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As you may probably discovered from checking out my newspaper, I have not created any original content (blame life). However, that’s all about to change... Thanks to no exams, unwillingness to do work and lack of social life, my thoughts will become my oyster (and your bane). Matters that may be analysed and discussed include eUK politics, interesting points of view from our community and random jibber jabber that would put an adolescent ADHD kid to shame. Enjoy.

(Fyi, feel free to check out my manifesto for all things roleplay + political here)

Anyway, straight to business. For us select few who waste our lives away on the addiction called forums.erepublik.co.uk, you will recognise the continued interest in government and how our ministries operate. Usually, continued updates can be delivered directly from the incumbent CP him/herself. Frerk, our free loving fake Belgium and current president, loves these updates, and has just recently released an article for our lovely eyes. To check it out, please sign up for the eUK forums and click here. If however you want to read in game, I recommend you spam our glorious leader in-game for public updates.


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However, I am here predominantly to discuss the current developments in the MoHA and MoComms. Both influential in the management of domestics in the country and always regarded as the bulk of government work, the two ministries however are both going through their rough patches.

Usually, these two ministries are actually a single entity under the MoHA banner. However, the governmental experiments by that dastardly Jamesw a few months ago heralded the end of systematic co-ordination of these two broad domestic departments, with James believing in separation as a means to improve efficiency. There have been attempts by previous [UKRP] presidents to remerge MoHA and MoComms together once more, with their successors always reverting to previous systems. Again, this system has become natural, as undoing your predecessors work is just what the cool cats do. And as the TUP mantra seems to be regarding MoHA, if something gets too big, a diet is the way to go (or in this case, slice it in half).


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‘The MoHA and the MoComms SHOULD be one and the same! There is much crossover, and much I need to organise myself PMing and article wise. Having them separate is basically dysfunctional - especially if I can't get hold of my protegé. Not to mention with the limited staffing, single central ministry would function much more productively than the command trend of splitting them up. The only 'department' I would have separated would be the MoRecruitment, which is already proving succesful. As I say, much of what the MoHA does is dependent on well, communication. I don't know why they were split up to begin with but I am sure that when I run for CP again, they will not remain that way.’

Now, as our Majesty King Woldy I puts it in tl;dr terms, the MoHA and MoComms has become disorganised through disjointed communication between departments, which in effect has reduced productivity in the ministries. And I absolutely agree. Through combination of all areas, the eUK’s Domestics can reduce communication loss from its reintroduction into one organisation, and the spread of workers can be used in case the MoHA suffers from another reduction in volunteers. Although MoComms still has the advantage of Open Government, this is not used enough simply because most active players are unlikely to involve themselves if they aren’t in government already.


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Let’s put it this way. If say a RL Company (let’s call it Company A) originally split its operations into two arms, allowing its sister Company (Company 😎 to take over a substantial share of its market share + key assets in a bid to reduce its size in a contracting market. However, these two companies still rely on each other, as each department is interlinked with one another. Turnover drops, employees become dissatisfied due to failure from management and both organisations start to lose their credibility. The easy answer would be to let in continue and hope that the matter can resolve itself with extra resources... However, the company hasn’t got any. This is the situation the MoHA and MoComms faces, and in no way will it correct itself. Fusing these two goliaths together streamlines its resources and allows government workers the ability to combine ideas and departments without the necessity to segregate.

However, simply merging them together won’t fix it entirely. Ideas and measures need to be introduced to ensure that its system can systematically work. Communication is however key and therefore the reintroduction of a Home Affairs IRC Room can prove valuable. It’s great that individual uM’s can run their appointed area effectively, but what if there’s a wider Domestic matter that could use valuable input from? What if a Mentor uM has an idea to increase take up of the Gifting Scheme? Allow them to get together and create ideas.

It’s interesting I raise the point of experience in the management of MoHA. Although once more Domestic Government faces such a transitional change of major proportion, experienced individuals have always continued the management of the Ministries as if it was 6-7 months ago. However, as each individual government will vouch for, the eUK Government continues to face a recruitment crisis. We have finite human resources which continue in dwindle. Our active population continues to reduce, and those experienced have decided that their twilight days can be done trolling one another instead of participating in a gaming manner. What the MoHA (and maybe most of the Ministries) needs is to remove all pre determined positions, and encourage their members to take versatile roles. Roles such as mentoring and gifting can be merged together into one role (solving another domestic issue that I will discuss sometime in the future), with those interested in PMing can help involve themselves in other areas when needed.

In the end, what we call the ‘MoComms experiment’ can be regarded as a failure. It’s been too long since Domestic Government has been run effectively, and our trip into psychedelic tampering of structure has yielded no results. Its split has dealt miscommunication between essentially linked departments, reduced productivity and effectively destroyed the responsibility of the MoHA. Only through streamlined communication in departments and the removal of pre determined roles can allow the department the opportunity to returning to full effectiveness. Hopefully, through the analysis of each Country President’s manifestos, we can garner an idea on how and where we can go. Because as we all know, we can only advise change. It is up to the leading politicians to enact them.