Citizenship Module v1.1

Day 659, 23:17 • Published in USA USA • by Department of Citizen Affairs

A couple of months ago the new citizenship module was unveiled to the world. It was greeted with mixed reviews. The idea was to prevent the PTO(Political Take-Over). For those of you who may not know what a PTO is it is when a group of citizens from one country move to another country just before an election in order to get their candidate elected to an important position.

Extremely large scale Example: Lets say we were finally getting tired of Indonesia and its Imperialistic ways and we wanted to get an American as the President of eIndo. We would get an American allied political party to sponsor our candidate to get him on the ballot. Then the day of the election we would move say 5,000 citizens over to Indonesia to vote for our guy. Hopefully then our guy would get elected and we would in fact run eIndo. This is how the PTO works. It very rarely would work with a positions such a president(although i think we did get it done in Italy a couple of months ago) but for a congressmen it is much easier. If we would get an American in the congress of one of our enemies countries not only would we have voting abilities but we would also have access to any secret boards that a congressman would have access to.

So you can see the appeals of the PTO. It is actually a tactic that PEACE GC loves to use. Especially with its booming population it can round up many citizens, fit them all with moving tickets and take over a nation.

So I guess the admins thought this was considered unfair play. So they started up a citizenship module. Every Player who moves from his country to another one, allied or enemy, must be approved by a congressmen to become an official citizen and have voting rights. So now every time you move you get asked if you wish to apply for citizenship. If you wish to retain your original Citizenship you simply click no thanks.

If you want to apply for citizenship of your new country you click the big blue "Apply for Citizenship" button. Then what will happen is they will ask you why you want to be considered to be a new citizen of the country. You can give any reason you wish. I recently moved to Greece for the high wages. I chose to retain my American citizenship but had I wished to become a member of Greece I might have said the I wished to become a citizen because of low taxes and high wages. You get the idea.

Then your request will go on a list. Until it gets reviewed and either accepted or denied.




In the United States we have a citizenship Task Force that reviews all the requests and does back round checks to make sure that we do not allow any PEACE sympathizers into the country. RIght now Serendipitous is in charge of the Citizenship Task Force.


Heres a couple of links:
http://www.erepublik.com/en/article/citizenship-faq-and-launch-date-869480/1/20>FAQ
http://wiki.erepublik.com/index.php/Applying_for_Citizenship>Wiki Page



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