with a united government for the first full month of eNewZealand. Come the next congressional elections though; it seemed as if the Aotearoa party was gaining a slight lead over the "ATO group" and managed to gain a majority in congress. This then led to an outrage by many members of opposing parties and the united government broke down. By the time the CP elections game round again on the 5th it was clear that it was not going to be a joint candidate as in the previous month. As the day progressed it was clear that over 50% of the votes cast were for Don Kronox. Following this was a mass migration out of the country. Mainly the ex-USA group left back for USA and many others left for their original countries as well. Who was left to run the country? It was all the remaining members from the pro-phoenix countries who were willing to co-operate with the Serbians/Slovenians as they had done with calbe.
Then we had the issues with the NZDF, no need to go into this in too much detail but it resulted in the treasury being held hostage and the NZDF disbanding. As a result of this we had another mass-migration out of the country as all the soldiers were fed up with a ruined Army and went to fight in more organised ones. The Serbian/Slovenian government have a large majority of the opposition for the foreseeable future and its time we start working together.
So now we stand in a far different position from when we first setup the provisional government. The government is pro-phoenix. Almost three quarters of the population are pro-phoenix and our bordering countries are pro-phoenix. It is time for us to stop hiding in the bottom right corner of the World Map and begin to contribute in the larger scheme of things.
The next step
The Advantages of joining Phoenix
The first advantage with joining Phoenix is that we can use our MPPs to ally with major Phoenix countries and can participate fully in wars going on throughout the eworld; it's a lot better when you are actually on one of the two sides in a war instead of just balancing tentatively in the middle. This would also come greatly in use should we, one day, want to invade another country. Joining Phoenix would also make other countries think twice before either invading us or PTOing us. Also, being part of the Phoenix Council gives us a voice in eworld politics, we can give our opinion on major issues and we can be a part of the bigger picture. We will also get active Phoenix citizens wanting to move to our country as we will be only the second English speaking country in Phoenix second to the UK. At the moment English speakers sometimes move over to the US and Canada as they have no Phoenix option other than the UK.
Why not EDEN then?
We are bordering Indonesia currently, the minute we join EDEN we will be wiped off the map. Australia are currently off the map and when they eventually do come back, I doubt they will be in a position to pose a threat to us. Especially since we will have Phoenix support against them.
We'd just get wiped
How will we go about this?
Senior members of the NZ government have already expressed a desire to join Phoenix and are currently deciding on the correct means of doing this. The plan is that we will sign approximately six Phoenix MPPs this term and then make an official application next term. This way the process is not to sudden. Of course, I bet there are some people reading this with their jaws wide open and the eAustralians are probably going to throw a massive tantrum. But I hope that the majority of the population can see the benefits of us joining a super alliance and can follow the fine example of CrusaderCarl who isn't particularly fond of Phoenix however realises the importance of working to the needs of the country. I am sure that after a few terms people will be able to see the positive effects of this decision.
They've got the Ashes to worry about!
Yours,
deVillefort
Hail NZ
Hail Phoenix
Hail NZ-Phoenix
Comments
New Zealand for Phoenix!
vote!
V
inb4 bitching
also: voted \o
vote!
VOTE!!!!
I hate to say it, but we don't really have a choice in the matter. Even if people such as myself were to complain, we are in a clear minority here. We are at the whim of pro-PHOENIX individuals.
Patience, my friends. That is the key word.
nice V
vote from Indonesian CP :">
VOTE!
finally 🙂
PHX FTW!
It does appear to be a majority off-hand.
I am disappointed, but i waited to long to change cit now🙂
If we ever BB your new citizens won't be happy u deserted their Aussie bros,
Devillefort you worked for the ATO group and now you change of side
I have done nothing of the sort.
Thanks for support! Oh, wait...
voted
@Phoenix Quinn
lol 🙂
@devillefort
Then it must be your twin brother
I think what Rocacola is asking is: "Where is the real deVillefort and what have you done with him?"
Welcome, but it's not noble to just join an alliance
to not get whipped out 😉
Hope you don't switch arround alliances to often ^-^
omg_87 if you take a look at the population you will see that it's not a politically calculated decision but one wholehearted.
It is too early to decide to join an alliance especially with the current stat of internal affairs!
Vote, I support this too.
Looks like yet another dream has fallen, the dream to have a country puppet to none and independent is nearly impossible, none the less, I will keep fighting for it.
votado
votado
@Jacobo if you mean be "independent" a country that has no real wars and takes no stance at all, then you're clearly playing the wrong game. This game is based on warfare, admins changed the game lot to even improve the importance of war. You don't sell anything without war, there's not much to report on newspapers without war.
It's better to step up and decide for one side than to bore the country to death.
sad, but it's the majority...
Can we rly afford to support "6" MPP's? That seems very drastic and pointless. Unless the country's who we are signing MPP'S with pay in full for our support(MPP cost), then at most we should 3 MPP'S
If it's to join PHX, Michal, I think they might help cover the cost.
IF the Majority is a group of people more concerned about foreign goals then that of their current home, then what the believe should be ignored, what the majority of people who want better for their new home then for an alliance they used to be apart of in their former country are the people who should be listened to. If you really think I am against Erepublik wars, I am certainly not, in fact I have been actively supporting a war against Chile to boost our economy for a long time, I understand war's importance in the growth of a nation, but taking part in a war taking place FAR away from us with us have NO chance to gain anything from it more then a Training war would provide is pointless and only those looking to support their REAL home Country, for the most part of this case eSerbia who pretend to be part of New Zealand for the purpose of making sure it's economy does no more then support Phoenix by taking control of it's congress.
I vote NO.
eNew Zealand should have the advantage of choosing which countries to ally with, not be forced into a superalliance.
NO PHOENIX, NO EDEN
If we join PHX just because our president and half of Congress are damn Serbian.....
We said from the beginning that we are neutral, why can't we keep that position now?
@Trento96
The president is not Serbian, Slovenian!
And this FNX thing is not came from us, but from one part of opposition, we just agreed.
How am I not surprised at all that this government is trying to get us into PHX?
No chance!
eNZ's damage output is in no way worth PHX making them a member.
Just spending your daily wage means an eNZ output of 50,000 and even if you went full tilt with food then it wouldn't touch 1 mill.
Joining an alliance now would be bad. We need to take our time and seeing as our nation isn't completely united, this could cause a group of citizens to leave, weakening the idea of NZ as a nation of all communities.
I hope that the government will delay any action till the next Congressional elections.
Good. Hail Phoenix! Hail NZ!
Hail NZ
Hail Phoenix
Hail NZ-Phoenix
The sad thing about this is that when a RL Kiwi will try to join this game, he will see a lot of different people trying to make use of the name of eNZ for continuing the game culture they brought from their old ecountries, this is, trying to make from eNZ a clon of their old country (on this goes especilally for the ex-eserbs), with no real relation to their home culture, and thus killing their will to continue in this game.
If the actual goverment (or odl or future ones) really want eNZ to grow by itself, the first thing they should do is to try a babyboom of RL Kiwis, the rest will just be uselful for feeding the egos of the brunch of old bored players (probably like me) that have come here
"...current stat of internal affairs!..." LOL
let`s free eTexas o/
Fuck Pheonix.
Fuck EDEN.
Fuck Alliances.
Told ya so...
A bit rash, but hey, what the hell, let's do it.
whatever happened to NEUTRALITY?
I have to say I am very, very disappointed in this.
1) RL Kiwis could be pissed if we get a baby boom and then see that we are enemies with Aus (who we are best friends with IRL)
2) What happened to independence? All the RL Kiwis (and for a long time, most of the immigrants) have been saying this since the country was put on the map
3) Even as an ex-eUK SAS soldier I do not approve of this. Go have a look at that PHX logo up there. New Zealand is not even on their world map. We'd just be another pawn in that alliance:
http://wiki.erepublik.com/images/a/a9/PHOENIX.png
😁Support our RL Bros the Aussies and say no to PHX!!!
I am ashamed we take the cowards route. Kiwis and Aussies always fight together.
And don't give me the eRep is not RL. Thats my RL flag.
ANZACs FTW \o/
And we would look stupid in PHX
Kiwis can't fly😛 lol
i am in favour of fighting aussie at some stage. 😛 coz real life brothers can fight and make up!
joining penix is not equal to fighting ozzie.
And we would look stupid in PHX Kiwis can't fly😛 lol [2x]
And we would look stupid in PHX Kiwis can't fly😛 lol [3x]