[Guide] Congress Handbook
Department for Education
Hello! This article is going to explain how Congress Discussion, Proposals, Voting and Citizenship will work this month.
Most of this information is for Congressmen but anyone can get involved with Proposals and Citizenship! It is explained in detail below but for those of you who just want the quick links:
Proposals: http://tinyurl.com/UKGov-Petition
Citizenship: http://tinyurl.com/Citizens-Advice-Doc
Discussion
For Congressmen and Government Ministers, there is an in game group mail for Announcements and another for Discussion.
Please use the Discussion mail for Private Discussion on any topic and the Announcements mail to link articles for Public Discussion. You will also get information from Ministers about in game law proposals such as MPPs in the Announcements mail.
To join please accept or send a friend request to the MoLA (Sage Goku) to turn this feature on. You can opt out of any part of this if you choose.
Most discussion will be done through in game articles, if you believe that your article is important please PM it to me so that I can add a link to this month's MoLA archive. You can find an archive of last month's discussions here:
http://tinyurl.com/NovDec-CongressArchive
IRC
For real time discussions by Congressmen and Government Ministers, the Government Sensitive Channel is #uk.parliament on Rizon IRC. Please join this when you are playing eRepublik.
If you are in Congress or a Minister without access to this, your first job is to get onto Rizon IRC ( http://www.rizon.net/chat ), click connect and register your nickname ( http://wiki.rizon.net/index.php?title=Register_your_nickname ).
Then either PM me on Rizon IRC ( /query SageGoku ) or here in game with your IRC Nickname so that I can add you to the channel. If you try to join without me adding you, you will be banned so let me know if that happens!
Proposals
Anyone can propose that Congress or the Government does something by sending a petition to us. To send a petition to Congress, please fill in this form:
http://tinyurl.com/UKGov-Petition
You can see a list of submitted petitions here:
http://tinyurl.com/UKGov-Petition-Results
Petitions will be put up in a second form or article for the public to sponsor and the most popular will be presented to Congress to vote on.
Anything involving an in game Congress vote will be done if accepted by Congress, other things (like how Ministries work) will be taken as advice but you can judge your impeach and election votes on how much advice has been accepted/rejected!
Citizenship
If you are in Congress you can give out Citizenship Passes to allow Foreign Citizens to become UK Citizens. Ad😛
"Citizenship Application Form: http://tinyurl.com/Citizens-Form"
to the description on your profile, this will really help people applying for Citizenship.
Sometimes helpful people apply and sometimes malicious people apply, to help you decide who is a good choice and who is a bad choice please check the citizenship request spread sheet for who has applied and what Judgements have been made on them:
http://tinyurl.com/Citizens-Advice-Doc
Anyone can offer advice and judgements in this citizenship system, please PM me for details. Nebojsa has months of experience investigation applicants and is taking part in check applicants, as is the Government.
- Sage Goku, Minister of Legislative Affairs
Comments
Except a prettier and clearer version of this on the wiki this week!
Feedback please, does anything need explaining better?
Like I said on IRC, I don't like the IG direction but I don't think it could've been done better, nice work Goku
Nice work!
Well done goku
Top work as always Goku O7
good work! this proves that people that ar given an opportunity usually pays back .
Mother God! AWESOME!
Congress Mail Discussion isn't up yet, still waiting for 2 people to log in after getting drunk this Christmas!
We will be doing the public stuff in articles once I get some proposals to work with, so get sending petitions in guys!
Oh look the New Era brigade
^ give him a chance at least. It seems to be a pretty legit plan, so we may as well try it out
on forums you sign a pledge inorder to fullfill your congress duty, ingame you have to add goku as a friend to be included in congress talks and duty.
Seems like swapping 1 dictatorships (so some say ) to be in congress for another
Thanks for this!
Spygon - Oh come on mate, Goku aside (It is his article afterall) there are two New Era members comments (myself included) out of 10 posters. Hardly worthy of that remark.
NWG - ''Seems like swapping 1 dictatorships (so some say ) to be in congress for another''
So some say ; )
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No sorry hugh didn't mean it to be aimed at the comments that was my bad.All these changes have been New Era policies in the past and am starting to wonder how much influence other congressmen had on these proposals.
Just making an outside view but as i am not a congressmen so its not really to do with me so good luck guys,
News just in: A Government voted in by UKPP and New Era has some New Era policies.
I love the proposals we have had so far, great work guys - even the spam is enjoyable and no bother!
Still love you Spygon...never forget that \o/
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Voted, lots of good information its appreciated by all, i'm sure of that.
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